SimCity 3000-DVNiSO says "beta" in debug mode.
01/13/99 Wargasm is released in the US today! Cife released this title 11-25-98. Rumours are it could be beta.
Wargasm was from an European company! So US release date is later then EU release date. All good.
Close.Combat.3 FINAL-FLT is nuked. "don't think it really should have been released.. the game it was same... just missing a few different files... unneeded files."
CloNEiSO dissapears from the scene. CloNEiSO released swedish kiddiegames. The leader of CloNEiSO joins the swedish ISO-group TFTiSO.
Both CDs of Liath and FLT's Close Combat 3 Final-[nuked] has bin errors.
FLT released yet another "FINAL", this time it was DVNiSO's sc3k that was duped. DVNiSO, although we all know ya release was final, releasing a game without the text "beta" in the version is asking for this kinda shit.
SIMCITY_3000_FINAL-FLT--NUKED 20h 40m *NUKED* | Seems FLT's version was nuked almost everywhere but their own sites. Its up to you to make a judgement on whats beta and whats not.
Worms.Armageddon was today released by 3 groups at the same (almost) time. The groups was FLT, CiFE and DVNiSO. FLT pulled out, and left DVNiSO and CiFE race it. No confirmation yet confirmed who won, some say DVNiSO, some say CiFE. Time will tell.
"Try playing some of the audio tracks from the Rainbow Six Eagle Watch
Addon ISO from FLT. The 5-6 first audio tracks are completely FUCKED, the
right channel has a constant high crackling noise. The rest of the tracks
also has crackling noises in deeper bass areas.
Audio track artifacts like this has happened many times before. The ISO of
Grand Touring (again from FLT) had popping and clicking about every second
in all the audio tracks, screwing the audio tracks completely! Another fine
example is Magic & Mayhem ISO from CIFE, lots of popping and clicking in
the audio, making it extremely annoying to listen to. I could list more
titles, approx. 10 ISOs have had this problem the past half year, but the
three mentioned titles are some of the worst.
I can only think of one reason why this problem is happening, and that is
that the ISO releasers use CD-ROM drives with shitty audio extracting when
making the bin. Perhaps low-end and crappy IDE (or SCSI) drives (and that
these drives are used for bin-making could also explain bin errors in data
tracks).
Anyone having burned any of the 3 above mentioned ISOs can play the audio
tracks and hear for themselves. To be 100% sure myself though, that this
problem is not caused by my burner or media, I used BinChunker and extracted
the audio tracks from the Rainbow Six Eagle Watch bin to WAV files. Playing
the WAV files gave the exact same screwed audio."
Extreme.G2-CiFE has audio track errors. Not very bad, only some popping noises.
Great Adventures Pirate Ship-LeccZiso is getting nuked everywhere. Its from -97 so its a tad old.
FLT released Resident Evil 2 and was raced by CiFE a while later. CiFE won on some EU sites, but general scene opinion is that FLT won.
Congrats CiFE to another fine release, HoMM3, that according to their nfo was released exactly one year ago
(it was a typo)
CiFE releases another 1½ disk game. Nuked on many sites due to the unofficial 100 mb rule.
Someone reports that Hard Trucks from DVNISO has crackling/popping in the audio. Not so bad in the first few audio tracks but the two last tracks are sounding real ugly.
People say that Heroes Of Might And Magic 3 ISO from CIFE has some bin errors early on in the bin. The errors are in the ECC only, but will result in some unreadable files for some players. Luckily for CIFE though, the errors are in the DirectX files so the game is unharmed.
F16 Agressor, another race, another hard descision to make. FLT's version is DX6 ripped, DVNiSO's aint, and still no overburn. FLT's is 8 rars smaller. We wont know until they both are burned if something else than DX6 is missing. If u want a small download, get FLT, if u want as close to the original as possible, get DVNiSO.
People in the scene are talking about raising the limit for ISO to 150 mb.
Someone has dug up some interesting info involving the NASCAR Truck Racing released by CiFE as a dupe as well Gex2 being a dupe. (06-14-1998 GEX_ENTER_THE_GECKO_BLHiSO)
The question to be asked is if speech has enough significance to count as a new release?! The gameplay is exactly the same, but a few new jokes and different speech. (seems to be EU vs USA issue)
Ca***** (CiFE senior in charge of the Gex2 & NASCAR releases) admitted that NASCAR trucks was a fuck up. It is part of the NASCAR '99 package.
CiFE releases pong extreme ISO?!?! Fits on a floppy disk from what i hear!!!!! There has got to be some sort of size rule! Official file size is 936,096 BYTES! AND it has .bin errors!
Well, apparently someone played a joke on CiFE...according to Skydemon, a CiFE member, they never released Pong Extreme and the supposed cracker 'Arko/RazcoR' is not a CiFE member.
Parrapa The Rapper 2-CHAMPiON was a fake. It was really Monkey Hero. Dont waste any credit dl'ing this one.
Safecracker is a nice release but old.
Another race, this time between CiFE and RiSCiSO who both released Imperialism 2. It seems CiFE is winning.
Recoil.Store.Final-DVNiSO. Do this mean their earlier release of Recoil was beta? The differences I've been told are Multiplay and 3dfx support.
According to DVNiSO the FLT release of Rollercoaster Tycoon is not working in multilanguage. Only English will work. It seems though that if you only want to play it in English you won't need to grab DVNiSO's release though....we'll see how the nukers react.
Update on Safecracker: This was soooo old that CiFE took it back and nuked it on their own sites...so don't bother trying to find that one anymore.
The main aspect on FLT vs DEViANCE RollerCoaster release is future updates and patches. How will those react to FLT's 'crack' i.e. overwrite PDM's crack from the rip on all multilanguage exes. I think ppl can figure that out themselves. As for gameplay, i think we all can play an english version tho. FLT version is getting nuked.
Seems like FLT missed a tiny thing in their Redline release. Theres a CD-check in the Mplay file. Mplay is an online gaming network and the client can be downloaded free of charge from the mplayer.net system. Altho not a big mistake, FLT needs to be more careful in the future not to get their rep damaged.
Kinda old news, but Gangsters.True.Image-KC aint nothing but an uncracked Dupe of Gangsters-DVNiSO. Its already nuked everywhere.
03-18-99 Fairlight is starting a new division, FLTDOX, that will do walkthrough/strategy guide/cheat/trainer/manual things. Mostly they will publish scanned manuals and reference cards.
Triple Play 2k-EvilISO is so full of Bin errors it wont work. Its a nuke
CiFE released a fix for Fighter Squadron. The original patch can be found
http://www.parsoft.com/news/home.html the patch is 114 k in size, yet CiFE's fix is 3.5 mb as tho they have patched the exe, packaged it and released it. The nfo says, and i qoute: "Personal greetings: DjPAUL for this fine crack". As far as i know, the patch from Activision works and dont need to be cracked. I might be wrong.
03-26-99 This was one of the most exciting 24 hours ive seen in the ISO scene. Three groups released like crazy, DVNiSO beating FLT on Warzone 2100, FLT beating PDMiSO on Silver, PDMiSO's version was overburn, FLT was not.
Lands of Lore III-RZR got no compression whatsoever. Overburn is one thing, if its needed its needed, but 800 mb x 4 = 3.2 gb to get it? Why not do as all other groups and compress to 600mb?
Seems like that patch DVNiSO released for Tank Racer didnt work out as great they thought it did. *** reports that after the patch is applied, BINchunker reports ecc errors from the bin. Alot of people still cant get the game to work.
03-31-99 As they stated in their nfo's, PDMiSO is no more. PDM will release everything under their PARADiGM label from now on.
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Civilisation: Call To Power from Deviance are asking for CD. Not everyone have this problem, but lots of reports. Activision used no protection according to Deviance who points us to another Activision release, Fighter Squadron, which had the exact same problem. Activision put a patch out on their web for that one. There is however already an IND isofix circulating that fixxes the insert CD problem. We will see if this is an Activision or Deviance fuckup.
High Heat Baseball-FLT was nuked because of bad pack. CRC errors in the bin.
If you read the .nfo on GTA *RE-RELEASE* it is a game from '97 sometime and was only done for those people who wanted to use the addon released by DVNiSO. They acknowledge some will keep and most will nuke, but its around for the taking.
When Apache LongBow Gold-RHiSO was released i heard from people that is was nothing more than a T-shirt included in the box that made it 'gold'. The nfo did not state what was new. Today i talked to R****, leader of RH about certain issues and had a chance to ask what the difference was. The Gold is original Longbow with the Korean addon + additional missions + new graphics (some kinda 3dfxsupport).
CiFE's Heroes of Might and Magic does not appear to have been the final version. That would explain why you get a 'beta has expired' message when applying 1.1 patch and the trouble with multiplayer most people have had during this time.
04-16-99 EA will protect their games with safedisc in the future, no more crackfree games from them.
After trying for one hour to apply the 1.1 patch on CiFE's Heroes of Might and Magic III with no success, it was pretty nice to install DVNiSO's release where the patch applied at once, the game started AND multiplayer worked. So theres is no longer any doubts that HoMM3-CiFE was some RC or beta.
Machines, CiFE's first good release in a long time, are a fuckup. They used PDM's crack from the rip which routed all wrong making you get no CD-audio.
04-23-99 Hemp Hoodlum, one of the leading forces in Fairlight have retired from the scene.
Ok lotsa shit on the RiSCiSO Midtown Madness release. The crack seems to be Razors but working, the whole thing originates from the fact that RZR stated in their NFO that they ripped CD-Audio, when RiSCiSO's release have no CD-audio in the image.
FLT released Guardian of Darkness with a shitload of binerrors.
**** has now checked Guardian of Darkness and altho alot of errors, they all seem to be very close to eachother and according to ****, the only data that is damaged are the file dx61eng.exe, a file most ppl already have installed and that can be downloaded for free at microsoft.com.
Another race today. Baldur's Gate - Tales of the Sword Coast was released by FLT, CiFE and PHXiSO. FLT clearly won, and PHXiSO wasnt really in the race.
DVNVCD is NOT, i repeat NOT an offspring of Deviance. Its the now budget releasing rip group Divine's lame attempt to get into the VCD scene.
There was 'almost' a race between FLT and PDM yesterday with the F-22 Lightning 3 release. FLT pulled their release back when they saw PDM was faster
The Star_Trek_Birth_of_the_Federation ISOs that circulates are BETA, also the TMS one was ACE compressed?!
Someone reports RZR fucked up with their Links LS 99 Pinehurst Course Addon release. SFV reports ok, but rar fails.
Fairlights release of Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is indeed the final version.
FLT was raced by CiFE on the Mechwarrior 3 relase today. FLT clearly won tho
Flt released a repack of MechWarrior 3 since the old one contained no CD-audio.
After seeing the Fairlight repack of Mechwarrior 3, we are posed with one question "How can someone make a bin/cue of a CD and somehow miss out on the Audio tracks?" Most likely because there were no audio tracks to begin with. Both Cife and Fairlight raced on the original release of Mechwarrior 3. Both releases had NO audio tracks at all. The chances of both suppliers "forgetting" to rip them smells very badly. What smells even worse, is that the miraculous "missing audio tracks" were not found until the retail version of it hit US stores.
Razors Hoyle Solitaire and Mahjong is broken in RAR's. Hoyle Craps and BlackJack is roumored to be a dupe as it was in Hoyle Casino 99, but Hoyle Casino 99 was never iso'ed.
FLT and DVNiSO raced on the Might & Magic VII release.
Some problems with MM7 have been reported on irc, as usual ppl bitch on the releasegroups when its the game thats fucked. I found this on some website:
1) This game will not work with SLI Voodoo2's unless you disable the SLI in the Voodoo2 control panel. Nice of NWC to mention that in the readme. (not)
2) This game will not work with a Matrox G200 chip in D3D at ALL. Nice of NWC to mention that in the readme. (not)
3) This game will not work with the SBLive's Aureal3D 1.0 at ALL. It crashes. Nice of NWC to mention that in the readme. (not)
3) This game runs VERY erratically on Windows NT 4.0. In the readme, they mention that M&M7 will work in software mode in NT, and it kinda does, but it crashes for me every 10 minutes or so-- when M&M6 worked great. And yes, I'm running NT4 SP5, latest hotfixes, etc.
4) There's a _majorly_ annoying bug in Stone City where a guard gets stuck in the tunnel leading to the exit. It took me a half hour of (Y)elling at him from different directions and perspectives to get me to leave. After he did, I just left the town, saved my game, and quit for the night. Boy oh boy, did that piss me off. And YES, if you kill him (easy with the Alacorn wand) the other guards will KOS you when you get back in.
Race yesterday between DVNiso and CiFE on the Descent 3 release. It was pretty intense
Some late info about Heavy Gear 2, theres no difference between RAZOR and FLT's versions, the reason is another race.
Seems like some people have problems installing Outcast-FLT. It will only install to C: If its supposed to be like that or the crack is to blame I dont know.