When you go to download roms, you will come across many roms that appear to be the same, and they will have different symbols beside them. For some time now, people have been wondering what these symbols mean.
Well I have compiled this Legend which explains what each one means. If you need anything else please click 'Contact' and send me a message;
[a] Alternate
[p] Pirate
[b] Bad Dump
[t] Trained
[f] Fixed
[T] Translation
[h] Hack
[x] Bad Checksum
[o] Overdump
[!] Verified Good Dump
(M#) Multilanguage (# of Languages)
(###) Checksum
(??k) ROM Size
ZZZ_ Unclassified
[C] Color
(BS) BS ROMs
[S] Super
(ST) Sufami Turbo
[BF] Bung Fix
(NP) Nintendo Power
(1) Japan
(PAL) Euro Version
(4) USA
(5) NTSC Only
(8) PAL Only
(B) non USA
[c] Checksum
(Adam) ADAM Version
[M] Mono Only
(PC10) PlayChoice 10
(1) Japan & Korea
(4) USA & BrazilNTSC
(A) Australia
(J) Japan
(B) non USA (Gen)
(K) Korea
(C) China
(NL) Netherlands
(E) Europe
(PD) Public Domain
(F) France
(S) Spain
(FC) French Canadian
(SW) Sweden
(FN) Finland
(U) USA
(G) Germany
(UK) England
(GR) Greece
(Unl) Unlicensed
(HK) Hong Kong
(Unk) Unknown Country
(I) Italy
(-) Unknown Country