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Program to Help Catalog and Organize RTPs, Resources and Games

01/25/2024 04:26 PM

Hello,

I have been working on saving and cataloging games, RTP's and Resources as I find them online. I have over 4000 games in my collection now and it is getting harder and harder to find duplicates and copies. The solution I am working on is a Program.

The goal of the program is to make a known file list of every game I can find with their unique hash so that I can easily identify if I have already downloaded the game or not. On top of that I would like to include a lot more functionality that includes, but is not limited to:

Finding Missing known Files for the game
Allow anyone to scan a folder to find games which are not cataloged
Scan and detect files in ZIP|RAR|7Z|Selfextracting EXEs for specific file information
Detecting the Engine Used for a game
Scanning files for text to help determine the Author
Determining if it has RTP files included and which version of the RTP is it
Determine if you have the same game twice, ignore thumbs.db and save files and only focusing on the main files required for the engine
Removing RTP files from within zip without unzipping
Rename file to a neatly formatted name if it is known
Detect if the game is encrypted or not
Anything else that might be useful...

Right now I am working on compiling information on things like this:
(This is not real data per-se, just an example)

{
  "engine": "RPG Maker 2000",
  "abbr": "RM2K",
  "hasRTP": true,
  "requiredFilesExts": [
    "lmt", "lmb", "lmu"
  ],
  "knownUniqueFiles": [
    {
      "defaultName": "game.exe",
      "hash_sha256": "..."
    }
  ]
}

Additional RTP Info:

{
  "engine": "RPG Maker 2000",
  "abbr": "RM2K",
  "RTPs": [
    {
      "versions": [
        {
          "description": "First official RTP released.",
          "number": "1.0.0",
          "officialRTP": true,
          "mediaFiles": [
            {
              "path": "/battlebacks/grass.png",
              "hash_sha256": "..."
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Now as to WHY I am posting this...
I am looking for anyone knowledgeable that can help list out the following things.

Known custom and default RTPs and versions if they are updated and where to download them, so I can install and generate hashes for it.
Known EXE's, Patched EXE's, DLL's and Patched DLL's with their version info if available and SHA256 hashes (I plan on scanning these with the games I have, but the more info I have up front, the more I can verify with my data)
How to 100% determine between RM2K and RM2K3 without using the exe or folder names, as RM2K3 doesn't NEED the background2 folder for example and some games don't include the exe.
Other file information like, RM2K requires lmu, lmt and lmb files to function and every other file allowed like, wav,mp3,ogg etc...

Any information you can give will help me when I complete the programming on my side. Let me know if you want to help, or just post in here with any information you can share.

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