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

[Eugene Sandulenko]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:44:24 +0200
Torbjörn Andersson <eriktorbjorn at telia.com> wrote:

> 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.
1MB is used only for Mac bundles. For most games MD5 of index file is
computed which varies from 2k (MM) to 104k (jungle). Typical size is
20k.


Eugene