Re: [stella] goodtools?

Subject: Re: [stella] goodtools?
From: tlindner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (tim lindner)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:14:27 -0700
> Does anyone know the algorithm good tools uses to recognize roms?  I
> assume that it is some sort of check sum.  Is it a hash, or something as
> simple as adding all the bytes of a binary togather?

It stores a CRC for each ROM and compares it to a calculated CRC.
It calculates the CRC the exact same way ZIP does. The code should be in
the ever popular zlib library.

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tim lindner                    tlindner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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