In Emulators / NES ROMs

I did some digging on google and used my own experiences and made this list. Special thanks to "brainstew" at the psp hack forums for the rom symbols I didn't know (actually to his source UK emulation site). If you know more just post them and I'll update this list.

this is the symbol for a good rom, look for this always.

- Alternate
- Bad Dump
- Bug Fix
- Cracked
- Other Fix
- Hack
- Overdump
- Pirate
- Trained
- Translation
(Unl) - Unlicensed
- Bad Checksum
ZZZ_ - Unclassified
- Verified Good Dump
(???k) - ROM Size Special Codes:
- Color GameBoy
- Super GameBoy
(M#) - Multilanguage (# of Languages)
- Mono Only (NeoGeo Pocket)
(PC10) - PlayChoice 10 (NES)
(1) - Japan (Genesis)
(4) - USA (Genesis)
(5) - NTSC Only (Genesis)
( 8 ) - PAL Only (Genesis)
(BS) - BS NES ROMs (SNES)
(ST) - Sufami Turbo (SNES)
(NP) - Nintendo POWer (SNES)
(Adam) - ADAM Version (Coleco)
(PAL) - PAL Video Country Codes:
(A) - Australian
© - Chinese
(E) - Europe
(F) - French
(FN) - Finland
(G) - German
(GR) - Greece
(HK) - Hong Kong
(I) - Italian
(J) - Japan
(K) - Korean
(NL) - Dutch
(PD) - Public Domain
(S) - Spanish
(SW) - Sweden
(U) - USA
(UK) - England
(Unk) - Unknown Country
(-) - Unknown Country

Wow! Thanks. I was wondering about what all those standed for. Thanks.

Nice list! Thanks for the info! Good stuff to know.

This is just an fyi for everyone, in case you are confused, I changed my name on the forums from "vincent vega" to "the jake o project" I'm trying to clean up my usernames on various forums, about half had vincent vega and the other half had the jake o project.

This is pretty useful for emulation stuff, so I sticky'd it.

Wow! You covered all of them I knew and then some. Good job.

Wow! Thanks for that list!
I always wanted to know, but was too lazy to research.
With this you're my user of the week.

what does "cracked" stand for? I downloaded some GBA NES ROMs and half have "cracked" in the name.

Cracked usually means that someone altered the rom or rom header. A cracked rom may play like the normal one but can freeze or glitch at any time. Reccomend not playing cracked NES ROMs because of their unexpected ways. Where did you download the NES ROMs from??

Limewire it was a pack of 65 NES ROMs and virtual boy.

Cracked are often modified so that they'll run on certain flash cards, which don't support all the features of the kind of cart that the official release was supplied on, or are modified to provide extra features, like invincibility.

A good example would be Castlevania III. It wouldn't run properly under Nesticle (one the predominant NES emulator), because Nesticle didn't support its' mapper. There are various versions floating around hacked to use a different mapper that Nesticle DID support (though, I've yet to see one which does a perfect job).

What does (HES) mean?

I didn't notice this post earlier...



This has a few more abbreviations. And (-) means "unknown date" not "unknown country"

For HES --

It's a type of video game music file.

Edit: HES is also the name of a video game company, so that might be what it means too. Seems that they made their own type of cartridge. So that's probably what the (HES) means

About HES:

But that has nothing to do with the "(HES)" code in NES Games.
As I found out now, HES (Home Entertainment Suppliers) is a company that brought out games for some consoles, including the NES. So, the code names the company, as it it also done for example in "PacMan" ROMs.

Eh... my edit was a little too late. Oh well.

And I repeated myself really badly in my edit. Ugh. I hate it when I do that.

What does the symbol "". Does anybody know what it means?

I actually came across this post by accident while searching Cowering's forums.



Cowering sez:

"The Low G Man is a UNIF format dump, I've been told the norman ines dump is 'wrong' somehow, and until i redump it myself, I won't know for sure."

A quick googling for "UNIF rom" leads me to this website.



So... it's a new type of ROM format that they're using for NES Games.

I'll update the list with all your finds when I'm not too busy some time,

I always was wondering what that ment. hey (the jake o project) is that kilik form soul calibur? hey do you know the Username LETTER.. And playing crack version of games, I quit fun.. I download my 500nesroms, form Kazaa with every title at less 3 types...

Limewire has a pretty good set going around. i think it has every US release, they are all GOOD dumps, no dupes. has about 840 or so.