1 Topic by sudopinion (edited by sudopinion 2012-09-03 23:37:50)

  • From: Seattle, wa
  • Registered: 2012-09-03
  • Posts: 2

I was directed here by Nexy,  who said you guys were the people who could help me:

I've written a program that builds a library and configures fe's from roms dragged onto it.
(http://code.google.com/p/rom-jacket)

Files with extensions that are exclusive to an emulated console (.nes) are identified and processed, but .zip, .bin, .rom, .iso, etc...(e.g: extensions for files that many emulated consoles share) must be indexed using a hash of some kind.

I need to query every file's hash in a given directory/subdir against every known hash for every known rom ever stored.
So I guess I'd need a huge db file or many db's that I can compile.

I'm BRAND NEW to dumping and have only a vauge idea of how all these tools work, but ideally I'd need the hash checker to spit out something like this:

FILE: ar2(JPN)[!].zip
MATCH: MD5 af8094t0u34rete93423r
ROM: Superman (JAP) [b2] (1997) (Stupidsoft)
SYSTEM: Super Sega

01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101

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  • From: Seattle
  • Registered: 2012-10-12
  • Posts: 18

Let me know if you're still struggling with this, I have a few thoughts for you..

arkiva: Plextor PX-760A and PX-716A (x2), LG WH08LS20 and UH12NS30, 3.5HD and 5.25HD FDD for raw reading
workstation: Pioneer BDR-XD05R-XL2, Mitsumi D359MN3D 3.5HD, Mitsumi (unidentified) 5.25HD attached to SuperCardPro
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  • From: Australia
  • Registered: 2011-03-24
  • Posts: 37

for compressed files (zip, rar, 7z...), probably the fastest way would be to grab the file listing from out of it with its corresponsing decompressor (if the format supports it)

$ unzip -l some\ game.zip 
Archive:  some game.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  2012-12-04 01:20   some game.smc
---------                     -------
        0                     1 file

as for checking its hash, you would have to decompress the archive (unless you just use the hash stored with some archive formats)

$ unzip -p some\ game.zip | md5sum
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  -
$ md5sum some\ game.smc 
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  some game.smc