choosing title ID for custom forwarder wads

[grandosegood]

hey there, sometimes i like to make custom forwarder wads for single rom loaders, homebrew or games. what's a good way to choose the title ID for these items (smash remix is N5RX for example), and avoid known conflicts, particularly with single rom loaders? thanks.

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

choose a random title id

 

[blackb0x]

If you want to create accurate title IDs for channels then the first letter (the system code) should be H and the 4th letter (the region) should be A for region free, P for PAL, E for NTSC-U, J for NTSC-J, K for NTSC-K or W for NTSC-T.

HACA = Mii Channel
HABA = Wii Shop Channel
HAFA = Forecast Channel
HAAA = Photo Channel

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=GameIDs

A forwarder is a channel, so technically N5RX is wrong because it identifies as an N64 game and the region doesn't make sense. That shouldn't cause any major issues though.

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

I just choose a random id, like TACO or DFFE

 

[blackb0x]

I just choose a random id, like TACO or DFFE

And that'll work, but I can't recommend it. Especially if you might share your forwarders online.

Prior to USB Loader GX r1280 I kept getting bug reports because channels with random IDs would cause the loader to display the wrong region info. Obviously I come up with a way to detect most of these problematic channels and mask the problem, but it'll never be a perfect solution while people are using random IDs instead of valid ones.