diff --git a/regress/fixdat-missing-both.fixdat b/regress/fixdat-missing-both.fixdat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8e0387f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/regress/fixdat-missing-both.fixdat
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE datafile PUBLIC "-//Logiqx//DTD ROM Management Datafile//EN" "http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/datafile.dtd">
+<datafile>
+  <header>
+    <name>Fixdat for ckmame test db (1)</name>
+    <description>Fixdat by ckmame</description>
+    <version>0000-00-00 00:00:00</version>
+    <author>automatically generated</author>
+  </header>
+  <game name="clone-8">
+    <description>clone-8</description>
+    <rom name="04.rom" size="4" crc="d87f7e0c"/>
+    <rom name="08.rom" size="8" crc="3656897d"/>
+  </game>
+</datafile>
diff --git a/regress/fixdat-missing-complete-only.vtest b/regress/fixdat-missing-complete-only.vtest
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44d1e856
--- /dev/null
+++ b/regress/fixdat-missing-complete-only.vtest
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+description test all games, one rom missing, create fixdat
+features HAVE_LIBXML2
+return 0
+arguments --no-status-db --complete-games-only -Fvc -D ../mamedb-lost-parent-ok.db --create-fixdat
+file "fixdat_ckmame test db (1).dat" {} fixdat-missing-both.fixdat
+directory roms <>
+stdout
+In game clone-8:
+game clone-8                                 : not a single file found
+end-of-inline-data
diff --git a/src/check_game_files.cc b/src/check_game_files.cc
index ed801c33..113cabb5 100644
--- a/src/check_game_files.cc
+++ b/src/check_game_files.cc
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ void check_game_files(Game* game, filetype_t filetype, GameArchives* archives, R
 
         if (rom.where == FILE_INGAME && match->quality == Match::MISSING && rom.hashes.size > 0 &&
             !rom.hashes.empty() && rom.status != Rom::NO_DUMP) {
-            if (configuration.complete_games_only) {
+            if (configuration.complete_games_only && !configuration.create_fixdat) {
                 match->quality = Match::UNCHECKED;
                 if (missing_roms) {
                     continue;