Ymgve at 00:00, 19 June 2007

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"SHORT'N'SMART?"

the reactions.

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maybe you can remember that i wrote an
article about the use of short intros?
well,i got many reactions on it and i
will print two of them which contain
most of all things..
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first one was written by

BREGO an TRIAD
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here's my reaction to the actual problem
called "short intros".
my letter is based on own thoughts and
your arguments in an article in
"brutal recall #6". let's start!

short intros sux!
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we all know it:a lot of groups use short
and (mostly) cheapcoded intros to make
their crack shorter and to see their
name higher in the versions-lists of a
game in "gamers guide/triad". this is
in my opinion pure nonsense because:
-we stated that we don't rank versions
they just have an order instead of
chaos.
-nobody cares who is on the first
position;the voters (aha!) care on
the other things like dox,highsaver,
iffl,fastloaders,first-releases,or
other things which are marked with
the smiling face next to the version!

yes,tch,you're absolutely right:just
look at the top-crackers in the charts
nearly no group who always uses short
intros. so what?! groups like massive
or exotic designs will never enter the
charts with their lame,ugly crap...

nowadays we haven't too many wares on
the c64 anymore and the amount of
budgets (which are mostly short) is
increasing. so we have often empty
blocks on the spreaddisks. let's take
langer intros to fill these blocks!

to the crackers:it seems to me that you
with your shorties aren't proud of
your product at all. all your hard
work on repairing,iffl-packing and
megatraining doesn't make me smiling
without an intro with some nice
looking graphix,code or a funky music
in the background.
hey all you outthere:wake up,do
something for the eyes of the mass of
voters for the charts!!! it is also
important for your reputation in the
scene if you use always the same short
intro or take these which are longer
and sometimes code a new one to
surprise your contacts+the scene.
an example was ikari+talent.

i know that you wonder why i,brego of
triad,write these thoughts but i tell
you that i also would appreciate the
idea to do new,langer triad-intros but
with this proposal i talked into the
deff ear of jerry/triad,our leader.
but i must admit that he wants to
continue with the "traditional" intros
and this is also an argument coz triad
used them a long time before a guide
existed. triad's intros are also
different from other shorties...
if you can code a bit,look into the
memory:some smart ideas to make the
thing very short indeed!! however,i
enjoy being a member of triad,and i
won't leave them because i don't agree
100% with them on one thing there.
(did you read that,aslive/brainbombs?)
nevertheless i want to send a big
thanx to jerry of triad for letting
democracy rule in triad so that every
member can have/say his own opinion to
everything conserning the group!!!

okay,final sentence:code longer intros,
just give your release a pretty neat
presentation+a decent crack and the
votes will follow.

BREGO/TRIAD
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the next on was written by

THE BOSS/ACCURACY
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-short or fat-

well,i know that you are complaining
about putting short intros at the
beginning of cracks. you are right
when saying that it doesn't make the
crackers proud to present a crack with
a lame intro. that's right.
but how is the game itself? well,just
take a look at the games that are
being released nowadays:monsters,
adrenalin,switchblade etc... all suck
like hell! now tell me,where's the
point of putting a cool intro with
cool graphix,music etc.. in front of a
game like those crap?! this won't be
anything but just filling up place on
the disk for such bad games. sometimes
the intro is bigger than the game
itself. that'll be nonsense.

yes,ofcourse,talent,legend,enigma and
all other ruling cracking groups use
fat intros because the games they
crack are always cool'n'allready quite
a lot of place filling games and
first-releases.

so,see my point:the intro of a crack
must suit to the crack itself. if it's
lame,simply install a lame intro.
but if it's cool and allready long,put
a cool intro with graphix,music etc..

yours,THE BOSS/ACCYRACY
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well,they both got some very strong
points there!!
i must say that the shit(?) game
switch-blade was first-released by
ikari+talent and the boss wrote,their
games are always cool!
a little strange,heh!
we'll find out what the majority thinx
of short intros within a month,as then
the result of the opinion-poll will
be known!!
after that,you can judge for yourself
to use shorties or fatties!!
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Brutal Recall 07 ch22 - Revision history

Ymgve at 00:00, 19 June 2007