2 Roms Didnt Load With New Drmdx..

[PSyMastR]

the rest all mean something too. I forgot where the chart was with all the meanings.

			..................
...............: STANDARD CODES ::...............
:											   :\
:   [a] Alternate		[p] Pirate			 :\
:   [b] Bad Dump		 [t] Trained			:\
:   [f] Fixed			[T-] OldTranslation	:\
:						[T+] NewerTranslation  :\
:   [h] Hack			 (-) Unknown Year	   :\
:   [o] Overdump		 [!] Verified Good Dump :\
:  (M#) Multilanguage (# of Languages)		  :\
: (###) Checksum	   (??k) ROM Size		   :\
:  ZZZ_ Unclassified   (Unl) Unlicensed		:\
:...............................................:\
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				.................
................: SPECIAL CODES ::...............
:											   :\
: .-----Gameboy-----.  .----Super Nintendo----. :\
: [  [C] Color	  ]  [ (BS) BS ROMs		 ] :\
: [  [S] Super	  ]  [ (ST) Sufami Turbo	] :\
: [ [BF] Bung Fix   ]  [ (NP) Nintendo Power  ] :\
: `-----------------'  `----------------------' :\
:					  .--------Atari---------. :\
: .-----Genesis-----.  [ (PAL) Euro Version   ] :\
: [ (1) Japan	   ]  `----------------------' :\
: [ (4) USA		 ]  .---------GBA----------. :\
: [ (5) NTSC Only   ]  [ [hI??] Intro hacks   ] :\
: [ (8) PAL Only	]  `----------------------' :\
: [ (B) non USA	 ]  .--------Coleco--------. :\
: [ [c] Checksum	]  [ (Adam) ADAM Version  ] :\
: [ [x] Bad Checksum]  `----------------------' :\
: [ [R-] Countries  ]						   :\
: `-----------------'						   :\
:					  .--------NES/FC--------. :\
: .--NeoGeo Pocket--.  [ (PC10) PlayChoice 10 ] :\
: [ [M] Mono Only   ]  [   (VS) Versus		] :\
: `-----------------'  [ [hFFE] FFE Copier fmt] :\
:					  `----------------------' :\
:...............................................:\
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				.................
................: COUNTRY CODES ::...............
:											   :\
:   (1) Japan & Korea	  (4) USA & BrazilNTSC :\
:   (A) Australia		  (J) Japan			:\
:   (B) non USA (Genesis)  (K) Korea			:\
:   (C) China			 (NL) Netherlands	  :\
:   (E) Europe			(PD) Public Domain	:\
:   (F) France			 (S) Spain			:\
:   (F) World (Genesis)						 :\
:  (FC) French Canadian   (SW) Sweden		   :\
:  (FN) Finland			(U) USA			  :\
:   (G) Germany		   (UK) England		  :\
:  (GR) Greece		   (Unk) Unknown Country  :\
:  (HK) Hong Kong		  (I) Italy		:\
:  (H)  Holland		  (Unl) Unlicensed	   :\
:...............................................:\
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Thanks for that chart.

 

[Ravnos]

BUT THEN THERE ARE MARIO/SONIC* hacks a new super metroid* game for the snes emulator coming soon.


*as these are trademarks i cant remember if there legal or not as they are not covered by a GNU agreement.

(knuckles on sonic 1 is awsome though )

Romhacks are as illegal as any other copyrighted rom.

 

[halo9]

Thanks for that chart.

No problem mate. Should really post the second half so not to take credit. See below. It's from the GoodCodes collections. Sorry about the massive posts... Just thought it might be interesting. Have removed rom link in the credits. Probably best not to quote this and cause the topic to clog up even more... Mods feel free to remove it.

Keep your eyes open for the [!] rom dumps.

.............: 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!  :\
:...............................................:\
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			 ......................
.............: 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.'  :\
:			 -------------------			   :\
:											   :\
: **** Nintendo ****							:\
: PC10 The PlayChoice 10 was an arcade unit	 :\
:	  which played exact copies of NES games   :\
:	  in an arcade cabinet. The machines had a :\
:	  choice of 10 games to choose from and	:\
:	  ran for about 3 minutes on 25 cents.	 :\
:			 -------------------			   :\
:											   :\
:   VS The Versus system ran on similar hard-   :\
:	  ware to the PC10 machines, but simply	:\
:	  allowed you to play against each other.  :\
:...............................................:\
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				   ...........
...................: Credits ::..................
:											   :\
: Document written by Psych0phobiA / q^-o|o-^p  :\
:											   :\
: All codes developed by Cowering for the	   :\
: Goodxxxx series ROM file renaming utilities.  :\
:											   :\
	 :\ 
:...............................................:\
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[zektor]

Where do REV 01/02 etc. stand for?

Revision 1...revision 2...etc. Just updated revisions on the games. You would never know in most cases that you got a different (updated) revision when you purchased the carts back in the day. For example, the very first release of "Phantasy Star" for the SMS had a glitch with the enter name menu, afterward the carts were updated to a newer revision with that glitch repaired. There may be something to the effect of "Rev 1" or "Rev 2" on the board or chips, but nothing on the outside of the cart that would allow you to distinguish that you have the newer cart.

As for bad dumps, in my experience sometimes these will work in certain emulators while the "correct" dump does not. The sets you seem to have are "goodsets" which were renamed using cowerings goodtool "Goodgen". The dumps that have a [!] are supposed to be the correct dumps, but it has been found that in some cases they are not. You're best bet nowadays I would think is to try to get "Nointro" sets. These are verified by the "nointro" project, and are just an all around better set in my opinion.

 

[gaterooze]

You're best bet nowadays I would think is to try to get "Nointro" sets. These are verified by the "nointro" project, and are just an all around better set in my opinion.

Do nointro sets strip out excess duplicates, etc?

 

[zektor]

You're best bet nowadays I would think is to try to get "Nointro" sets. These are verified by the "nointro" project, and are just an all around better set in my opinion.

Do nointro sets strip out excess duplicates, etc?

Yes, they do. I never really did like having 15 bad dumps and 9 hacks of the same game

 

[halo9]

I got a bit annoyed with this too, went through all my romsets searching for *[b* in windows explorer and deleted the results. Managed to free a lot of space and prune down those extraneous sets. Then I did the same with *[!* to pull out all the known good dumps. I always look in those first when I'm rooting around for a game... Pretty easy to do.