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MYTH IS PROUD    TO PRESENT :

Bacteria (c) Fin-Arts

SUPPLIED BY : MYTH HUNGARY     RELEASE SIZE : 25 * 2.88MB
CRACKED BY  : MYTH TEAM        RELEASE DATE : August/2001
PACKAGED BY : MYTH TEAM        PROTECTION   : Sentinel LM
FILE FORMAT : ACE 2.0          GAME GENRE   : 3D Action

SYSTEM REQ'S: Win9x, PII-300, 32 MB, 200 MB HD, 3D+soundcard,
DX8a, DXMedia, MS Media Player

[ RELEASE NOTES ]

ALWAYS READ THIS NFO PROPERLY
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Game Notes:

"Innerspace"? Does the idea of (rather than travelling around the vast
expanses of space) travelling around the vast inner-workings of a
human body intrigue you? Well, the folks at FINarts seem to think so,
hence the release of their latest action game, Bacteria.

The story of Bacteria is similar to the aforementioned movies in many
ways. You've been hired by AMRTECH to pilot a miniaturized craft
inside Dr. Michail Rasarow, a brilliant and important scientist who is
dying of an unknown and apparently incurable disease. Your mission, as
in many games or movies of this type, is the only hope the good doctor
has of survival. Thus, your journey through the human body begins.
Bacteria hasa multitude of game play, including a fifty-mission
campaign through the Doctor, and an arcade mode.

More info at http://www.bacteria-game.com

Ripped:

Nothing.

[ INSTALL NOTES ]

1. Unzip.
2. Unace either manually or use our installer. You have to unace the
crack.ace afterwards if you do it manually.
3. Run Setup.bat to decompress soundfiles.
4. Run BacSetup.exe to select your hardware settings.
5. Start the game with Bacteria.exe

[ NEWS + APPLICATION iNFO ]

A 'small' note to our CLS-competitors: in your latest futile attempt of
an attack you write: "Bitching is weapon of the weak".

We couldn't agree more - but we really ask ourselves why you in CLS
didn't follow your own advice then and use every opportunity to bitch
and rag at others? We recommend you read a few of your own nfos where
you always bitch and attack other groups - and usually completely
unprovoked. We also recommend that you and your leader read up on the
riprules that your group signed to. It's quite clear in matters which
rips have to be nuked and which rips have to be tolerated. In the past
you in CLS have time and again completely ignored these rules whenever
you saw fit to it. You simply nuked the much better and working rips
of games such as Shogun, Colin McRae Rally 2, Starship Troopers,
Gunship, Homeworld Cataclysm etc and kept your own nonproper or non-
working ones. We in Myth always try to respect the rules even when
we don't like the result of the rules' application sometimes.

We in Myth don't believe that bitching & ragging & inventing bullshit
in nfos the way CLS does, serves any purpose to either the scene or the
endusers.

So, lets answer the usual whining when CLS are hit by a proper rip. FYI,
the term 'proper rip' itself was invented by Mr. D of CLS - makes you
really wonder why he can only deal blows to others, but whines babylike
when he's being hit himself.

Our Shogun Proper Rip was completely legit - it held exactly the same
gamedata as the CLS rip while being 17 disks smaller. We thought that not
even CLS people could be so blindfolded by their own propaganda and try
to tell endusers that credits-bitmaps (which are only one disk big) or
foreign speech in an english rip are essential gamedata. BTW, we even
included the manual .pdf-file that CLS raped out, so the Myth-rip holds
MORE game-relevant data than the CLS-release.

We'd also like to inform the CLS leader that his own group has no problem
with uharcing games when necessary - and in the case of Shogun it was
necessary. Maybe you also remember that CLS was the first group to use
Uharc in a release, so we find it just quite amusing when Mr. D attacks
people that use Uharc as well.

We already had a 64-disks rip of Shogun with music and throneroom included
ready at the time of the CLS-release. To include all that was only possible
by uharcing. Maybe next time you in CLS will begin to concentrate on doing
a good rip as well - instead of delivering a fast sloppy job again and then
feeling the need to produce more bullshit in your nfos to defend youself.

And all that after your fiasco with your Shogun-CLS-release last year,
where your rip didn't even work - and for which you even dared to release
a nonworking fix. We would have hoped you learned from that (just as we
in Myth try to learn from our mistakes) - but as long as Mr. D is a CLS
leader, we doubt we'll ever see CLS admit a mistake they have been
corrected on by the competition. And admitting means, you don't nuke the
other groups' release when it is legit. Just like the rules say.

Nobody is perfect - not Myth and certainly not you, Mr. D of CLS. Maybe
next time you can control your anger a bit better, at least we hope so.
For the amused readers convenience we included the riprules again at the
bottom of this nfo.

You think you can contribute to the scene too? You have one or more
talents in:

- supplying unreleased NEW games (maybe you work at a game/util
magazine, newspaper, game press/marketing company, distributor,
publisher, duplicator, tv/radio show, warehouse, shop etc.).
You do not need a fast internet connection for the above!

- supplying unreleased NEW store games & have a fast UPLOAD connection
like 200k+, and time to spare on weekday mornings. Of course we
shall reimburse you for the costs of the games you buy.

- you are a cracker with lots of experience in Cracking/Debugging/ASM
& C/C++. You also can code tools to automatically remove commercial
protections like SafeDisc 2 or Securom or VOB or Laserlok or
Copylok. You will need advanced knowledge of PE File Formats.

- coding tools in C/C++/ASM (you have HARD CORE in depth knowledge
of the Win32-API, you can code by given specifications etc.)
And to understand and develope methods like API Hooking.

- If you know the difference between reindexing and unpacking
large files. Or if you can identify ANY major file formats by
looking at the hex byte code of the header. Or if you can tell
the difference between MPQ & HAPI.
And you have a 30k plus internet download link speed.
And can code your own tools to rip apart the above technologies
(to show you fully understand them) then apply at once.
- making trainers for newly released games (menu driven, must work
in Win9x and Win2K etc.)
- coding dynamic/generic intros/installers
(send URL links to samples of your previous work.)

- supplying the group (for free) with useful things like shells on
fast (T3) linux/unix-boxes, hardware etc. Not for spreading
releases.

If you can meet one or more of those requirements and want to join
the finest group in the scene today, email us. Use the contact
information given below. Group members get all the advantages and
have access to sites with everything one would ever want to leech
(0day/ISO/CLONE/SVCD/DIVX/TV/MP3/PSX/PS2/DC/GBA/GBC/PDA/BOOK/LINUX).

And always remember: we do this just for FUN. We are against any
profit or commercialisation of piracy. In fact, we BUY all our
own games, as we love originals. And if you like this game, BUY it.
We did!
If you think you can fill any of these positions, send an email to
the e-mail address below.

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[ GROUP GREETS ]

Regards go out to our Friends from..

. DEViANCE . DYNASTY . FTFiSO . NLRIP . NLiSO . SOULDRINKER .
. PARADOX PSX . HYBRiD . RESURS . FCC . SAC . RE:PLAY . FCN .
. MFD . APC . RNS . CORE . LAXITY . TOXIC . BLIZZARD . TFE .
. EGO . COUNCIL . JADE . EPTiSO . TFTiSO .

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NFO LAYOUT + HEADER BY FERREX OF SUPERIOR ART CREATIONS

[  UPDATED BY A MYTH LEADER ]
[ ON 25/JUN/2001 ]

"MYTH: Always Ahead Of The Class!"

In 1998, three people decided the future of how the scene should shape
itself and released a 10-point information document stating how a game
release should be conducted. In the past year, many of these rules have
been broken by its founding members and other groups have purposely
broken the agreement. In lieu of recent events, the deciding figures
of three groups, Class, Myth & Divine, have converged and agreed upon
a new set of rules based on the original Faction rules and Myth's
recent proposal and have been updated, modified and agreed upon by a
consensus to a new standard to better suit the scene in this millenium.
These groups have been active participants in shaping the scene in the last
6 months, and were given active participation in voicing their point of
view. These new rules will allow for a more fair and competitive scene
while ensuring a quality-minded environment for the scene. These deciding
figures have bestowed themselves to be called the N.S.A., Network Software
Association. These rules have been ratified and approved among the three
groups and will be recognized and followed immediately on this date,
March 26th, 2000.
1.  The disk  limit  is as of  now  65 x 2,915,000 bytes. This equates  to a
total  of 189,495,000 bytes of compressed data. Groups may not go over
the total size to prevent any future cheating. Acceptable compression
formats at this  time are ACE or RAR or any future compression that
supports multiple volumes and long file names, followed by the
traditional PKZIPing.
The limit for standard game add-ons is 35 x 2,915,000 bytes for any add-
on that includes Music, Speech, Commentary or Play By Play for the
original release. Any add-on that does not fit this criteria will be
restricted to 25 x 2,915,000 bytes. Only the group that won a game
release is allowed to release the add-ons for the game.

2.  To prevent sloppy rips, a re-release of a game is allowed to make groups
release proper and respectable releases. The following provisions
include:
a) it can be ripped in >=10 disks less than the previous release by us-
ing only lossless compression methods. Lossy compression will not be
permitted to compromise the release to fit under this condition.
b) it can be ripped in >=15 disks less of the size of the previous
release by using mp3-compression while not downgrading any wavs
or mp3's sound quality using lossy compression.
That means all the essential gamedata must be still included in the re-
release. No essential data is allowed to be removed to be considered a
valid re-release. A re-release from a competing group may not use tools,
original crack or any other files from the previous release that were
modified for the original game rip.
The re-release of a rip can be done by any group and must be done in
at most 48 hours after the release of the original rip, as possibly
every game is rippable in a smaller size if enough time is spent.
3.  Every release  under  this  limit MUST be  a functionally  and  playable
complete  game with no essential data missing to complete the game.
This  means  that  included  will  be  every  component necessary for
the successful completion of the game e.g.:
- all game executables that are needed,
- every level (single AND multiplayer),
- every track (including practice),
- all actor graphics & models etc,
- sound effects
- registry settings to play on the Internet (e.g. Zone/DirectPlay)
4.  Any lossless compression method to reduce the size of selected game data
is ALLOWED (e.g. uharc).
5.  Lossy compression is ALLOWED for  sound, videos and non-texture graphics
(e.g. jpeging of menu screens) but lossless compression is encouraged
before using lossy compression.  Lossy compression of textures is expli-
citly FORBIDDEN to  prevent the  many  problems inherent to that.
6.  Sound effects WILL and MUST be included. To reduce the size of rips when
possible, standard waveformat files (PCM) should be mp3-compressed
if possible in a reasonable state of time and is over the size of 20
disks. If the soundfiles exist inside a bigfile its highly regarded
when time is invested to extract those files to compress them.  Groups
are not to required to index bigfiles though. Downgrade of sound quality
to sound files to allow the game to fit the limit will not be permitted.
It is allowed to rip music, commentary/speech and ambience files as long
as the game remains playable.  Speech files  MUST be  included if  there
exist no on-screen subtitles. It is okay to remove commentary from a
release if size does not permit it.
It is highly regarded when all sounds, speech and music are included in
a rip and not intentionally put out as addons.
7.  It is allowed to remove gamedata that exists in multiple resolutions or
formats as long as the  game remains playable on a typical system  which
is defined by a PII-300 with a D3D-card and soundcard.
- high-resolution textures for highend systems.
- low-resolution textures for low-end systems if there is no
possible options to include the high-resolutions in the release.
If size permits, it is expected that high resolution be released
as an add-on.
- high-screen resolution graphics data standard of 800x600 (or 640x480
if other than 800x600 is not applicable)
- at least one hardware-dependent data must be included, and must be
in Direct3D mode or any other hardware data modes that are accepta-
ble (e.g. Glide textures). A release of software mode only with all
hardware-dependent data and textures removed will not be allowed in
future releases.
8.  Movies (intros, cutscenes) should be removed if they aren't game-related.
Movies must be  ripped in a  way so that the  gameplay experience is  not
compromised, e.g. framing of movies is highly regarded.  It should always
be avoided  to  create  situations in  which  user-input is  necessary on
black screens because the video normally shown has been blacked out.
9.  Other allowed add-ons for games include:
- cutscenes/movies
- commentary/speech
- music
- manual/documentation
- editor

Intro and Outro add-ons are EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN.  Not more than 2 add-ons
should be released for a game release.
10. Children's games (aka  Kiddie  games) and  Edutainment  software  do not
qualify  under these rules  guidelines for acceptable  releases.  Kiddie
games are usually defined via the game target audience of  '5-12 years'
as stated by the game's producer.  Common  sense should  be based on
common sense  by  all groups to identify what really is a kiddie game.
Platform games are not to be considered kiddie games.
11. Levelpacks, game add-ons etc. for rips are only allowed if they are offi-
cially released/authorized by the  same company/developer/publisher that
put out the original game. If possible by its size, the add-on should be
made as a standalone and not needing the original game release. The
original missions may be removed to allow the game add-on to become
standalone if not size can not permit the original game. It should be
explained in the NFO if and why a game add-on isn't made to be standalone.
12. In regard  to games  distributed  in the  United States  that are  LATER
distributed in Europe  or vice versa under  the same or different name /
publisher.  These games  if released  AFTER another group's  release are
counted  as DUPES  unless  it can  be  proven that  there  is  a clearly
noticeable  PLAYABLE  difference in the  latter release  (more than just
tiny differences in graphics or sound). Differences in filedates and
Game Titles between Euro and US releases are NOT a good enough reason to
re-release the game.
13. A brief  outline  of what  has been  stripped from the  game  should  be
clearly stated in  the  game-release .NFO, as  well as information as to
whether or not Add-Ons can be expected.
14. Fully cracked Update Patches and Trainers are highly  regarded, though
they are not  the responsibility  of any group (including  that of which
released the original game).  If 2 trainers from the same  or  different
groups are released  for 1 game, this  does NOT qualify as a dupe unless
the latter trainer provides no new features over the prior trainer. Beta
update patches will not considered a valid release among any game group.
No group shall release a cracked patch for a game if a generic patch
exists for a particular game in the scene. If a generic crack exists, a
new patch-release must specify that the generic crack does not work
anymore.
15. If two or more rips of the same game get released, the first working rip
wins.  Sites should not nuke any  release until the winning rip has been
proven to work correctly and follows the above ruleset.
16. No group shall use another's groups work to - be it an iso crack or
tools written by another competing group. Any third party tools shall be
acceptable. A crack from an ISO or past release (even in other
languages) shall not be used unless permission is given from the
cracker/creator of the original release group.
All appointed HQ (Headquarters) should abide by these rules to the
fullest extent permutable. Any group that competes in the gaming rip
scene will and must abide by the above rules to allow fair competition
among all competitors.
Signed,
Leaders, Council Members and Seniors of Class, Myth & Divine.