• From: Portugal
  • Registered: 2012-06-17
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This is a rather embarrassing question, since I presume it's solution is right in front of my nose but... I have searched the forums & wiki and haven't found the answer.

So, how can I check which version a given game is, from the original disc or dump? For PS2 games, SYSTEM.CNF has a "version" field. But I can't find it in PSX CD games.

  • Jackal
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We just sort them by exe date (or in case those are the same, by disc creation date), starting with 1.0.

3 Reply by pablogm123 (edited by pablogm123 2013-01-23 01:05:10)

  • From: Sevilla - España
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I own physically this disc, I have checked the filesystem and I don't see anything special, whereas Saturn games contain the version number in the first sector, the header.

There is another version, named 1.1, and the data track/dates (more recent) differs from the mine.

I assume that db doesn't take into account the possible different versions, until the dumpers discover several releases for the same title, with different data tracks and dates (and the naming convention is 1.0 (the older), 1.1, 1.2 and so on, according to date), or releases with EDC and no EDC. Check the db, there are 7 different release of US Tomb Raider game, with different dates and varying bonus contents.

http://redump.org/disc/11913/
http://redump.org/disc/2998/
http://redump.org/disc/12765/
http://redump.org/disc/515/
http://redump.org/disc/14809/
http://redump.org/disc/1322/
http://redump.org/disc/1471/


Don't confuse this with original/Platinum releases for a given title. They can contain identical contents.

PS: Jackal has confirmed my speculation.

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  • From: Portugal
  • Registered: 2012-06-17
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Ok, guys. Thanks for clearing that out.
In fact, I thought that it could be that way but then I realized that version numbers were always subject to change if an older EXE version popped up, becaming the v1.0 and incrementing the other known versions.

One question, though. In theory could there be a 2.0 version?

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jethro_napoleon wrote:

One question, though. In theory could there be a 2.0 version?

If there are v1.0 -> v1.9 before... yes. But this seem to be very unlikely.