How to read a title listing

This page teaches you to read a title listing on romsnsm.org. It is a tour of the card: cover, official name, facts, file rows, and the moment Get the ROM appears. It is not the first-party walkthrough on the download help leaf, and it does not own the home or catalog keywords. Use it when a card is open and the layout still looks like furniture.

A title card lives at /switch-rom/{slug} with no trailing slash. The H1 is the official name only. Help pages do not add Download, NSP, or XCI to that heading. Format tokens and the file control are later lines. If you are still choosing a name, Open the catalog first, then come back here with a card open.

Walk the stops in order. The cover identifies the title. The definition list holds stored facts and omits empty ones. File rows repeat name, format token, and listed size. Get the ROM is a later control, not a caption on the cover.

Stops on the card

The facts list is a definition list, not a review and not a plot. Fields that exist on this catalog include genre, publisher, developer, title id, release date, region, languages, firmware, game version, format, and size_label. Each line appears only when that fact is stored. The catalog does not print unknown or N/A. File hashes are not stored for this catalog; this tour does not invent a hash or a scan badge.

Format on the card comes from the stored formats value: nsp, xci, or nsp xci. That is how NSP and XCI appear. Two tokens are two facts. size_label is the listed size for the row, not a pair of formats added together. NSP vs XCI compares those tokens. What an NSP file is and What an XCI file is define each one.

File rows sit under the facts. A row repeats official name, the format token, and size_label when stored. It is not Get the ROM. Clicking a fact line does not start a transfer. The only file control is the copper Get the ROM button, and only when a first-party file is stored on this host.

1. Cover

   What you see

   A 3:4 box on the card. When art is stored, it is the official cover for that title.

   What it means

   The picture is an identifier, not a file button. Alt text names the cover, not this help heading.

2. Official name

   What you see

   The H1 on the title card. It is the official name only.

   What it means

   Help pages do not add Download, NSP, or XCI to that heading. Format lives on later lines.

3. Facts definition list

   What you see

   A definition list of stored facts: genre, publisher, developer, title id, release date, region, languages, firmware, game version, format, and listed size when they exist.

   What it means

   Empty facts are omitted. A missing firmware or publisher line is not written as unknown. Size is size_label, not a combined figure.

4. File rows

   What you see

   Compact rows under the facts: official name, format token (NSP or XCI), and listed size when stored.

   What it means

   A row is a fact line. It is not Get the ROM. Two format tokens are two facts, not one added size.

5. Get the ROM

   What you see

   A copper control on the title card. The href stays on romsnsm.org.

   What it means

   It appears only when a first-party file is stored. No button means the listing can still be true as metadata. A scan badge appears only when a stored scan exists — this tour does not invent one.

After you can read the card

Once the furniture is clear, you can Browse ROMs again or check what this catalog lists. If a title is missing, Ask for a title. If a row looks wrong, use Flag a listing. This tour does not change a card and does not invent a hash or a scan.

If you arrived from How to find Switch NSP listings, you already know the walk to the card. Stay here until the facts list and the file rows make sense, then use download help only when Get the ROM is actually on the card.

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