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UX Suggestion (Show more info about ROM) #11

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Theone5000 opened this issue Jul 8, 2020 · 3 comments
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UX Suggestion (Show more info about ROM) #11

Theone5000 opened this issue Jul 8, 2020 · 3 comments

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@Theone5000
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UX Suggestion:
When input GBA rom display (next to MD5 checksum):

  • Region (USA/EU/JP) etc.
  • Rom version (V1.0/V1.1) etc.
  • Official rom ID
@Mte90
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Mte90 commented Jul 8, 2020

This is a problem because require a database with this information where I can get this information.
I don't know if there are some APIs online for this as example that based on the checksum or the filename give this information.
The rom header don't have this information...

@Theone5000
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I don't know about the API's out there. Can't really imagine that there aren't any. This is what I could find:
http://offlinelistgba.free.fr/index.php Nonetheless it's good to know that the ROM header does not have any additional info.
Looking foreward to more of your work. This program looks very promising,

@Mte90
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Mte90 commented Jul 9, 2020

The rom header just include a codename, that can change between various regions but can be the same between dumps.

Retroarch to get info by a rom use a database copied from https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=search
From here it is possible to search for a hash and get info about the rom but doesn't have any API, require to download a db file and read from there

Retroarch keep also a db of homebrews and hacks:

I think that the best option is add a button that open datomatic to the search page where the user inserts the hash in the search page.

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