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Keep track of already-verified .chd files to avoid having to re-convert them every time

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This idea was described by ZeroBANG [on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/uvfibn/comment/ia2281p/).

Read .chd files internally to avoid chdman dependency and need for temporary files

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There are at least a couple of libraries for reading .chd files now, which would hopefully make this _fairly_ easy.

Problem verifying Neo Geo CD games

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This was mentioned by @Immersion95 in issue #10.

A companion tool to convert *to* .chd/.rvz

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Would convert from the Redump-native formats and zipped/7-zipped versions of them. Called 'compressdump'?

There's nothing fundamentally command-liney about this tool so it would be great to make it accessible to users who aren't comfortable with command-line tools. The interface of `verify_dumps()` would need...

Support downloading Datfile and Cuefiles from Redump.org automatically

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We would definitely need to cache the downloads (in the XDG cache directory?), use the appropriate HTTP headers to avoid redownloading when things haven't been updated, and limit checking frequency...

This might be easier for some users who aren't familiar with using environment variables. The implementation of this might just be to add the tool folder (`pathlib.Path(sys.argv[0]).parent`?) to the environment...

The biggest benefit here would be to color the verbose output differently so that it's easier to distinguish from the normal information output. Coloring errors and successful validation messages would...

Currently an ugly Python exception is shown. A good way of doing this might be to just run the tool with no arguments to check that that succeeds before running...