Dat-O-Matic Dat File Parser

[Rain]

Today I am making public my Dat-O-Matic dat file parsing system which I created for a very special project that I am working on; I figured it would save some of the developers out there several hours of leg work creating their own. Currently it parses UTF/Text dat files found on http://datomatic.no-intro.org/ I plan on adding functionality of allowing it to parse XML/Text type DAT files at some point in time. Without further delay here is how you use this bad boy.

Include a reference

using DatProcessor;

Initialize the code

var myMethod = new DatFileProcessor();
var myGames = myMethod.ProcessFile(@"c:\path\to\my\datfile.dat");

This will read your DAT file into an object type that will be held much like a list type, and here is a quick and dirty way to loop through all of the data that can be found from that DAT file.

Looping through games

foreach (var myGame in myGames)
{
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.Index);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.Name);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomCrc);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomMd5);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomName);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomSha);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomSize);
    Console.WriteLine(myGame.Serial);
}

Overview - The Layout of a DAT

game (
   name "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones)"
   description "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones)"
   rom ( name "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones).ipf" size 928295 crc 83BA36E2 md5 1B54BFAA5325EC1D654BF035299B0CCF sha1 516672412F3532F823088FD71A669D30E226D5CA )
)

Index - Stores the line number within the file where the game has been located

Name - Stores the proper name of the game found in line #2 above

RomCrc - Stores the CRC value of the rom found in line #3

RomSha - Stores the SHA1 value of the rom found in line #3

RomMd5 - Stores the MD5 value of the rom found in line #3

RomName - Stores the literal name of the rom found in line #3

RomSize - Stores the size of the current rom found in line #3

RomSerial - When applicable this will store the value of a games serial (typically found in line #3/#4)

Anyways ladies and gents, I just wanted to spread my works for any of our brilliant software developers out there who need a quick and simple way of parsing DAT files; I will add a searching algorithm in later as well. Thanks everyone!

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DatProcessor.zip

[emb]

I think i might nab this from you. Thanks!

[goldorakiller]

The dll is not .net native ?

[Gothicplsur]

Rain, I Have A Question... My SNES Roms Folder When Scanned With The DAT From Hyperlist Shows 787 "Would Be" Roms Available, Then From DAT-O-MATIC's DAT There's A 3,546 "Would Be" Rom Count, So My Question Is, If A Person Is Using Hyperspin And It's DAT Of Only 787 Roms Available. Is This Because Of Duplicates From Other Countries, If So, And I Would Only Prefer To Have (USA) Roms (no offense to other countries) The DAT From Hyperlist Is The Only Way Say, Myself Should Go...?!?

[emb]

Just thought I would let you know, I am using this API in my 4.2 release. It has saved me a couple hours of effort. Thanks Ron!

[RodentVienna]

thanks ron, much appreciated!

kind regards

alex

[goldorakiller]

The dll is not .net native ?

[emb]

As far as I can tell from using it, yes.

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[goldorakiller]

As far as I can tell from using it, yes.

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Yes it is .net native or yes it is NOT .net native ?

[emb]

Yes it is .net native

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[Rain]

File Name: Dat-O-Matic Dat File Parser

File Submitter: Rain

File Submitted: 07 May 2015

File Category: ROM/Database/Renaming tools

Credits: Rain

Today I am making public my Dat-O-Matic dat file parsing system which I created for a very special project that I am working on; I figured it would save some of the developers out there several hours of leg work creating their own. Currently it parses UTF/Text dat files found on http://datomatic.no-intro.org/ Without further delay here is how you use this bad boy.

Include a reference

using DatProcessor;

Initialize the code

var myMethod = new DatFileProcessor();var myGames = myMethod.ProcessFile(@"c:\path\to\my\datfile.dat");

This will read your DAT file into an object type that will be held much like a list type, and here is a quick and dirty way to loop through all of the data that can be found from that DAT file.

Looping through games

foreach (var myGame in myGames){Console.WriteLine(myGame.Index);Console.WriteLine(myGame.Name);Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomCrc);Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomMd5);Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomName);Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomSha);Console.WriteLine(myGame.RomSize);Console.WriteLine(myGame.Serial);}

Overview - The Layout of a DAT

game (name "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones)"description "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones)"rom ( name "Circus Attractions (Europe) (Compilation - Milestones).ipf" size 928295 crc 83BA36E2 md5 1B54BFAA5325EC1D654BF035299B0CCF sha1 516672412F3532F823088FD71A669D30E226D5CA ))

Index - Stores the line number within the file where the game has been located

Name - Stores the proper name of the game found in line #2 above

RomCrc - Stores the CRC value of the rom found in line #3

RomSha - Stores the SHA1 value of the rom found in line #3

RomMd5 - Stores the MD5 value of the rom found in line #3

RomName - Stores the literal name of the rom found in line #3

RomSize - Stores the size of the current rom found in line #3

RomSerial - When applicable this will store the value of a games serial (typically found in line #3/#4)

Anyways ladies and gents, I just wanted to spread my works for any of our brilliant software developers out there who need a quick and simple way of parsing DAT files; I will add a searching algorithm in later as well. Thanks everyone!

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