user guide

User Guide

This section covers the day-to-day workflows of ROM Validator.

Page	Description
Validating ROMs	Validate a folder against a DAT file and organize the results
Generating DAT Files	Hash a folder and export a No-Intro compliant DAT file
Duplicate Detection	Understand the duplicate report produced during DAT generation
Archive Support	Work with .zip, .7z and .rar archives
Screenshots and Application Data	F8 screenshots, log files, and the App Data folder
Updates	How the automatic GitHub update check works