[Scummvm-devel] Detection hints in the Add Game browser

[Torbjörn Andersson]

Max Horn wrote:

> the MD5 detection, which at least for SCUMM games currently still  
> scans 1 MB of file data. That could be reduced to 40-128k, though,  
> with minimal effort, as I outlined here previously.

Well, there would - I assume - be the tedious re-collecting of MD5
checksums for all known versions of the games. But if they can be
uniquely identified (to the extent that they *need* to be uniquely
identified, at least) by a smaller sample of data, I'm all for that.

Torbjörn