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I hate that some releases were never actually properly cracked, like the Colin.McRae.2005.DVD-ULTiMA:
https://www.xrel.to/game/117239/Colin-M ... -2005.html
3. Insert ANY CD into the drive ("Don't cry for me Argentina").
Only this independent fix:
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/C ... sh.Fix-IND
I would get it if it were some uknown game.

Also some Starforce games were probably never properly cracked. Or were very late, like the GTR_FIA_GT_Racing-HYBRiD and GT_Legends-HYBRiD which were cracked 3 years later.

EDIT 5th April 2019
Another release that was not properly cracked:
Mass.Effect.3-RELOADED, PreDB - stolen.from.p2p_i.imgur.com.HqxvU.png_i.imgur.com.XJSFm.png
proofs:

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https://i.imgur.com/HqxvU.png and https://i.imgur.com/XJSFm.png

If a group used a loader it was propered in most cases, like the Need_For_Speed_Hot_Pursuit_2_PROPER-iMMERSiON. So I get these informations from the NFOs. I don't know of a case where it was not propered.

List of games that use a loader:
2002 - NEED.FOR.SPEED.HOT.PURSUIT.2.REPACK-DEViANCE (get Need_For_Speed_Hot_Pursuit_2_PROPER-iMMERSiON)
2006 - Sonic.Heroes-HOODLUM (get Sonic.Heroes.PROPER-RELOADED)
2006 - King.Kong.INTERNAL-RELOADED
2006 - Trackmania.Sunrise.Extreme.INTERNAL-RELOADED
2007 - BioShock.PROPER-LOLCATS (get BioShock-ViTALiTY)
2008 - The.Sims.Castaway.Stories-RELOADED (get The.Sims.Castaway.Stories.PROPER.READNFO-ViTALiTY)
2011 - Harry.Potter.and.the.Deathly.Hallows.Part.2-SKIDROW (get Harry.Potter.and.The.Deathly.Hallows.Part.2.Proper-RELOADED)
2012 - FIFA.13.INTERNAL-RELOADED (get FIFA.13-RELOADED)
2012 - FIFA.13.MULTI.INTERNAL.READNFO-0x0007 (get FIFA.13-RELOADED)
2013 - Crysis.3.INTERNAL-RELOADED (get Crysis.3-RELOADED)
2015 - Total.War.ATTILA.INTERNAL-RELOADED (get Total.War.Attila-CPY)
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Bridge.Builder-CPX
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/B ... uilder-CPX
NFO: Protection : None.
In fact: Protection : Serial.
The serial number is not specified anywhere.
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The name of the game also was wrong. Correct name: Bridge It. Not Bridge Builder.
As a result, found valid key on serials sites.
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This is the game:

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https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/bridge-it_
If you want to keep the actual NFO with serials, you can get it from the rip release. I included Bridge_It-CLS and Bridge.It.v1.1-HS (also no serial): And just the CLASS.nfo:
Searching this, I found this site for serials:
https://www.findserialnumber.net/
It has the same serials from CLS rip.
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Here are little bits and pieces and rumours of info about some releases, perhaps it helps someone:

DVNiSO's Gangster was one of the first (if not very first) of ISO release that had crack with it.

COiSO released a 6 months old game "on request", it was nuked on some sites for that (Advanced.Tactical.Fighters.Gold.Edition-COiSo)

FLT released Actua soccer 3 in 20 megs rars.

Rumour is that iSOMATiC's S.C.A.R.S. release is fucked somehow. Audio tracks are messed up?

TEAMISO released Magic and Mayhem without DX6 and Direct media ripped. Also they downsized two 5mb AVI's.

PDM claims that Recoil-DVNiSO is beta. DVNiSO claims that PDM is just desperate.

12-15-98 DEViANCE was born, first it should have been DVNiSO UTiLS sub-group, but we all know how did that go.

Quake II Extremities-EViLiSO is fucked. Wont unpack properly.

Excessive.Speed-CiFE is 77 minutes long. Acording to their nfo, u are a retard if u cant burn it.

Brood Wars-iSOCD98 is a nuke. The bin is screwed.

CiFE's release of brood wars needs a fix for some ppl to be able to read it. The fix is only CD-rom drivers, so if u have a nice system u shouldnt need it.

Here are the recent releases that has VERY REAL errors in the data track
in the bin file:
Recoil-DVNISO
Topgun_Hornets_Nest-DVNISO
Abes_Exoddus-FLT CD 1 (the 650MB CD with the movies)

WCW Nitro is released again. RiSCiSO claims they have the final. There 'proof' is in their nfo.

ISOLATiON did what CiFE should have done, released Excessive Speed in proper size. DX6 ripped + one shortend Audiotrack.

As of christmas 12-24-98 DVNiSO has released 89 releases in 6 months.

Finally Baldurs Gate is out. Both ISOworld and isocd98 released it. Unfortunately isocd98 was a nuke, supposed to be prebeta.

isocd98's release of Baldurs was not prebeta, only reason for nuke was that isoworld was finished first.

Seems like many people are having problems with Myth2 crashing (it simply exits itself) frequently. That's not the rip's or ISO's fault, seems like the game itself requires massive amounts of memory and swap space. I had 100mb permanent swap file and 128mb ram, and it kept crashing. Setting swap file to 200mb helped, and 300mb swap file fixed all problems. What's strange is that the game doesn't swap hd really badly, but it still causes the swap file to grow very big.
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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 :D (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.

Added in 30 minutes 32 seconds:
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.
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DVNiSO releases Ring, 4 CD's big. iSOLATiON released this 11-26-1998, 6 CD's big, only 3 CD's was released to the public, the multilanguage CD's was left out. In DVNiSO's US version there is no multilanguage, so that makes it one CD of new stuff in the game.

FLT asked to nuke their release of Braveheart as it had bad audio. Repack is released.

To clear the recent confusion with AOE2, Fairlight has officially requested their version be nuked. They fucked up.

After the Lightbringer DUPE by DVNiSO (requested it themselves to be nuked - at least they realized their own mistake...props for that) and a few more unmatched titles by Fairlight, FLT moves into the #1 spot in 1999!

There was a race today on Sim Theme Park between FLT and DVNiSO. FairLight beat DVNiSO everywhere, including on a few of their own sites. Both releases appeared valid, so if you run into either version, its safe to download.

Razor started the month with a dupe. 12-01-1999 29 535 MB EMERGENCY_ROOM_DISASTER_STRIKES_ISO-RAZOR is a dupe of 10/23/99 Emergecy Room 2: Disaster Strikes-Euphoria

Reports of FairLights Millennium Racer on the 13th of this month is that the audio included does not work. Apparantly there is a "sound on" button that does not work. However, many groups have tried to repack this release and no one can get it to work which leads to believe it is a developer error rather than an error made by FairLight.

As soon as Deviance's FF8 was released yesterday, people were swarming in asking if it had bin errors, or if it was burnable or playable, yadda yadda. Seems deviance isnt too well known for their quality level these days even though way way back they helped set that standard. In any case, the release was a major fuck up!! 5 Uncompressed cd's of which 3 had a slew of bin errors (whether they affect game play or not does NOT matter), its got a korean readme and to top it off - its BETA (installs a beta direcory by default/no in-game exit button when eidos said the final would in their betajournal and all previous betas didnt either/different files sizes)!! FairLight released the final today. And its compressed, too! Read their .nfo for further details.

In a close race today, DEViANCE pulled out a win over FairLight with Football World Manager 2000. From what we can tell so far, both are valid releases

Deviances release today of Myrtle Beach Tour is actually freely available to the public for download. An exerpt from the homepage: "You can find the game and add-on files below. If you would rather have a CD sent to you please follow this link." Another note, the rip released by MiNiME has also been nuked cuz its freeware.

For those of you who did not notice the posting in the release pages, i will reiterate a few things abuot 2 recent releases. Feb 23rd release of Star Wars Force Commander by MiNiME is beta. The Feb 24th release of Soldier of Fortune by iNTERGANG is not only beta, but we have gotten reports of it containing a trojan. So try to avoid this release at all costs.
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Here are the recent releases that has VERY REAL errors in the data track
in the bin file:
Abes_Exoddus-FLT CD 1 (the 650MB CD with the movies)
I don't think they ever released a proper, Abes_Exodus_CD2_REPACK-FLT has the same hashes as Abes_Exodus-FLT CD1.
It says this in the NFO of the REPACK release: WE are sure but cd was fucked..and the install was stopping at 99%.
If I remember correctly, I installed it no problems a few months ago.
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While going through some older stuff on an external, I came across Doom.II.Hell.On.Earth-RAZOR. I checked srrdb and it doesn't show up. However it does show up predb and xrel. I wanted to make sure I had all original files but I don't have anything to reference.
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srrDB only deals with ISOs, rips, that would be crazy, as a lot of them have additional notes and NFOs injected in ZIPs. No way you would be able to compare hashes.

But you can compare to others. What I can find, 3 different ones:
doom2-1.zip - 1.460.727 B / 1.460.184 B / same as 2nd
doom2-2.zip - 1.461.837 B / 1.461.294 B / same as 2nd
doom2-3.zip - 1.460.582 B / 1.460.039 B / same as 2nd
doom2-4.zip - 1.461.837 B / 1.461.294 B / same as 2nd
doom2-5.zip - 1.453.155 B / 1.451.990 B / 1.452.553 B

first - aks.nfo in first 4 ZIPs, dpg.nfo in 5th ZIP
second - clean one without 2002 and 2003 NFOs, but that doesn't mean it's original, but most likely self cleaned
third - aks.nfo in 5th ZIP

I can also confirm if I delete these additional NFOs that I get the same hash as the already cleaned ones. So you can do that or leave them as they are.
You probably get it now why there's no database and that I can't help you with other releases.
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Believe it or not, I found another Doom II on a different external. This one is DOOM_2_HELL_ON_EARTH-RAZOR.

The Doom.II.Hell.On.Earth-RAZOR I have matches with your second and third versions EXCEPT that doom2-5.zip is 1.447.135 B

The DOOM_2_HELL_ON_EARTH-RAZOR I have matches up with your second version.
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sirbilliam wrote: 22 Apr 2019, 06:23 The Doom.II.Hell.On.Earth-RAZOR I have matches with your second and third versions EXCEPT that doom2-5.zip is 1.447.135 B
Hm, even if I delete everything except DOOM2LZH.5 from the ZIP, I still get 1.448.478 B, so it must use a different compression.
Can you upload it somewhere, for example Zippyshare?
This is why if I even deal with rips, I just download them and leave them alone.
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Here ya go
I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff, but I thought it was strange I had two different releases by the same group.
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As I suspected, it only has DOOM2LZH.5. But it was made at a later date, DOOM2LZH.5 has a date 2003-04-26. So it's not exactly hard to make original ZIPs, you just delete every newer file. But in your first case that 5th ZIP is no good.

It's perfectly normal that they're 2 different names, but only one is the correct one. Which one? Sometimes it's hard to tell.
For Doom you have DOOM_II_HELL_ON_EARTH-RAZOR and DOOM_2_HELL_ON_EARTH-RAZOR on PreDB.me. Then you can look at the dates and when the game came out. Here both dates are earlier, so who knows.
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Thanks for info! Much appreciated. I can't believe i didn't see the date on DOOM2LZH.5.
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Is there a need for the FLT release of Harbinger? I saw here the CALiSO release but not the FLT one. The NFO i have has this in it:

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 ΪΩ                    Harbinger  (C)  DREAMCATCHER                          ΪΩ
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 :   Supplied by: FAIRLIGHT            : : Release Date: 2/27/2003            :
 ³   Cracked by:  FAIRLIGHT            ³ ³ Game Type: Strategy                ³
 ³   Packaged by: FAIRLIGHT            ³ ³ Image Format: BIN/CUE              ³
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 ³   CDS: 1                            ³ ³ Protection: C-Dilla 2.x            ³
 ³   CD1 archives: 32 x 15 MB          ³ ³ CD1: flt-harb.001 -> .032          ³
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Thing is, i dont know how and where to upload it if it is needed.
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

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CALiSO: CloneCD image

FLT, taken from NFO:
Then copy the crack from CD to installation directory and enjoy
FLT usually makes cracked releases.
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Oh, I thought cracked releases were included in the retro section. I'll remember that.
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

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Retro has both CloneCD and cracked releases.
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