Subzero, don’t you worry one bit. You just write it up, and hell yeah, I’ll translate it.
Added 3 minutes later:
“some of you may remember it, I think it was called Sensible
Soccer”
I got that thing in the original box sitting downstairs in the basement. Got it with the A1200 I bought from the UK. Never opened or bothered to look at it. I also have “Rise of the Robots” in the original box sitting next to me, I think we fired it up twice. Got some other originals too, I’m thinking of putting them up for sale on ebay.
To me, the cracked versions I grew up with are better than the originals themselves. Even if I had had the original back then, just like now, I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Added 10 minutes later:
“#2992 WayneK:
So in the spirit of all these old ‘scene stories’, I thought I would contribute one from 1992.We eventually get hold of the Canadian cracker when he gets home, and he
agrees to upload his working version on his state of the art 2400 baud
modem – about 5 minutes from the end of disk 2 being finished, Crack Inc
release a fix for their version!”That’s one thing I still don’t understand to this day: who gives a shit who’s first. The only things that should matter are
a) hey, look at this! These guys can really crack!
b) the crack is 100% or better than the original.
Everything else, who was first, this, that, and the other — whatever! I appreciate a crack for the cracking skill of the crack, for the slickness of the intro, for the good cracker or crackers and for the polish of the intro and the whole release, for the attention to detail of the whole group.
That’s what should really matter, and that’s what I admire when I look at the finished product and enjoy the game, and think of all the guys who had to all come and work together as a group to get it working and get it out there.
Added 5 minutes later:
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I wouldn’t have really cared what others thought: if so much time and energy was spent into cracking it, I would have released it. And if someone thinks less of me and my group for that, they can go “shove it where the Sun don’t shine”, as the saying goes.