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Didi
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 478 |
Hacked/modfied games - Do you have more info?
Based on the discussion about Demoni +4DGHF , which is a hack of Warhawk with modified graphics, and what Smasher wrote about these hacks and about cracks without intros being sold in Italy. I also got word that in Spain it was done in a similar way.
Maybe you know about other countries this was common?
Also scene groups sometimes modified old games to look a bit different and published them as first releases of new (because widely unknown) games. Cycles +FT is a well known axample for this.
Maybe you know about more games where this was done? |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 42 |
There were some hacks done by LEGEND in 1998:
The Quest for Atlantis +2
The Perfect Weapon +3 |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 42 |
"Turbo Racer" was also hacked from a 1987 Tronic game into a newer date/Stefan Vocke/Butterfly Productions title.
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=31280&show=trivia#trivia |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 42 |
"Joe" was identified now, too.
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=31446&show=trivia#trivia
Once again, "Stefan Vocke" was used as the programmer, but this time he published it through "Paradise Software" and not through "Butterfly Productions". ;-)
The original can be fetched here:
http://gb64.com/game.php?id=16116&d=18&h=0
BTW: there was no translation done as the original appears to be full english already. |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 42 |
"Kill the Saucers" (http://csdb.dk/release/?id=20318&show=trivia#trivia) is now identified as a hack of "Missioncode CX-13" (http://gb64.com/game.php?id=14909&d=18&h=0).
This means that the information on the SID (Missioncode CX-13) need to be changed in game name, composer and company now. |
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The Overkiller
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 342 |
About Demoni, Flavioweb already said my same opinion and anyway I was focused mainly on the fact it was RARE, not an hack .... Anyway, we've also The White Ninja Ninja Bros +4 [seuck] or Ninja Bros [seuck] which is an hack of Outlaws http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=10981&d=18&h=0 (one of the games sold in bundle with the original SEUCK disk) .... |
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Goat
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 42 |
The 1992 Image release "Marblemania" was originally written by another person and originally published in 1989. Marblemania
Original is here: http://gb64.com/game.php?id=9103&d=18&h=0 |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2053 |
Hey Mediterraneans, I need some more info about these strange bootlegs.
Is this one
Special Cars [italian]
renamed by ICS or has it been sold under that name officially?
And how about that one:
BADALM = Bedlam
made me facepalm a lot today ^^ |
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Smasher
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 512 |
Quote:renamed by ICS or has it been sold under that name officially?
in Italy back in the 80's you could buy commodore/spectrum mags with embedded bonus tape full of games at every kiosk. those games were mostly cracked games with removed intros and italian translation. so to answer your question: it was very probably "sold" that way, not in a computer shop with proper cover and box.
///Ze Mediterranean |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2053 |
buying hot warez at a kiosk... unthinkable in 1980s Germany where copy criminal kids lived in fear of being tracked down by police or company lawyers :) |
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Maxlide
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 29 |
I remember a wheelchair race game which was infact a modified Pitstop 2, something similar to http://csdb.dk/release/?id=108678. But I can't remembery anymore if it was for made for getting a firstie or just for fun. |
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