Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over for digital archives

Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by dfxm12 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:18PM (#35292331)

I'm not sure exactly what statements you're referring to, but consider if you've ever seen a [b] in a rom filename, that means it's known to be a "bad dump". Compare this to roms with [!] in their filename, which signifies a "verified good dump".

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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by AdmiralAsshat on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:51PM (#35293786)

Damn. I wonder how many games I fully played through back in the day against a known "bad" dump.

EDIT: Now I'm even more confused as to why some of those "good sets" would even contain known bad dumps.

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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by dfxm12 on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:11PM (#35294031)

I think the Good Sets were meant to archive every single dump of every game.

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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by wk_end on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:13PM (#35294800)

Once upon a time there was a program called "GoodTools" that maintained a database of all known dumps, so you could run it against your ROMs and it could identify which ROMs were known bad. Dumb completionists then decide to collect and distribute sets containing every ROM - including the bad ones - in the GoodTools database, so-called "good sets", which besides wasting lots of bandwidth and storage space (at a time when this stuff wasn't quite so cheap!) also unfortunately helped bad dumps stick around.

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