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> GC-Tool Version 1.10 beta <

| Company  : Paradox Inc.          | Releasedate : 06/18/2003
| System   : Gamecube              | Size        : 1 ZIP
| Supplier : Brain                 | Cracker     : Hammer

R E L E A S E   N O T E S

| Hi all again.. usually it's a bit lame to release a new version of
| a tool one day after its initial release. But I have made several
| improvements tonight and also fixed an ugly bug which caused my extract|
| routine to also extract garbage off the Luigis Mansion iso. So all is  |
| fixed now.

| Here's a quick "WHAT'S NEW"

| New: You can now save the Bannericon also as Windows Bitmap.
| New: Added function ISO-Wiping.
| New: Improved RGB5A3 handling of BNR files. Thanks alot Loser for
this one! You rock (as always).
| New: Added function to replace DOL and other files in ISO.
| Bug: Removed ugly Rootlist bug.. Shit happens
| Bug: Removed an idiot bug (heh): now shows all different languages
of a BNR file if image is PAL.

| Interesting stuff about the ISO-WIPING function:

| An original GC-ISO has random garbage between files and between
| TOC-End and DATA-Start. The ISO-Wipe function of GC-Tool is able to
| "wipe" this areas. But what the hell is the point of this? -> By
| wiping the ISO this random garbage, which is the death for successful  |
| compression of the GC-ISO (e.g. RAR'ing), will be overwritten with
| 0x00. After wiping you can achieve much more powerful compression
| rates and save the bandwidth for all of us ;-)

| Examples:

| RARed size of the Luigis Mansion release without wiping: 1,3GB
| RARed size of the Luigis Mansion release after wiping: 193 MB (!)
| Saved: 1,1 GB

| RARed size of the Zelda release without wiping: 1,1GB
| RARed size of the Zelda release after wiping: approx. 700 MB
| Saved: 400 MB

| Note: At this current point of time we don't know if it is important
| to leave that garbage in the ISO (maybe Nintendo makes checksum checks |
| etc..) but this is *very* unlikely, if you ask me.
| So just a note.. consider that.

-Icarus

R E C R U I T M E N T

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