Cleaning up Roms

[The Visad]

Not quite a GameEx qestion, more of a rom question in an attempt to make Gameex Look nice. Listed below are the formats that my roms are in. I know that E, U and J stand for Europe, Japan, and US. My question is what on earth are the bracketed text for? I spent half the morning looking around for information regarding the brcketed text and have found nothing relating to it. I want to make sure that my game list is using the original and best rom for the specific game. It seems NES and Genesis use this as I have not found it on any of my other roms.

Rom name (U) [b1].nes

Rom name (J) [p1].nes

Rom name (E) [!].nes

Rom name (U) [b2].nes

Rom name (J) [p1][a1].nes

Rom name (E) [o1].nes

[Tempest]

Edit: I copied this from a website, This is not my work!

I'm guessing the emoticon isn't in the original list! Looks like it should have been a "B"....

Tags are extremely confusing. Here is a quick list of ones you might come across.

Reigonal tags:

[!] - "Verified" as a good dump.

(J) - Japan.

(U) - USA.

(E) - Europe.

(EU) - Europe and USA.

(JU) - Japan and USA.

(JUE) - All regions.

(W) - World (same as JUE)

(Brazil) - duh.

[R-country] - Specific country dump.

Old MD/Genesis reigonal tags:

(1) - Japan & Korea only

(4) - USA & Brazil NTSC only

(5) - NTSC only

(8) - PAL only

( - any non USA

Others tags:

(Proto) - Prototype cartridge. This is an unfinished build of a game.

(Beta) - Beta cartridge. This is an unfinished build of a game.

(V1.0), (V1.1), etc - Version number.

(REV00), (REV01), etc - Revision number.

(Unl) - Unlisenced. Probably a pirate.

[a1], [a2], etc - Alternate version. Another acceptable dump.

[f1], [f2], etc - Fixed. Edited (cracked) to work in emulators.

[h1], [h2], etc - Hack. Something about this cartridge has been changed, probably by pirates. The change is likely not noticeable.

[h1C], [h2C], etc - Hack. Something about this cartridge has been changed, definitly by Chinese pirates.

[p1], [p2], etc - Pirate version. The pirates changed something about the cartridge. Likely a simple removal of copywrites or a multipack.

[t1], [t2], etc - Trained. The ROM has been edited to alter stats or other gameplay mechanics.

[o1], [o2], etc - Overdump. Lots of extra data on the end, which is likely garbage.

[b1], [b2], etc - Bad dump. You almost certainly don't want to download this.

[hI] - Intro hack.

(MP) - Mega Play.

[c] - Checksum.

[x] - Bad checksum.

(multiboot) - GBA multiboot. This is the data booted on a GBA through a link cable.

[T+language_name] - Translation + language translated to _ transator.

notes:

There is some ambiguation between tags like [f1], [h1], [h1C], [p1], and [t1].

[hI] has a cool screen added to the beggining of the ROM!

[o1] or [b1] tags mean that the ROM is essentially garbage. I don't understand why those bad eggs aren't dropped from goodsets.

Bad checksums ([x]) aren't nessisarily bad; a good dump of Dynamite Heddy has a bad checksum.

I Would give a link to the site, but they have roms....

[The Visad]

Edit: I copied this from a website, This is not my work!

I'm guessing the emoticon isn't in the original list! Looks like it should have been a "B"....

I Would give a link to the site, but they have roms....

Awesome! No links necc... that answered my question perfectly!

Visad

[LB11]

To make your life easier, you can just run your roms through a nointro data file.

[Tempest]

To make your life easier, you can just run your roms through a nointro data file.

If your talking about using CMP (and I think you are) I think it is best to rebuild to a new directory as well, the last I knew, CMP doesn't delete extraneous files, so rebulding to a new directory really cleans things up.