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liquidstatik
Mar 4th, 2008, 03:29 AM
When searching through rom-world.com, i notice a lot of tags after game titles. Wtf do they mean? :o

EXAMPLES; (U)(J)(A)(E)(I)

edit: also, wtf is [p],[p1],[t1],etc?

executioneer
Mar 4th, 2008, 03:48 AM
Standard Codes:
[a] - Alternate
[b] - Bad Dump
[BF] - Bung Fix
[c] - Cracked
[f] - Other Fix
[h] - Hack
[o] - Overdump
[p] - Pirate
[t] - Trained
[T] - Translation
(Unl) - Unlicensed
[x] - Bad Checksum
ZZZ_ - Unclassified
[!] - Verified Good Dump
(???k) - ROM Size Special Codes:
[C] - Color GameBoy
[S] - Super GameBoy
(M#) - Multilanguage (# of Languages)
[M] - Mono Only (NeoGeo Pocket)
(PC10) - PlayChoice 10 (NES)
(1) - Japan (Genesis)
(4) - USA (Genesis)
(5) - NTSC Only (Genesis)
(8) - PAL Only (Genesis)
(BS) - BS ROMS (SNES)
(ST) - Sufami Turbo (SNES)
(NP) - Nintendo Power (SNES)
(Adam) - ADAM Version (Coleco)
(PAL) - PAL Video Country Codes:
(A) - Australian
© - Chinese
(E) - Europe
(F) - French
(FN) - Finland
(G) - German
(GR) - Greece
(HK) - Hong Kong
(I) - Italian
(J) - Japan
(K) - Korean
(NL) - Dutch
(PD) - Public Domain
(S) - Spanish
(SW) - Sweden
(U) - USA
(UK) - England
(Unk) - Unknown Country
(-) - Unknown Country

liquidstatik
Mar 4th, 2008, 03:52 AM
oh shit, ty willlllie :D

executioneer
Mar 4th, 2008, 03:57 AM
so p1 means pirated japanese maybe? and t1 means translated japenese? maybe

executioneer
Mar 4th, 2008, 03:59 AM
or trained, cause its lowercase

liquidstatik
Mar 4th, 2008, 04:08 AM
what does trained mean, tho? and is (genesis) sega genesis? cause i saw a [p1] on a SNES game ;o

executioneer
Mar 4th, 2008, 04:21 AM
i-- i don't know :( maybe the 1 after the p is like a version number in this case, whereas just a 1 by itself is for regions (I AM GUESSING HERE). it is hard to google a letter followed by a number :(

liquidstatik
Mar 4th, 2008, 04:26 AM
:lol i kno, rite. :( its w/e, the list helpd 'nuff, thanks! :D

Emu
Mar 4th, 2008, 01:40 PM
I think the number is regional, yeah ;o