UX Suggestion (Show more info about ROM)

[Theone5000]

UX Suggestion: When input GBA rom display (next to MD5 checksum):

• Region (USA/EU/JP) etc.
• Rom version (V1.0/V1.1) etc.
• Official rom ID

[Mte90]

This is a problem because require a database with this information where I can get this information. I don't know if there are some APIs online for this as example that based on the checksum or the filename give this information. The rom header don't have this information...

[Theone5000]

I don't know about the API's out there. Can't really imagine that there aren't any. This is what I could find: http://offlinelistgba.free.fr/index.php Nonetheless it's good to know that the ROM header does not have any additional info. Looking foreward to more of your work. This program looks very promising,

[Mte90]

The rom header just include a codename, that can change between various regions but can be the same between dumps.

Retroarch to get info by a rom use a database copied from https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=search From here it is possible to search for a hash and get info about the rom but doesn't have any API, require to download a db file and read from there

Retroarch keep also a db of homebrews and hacks:

• https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/blob/b4e0a4e3bcf5c319147a7785d8623d02d0c5e99f/metadat/hacks/Nintendo%20-%20Game%20Boy%20Advance.dat
• https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/blob/44cd26daa00e4164841775e342ed526be5573d90/metadat/homebrew/Nintendo%20-%20Game%20Boy%20Advance.dat

I think that the best option is add a button that open datomatic to the search page where the user inserts the hash in the search page.