ARiD is an acronym for Arcade Rom ID.
It’s an identification tool used to check integrity and to spot unknown arcade boards from their EPROM dumps.
The ARiD engine featuring RoSiCa works calculating hashes for the EPROM dumps you fed and then it compare them against the MAME database. So if matches are found, it displays all of them.
It’s always a work in progress but it recognises all the games the loaded MAME database knows.
It also performs checksum calculations for the FLUKE 9010A Micro System TroubleShooter. It’s very useful for repairing vintage computers and arcade boards.
Here’s some data :
ARiD Engine : 2.75
RoSiCa Engine : 0.3
ROMs in DB : 330741
MAME RomSet : 0.243
Searches Served : 26767
Mbytes Served : 43802
Release Notes :
– Updated with latest MAME Rom DataBase
– Minor Code Fixes and Speed-Up improvements