SabreTools

Importing and Generating DAT files in ClrMamePro and XML formats
Converting DATs from ClrMamePro to XML format, vice versa, 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)
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
Add and remove sources and systems from the database
Retrieve a list of all sources and systems that are available

This tool can both be used with command line parameters or with the built-in text menu system.

Headerer

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

Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
NEC PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16
Nintendo Famicom Disk System
Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom
Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom

The saved headers are currently stored in a database; multiple headers allowed per file.

DatSplit

This tool doesn't do everything possible for splitting DATs, most of those functions are taken care of by third-party tool DatUtil.

Split a DAT file using two different file extensions
Works with ClrMamePro and Logiqx XML DATs only because of current limitations

This is useful for splitting DAT files similar to the NonGood set that can have more than one system per DAT.

DATFromDir

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 section is for tools that have been requested for a highly specific purpose and are not generally going to be used by regular users. All of them have a possibility of being included in the main DATabase program eventually.

OfflineMerge

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

Any feature suggestions or code contributions are accepted. Please take the time to look over the existing code to see proper coding and documentation patterns.