Ya know how MAME needs to recognize the ROM's file name in order to play it. If [ pacman ] was named [pacmoon], MAME would not recognize it. Well, is there any emulator or program that instead of recognizing file names, recognizes file sizes (I'm not just talking about MAME either.) Each ROM, program, etc. has a unique file size. It is very rare for a file to have exactly the same file size. For example, the latest MAME Plus! release has a file size of 121,464,718 bytes. It would be hard to even find another program anywhere on the internet that has that exact same file size. It's kind of like our unique fingerprints. And the larger the file, the more unique file size it probably has.
I'm just curious if this technique has ever been thought up by any of the devs of the hundreds of different emulators out there?
Some will probably think this is a dumb question, but whatever, I'm curious and I'm dev illiterate. And I'm not suggesting MAME implement this technique either. But wouldn't it be possible to do so, since every MAME ROM zip has a unique file size?
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