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 **Important Notes** **Important Notes**
   * Unopened games should have their ROM and save data dumped **before** attempting to play them. This avoids inadvertent modification of the data and helps preserve the game in its unused/"factory" state. Note in your submission whether the physical media was sealed and include a photo of the cart/packaging in its sealed state, if possible.   * Unopened games should have their ROM and save data dumped **before** attempting to play them. This avoids inadvertent modification of the data and helps preserve the game in its unused/"factory" state. Note in your submission whether the physical media was sealed and include a photo of the cart/packaging in its sealed state, if possible.
-  * If a dump's hashes don't match an existing dump, verify you've correctly dumped it by cleaning the cart's contacts (or equivalent) and dumping it again.+  * You should clean the physical media's electrical contacts before trying to dump it, and dump it twice, checking if both dumps match using a file comparison tool or calculating the SHA256 of each file and comparing those values.
  
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