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Soldier of Fortune (c) Activision + Movies & Speech Addon

Supplier.....: Fairlight          │  Release Date...: 04/04/00
Cracker......: Kenafiole Team     │  Proggy Type....: Game
# of Disks...: 77 x 4.00MB        │  Proggy Rating..: 9/10

REQUIREMENTS: Windows 9x Pentium II 266 MHz, 580 MB HDD, 64 MB RAM, 3D CARD

GENERAL INFO

Game information :

Hmmm.. We, Psychowarez like ripped the most anticipated FPS of the year.
So we're like HOT or something. Thanx to FLT for the ISO.

A 3-D action shoot set to deliver more action, espionage and firepower than
any other first person shooter on the market. The game's authentic 3D
environments and scenarios will realistically reflect today's intense
conflicts as players dodge bullets and pummel, toast, shred and incinerate
hordes of enemies.

Game Features :

* 26 Levels Spanning 10 Missions All Over The Globe

* Story Driven Plotline With Ultra-Realistic Weapons, Enemies And
Environments

* High Action, Fast Gameplay With Cinematic "Action Movie" Feel

* Heavily Modified Quake II Engine Technology

* 3D Hardware Accelerated Only (No Software Renderer)

* Detail Texturing, Damage Texturing, Texture Replacement

* 32 Bit Color

* A3D 2.0 and EAX 2.0 Support

* Dynamic Music System + Playback Of Compressed Audio

* Revolutionary New AI System For Smarter Enemies

* Terrain Engine For Scrolling Outdoor Maps

RIP INFO

Yes, we DO know that this is over the limit. But WTF, this is NOT only the
SOF rip, this is the rip + movies/speech addon (which i didn't feel like
ripping since without the movies and the speech the game loses it's charm.)
Anyways let me explain: the current disk limit for a rip is 65*2.88mb,
which equals to 188mb of data. The current disk limit for addons are TWO
addons, 35*2.88mb each, which equals in total to 201mb. So that makes the
total size of a ONE GAME RELEASE that a group is allowed to release 389mb.
Our release is takes less than that. Also the rules CLEARLY state that a
group who released the rip has the right to release addons for it. The rules
DON'T say a thing about a group releasing both the rip and the addons in one
package, so technically, this release 100% follows the rules...
And YES we do know that some FTPs will nuke it, But once again, some won't!
And people ARE going to enjoy this game... With this release we were NOT
trying to become famous (well, maybe that too ;) ), all we were trying to do
is to release a RIP of this awesome game so that regular modem users can
enjoy it. This rip is about 300mb in size while FLT's ISO takes 650mb and
CPC's rip (the only other SOF rip that we've seen by now) takes over 430mb.
From my personal experience a 56k modem user can download up to 150mb in
one night which gives him the opportunity to get our rip in two nights
while he will have to wait 3 nights to download CPC's rip and over 4 nights
to get the ISO... So sysops, before nuking this release just think about
the regular 56k users who are still a majority on the internet... Another
thing is that i can name MANY games which were over the limit and weren't
nuked. One of them for example is CLS's beta release of Halflife which was
also a revolutionary FPS like SOF... WAS IT NUKED EVEN THOUGH IT WAS OVER
THE LIMIT? I DON'T THINK SO. And if any other groups start bitching i can
find them PLENTY of examples when they went over the limit. So just leave
this rip be and i'm sure that MANY people will want to download it.

In total i spent over 20 hours in stripping, packaging and testing this
baby. It's 99.9% tested and was proved to be working by me. Also i managed
to make it smaller than Class's, Myth's and Razor's rips that never came
out, :). The secret? I stripped off all multiplayer maps (well, you can't
play this game in multiplayer without a valid key so you don't need those
maps), killed most of the music (i left only one track, so if the music is
bugging you, turn it off), (oh yeah, no addons expected), used multiple
level compression (UHarc, RAR, ACE) and unfortunately i had to lower the
sound quality (not much of a loss though, since even in the original game
the sound wasn't great and if you want to get it back, use the program
"Waver" available for free from: http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/
swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=0014NB to convert all wave files in
"data\sound" subdirectories to 22KHz, 16bit, mono format, though i don't
think you want to do that). All speech, sound effects remain in the game,
as well as the cutscenes (generated by the game's engine) which HAVE TO BE
PART OF THE GAME. So basically you got the whole game here. Enjoy!

The last but not the least i'd like to thank all people who in any way
helped me to get this rip done: Psychoace, thx VERY much dude for all the
support you gave me and all the time you wasted on helping me find the
proggies necessary to rip this game... You're the best!; Thx to Kenafioli
Team for the excellent crack for this game; Thx very much to all the nice
people from #churchi on Efnet... Thx for the support guys, you know who you
are!; Couiers who helped us spread this release, especially Bitfreak,
Nova-BIA and |pr|mal|. You guys are 31173!; Thx to BIA for supplying me
with a pub to where i was able to upload the release; All the groups who
still keep the scene alive...; Seby_Foxx: I LOVE YOU, thank you for being
there for me.

Shit, i just read what i wrote... It's long and full of mistakes... Kool.

Cya all soon,

HiTech666

Co-founder, ripper

Ok big release for us (this is only our second release and I can't believe
what we have done we accomplished) but who cares the only reason you
downloaded this game is to play it so I will be short and sweet. This
download has really pushed HiTech666's ego way up now he is talking about
jaguars and big houses and building a new computer with an athlon cpu inside
(intel is dead) (Hey, a guy can dream! HiTech666.). Well I have kept my head
intact cause I got all those things plus stuff he die for lol. Well I got to
give a lot of credit to HiTech666 for putting most of this rip together and
now we say hi for the first time but certainly not the last (spelling errors
are all over this little txt so don't worry it's not just you seeing things.)
Last but not least someone give me a dsl modem please! Oh and new appllicants
wanted send email to address below.

hαnk$ ╒ΓσM

P$¥¢hÖαÇε

Co-founder

INSTALLATION NOTES

Unzip, Unace and finally Unrar. After Unraring you can delete the huge
sof.rar file. After that make sure that you have FREE 150mb on your hard
drive and in the main game directory ("Sof") run "unpack.bat" to decompress
some big map files and go for a cup of coffee. To play the game after doing
all this run "SoF.exe". Also i've included a .reg file in the main game dir
so if the game doesn't run, double click on it to import it to your
registry (even though it's supposed to run fine without it).

Also in the first disk we've included a SFV file to check if the Ace files
weren't tampered with or something like that... (crc.txt)

GROUP NEWS

Okay, we're badly in need of: couriers, suppliers and crackers... Also need
someone to get our ASCII logo straight, it's really fucked up now.

CONTACT INFO

E-mail: psychowarez_2000@yahoo.com
Website: www.not_available_yet.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Hmmm... Am i supposed to write something here?"