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1996 April
- Text / Magazine
- Mr White, writer credits
The Warez Report, April 1996 by The Reservoir Dogs
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This is the continuing to last months "official warez-report" so all the data
stored in that report will be used in this ones charts of total points...
Releasing rules:
- Only final release-version of games will be rated
- Only games within the 40 disk limit will be rated
- Only games using the english language will be rated
- Only games not earlier released on floppy will be rated
- Non-working games not fixed will be rated without
any points at all.
- Non-working games that are fixed within a 5 day period
will be rated with -1 point for each fix needed...
- Games badly stripped/cracked will be rated -1 point
- A game that's not working and is re-released by another
group will give that group full point of the release.
However, the group first releasing still keep their
credits (-1 point for each fix needed) if they bring
their fix within a 5 day period.
- No addons will be rated in the release-chart.
Highlights in April 1996
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TYRANNY made a comeback this month and started off with a bunch of titles...
We decided to take away the monthly meggage top as that is no way to rate the
groups quality or greatness...
Goofs in April 1996
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'Zone of Death (c) Gametek' released by World Wide Releases was not cracked !
'Jones in the fast Lane 2 (c) Sierra On-Line' was a fake !
'Int Tennis Open 1996 (c) Philips' released by ROR was virus infected !
'Yendorian Tales (c) Smithsoft' released by TRN was a fake !
The Revolution version of Championship Mgr 2: Italia was a dupe... their
group scored 0 points in March... out of the list...
* notice: we're only viewing the 10 best groups in the top *
- MONTHLY - - TOTALLY -
##: Group: Releases: ##: Group: Releases:
==================================== ====================================
01) HYBRID 06 [---] 01) HYBRID 15 [---]
01) RAZOR 1911 06 [---] 01) RAZOR 1911 15 [---]
01) ROR 06 [+06] 03) NAPALM 10 [---]
04) MOTIV8 04 [NEW] 04) ROR 09 [+03]
04) NAPALM 04 [-01] 05) DOMINATORS 05 [+01]
06) PRESTIGE 03 [+04] 06) DYNAMIX 04 [-02]
06) TYRANNY 03 [NEW] 06) MOTIV8 04 [NEW]
08) DOMINATORS 02 [-02] 06) PRESTIGE 04 [+04]
09) DYNASTY 01 [NEW] 09) CELEBRE 03 [-04]
09) THE DREAM TEAM 01 [NEW] 09) TYRANNY 03 [NEW]
##: Group: Point: ##: Group: Point:
==================================== ====================================
01) HYBRID 35 [+01] 01) HYBRID 87 [+01]
02) ROR 25 [+04] 02) RAZOR 1911 75 [-01]
03) RAZOR 1911 22 [-02] 03) NAPALM 48 [---]
04) MOTIV8 21 [NEW] 04) ROR 38 [+02]
05) NAPALM 18 [-02] 05) DOMINATORS 26 [-01]
06) TYRANNY 15 [NEW] 06) MOTIV8 21 [NEW]
07) PRESTIGE 11 [+01] 07) PRESTIGE 18 [+01]
08) DOMINATORS 09 [-04] 08) DYNAMIX 16 [-03]
09) DYNASTY 04 [NEW] 09) TYRANNY 15 [NEW]
10) THE DREAM TEAM 03 [NEW] 10) CELEBRE 11 [-03]
________ _______ __ __
==\____ \=\_____ \/ \/ \=================
/tZ \ \/ \_/ \ \ DOMINATORS'96
/ / \ \ \ PRESENTS
==\_________/________/|\/|___/===============
Big Red Racing - Small - (c) Domark 07 disk 01 points
Champ. Mgr 2 - Belgium - (c) Domark 05 disk 04 points
Champ. Mgr 2 - Dutch - (c) Domark 05 disk 04 points
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There's different opinions on which group duped whom on the Championship Mgr 2
datadisks for Belgium and Dutch league. First there was a 24 disk big version
out from M8, which included a 20 meg+ intro (shame on you). The re-released
came from both Hybrid and Dominators. The Dominator version did hit the boards
very fast but never got on the net. As this report is based on what I can see
on the sites, the Hybrid version won. However, as many people say that DOM was
the first release on the boards, I will rate both Hybrid and Dominator version.
The Big Red Racing - Small is a minimized version of the earlier released game
from Dominators, will be rated with one extra point for a good rip.
Monthly Average Points / release: 4.0
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Descent level addon - (c) Interplay 01 disk 01 points
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Glorious Dynamix seemed to be out of fuel this month, with their only release
(addon) it seems like the rumour about Dynamix taking over after Hybrid was
nothing but a bad joke...
Monthly Average Points / release: N/A
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Sensible Golf - (c) Virgin 02 disk 04 points
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One release from this german group which infact wasnt so good though awaited..
Monthly Average Points / release: 4.0
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\__\/ \__\/(-hoson-)
Champ. Mgr 2: Dutch - (c) Domark 04 disk 04 points
Champ. Mgr 2: Belgium - (c) Domark 04 disk 04 points
Chronicles of the Sword - (c) Psygnosis 28 disk 09 points
Conq. of World - fix - (c) Interplay 01 disk 01 points
Humans 3 - (c) Gametek 03 disk 05 points
Super Star Dust '96 - (c) Gametek 05 disk 05 points
Virtual Snooker - (c) Interplay 01 disk 07 points
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Hybrid did an ok month with alot of quality releases plus some re-released
and better ripped versions of Champ. Mgr 2 Dutch/Belgium... Super Star Dust
needs a CD to run... ofcourse, this was later fixed... Hybrid also fixed the
CD-ROM problem in the Napalm release 'Conq. of the new World'.
Monthly Average Points / release: 5.8
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Cyber Tarot - (c) Sunstar 39 disk 04 points
Cyber Tarot sound addon - (c) Sunstar 05 disk 01 points
Fast Attack - (c) Sierra On-Line 30 disk 06 points
Int Tennis 96 - crack - (c) Philips 01 disk 01 points
Pinball 3D VCR - (c) 21:st Century 03 disk 05 points
Skunny Karts - (c) Wizardworks 07 disk 04 points
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Motiv8 did three re-releases this month plus their very own Cyber Tarot. This
group is very good making other groups mistakes right... thnx for being there!
Monthly Average Points / release: 4.8
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Conq. of the New World - (c) Interplay 16 disk 06 points
Judge Dredd - (c) Acclaim 05 disk 04 points
Silent Hunter - (c) SSI 09 disk 00 points
Virtual Chess W95 - (c) Titus 08 disk 03 points
Witchhaven 2 - (c) Capstone 13 disk 05 points
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Napalm failed ripping the Silent Hunter released (badly ripped by RAZOR). They
also failed releasing Witchhaven 2 properly. In the Napalm version you can not
run the SETUP.EXE so you must play the game in high-resolution... Judge Dredd
needs a fix to work.. Conq. of the New World is not properly cracked...
Monthly Average Points / release: 3.4
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| __/ _/ _/ _| \__ \ \/ / ) / _| /
|___|\__\ \________ /___\__\__ \______\
+--------\___/≈e≈/aL!\/--------/_____\-----+
Die Siedler 2 - (c) Bluebyte 16 disk 00 points
Super Star Wars - (c) Lucas Arts 04 disk 08 points
Tactical Operations - (c) Arsenal 03 disk 03 points
Virtual Chess WIN - (c) Titus 13 disk 03 points
Virtual Snooker - (c) Interplay 05 disk 00 points
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Prestige started out duping Hybrid's release of the Virtual Snooker which was
also 4 times the size of the Hybrid version. They did put out Super Star Wars
which had rumours about being a beta version, but nothing was ever proved.
First the Die Siedler 2 seemed to be a joke, but after confirming the info with
Prestige people, this awefully sad release was for real. PRESTIGE did release
a german game...
Monthly Average Points / release: 3.4
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\____\ \______\_________|_____\____\ \_
=======\___/===∙1911∙CD∙DIVISION∙======\___/
Airlines - (c) Interactivision 03 disk 00 points
Omar Sharif Bridge 2 - (c) Interplay 10 disk 03 points
Cylindrix - (c) Goldtree Soft 04 disk 03 points
Hexen - addon - (c) Id Software 02 disk 01 points
Indy - desktop adv. - (c) Lucas Arts 01 disk 04 points
Rebel Runner - (c) Microforum 08 disk 06 points
Silent Hunter - (c) SSI 36 disk 05 points
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Silent Hunter was troubled when it failed getting sound to work. It was also
badly ripped which game it a lesser score... Major opinion tells me this game
really sucks. Airlines was released back in 1994 by THG. Omar Sharif is badly
ripped.. minus one point...
Monthly Average Points / release: 3.5
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\__ | \\__ \\__ | \\__
/_____| ./_____________./___| ./
(=======|______/===================|______/=)
Civ 2 King addon - (c) Microprose 22 disk 01 points
Civ 2 Wonder addon - (c) Microprose 28 disk 01 points
Hoyle Classic Boardgames - (c) Sierra On-Line 02 disk 04 points
Int Tennis Open 1996 - (c) Philips 23 disk 04 points
Int Tennis addon - (c) Philips 30 disk 01 points
Kingdom the far Reaches - (c) Interplay 07 disk 03 points
Kingdom Music addon - (c) Interplay 35 disk 01 points
Skunny multilanguage W95 - (c) Magic Touch 07 disk 06 points
S.T.O.R.M. - (c) Electronic Arts 28 disk 04 points
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Alot of low-quality releases from ROR this month... 3 more than 20 disk addons
for Civilization or Kingdom the far Reaches. STORM was an ok game but the rip
was done bad so it gets a minus... International Tennis carried a virus which
gives it one minus.
Monthly Average Points / release: 3.5
_____________________
/___ / \ ___/ \
\__/ / /\ / /\__\ /
/ / /_/ / / / The Dream Team
/__/_______/__/ / World Domination
\__\\______\__\/ Quality Warez '96
Big Top - (c) BigTop 32 disk 03 points
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The Dream Team released one game in the beginning of this month. That was all
seen from them, another "accidental" release I presume...
Monthly Average Points / release: 3.0
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/ |\__ \ : \/ (: | : \ : \ _ \
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Backlash -FLOPPY- - (c) Sanctuary Soft 04 disk 04 points
Majestic: Alien Encounter - (c) Pirahna 10 disk 05 points
TwinBlok -FLOPPY- - (c) Webfoot Tech 01 disk 06 points
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A warm welcome back to the Tyranny team that's been gone since they decided to
take a break from games back in middle of 1995. Now they are back with their
first release Majetic which is a average adventuregame... they continued the
comeback with releasing Twinblok and Backlash...
Monthly Average Points / release: 5.0
Final words
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The month of April was very nice with alot of competition around the bigger
titles. The one team that did make it to the number one this month was the
small but very effective europeans in HYBRID. RAZOR shared the number one in
the release-chart but totally RAZOR lost their number one spot that they had
back in march...
This month surprise was the DYNAMIX team that didn't release ONE single game
after telling people they were the "new" HYBRID... what can I say, old dogs
just dont die...