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Cowering's GoodTools is a suite of ROM auditing applications for Windows that contain a database listing known software for various video game consoles and home computers.

These tools, released as freeware, have established themselves as an important reference for ROM collectors, especially for older systems that don't have similarly authoritative sources and that have a perfect or almost perfect coverage in GoodTools.

The popularity of GoodTools originated the practice of distributing, instead of single or arbitrarily collected ROMs, the so-called "goodsets", packaged archives of every ROM for a particular platform that GoodTools recognizes.

 

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The Software Preservation Society (SPS), formerly the Classic Amiga Preservation Society (CAPS), dedicates itself to the preservation of software for the future, namely classic games.

This organisation uses its own file format called IPF (Interchangeable Preservation Format) to create backup images of each disk it collects.  This is similar in nature to ADF, but the idea is that all disks are original as possible, as they were delivered from the developer, and none are cracked/pirated copies of games that have been tampered with and altered.  In contrast when you obtain a game in ADF format it is often a cracked version with a pirate group's cracktro at the start.

 

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TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) is a project dedicated to create complete databases of software for each computer system.  Each database is stored in a .dat file which can then be used by a ROM manager to arrange, sort, rename... etc a users own ROM collection.

TOSEC dat files are great to obtain a near to complete list of all known software for a given platform.  This is perfect for collectors as they can run their software collection through a ROM manager to check their files are named correctly, pass crc checks, and to see if they are missing anything in their collection.

 

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toseciso.org CD Dumping Project, and is an off shoot of the main TOSEC project.

As the nam suggests TOSECISO concentrates on optical CD/DVD media archiving, and leaves the main TOSEC project to catalogue floppy disk and other media formats from old systems.

The TOSECISO project creates dat files in the same way as TOSEC, which can be used in ROM Managers such as ClrMamePro to check your ISO images for crc checks, naming conventions etc...  The project's dat files include as much information about the original discs as possible, including serial number, data track size, audio track information etc...  This is achieved by each disc's data track being extracted into a bin/cue file using CDRWin, and then the Audio tracks ripped using EAC.  The information is then collected from the ripped disc files using ClrMamePro.

 
 
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