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Topic: Anyone knows if the IDs in screenshots have any significance?

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nemecek_f

Hello,

if you ever transfered screenshots or videos from Switch.. you probably know their format:

2022012018280100-02CB906EA538A35643C1E1484C4B947D.jpg
2022112420452800-02CB906EA538A35643C1E1484C4B947D.jpg
2023012910051000-4CE9651EE88A979D41F24CE8D6EA1C23.jpg

The first part is timestamp, the other appears to be ID tied to particular game.

Does anyone know what this ID is? Is it totally arbitrary or perhaps used elsewhere? I wasn't able to find anything.

Thanks 🙏

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gcunit

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RupeeClock

@nemecek_f
The second part of the filename is the game ID, or at least a hexadecimal hash of the game ID.
From Googling the value alone, I can tell you've been playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, and Splatoon 3.

If you explore the contents of the microSD you use in the Switch, you can find folders with assorted IDs anyway.

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WoomyNNYes

@nemecek_f Since switch launch, I don't think I've ever seen the switch image file name structures decoded or explained. Granted, some of it seems obvious with the year & date appearing to be part of it. So, I don't know if any of the file name can be used to trace & identify a console/user/origin. I wouldn't be surprised either way.

Edited on by WoomyNNYes

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I once experimented by taking a non-Switch generated jpeg, giving it a file name pasted from a Switch generated screenshot, and putting it in an appropriate folder on my Switch micro SD card, to see if it would show up in my Switch screenshots browser.

It didn't work.

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Who needs a database when you can encode data in the filename. Free real-estate

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