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NINTENDO64-MAJOR CHARTS ISSUE #3
FOR MONTH: 8/97
----[ THE POINT-SYSTEM ]------------------------------------------------
WORLD FIRST RELEASE OF USA/EURO/PLAYABLE JAP ................ 8 POINTS
WORLD FIRST RELEASE OF AN UNPLAYABLE JAP GAME ............... 6 POINTS
USA/EURO FINAL RELEASE IF PREVIOUS WAS JAP .................. 5 POINTS
BETA-VERSIONS US/JAP/EUROPE ................................. 4 POINTS
IF THE RELEASE IS NEW BUT ALREADY OUT AS USA OR EURO FINAL .. 4 POINTS
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FIXES+CRACKPATCHES .......................................... 2 POINTS
GAME OF THE MONTH .......................................... +2 POINTS
(2 POINTS REMOVED IF THE GAME NEEDS A CRACK AND IS RELEASED UNCRACKED!)
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FIRST WORDS...
You might have noticed that Zigor and I changed the Point system. We had
to change it because it is a little bit unfair that a game like e.g.
"Mahjong JAP" gets the same points like e.g. "Tetrisphere US". So now
it is important that a JAPANESE game is *PLAYABALE*.
A japanese game is playable if you don't need the japanese texts to
UNDERSTAND what you have to do next in the game and if you don't have to
choose from 1000 japanese menus. So Goemon5 and Mahjong Classic just get
6 Points.
This new point system will be used from now on. The points from issue
#1 and #2 won't be recalculated(!)
BTW. It was a nice month for gamers =) and I think we will see even more
in September. See you!
Icarus.
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Yes, August was a great month with finally more n64 warez to play and trade.
We hope the new point system is fairer now and will please some more people!
As you will see, Already we have an interview section added and soon you will
notice a few more additions. We hope you like the changes we are making.
Zigor.
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SO LET'S GO FOR THIS MONTH...
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.----[ GROUP: ANTHROX/SWAT ]--------------------------------------------.
|.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.|
|| GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] ||
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||GOEMON 5 |KONAMI |JAP/NTSC | 06 ||
||GOLDENEYE |RARE/NINTENDO |JAP/NTSC | 04+02 ||
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`---------------------------------------------------------[ 12 ] TOTAL -'
Icarus: " Nice release from A&S. I hope we will soon get the US-Version
Although MSFTUG released the first ZIP-File which was okay
I think we should give Anthrox the points.
Goldeneye JAP came before the SONCRAP JAP-Release but after
the US-Release of MSFTUG so just 4 Points for it! nobody knew
what version A&S released so next time please write it in the
file_id guys :)"
Zigor : " As Icarus pointed out, there was some confusion over the release
of Goldeneye from ATX which resulted in a dupe of the Jap version.
Goemon 5 also caused some confusion but ATX were 1st on both cases.
Anyway, Goldeneye is awarded +2 for being game of the month. It's
a great game, not just another boring doom clone! "
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.----[ GROUP: SNEAKERS ]------------------------------------------------.
|.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.|
|| GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] ||
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||ISS 64 |KONAMI |US/NTSC | 04 ||
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`---------------------------------------------------------[ 04 ] TOTAL -'
Icarus: " Nice to see the us-version of the game. Its the best soccer game
out so enjoy it. "
Zigor : " Good to see the US version, it seems better than the PAL version
in some ways. "
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.----[ GROUP: MSFTUG/SONCRAP ]------------------------------------------.
|.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.|
|| GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] ||
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||POWER LEAGUE 64 |HUDSON SOFT |JAP/NTSC | 06 ||
||DOOM 64 |ID SOFTWARE |JAP/NTSC | 04 ||
||MAHJONG CLASSIC |IMAGINEER |JAP/NTSC | 06 ||
||GOEMON 5 |KONAMI |JAP/NTSC | DUPE! ||
||GOLDENEYE |RARE/NINTENDO |JAP/NTSC | DUPE! ||
||GOLDENEYE |RARE/NINTENDO |US /NTSC | 08+02 ||
||NBA HANGTIME |WILLIAMS/MIDWAY |EUROPE/PAL | 04 ||
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`---------------------------------------------------------[ 30 ] TOTAL -'
Icarus: " Yes. Power League 64 is UNPLAYABLE. For me it was a nightmare
to click through the endless japanese menues. Nevertheless a
good month for MSFTUG. Can someone beat them in supplying JAP
games? :) Okay.. it was hard to give the points for Goldeneye.
See the notes above. hum.. what a bitch! But well, MSFTUG
managed it with the US-version and this is the GAME OF THE MONTH!"
Additional note: ONE(!) PAL game in August! Nearly NO support
for the european N64-Owners! Nintendo&Co. - what a shame!!
Zigor : " Quite a lot of releases here, Power League 64 was put out as
'Soccer' but it was soon realised that it was actually Baseball!
Well, it looked ok but I have no time for baseball games!
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.----[ GROUP: PETRAMAN ]------------------------------------------------.
|.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.|
|| GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] ||
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||TETRISPHERE |H2O/NINTENDO |US/NTSC | 08 ||
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`---------------------------------------------------------[ 08 ] TOTAL -'
Icarus: " HA! one of the most awaited games in August released by an
independent guy.. :) - Cool "
Zigor : " A real suprise when this game appeared to us all and not from a
major group. The game is very addictive and a great puzzler.
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| - THE BEST GROUPS FOR THIS MONTH - |
o1. MSFTUG/SONCRAP ................................... [30] POINTS
o2. ANTHROX/SWAT ..................................... [12] POINTS
o3. PETRAMAN ......................................... [08] POINTS
o4. SNEAKERS ......................................... [04] POINTS
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| TOP 10 GROUPS |
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| - ALLTIME CHART - |
o1. MSFTUG/SONCRAP ................................... [86] POINTS
o2. SNEAKERS ......................................... [20] POINTS
o2. ANTHROX&SWAT ..................................... [20] POINTS
o3. PETRAMAN ......................................... [08] POINTS
o4. IMPACT ........................................... [05] POINTS
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-+- INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH -+-
This time with: Actraiser/MSFTUG+SONCRAP
Although you can meet Actraiser in IRC very often we have prepared a little
interview with him.
Icarus : "First some personal questions :)
From which country do you came from?"
Actraiser: "Okay Icarus, i think its the same country where you live."
Lovely Germany, western Part, near Frankfurt/M."
Icarus : "Why did you choose Actraiser as handle? Is there something
special behind it?"
Actraiser: "My former handle was DR.WEISS, maybe someone remembers me uploading
on some USA-Boards like D'yer Mak'er,Centrum,etc. Anyway, i changed
my handle after i finnished a great jap title for the SuperFamicom,
which was ACTRAISER from Enix. It was fantastic and the music was
unbelievable. I am a great fan of Yuzo Koshiro, the composer of the
soundtrack, by the way. Yeah and somehow it sounded cool, ACTRAiSER,
.. well there you go."
Icarus : "How long have you been in the console-scene?"
Actraiser: "I could give you a short answer, but here you have the whole thing:
Huh, well, i formed sort of group called DEXTROSE (:-) ), which
released some games on SNES, mainly pal-stuff like ZELDA GERMAN
ACTRAiSER GERMAN, and also some Genesis-Titles, but no big deal at
all. Actually i cant really tell you which year that was, maybe
1992/93. We also released a SlowRom-Fixer (which didnt work for some
reason :) ). Ok anyway, afterwards i joined a group called Premiere
and supplied only one game to them which was Blues Brothers
Jap-Version for SNES.
Ok, then there was nothing several years.
Then there was that special day me and a friend called rcf was pissed
off when we saw a group called Underground-Kidz releasing tons of
CRAP, mainly new pics of some psx-games, and cheats and whatever,
really 10-15 releases each day. Well to make sorta fun of them we
decided to form a group contra-releasing shit, that was the birth of
MSFTUG in December 1996. Soon we noticed we get bored of it and
noticed that we are also able to release some games on dying snes ...
so we supplied some more (terranigma, Sonnentempel) or less (all
other releases) wanted games. Finally I got informed about a new
backup device called Doctor V64. I totally regarded a web-page to it.
I was able to get some more games and also a lot of nice contacts to
many people. For some personal reason i also formed Soncrap (whole
story on demand), who now release everything i dont want to be
released by MSFTUG. Well, and now here we are, in August 1997."
Icarus : "Why do you think the N64-Scene is interesting or
uninteresting?"
Actraiser: "Interesting to see the Demo-Scene and also the Games developing.
Its always interesting to be there from the beginning on.
Cannot tell much about the SNES-Scene as i wasnt really that
involved in it like on N64. I think its great to have many nice
people around you."
Icarus : "You are leader of MSFTUG - what are your next plans? do you
want to start up a big coder-section? :)"
Actraiser: "Good timing. Today Hartec and me formed a totally new coding-section
which is affiliated to MSFTUG, called, and that is maybe no surprise
at all, DEXTROSE. DEXTROSE will supply MSFTUG with Intros and Fixes
and whatever they can contribute and also release Tools under their
own Name. Await a lot of stuff from DEXTROSE soon. Time to compete
with Blackbag ! hehe Full memberlist will be stated in the next
nfo-files on one of our releases."
Icarus : "Who do you think will be the best major-game releasing
group 1997? :) hehe.."
Actraiser: "Anthrox and Swat were first with all the JAP-Titles when noone really
had a Doctor64. If you count them in. A&S will be #1, if not, surely
MSFTUG&SONCRAP will be. Still we have a lack in getting USA-Releases
fast enough, but that will be better soon . Starting with Starfox and
Golden Eye 007 ! Great work from Longshot and Madman by the way ! :)"
Icarus : "What is for you the game of the month august 97?"
Actraiser: "Tetrisphere, it makes me addictive !!!
Maybe even Golden Eye, i am just spreading it..."
Icarus : "Are you active on other platforms aswell as on console?"
Actraiser: "No, i used to be active on Amiga years back, then i did some"
PC-Trading, nothing much . I feel good on n64."
Icarus : "What are your favourite game(S) and on which console?"
Actraiser: "Most Shooters on PC-Engine (Turbo Grafx). My favourite Console
of all time. I also love rpg's like the Final Fantasy-Series on SNES
and Lunar-Series on Sega Consoles.
Mario64 was the most amazing game i played though."
Icarus : "What do you think about the current situation of the N64
concerning the lack of games or do you think that there
is enough support?"
Actraiser: "Playstation has a great quantity of good games at the moment!
The situation will improve but as long as there will be real
killergames like Mario64 and i guess Zelda64 too, i dont fear.
The Quantity of Games is also growing , sure not there are mot only
good ones, and too many mahjongs by the way :) ... But look to PSX
and you see when releasing 20 games per month there must be 2-3
good titles too."
Icarus : "Pheww... alot of shitty questions! NOW you have the last
word, Actraiser for greetz etc..."
Actraiser: "1. Sponge, you are most cool ! (<- see you are famous now! :) )
2. Then, please dont let this scene down. Sure, there are many
lamers - but seperate them from the good guys ! Old Scene-Dudes
seem to be tired of the n64-scene. But the potential is much
greater than you can imagine. #snes might be cool, i can not
really tell, but dont ignore the n64-scene.
3. Coders, please share your knowledge as good as you can. I know
this devkit is hot and dangerous stuff .... try your best.
4. Greets, hmm , Too many people to greet. But i like to thank
Underground Kids, that they made us that upset that we started
this shit ! :)
Of course greetings to all other groups and all members of
MSFTUG/SC/DX.
We have lots of fun and thats most important ! Never forget.
Special greets to TWK and Fallen Angel for giving nice competition
on most releases. MegaGreet to my always busy real friend in HK.
See you someday, B. !. No A-Z order from me .. its 1:00 AM
now. i am tired, and i really fear
i leave out important people when doing a big list ! :)"
Icarus : "Thank you Actraiser and keep up the good work."
Actraiser: "N64 Charts rule ! Never stop ! I really love it.
Till next time:)"
For suggestions, flames etc.. contact the author of this chart:
Icarus (bruce_dickinson@hotmail.com)
and
Zigor (zigor@usa.net)
DO NOT ASK FOR ROMS ETC - WE DONT HAVE ANYTHING...
see you next month!
get the charts every month from http://www.thelightforce.home.ml.org
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