Brutal Recall 11 ch13
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ooh man! one of the worst things these
days are for sure "the charts"!!!
every magazine has its own (mega)lists
and nowhere they are the same!!
lots of people try to find ways to
make better charts,but nobody really
managed!!
there were several ideas,like the one
from 'the freak/rebels' and from the
magazine 'internal' but in my opinion
no real good system has been brought!!
lots of mags make "chart-compilations"
but this aint really working either,as
still the same groups appear as in the
normal charts,so it're still groups
for which people have been voting!!!
'sh0ck' rejected the votesheets and
simply gives points for the first-
releases and with this they create
their cracking-groups chart...
you don't need to be a fortune-teller
to know there would be protest towards
this kind of charts!
okay,i'm here to bring you my idea to
getting 'better' charts...
if you swapped with me about 2 years
ago,you might remember i had a crazy
and complicated way of making my
ranks...
now i created a same kind of system to
decide which guys and groups do best
in cracking...
it is not as complicated as my ranks-
system,it is all about numbers!!
okay,here i go...
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the games out nowadays could be divided
into two big categories...
...'single' and 'multi'-file games...
and multies are "tape" or "disk"-games
then there are ofcourse different disk
loaders,like irq,hidden file etc...
the difficulty in cracking a game often
depends on what kind of a loader the
game uses! a game which uses a track'n'
sector loader is 'harder' to crack than
a game with the normal '$ffd5'-loader.
for all these different games i've made
a points-system,which looks like this...
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loader single file multi file
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no loader 5 10
normal $ffd5 --- 10
tape-loader --- 15
irq-loader --- 20
t&s-loader --- 25
cartridge 5 30
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you can ofcourse follow me till now...
ofcourse this is not all there is to
make a good system!!!
this is just a small part of it...
now the part comes where we need your
help! we need all versions of games!!
but it will not be like the "gamers
guide"... we won't print lists of the
games!! what we will do is this...
we give points to every version!
we'll also make lists on length,but
don't start using shorties again!!
there'll also be given points for the
intro.. this will be from -5 to +5..
yep,if you use an intro that only uses
the rom-chars,you'll get points from
-4 till 0! if you use no intro,it'll
give you automaticaly -5 points!!!
the rest gets points from 1 till 5!!
an intro like the new one from the
arcade+deadline coop will get +5!!!
if a game is imported to the states,
also the extra intro will be rated!!!
notice that the coop intro between
nei+legend will be awarded twice!
further more the different versions
will be compared on length to decide
what amount of points the version will
get...
every single trainer will be awarded
with 5 points,level skippers with 7
points,end-scene showers with 3!!
all kind of 'double cheats' will be
awarded with 1 or -1 point!!
a double-cheat like "press r/s to fill
up energy" gives you 1 point while one
like "wanna have 99 lives" gives -1!
this is due to the fact that the first
one is of a little use,while the other
one is really bah!!
if a trainer like 'unlimited time' is
activated during the game,but also
during the time-downcounting for extra
points,the trainer is useless and will
give you -5!!
other specials like iffl,mfl,pictures,
docs,highscore-savers,game intros give
points as given down here...
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extra points
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game-intro included 10
picture(s) included 5 (a pic!)
highscore-saver installed 5
usefull documents 5
iffl/mfl 5
iffl/mfl+scanner 10
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if a game features an irq-loader and in
the crack also an irq-loader is used,
it will give you 5 extra points as
well!!
but if the game uses a track'n'sector
loader and the crack uses the same
loader,it will give you -5 points,as
the game aint really cracked!!
the last thing more is that an ntsc/pal
fixed version gets 10 points extra,and
the first-release will be given 5 pts
for single-files and 10 pts for multi!
to give a summary of this all,i'll print
all lists under eachother...
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loader single file multi file
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no loader 5 10
normal $ffd5 --- 10
tape-loader --- 15
irq-loader --- 20
t&s-loader --- 25
cartridge 5 30
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intro(s) points
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no intro -5
shorty -4/0
normal 1/5
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trainer points
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normal 5
double (usefull) 1
double (useless) -1
level-skip 7
intro-skipper 3
end-scene viewer 3
partly working -5
totaly disfunctional -10
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extra points
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game-intro included 10
picture(s) included 5 (a pic!)
highscore-saver installed 5
usefull documents 5
iffl/mfl 5
iffl/mfl+scanner 10
ntsc/pal fix 10
first-release (single) 5
first-release (multi) 10
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that's all there is to it!!
i hope all of you will support us on
realising these real fair charts,and
if i have forgotten anything,or you
think the points are unfair,write me
a letter and tell what you wanna see
changed!!
you can ofcourse also send a paper
containing all information about your
cracks,but be sure to write everything
down as you'll only get at yourself if
you forget anything!!
the lists that will come out,will be
lists with all names that got any pts.
of every game,the version with most
points will be shown with the name of
the cracker and cracking-group (and
importer+group)...
this system will hopefully be successful
as i think it has a good chance!!
okay,that's all for this time..
you can send the cracks to any of our
addresses or simply ul them to the
board mentioned in "for anything..."
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