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Title: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: jgy666 on January 31, 2008, 11:02:42 PM

Anyone happen to know what the abbreviations after a ROM's file name stand for? ie: Castlevania (U) [p1].nes, Castlevania (U) [o1].nes, etc.

I know the letter represents the country in which the game is from: U = US J = Japan, E = Europe, etc. but the p1, o1, a1, and all that is Greek to me... I'm thinking it might be a revision number or something along those lines... anyone know for sure? Thanks.

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Bloodreign on February 01, 2008, 05:07:07 AM

I'm thinking o is overdumped, a is alternate, not sure what p is though.

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Aridale on February 01, 2008, 01:28:15 PM

I dont know em all but Ive found that most times the ! is the one you want like [!] I think thats like a perfect dump.

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Mr Sven on February 01, 2008, 04:43:56 PM

Voila!

a] - Alternate
- Bad Dump - Avoid these if possible
[BF] - Bung Fix
[c] - Cracked
[f] - Other Fix
[h] - Hack

• - Overdump

[p] - Pirate
[t] - Trained
[T] - Translation
(Unl) - Unlicensed

• - Bad Checksum - avoid these as well if possible

ZZZ_ - Unclassified

[!] - Verified Good Dump - These are the ones you want, these are perfect copies of the original game

(???k) - ROM Size Special Codes:
[C] - Color GameBoy
- 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

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Gunlord on February 02, 2008, 02:51:22 AM

mr sven is a rom master *_*

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Mr Sven on February 02, 2008, 06:14:43 PM

I only wish i was an ISO master --- spent ages this weekend trying to make Gradius V work on a ps2 emulator... got as far as the menu screen but it runs hell slow!

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: DoctaMario on February 04, 2008, 08:19:21 PM

Quote from: Mr Sven on February 02, 2008, 06:14:43 PM

I only wish i was an ISO master --- spent ages this weekend trying to make Gradius V work on a ps2 emulator... got as far as the menu screen but it runs hell slow!

I'd imagine you'd have to have a pretty pumped up computer to get a PS2 emu to work.

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Long John Silver on February 05, 2008, 09:31:38 AM

First off you need to wait few more years. Ps2 emulation is still very buggy and unstable. Even if you get the newest graphic card, a quad core and other cutting edge technology it'll still lag.

Title: Re: Off-Beat ROM Question...
Post by: Mr Sven on February 06, 2008, 04:15:14 PM

to be honest i was quite suprised that it even worked at all, just got tired of waiting for everything to load up.

 I've got an Nvidea geforce 6200 so aren't all that suprised i didnt get very far. PSX emulation runs pretty much perfectly though.