Too close for comfort? the revival?

[Evrain]

there you go. another nfo from r1091 release. real shit or not?

Another SVN Build we got from a well known Beta Tester . You know who you are :–)

DEMUL is a Emulator Software that can handle the following Systems :
SEGA DREAMCAST / SEGA NAOMI / SEGA NAOMI 2 / SAMMY ATOMISWAVE / CAVE SH3–HARDWARE

r1091 includes more Fixes . Metal Slug 6 btw is running fine here :–)

We found some Re–Packaged Releases from our Stuff around the Net.To be on the right
Side our last DEMUL Releases should be in only one ZIP with the following Size and
Name (DEMUL Releases so far) :

r1067 : Demul_0.5.7_r1067–TMG.zip (Size : 6.539.441 Bytes)
r1080 : Demul_0.5.7_r1080–TMG.zip (Size : 7.940.996 Bytes)
r1080r : Demul_0.5.7_r1080–TMG–repack.zip (Size : 8.821.543 Bytes)
r1091 : Demul_0.5.7_r1091–TMG.zip (Size : 7.640.475 Bytes)

The Packages already includes needed BIOS Files but are not i repeat *NOT* Password
protected . Dont download Virus/Trojan Re–Packaged fucK shiTT !!! =P

AND YOU WILL NEVER FIND OUR RELEASES IN THE USENET !!! IF SO THEY WAS NOT FROM US !!!

This is getting ridiculous... it's either a gigantic fake or someone who has access to circles with the (putative) actual release is having a good laugh - the former, seeing how either they have accumulated builds or p1pkin and the others still haven't reset SVN passwords. Nigh impossible.

Now, one minute of silence for those poor chinese guys trying to crack the "r1080" files...

EDIT: scene rules allow mainly for redirects and IRC channels, for recruitment purposes, no wonder pre-db's are blackened out. It's piracy we are talking about after all, AliceMargatroid.

[AliceMargatroid]

EDIT:

I reasearched TMG a bit and they actually made a lot of keygens/cracks, but in 2001/2002. I can't find more recent releases anywhere, they probably died back then.

It is VERY unlikely for TMG to just reappear after 10 years and leak Demul betas.
This is 99.99999% fake now.

I just edited my message while you posted

And the NFO's also look EXACTLY the same like they did back then. Not a single change in design and the "Greets" are still the exact same names.

Pff. Why would someone work so much for a fake?

[Siren2011]

Pff. Why would someone work so much for a fake?

It would take a crazy kind of genius to go through with such a thing. Well, that and a LOT of boredom on their hands...

[Evrain]

Pff. Why would someone work so much for a fake?

It would take a crazy kind of genius to go through with such a thing. Well, that and a LOT of boredom on their hands...

1. take the old, leaked build
2. insert or remove files to change the overall filesize
3. password-protect them by slamming your hands on the keyboard at random
4. upload to teh interwebz
5. ???
6. PROFIT!

@Alice: yeah, I knew of that, which made everything all the more fishy. Even with that 0,000001% chance, someone simply edited an NFO to have a good laugh.

[Zorator]

Well if you were going to make a fake NFO, the best way to make it look convincing would be to copy and paste one from a decade ago by a now dead group.

Personally I can wait for the full version and won't bother with all these sketchy hoaxes. Although if I knew a sound-enabled build leaked and was readily available I would probably still try to nab it...

[Jockel]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

[Evrain]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

My local NNTP server inexplicably carried it, along with the customary mocking message from the uploader. That guy really is a full fledged troll. Who is feeling daring enough to package a fake release and post it as r1097? Should be fun!

[Jockel]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

My local NNTP server inexplicably carried it, along with the customary mocking message from the uploader. That guy really is a full fledged troll. Who is feeling daring enough to package a fake release and post it as r1097? Should be fun!

What do you mean by that? Have you tried extracting it? Who knows, it might be a version of rickroll we don't know yet.

[Evrain]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

My local NNTP server inexplicably carried it, along with the customary mocking message from the uploader. That guy really is a full fledged troll. Who is feeling daring enough to package a fake release and post it as r1097? Should be fun!

What do you mean by that? Have you tried extracting it? Who knows, it might be a version of rickroll we don't know yet.

The NNTP server I connect to is extremely crappy, I was surprised to see four out of five parts, plus NFO and mocking text available

As for extracting it, WinRAR 3.xx uses AES as its encryption scheme, so to open the archive (and see what's inside), let alone extract it, it's either bruteforcing or bust. And if the password the guy has chosen is above 6 characters, well, let's just say you're better off waiting for the official release.
Unless you desperately want that new Rickroll version, I'd say it's not worth it.

[Alfman]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

Fake 10000000% there is no r1096 around anywhere . But im hoping for a Official DEMUL 0.5.7 Release soon... i will really pray for it

A Friend from me has a good Knowledge in finding out the PW in protected Archives . He said he will try it over the Weekend . Lets see what Datatrash is in those Archives .

zYa

[g0me3]

[emphatic]

10000000%

Implausible.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I don't know which will be the bigger letdown, when someone cracks the fake rar or when the next demul comes out and it doesn't have Cave support.

[Evrain]

...newest one is r1096.
Hasn't appeared anywhere I looked, though.

Fake 10000000% there is no r1096 around anywhere . But im hoping for a Official DEMUL 0.5.7 Release soon... i will really pray for it

A Friend from me has a good Knowledge in finding out the PW in protected Archives . He said he will try it over the Weekend . Lets see what Datatrash is in those Archives .

zYa

The one currently sitting on my desktop would beg to disagree Along with the real one sitting on p1pkin's hard drive of course.
Seriously now, I am also a bit eager to know just what the hell is in those archives... if not, to slam them back on Usenet along with a file mocking the dumbass who uploaded them. Too bad that anything even remotely plausible requires some computational muscle (of the CUDA/i7 kind, if you catch my drift) and a touch of distributed computing (and this, without exceeding 10 characters and considering only upper and lower case, numbers and standard symbols, no "exotic" charsets - in brief, don't get your hopes up)

[Udderdude]

Too much fake release trolling, not enough animated GIFs

[evilGUI]

This entire thing is a troll. I have a newer build and I must say that this emulator disappoints. Sound is all glitchy and there are slow downs everywhere. Tested on my E8400 rig @ 3.8GHZ and my i7 rig. You would probably be better off using PCSX2 to emulate mushihime sama or just buy the real thing. Emulation is nothing like it is in the videos, I'm kind of sad =( oh well it's progress if anything.

[Dave_K.]

[Ex-Cyber]

Say, did any arcade games actually come on floppies? I know they've used everything from mask ROM to tape to bubble memory to CD-ROM to hard drives, but I can't think of any floppy-based arcade games/systems off the top of my head.

[BIL]

I believe Sega's System 24 did for at least some of its games.

Don't copy that Gain Ground!

[Evrain]

This entire thing is a troll. I have a newer build and I must say that this emulator disappoints. Sound is all glitchy and there are slow downs everywhere. Tested on my E8400 rig @ 3.8GHZ and my i7 rig. You would probably be better off using PCSX2 to emulate mushihime sama or just buy the real thing. Emulation is nothing like it is in the videos, I'm kind of sad =( oh well it's progress if anything.

Yeah, same for me, not even upgrading with a GTX680 works, plus in r1105 there's that nagging disclaimer that everytime I boot a game I don't own a PCB of, the emulator kills a kitten with its uneasy closeness.

I believe Sega's System 24 did for at least some of its games.

Don't copy that Gain Ground!

Arcade games on a floppy disk? Now that's wicked.

[g0me3]

This entire thing is a troll. I have a newer build and I must say that this emulator disappoints. Sound is all glitchy and there are slow downs everywhere. Tested on my E8400 rig @ 3.8GHZ and my i7 rig. You would probably be better off using PCSX2 to emulate mushihime sama or just buy the real thing. Emulation is nothing like it is in the videos, I'm kind of sad =( oh well it's progress if anything.

[Sumez]

Like I said originally, you pay your money and take your choice - but at £22 it's no brainer IMHO.

I paid around £40 for mine when it first came out and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made

I think I ended up paying about £60 total for the game from Play-Asia, incl. shipping and import tax. And that was the platinum version.
I've mentioned this too many times in other threads - importing a game can be very expensive to many people, simply because it's an import from outside EU - almost no matter how cheap the game is actually listed.

[Zeron]

Like I said originally, you pay your money and take your choice - but at £22 it's no brainer IMHO.

I paid around £40 for mine when it first came out and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made

I think I ended up paying about £60 total for the game from Play-Asia, incl. shipping and import tax. And that was the platinum version.
I've mentioned this too many times in other threads - importing a game can be very expensive to many people, simply because it's an import from outside EU - almost no matter how cheap the game is actually listed.

How could you mess up a simple thing as a half priced invoice?

[joeboto]

Too much fake release trolling, not enough animated GIFs

that is awesome.

[Sumez]

How could you mess up a simple thing as a half priced invoice?

Excuse me?
Please rephrase that in English, I'm not sure what you're saying.

[JOW]

Like I said originally, you pay your money and take your choice - but at £22 it's no brainer IMHO.

I paid around £40 for mine when it first came out and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made

I think I ended up paying about £60 total for the game from Play-Asia, incl. shipping and import tax. And that was the platinum version.
I've mentioned this too many times in other threads - importing a game can be very expensive to many people, simply because it's an import from outside EU - almost no matter how cheap the game is actually listed.

Well, considering it's currently £22.50 + £3 shipping you must have really got stung on import duty / tax

The UK doesn't seem too bad on this front. I've done a lot of importing over the last couple of years - all of caves 360 ports, a J360 and a few other items and, in virtually every case, I simply paid the list price plus shipping.

I've only been caught out by import duty once, for Thunderforce Fucking 6 - there's a lesson in there somewhere

[Zeron]

How could you mess up a simple thing as a half priced invoice?

Excuse me?
Please rephrase that in English, I'm not sure what you're saying.

Тхе жалуе оф тхе гаме децларед ас халф оф итс прице.

[mjclark]

I've only been caught out by import duty once, for Thunderforce Fucking 6 - there's a lesson in there somewhere

Lol- I also bought TFVI from Play Asia when it came out and now it's behind a bookcase waiting for the print run to end so that it becomes collectible

[BPzeBanshee]

I've only been caught out by import duty once, for Thunderforce Fucking 6 - there's a lesson in there somewhere

Lol- I also bought TFVI from Play Asia when it came out and now it's behind a bookcase waiting for the print run to end so that it becomes collectible

TF Hater's gonna hate.

Don't be buying games from strange places then.

[zaphod]

I like a physical product, and one that has value, that I can resell if I want to resell. I feel this to be a basic right.

I'll buy some games new, and some used, I find the way companies are crippling used copies (must pay another fee to re-activate the game for online play etc.) disgusting. The product has been paid for, the company has earned it's money from it. Just because it has a new owner instead of sitting on a shelf gathering dust doesn't change that, and it keeps the online community active (but they don't want that, they only want people playing the latest games hence why all the servers are remote and all games require a central server now)

The industry didn't use to have a problem with used games at all.

The differences is now, brand new games beat in a day end up on the used market. We have 1 day used games, instead of 1 month used games.

People who have no business buying the game when they should be renting it are instead buying the game, blowing through it (or giving up because they can't blow through it!) and then bringing it to gamestop for premium credit towards the next game for them to blow through. Essentially they rent the game for a premium instead of buying it. THe used game place sells the game for $5 below full retail, and people buy it because they want to save the 5 bucks. Then when the new game sells out,they jack up the price even more.

The 10$ "online pass" in this case is a great solution, as it forces the used game places to drop the price to remain competitive with the new games. Either they will drop the prices and lose money by doing so, or they won't, and no one will buy the game used if it's available new. And either way, the company that made the game gets a significant profit boost.

I'm aware that the locking of the game to the console is a bit unfair, but anyone else here have a better idea on how to stop people from renting non rental copies? The only alternative I can see is outlawing used game sales until a certain amount of time after the games release. And that will never go through, as that contravenes right of first sale.