.____________________________________________________________________. |. | |.:. T H E | |:::. ______|_ _ ______ : _______ __\_ |____ /\__. ___\_ \___|_ __ _______ _____/\___ / _/__ / _ .| \/ |/ / // |____ ___\_ \/ / / // | / | ||. :// _____/. _ \/ / // / // \______ \_________|| \/ \________/|| | //\________/\_____ / \ _______| l____||____| |________/ -rtx/art \ ____/ \/ ` ' \/ . . __ |_____ ______|_ _ ___/____ | | _______ .____| | __\_ | ______\_ _/______ __ | | _/ _/ | | .|/ _ .|___\_ \/ \/ _/___ | | // |__| _ |/ | ||. / / \\_____ \ | | \_________/| |____\_________|| \____\______/\ ______/ .| | `----' l____| \/ .::| | Issue #3 (July) ' .::.:| `--------------------------------------------------------------------' INTRODUCTION ------------ July sucked. Actually, it wasn't too bad, the sun was shining and lots of people (although not me) were on holiday! I am of course referring to the number and quality of games released for GBC during July...the word "wank" sums it up nicely I think, possibly preceded by "load of". If August isn't better, I'll shoot myself. And you can quote me... NOTE: Opinions expressed below are the opinions of the named author! If Mr.X of GBCLOSERS says that your group bends over and gets anally penetrated by a herd of goats, that's nothing to do with us. Contact CPL about the CHARTS, otherwise contact the person responsible for the comment you dislike. Ok, Let's get July over with... - Wayne Kerr .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' RULES & POINTS -------------- -1 Point - DUPE: Released a game, but only after another group already beat you? -1 point then. DUPE TRAINER: A Late Trainer with the same or less options. BROKEN: If you release a game/trainer/crack that doesn't work, -1 time! +0 Points - NON-COLOR: Mono GB or SGB games are listed for posterity, but receive no points. Similarly, a trainer/crack for a GB/SGB-only game will receive 0 points. FIX: You get 0 points for fixing one of your own mistakes. +1 Point - AVERAGE TRAINER: +1, +2, +3, +4 trainer receives 1 point. +2 Points - AVERAGE FOREIGN: Foreign (non-English) games receive 2 points, even if the game has previously been released in another language. JAP/GER/FRA/SPA, whatever. A European release of a previously available US release will also receive 2 points. QUALITY TRAINER: A +5 or above trainer will receive 2 points. CRACK: A crack for a protected/non-working game gets you 2 points. +3 Points - INT: An English-language release of a game will receive 3 points. QUALITY FOREIGN: A Foreign (non-English) game that is 100% playable. TRANSLATION: Translating a non-English game to English = 3 points. The points reflect the major amount of work this requires! +4 Points - MAJOR: Usually the best/most-anticipated game of the month. .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Capital ________ _________/______ ____ / __/ ____\_ / / _____ | // |__/ _____// /_/\ | `----\________/_______|-rtx\_____/____\----' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17-07-99 INT Holy Magic Century +3 Trainer IPS +01 16-07-99 INT Jetpak DX (Final) +3 Trainer IPS +00 HOMEBREW! 05-07-99 INT Holy Magic Century 08MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +03 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Capital pulls off a few trainers this month. With all the free time from releases, I thought I might see more games trained. But I guess these guys don't have that much time on their hands during the summer. Jetpak DX was trained because they really liked the game. This wouldn't be scraping the bottom of the barrel because there are other trainers that can be worked on :) - Amptor/Oldskool Good work this month for CPL, expecially the trainer for my good friend quang's game, Jetpak DX (should of won the Bung compo, but oh well). HMC looks good and also has a retro feel to it (DigDug anyone?). Keep it up. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire With barely any games out this month, there was a lack of the many trainers which we would normally expect from CPL. As for the game they released, I was hoping Holy Magic Century would be a cool game, but it turned out to be the euro version of Quest Fantasy Challenge. Things should pick up for CPL as soon as more games come out. - Rza/Menace 3 points...oh my god. I was sure we did more than that this month! Well, we were all away on holiday during this month...erm, the dog ate our homework...my gbc broke...ummm. Ok, no excuses - we plain sucked during July :) - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Eurasia & Nightfall MTX!____.--._)\____ .-. ____/(___:.___ .--/ _ | | \___ \/ _ \/ ___/___]/ _ \--. | / __| l | _/ _ \___ \ / _ \ | | \_____\_____|_\_ \__|__/ ____/___| _|__/ | |/ _ \[___]/ ___| \(__ __| __/ _ \ | | | / | \ / | | _ | / __/ _ \ |_ |_| \__| /___\_____|__|__|__\__| \ |__/___\__\ `-' `-' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31-07-99 JAP Hello Kitty Puzzle Collection 08MB +02 31-07-99 JAP Medarot 2 - Kuwagata 16MB +02 31-07-99 JAP Medarot 2 - Kabuto 16MB +02 31-07-99 JAP Doraemon Labyrinth 08MB +03 05-07-99 INT Caesars Palace II (Emulators Fix) IPS -00 LAME 05-07-99 INT Hyper Olympics: Track & Field V1 Fix IPS -01 BROKE ----------- TOTAL +08 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Hmm..I never noticed the emulators fix. Why would e^n release that kind of junk? Also, a non working V1 fix. Hmm..something strange going on here. At least they picked it up at the last minute with more Japanese releases. Good job, that more than makes up for the loss of a point :) - Amptor/Oldskool The winner of the "Most releases in a single month" title for July goes to E^N. They pulled off a last minute batch of releases to make their mark. Jap crap to me but nice work anyway. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire EUR^NFL had four japanese games the last day to squeeze in some extra pts. I didn't actually get time to try any of them out so can't really say much about the games. Nice that they managed to get some games this month. - Rza/Menace Just when you thought Eurasia^Nightfall were going to come last with a grand total of -1 points, they slip in at the last minute with some decent Jap releases. Doraemon is pretty cool... On the flipside, a couple of lame 'fixes' took the gloss off July's total. An emulator fix?! From a group who hate emulamers?! Bizarre...not to mention a fix that doesn't fix anything...Still, with a good finish to the month I expect Eur^Nfl to continue releasing some cool stuff during August. - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Menace ._____ /\___ _______ _______ ___|. \/ |____\_ \_/ _/____ |:. || \/ / / /// |__rtx| `---l_____||____/_____/_____/\_________/---' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25-07-99 JAP River Fishing 4 08MB +02 17-07-99 INT Looney Tunes - Carrot Crazy 08MB +02 04-07-99 JAP Top Gear Pocket 08MB +02 02-07-99 INT Caesars Palace II 08MB +03 ----------- TOTAL +09 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Although these are slow times, MNC continues to put out stuff that needed to be released. Seems like nobody really pays attention to Looney Tunes games or Top Gear Pocket, but at least Menace is on the lookout. - Amptor/Oldskool Is that the fresh smell of good releases? CP2 turned out to be one of the best releases this month. I give you guys 2 r00s up. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire Only two of the four games released by us were new, the other being different versions of games already out. This month was pathetic in my opinion, but there should be plenty of releases in the upcoming months. - Rza/Menace 9 points, but 4 shitty games. Not that it's Menace's fault you understand, but all 4 of these games are stinkers! Maybe next month we'll start to see some better releases, and you can bet MNC will continue to bring them to the scene first... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Network International Limited _______ ___________/\_______/\__ \__ \| ____ __/_ ___/ / \ \/ \/ \_/\md / \ \_ \_ \_ \_____\_______/________/__________/ DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30-07-99 JAP Choro Q Hyper Custom Bull GB 16MB +02 09-07-99 JAP Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories II 32MB +02 02-07-99 JAP Hyper Olympics: Track & Field GB 08MB +04 GOTM ----------- TOTAL +08 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ah another group taking over the Japanese releases. Good job..always seems like some may be missed, but as long as several groups go after them unreleased games will become scarce. - Amptor/Oldskool Congratulations on releasing the "Game of the Month". I was looking forward to this one and it didn't disappoint. Good job. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire Even in this slow month, NIL managed to put out some decent games. Yu-Gi-Oh II is extremely popular in Japan, and has already sold over 1 million copies, but is pretty much unplayable to most people. Choro Q is a mix of RPG and racing. Some people said they couldn't even race, but if you took the time out to figure what options did what, you could get pretty far. I got up to racing another person and it seemed to be turn based. It seems interesting and I'll probably play it a bit more. Track and Field was a colorized version of the GB game and was the best out of the games this month. - Rza/Menace Yay! NIL are back! With Track & Field too...awesome...an excellent conversion rightly gets them Game of the Month. Eurasia seem to be giving them some competition on the Jap stuff these days, but I expect we'll still see NIL bring us the majors from the Orient in the coming months. - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Oldskool . :_____ :_____ _____:""|______.| /__ _____ __. | . Y / . | ____|! /. Y . Y |__ | ! ! /\ ! |___ / . _/ l | i | l | l_____l____\___i| \__i \____|_____!_____| ================l____\=|___\================ DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25-07-99 JAP Pocket Love 2 08MB +00 GB 19-07-99 INT Centipede 08MB +02 19-07-99 INT Frogger 08MB +02 11-07-99 JAP Otogi Banasi Tai 02MB +00 GB 10-07-99 JAP Nyan to Wonderful 02MB +00 GB ----------- TOTAL +04 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ah OS busts out with a few more Japanese titles as usual. I also didn't expect multilingual Centipede or Frogger (is there really that much text in these games? :) - Amptor/Oldskool If I knew Japanese, maybe I would of been able to follow OS's JAP releases this month. At least Centipede & Frogger were released in their multi-language glory. Good job. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire There were no japanese GBC games this month as expected from OS. Instead they released two multi versions of previously available games. - Rza/Menace Centipede and Frogger, again. And they both sucked the first time...:) Not the best month OS have had...a little quiet during July, but then the entire scene was quiet so we'll let them off! Still bringing us GB/SGB releases too... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Rapid Fire _______ _______.___________ __ .____\_ \____\_ \ _ / _ |. |. / // | //. |___/ .| |:. || \ \_ _____/|| _/ .::| `-- l_____|\_____/____|-rtx!l_____| ------' DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13-07-99 INT The King of Fighters 95 04MB +00 GB 05-07-99 INT Chessmaster (GBC Mode Patch) IPS +01 ----------- TOTAL +01 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Well, I couldn't find a copy of KOF95 anywhere because it's an old GB game so I didn't know it was a dupe. Could've just put it out on someone's fserve I guess. Can't fault these guys though because it's hard to find info about previous releases for the GB. Also I heard rumors about another Samurai Shodown being out on GB about 2 years ago heheh (SS2, I guess) maybe someone should check into that. ;) - Amptor/Oldskool I know I'm not the first to say it but I will anyway. We suck. At least we have a good asm person on our team who never manages to disappoint me. Keep it up Alfiax. Hopefully, once I get my act together, I'll be doing some great releases. Look for some great things from us in the future. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire With one person doing all the work, I don't understand why there is even a group... - Rza/Menace A GB dupe from '95 didn't exactly start off the month with a bang, but RPF managed their first positive score this time around with a patch for ChessMaster making it run in double-speed mode - congrats on a very good idea... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' - Paradox _______ /\ :____/\ /\ __________ :____ \___ \/ \| _ \/ \ \ \ \___| / __/ / | \ |/ / | \_\__ \ \\ | / | __/ _ \ / \ _ / Y \ / _ \ |___|/ |___\\____\ |_\ :_____/__/ |___\ ----/_____|-----/_____|--\/-------/____|---- DATE CTY TITLE OF RELEASE SIZE PTS INFO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15-07-99 INT A Bug's Life (Difference Patch) IPS +00 SAME! 15-07-99 INT A Bug's Life 08MB +02 ----------- TOTAL +02 ----------- COMMENTS -------- Ok. Slow month..good to see Paradox has a place in this month though :) - Amptor/Oldskool Disney? Bleh! Oh well, the releases were good anyway and I commend you guys for trying to release something each month. - BigRedPimp/Rapid Fire For all those collectors out there, PDX released the european version of A Bug's Life which was only different in checksum. As soon as more games come out, I'm sure we'll see the normal bunch of european games from PDX. - Rza/Menace Personally I would give this -1 DUPE points, but it's not up to me :) The only reason the checksum is different is because the game name has been changed to comply with new Nintendo approval regulations - the game is 100% identical to the original cart released several months ago. I expect more from PDX in August tho... - Wayne Kerr/Capital .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' .____________________________________________________________________. |. | |::. TOP 10 __ |_____ ______|_ _ ___/____ | | . _______ .____| | __\_ | ______\_ _/______ __ | | _/ _/ | | .|/ _ .|___\_ \/ \/ _/___ | | // |__| _ |/ | ||. / / \\_____ \ | | \_________/| |____\_________|| \____\______/\ ______/ | | `----' l____| \/ | | | | Position Group Name Total Points | | -------- ---------- ------------ | | 1ST Menace 09 | | 2ND \ Eur&NFL 08 | | 2ND / NIL 08 | | 3RD Oldskool 04 | | 4TH Capital 03 | | 5TH Paradox 02 | | 6TH Rapid Fire 01 | | 7TH N/A -- | | 8TH N/A -- | | 9TH N/A -- | | 10TH N/A -- .| | ..| | .:::| `--------------------------------------------------------------------' SUMMARY ------- July was the worst month on record for GBC so far...very few releases, and almost all of them were poor quality (and that's being kind :) ). August should see the first of the Xmas games appearing, and things should only get better from here to the millenium...I hope all the groups are ready and able, cos the competition will really hot up over the next 5 months! Now, stop reading this crap and go out & enjoy the sun...what are you, a computer geek? - Wayne Kerr .__________________________________________________________________________. | | `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' (c) Copyright, Capital 1999 - Art/Design by: Rotox!