NINTENDO CODENAMES OVERVIEW

Last updated: 2020/11/23

Sources are given where they could be found and possible to link to.

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Home Consoles

Famicom/NES

• GAMECOM (http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/special/20081002/1019327/?P=5)
• HVC - Home Video Computer? (product number: HVC-xxx)
• Family Computer - official Japanese name (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Nintendo-Famicom-Console-Set-FL.jpg)
• NES - Nintendo Entertainment System (product number: NES-xxx, official Western name: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/nes_face_large.jpg)

Super Famicon/SNES

• SHVC - Super Home Video Computer? (product number: SHVC-xxx)
• SNS - Super Nintendo (Entertainment?) System (product number: SNS-xxx, official Western name: http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/images/Z006/Z00662/Z0066234.jpg)

Virtual Boy

• VR 32 (Nintendo Power issue 67 page 84 https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue_067_December_1994, http://www.fastcompany.com/3050016/unraveling-the-enigma-of-nintendos-virtual-boy-20-years-later)
• VUE - Virtual Ultra-Eye? (product number: VUE-xxx, http://www.n-sider.com/hardwareview.php?hardwareid=6)
• VUE - Virtual Utopia Experience? (product number: VUE-xxx, http://www.planetvb.com/modules/hardware/?type=vb&sec=protos&show=2)

64

• Project Reality (https://web.archive.org/web/19970707183909/http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1993/Sep/sept_04.html)
• NUS - Nintendo Ultra Sixty-Four (product number: NUS-xxx, SDK)

GameCube

• DOL - Dolphin (product number: DOL-xxx, SDK)
• N2000? (http://www.ign.com/articles/1999/03/13/its-alive-3)
• Star Cube? (https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/guide/1749/gamecube-faq-star-cube)
• GCT - GameCube Tool? (GameCube development product numbers: GCT-xxx)
• GCP - GameCube P??? (GameCube development product numbers: GCP-xxxx)

Panasonic Q

• SL-GC10 (product number)
• SL-GC10-S (box product number)
• x21? (http://www.n-sider.com/hardwareview.php?hardwareid=26)

Wii

• RVL - Revolution (product number: RVL-xxx, E3 2005 conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVdE3ViLjA&t=35m38s)
• RVT - Revolution Tool? (Wii development product numbers: RVT-xxx)

Wii U

• Cafe (SDK, https://www.webcitation.org/69bbVT4QO?url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/116/1162045p1.html)
• WUP - Wii U Project? (product number: WUP-xxx)
• CAT - Cafe Tool? (Wii U development product numbers: CAT-xxx, e.g. http://vgleaks.com/wii-u-devkit-cat-dev-v3/)
• WUT - Wii U Tool? (Wii U development product numbers: WUT-xxx, e.g. http://vgleaks.com/pictures-of-a-new-wii-u-development-equipment-wut-002/)
• WIS - ??? (Wii U kiosk unit product number: WIS-xxx: http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/wii-u-¿kiosk-or-dev.53247/)
• DRH - Display Remote Host? (Wii U GamePad communication chip on Wii U: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Wii+U+Teardown/11796#s42193)
• DRC - Display Remote Controller (Wii U GamePad: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Wii+U+Teardown/11796#s42210, indication on development unit wired ports: http://s16.postimg.org/q3oskhf39/IMG_0269.jpg, SDK)

Switch

• NX (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160427e.pdf, page 3)
• HAC - Handheld and Console? (product number: HAC-xxx, https://fccid.io/BKEHAC016)
• (2019 edition) HAD - ??? (product number: HAD-001)

Switch Lite

• HDH - ??? (product number: HDH-001, https://fccid.io/BKEHDH001)

Portables

Game Boy

• DMG - Dot Matrix Game? (product number: DMG-xxx)

Game Boy Pocket

• MGB - Mini Game Boy? (product number: MGB-xxx)

Game Boy Light

• MGL - Mini Game (Boy) Light? (product number: MGL-xxx)

Game Boy Color

• CGB - Color Game Boy? (product number: CGB-xxx)

Pokémon Mini

• MIN - Mini? (product number: MIN-xxx)

Atlantis (Unreleased Game Boy successor)

• Atlantis (https://mynintendonews.com/2016/04/19/nintendos-original-game-boy-successor-was-not-the-gba/)

Game Boy Advance

• Game Boy Advanced (SDK programming manual)
• AGB - Advanced Game Boy? (product number: AGB-xxx)

Game Boy Advance SP

• AGS - Advanced Game (Boy) Special? (product number: AGS-xxx, https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/gameboyadvance_sp/faq.jsp#sp)

Game Boy Micro

• OXY - Oxygen? (product number: OXY-xxx, supposedly said by NoA’s Perrin Kaplan, no source found yet)

DS

• Iris (http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Iwata-Asks/Iwata-Asks-WarioWare-D-I-Y-/Iwata-Asks-WarioWare-D-I-Y-/1-It-Started-Over-Five-Years-Ago/1-It-Started-Over-Five-Years-Ago-214996.html, SDK emulator is called Ensata; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_ensata)
• NTR - Nitro (product number: NTR-xxx, SDK)

DS Lite

• USG - Usugata? (product number: USG-xxx, Japanese (薄型) for ‘thin’/‘flat’)

DSi

• TWL - ??? (Twilight?) (product number: TWL-xxx)

DSi XL

• UTL - ??? (Ultra Twilight?) (product number: UTL-xxx)

3DS

• Horizon (operating system, https://twitter.com/Myriachan/status/972576019877044224)
• CTR - Citrus (product number: CTR-xxx, https://twitter.com/SciresM/status/918952710044389376, https://twitter.com/Myriachan/status/972576019877044224)

3DS XL

• SPR - ??? (Super?) (product number: SPR-xxx)
• FULL? (Intelligent Systems devkit controller name (FULLC) https://fccid.io/document.php?id=2706880, WLAN module name (FULLW) https://fccid.io/SRX-FULLW001)

2DS

• FTR - ??? (Further?) (product number: FTR-xxx)

New 3DS

• Snake - (Intelligent Systems devkit name (IS-SNAKE) https://fccid.io/SRX-SZK001, referenced in New 3DS firmware: https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/3DS_Development_Unit_Software#Config, https://3dbrew.org/wiki/New_3DS, https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/System_Update_CFA)
• SUZAKU? (Intelligent Systems devkit name (SUZAKU-CTRL) https://fccid.io/document.php?id=2706881)
• KTR - ??? (product number: KTR-xxx)
• LGR? - ??? (marking on CPU chip: “CPU LGR A” http://www.slashgear.com/nintendo-3ds-xl-2015-teardown-inside-the-tiny-computer-13368984/)

New 3DS XL

• CLOSER? (Intelligent Systems devkit name (IS-CLOSER) https://fccid.io/SRX-SZK002)
• RED - ??? (Infrared?) (product number: RED-xxx)

New 2DS XL

• JAN - ??? (product number: JAN-xxx, https://fccid.io/BKEJAN001)

Miscellaneous

Game & Watch

• Game-dependent

Wi-Fi Network Adapter

• WAP - Wireless Access Point? (product number: WAP-xxx http://wifi.nintendo.co.jp/wap/, not to be confused with the DS Wi-Fi USB adapter NTR-010)

Game & Watch (Ball, 2011)

• RGW - ??? (R(eplica?) Game & Watch) (product number: RGW-001)

Amiibo

• NVL - ??? (product number: NVL-xxx)

Pokémon Go Plus

• PMC - ??? (Pokémon Controller?) (https://fccid.io/document.php?id=2971924)

NES/SNES Classic Edition

• CLV - Clover (internal filesystem: /bin/clover, product number; NES: CLV-001, Famicom: CLV-101, SNES (US): CLV-201, Super Famicom/SNES (EU): CLV-301)

Game & Watch (Super Mario Bros, 2020)

• HXA - ??? (product number: HXA-001)

Changelog

From latest to oldest change:

• 2020/11/23:
  • Added Game & Watch: Ball and Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros (thanks @damantioworks!).
  • Added source for Wii U’s Cafe codename.
• 2020/04/19:
  • Added Classic Edition name (thanks @AnvilSP!).
  • Added Switch (2019) and Switch Lite codenames (HAD and HDH).
• 2018/05/03:
  • Added 3DS CTR definition and clarification for Horizon (thanks @Myriachan!).
  • Added 2DS XL JAN codename.
  • Clarified Pokémon Go PMC codename.
  • Added GAMECOM codename for NES.
• 2016/06/02:
  • Added changelog.
  • Added sources for NES and SNES Western names.
  • Added clarification that WUP comes from the Wii U product number as per https://mlb-s2-p.mlstatic.com/nintendo-wii-u-basic-8gb-branco-hdmi-mod-wup-001-466901-MLB20423423978_092015-F.jpg.
  • Added Amiibo product number (NVL) as per http://i.imgur.com/Hvf9BhK.jpg.
  • Changed erroneous entry from Wi-Fi USB Adapter to Wi-Fi Network Adapter as per http://wifi.nintendo.co.jp/wap/compare/index.html.
  • Moved New 3DS XL potential codename (FULL) to 3DS XL, as the associated Wi-Fi module was already on the 3DS XL as per http://www.ign.com/wikis/nintendo-3ds/3DS_XL_Shell_Swapping.
  • Fixed Gamecube -> GameCube spelling.
  • Add GameCube potential codenames (N2000 and Star Cube).
  • Added GameCube (GCT and GCP), Wii (RVT) and Wii U (WUT and CAT) development unit product names.
  • Added Wii U kiosk product name (WIS).
  • Added Wii U GamePad codenames (DRH and DRC).
• 2013-2016:
  • Created, added entries for NES, SNES, Virtual Boy, N64, GameCube, Panasonic Q, Wii, Wii U, NX, Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color, Atlantis, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro, DS, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS, New 3DS, New 3DS XL, Game & Watch, Wi-Fi USB Adapter, PMC.