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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Gekkio

Hashes of ROMs

Open zensurette opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

Please add the hashes of the ROMs to the metadata.

Without the SHA1 of the ROMs it is not possible to associate your scans with related entries in other databases.

zensurette avatar Dec 02 '18 08:12 zensurette

It's not possible in general, because submissions don't involve ROM dumping. The identity of each ROM comes from the ROM chip code (e.g. "DMG-A6SP-0" or "DMG-L6J-2"), which can be seen visually. However, I try to use No-Intro naming for games so there's a more user-friendly link between the two databases.

Gekkio avatar Dec 02 '18 11:12 Gekkio

I've decided to add ROM SHA256 as an optional field to submissions. But my original point still stands: No-Intro naming and/or the mask ROM code should be the main ways of associating submissions with other databases.

Gekkio avatar Sep 11 '22 10:09 Gekkio