What does it mean when either M5,M4 or M3 appear in title of Rom?

[jackhulk]

Hello

Just wondering what the M5, M4 & M3 means when they appear in some titles of games? What is the difference (if any) between say two of the same game and one stating its M3 version?

Thank you

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

We don't discuss roms here. Read the rules.

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Originally Posted by Warez Policy

NGEmu takes a "no tolerance" stance against the trading/sharing/discussion of illegal software, also known as warez. Links to or requests for illegally-obtained commercial material, such as ROMs, ISOs, or BIOS images will not be tolerated. If you post in a forum for support and you are found to be in possession of illegal content, your thread will be immediately closed.

the rom codes are not covered by this rule, and infact if you dump your rom and then use goodwindows to check the rom, it will usually be renamed with the code.

in this case i don't see a problem with telling him what the codes mean as he hasn't told us at all that he warezed them, unless your seeing something im not schumi. as always im applying the blissfully ignorant tactic and assuming that he actually has 2 carts of the same game with different revisions.

anyway, we talk about roms all the time, what we don't talk about is contained in the rule quoted.

could a staff member comment on this please?

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Last edited by Squall-Leonhart; November 4th, 2007 at 15:47..

[RockmanForte]

No discussion here for it is roms illegally and against the rules. Please closed this thread before it is getting out of control.

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[jackhulk]

Ok sorry guys.

[Squall-Leonhart]

Originally Posted by RockmanForte

No discussion here for it is roms illegally and against the rules. Please closed this thread before it is getting out of control.

i find that total BS

ngemu hosts goodwindows which has this information available so theres no reason it shouldn't be freely available on the forum.

see here NGEmu - Download

stating we can't talk about goodrom codes is hypocritical when they host that file.

yet again, you all assume that the user has downloaded the file, when he may have just come into possession of some imports. he never stated he downloaded it, ANYWHERE. so get off your merry high horses because none of you legally have the games either, so your no different.

sick of these wannabe moderators on the forums.

as far as its concerned the information is already on the site by being in the program so here it is for all to see

..................
...............: STANDARD CODES ::...............
: :\
: [a] Alternate [p] Pirate :\
: [b] Bad Dump [t] Trained :\
: [f] Fixed [T] Translation :\
: [h] Hack [x] Bad Checksum :\
: [o] Overdump [!] Verified Good Dump :\
: (M#) Multilanguage (# of Languages) :\
: (###) Checksum (??k) ROM Size :\
: ZZZ_ Unclassified :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

.................
................: SPECIAL CODES ::...............
: :\
: .-----Gameboy-----. .----Super Nintendo----. :\
: [ [C] Color ] [ (BS) BS ROMs ] :\
: [ [S] Super ] [ (ST) Sufami Turbo ] :\
: [ [BF] Bung Fix ] [ (NP) Nintendo Power ] :\
: `-----------------' `----------------------' :\
: :\
: .-----Genesis-----. .--------Atari---------. :\
: [ (1) Japan ] [ (PAL) Euro Version ] :\
: [ (4) USA ] `----------------------' :\
: [ (5) NTSC Only ] :\
: [ (8) PAL Only ] :\
: [ (B) non USA ] .--------Coleco--------. :\
: [ [c] Checksum ] [ (Adam) ADAM Version ] :\
: `-----------------' `----------------------' :\
: :\
: .--NeoGeo Pocket--. .-------Nintendo-------. :\
: [ [M] Mono Only ] [ (PC10) PlayChoice 10 ] :\
: `-----------------' `----------------------' :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

.................
................: COUNTRY CODES ::...............
: :\
: (1) Japan & Korea (4) USA & BrazilNTSC :\
: (A) Australia (J) Japan :\
: (B) non USA (Gen) (K) Korea :\
: (C) China (NL) Netherlands :\
: (E) Europe (PD) Public Domain :\
: (F) France (S) Spain :\
: (FC) French Canadian (SW) Sweden :\
: (FN) Finland (U) USA :\
: (G) Germany (UK) England :\
: (GR) Greece (Unl) Unlicensed :\
: (HK) Hong Kong (Unk) Unknown Country :\
: (I) Italy (-) Unknown Country :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

.......................
.............: STANDARD CODE NOTES ::............
: :\
: [a] This is simply an alternate version of a :\
: ROM. Many games have been re-released to :\
: fix bugs or even to eliminate Game Genie :\
: codes (Yes, Nintendo hates that device). :\
: ------------------- :\
: [b] A bad dump often occurs with an older :\
: game or a faulty dumper (bad connection). :\
: Another common source of [b] ROMs is a :\
: corrupted upload to a release FTP. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [f] A fixed game has been altered in some way :\
: so that it will run better on a copier :\
: or emulator. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [h] Something in this ROM is not quite as it :\
: should be. Often a hacked ROM simply has :\
: a changed header or has been enabled to :\
: run in different regions. Other times it :\
: could be a release group intro, or just :\
: some kind of cheating or funny hack. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [o] An overdumped ROM image has more data :\
: than is actually in the cart. The extra :\
: information means nothing and is removed :\
: from the true image. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [t] A trainer is special code which executes :\
: before the game is begun. It allows you :\
: to access cheats from a menu. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [!] Verified good dump. Thank God for these! :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

......................
.............: SPECIAL CODE NOTES ::.............
: :\
: **** SNES **** :\
: (BS) These Japanese ROMs were distributed :\
: through a satellite system in Japan :\
: known as the Broadcast Satellaview. :\
: They were transmitted along with a TV :\
: show which was connected to the game in :\
: some way. These games were only playable :\
: during the show, and thus stop after an :\
: hour, and many were timed so that only :\
: certain time periods were playable. :\
: ------------------- :\
: (ST) The Sufami Turbo device allowed two :\
: GameBoy sized carts to be plugged into :\
: the SNES. Certain carts combined into :\
: new games much like the Sonic & Knuckles :\
: lock-on technology by Sega. :\
: ------------------- :\
: (NP) Nintendo Power has been known to release :\
: games only available to its subscribers. :\
: Most of these ROMs are Japanese, as this :\
: practice occured mainly in Japan. :\
: ------------------- :\
: :\
: **** Genesis **** :\
: (1) Carts with this code will run on both :\
: Japanese and Korean machines. :\
: ------------------- :\
: (4) While this code is technically the same :\
: as a (U) code, it is a newer header :\
: format and represents that the cart will :\
: run on USA and Brazil NTSC machines. :\
: ------------------- :\
: (B) This country code indicates that the :\
: cart will run on any non US machine. :\
: ------------------- :\
: [c] This code represents a cart with known :\
: faulty checksum routines. :\
: ------------------- :\
: :\
: **** GameBoy **** :\
: [BF] Bung released a programmable cartridge :\
: compatable with the GameBoy which could :\
: hold any data you wished to play. :\
: However, many games do not function on :\
: Bung v1.0 carts and have to be 'fixed.' :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

...........
...................: Credits ::..................
: :\
: Document written by Psych0phobiA / q^-o|o-^p :\
: :\
: All codes developed by Cowering for the :\
: Goodxxxx series ROM file renaming utilities. :\
: :\
: Visit #(edited out) :\
:...............................................:\
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

any admin got a problem with this, is a hypocrit, pure and simple.
do you admins even realise that on this line i edited out is a against the rules link? so i hope they don't.
and yet you host the download.
tisk tisk tisk.

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Last edited by Squall-Leonhart; November 4th, 2007 at 16:01..

[Hard core Rikki]

Schumi, rockman, that was unneeded, and somewhat not very nice.
No need to keep that topic alive further squall, btw

Funnily enough, the fact this doesn't have much if anything to do with No$GBA has been overlooked

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[Squall-Leonhart]

as far as i care its done, staff can delete the post if they want but it'll just prove my point.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

I don't see how it was cold? I also was not aware the dumping a game from a different region automatically applies that code when using the tool. I thought release groups did that themselves so it would apply only to downloaded roms. I aint ever dumped a multiple language game.

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[Squall-Leonhart]

no, Goodwindows+Goodprograms compare against a internal library of.. i think its md5 or crcs or something, to tell if its a good dump. and then apply the codes to indicate the type of rom it is.

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