General dat notes

• Do not add dump to DoM unless you are going to add it properly+fully and have got as much info off the dumper as you reasonably can.
• Serials should be separated with a comma and no space
• Box barcodes should be added on their own line in Comment+ like
  Box barcode: X XXXXX XXXXX X<tab>XXXXX
  (preserving spaces if there are any and putting an actual tab to represent gaps between different "barcode boxes"). Put a comma (no space) if the two barcodes are completely separate.
• Publisher/developer serials on carts should be recorded in their own line in Comment+ like
  [Company name] serial on [box/cart] [front/back]: XXXXXXXX
  • For consistency, list Company names used in DoM for this purpose here:
    • Activision
  • If you don't know what code company (if any) they are for, just put them down as for example Additional cart front serial in the Comment+
• If the language hasn't been checked, make a discussion called !langs-not-checked. The body of the discussion doesn't have to the same.
• HTTP response headers should be added in the Comment+, each starting with !http-response-header-start and then a newline and ending with a newline and !http-response-header-end. To specify what file the header is for, use !http-response-header-define: filename on the line before behind each !http-response-header-start.
• PC game platforms should be added as !pc-platform-[platform] each on line on the sticky note (e.g. !pc-platform-windows). Valid values: windows, mac, linux.
• anonomous dumper names like !anon-YYYY-MM-DD-######## can be used to uniquely identify an anonymous dumper, where YYYY-MM-DD is the GMT date the id was generated and ######## is a randomly generated lowercase alphanumeric 8-character string. The same id should be used across multiple dumps by the same anonymous person.
• If the ROM was dumped as trimmed (dumping tool guesses or checks when the "real" data ends), but then restored from the header field, you can add: [Dumped as trimmed, restored from header] to the comment1 field
• If the dump date is from the http response header(s) date field, put [Date from HTTP headers] in the comment2 field.
• If the file sizes are from the http response header(s) length field, put [Sizes from HTTP headers] in the comment2 field.

Tags

Documentation for common "tags" that are used in comment fields.

Comment 1

Tag	Explaination
[Modification of file with CRC32: x]	For Trusted Modification sources. x = CRC32 of file that was modified.
[Modification type: x]	For Trusted Modification sources. values: trimmed
[Dev cart]	Used when dump status is set to "other" to prevent dev cart from counting towards verified status.