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::Don't be afraid to ask what you want to know. Worst that can happen is that I don't know the answer. This method works for anything you can download from the Wii Shop Channel, including Wii Channels and WiiWare games. The URLs correspond to the GameIDs rather easily. I'll use HCRK01 as an example. The "00010001" part means it's Wii Shop content, and the "4843524B" part is simply the hexadecimal representation of the GameID without the Publisher Code. It decodes to "HCRK" as you would expect. Getting the Publisher Code is slightly more difficult and requires opening the TMD file with a hex editor. (TMD stands for "Title MetaData" and provides information on an online title like the GameID and the version number.) [https://i.imgur.com/qCueYvr.png Here's a screenshot of the TMD in a Hex Editor with the relevant portion highlighted.] The "01" there is the publisher code, and it can be consistently found there in my experience. --[[User:PowerKitten|PowerKitten]] ([[User talk:PowerKitten|talk]]) 00:49, 5 October 2017 (CEST) | ::Don't be afraid to ask what you want to know. Worst that can happen is that I don't know the answer. This method works for anything you can download from the Wii Shop Channel, including Wii Channels and WiiWare games. The URLs correspond to the GameIDs rather easily. I'll use HCRK01 as an example. The "00010001" part means it's Wii Shop content, and the "4843524B" part is simply the hexadecimal representation of the GameID without the Publisher Code. It decodes to "HCRK" as you would expect. Getting the Publisher Code is slightly more difficult and requires opening the TMD file with a hex editor. (TMD stands for "Title MetaData" and provides information on an online title like the GameID and the version number.) [https://i.imgur.com/qCueYvr.png Here's a screenshot of the TMD in a Hex Editor with the relevant portion highlighted.] The "01" there is the publisher code, and it can be consistently found there in my experience. --[[User:PowerKitten|PowerKitten]] ([[User talk:PowerKitten|talk]]) 00:49, 5 October 2017 (CEST) | ||
So you're telling me that every digital Wii game has publicly available title information sorted in this exact consistent format across all regions? What kind of tools are you using for the data scraping? Are you comparing against a database (like ours) or doing it manually or what? I've never really trusted GameTDB, so being able to stop relying on them for IDs would be awesome if it can be done. - [[User:Xerxes|Xerxes]] ([[User talk:Xerxes|talk]]) 01:15, 5 October 2017 (CEST) | |||