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someone else fix my wikiformatfail plz
 
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verdata (00030005-HNLx) is a bundle of data which corresponds to a release of the "System Menu" -- every time Nintendo announces a new version of the system menu, they will update one or more other titles and then update this title.
'''verdata''' (0003000f-HNLx) is a bundle of data which corresponds to a [[system update]] -- every time Nintendo announces a new system update, they will update one or more other titles and then update this title. This prevents the common case of system updates that do not update the [[System Menu]] from resulting in no version number change, which happened on the Wii.


The first 0x80 bytes are probably a digital signature.  This is followed by a NARC archive that contains the following files:
The first 0x80 bytes are probably a digital signature.  This is followed by a NARC archive that contains the following files:
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  0000000: 01000300 31002e00 33004500 00000000  ....1...3.E.....
  0000000: 01000300 31002e00 33004500 00000000  ....1...3.E.....
  0000010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
  0000010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
*bytes 0 and 1 are the major version number, bytes 2 and 3 are the minor version number, and the rest of the file is the human-readable version number displayed in the Settings menu as the "System Menu Version".
*bytes 0 and 1 are the major version number, bytes 2 and 3 are the minor version number, and the rest of the file is the human-readable UCS-2 version number displayed in the Settings menu as the "System Menu Version".


Other titles access this data by reading from e.g. "verdata:/version.bin".
Other titles access this data by reading from e.g. "verdata:/version.bin".