À __ : __ _ __ __\/ _ª_ \/__ __ _ _ __ /_/\ _)Y(_ /\_\ __ _ _ __\_\/_)\ª/(_\/_/__ _ _ _)\ : /(_ _ _ __________\__ )\ À /( __/__________ _ - -\ \\\______ (_\\__ À __//_) _____/// /- - __ \___ o__\ \___ ___/ /__o ___/ __ _\/__ / / \\__@/_\@__// \ \ __\/_ À \/\ ( \/ _/ À: Y :À \_ \/ ) /\/ : ___\/_________ ___ \_ __/»\__ _/ ___ ________\/____ _ _ _ª_) \/ \_ \/\_/ Y Y \_/\/ _/ \/ (_: | \_ __\__\ .:. /__/__ _/ ÀH2o!À | | _ __ ___ ________\\_\ \|||/ /_//________ ___ __ _ |_ _| \\\_\\__\\___ \___\ ª|ª /___/ ___//__//_/// \/ \/ \___ _/ _/ :ª: \_ \_ ___/ | ª \__/ /_ _/À:À\_ _\ \__/ ª : \___/ \___À___/ \___/ : Y NINTENDO64-MAJOR GAMES CHARTS ISSUE #3 FOR MONTH: 03/98 ----[ THE POINT-SYSTEM ]------------------------------------------------ WORLD FIRST RELEASE OF USA/EURO/PLAYABLE JAP ................ 8 POINTS WORLD FIRST RELEASE OF AN UNPLAYABLE JAP GAME ............... 6 POINTS USA/EURO FINAL RELEASE IF PREVIOUS WAS JAP .................. 5 POINTS USA/EURO FINAL IF PREVIOUS WAS UNPLAYABLE JAP ............... 8 POINTS BETA-VERSIONS US/JAP/EUROPE ................................. 4 POINTS IF THE RELEASE IS NEW BUT ALREADY OUT AS USA OR EURO FINAL .. 4 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIXES+CRACKPATCHES .......................................... 2 POINTS GAMES OF THE MONTH ......................................... +2 POINTS (2 POINTS REMOVED IF THE GAME NEEDS A CRACK AND IS RELEASED UNCRACKED!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST WORDS... The Chart-Staff. Hi again all n64-freaks all over the world. We got many mails concerning the Ind. Releases-Rule! OKAY! OKAY! - Now ind. releases will be counted, too. The idea behind this rule was very simple: We just wanted to get a clean scene - clean of ind. releases - Just more groups who are trying to do something on N64! We hope you will understand this and furthermore we hope that you will forgive us! :-) (But anyway we dont think that many ind. releases will come this year!) And we got a nice mail from Actraiser concerning the ALL-TIME CHART list: Of course this is just a list for 1998!! This was definitively OUR fault.. take a look at the end of this TXT file.. now it *IS* "BEST GROUPS 1998" Thanks Actraiser and all the others for their constructive HELP! Furthermore it has come to our attention that "fake" charts are floating around! You can recognize this charts on the Notes string which begins with "NotIcarus" or "NotZigor"! .. thanks for your attention! :-)) SO LET'S GO FOR THIS MONTH... ____ __________| /______/\_________/\_______ | , / | / _ / ___/ _ \_ ___\ | \_ \ | \_ . \____ \ . / . \_ |____/ \_____ / |__ // /___| \__| / À½--/____\---\/___|-\//_____\---|____\-|__/ QuaSaR 1998 - The Console Project .----[ GROUP: QUASAR ]--------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||MORTAL KOMBAT MYTH.|MIDWAY |EUROPE/PAL | 4 || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 4 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "Okay.. here we go with the PAL of MK Mythologies!" .________|_________ _____________ .______| | _/____/_ / | | | / / | . |\___ / | / | |______| cG/________/__________/ |________| .----[ GROUP: HITSQUAD ]------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||FIGHTERS DESTINY |IMAGINEER/OCEAN |EUROPE/PAL | 4 || ||YOSHIS STORY |NINTENDO |US/NTSC | 5 *GOTM* || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 9 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "Yoshis Story is Game Of The Month so +2 Points - Yoshis Story JAP was actually good playable so it is 5Points+2(GOTM)=7Points but unfortunately NOT CRACKED so -2 Points=Again 5. Pheww!" _____/\ .___________ :_________ eNf / \| _____/__| ____/__. / \ \___ |______ | // /\ \ | | | || /_______\ ____\__________|___________| <-----------\/--------------|--------------> .----[ GROUP: AGS ]----------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||SNOWBOARD KIDS |ATLUS |US/NTSC | 4 || ||QUAKE 64 |MIDWAY |US/NTSC | 8 || ||RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR |MIDWAY |US/NTSC | 8 || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[20 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "4 Points for SB Kids because the PAL was already out! hmm.. and 8 points for nice quake.. (we can't stand all this Q-like games anymore!!!! :-) ) Rampage world tour is COOL!" _/\______/\________/\____ .=====-/ ____:_____ | \\-=====. | / / ____/___: \ O | : / | | \ . | . o |\\_________\___________|_____/| : +----\|_________|___________|____|/-----+ .----[ GROUP: CRAZY NATION ]--------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||YOSHIS ISLAND CRACK|NINTENDO |US/NTSC | 2 || ||YOSHIS ISLAND CRACK|NINTENDO |PAL/EUROPE | 2 || ||1080 SNOWB. CRACK |NINTENDO |JAP/NTSC | 2 || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 6 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "yeeesss.. seems that CZN rules the crackpatch-sector! What would all the gamers do without TITANIKS fabulous patches! and what nice Cracktros!!! Continue all your good work mates!" ____ /\______________________|________/\_ \_ \/ _/ / _____ ___/| | ____/__ |. |\\ \/|. ___| | | :|. |__ | :|: \/ |/\ \|| | || | | .::: | | ::__||__|_____/|___| |___|______::________| -:-----------------|-------------:------eNf- .----[ GROUP: MSFTUG ]--------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||1080¦ SNOWBOARDING |NINTENDO |JAP/NTSC | 2 *GOTM* || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 2 ] TOTAL -' Notes: "as you might remember in issue 2 MSFTUG got 6 Points for releasing 1080¦ .. now we checked if is really worth the two extra GOTM points and: it really *IS* :o) so this month the 2 other points! btw. the game features FULL ENGLISH LANGUAGE!" H K J .----[ GROUP: H K J ]---------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||PUZZLE DAMA |KONAMI |JAP/NTSC | 6 *UNPLAY* || ||G.A.S.P. |KONAMI |JAP/NTSC | 8 || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[14 ] TOTAL -' Notes: "Puzzle Dama is 6 points due its crazy japanese menusystem! better wait for the US version (if it will ever appear). GASP gets 8 points, it features fully english language! - COOL" _____ ______ ___ __ \_ _\\_ // _/(__)__ TRSI & LiGHTFORCE | | _/ / \_ / |__|_\______________\ Console _ _ ___ _._ _____ ___ _ ______ ___ _____ | |(_))_// | \\_ _// _// \\_ // _//_ /_ | |_ \_ \ | | _\ | _/ / / /__/ | |__/_______|___|_|__|_____\_____________cDr| .----[ GROUP: TRSi&LFC ]------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||YOSHIS ISLAND |NINTENDO |PAL/EUROPE | 4 *GOTM* || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 4 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "Here we go with the PAL release of Yoshis Island.. its GOTM but unfortunalety not cracked so again -2 = 4 points!" .----[ INDEPENDENT ]----------------------------------------------------. |.-------------------.--------------------.---------------.------------.| || GAME-NAME ] |[COMPANY] |[ COUNTRY ] |[ POINTS ] || ||---------------------------------------------------------------------|| ||AIRBOARDERS 64 |HUMAN |JAP/NTSC | 8 || |`---------------------------------------------------------------------'| `---------------------------------------------------------[ 8 ] TOTAL --' Notes: "Hmmm.. Airboarders 64 is good playable and a mixture of english and japanese menus which doesnt stress much !" __ ___ \/ ___ _ _ __ \\__/\/\__// __ _ _ _ _ /_/\ \__ __/ /\_\ _ _ __\_\/__/______\__\/_/__ \/ _\__/ \__/_ \/ \ _/ _____ _____ \_ / -\\\__ \_@_)(_@_/ __///- \ \___ ÀÀ ___/ / _ | | | | | | _ _____ _ _ _)\_ _| |_|__|_| |_ _/(_ _ _ _____ :_) \ _)\/(_ \/ | | | | \/ _)\/(_ / (_: | _) ** (_ | | | | | | _) ** (_ | | _ \__ /__\__ __/__\ __/ _ | | /(_____/ \_ _)____(_ _/ \_____)\ | | | | | | - THE BEST GROUPS FOR THIS MONTH - | o1. HKJ ................................................ [014] POINTS o2. AGS ................................................ [020] POINTS o3. Hitsquad ........................................... [009] POINTS o4. IND ................................................ [008] POINTS o5. CRAZY NATION ....................................... [006] POINTS o6. TRSi&LiGHTFORCE .................................... [004] POINTS o6. QUASAR ............................................. [004] POINTS o7. MSFTUG ............................................. [002] POINTS |_ _| : )______________________________________________( : ------------------------------------------ ________________________________________________ :_) (_: | | | TOP 10 GROUPS | | | | - BEST GROUPS 1998 - | o1. AGS ............................................ [049] POINTS o2. Hitsquad ....................................... [045] POINTS o3. MSFTUG ......................................... [014] POINTS o3. HKJ ............................................ [014] POINTS o4. TRSi&LiGHTFORCE ................................ [012] POINTS o5. IND ............................................ [008] POINTS o5. Magical ........................................ [008] POINTS o6. Crazy Nation ................................... [006] POINTS o7. Quasar ......................................... [004] POINTS o7. Soncrap ........................................ [004] POINTS |_ _| : )______________________________________________( : Judgement for this month: Nice releases and (okay, okay) the first ind. releases! :-) And thanx to CZN we could play all the nice titles! If other groups will start to do trainers, too - i think then we open a special Trainer-section in the chart! lets see whats happening in April! For suggestions, flames etc.. contact the major chart staff at: N64CHART@HOTMAIL.COM see you next month!