Redump DAT support

[Otakufanatic]

Congratulations for this excellent tool for the no-intro sets, which are the reference for consoles in cartridge format. Is another tool possible for the redump sets which are the reference in CD format?

Best regards,

Retrofan.

[andrebrait]

I have to look into it, but I have this other tool in the works, which should be able to be more easily extended to process data from other DAT formats.

https://github.com/andrebrait/DATROMTool

[andrebrait]

So, it turns out redump uses the same format, despite handling disks.

You can likely already use this tool for that.

[Otakufanatic]

but the redump dat doesn't include the parents-clones, I don't think it works well...

[andrebrait]

I see. In this case, there's not much I can do. The parent-clone relationship has to be curated by humans and filled in the DAT. It's the only reliable way I can know game A is a clone of game B. Matching by name and other approaches don't work because you can't really match, say, Lylat Wars and Star Fox, even though they're the same game.

If redump doesn't include parent-clone information, you can't generate a 1G1R using them.

[andrebrait]

I found some resources on the matter and I'll be looking into them for the next tool I'm writing.

https://github.com/unexpectedpanda/retool
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/54331-redump-1g1r-collection-tool-disc-systems-ps-psp-xbox-gc-dreamcast-etc/