Gamers Guide 04
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welcome to the fifth issue of \ THE TRIAD GAMERS GUIDE / games are added to the GUIDE as soon as you send them to us. they will stay in THE GUIDE for up to three issues giving all a chance to appear. we want to inform you of all the good and bad sides of all the different versions brought out by all the groups on the cracker scene. send your cracks to your friendly TRIAD contact. LEGEND where are you? * joy in port 1 or 2 to scroll pages. * shift-lock to pause logo scroll. \ GAMERS GUIDE / we can not test every level of every game, but we sure try to. let us know when you find a bug or if we miss a nice aspect of a crack. games appear in alphabetical order. they are then sorted in order of their length, shortest first. games are supposed to be entertaining. anything that adds to the play value makes us happy. things that fuck up and irritate us lessen the play value. if a winner-crack is appointed, this is based on the understanding of the game and the play value. \ GAMERS GUIDE / cheat mode is there to give the player a chance to try hard parts of a game. sometimes it is realy valuable to have a lot of different possibilities. at other times a bundle of cheats are just silly and destroys the game. a short 100% crack is better than a long 100% crack since this indicates that the cracker had a deeper under- standing of the game. we then talk of a real difference, not a few blocks. a high score saver adds a lot of play value to some games. if the saver is added by the cracker,we are impressed. \ GAMERS GUIDE / the well earned credits. INTRO. code : 801 dc. music : the dungeon master. graphics: dynamic. GUIDE. code : hero. music : the dungeon master. graphics: otto von bismarck. TEXT ED.: rico of pretzel logic. EDITOR : william godwin, jerry. \ GAMERS GUIDE / here are some rules we use. separate pic, dox or other files are not counted as part of the crack. when they are left in the game, we note this for fair comparison. a highscore file or similar is not counted as a separate file, but the length is added to the crack. highscore saver is noted as such but not regarded as another '+'. complaints we have on cracks are meant as a help for you, not to make enemies symbols used in the \ GAMERS GUIDE / -------------------------------------- GROUP / CRACKER - no explanation..... F - number of files.... L - length in blocks... C - number of cheats... P - picture in file.... # - dox with the crack. A - alleged first ..... release. H - highscore saver.... added to the game.. \ breathalyzer / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- omega / --- 1 51 +2 the freaks/the duke 1 52 --- x+t /arrogance 1 89 +4:( -------------------------------------- :(double cheating \ bundesliga manager / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- x+t /chrysargoon A10 296 --- dynamix /god 10 303 --- -------------------------------------- these versions in german \ combat zone / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- dominators/macronit A1 172 --- -------------------------------------- dominators had a little break now they are back again to kick arse... \ creatures / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- extasy / rockstar A12:( 546 +2 i+t / doc 2 549 +7 illusion/ sauron 12 552 +6 action / crisp+hok+spt 12 581 +10 culture / --- 12 597 +2 censor / psycho A12:( 617 +3 manowar / lover boy - 1s +3 -------------------------------------- :(well, now it has happened. two crews claim to have been first to release this game. let us know the truth! \ crime time / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- PARAMOUNT/FANATIC 69 405 +1 crazy /jinx 66 539 --- g+p /the goblin A -:( 1s --- -------------------------------------- :(1 disk side by the goblin but a first release it was. \ cyrus / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- x+t /arrogance 1h 130 +5:( -------------------------------------- :(double cheat \ double sphere / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- LIGHT /INJUN 7h# 210 --- triad /king fisher 7h# 279 --- dynamix /god A 8h 364 --- freaks /maniac 10h 496 --- paramount / --- A10h 508 --- x+ /hibird 10h# 510 --- -------------------------------------- first release by paramount & dynamix! many of the groups didn't crack the loader on this game. they only linked on their intro. lame! wiederstein loader sux!! \ edd the duck / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- triumph /prrobe 1 106 +1 CAMELOT /GUARDIAN 1 114 +6:) x-factor / --- 1 114 +2 brutal /tch 1 116 +7 bonzai /infocomie 1 116 +2 x-ray /chrysagon 1 119 +3 dynamix / --- 1 121 --- dominators /derby.ram A1 124 +1 ateam+army /dannie 1 133 --- trc+tbi /xenon 1 139 +2 -------------------------------------- :)no dubble cheating from guardian making it a winner. first release by dominators. \ european soccer challenge / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- ILLUSION /RICHIE 1 67 --- i+t /xxx A1 83 --- trc+tbi /cba 1 91 --- -------------------------------------- first release by ikari talent. \ exterminator / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- chromance/painkiller 29h 341 +4 triad /hero 29h 347 +4 atrix/exulans 29h 347 +2 bonzai/crush 29h 360 +2 hitmen/jihad 29h 370 +3 x-rated/ --- 29h 389 +1 -------------------------------------- first release by action. lame wiederstein loader on this game. \ hugo / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- dominators/rebel 31 485 +4 the oswald creators is back with hugo dominators had a file with the maps. ikari+talent had this cart-game for some weaks ago, but didn't want to crack it as first for the game is a danish game and some friends to i+t. yoo! jch... \ i play 3d soccer / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- triad /king fisher 1 105 --- omega / --- 1 110 --- bonzai /enjoy 1:( 117 --- trc+tbi /cba 1 117 --- bct /king 1 122 --- the freaks/the duke 1 123 --- f4cg / --- A1 135 --- paramount /sting+maniac 1 140 --- a+a /pe-a 1 143 +1 -------------------------------------- :(part of the protection in this game is stopping the field and the players to show up in 2 player mode. bonzai and a+a missed this. \ invest / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- F4CG /NEW STYLE 2:) 324 +5 paramount /jinx A25 343 +7* sunrise /sentinel 25 369 +5 -------------------------------------- :)file copyable IFFL is good thinking. the game was translated from german to english by jinx... thanx!! there's a timex loader on this one. \ judge dredd / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- fairlight/bacchus 7# 305 +1 ACTION /SPITFIRE 7# 308 +5 illusion /r+h+f & sauron 7 316 +3 i+t /doc+fletch A2 322 +3 -------------------------------------- both censor and ikari+talent claimed to have first release and flt had the 2nd one. richie+hero+fist and sauron of ils. \ kick box vigilante / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- BONZAI /ENJOY 1 119 +2 x-factor/dexter 1 135 +2 i+t /bod A1 166 +2 first release by ikari & talent. in dexters crack there's graphic bugs on the last level. check it!! \ labyrinth / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- paramount /sting+maniac 5h 183 +6 x-ray /chrysargon 5h 186 +8 illusion /rocky 5h 193 +2 nei/action /spitfire A54h 336 +2 -------------------------------------- first release by action. \ lettrix / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- paramount/fanatic 1 51 +2 action /spitfire 1 67:( +2 HITMEN /CURLIN :)2h 70 +3 chromance/ --- 1 70 +1 -------------------------------------- first release by legend. send! :)curlin made hi-score saver and translated the game to english, 9 levelcodes includes too... :(sorry for listing action's version as beeing 167 blocks long last time. \ moove out / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- the freaks/the duke 1 86 +1 dynamix /god 1 93 +1 omega / -- 1 104 +1 \ never ending story ii / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- LIGHT /TYCOON 7 512 +9 omega /probe 7 512 +1 bonzai /crush 7 523 +6 atrix /exulans 7 526 +6 chromance/painkiller 7 532 +8 x-factor /dexter 7 543 +11 hurricane/giants 12 562 +7 pain /burglar 12 563 +5:( nei/action/spitfire A 2:( 568 +6 antimon /condor 12 585 +2 ninja t. /infinity 5 1129 +1 -------------------------------------> for comments \ never ending story ii / -------------------------------------- comments -------------------------------------- no version offers level select on this game. here it would be realy useful. :(the nei/action version supplied with the import intro and spread like that in europe. also read our view on their lame IFFL routine. :(double cheat on the pain version it is realy only +3 \ project s.o.l. / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- x+t /arrogance 1 117 +9:( -------------------------------------- :(double cheating i 3 cases. you can get stuck to have to reset. see also jerry's comment later \ robocop ii / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- EXTACY /ROCKSTAR 3:) 441 +2 legend /powerplant+tmbc A 2:( 475 +6 i+t /fletch A32:( 478 +2 hotline/custard+cesspool 32 506 +4 -------------------------------------- again a cartridge game... :) IFFL but still fully file copyable good thinking guys! :( first release both by: legend + ikari & talent. \ sarakon / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- PARAMOUNT /FANATIC A 2 179 +4 dynamix /god 42h 234 +2 -------------------------------------- first release and a jewel version by fanatic of paramount. cool... \ scumm / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- light /shade 2h 83 +3:( triad /hero+bisse :)2h 85 +3 TRIAD /KING FISHER :)2h 85 +3:) fsi /master-x+capone 2h 105 +2 hitmen /curlin 2h 108 +3* dynamix /the model 2h 108 +2 x-rated /semmel v. 2h 115 +3 fairlight/wild 1 2h* 120 +1 ruthless /probe 2h* 122 +3 chromance/mr. wax 2 * 140 +2 -------------------------------------> for comments \ scumm / -------------------------------------- comments -------------------------------------- :(light has a double cheat. it also saves highscore even in cheatt mode. :)TRIAD made 2 versions by misstake. JERRY made the ranking based on the 10-fold level skip instead of having to enter passwords. * 7 passwords by curlin of hitmen. * intro included in versions from fairlight, ruthless & chromance no high score saver on chromance! \ top cat in beverly hills cats / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- i+t /xxx A1 169 +2 first relase by ikari+talent \ total recall / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- i+t /excell A6p#:)415 +3 transcom/unknow A6 :)416 +3 G+P /SNACKY 8p 490 +8 hotline /custard+cesspool 9p * 497 +5 f4cg /fen1 9 517 +4 -------------------------------------- in snackys version there's 3 pictures in the mainfile. excell got 1 picture in the mainfile the rest ones can be loaded. * hotline also saved the pix in game :)first release by t-com & i+t. \ tough guys / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- LIGHT /SHADE 6 193 +2:) triad /tracer 17 217 +2 dynamix /god A 6 252:( +3 paramount / --- A16 283 +3 x+t /arrogance 18 326 +2 sabian / --- 18 395 --- -------------------------------------- :(the game intro included, but you can't get to the game from the intro :)fixed cartridge bug. first release claimed by: action, paramount and dynamix. anyone thinx this looks ridiculous? \ twin world / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- triad /tracer 36 892 +4:) hotline /custard+cessp. 37 919 +5:) action /hok+spitfire 38h# 937 +6:) extasy /rockstar A36 1317 +2 manowar /martin+chris 35 1385 +3 -------------------------------------- :)fastloader by hotline and highscore saver+dox by action. :)when you die the game scrolls back to the beginning again. tracer made a cheat that you start were you died. \ wacky dart / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- illusion/richie 1 152 +1- -------------------------------------- \ welltris / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- triad /bismarck 3h 130 +-- atrix /exulans 3h 130 +-- light /shade 3h 130 +-- trc+tbi /cba 3h 137 +-- bonzai /enjoy 3h 142 +-- g+p /the goblin 3h 143 +-- dunex /spikes 3h 145 +-- x-factor /dexter 3h 148 +-- bct /king 3h 156 +-- chromance/mr. wax 3h 163 +-- -------------------------------------- first release by crazy... \ western contest / -------------------------------------- group / cracker f. l. c. -------------------------------------- the freaks/the duke 5 208 --- hitmen /curlin 5 214 --- bonzai /crush 2:( 246 +1 trc+tbi /cba 6 262 --- ddt /blockbuster 6 276 --- -------------------------------------- :(bonzai had the intro in the main file and some time cheat. first release by legend. JERRY says: i am so sorry! for some reason i wrote that ---------------- GADGET of ACTION ---------------- was a cracker in CRAZY!! since I used to swop with GADGET i know which group he is in. i can not explain why i made that error. since i also know GADGET's feelings about CRAZY i understand the horror he must have felt when he saw the text. hope you have recovered by now. realy sorry \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- JERRY says: the new popular thing in cracking is INTERLACED FILE FAST LOADER or IFFL for short. i don't know who made the first one or if i got the words right. what it means is that several files, usually game-levels, are interlaced or chained into one long file or two. there are two reasons for the IFFL 1.the crack looks smarter with just one or two files for a big number of levels. 2.you may save on blocks. the more files, the more you save. \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- the first cracks where files were collected into one file, were no true IFFL. to load the next level the whole file was loaded again to find the part making the next level. it looked smart but it was lame as hell. sometimes a fast loader made it a bit less painful later came the IKARY+TALENT IFFL. here the program makes a fast scan of the long, chained IFFL file to find the start of the smaller files it is made of. the very smart thing about this is that the file can be filecopied to any track and sector of the disk. the scan finds the vital points. \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- the latest on the IFFL scene is the routine used by NEI/NEC. apart from a start file the rest is collected into one huge file. in the NEI+ACTION version of N.E.S. the IFFL file is 459 blocks long. if you think that this can be copied using FILE HACK'M you are wrong. they have placed the routine and the pointers on track 18. this means that the disk must be back up copied. the idea of cracking is to remove all copy protection. then why fuck up the copyability with some other routine? \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- on the same disk from ACTION i got LABYRINTH also labled a NEI+ACTION crack. this game has 50 level files that are 3 blocks long. a closer look at the third block of each level file shows that they all use only 7 of the available 254 bytes. if those levels had been interlaced into one file it would have saved 48 blocks! my conlusion is that those guys have not understood a thing about IFFL. all they want to do is to fuck up things. please guys, stay away from stupid routines. user friendly is better. \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- HERO/TRIAD says: horizon / nec & nei's IFFL v1.1 is not that good at all. don't be impressed every time you see an IFFL! still there are some few good IFFL routines on the scene like:hero/triad, snacky/genesis project, crush/bonzai and docs of ikari. we say: an IFFL routine that don't allow file copying or don't have a fast loader realy sux! my own TRIAD-IFFL is developed in a new, different way and it is possible to file-copy !!! I think it's the fastest IFFL-LOADER on the scene !! \ IFFL-LOADERS / -------------------------------------- the TRIAD IFFL routine loads 202 blks on 20 seconds... pretty good for an IFFL routine, don't you think? ok! ( well, professional dos loads it in 3-4 seconds, says jerry with a yawn) we won't go any deeper into this.if we do, every single lamer will be tempted to make up a useless IFFL rutine! we'll close this chapter for now!! \ ON CHEAT MODE / -------------------------------------- JERRY says: if you get the following questions: do you want eternall life? y/n start with 99 lives? y/n i consider that to be the same thing in all practicall situations. that is double cheating only to get more '+' on the crack. if the crack gives you the choise of eternal life and at the same time lets you restore the ammount of lives by pressing a key when playing, then you have eternal life in two ways. i call \ ON CHEAT MODE / -------------------------------------- that double cheating too, to get more '+' on the game. another plus-hunter is to add a '+' for the high score saver even when it comes with the original game. this is cheating on your friends in the cracker community. i say LAME! when eternal life or unlimited time is offered as a game-cheat, the real cracker checks the game to see if this creates any traps. in some games you get stuck with no possibility to die to let you try again. the real cracker gives you a suicide button unless it \ ON CHEAT MODE / -------------------------------------- can be solved in some other way. in a game like TOUGH GUYS the real cracker does not allow both players to have invulnerability at the same time. you can't practise if the opponent can not be hurt. also you don't get on in the game since you don't score. an absolute NO-NO is for the crack to allow you to save the high score even if you have been playing in a cheat mode. i realize that sometimes it costs some programming skills to add cheat mode \ ON CHEAT MODE / -------------------------------------- to a game. installing double cheat also involves programming. however, if you want to show your progamming skils to the full, you should code a nice tool or maybe a cool demo instead well, my words should have told you why we don't just count '+' on a crack to select a winner. in the same way we don't just coun't blocks. enough of the serious business. get over to the WALL and start praying! -------------------------------------> \ THE WALL / -------------------------------------- yes, if you want to improve the wall, then help me with it and send in some kewl news to me. ok? lame, lamer, lamest, lamestis ..enjoy! -------------------------------------- OF'CUZ WE GOT AN NTSC FIXED GUIDE FOR ALL OUR FANS IN THE STATES! ..GET IT!! as you already knew, leland palmer killed laura palmer. ok? again HORIZON strikes back with anoth- er kewl party during easter. B there! KING FISHER/TRIAD says: i'm the best! do you know who was born in 1815 and died 1898? UTOPIA, the new ball kicking demo from TRIAD is on this disk unless your contact is a lame duck. LUCIFER once in TRIAD and in DIRTY DOZEND has bought himself a 64 again. rumours says that william godwins sister makes this guide! that's comp- letly wrong. we are told that the german ELITE will make a comback. does this mean that old JEFF SMART will be back? does this mean that ILLEGAL will be back? roy isn't the model of dynamix. i've talked to roy and we are sorry for all lame jokes about you. ok!? paramount claimed to have a first release of sarakon. that's not true! dynamix was the ones that released it first. paramount apologized for that. who knew that antichrist could crack? snacky of genesis project seems to be the #1 cracker, with his famous JEWEL- versions and IFFL rutins. but if every cracker spent that much time on cracking one game that snacky does, nearly everybody could get a JEWEL version... probe (ex. royalty, triumph and omega) joined ruthless. ruthless got 6 members in sweden now! they will release a demo at hz's party the second dominators party will be arranged this summer, not at easter. so you better move your arse to stock- holm for the cool horizon easter party cross with 'anyone better' claims that triad stole their idea of this kind of a magazin. that's bullshit, and we can prove we had the idea long before! contrary to rumours, WILD ONE and WATCHMAN of FAIRLIGHT is not just one and the same person. he told me so!!!! pimpernell the owner of terminal state is married to raheli azad. good luck! viper stole wild ones cartridge at the censor party. 'fair light' !! what happend to my friend leroy of dynamix? dave (ex. raisers, holocaust) changed name to painkiller... (oh another one) he wanted to join triad but triad rufused... call the 'terminal state' +XXXXXXXXXX also call XXXXXXXXXXX #0001/vmb. TRIAD probe says: ajm no lajmer, ju ar! did you know that when JEFF SMART left TRIAD, soon 3 years ago, he said that TRIAD was dead? then he started trying to kill us. we are still kicking. friend hassan died in a car crash/rip. razy/i+t didn't crack 'twin world' he said that they will not crack it for he couldn't get it to one disc side. why should they? but custard and cesspool of hotline is brothers. s451 tried to join probe from rutless but he refused. stanze and his hip hop group made a new ruling highlighter called... 'are you lame? i'm lame!' get it now!! bismarck plays in a band called... 'svento rivers and the trissaboda mammuths'. pb and caltenberg now on place one. /beer & bier inc. rumours says that mastermind/horizon got 200 crowns for shorting fairlights old intro. rebels the swedens legends will never rise again... pitty!!! curlin of hitmen isn't accu of action. stone of depredators isn't myth from trans-x. ok? did you know that x-ray released bundesliga manager as first, altough it's a basic game full of errors. but who cares anyway... most of the games are so fucking boring so who really cares? you? not me. action released some real quality crax ex. twin world & creatures.. that's cool... the scene got to change soon. speed is lame and quality is fame! eh? stanze kicked out his wife raheli azad stanze joined the group hitmen. now there's two hitmens in sweden. 1. stanze.. 2. mason... the import group culture is dead! probe burned his action replay 5.0 to the 6.0 version, but of'cuz the shit bugs... ha! ha! slow burnin.. . . . i said:fuck the guy who calls him self ixion, you better change name dude! but there wasn't any ixion... it was a misstake, it was only a guy called.. ixon of manowar... exuze me! /w.g. fuck tango & cash the editor of 'any1 better' stop talking shit about TRIAD! your mag is lame! ranks after cheats!! ok. let's make dubblecheats and reach the number one place before paramount and others. your mag sux /w.g. ikari & talent had a first release of judge dredd.. and so had censor design ..fairlight claimed to have the 2nd re lease of that game. isn't it strange? there was a protection on 3d soccer. chose 2 joysticks & see if the players shows up! if not the protection hasn't been removed. i've seen some lame crax of that one, no names... no names... just check it up man... laugh!!! the cool cracker of bonzai is only 15 years old, his name is 'CRUSH' nec/nei got a lame IFFL rutin. whole-disc copy is needed. the guys in bonzai are too lazy to re- lease further issues of their magazin LETHAL NEWS. the game ddominatorwas a re-release. fairlight released an old crack from gollum. rubicon from hewson was coded by gollum of fairlight and graphix by the sarge/fairlight (x-triad). fairlight released a sarge show with great pictures from the sarge. some of them were made by him when he was in triad. glerc of science 451 left the scene. tape & storm left dynamix. excell left ikari for some problems with bod of talent. enjoy didn' re-crack 'puzzelnoid' from genesis project. he got the original from antichrist of genesis p. mamba is now an ikari+talent mag. gotcha and peter joined talent. there's no snow in denmark. zodiac of flash and redstar of logic will soon release a game. cooolt.. rumours says that maniac & sting was parallax and now fanatic/paramount. visit denmark and watch swedish tele- vision. u.n. squadron first release by censor and ikari+talent.... weasel and dj joined crest. alfaflight is dead, again... max joined crazy. ninja (g*p) and pet (nato) joined dominators. corruption now under the genesis label jack daniels and 3dk left paramount. new coops.. x-ray and transcom. boms and chromance. svedlala and bollmora. skater, mirage and zarhan fastfive from culture joined censor design. the mag 'shock' now under the censor label. danko left them. krs#1 will form a new group. daw (x-triad) and danko left censor.. maybe more will follow... dynamic of triad will make a comback on the 64.. mason and stanze joined hitmen........ bad taste released a new magazin... called 'bad news'. ..many groups still thinks that marcus wiedersteins loader is hard to crack... lame one.. king fisher was the only one who made a 101% crack of last ninja 2 ze remix. of'cuz cracking from cart is easy!! \ THE CONTACT CORNER / -------------------------------------- this is an anti saddam guide, ok? if you wanna get your group into the guide don't hesitate to contact us. or call: XXXXXXXXXX #3000 /vmb-gamer guide. XXXXXXXXXX #2000 /vmb-triad. the right person for reactions, info and articles is WILLIAM GODWIN if you want to share an original too, then both TRACER and WILLIAM GODWIN will be right. JERRY is the demo freak for you if you don't send only your hot cracks. -> \ THE CONTACT CORNER / -------------------------------------- WILLIAM GODWIN/GAMERS GUIDE XXXXX XXXXXX XX XXX XX XXXXXXX, XXXXXX. +XX-XXX-XXXXX 'XXXXXX' 17.30 - 21.30 TRACER XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XX XXX XX XXXXXXX, XXXXXX +XX-XX-XXXXXX JERRY XXX XX XXX XX XXXX, XXXXXX +XX-XXX-XXXXX