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**Example of how region code can help you: page Test 123 on the wiki says that a game had only a North American release, and includes only a North American ID (region code E). It looked fine so nobody else bothered to investigate. You check the release data and find that in fact Test 123 had a European release as well, and you even find a European cover for the game on Google images. You then know that there is a missing European ID, and after a quick search you find it and add it. What looked like a page with all IDs was actually missing one all along, and not knowing the correct release data for the game it would've gone undetected. | **Example of how region code can help you: page Test 123 on the wiki says that a game had only a North American release, and includes only a North American ID (region code E). It looked fine so nobody else bothered to investigate. You check the release data and find that in fact Test 123 had a European release as well, and you even find a European cover for the game on Google images. You then know that there is a missing European ID, and after a quick search you find it and add it. What looked like a page with all IDs was actually missing one all along, and not knowing the correct release data for the game it would've gone undetected. | ||
*Characters 5 and 6 reflect publisher, and these are the most confusing of all characters as they can be all over the place depending on the title. Sometimes titles will have different publishers for each region, the same publishers in all regions except one, all the same publisher, the same publisher but with a different last two characters that's actually valid, etc. | *Characters 5 and 6 reflect publisher, and these are the most confusing of all characters as they can be all over the place depending on the title. Sometimes titles will have different publishers for each region, the same publishers in all regions except one, all the same publisher, the same publisher but with a different last two characters that's actually valid, etc. However, they do follow patterns, even though they may be confusing patterns; once again, the [[GameIDs]] page is your friend here. | ||
**Note that for virtual console titles, each different console gets its own unique publisher ID that stays uniform for the console. For example, all sega titles have publisher code 8P. This means that while no sources besides the dolphin wiki contain six character virtual console IDs, you can just fill them out yourself without much hassle. The chart below shows the virtual console publisher IDs. | |||
=== How to add an ID === | === How to add an ID === | ||