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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Release Standards for Cracks Amendment Proposal
The rules for symbols on release titles and filenames should be standardized. From the ones that I remember from the old scene, they are as follows...
H ~ Highscore saver
+(2-99) ~ indicated how many trainers were in the release. Rarely was a +1 used. Usually if there was one trainer, it would simply have a +
# ~ docs
^ ~ game picture
NP'FX, FX, or FIX ~ an ntsc or pal fix
M ~ mega trainer was one meaning for this, there was another too.
100% ~ the release was either a full game released after the previous release of a preview version, a more complete NTSC fix than the fix from other groups or simply the most complete version.
101% ~ someone outdid the 100% version
(NTSC/PAL) ~ this used to be the common term in the old scene only if a game was actually fixed and contains a $02A6 subroutine with a template (Compatible with both NTSC and PAL systems), was it referred to as (NTSC/PAL).
Now it is PAL/NTSC. It should be both. Since we read English from left to right, it should look like this...
If a game was originally programmed on a PAL system and was NTSC fixed, it should be referred to as (PAL/NTSC).
If a game was originally programmed on an NTSC system and was PAL fixed, it should be referred to as (NTSC/PAL).
...nowadays there are many more title symbols than there used to be. These title symbols should all be agreed upon and made standardized for all cracks.
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Danzig
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 440 |
I smell drama here aswell :D |
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Twoflower
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 434 |
Read it all in New Int. Standard.
For the sake of putting cracks up here, some additions should be used to adapt the names to the modern releases aswell. Some examples of stuff I believe should be mentioned, if the info is available:
* NTSC-fixes.
* PAL-fixes.
* Firstrelease
* 101% and 102% (meaning removing/fixing/improving bugs from the original)
* Import (US)
* Import (EUR)
* Translation
Abbreviations for additional files:
% = Intro.
# = Docs/instructions.
! = Picture.
& = Music.
P = Password file. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Hahaha.... no offense, but what's this?!
Are we trying to get a Lloyd's ISO 9001 certificate on cracks?
Come on, whatever you put in the file name, people will understand.
And if you don't know or want to conform, stick to what TwoFlower said.
Quote:These title symbols should all be agreed upon and made standardized for all cracks.
Impossible.
And I'm not a pessimist.
I'm an optimist with experience... and what Danzig said. |
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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Sorry guys, I did not intend any passionate anger to project through my text, nor for anyone to feel that it did. Thank you Twoflower for pointing out that release symbols have already been standardized. I should have realized it but never did I think of looking back to 1987. A symbols standard should only act as a guideline. Interesting. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Yes. We definitely need further symbolic indication of "FIRST RELEASE" and "NTSC/PAL fix" rather than this crappy [pal/ntsc] in the filename that CSDb seems to love so much.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11350 |
its on the todo list...(has been for a while =P) so... kick perff =P |
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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
PAL/NTSC and NTSC/PAL should be used... |
