Dat Notes

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todo:

• a lot of the stuff here should have their own fields in DoM and should be automatically checked
• describe how to transcribe data from PCBs (e.g. chip serials, PCB serials, holes that tell you the manufacturing date(?), components on the board)
• file attachments in PSN dats are the response header of the file download. If !response-header-retrieved-through-2nd-download is in the Comment+, that means that another download was started to get the header.
• Sony - PlayStation Portable (UMD Music) and Sony - PlayStation Portable (UMD Video): some/all dumps have 0 byte DATA.BIN and EBOOT.BIN files in PSP_GAME/SYSDIR/UPDATE (those files should contain data). todo: An old dumping tool, fastloader or umddumper or something, may be able to make proper dumps (non-empty update files), on old PSP firmwares.

Some old dumps are underdumped too. todo: write a script to check which ones have these problems, then mark them as such in DoM - note in comment field for the 0 byte problem, and for under dumps note in comment field and marked as bad.

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• Naming Convention
• Source Convention
• File Convention

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• General
• Nintendo - Family Computer Disk System
• Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Nintendo - Satellaview
• Nintendo - Nintendo 64
• Nintendo - Nintendo DS
• Nintendo - Nintendo DSi (Digital)
• Nintendo - Nintendo DSi (Digital) (CDN)
• Nintendo - Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo - Nintendo 3DS (Digital)
• Nintendo - Nintendo Switch (for digital too ATM)
• Sega - Game Gear
• Non-Redump - Sony - Sony PlayStation 2
• IBM - PC and Compatibles (Digital) (itch.io)

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• Serial oddities