No-Intro DAT Matcher

What No-Intro DAT Matcher is

No-Intro DAT Matcher is a free Linux script for organizing ROM files against No-Intro or Redump DAT files. It hashes files and compares the hashes with DAT entries, then copies or moves matched ROMs into an output folder using the DAT filenames. It can skip files already in that folder and writes missing ROMs and unmatched files to a text file, which can help identify gaps in a collection. The README directs users to get DAT files from DAT-o-MATIC or Redump. The instructions require Python 3 plus the xmltodict and tqdm packages. For NES files with an iNES header, the filename must end in .nes; the script skips the first 16 bytes when matching. N64 collections may require both Byte Swapped and Big Endian DATs, and the README mentions tool64 for converting ROM formats. The maker warns that hashing large disc-based games can take a long time and suggests moving rather than copying when disk space is limited. The repository provides the software under the MIT License, as is and without warranty.