TOSEC Naming ConventionTosec Naming Convention (2009-12-24)
TNC - the format explained
Introduction
TOSEC, or The Old School Emulation Center, is a group of people dedicated to the preservation of games and other programs for home computer and console systems. The main goal of the group is catalog and correctly rename all possible kinds of software images for those systems, to archive this TNC was created.
The TNC or TOSEC Naming Convention is the set of rules used by TOSEC renamers trying to provide a clear, concise and consistent naming scheme for cataloging any image of any system. This document serves to cover and describe the entire naming convention and how it should be used.
Revisions Table
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Date |
Description |
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24/12/2009 |
Update to country and language codes. Country codes now follow the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard (2 letters, uppercased), while language codes use the ISO 639-1 standard (2 letters, lowercased). Cleared some rules in country/language flags usage, updated systems flags and dump descriptors lists. Fixed errors in Title field regarding “The” and “A” cases. The use of “ + “ to separate groups in dump flags was dropped. |
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20/07/2008 |
First version of this document, based on the last TNC with some updates to the naming format, mainly changes in language, media, media label, dump flags and some others. |
