====== Software ======

===== Dumping software =====

  * [[https://aaru.app/|Aaru]] - A fully-featured media dump management solution, with support for an amazing number of discs, disks, filesystems, and image formats.
  * [[https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator|DiscImageCreator]] - This command-line program dumps a disc (CD, GD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, GC/Wii, XBOX, XBOX 360) and disk (Floppy, MO, USB etc).
  * [[https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF|Media Preservation Frontend (MPF)]] - A fantastic UI for Aaru & DiscImageCreator, written in C#.
 
===== Hashing software =====

  * [[https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/|clrmamepro]] - GUI tool. Has "dir2dat" function that produces a Logiqx datfile. Supports CRC32, MD5 and SHA1 hash types. [[:directory_dir2dat_guide|See these instructions]] on how to use this while preserving sub-directories and empty files.
  * [[https://github.com/SabreTools/SabreTools|SabreTools]] - Command-line tool. Has "dir2dat" function that can produce a Logiqx datfile, among other formats. Supports CRC32, MD5, SHA1 and SHA256. Its not clear if it has an option to preserve sub-directories or empty files or not.
  * [[https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/931/|GameHeader]] - GUI tool. Supports CRC32, MD5, SHA1 and SHA256. It doesn't preserve sub-directories or empty files. Has its own output format that is supported by DAT-o-MATIC, but nothing else at the moment.
  * [[https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html|HashMyFiles]] - GUI tool. Supports CRC32, MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 and others. Produces text/HTML output. Its not clear if it has an option to preserve sub-directories or empty files or not.