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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4718 |
Release id #166930 : Yoomp!64 +3PD
Moved the discussion to the place for discussions. :)
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Submitted by hedning [PM] on 2 August 2018
Backup board is invoked if one of the main boards is down during the whole 24h. How would it make sense otherwise? If Reflections was down one hour 03 in the morning just when you tried to upload your crack, the rest of the groups wouldn't notice, and lose just because one board was down for some time during the 24h. 24h rule must mean 24h. If one board is gone for 24h, the backup board goes into effect. That is logical to me. Especially as the race isn't over until 24h have passed.
If two or three (our four?) boards all have hickups during the 24h you mean there are no boards to be counted? Your view of the rules does not make sense. I will count the boards and the releases after 24h have passed. That will show who won the race.
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Submitted by Jazzcat [PM] on 2 August 2018
We were first on all boards and sites initially. During that time both Antidote and The Hidden were down, according to the rules, the backup site RapidFire is then invoked and we were first there (and Reflections) thus we were first on the majority of boards using the 24 hour rule. Regards. Note: you cannot re-invoke downed boards. When they are down, backup is in play.
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Submitted by hedning [PM] on 2 August 2018
Antidote and The Hidden were down for some time, but came up within the counted 24h when we tried to upload our crack, and we were able to be first on both. We also went with Reflections and the backup BBS Rapidfire, even if the latter is a bit redundant, as we already were first on 2 out of 3 counted boards within the counted 24h. Cheers! |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11334 |
jazzcat: i'd plain simple use the release date - the upload date here should not matter at all. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
No, nor am I being sarcastic. It is just that I am also sending files for the compare, simply would rather do that in PM. Another option is for you to share your original with some people for validation :D |
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hedning
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4718 |
Quote: No, nor am I being sarcastic. It is just that I am also sending files for the compare, simply would rather do that in PM. Another option is for you to share your original with some people for validation :D
So comparing the actual files is the only way to spot any difference between the two versions? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11334 |
not the only, but the easiest. you could also spend a couple hours on playing both versions exactly the same way and compare the results/bugs :=) |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
It is a beta version and not the final version that was used. In this way, your release name should be marked as beta. (e.g. "preview") |
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Tim
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 467 |
Jazzcat,
It kept bothering me why you said the G*P version should be labled a preview or beta..
Ok.. so both files differ slightly, that does NOT make the GP version a degraded version of the game.
So why would you want to lable it a preview.. kept bothering me a game.. oh yah.. and then it dawned on me:
From Vandalism online rules:
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Sales version
A different, enhanced or official version of a game that was released before. Normally it is the official version made by the producer themselves. Sales Versions differ from the original in ways such as extra levels, intro sequence and other enhancements. This includes previews also. They will only receive one point for something special. However if the Sales Version is extremely different from the original release, it will receive full first release or NTSC/PAL import points.
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So..
Remind me.. What does a sales version score in points if it barely has any enhancements? |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
when looking at the beta it matches to the gp version.
can email you the files if interested? edit: one file differs majorly, not just some bytes. |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2211 |
Quote: or it could be defined as what it is: the first release :)
THIS
believing in anything else (especially that twisted BBS stuff which aims at counting only an inner circle of extreme eggheads and excluding/ignoring everyone sane/else) would make me even crazier than I am already.
For the time being, we've got a good laugh when we appear in any statwanking on place ten with minus points :P |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 655 |
I've looked over the binary diff sent to me by Jazzcat. Thanks for that. It did seem odd that Jazzcat had all those files - it made sense that he had the Onslaught and G*P cracks, and the clean Itch download, but the folder labelled as "preview" struck me as odd... then I realised the RGCD connection that people are talking about here.
There were 3 files mentioned that differed:-
- one file differed by 2 bytes - and those had changed just by 16 each... I've no idea what that meant but it could be anything from the timing of some transition effect to a preset highscore.. who knows? Without delving into it more I can't say...
- one file that was "missing" was actually embedded into the PRG. This was probably a loading screen or something like that?
- one file differed quite a bit. The file's just 1k in size... this could be anything. I know that with Delirious 11, every single time that the demo was built, I'd generate some noise patterns for such as the initial fade-in of the demo. So I could generate 2 versions of the demo within 5 seconds of each other, almost identical, but there'd be quite a bit of pre-generated data that would differ in ways that nobody would notice or care about.
My point with this last thing is that, yes, there could be a huge difference between the two versions.. or there could be no discernible difference at all. BUT... if nobody can see any difference, and if no difference can be pointed out by people that work at RGCD, can the difference really be important enough to claim that one version is a "preview"?
Note that I haven't spoken to the cracker(s) about this, or the programmer of Yoomp, I've just delved into the binaries because this thread was doing my head in.
In summary, unless it can be proven otherwise, I'd argue that the G*P release is -not- a preview.
REGARDLESS.. all of the above seems moot since the original "argument" still stands as to which release was "first". That all comes down to the rules ... as Groepaz rightly pointed out, CSDB doesn't have such rules of it's own - so doesn't actually need to abide by anyone's rules..
SUMMARY.. nothing is resolved? |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Thanks for checking Raistlin! I guess the point being is that the GP version matches to the beta version I emailed. Usually beta gets treated as preview here. |
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