Ŀ PPPPPP SSSSSS Y Y CCCCCC H H OOOOO W W A RRRRR EEEEE ZZZZZZ P P S Y Y C H H O O W W A A R R E Z P P S Y Y C H H O O W W A A R R E Z PPPPP SSSSSS Y Y C HHHHHH O O W W W AAAAA RRRRRR EEEEE Z P S Y C H H O O W W W W A A R R E Z P S Y C H H O O W W W W A A R R E Z P SSSSSS Y CCCCCC H H OOOOOO W W A A R R EEEEE ZZZZZ ͻ 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 ͼ ۲ Ŀ 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 Ŀ 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. hnk$ M P$h Co-founder Ŀ 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) Ŀ 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. Ŀ CONTACT INFO E-mail: psychowarez_2000@yahoo.com Website: www.not_available_yet.com ۲ ͻ QUOTE OF THE DAY Ĺ "Hmmm... Am i supposed to write something here?" ͼ