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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

I need to make a conclusion if this one is lost or not:
Heretic_2-DVNiSO

kkkkk, you once told me through PM there's also some from 2018 from that 2017-03-17/18 guy. I think you also said 2018-10-23 and 24, is that true?
If that is so, I will just forget about this one.
EDIT 7th March 2019: You said 2018-10-17 and 2018-10-18. I can only find two FLT 2018-10-18.

My belief is that this guy simply faked all of this. I mean, SFVs are not lost and all the data is in the SFV and he could have just faked the bin/cue name, size and hash. I don't believe he had these releases in the first place.
If all of this is true, I'm left without rare releases to look for.

I also checked 2017-03-17 releases which are still available with original RARs, we had problems finding the first 3:

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FIFA.2000-DEViANCE
Flight_Unlimited_3-FLT
Offical_Formula_One_Racing-FLT
Planescape_Torment-FLT
Rally_Championship-FLT
Sid_Meiers_Alpha_Centauri-FLT

EDIT 6th April 2019
I found some more lost ones from October 2018.

2018-10-17
Grand.Theft.Auto.San.Andreas.DVDRip.READNFO-SPiTFiRE

2018-10-20
World.Of.Warcraft.Read.NFO.European.Working-GGS

2018-10-22
Starcraft.Broodwar.Internal.ISO-iND

2018-10-23
Warcraft.II.Battle.Net.Edition-iNTERGANG

2018-10-24
COMMAND.AND.CONQUER.THE.FIRST.DECADE.DVD9-GuN
Just.Cause.DVD5-SPiTFiRE
The.Curse.Of.Monkey.Island.1997-GUYBRUSH

2018-10-25
Postal.Plus.iNTERNAL-JEDiDOX
RollerCoaster.Tycoon.Corkscrew.Follies.Expansion-LEGOan
World.of.Warcraft.The.Burning.Crusade.CloneCD.iNTERNAL-SDiSO

2018-10-28
StarCraft.2.BETA.build.13891-iND


ADDED 14th April 2019
2018-10-12
Pro.Evolution.Soccer.4.DVDRip-RELOADED
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Retro scene releases discussion

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

I now checked every release of the 9 most known groups, most were posted on 2017-03-17, 51 of them. Other dates are insignificant, first numbers are lost ones, second numbers are available ones:

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2017-03-17	51	28
2017-03-18	1	26
2018-10-23	2	0	(Heretic_2-DVNiSO) (Shadow.Company-DVNiSO)
2018-10-20	2	0	(Turok_2_Seeds_Of_Evil-CiFE *) (Viper_Racing-CiFE)
2018-10-18	1	1	(Silkolene_Honda_Motocross_GP-FLT)
2018-10-12	1	0	(MYST.V.END.OF.AGES.CD.VERSION-DEViANCE)
2018-10-09	1	0	(Crime.Life.Gang.Wars.DVDRip-DVNiSO)
2018-01-09	1	0	(HOMEWORLD.REPACK-DVNiSO)
2017-02-21	1	0	(Blaze_and_Blade-PDMiSO) (search with Other)
2017-02-15	2	6	(F22_Lightning_3-PDMiSO and CLOSE.COMBAT.3-DVNiSO) (search with Other and PC)
2014-01-30	1	2	(Sports.Car.GT-EViLiSO)
2014-01-29	1	7	(Extreme.WaterSports-EViLiSO)
* don't have it as of 2020-02-13

Links:
DVNiSO 1
DVNiSO 2
DEViANCE 1
DEViANCE 2
FLT 1
FLT 2
FLT 3
FLT 4
CiFE 1
CiFE 2
RiSCiSO
EViLiSO
PSG
PDMiSO
PARADiGM


DVNiSO
BFRIS.Zero.Gravity.Fighter.Combat-DVNiSO
Bubble.Bobble.Hero.2-DVNiSO
CLOSE.COMBAT.3-DVNiSO
Crime.Life.Gang.Wars.DVDRip-DVNiSO
Elite_Darts-DVNiSO
Emergency.Room.2-DVNiSO
Extreme.Tennis-DVNiSO
Fantasy.Football.Draft.Kit.99-DVNiSO
GP500-DVNiSO
Heretic_2-DVNiSO
HOMEWORLD.REPACK-DVNiSO
Links.LS.Extreme-DVNiSO
MS.Baseball.2000-DVNiSO
Nascar.Revolution-DVNiSO
NBA.Inside.Drive.2000-DVNiSO
NFL.FEVER.2000-DVNiSO
POOL.SHARK-DVNiSO
Railroad.Tycoon.2.The.Second.Century-DVNiSO
Return.To.Na.Pali.Unreal.Addon-DVNiSO
Rollcage-DVNiSO
Scattegories-DVNiSO
Shadow.Company-DVNiSO
SNOWMOBILE.RACING.CHAMPIONSHIP.2000-DVNiSO
SPACE.INVADERS-DVNiSO
STAR.TREK.STAR.FLEET.COMMAND-DVNiSO
Superbike.World.Championship-DVNiSO
Tellurian_Defense-DVNiSO

DEViANCE
LiONEL.TRANS.CON-DEViANCE
MYST.V.END.OF.AGES.CD.VERSION-DEViANCE
TOTAL.SOCCER.2000-DEViANCE

FLT
AMA_Superbike-FLT
Army_Men_3-FLT
Formula1_99-FLT
Missile_Command-FLT
Rainbow_Six_Eagle_Watch-FLT
Silkolene_Honda_Motocross_GP-FLT
Thrust_Twist_N_Turn-FLT
Trickstyle_REPACK-FLT

CiFE
Beavis_And_Butthead_Do_U-CiFE
Damage_Incorporat-CiFE
Extreme.BullRider-CiFE
Extreme_G2-CiFE
Heroes_Of_Might_And_Magic_3-CiFE
Machines-CiFE
Nascar.Craftman.Truck.Racing-CiFE
Natural_Fawn_Killers-CiFE
Sega_Smash_Pack-CIFE
Solitaire.Antics.Deluxe-CiFE
The_Triangle_Flight_Simulator98_addon-CiFE
Total_Annihilation_Kingdoms-CiFE
Trophy_Buck-CiFE
Turok_2_Seeds_Of_Evil-CiFE
Viper_Racing-CiFE

RiSCiSO
Bird.Hunter.Upland-RiSCiSO
Midtown.Madness-RiSCiSO

EViLISO
Extreme.WaterSports-EViLiSO
Fallout.2-EViLISO (only a repack exists)
Need.For.Speed.High.Stakes-EViLISO (only a repack exists)
Sports.Car.GT-EViLiSO
Triple.Play.2000.REPACK-EViLISO

PSG
Atlantis_II-PSG
Edgar_Torronteras_Extreme_Biker-PSG

PDMiSO
Blaze_and_Blade-PDMiSO
F22_Lightning_3-PDMiSO
The_Creed-PDMiSO

PARADIGM
Midtown_Madness_ISO-PARADIGM

ISOWorld
Starfleet.Command.Bonus.CD-ISOWorld

Note:
I didn't add GORKY.17-DVNiSO, looking at the NFO, GORKY.17-DEVIANCE should be right.
I also didn't add HOMEWORLD.REPACK-DEViANCE, it's just a repack of HOMEWORLD.REPACK-DVNiSO.


There are 66 of the above 67 which aren't on this list:

Silkolene_Honda_Motocross_GP-FLT is already on the list.


I also updated my list which is more practical, only 159 of the most known games:
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

4 different names for the same release, will be a hard choice to make:
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.2-DEViANCE
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.2.THE.AGE.OF.KINGS-DVNiSO
Ages.Of.Empires.2.The.Age.Of.Kings-DVNiSO
Ages.Of.Empires.2.Fully.Working-DVNiSO

This one has different RAR names, aoe2k1.rar instead of dvn-aoe2.rar, in similar fashion to AGE.OF.EMPIRES.II.THE.CONQUERORS-DEViANCE aoe2kx1.rar, so it shouldn't be correct:
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.II.AGE.OF.KINGS-DEViANCE

NFO name is dvniso.nfo, so first one is certainly not correct.

For other 3, if I look in the NFO, it says this:
It seems that FAiRLiGHT, managed to fuck up this release up. If you take a loot at the info in regards to their release and our release, you will notice that our audio trak size is appox. 25 minutes longer than theirs. Why you ask? There is a slight pause in the audio track that contains the background music for the game for different scenes. Their audio track dies out durning one of these such pauses.
So I will have to go with:
Ages.Of.Empires.2.Fully.Working-DVNiSO
Although I don't like that Ages.
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

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One thing that always bothered me in this case is date. NFO and bin/cue says 1999-09-27. But in sfv, the first line is:
; Generated by WIN-SFV32 v1.0a on 1999-08-05 at 19:40.52
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

It's the same with Quake 3, I checked every 1998-1999 release on srrDB today:
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/Quake_3_Arena-FLT
I wanted to replace SFVs with complete ones, but for this reason of wrong date, I left this one out.
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

Another newly found repacks with date modifying, proofs are on srrDB:
GRIM.FANDANGO-DVNiSO
GRIM.FANDANGO-DVNiSO
-BIN date 1998-10-29, same as in the NFO
-look at the JPG for proof

Panzer_General_3D-CiFE
Panzer_General_3D-CiFE
-BIN date 1999-09-23, same as in the NFO
-look at the original SFV for proof


Other repacks with bin/cue date same as in the NFO:
Fallout.2-EViLISO - 1998-10-29, srrDB link, for proof you can see the SFV for Need.For.Speed.High.Stakes-EViLISO - RAR names should be .r01 instead of .001, found by kkkkk on 3rd March
Need.For.Speed.High.Stakes-EViLISO - 1999-05-27, original SFV for proof is in red, found by kkkkk on 3rd March
Championship_Manager_3-FLT - 1999-03-25, original SFV for proof, found by me on 10th March as I tried to SFV my RARs with srrDB's SFV


And all the previous ones I already found in February:
Populous.The.Beginning-PDMiSO
POPULOUS.3.THE.BEGINNING-PARADiGM
Populous_3_The_Beginning-PDMiSO_REPACK
-BIN date 1998-11-04, same as in the NFO
Here is the original SFV for proof:
https://www.srrdb.com/release/details/P ... ing-PDMiSO

Need_for_Speed_III_Hot_Pursuit-PDMiSO
Need.For.Speed.Hot.Pursuit-PARADiGM
-BIN date 1998-10-09, same as in the NFO
original SFV for proof

Heretic_2-DVNiSO
Heretic.2-DVNiSO
-BIN date 1998-11-23, date in the NFO is 1998-11-24
original SFV for proof

Starcraft_Brood_War-CiFE - ORIGINAL STILL EXISTS
Starcraft_Brood_War-CiFE___repacked
-BIN date 1998-12-13, original one has 1998-12-19, date in the NFO is 1998-12-18
original release

DRIVER-DVNiSO - ORIGINAL STILL EXISTS
DRIVER-DVNiSO
-BIN date 1999-09-27 15:16, original one has 1999-09-27 04:21, date in the NFO is 1999-09-27
-orange SFVs are for the original release


ADDED 18th March 2019
kkkkk found another repack with the same bin/cue date as in the NFO - 1999-05-18, original SFV was posted today:
Star_Wars_The_Phantom_Menace-FLT
Star_Wars_The_Phantom_Menace-FLT
Repack has the same BIN hash. Only thing strange is the CUE size, it should be 72 bytes, repack also has 72 bytes, but the one on srrDB has 88 bytes. It's 73 bytes if the BIN file has standard 7 letters, but this one has 6 - flt-pm.bin.

Another one:
Fifa_99_ISO-PARADiGM
Fifa_99_ISO-PARADiGM
-BIN date 1998-11-08, same as in the NFO
-RAR names pdm-fifa99.r00, groups first started using group tag in filenames in 1999


ADDED 13th April 2019
Baldurs_Gate_Tales_of_the_Sword_Coast-FLT - ORIGINAL STILL EXISTS
Baldurs_Gate_Tales_of_the_Sword_Coast-FLT
-BIN date 1999-05-06 11:54, original one has 1999-05-06 14:05, date in the NFO is 1999-05-06
-BIN name is flt-bgts.bin instead of sword.bin


ADDED 14th April 2019
Star_Wars_Episode_I_Pod_Racer-FLT - ORIGINAL STILL EXISTS (named Star_Wars_Racer-FLT)
Star_Wars_Racer-FLT
-BIN date 1999-05-18 18:35, original one has 1999-05-18 12:48, date in the NFO is 1999-05-18
-BIN name is FLT-STRA.BIN instead of SW-RACER.BIN


List of all of these 15 repacks:

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Baldurs_Gate_Tales_of_the_Sword_Coast-FLT
Championship_Manager_3-FLT
DRIVER-DVNiSO
Fallout.2-EViLISO
Fifa_99_ISO-PARADiGM
GRIM.FANDANGO-DVNiSO
HERETIC.2-DVNiSO
Need_for_Speed_III_Hot_Pursuit-PDMiSO
Need.For.Speed.High.Stakes-EViLISO
Panzer_General_3D-CiFE
POPULOUS.3.THE.BEGINNING-PARADiGM
Star_Wars_Episode_I_Pod_Racer-FLT (original Star_Wars_Racer-FLT)
Star_Wars_The_Phantom_Menace-FLT
Starcraft_Brood_War-CiFE
Starcraft-CiFE (CiFE release didn't even exist, only KALISTO)
Deleted User 6280

Retro scene releases discussion

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

For these there are 2 folder names on srrDB.

Blood_II_The_Chosen-FLT - PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL have this name
Blood2_Final-FLT - not on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL; there is no mention of Final in the NFO
my choice:
Blood_II_The_Chosen-FLT
EDIT 10th August 2019: it is Blood2_Final-FLT


THIEF.THE.DARK.PROJECT-DVNiSO - PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL have the name Thief.the.dark.project-dvniso
Thief-The_Dark_Project-DVNiSO - xREL has this name
3 sites, PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org and PreDB.org have the name Thief.The.Dark.Project-DEViANCE. The NFO name is dvniso.nfo and there is also a DVNiSO logo in the NFO, so I don't like it.
And DVNiSO usually uses all caps and dots instead of underscores. Although it has to be said that they didn't yet set the uppercase/lowercase standard in 1999, so it's all just a guess.
my choice:
THIEF.THE.DARK.PROJECT-DVNiSO


GORKY.17-DVNiSO - not on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL
GORKY.17-DEVIANCE (with an uppercase I) - PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org and PreDB.org have the name GORKY.17-DEViANCE (with a lowercase i), it's not on xREL, NFO name is deviance.nfo
my choice:
GORKY.17-DEViANCE
EDIT 10th August 2019: it is GORKY.17-DEVIANCE


Gunman_Chronicles_REPACK-Razor1911 - date on PreDB.me is 2000-Nov-20, date on xREL is 20. Nov 2000, date in the NFO is 21 November 2000
Gunman_Chronicles_GOOD_BIN_REPACK-Razor1911 - date on PreDB.me is 2000-Oct-31, date on xREL is 1. Nov 2000, date in the NFO is 21 November 2000
my choice:
Gunman_Chronicles_REPACK-Razor1911
EDIT 10th August 2019: it is Gunman_Chronicles_GOOD_BIN_REPACK-Razor1911


The_War_Engine-Razor1911 - PreDB.me and PreDB.org have this name
The.War.Engine-Razor1911 - not on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL
my choice:
The_War_Engine-Razor1911


SETTLERS.IV.MISSION.PACK-DEViANCE - date on PreDB.me is 2001-Nov-21, date on xREL is 22. Nov 2001, the date in the NFO is 11/2001
THE.SETTLERS.4.MISSION.PACK-DEViANCE - date on PreDB.me is 2001-Mar-30, date in the NFO is 11/2001
my choice:
SETTLERS.IV.MISSION.PACK-DEViANCE


I'm still not happy with Ages.Of.Empires.2.Fully.Working-DVNiSO. I like the Fully working because it tells you it's a proper of FLT.
Most sites, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL have the name AGES.OF.EMPIRES.2.FULLY.WORKING-DVNiSO.
my choice:
AGES.OF.EMPIRES.2.FULLY.WORKING-DVNiSO


And I see Conquerors also has 2 names:
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.2.THE.CONQUERORS-DEViANCE
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.II.THE.CONQUERORS-DEViANCE
xREL only has the first name and on pre.corrupt-net.org the second name has a date 2006-07-05, so I will just leave it like it is:
AGE.OF.EMPIRES.2.THE.CONQUERORS-DEViANCE


ADDED 6th April 2019 - 3x Aliens versus Predator

Alien_VS_Predator-FLT - this name is on srrDB and xREL
Alien_vs_Predator-FLT - this name is on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org and PreDB.org
my choice:
Alien_vs_Predator-FLT
EDIT 25th July 2019: It's a repack anyway, correct release name is Aliens_Versus_Predators-FLT.


Alien_vs_Predator_Gold-FLT - this name is on srrDB and xREL
Alien_VS_Predator_Gold-FLT - this name is on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org and PreDB.org
Aliens_vs_Predator_Gold_Edition-FLT - date on PreDB.me is 2004-May-08, date on pre.corrupt-net.org is 2004-05-08, date on PreDB.org is 2004-05-09, date on xREL is 9. Mai 2004, also on srrDB
my choice:
Alien_VS_Predator_Gold-FLT
EDIT 10th August 2019: it is Aliens_vs_Predator_Gold_Edition-FLT


Alien_VS_Predator_2-FLT - this name is on srrDB, PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL
Aliens_VS_Predator_2-FLT - this name is also on srrDB, it's not correct
my choice:
Alien_VS_Predator_2-FLT


ADDED 7th April 2019
HMM3_Armageddons_Blade_CRACKED-FLT - this name is on srrDB, date on PreDB.me is 2014-Apr-26, date on pre.corrupt-net.org is 2014-04-26, date on xREL is 24. Aug 2013
HMNM3_Armageddons_Blade_CRACKED-FLT - this name is on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org and PreDB.org
my choice:
HMNM3_Armageddons_Blade_CRACKED-FLT
EDIT 8th August 2019: it is Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_3_Armageddons_Blade_CRACKED-FLT


ADDED 17th April 2019
Offical_Formula_1_Racing-FLT
Offical_Formula_One_Racing-FLT - not on PreDB.me, pre.corrupt-net.org, PreDB.org and xREL
my choice:
Offical_Formula_1_Racing-FLT
EDIT 9th August 2019: it is Offical_Formula_One_Racing-FLT


ADDED 30th May 2019
Stunt.GP-FLT / Stunt_GP-FLT
Z2.Steel.Soldiers-FLT / Z_Steel_Soldiers-FLT


ADDED 20th July 2019
1999 - DropMania_ISO-Razor1911 / DropMania_ISO-RAZOR
1999 - NASCAR.LEGENDS-DEViANCE / NASCAR.LEGENDS-DVNiSO
1999 - Trivial.Pursuit.Nascar.Edition-DEViANCE / TRIVIAL.PURSUIT.NASCAR.EDITION-DEViANCE / TRIVIAL.PURSUIT-NASCAR.EDITION-DEViANCE
2000 - Final_Fantasy_VIII-FLT / Final_Fantasy_VIII_FINAL-FLT
2000 - LULA.PINBALL-RAZOR / Lula_Pinball-Razor1911
2001 - THREE.KINGDOMS.FATE.OF.THE.DRAGON-DEViANCE / THREE.KINGDOMS.FATE.OF.THE.DRAGON.FINAL-DEViANCE


ADDED 9th August 2019
2000 - South_Park_Rally-FLT / Southpark.Rally-FLT



IMPROPER NAMES
These 2 have improper names so everyone must decide for himself if he wants to keep the original ones or the proper ones:
Collin.McRae.Rally.Cracked-CiFE -> Colin.McRae.Rally.Cracked-CiFE
AGES.OF.EMPIRES.2.FULLY.WORKING-DVNiSO -> AGE.OF.EMPIRES.2.FULLY.WORKING-DVNiSO

ADDED 20th March 2019
Dues.Ex.Human.Revolution-SKIDROW -> Deus.Ex.Human.Revolution-SKIDROW (they also released Deus.Ex.Human.Revolution.DirFix-SKIDROW)
Runaway.2.The.Deam.Of.The.Turtle.PROPER-ViTALiTY -> Runaway.2.The.Dream.Of.The.Turtle.PROPER-ViTALiTY

ADDED 5th April 2019
Need.for.Speed.Undercoder.CLONEDVD.WORKiNG-0x0008 -> Need.for.Speed.Undercover.CLONEDVD.WORKiNG-0x0008

ADDED 17th April 2019
Offical_Formula_One_Racing-FLT -> Official_Formula_One_Racing-FLT

ADDED 16th June 2019
Medal_of_Honor_Allied_Assaut_Spearhead_Expansion_Pack-FLT -> Medal_of_Honor_Allied_Assault_Spearhead_Expansion_Pack-FLT
DEUX.EX.HUMAN.REVOLUTION.MULTI7-PEACECORPS -> DEUS.EX.HUMAN.REVOLUTION.MULTI7-PEACECORPS (they also released DEUS.EX.HUMAN.REVOLUTION.MULTI7.DIRFIX-PEACECORPS)

ADDED 1st July 2019
Microsoft.Flight.Simulator.X.Accerleration.Expansion-AVENGED -> Microsoft.Flight.Simulator.X.Acceleration.Expansion-AVENGED (they also released Microsoft.Flight.Simulator.X.Acceleration.Expansion.DIRFIX-AVENGED)

ADDED 19th July 2019
Fairy.Odd.Parents.Breakin.Da.Rules-DownLink -> Fairly.Odd.Parents.Breakin.Da.Rules-DownLink

ADDED 19th November 2019
Lejokungen.Tillbaka.Till.Lejonriket.NORDIC-TFTISO -> Lejonkungen.Tillbaka.Till.Lejonriket.NORDIC-TFTISO (they also released Lejonkungen.Tillbaka.Till.Lejonriket.NORDIC.DIRFIX-TFTISO)
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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

Post by Deleted User 6280 »

Some interesting NFOs when ViTALiTY was on the scene from 2007 to 2010, they really stirred the pot:
Armed.Assault.REAL.PROPER-ViTALiTY
Pirates_Of_The_Caribbean_At_Worlds_End_PROPER-HATRED
Notes.for.Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.At.Worlds.End.READNFO-ViTALiTY
S.T.A.L.K.E.R_Shadow_of_Chernobyl_PROPER-HATRED
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.Shadow.of.Chernobyl.NOTE.FOR.RETARDS.READ.NFO-ViTALiTY
A.Vampyre.Story.READNFO-RELOADED
A.Vampyre.Story.PROPER.READNFO-ViTALiTY
Perry_Rhodan_Real_Proper-Razor1911


I wanted to put the record straight which release is the best, from ViTALiTY or from a rival group, a few months ago and today I finally took the time to look at all the NFOs and make my own conclusions.
Armed_Assault_PROPER_DVD-FLT - Armed.Assault.REAL.PROPER-ViTALiTY (FLT nuke on NFOHump: bad.crack_still.morph.to.bird_get.ViTALiTY.real_proper, nuke on PreDB: wtf.PROCYON.folder.inside)
BioShock-FLT - BioShock-ViTALiTY (FLT's crack wasn't that good, I guess you don't need a PROPER mark if you release it 10 months later)
Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.At.Worlds.End-ViTALiTY - Pirates_Of_The_Caribbean_At_Worlds_End_PROPER-HATRED (HATRED nuke on PreDB: invalid.proper_no.issue.with.vitality)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.Shadow.of.Chernobyl-ViTALiTY - S.T.A.L.K.E.R_Shadow_of_Chernobyl_PROPER-HATRED (HATRED nuke on NFOHump: invalid.proper_ViTALiTY.crack.works.as.required, nuke on PreDB: invalid.proper_ViTALiTY.crack.works.fine)
A.Vampyre.Story-RELOADED - A.Vampyre.Story.PROPER-ViTALiTY (ViTALiTY nuke on NFOHump: invalid.proper_crash.is.a.gamebug.and.not.related.to.crack, on PreDB both are unnuked)
Perry.Rhodan.PROPER-ViTALiTY - Perry_Rhodan_Real_Proper-Razor1911 (none is nuked on NFOHump, Razor 1911 nuke on PreDB: invalid.proper)


But they also made some genuine propers:
Arca.Sim.Racing.2008.REPACK-RELOADED - Arca.Sim.Racing.08.PROPER-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke: bad.pack)
City.Life.World.Edition-RELOADED - City.Life.Deluxe.PROPER.READNFO-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke: bad.crack_get.ViTALiTY.proper)
Combat.Mission.Shock.Force-RiSiNG - Combat.Mission.Shock.Force.PROPER-ViTALiTY (from NFO: RiSiNG stole our crack)
Frontlines_Fuel_Of_War-Razor1911 - Frontlines.Fuel.of.War.PROPER-ViTALiTY (Razor1911 nuke: bad.crack_get.ViTALiTY.proper)
Ghostbusters.The.Video.Game-RELOADED - Ghostbusters.The.Video.Game.PROPER-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke on PreDB: not.final.retail.build_get.ViTALiTY.proper) (although on NFOHump it says nuke for ViTALiTY: bad crack, not removed triggers make game very hard to solve)
Hour.Of.Victory-RELOADED - Hour.of.Victory.PROPER-ViTALiTY (from NFO: The RLD crack still uses the SecuROM protection)
Runaway.2.The.Dream.Of.The.Turtle-RELOADED - Runaway.2.The.Deam.Of.The.Turtle.PROPER-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke: bad.crack_get.ViTALiTY.proper)
Silent.Hunter.5.Battle.of.the.Atlantic-SKIDROW - Silent.Hunter.5.Battle.of.the.Atlantic.PROPER.READNFO-ViTALiTY (SKIDROW nuke: bad.crack_not.completely.working_crashes.at.various.points.throughout_get.vitality.proper)
Switchfire-RELOADED - Switchfire.PROPER-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke: doesnt.work.on.win2k_get.ViTALiTY.proper)
Test_Drive_Unlimited-HATRED - Test.Drive.Unlimited.PROPER-ViTALiTY (HATRED nuke: bad.crack_cars.10x.more.expensive.profile.and.connection.errors_get.ViTALiTY.proper)
The.Chosen.Well.Of.Souls-iTWINS - The.Chosen.Well.of.Souls.PROPER-ViTALiTY (iTWINS nuke: get.proper.ViTALiTY)
The_Club-Razor1911 (+ The_Club_Crackfix-Razor1911) - The.Club.PROPER-ViTALiTY (Razor1911 + Crackfix is also an option)
The.Sims.Carnival.SnapCity-RELOADED - The.Sims.Carnival.SnapCity.PROPER-ViTALiTY (RELOADED nuke: get.ViTALiTY.proper)
The.Sims.Castaway.Stories-RELOADED - The.Sims.Castaway.Stories.PROPER.READNFO-ViTALiTY (from NFO: The RLD crack still uses the SecuROM protection)
Turok-Razor1911 - Turok.PROPER-ViTALiTY (Razor1911 nuke: get.ViTALiTY.proper)
X-BLADES-POSTMORTEM - X-Blades.PROPER-ViTALiTY (POSTMORTEM nuke: launcher.exe.uncracked_get.ViTALiTY.proper)


And HATRED vs. FLT:
Football_Manager_2008-HATRED
Football_Manager_2008_PROPER-FLT
Football_Manager_2008_PROPER_READ_NFO-FLT

RELOADED vs. FLT:
Metro.Last.Light.Read.Nfo-RELOADED
Metro_Last_Light_STATEMENT_READNFO-FLT
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SKIDROW was also interesting:
Assassins_Creed_2_READNFO_ONLY-DORMINE

Assassins.Creed.III.Proper-RELOADED
Assassins.Creed.III.v1.02.Update.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW
Assassins.Creed.III.Update.v1.02.Proper-RELOADED
Assassins.Creed.III.Update.v1.04.Proper-RELOADED
Assassins.Creed.III.The.Tyranny.of.King.Washington.The.Betrayal.DLC.Proper-SKIDROW

Assassins.Creed.Unity.Proper-SKIDROW
Assassins.Creed.Unity.Update.v1.2-RELOADED
Assassins.Creed.Unity.v1.3.Update.Proper-SKIDROW
Assassins.Creed.Unity.v1.4.Update.Proper-SKIDROW
Assassins.Creed.Unity.Dead.Kings.DLC.Proper-SKIDROW
Assassins.Creed.Unity.Update.v1.5.Proper-RELOADED
Assassins.Creed.Unity.v1.5.Update.STATEMENT-SKIDROW

Assassins.Creed.Syndicate.Update.v1.5.READ.NFO-PLAZA
Assassins.Creed.Syndicate.The.Dreadful.Crimes-SKIDROW (Assassins.Creed.Syndicate.The.Dreadful.Crimes.STATEMENT-SKIDROW/skidrow.nfo)

Bulletstorm.Proper-SKIDROW
Bulletstorm_CRACKFIX_READNFO-FLT
Bulletstorm.Proper.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW

Command.and.Conquer.Red.Alert.3.v1.012.Update.READ.NFO-SKIDROW

Crazy.Machines.2.plus.Addon.PROPER.REPACK-SKIDROW

Farm.Expert.2017.PROPER-SKIDROW
Farm.Expert.2017.Update.v1.106.Incl.Crackfix-RELOADED
Farm.Expert.2017.PROPER.FIX-SKIDROW

Just.Cause.2.Proper-SKIDROW
Just.Cause.2.Crackfix-RELOADED
Just.Cause.2.Proper.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW

Prototype.2.Proper-SKIDROW
Prototype_2_STATEMENT_READNFO-FLT

Quantum.Break.STATEMENT-SKIDROW

Serious.Sam.HD.The.First.Encounter.PROPER-SKIDROW

Sine.Mora.EX.PROPER-PLAZA
Sine.Mora.EX.STATEMENT-SKIDROW

Sins.of.a.Solar.Empire.Rebellion.Remastered.PROPER-PLAZA
Sins.of.a.Solar.Empire.Rebellion.Remastered.STATEMENT-SKIDROW

Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW

Trials.Fusion.Proper-SKIDROW


There are again problems making the right choice of best release.
Bulletstorm-FLT + Bulletstorm_CRACKFIX_READNFO-FLT - Bulletstorm.Proper-SKIDROW
NFOHump: FLT nuke - get.SKIDROW.proper, FLT CRACKFIX nuke - proper.already.out.GFWL.working.just.fine.on.skidow.release
PreDB: FLT unnuke - get.crackfix, SKIDROW nuke - invalid.proper_cracking.method.used.crashes.on.all.new.G4WL.build, Bulletstorm.Proper.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW nuke - fix.for.nuke
xREL: FLT nuke - get.crackfix, SKIDROW nuke - invalid.proper_old.xlive.dll.used.crashes.on.all.new.steam.clients


I still have to check these:
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/reloaded/1
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/razor1911/1
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/flt/1
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/codex/1
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/cpy/1
https://www.srrdb.com/browse/proper/deviance/1
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When faced with a decision "which release is better"
1. if one works and the other doesn't then it's obvious.
2. when both work - this one is opinion based but makes sense - the one that gives better game performance and uses less system resources. For example: Where the game exe is actually cracked and and a loader is not being used. I know some groups are/were known to use loaders instead of actually cracking the exe. I'm not sure how to tell whether a loader is being used or not. Using a loader would slow down the performance and use more system resources of the game compared to a cracked exe
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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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General Discussion Thread (1998-2002) Scene ISO Releases

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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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