Describe the Manifest Viewer.

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The Manifest Viewer
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As mentioned in
[Why game folders?](#why-game-folders),
a game cartridge contains
more than just the raw data of the game.
higan uses a "manifest" to
describe how the various parts of a game cartridge
are wired up together,
and the Manifest Viewer lets you examine
the configuration higan is using for the currently-running game.
For some games,
an actual cartridge has been taken apart and carefully examined
and its configuration has been recorded in icarus' database,
so the manifest icarus produces
is guaranteed accurate.
For games that do not exist in icarus' database,
icarus will make a reasonable guess.
This is enough to get the game running,
but does not necessarily reflect the original cartridge.
The Game Library
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