Thread: SPS vs No-Intro
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Old 24 July 2019, 21:14   #19
Mikerochip
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Originally Posted by lilalurl View Post
IIRC,the "No-intro" name stems from collecting ROM dumps without intros from the release groups (sort of cracktros). There were a lot of these in the GBA era for example.

They also posted patches to remove the intro from scene GBA dumps, and thus convert your dumps to "No-intro" versions too.

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Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd View Post
That's true. But today "No-Intro" only means that they really provide unaltered 1:1 original dumps, no cracks.
Not strictly true. Byuu dumped one of my SNES roms, and found the No-Intro dump had been actually dumped incorrectly, or had been damaged, and the dumper manually fixed it before releasing it as "unaltered".

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