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Offline Seph

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Filename Tags Explained
« on: Sunday August 05, 2007, 07:44:21 PM »
The following are most of the tags that can be found in the filenames on RomUlation.
Mostly you can ignore these codes as they are for collectors, only a few of them are to be used.

Code: [Select]
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
(PD) - Public Domain

Country Codes:
(A) - Australian
(C) - Chinese
(E) - Europe
(F) - French
(FN) - Finland
(G) - German
(GR) - Greece
(HK) - Hong Kong
(I) - Italian
(J) - Japan
(K) - Korean
(NL) - Dutch
(S) - Spanish
(SW) - Sweden
(U) - USA
(UK) - England
(Unk) - Unknown Country
(-) - Unknown Country
« Last Edit: Thursday April 08, 2010, 04:33:24 PM by Seph »

Offline igi2000

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Re: Filename Tags Explained
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday September 07, 2010, 12:30:30 PM »
thank you >>>

Offline The Ice Phoenix

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Re: Filename Tags Explained
« Reply #2 on: Friday October 01, 2010, 06:29:31 PM »
Thnx 4 xplainin'!

Offline Nobody1707

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Re: Filename Tags Explained
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday October 27, 2010, 04:40:53 AM »
What does (iND) mean?

Offline FreudianLemur

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Re: Filename Tags Explained
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday October 27, 2010, 09:13:28 AM »
What does (iND) mean?
That's the name of the group that dumped the game. Like (XENOPHOBIA) or (BAHAMUT).

Offline sylar1000

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Re: Filename Tags Explained
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday October 27, 2010, 09:37:22 AM »
That's the name of the group that dumped the game. Like (XENOPHOBIA) or (BAHAMUT).

Actually i think it means Independent, dumped by a normal person instead of a release group