Before some oldschoolers find this blog and start to flame me like mad for the releasenames i am posting here, let me clarify something. All these dirnames for the releases are totally made up by me! The reason for this is simple. Releases weren't uploaded to BBS systems each in his own directory like today, instead you'd just put the files into the appropriate section (e.g. snes/gb/genesis etc). The BBS software then used information stored into the file_id.diz file (so that's what it actually was good for!), that had to be included with every release, to create a list with all releases in each section. These lists had all the filenames and their appropriate description, so you could see what each file was, or find out what file contains the game that you are searching for. I still decide to post those old releases in the way they'd be released in the scene today for (a) better readability and (b) to remind you that i am still posting true scene releases for each day and not just info about some random games (hence the scene-like dirnames instead of just the name of the game).
For those interested, here's how a dirlist looked like back then:
For those interested, here's how a dirlist looked like back then:
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                ÂF1 Roc 2 From Seta [8MB/SMC/DSP2] USA FiNAL
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                |   -=> SNES/SMC/JAP/16MBITS/RPG! SPAWN *
                Â-> OR KEEP PLAYING THE JAPAN FINAL HAHA! [ A&S ] Final (?)
                Why release 1.4 megs when 20 kb are enough?!
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                 | ÂUltra Baseball J3 (c) Culture Brain |
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