About This File
These are 1G1R (1 Game 1 Rom) DAT files that are used with rom managers such as ClrMamePro and RomVault to scan for RetroAchievements-compatible roms in your collection. There are also CUE and GDI files that are compatible with the DATs. These will be updated beginning of every month and if there's any major issues/problems that need to be fixed that can't wait for the next month, I'll fix and update them ASAP. Please feel free to notify me of any errors/problems you encounter and/or suggestions you may have.
Edited by Ultra God Azgorath
Edited Description
What's New in Version 1.1.0 See changelog
Released
With version 1.1, I decided to redo all of the CD-Based platform DATs by converting most BIN and CUE files to CHD where necessary. CHDs are experimental for now so let me know if they work with your CHDs or not. These are the changes I made per platform:
- 3DO - I deleted the CUEs and left the BINs in the DATs as I have tested that 3DO RA and music runs fine with just the BINs on RetroArch so there's no need for CUEs nor CHDs for now. I might change these to CHD in the future if needed.
- Atari Jaguar CD - Sadly the only RA-compatible emulator for this platform, BizHawk, doesn't support CHDs and games with multiple tracks needed both the BIN and CUE files to work so I've renamed all the multi-track BINs to the same name as they are named on the RA website with "(Track #)" at the end of the name in the DAT but I deleted the CUEs as keeping them in the DAT may possibly cause some issues down the line after scanning and renaming the BINs. However, I have made and attached CUEs with the above renamed info for these games so if you rename your roms with this DAT, download the CUEs and place them in the same folder as their respective multi-track BINs and they should run fine. CDi games in the DAT aren't affected by this and RA and the music run fine with just the CDi file per game.
- NEC PC-FX, PC Engine CD, Sega CD, Saturn and Dreamcast - The games for these platforms wouldn't run and/or detect RA and/or play music with just the BINs, they needed the CUEs as well so I decided to convert them all to CHD in the DATs instead.
- Sony PS2 and PSP - Most of the games in these 2 DATs are in ISO format so while CHD is compatible, I decided to leave them as ISOs in the DATs for now. I might change them to CHD in the future if needed. There are 3 games in the PS2 DAT that are in BIN format because I can't seem to find an ISO version of these games on the net but RA and the music run fine with just the BINs so for now I'll leave it like this until I can find ISO versions to replace them with. These games are "Maximo - Ghosts to Glory", "Simple 2000 Series Vol. 64 - The Splatter Action ! Splatter Master" and "Woody Woodpecker - Escape from Buzz Buzzard Park".
- Sony Playstation - The games for this platform had 2 types of formats: 1 CUE and 1 BIN (1C1B) or 1 CUE and Multiple Track BINs/WAVs (1CMT). For all the 1C1B games, I simply deleted the CUEs and left the BINs in the DAT as the BINs alone seemed to work fine with music and RA. For all the 1CMT games, I converted them to CHD in the DAT instead.
I also have added all the new games that have been added to RA since the previous update to their respective DATs. The PSP DAT is missing a game, "Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together [Subset - Skill Mastery]" as I'm waiting to get the patch so I can patch the game and add it to the DAT. Some DATs are also missing a few paid homebrew games but I'll update them to the DATs as soon as I can afford to purchase them. Alternatively, if anyone has these paid homebrew games' SHA1, MD5 and CRC32 file values, please DM them to me so I can add them to the DATs.
Thanks and enjoy.
