SabreTools

Introduction

Features

A bare-bones attempt at providing a true GUI experience for the SabreTools suite. Currently only provides the following functions:

• Importing and Generating DAT files in ClrMamePro and XML formats

The main tool of the SabreTools suite. Performs the majority of the core features of the parent project, including the following:

• Importing and Generating DAT files in ClrMamePro and XML formats (current version formerly DATabaseTwo)
• Converting DATs from any format to ClrMamePro, Logiqx XML, SabreDAT XML, and to missfile (last part formerly DatToMiss; requested by Obiwantje)
• Trim DAT entries and optionally merge into a single game (formerly SingleGame; requested by Kludge)
• Split a DAT using two different file extensions within the DAT (formerly DatSplit)
• Split a DAT or folder of DATs by best available hash or nodump (formerly HashSplit, requested by Obiwantje)
• Merge, diff, and dedupe an arbitrary number of DAT files, as long as it's two or more (formerly MergeDAT; requested by Obiwantje and Kludge)
  • Read in from commandline, drag-and-drop, a directory, or any combination
  • Roms are compared with all information available, so duplicates can exist in the output
  • Output type automatically determined by the first input file
  • Optionally create a DiffDat of the inputted files instead of a straight merge
  • Optionally merge the output DAT so no partial duplicates are included
• Get various statistics on a DAT or folder of DATs including number of roms, disks, and even total size in a human readable format (formerly UncompressedSize; additions requested by Obiwantje)
• Filter a DAT by any criteria that the user chooses including wildcard searches (formerly Filter, requested by Obiwantje and others)
• Add and remove sources and systems from the database
• Retrieve a list of all sources and systems that are available

A simple auxilary tool that detects and removes headers and also restores headers for the following systems:

• Atari 7800
• Atari Lynx
• Commodore 64 PSID music
• NEC PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16
• Nintendo Famicom Disk System
• Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom SPC music

This a versitile Directory to DAT file creator developed to reduce the overhead of creating custom DAT files.

• Create a DIR from a file, a folder, or a set of either
• Set most of the DAT header values
• Enable DAT to be created with forcepacking="unzip"
• Treat archives like directories (default) or files
• Output to both supported DAT formats

Power User Tools

This tool is meant to help users who want to keep their hard drives offline and still be up to date on what they have in their collection and what they need.

• Take a current merged DAT, a current missing DAT, and a new merged DAT and get all new files, files to remove, and a new missing DAT
• Set all hash values to 0-byte equivalents for rom managers

Licensing

The preceeding programs use, in part or in whole, code, libraries, and/or applications from the 7-zip project. 7-zip is licenced under the GNU LGPL.
All other external code is marked as such within the source and correctly attributed to the site and/or person(s) that originally wrote the code. All code written by project members is licensed under GPL v3. See LICENSE for more details.

Contributions