Wii Party U - Tag "request" meanings

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In Wii Party U, whenever submitting a ranking or a rating for a minigame, the request sent to the server does not clearly show the actual mini game that is being ranked or rated. The game sends data store search objects like this:

DataStoreSearchParam{
		SearchTarget: 1,
		OwnerIDs: [],
		OwnerType: 0,
		DestinationIDs: [],
		DataType: 65535,
		CreatedAfter: DateTime{
			value: 671076024059 (9999-12-31 23:59:59)
		},
		CreatedBefore: DateTime{
			value: 671076024059 (9999-12-31 23:59:59)
		},
		UpdatedAfter: DateTime{
			value: 671076024059 (9999-12-31 23:59:59)
		},
		UpdatedBefore: DateTime{
			value: 671076024059 (9999-12-31 23:59:59)
		},
		ReferDataID: 0,
		Tags: ["nmg445"],
		ResultOrderColumn: 0,
		ResultOrder: 0,
		ResultRange: ResultRange{
			StructureVersion: 0,
			Offset: 0,
			Length: 90
		},
		ResultOption: 0,
		MinimalRatingFrequency: 0,
		UseCache: false,
		TotalCountEnabled: false,
		DataTypes: [],
	}

Technically games don’t have to do this or specifically write out the long name. For some it can be inferred, like in Angry Birds: Star Wars, a world ranking of a category 0 means it’s the first world (Tatooine). nmg445 on the other hand literally, to my knowledge means absolutely nothing. My guess is maybe it’s a prefix of 4 and then the number order in which the mini game was programmed.

I’ve started to try to gather the meanings of all the tags on a self-hosted server so when it comes to eventual future DB administration and server development, these things have meaning.

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