Re: [stella] goodtools?

Subject: Re: [stella] goodtools?
From: Mark De Smet <de-smet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:14:47 -0500 (CDT)
Thanks.  Does it yield exactly the same values as the gnu implimentation?

Is this sort of thing consistant, or does it change per implementation?

Mark

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, tim lindner wrote:

> > 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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