Mamba 20 ch01 The Month in Brief
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hye there...
another month should have passed
until we would meet again, that it
is finally a bit more should not
bother anyone but the staff itself.
considering the particular
circumstances we have been quite fast
by getting this one out ?! ahem
again you ought to have fun and earn
yet more knowledge about the present
scene, if not you may go back to
school and get ahold of the ability
of proper reading/understanding...
in order to avoid any more
'misunderstandings' concerning the
monthly first-release charts in this
column, we are going to set up
completely new rules, that are that
complicated that we, but only the
staff, will understand how to use
them the correct way.
for those sophisticated people out
there (if there really are any), we
will try to explain the new rules
to you though, for any kind of
questions, write/phone/meet us...
the most important fact about the
upcoming rules is that everything
you are going to read is subjected
to alteration without even announcing
the modification before !
vs
the new rules pay regard to the
following items :
1) the point system
2) the quality of the games
3) the upload-time
...go on for the explanation about
the new point system...
each group will get 3 points for a
100% working first-release.
in case the game does not work
properly in any way, but a fix file
or a complete new version of the game
will be put out by the same group,
2 points will still be given for the
release.
1 point for another group fixing the
bugged version and putting out the
other groups' import or a fix file
as a 100% ware.
in the last case (fix by another
group) the group that had the bugged
first-release won't get any point.
note that the euro-crack and the
ami-import will be treated as
'one thing', that means the european
group has to suffer if the importer
group messes the release up, and the
other way round.
that also means that the american
group and the european group will
get 3 points for a proper release
each, 2 points for a second fixed
release etc, indifferent whose fault
it was or why...
it is possible that there still
occur situations that are not
covered by the rules, in that case
we will surely find a fair way to
handle the instance.
remember, the three boards our
first-release charts are still based
on are
1) second to none
2) the shaolin temple
3) the forum
in case any of these boards is down
during a release, it won't be taken
into consideration (substitution in
case of a tie : terminal obsession)
on each and every release we check
the three boards for who had the 1st
release in 2 ways :
1) we check the upload times of the
wares on the 3 boards.
2) we check for a majority of the 3
boards.
if there's a majority but the minority
had there version up by a vast time
difference then the minority gets the
point.
from the next issue onwards you will
find two separate charts here. one for
the real 1st releases and another for
the lamer group releases.
we will also place any release by a
major group that we feel has lamer
group quality into the 2nd chart. this
will hopefully make the charts look
fairer by stopping groups releasing
any bad game just for a point.
in future when they do this they will
be among the ranks of the lamer groups
american importer charts
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last
group releases month
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1. north east importers. 11 01
2. empire............... 10 01
3. the shaolin monastery 05 03
4. atc(+mirage)......... 04 --
5. enigma............... 02 --
6. excellence.............01 --
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empire and nei do battle for the top
again...
let's wait and see what happens next
month when the 2nd chart arrives.
european charts
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last
group releases month
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1. action............... 09 03
2. enigma............... 06 03
3. dominators........... 04 03
legend............... 04 01
5. ics.................. 03 03
6. ikari+talent......... 02 01
genesis project...... 02 03
8. the force............ 01 --
sharks............... 01 --
x-factor............. 01 --
cray................. 01 --
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american cracker charts
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mirage top the cracker charts(?) this
month with the only american game of
the month. check explanations.
explanations
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supremacy dominators/atc
* by melbourne house.
dyter 07 legend/nei
* by reline.
warm up ics/nei
* by genias.
krymini action/empire
* by bluestone.
tiptrick action/empire
* by bluestone.
einstein action/empire
* by double density.
clystron action/empire
* by double density.
superkid in space dom/atc
* by atlantis.
tube madness act/emp. eni/tsm
* by double density.
fourty five action/empire
* by double density
warrior genesis/nei
* (coded by chromance)
mindbender cray/nei
* by gremlin graphics.
violator x-factor/atc
* by lethal productions.
hobgoblin dom/nei
* by atlantis.
spikey in transylvania enigma
* by codemasters.
mercs legend/nei
* by us gold.
professor hecti in interchnge. dom/nei
* by hi-tech.
logical action/empire
* by rainbow arts.
american 3d pool enigma
* by mastertronic.
dream team basketball mirage
* by data east.
formula 1 gp circuit ics
* by ideasoft
elvira enigma/empire
* by flair software.
rbi 2 baseball ikari & talent/tsm
* by domark.
megaphoenix ics/a+m
* by dinamic.
the power genesis/nei
* by demonware (missed last month)
worm the force/empire
* by ???.
jump out enigma/tsm
* by double density
heroquest action/nei
* by gremlin graphics
pang legend/nei
* by ocean
jahangir khan squash action/empire
* by krysalis
manchester united ii (euro) i+t/tsm
* by krysalis
crown sharks/excellence
* by starbyte
ball game legend/nei
* by electronic zoo
madness enigma/tsm
* by double density
ok, these charts are based on the
releases from the last mamba to
the 18th of july inclusive, check
the next pages for some additional
notes...
supremacy
this game has been released by
dominators/atc first, the north
east importers put out a 'fixed'
version shortly after, (inclusive a
5 blocks fix file a day after their
re-released version, since that one
did not work)
however, the game has been tested
by several neutral people from the
beginning to the very end, and since
they did not find any bugs at all,
the point goes to dom/atc.
tube madness
tube madness has been put out by
action/empire and enigma/tsm the same
day. the tsm version has been
provable put out ca. 5 hours before
the empire version, but was only on
one of the boards we take into
consideration for our charts.
considering the enormous time
difference, we decided to give one
point to each group.
this decision is not meant to favour
any group since both, enigma and tsm,
would retain their places in our
charts anyway...
professor hecti in interchange
this game was released by dominators
and nei as well as by enigma.
the nei version got on second to
none,the enigma version on the forum!
on the third board we look at,
(the shaolin temple) we found both
versions uploaded at the same time by
the same caller.
however, since nei have admittedly
released their version before enigma,
the point goes to dom/nei.
ferrari formula 1
this game has been released by
ics first, however, no american
group has been able to ntsc-convert
the game...
although the game is not playable by
the americans we decided to give a
point to ics though.
rbi 2 baseball
the tape version of this game was
first released by i+t/tsm, the disc
version has been released by enigma/
empire one day after.
although the disc version had more
different options in the game, the
point goes to i+t/tsm since they
delivered the 100% tape-version of
the game.
heroquest
first released by action/empire,
100% version of the action version
delivered by nei.
due to a wrong 'jump-address' the
action version crashes after losing
all three lifes. that bug has been
fixed by nei, thus the point goes to
action/nei.
for those who already got the action
and empire version, you only have to
load the packed main file and change
this : $4ac9...change the '20' into
a '4c'
the ball game
this game was first released by
nato and excellence as also by
legend together with nei.
however, the nato/excellence version
crashed at a certain point; mirage
put out the nato version aswell, and
had that bug fixed, but have been
too late with their version.
legend/nei won the race...
errare humanum est
plainly and simply forgotten have
been 'the power' by genesis and nei,
and 'j.w. compend' by illusion the
last month...
as you might have already seen, we
credited genesis and nei this month
for the release, we did not bother
mention that illusion ware since
the group is dead and noone will mind
anyway.
-return
