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It enhances the original award-winning gameplay with barmy new ³³ weapons, game-enhancing new features and much improved multi- and ³³ single-player gaming modes. We have also set up WORMNET, a ³³ free worldwide IRC-style network to make playing online easier and ³³ more accessible. ³³ Martyn Brown, development director at Team17 informs, "Worms has such a ³³ cult following that even after Worms 2, more ideas and requests for a ³³ sequel just kept flooding in. We decided to let the original Worms ³³ concept go out all guns blazing with a final, totally over-the-top game ³³ incorporating everything that's ever been asked for and more." ³³ Is this WORMS finally 3D ?: ³³ "It's the end as we know it". However, there is no 3D version in ³³ development, and will not be until several difficult problems are ³³ overcome. We have looked at it for two years and remain unconvinced. ³³ I hope it demonstrates our belief in the game that we haven't looked ³³ to 'cash in' with a quick and nasty 3D version. But we really think ³³ that Worms in the form as it is now, has been stretched as far as it ³³ can be with Worms Armageddon. ³³ ³ .³ And Now For Something Completly Different :) ³ ³ :³ JTS News: ³ Yes fellow ELiTES, it is SLAGGING time AGAiN! This time its the turn of ³ SKILL dictator leader of CLASS, the person who publishes Just The Facts. .³ And HEMP (HUMPADICK) HOODLUM. ³³ REDNECK SKILL and HUMPADICK claimed in their dupe of SIM CITY 3000 - CLS ³³ that ours was BETA. Well the ORIGIN release of SC3K is FINAL and we shall ³³ now prove it. Not only we will prove its FINAL but we shall also show how ³³ the CLS release is not only a DUPE TWICE, but a RAPE as well. We shall ³³ show this by not only our views, but by the FUCKTION rules as well!!! ³³ Now HUMPADICK (a SKILLESS lackey) claims his DUPE is FINAL and different ³³ and he cracked their version. ³³ Well we were surprised when we saw this total act of LAMENESS. But we ³³ thought we would look at their .exe file to see what the differences were, ³³ if any. We now hand you over to Light Bringer one of the most talented ³³ coders in the scene. He will provide forensic evidence showing that there ³³ is no difference between our version and HUMPADICKS, except a few bytes ³³ of text which are nothing to do with the game and GAMEPLAY. ³³ ³³ ------- Evidence From: Light Bringer --------------- ³³ ³³ Whoop CLASS released a "Sim City 3000 Beta to Final Upgrade". Wow what a ³³ release! Well I must say I was about to shit in my own hat and wear it, ³³ as I promised I would do if ours was beta. What did fortune make me say ³³ to myself? Let me check their "Final" before having any shit drip on my ³³ head. I did a short "fc /b" (by the way I wonder how many guys in the ³³ scene know what fc.exe does; I will explain anyway: fc /b does a byte ³³ by byte compare between two files). So I renamed the ORIGIN "sc3.exe" ³³ to "sc3.ogn" and the CLASS "sc3.exe" to "sc3.cls", put them in the same ³³ dir and typed "fc /b sc3.cls sc3.ogn >output". Let me show you the ³³ contents of the "output" file: ³³ ³³ Comparing files Sc3.cls and SC3.OGN ³³ 000000BF: 55 00 ³³ 000F8FC8: 54 00 ³³ 000F8FC9: 68 00 ³³ 000F8FCA: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FCB: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FCC: 33 00 ³³ 000F8FCD: 30 00 ³³ 000F8FCE: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FCF: 64 00 ³³ 000F8FD0: 61 00 ³³ 000F8FD1: 79 00 ³³ 000F8FD2: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FD3: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FD4: 78 00 ³³ 000F8FD5: 70 00 ³³ 000F8FD6: 69 00 ³³ 000F8FD7: 72 00 ³³ 000F8FD8: 61 00 ³³ 000F8FD9: 74 00 ³³ 000F8FDA: 69 00 ³³ 000F8FDB: 6F 00 ³³ 000F8FDC: 6E 00 ³³ 000F8FDD: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FDE: 6F 00 ³³ 000F8FDF: 66 00 ³³ 000F8FE0: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FE1: 74 00 ³³ 000F8FE2: 68 00 ³³ 000F8FE3: 69 00 ³³ 000F8FE4: 73 00 ³³ 000F8FE5: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FE6: 70 00 ³³ 000F8FE7: 72 00 ³³ 000F8FE8: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FE9: 2D 00 ³³ 000F8FEA: 72 00 ³³ 000F8FEB: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FEC: 6C 00 ³³ 000F8FED: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FEE: 61 00 ³³ 000F8FEF: 73 00 ³³ 000F8FF0: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FF1: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FF2: 68 00 ³³ 000F8FF3: 61 00 ³³ 000F8FF4: 73 00 ³³ 000F8FF5: 20 00 ³³ 000F8FF6: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FF7: 78 00 ³³ 000F8FF8: 70 00 ³³ 000F8FF9: 69 00 ³³ 000F8FFA: 72 00 ³³ 000F8FFB: 65 00 ³³ 000F8FFC: 64 00 ³³ 000F8FFD: 2E 00 ³³ 001078A8: AA A7 ³³ 001078AA: BA B1 ³³ 001078AC: BC B7 ³³ 001078AE: BC A9 ³³ 001078B0: E8 E5 ³³ 001078B4: E1 E3 ³³ 001078B6: E9 E8 ³³ 001078B8: F9 F0 ³³ 001078BC: BC B5 ³³ 001078BE: E9 F6 ³³ 001078C0: FD E2 ³³ 001078C2: F6 00 ³³ 001078C4: B8 00 ³³ 001078C6: E4 00 ³³ ³³ That is a huge difference, isn't it? Well, let me explain what's up with ³³ this difference. The first thing at 000000BF, that 55 hex byte, won't do ³³ anything to the game since it is in the header. The bytes from 000F8FC8 ³³ until 000F8FFD... guess what they mean if you "translate" them into ³³ ASCII: "The 30 day expiration of this pre-release has expired.". That's ³³ nice of them to leave that in the final. Stupid programmers can't do a ³³ good cleanup of the final code. We at ORIGIN, removed that from the .exe. ³³ I suppose you already know why. We've got hundreds of complaints about ³³ the game maybe being a beta. If we would have left that message there, ³³ we would have probably got thousands of complaints. On the other side, ³³ what if we removed it? The text is not referenced from anywhere in the ³³ code. That means that the game does not use the message. If the game ³³ programmers are not able to cleanup their code, we at ORIGIN shall do it ³³ for them =). (Its called QUALITY class!). ³³ ³³ Now about the last 14 bytes: Here is the version displayed in the ORIGIN ³³ release: ³³ "SC3KBeta102991.1"; ³³ and here is the version displayed in the CLASS "final": ³³ "SC3final1230981.rc2". ³³ ³³ The first thing that pops up in my eyes is that the ORiGiN release has ³³ the last three compared bytes 0. Why is that? If I look at the strings, ³³ the CLASS one is 3 bytes longer. What a coincidence. Did I just say 14 ³³ bytes? Well the strings are actually longer than 14 bytes. How is this? ³³ The CLASS version string is 19 characters long and the ORIGIN one is only ³³ 16 characters long. Well those characters are only the difference, ³³ notice the offsets. Look at this: ³³ ³³ OGN CLS ASCII OGN ASCII CLS STR OGN STR CLS ³³ ³³ 0010789C: 49 49 I I ³³ 0010789D: 00 00 ³³ 0010789E: 44 44 D D ³³ 0010789F: 00 00 ³³ 001078A0: 3A 3A : : ³³ 001078A1: 00 00 ³³ 001078A2: D6 D6 Ö Ö S S ³³ 001078A3: 00 00 ³³ 001078A4: B1 B1 ± ± C C ³³ 001078A5: 00 00 ³³ 001078A6: EB EB ė ė 3 3 ³³ 001078A7: 00 00 ³³ 001078A8: A7 AA § Ŗ K f ³³ 001078A9: 00 00 ³³ 001078AA: B1 BA ± ŗ B i ³³ 001078AB: 00 00 ³³ 001078AC: B7 BC · ¼ e n ³³ 001078AD: 00 00 ³³ 001078AE: A9 BC © ¼ t a ³³ 001078AF: 00 00 ³³ 001078B0: E5 E8 å č a l ³³ 001078B1: 00 00 ³³ 001078B2: E1 E1 į į 1 1 ³³ 001078B3: 00 00 ³³ 001078B4: E3 E1 ć į 0 2 ³³ 001078B5: 00 00 ³³ 001078B6: EB E9 č é 2 3 ³³ 001078B7: 00 00 ³³ 001078B8: F0 F9 š ł 9 0 ³³ 001078B9: 00 00 ³³ 001078BA: EE EE ī ī 9 9 ³³ 001078BB: 00 00 ³³ 001078BC: B5 BC µ ¼ 1 8 ³³ 001078BD: 00 00 ³³ 001078BE: F6 E9 ö é . 1 ³³ 001078BF: 00 00 ³³ 001078C0: E2 FD ā ż 1 . ³³ 001078C1: 00 00 ³³ 001078C2: 00 F6 ö r ³³ 001078C3: 00 00 ³³ 001078C4: 00 B8 ø c ³³ 001078C5: 00 00 ³³ 001078C6: 00 E4 ä 2 ³³ 001078C7: 00 00 ³³ ³³ ³³ Now I think it's obvious. The huge difference between the CLASS "final" ³³ and the ORIGIN "TRUE FINAL" is that the "final" has the pre-release ³³ message and a different version. Now for this difference CLASS released ³³ a DUPE. Yes, a DUPE. What the heck? I do not say that CLASS modified the ³³ version string, nor do I say that they used our crack, I just say that ³³ if I took 10-15 minutes of my time I could modify that version string to ³³ say "CLASS.sux0rs". Actually, if you know what ASCII is and know how to ³³ add and subtract, you can write "CLASS.sux0rs" yourself in your own copy ³³ of Sim City 3000. ³³ Well, after comparing the files I tried to use QuickView on both the ³³ .exe files. Guess what I found: ³³ "Time Date Stamp: 36898d1a" was in both .exe files. Nice. I keep ³³ wondering what that means ;) ³³ As a final note I hope i did not "mutilate" the English language too ³³ badly. ³³ And I assume that if CLASS expects problems with anything in the ORiGiN ³³ release, they should expect the same problems with their release. ³³ Could it be that they are newbies and don't know how to use "fc.exe". ³³ But I can't know this and I am almost sure there are a few people in ³³ CLASS that do know the way it works and also know what fair play is. ³³ ³³ ------- Evidence From: Light Bringer --------------- ³³ ³³ As we can see there is no difference at all GAMEPLAY wise. The only ³³ difference is a few strings which are not used within the game at all! ³³ However we decided to go back to the cracker of this fine game to see ³³ what he had to say about the CLS dupe. ³³ ³³ ------- Evidence From: Merlijn (DVNISO) --------------- ³³ ³³ As anyone, I was curious about the "store final" release of SC3K. I ³³ downloaded the "beta to final" update and compared it to our version. ³³ I noticed some differences: ³³ - We removed the "prerelease, beta" text to avoid ragging and shit. ³³ This text was present in the class release. ³³ But most important: the code segment was identical!!!! This means that ³³ the actual program was identical to our version. This is something ³³ I did not expect! In this code segment, I patched 3 bytes to do the ³³ cd-check thingy. The class version had the exact same 3 byte patches. ³³ This is kind of unexpected as I do something with the "getdrivetypea" ³³ windows API that few other people do: ³³ Original code: ³³ call GetDriveTypeA ³³ cmp eax,05 (05 means cd-drive) jnz offsetMy crack: ³³ call GetDriveTypeA cmp eax,03 (03 means harddisk) ³³ jnz offset ³³ ³³ It's possible they came up with the same solution, but it's unlikely. I ³³ remember that the 2 other byte patches where somewhat unregular too. But ³³ class had the same patches here 2. ³³ My guess is that they are full of shit. I don't really care if they ³³ (ab)use my crack, but the fact that they have must mean only one thing: ³³ they knew the exe's where identical! ³³ Another remark about the size of their release. They shrunk it to 50 ³³ disks. As you can remember, we could have done the same but decided not ³³ too. The only way this game comes below 50 disks, is if you fuck around ³³ with the quality of the sound or remove some of the sfx. I'm curious ³³ what class did. Whatever it was, it is probably in violation of their ³³ own fucktion rules. How lame can you get? What has happened with Class ³³ and their quality? ³³ ³³ Merlijn ³³ ³³ ------- Evidence From: Merlijn (DVNISO) --------------- ³³ ³³ As you can see not only is the GAME the same but the CRACK is the same as ³³ well! We are not going to say they STOLE our crack as we can never know ³³ for sure. But one thing is for sure and that is HUMPADICK the cracker of ³³ the CLS DUPE, has not been known for his cracking skills. Where as Merlijn ³³ is KNOWN throughout the scene as being one of the best crackers around ³³ and equal to almost anyone else. ³³ Also more evidence comes in the fact that one top scene group did an IND ³³ release at 50 discs and stated that the ORIGIN version was indeed FINAL. ³³ So you see not only did CLASS DUPE once but they also DUPED the IND which ³³ we consider a RAPE as SFX sound is missing from it. Thus the CLS DUPE is ³³ in fact a DOUBLE-DUPE and a RAPE as well! ³³ ³³ Now the evidence that is presented here is from ORiGiN members, we admit ³³ this totally up front. But we have also shown how other crackers, from ³³ other groups can check this for themselevs. So you see we are not trying ³³ to HIDE anything, unlike CLS who are trying to HIDE everything! But to ³³ prove this beyond a doubt we shall refer you to the FUCKTION rules, rules ³³ which SKILL and CLASS profess to abide by. ³³ ³³ Rule 8 is the rule we shall examine first: ³³ 8.In regard to games distributed in the United States that are LATER ³³ distributed in Europe or vice versa under the same or different name / ³³ publisher. These games if released AFTER another group's release are ³³ counted as DUPES unless it can be proven that there is a clearly ³³ noticeable PLAYABLE difference in the latter release (eg. new levels, ³³ enhanced graphics, or other new features). ³³ ³³ As you can see it clearly says PLAYABLE difference. Something the CLS ³³ DDR (DOUBLE-DUPE RAPE) does not have. There are no PLAYABLE differences. ³³ So, as you can see the CLS version is a DUPE. But now let us look at ³³ rule 3 from the FUCKTION rules co-developed by SKILLESS. ³³ 3. Sound effects WILL and MUST be included. ³³ ³³ Well CLS ripped out loadsa SFX sound in order to RAPE the DDR version to ³³ the 50 disc FUCKTION limit, thus this is what is known as a RAPE. ³³ So as you can see the USA leadership of class, SKILLESS and HUMPADICK ³³ have no morals about DUPEING and DOUBLE DUPEING and RAPING other groups ³³ QUALITY releases. In fact CLS were actually finalised this month on one ³³ of their releases so, it is they who should be accused of releasing BETAS ³³ if anyone should be! CLASS have many cool members, like CATMAN for ³³ who suggested we should look into the CLS dupe this way. But the ³³ leader, SKILL dictates the group policy and his bum chum HUMPADICK ³³ helps to keep the propaganda going, when SKILLESS has no GUTS to come ³³ speak for himself. It is not surprising that no CLS cracker, that usually ³³ cracks for CLS, cracked this DDR. Maybe that was because none wanted to ³³ be involved with such LAMENESS. But if these people continue to stay in ³³ CLS then they will have to accept that the LAMENESS of SKILL and HUMPADICK³³ will tarnish them as well. And it is for these people that we feel ³³ truly sorry. ³³ But the biggest LAMENESS of this whole situation is that the scene had to ³³ suffer endless debate about the status of our SC3K FINAL. This cannot be ³³ put down to ORIGIN, as we did claim within the NFO that this was the FINAL³³ version and indeed at the same time a senior class frog said the same. ³³ Also DDR files filled the many sites with crap and lameness from class. ³³ This also trickled over into the ISO seen where an old name was ruined by ³³ HUMPADICK as well. ³³ It is often claimed that ORIGIN starts trouble. Well this is not true, ³³ we actually avoid it. But if attacked we shall always defend ourselves ³³ against the LAMENESS of the scene. And we shall always, yes always ³³ FINSIH IT! ³³ ³³ ³³ Now back to SKILLESS and his LAME JTF charts. ATM the coder of JTF has ³³ claimed that SKILL only collects the NFOS for JTF and that someone else ³³ types the fiction. Well we think ATM has been lied to by SKILLESS. And as ³³ per usual we shall prove it! A recent chat between CYPHER and HUMPADICK ³³ in a public channel on IRC was as follows: ³³ ³³ skill gives you points out of pitty <<< Spelling HUMP! ³³ Hump: So you admit SKILL does the charts :) ³³ did i ever NOT admit it? ³³ ³³ As you can see the admission by the personal bum chum of SKILL and the ³³ arrogance in which the charts are run, 'pitty'. Shows that the REDNECK ³³ SKILLLAME does indeed do the charts, and lies to others that he does not! ³³ For those who missed the previous facts about JTF we present them once ³³ again for your enjoyment! ³³ ³³ SKILL, not content with his crew CLASS ruling the horsy game releasing ³ scene, has decided to use his ideas in Just The Facts as a propaganda .³ device for promoting his group. This would not be so bad. Except he does ³ not put his name on the charts, and he claims that they are independent ³ and objective. How do we know he does the charts? Well even his own group ³ members say so! The code is even coded by, a CLASS member, ATM for SKILL, ³ as he cannot code himself (LAMER). SKILL is the LAMER behind Just The ³ Facts. ³ .³ Now let us examine the propaganda he uses to make his group number #1 ³ month after month in Just The Facts. Last month in December, ORIGIN ³ released the most awaited major games and many other releases. Yet, we .³ finished second by some way! We are very surprised by this. So, we decided .³ to look at how these charts are calculated to see if it all added up. :³ First of all, we are surprised to see the scores given for the games we :³ released. :³ ³³ For example, Football Masters 99 got 4.5 points where as Player Manager ³³ 98-99, a similar game, got only 4.0 points. Maybe because Football Masters ³³ 99 is a superior game? No, actually it is inferior. A better score would ³³ be Football Masters 99 4.0 points and Player Manager 98-99 5.0 points, but ³³ then what would SKILL know about games from LIMEY land. It is so long ³³ since he had any! We also thought the score for Magic and Mayhem is a bit ³³ stingy as well; it deserves at least 8.0 points. Starsiege: Tribes is a ³³ . major release, and it should get 7.5 points at least, if not more! The ³³ . inaccuracies within SKILL's bullshit confounded us more when he managed to ³³ forget all about our Thief trainer that we did. This shows the lack of ³³ . care for other groups' work. Also, the biggest thing that we laughed at is ³³ his minus points for the Gangsters Trainer fix. Well, this makes us laugh ³³ as many trainers get released these days that do not work correctly, if at ³³ all, and, at least, we bothered to re-release it. But, that is not why we ³³ . laughed. We laughed because it BREAKS his own rules. As it clearly states, ³³ points will be deducted for GAME releases, not TRAINERS. In other words, ³³ he cannot keep to his own bullshit. No changes there from SKILL GIMP. But, ³³ the biggest surprise is our Pinky and The Brain release. We had called the ³³ company that made this game, and they said themselves that it is ³³ . Adultware. So, this is obviously a piss-poor attempt at fixing the points ³³ so CLASS can win, as it is the only way they could that month. His fixing ³³ even by his own fucked up rules lost ORIGIN at least 9 points, if not ³³ : more, that month. Which would have made ORIGIN the top group for that ³³ : month by his own fucked up rules, of course. ³³ ³ ³³ ³ Now let us examine the same treatment he applies to his group CLASS. ³³ ³ Biggest surprise is the score for War of the Worlds; it received 8.5 ³³ ³ points. Apparently, according to SKILL, this is same as our Thief, which ³³ ³ is voted Innovative Game of the Year 1998 by the TRG readership (review ³³ ³ scores which he also publishes). Well, we have to say that this game is ³³ ³ nowhere near as good as Thief; it is not even in the same ballpark. We ³³ ³ would give it the same score as our Rival Realms, a similar game, which ³³ ³ received 7.0 points and that is being fucking generous. Next is Snowmobile ³³ ³ Racing, a game with only 4 levels; thus, we give it one point for each ³³ ³ level, unlike his whopping 5.0 points. The next joke is Top Gun: Hornet's ³³ ³ Nest also from CLASS with 8.0 points. Well, this game is not regarded as a ³³ ³ major flight sim by anyone except SKILL. Our Ultra Fighters received 7.0 ³³ ³ points; we shall give Top Gun the same score. When ORIGIN had released ³³ ³ hunting games, SKILL gave those titles only 3.0 points. CLASS had released ³³ ³ Trophy Buck; it received 5.5 points. Well, now that we know hunting games ³³ ³ are getting full points. We decided to release one hunting title this ³³ ³ month, and we expect full points for our Natural Fawn Killers release, ³³ ³ like Trophy Buck did. Not to mention Carnivores, also a hunting game, from ³³ ³ CLASS received 6.0 MASSIVE points. Then, we come to Luftwaffe Commander, ³³ ³ another flight sim, getting 8.0 points. We shall have to reduce that to ³³ ³ the usual 7.0 points. In sum, CLASS's unfamiliar, subpar titles received ³³ ³ more points than ORIGIN's anticipated, hit titles. ³³ ³ ³³ ³ But, the biggest lame fuck up from REDNECK SKILL is giving CLASS points ³³ ³ for their RECOIL trainer, and, then, stating PARADIGM's release is BETA. ³³ ³ Surely, this trainer cannot count as it is for the BETA version. As we can ³³ ³ see, it does. Why is this a fuck up? Well, if fixes for trainers get minus ³³ ³ points then a re-release for the RECOIL trainer will have to occur for the ³³ ³ FINAL version, thus CLASS have lost points for this lame attitude by SKILL ³³ ³ GIMP. As they say, what goes around comes around. But, ORIGIN will not be ³³ ³ as mean as we believe mistakes happen, so in our view it is no points ³³ ³ gained and no points lost! Thus, CLASS would have had 5 less points as a ³³ ³ result. ³³ ³ ³³ ³ The scores originally presented by SKILLESS came to: ³³ ³ CLASS +70.5 ³³ ³ ORIGIN +65.5 ³³ ³ PARADIGM +53.5 ³³ ³ ³³ ³ With adjusted sensible scores and 20 points deducted for CLASS because of ³³ ³ SKILL's CHEATING lameness at trying to make CLASS #1 every month because ³³ ³ he is the leader, the score now comes to a sensible, realistic score: ³³ ³ ORIGIN +74.5 ³³ ³ PARADIGM +53.5 ³³ ³ CLASS +45.5 ³³ ³ ³³ ³ Also, I am sure if PARADIGM and RAZOR checked their releases over the ³³ ³ month/year, they would find SKILL LAMER has fucked them on a regular ³³ ³ basis. Now some may say this is sour grapes by ORIGIN. Well, it is not. It ³³ ³ seems we are not the only ones who think his charts are REDNECK crap ³³ ³ because even his own friends in CLASS do not rate his poor excuse for ³³ ³ charts. PROZAC has stated he wants to start his own charts. 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