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GLMNOP GLMNOP<br />
QRSTUV charts... what a hell! QRSTUV<br />
W&lt;YZÅÄ W&lt;YZÅÄ<br />
ÓÖ by tch/brutal ÓÖ<br />
Ü !Ü Ü !Ü<br />
"#$% "#$%<br />
&amp;'89 &amp;'89<br />
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ooh man! one of the worst things these<br />
days are for sure "the charts"!!!<br />
every magazine has its own (mega)lists<br />
and nowhere they are the same!!<br />
lots of people try to find ways to<br />
make better charts,but nobody really<br />
managed!!<br />
there were several ideas,like the one<br />
from 'the freak/rebels' and from the<br />
magazine 'internal' but in my opinion<br />
no real good system has been brought!!<br />
lots of mags make "chart-compilations"<br />
but this aint really working either,as<br />
still the same groups appear as in the<br />
normal charts,so it're still groups<br />
for which people have been voting!!!<br />
'sh0ck' rejected the votesheets and<br />
simply gives points for the first-<br />
releases and with this they create<br />
their cracking-groups chart...<br />
you don't need to be a fortune-teller<br />
to know there would be protest towards<br />
this kind of charts!<br />
okay,i'm here to bring you my idea to<br />
getting 'better' charts...<br />
if you swapped with me about 2 years<br />
ago,you might remember i had a crazy<br />
and complicated way of making my<br />
ranks...<br />
now i created a same kind of system to<br />
decide which guys and groups do best<br />
in cracking...<br />
it is not as complicated as my ranks-<br />
system,it is all about numbers!!<br />
okay,here i go...<br />
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the games out nowadays could be divided<br />
into two big categories...<br />
<br />
...'single' and 'multi'-file games...<br />
<br />
and multies are "tape" or "disk"-games<br />
<br />
then there are ofcourse different disk<br />
loaders,like irq,hidden file etc...<br />
<br />
the difficulty in cracking a game often<br />
depends on what kind of a loader the<br />
game uses! a game which uses a track'n'<br />
sector loader is 'harder' to crack than<br />
a game with the normal '$ffd5'-loader.<br />
for all these different games i've made<br />
a points-system,which looks like this...<br />
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loader single file multi file<br />
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no loader 5 10<br />
normal $ffd5 --- 10<br />
tape-loader --- 15<br />
irq-loader --- 20<br />
t&amp;s-loader --- 25<br />
cartridge 5 30<br />
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you can ofcourse follow me till now...<br />
ofcourse this is not all there is to<br />
make a good system!!!<br />
this is just a small part of it...<br />
now the part comes where we need your<br />
help! we need all versions of games!!<br />
but it will not be like the "gamers<br />
guide"... we won't print lists of the<br />
games!! what we will do is this...<br />
we give points to every version!<br />
we'll also make lists on length,but<br />
don't start using shorties again!!<br />
there'll also be given points for the<br />
intro.. this will be from -5 to +5..<br />
yep,if you use an intro that only uses<br />
the rom-chars,you'll get points from<br />
-4 till 0! if you use no intro,it'll<br />
give you automaticaly -5 points!!!<br />
the rest gets points from 1 till 5!!<br />
an intro like the new one from the<br />
arcade+deadline coop will get +5!!!<br />
if a game is imported to the states,<br />
also the extra intro will be rated!!!<br />
notice that the coop intro between<br />
nei+legend will be awarded twice!<br />
further more the different versions<br />
will be compared on length to decide<br />
what amount of points the version will<br />
get...<br />
every single trainer will be awarded<br />
with 5 points,level skippers with 7<br />
points,end-scene showers with 3!!<br />
all kind of 'double cheats' will be<br />
awarded with 1 or -1 point!!<br />
a double-cheat like "press r/s to fill<br />
up energy" gives you 1 point while one<br />
like "wanna have 99 lives" gives -1!<br />
this is due to the fact that the first<br />
one is of a little use,while the other<br />
one is really bah!!<br />
if a trainer like 'unlimited time' is<br />
activated during the game,but also<br />
during the time-downcounting for extra<br />
points,the trainer is useless and will<br />
give you -5!!<br />
other specials like iffl,mfl,pictures,<br />
docs,highscore-savers,game intros give<br />
points as given down here...<br />
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extra points<br />
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game-intro included 10<br />
picture(s) included 5 (a pic!)<br />
highscore-saver installed 5<br />
usefull documents 5<br />
iffl/mfl 5<br />
iffl/mfl+scanner 10<br />
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if a game features an irq-loader and in<br />
the crack also an irq-loader is used,<br />
it will give you 5 extra points as<br />
well!!<br />
but if the game uses a track'n'sector<br />
loader and the crack uses the same<br />
loader,it will give you -5 points,as<br />
the game aint really cracked!!<br />
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the last thing more is that an ntsc/pal<br />
fixed version gets 10 points extra,and<br />
the first-release will be given 5 pts<br />
for single-files and 10 pts for multi!<br />
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to give a summary of this all,i'll print<br />
all lists under eachother...<br />
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loader single file multi file<br />
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no loader 5 10<br />
normal $ffd5 --- 10<br />
tape-loader --- 15<br />
irq-loader --- 20<br />
t&amp;s-loader --- 25<br />
cartridge 5 30<br />
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intro(s) points<br />
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no intro -5<br />
shorty -4/0<br />
normal 1/5<br />
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trainer points<br />
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normal 5<br />
double (usefull) 1<br />
double (useless) -1<br />
level-skip 7<br />
intro-skipper 3<br />
end-scene viewer 3<br />
partly working -5<br />
totaly disfunctional -10<br />
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extra points<br />
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game-intro included 10<br />
picture(s) included 5 (a pic!)<br />
highscore-saver installed 5<br />
usefull documents 5<br />
iffl/mfl 5<br />
iffl/mfl+scanner 10<br />
ntsc/pal fix 10<br />
first-release (single) 5<br />
first-release (multi) 10<br />
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that's all there is to it!!<br />
i hope all of you will support us on<br />
realising these real fair charts,and<br />
if i have forgotten anything,or you<br />
think the points are unfair,write me<br />
a letter and tell what you wanna see<br />
changed!!<br />
you can ofcourse also send a paper<br />
containing all information about your<br />
cracks,but be sure to write everything<br />
down as you'll only get at yourself if<br />
you forget anything!!<br />
the lists that will come out,will be<br />
lists with all names that got any pts.<br />
of every game,the version with most<br />
points will be shown with the name of<br />
the cracker and cracking-group (and<br />
importer+group)...<br />
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this system will hopefully be successful<br />
as i think it has a good chance!!<br />
okay,that's all for this time..<br />
you can send the cracks to any of our<br />
addresses or simply ul them to the<br />
board mentioned in "for anything..."<br />
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