New Licensee Code → Extended Licensee Code

[avivace]

I'd like to change the name "New Licensee Code" to "Extended Licensee Code". I think it better conveys the idea of a revision of the system, instead of focusing on the fact that it came out afterwards

[nitro2k01]

Why?

1. It's a literal description of events. It's in fact a new standard for specifying the licensee, meant to replace the old one.
2. In what sense is it extended? It doesn't encode any additional information, since the old field is supposed to have a placeholder value. It also doesn't contain more information than the old field would have, since it ultimately encodes a number between 0 and 255 just like the old field, despite being spread out over 2 bytes.

[pinobatch]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that new licensee codes were allowed to use letters G through Z in addition to hexadecimal digits 0 through F.

[nitro2k01]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that new licensee codes were allowed to use letters G through Z in addition to hexadecimal digits 0 through F.

I'm doing some statistical analysis of the ROMs in GoodGBX and this is true. Will return later with more information as I find things out.