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# Words used on this site
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**BIOS**, or **firmware**
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: A small program inside a console. It starts the games.
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**Emulator**
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: An app that acts like a console.
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**Core**
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: One emulator inside RetroArch. RetroArch uses a different core for each
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console.
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**Setup**
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: What plays the games: RetroArch, Batocera, EmuDeck and others.
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**BIOS folder**
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: The folder where the setup looks for BIOS files.
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**Pack**
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: The ZIP, sometimes in parts, with one setup's BIOS files. Made for the
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setups most people download.
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**Platform**
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: A setup, as the project's data calls it.
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**ZIP**
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: One file that holds many files. Unzip it to get them out.
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**Terminal**
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: A window for typing commands.
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**Installer**
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: The small program the command starts. It fills the BIOS folder.
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**Hash**
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: A fingerprint of a file's contents. A different file gets a different hash.
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**MD5** / **SHA-1**
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: Two kinds of hash, a file's fingerprint. Setups that check files list one.
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**Region**
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: Where a console was sold: Japan, North America, Europe.
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**Required** and **optional**
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: Required: games do not start without it. Optional: games start anyway.
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**Game data**
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: Files from an owned copy of a PC game, like Doom. Not a BIOS.
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## Next steps
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- [What is a BIOS?](what-are-bios-files.md)
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- [Get the files](../which-pack.md)
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- For contributors: [Terms of the reference pages](reference-terms.md)
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