Kayot Wrote:Would the hash of a Scrubbed Wii game be considered copyrighted?
MD5 hashes are not copyrighted, at least most (if not all) systems of copyright would find them ineligible for copyright protection.
Kayot Wrote:Another question, is the scrubbing method the same for each program that does it?
Like would I end up with a different MD5 if I scrubbed with Wii Backup Manager, compared to another scrubbing program.
It depends on if there's a "standard" way or even a few well known ways of scrubbing ISOs and if the programs in question use them. Obviously scrubbed disc images made from WiiScrubber should produce the same MD5 hashes (assuming the input was the same to begin with), but even different versions of WiiScrubber could possibly yield different MD5 hashes for the exact same disc image. The reason why MD5 hashes are useful for verifying disc image integrity (in the emulation community at least) is that by basing it off the raw, unedited 1:1 retail copy, you eliminate all of the variables that something like WiiScrubber introduces.
Kayot Wrote:Why isn't there some sort of tagging method for gcz files, like how mp3 keeps it's tag at the end of the file?
You mean the file extension in the filename? Why not just append it yourself? I thought Dolphin did this already, but I've never compressed any disc image myself, the joys of too much HDD space.
Kayot Wrote:Are there any plans to save the MD5 into a .md5 file so that it doesn't have to be rehashed each time I view it? Same for if I want to check it?
Why not copy+paste it into a .md5 yourself? Afaik, the hash isn't rehashed every time you open Dolphin; you have to manually tell Dolphin to compute it (you click a button). It would be quite slow for some people who have many games if Dolphin were to compute all of their MD5 hashes automatically every time.
Kayot Wrote:Regarding banners, is there a download that will give me all the possible banners? It's a pain trying to get a save for each game just to have the banner I'll no doubt lose in a week. If nothing else, wouldn't it be cool if the Sys\GameSettings\ directory could hold an id named png of the right size that correlates to the game in question?
You shouldn't be losing banners, not since Dolphin switched to a global user directory across all OSes. I can only speak for Linux usage, but I've never lost all of my banners switching between revisions (some, occasionally, but not every one). Are you using a portable.txt file to make newer revisions work like Dolphin did before the global user directory? If so, that may be the source of your problem.
As for banners, we had a ton of users upload them to dolphin-emu.org a while ago. I doubt anyone else has ever tried to do anything like it (except maybe Nintendo, given that they have to license everything), so the banners on https://dolphin-emu.org/compat/ are probably the most extensive online database available. It doesn't have all of them, but it has more than anyone else has collected so far to my knowledge.