
  Nr.1   1999   Price: 80 Pakistani Rupees, 1.42 Dinar, 2.00 USD, 2.70 CAD

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It is Sunday 29 SHa`baan 542 B.H and here is, straight from the vast desert
regions of the third world...


               THE THIRD WORLD PAKI CHARTS - OCTOBER 1999 EDITION


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Theme Song (to be sung to the chorus of Jay-Z's "Ain't No")

Ain't no Paki like the one I've got
No one eats curry better
Runs the 7-11 and stinks a lot       
Has enough back hair to make a sweater

* Note: To skip this section, just do a Find "*****"

        Straight off our Indian tour, we've unpacked our camels, added 27 more
wives to our harem, and searched the Dead Sea Scrolls for more interesting
tidbits to share.  Visiting with us this month is brother Al-Ahazred from
Calcutta, and his 573rd half brother "Azim" from Class.  Yes it's really a
Class member who has scene knowledge, he just prefers to remain anonymous,
as he recently finished writing "The Satanic Verses 2" and remembers what
happened to Solomon Rushdie.  Apparently he was not familiar with the first
rule of the desert (No, not "don't drop the soap near nomads who've been
wandering the desert without the sight of a woman for 12 years"), and having
had his brains fried by the blazing sun when he didn't wear his turban he
intends to speak on class's behalf.  May Allah have mercy, this should be
funnier than seeing those ugly American women who do not have the luxurious
body hair we expect of our fine figured Pakistani women.  In short, grab your
magic lamps and start to rub, cause we're back!

P.S.  There are now only 4 "top" groups.  We await the rise to power of
another clan of Western dogs.  We'll see who steps up to claim recognition.
Also, this month's group commentaries shouldn't be as long as the previous
issue's.  Not that much has changed in the group activity, so we'll only
focus on the things that we think will be of interest.

        How do we rate games you say?  Normally we let the camels choose the
pick of the litter, but for now we'll go by the following system:

******************************************************************************
 GROUND RULES
******************************************************************************

       In lieu of  recent  events  contributing to the  breakdown  of the  now
  defunct S.P.A. (Software Piracy Association), a private  meeting between the
  key contributing and  contending groups was held.  On October  15th, 1998 an
  agreement and compromise was reached between the 3 attending parties, CLASS,
  PARADIGM and RAZOR 1911.  Let it be known that this type of compromise could
  not be  achieved under  the  S.P.A. environment; it  took a  clean  break to
  accomplish in  a day what had  previously gone  unaccomplished in  2 months.
  The end  result being a  new council whose sole  purpose is to set standards
  for  the  game-releasing subsector of  the  scene, to  be  adhered to by all
  admitted  parties.  Represented  members  of  this  new  council  named  THE
  FACTION, have  pledged to abide by the  following set of rules created a) to
  ensure  a quality minded  end  result  and b) to encourage  fair  play and a
  productive competitive environment for involved groups.


  The Faction 10 Point Program:

  1.  The disk  limit  is as of  now  50 x 2.88 megabytes or  2,915,328 bytes.
      This  equates  to a  total  of  144  megabytes  of  compressed  data  or
      145,766,400 bytes.  Using 2.88  megabyte archives enables us to keep the
      standard  8 character filename with a 3 character  extension.  This will
      also   help  contribute  to   the  elimination  of   the 'missing  disk'
      phenomenon,  plaguing  end-users   worldwide.   Acceptable   compression
      formats  at this  time  are ACE  or  RAR, followed  by  the  traditional
      PKZIPing.

  2.  Every release  under  this  limit will be  a functionally  and  playably
      complete  game.  This  means  that  included  will  be  every  component
      necessary for the successful completion of the game (every level, track,
      course and other NECESSARY component).

  3.  Sound effects WILL and MUST be included.

  4.  Intros,  Outros and  Cut-Scenes  should be  removed  if the size of  the
      release is 40  x 2.88 disks  or more with them  included.  Intros should
      NOT be  iuncluded  in a  Movie Add-On,  only Cut-Scenes  and  Outro (aka
      End-Scene) should be  included.  Animation files, such  as .SMKs, should
      be "framed"  and  not blacked out.  Re-indexing of  large  files, should
      consist  of an actual re-index instead  of just creating  a file full of
      0's, (which  doesn't  change  the  actual  file size, but  allows  it to
      compress to virtually nothing), thus promoting  more quality minded rips
      and cracks.

  5.  Only  2 Add-Ons should be  released per game.  Each Add-On should  be no
      more than 25 x 2.88 megabyte archives.

  6.  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.

  7.  Children's games (aka  Kiddie  games) and  Edutainment  software  do not
      qualify under THE FACTION's guidelines for acceptable releases.

  8.  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 (eg. new  levels,
      enhanced graphics, or other new features).

  9.  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.

  10. Admittance to  THE FACTION is  done on an   invite / vote-in basis.  The
      group invitation  must be proposed  before ALL  current FACTION  member-
      group representatives, and the corresponding vote must  be undertaken by
      ALL FACTION  member-group  representatives.  This  council operates in a
      purely  democratic  manner and  all  parties therein have upon  joining,
      agreed to  follow all stated  guidelines  of this  Declaration  of Scene
      Independence.  Today is not only a new dawn  in the games scene, but our
      Independence Day where  differences are  at least  temporarily put aside
      and our unity re-consolidated.



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 RATING SYSTEM
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        You're not all going to agree with this, and we don't care.  We
can't please everyone, and if you get angry with us, we'll just commence
passive resistance by sitting on your lawn and stinking up the place.  People
have different opinions of what the "big" games are, what the "big" companies
are, etc.  You will have to trust our judgement, even if we are stupid sand
crawlers.

1. A previously unreleased game will receive between 1 - 10 points, depending
   on how "big" a title something is.  This is a measure of how good a game
   we believe it is, how expected a title by gamers it is, and by how big the
   company who made it is.  We are Paki-Americans, so if some title like 
   "Ultimate Soccer Manager '96-'97 Swedish League Deluxe Edition" is big in 
   Europe and we give it minimal points, deal with it.  If it ever appears
   in this country, it will be 2 years later and in the bargain bin.

2. We give bonuses for good ripping! Us, Pakis thinks quality rips and tough
   cracked should be rewarded. 

3. Final versions get the same points as unreleased versions, betas get 
   nada.
                                                       
4. Trainers, and anything else that is a really big help to incompetent
   Pakis like us will get 1 point. Cheats will only get 0.5 Points.

5. Two points will be subtracted for every NECESSARY fix.  A space minimizer
   fix or anything in that area isn't considered necessary!

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 RUMORS: The Current Scene Rumor Section
******************************************************************************
- Not much to report seems like these people don't switch group too much,
  actually the rivalties have become so big compared to the past that
  memebers from CLASS , PARADIGM , RAZOR and ORIGIN hardly speak to each
  other...

- nxxxxxxx site op of *** , got bored of RZR and decided to join CLASS
  as xHQ.

- ORiGiN a group that never had much luck with their WHQ (avg uptime :
  2 weeks) has found a new one. The reason why a euro group run by limeys
  and powered by limeys releases would pick a USA WHQ remains odd to us
  but hey it's a free world :)

- PDM apparently picked some new USA d00ds who got them Demolition Racer
  and HOMM 3 addon. Somehow it seems they won those titles more due to
  the fact that their rivals were busy with other games, as a few titles
  came out the same day as Demo Racer. Catch up next paki report to see
  if PDM doods can match up with CLS store team.

- The notorious DVNiSO - OGN cooperation is becoming quite unclear, it's
  still a mystery why OGN didn't get from them titles such as : Thief
  Gold , Snowmobile Championship 2000, Demolition Racer. As Origin only
  had a slow month with 6 titles (4 games and 2 addons) you could think
  they'd work hard to do more since their crackers couldn't have possibly
  been busy with games as apart RTC addons most of the games OGN did this
  month weren't extactly needing massive reindexing! Is that laziness
  incompetence or disorganisation , we shall never know....

  If YOU have anything to report please notify us at pakireport@paki.com

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 MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS: Interesting Episodes
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 - Interesting case : OGN released RTC addon non standalone at 36 disks, later
 on DNS (the german division of PDM) released a much smaller standalone 
 version using mp3'ing a technique that OGN people obviously don't fully
 understand yet! Even tough nothing in rules say that releasing a non
 standalone addon isn't legit, we use our common sense to admit that DNS
 package was so much better and offered more for a smaller amount of
 disks... Overall sites kept the DNS one tough.

- Another release was WF: Sea Lion. CLASS gimps were unusunally slow for
  a store game and OGN kicked them in the tushie! CLASS later on 
  rereleased the game standalone with all the sounds mp3'ed. Us paki thinks
  OGN despite putting out a LAMEASS TK4 package won speedwise so they
  should get the points for it... CLS did the right thing for the end
  user to put out a standalone package but they were too slow so they
  get a nice ZERO points!

- In the last week of the month many games released ISO before rips 
  were out , are games becoming totally unrippable or are rips group
  not putting the necessary efforts into it? ie : it's obvious OGN
  had Theif Gold from DVNiSO and yet they were unable to rip it into
  50 disks unless they were busy cracking other games!

- In its Sea Lion nfo , ORIGIN announced they would release RAYMAN II 
  from Ubi Soft today! Us paki think they shouldn't brag about their
  upcomming titles especially since they never came through!

- CLASS release of Descent Freespace wasn't appreciated by everyone!
  Yes they ripped the hi res addon but who cares? On My pakistani P3-450
  with 256 Mb of RAM and and Riva TNT board the game was just smooth at
  640*480 in true colors. The game had subtitles and was fully playable.
  Yet CLASS should be kicked in the nuts for nothing having mentionned
  they ripped hi res from the game. Otherwise it was a good job from them
  to reindex the full game in such a little time frame. TK4 from OGN
  kept bitching about it , but then again if that guy was qualified to
  judge rips quality us pakis would have been told. We assumed PDM didn't
  find the rip that bad as nor PDM or DNS rereleased this title...

- PARADIGM did a VERY good job in releasing a driver music addon, it's
  not just a typical music addon, they mp3'ed the Audio tracks from the
  CD and coded a tool to play them in the background. To encourage those
  efforts that will keep the elite rip scene alive vs the lameass iso scene
  (I got a P3 and a T3 so I can put out iso's faster than you... philosophy)
  bows down to PDM coder for his good work on this. The pakis from brixton
  recognize the skills and shall offer him a free meal.

- is RAZOR totally dead? It was unclear is they wanted to do ISO or RIPS
  but no it seems they only want to do patches... Not only are they totally
  unable to win a store games but worst they are unable to download an ISO
  and get it ripped, quite sad. Thanks to G-RoM who solved their ISO
  protection problem, they had a chance to at least 'try' to come back
  but it wasn't the case... The titanic is skinking guys, maybe it's time
  for you to move on.

- This season some budget groups are coming back putting out budget games
  and ripping ISO's. The main groups of that new crap scene are : MiNiME
  and iNTERGANG. For some reason while none dared to nuke DVNiSO Monopoly
  Junior release , everyone banned the IGG release... is there a special
  treament for established group to be able to get away with kiddie titles
  while budget groups get nuked?

- CLASS fucked up SCATTEGORIES , their inital 9 disks rip wasn't fully
  working and they had to release a 45 disks repack including mp3'ing.
  Shame on them for fucking up! Quite a shame because us paki are big
  fans of that games that has more appeal than 80% of the games being
  released this month.

- Many addons have come out this month while most were standalone two
  of them (being released by origin) weren't! Pakis thinks that for the
  end user it's much easier provided it's possible to offer standalone
  addons.

- Many people are complaing about OGN games using MP3. Most of them
  requiring those elite SETUP.BAT fixes... You guys should test more
  your pacakages and seriosuly consider gettting some real coders to
  give you a mp3 tool...

  If *YOU* have anything to report please notify us at pakireport@paki.com

******************************************************************************
 RELEASES: All the info a Paki could ever want
******************************************************************************


    Key: NEW - Unreleased new title
         FIN - Final version
         ADD - Addon/Expansion Disk
         TRN - Trainer
         CHT - Cheat
         FIX - Fix
         DUP - Duplicate, No Credit Given
         BET - Beta
         LAM - Lame : Regged Shareware, Crap , J0nx
         CRP - Crap : Lame Program Expansion (Video Addon, etc)
         SHT - Shit : Over the Limit Stuff




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|Release Name              Company           Status   Size   Points   Bonus  |
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Descent FS 2               Interplay          NEW!     34       9
Descent FS 2 cheats        Interplay          CHT!      1       0.5
Warhammer 40 k Patch       SSI                PAT!      1       1
B-Hunter                   Interactivsion     NEW!      3       6
Descent FS 2 Patch         Interplay          PAT!      1       1
Tanktics                   Gremlin            NEW!     16       6.5
AF 3 cheats                Novalogic          CHT!      1       0.5
Scooby Doo                 Southpeak          NEW!     49       5
B hunter cheats            Interactivision    CHT!      1       0.5
Creatures Adventures       Mindscape          NEW!     38       6     
Shadow Man Patch           Acclaim            PAT!      1       1
Snowmobile 2000            GT                 NEW!      5       6
Hoyle Word Games           Sierra             NEW!     19       4
Army Men 3                 3DO		      NEW!     27       7.5
Nascar Revolution SE       EA Sports          NEW!     33       7.5
Army Men 3 Music Add on    3DO                ADD!      4       1
M25 Racer Trainer          Infogrames         TRN!      1       1
Army Men cheat Codes       3DO                CHT!      1       0.5
Shadow Company for OGN rel Ubi Soft           FIX!      1       1
Tanktics Cheats            Interplay          CHT!      1       0.5
Warcraft Battle.Net Ed     Blizzard           NEW!     38       8.5      3
Sid Meyer AC add on :SA    EA                 ADD!     46       7.5      1
GTA 2 cheats               TAKE 2             CHT!      1       0.5
Trickstyle                 Acclaim            NEW!     49       8.5      0.5
Trick Style Cheat          Acclaim            CHT!      1       0.5
Gangsters Gold             Eidos              NEW!     16       6.5      0.5
Super Scategories          Hasbro             CRAP!     9      -2
Super Scategories REPACK   Hasbro             NEW!     45       6.5
Dirt Track Racing          GT                 NEW!     37       7.5
DTR trainer                GT                 TRN!      1       1
Metal Knight               ?                  NEW!      9       6
Metal Knight               ?                  CHT!      1       0.5
TM2 Patch                  BrightStar         PAT!      1       1
Carnivores 2               GT / WW            NEW!     23       5.5
Test Drive Off-Road 3      Infogrames         NEW!     49       7
Fields and Steam Tr. Hunt. Sierra             NEW!     48       4.5
Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz  Hasbro             NEW!     11       5
Howard Mark's Casino Games Hasbro             NEW!     46       3.5
WF : Sea Lion              Talonsoft          CRAP!    25       0
WF : Sea Lion Music add On Talonsoft          ADD!      8       1
                                                                ---      ---
                                              SUBTOTAL POINTS  145 BONUS  5
                                                            TOTAL : 150
# OF GAMES RELEASES : 22 (1 NUKED)
  3 ADDONS, 19 GAMES

 QUICK REVIEWS:
 Decent Freespace 2 excellent shooting game 85%
 B hunter average G Police Clone 64%
 Tanktics boring aracade game 65%
 Scooby Doo action / adv game. boring. 55%
 Creatures Adventure life Sim. 65%
 Snowmobile 2000 average racing 60%
 Hoyle Word game not exciting 45%
 Army Men 3 good 78%
 Nascar Revolution SE 77%
 Warcraft Battle.net Ed Excellent ripping job elite game 88%
 Sid meier AC addon : excellent product 85%
 Trickstyle : great game  83%
 Gangsters Gold : hothouse creation. sad. 38%
 Supper Scattegories: excellent board game 75%
 Dirt Track Racing : good racing 81%
 Metal Knight : boring 45%
 TDOR 3 : decent racing game 75%
 Fields and steams : good hunting from sierra , but hunting therefore gey! 40%
 Axis & Allies : some german said it was the best board. Honorable title. 60%
 Howard Marks Casino Games : boring casino games are lame. 30%
 WF : Sea Lion : Add on for those boring Talonsoft Games 58%

ANON PAKI COMMENTS:

 Past Performance - Since august they are pretty much owning the scene like
 in 1997 & 1998 releasing more than all their rivals combined. It seems their
 all time low from Q1 '99 is forgotten now!

 Actual Performance:
        
        No major changes or fluctuations from performance occurred from last
month, though there is a little information that we think you'll be interested
in reading.

        Supply Domination - The current team continues to produce the majority
of USA titles and most of the store games. They have a couple of decent
european suppliers and the fact their old member Red Leader step out of
retirement might help them.

         Cracking abilities - CLS got talented crackers, but they are a bit
slower than PDM to adapt to new protections when the scheme changes but
after of a few day everything goes back to normal. They won a store secuROM
game vs RZR , OGN & PDM since they did it quite late in the day proving
they could get the job done when it was about secuROM.

        Reputation - CLS has came up with the usual mix of crappy titles
        (Sierra's Hoyle Words and Sierra's Hunting game) and good games
        (trickstyle , Army Men 3 , Sid Meier addon etc..). They pretty
        much dominate the USA stores and that's enough to be #1 by far...
        On top of that they get a few Euro games but hard to judge their
        European team power as the month was so slow there. It will be
        interesting to see if next month CLS can give up a good challenge
        to OGN in Europe.

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 |      ||   Azim says: Despite looking less powerfull than in 1997-98
  \_/|\_/    CLASS still manage to remain at the top and only had a 
 (| o O |)   slowdown during Q1 '99 not bad for a group that is less
  |  |  |    than 3 years old and will probably celebrate its 500th
  (_---_)    release before the end of the year. Their USA store team
   |___|     is good no question about that but it's far from being
             invcible and they could be in trouble if their rival
             groups would put a little more efforts into it.
             As for their European time, it's hard to predict how
             well they shall do in Nov.



 Predicted Performance - Expect them at the same spot next month!

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|Release Name              Company           Status   Size   Points   Bonus  |
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 Homeworld Trainer         Sierra            TRN!       1       1
 DFS 2  Trainer            Interplay         TRN!       1       1
 Tactical Manager 2        BrightStar        NEW!      35       5
 M25 Racer                 Infogrames        NEW!      29       6.5
 GTA 2                     Take 2            NEW!      11       9       -0.5
 Roll. Tycoon Addon        Hasbro            LAM!      36       0
 Pharaoh                   Sierra            NEW!      40       9       -2
 West Front: Sea Lion      Talonsoft         NEW!       9       5       -2
                                                                ---      ---
                                              SUBTOTAL POINTS  36.5 BONUS -4.5
                                                            TOTAL : 32

 # OF GAMES RELEASES : 6 (2 NUKED)
   4 NEW GAMES , 2 ADD ONS


 QUICK REVIEWS:

 Tactical Manager 2 Cheap ass soccer Manager 30%
 M25 boring 19.99 pounds UK only racing game 65%
 GTA disapointing but still an expected game 88% (-0.5 for lame fake movie file)
 Pharaoh Excellent game but boring rip get a MP3 tool 89% (-2 for gey package + bat fix)
 WF Sea Lion : Poorly Packed addon 58% (-2 for lame package)

 ANON PAKI COMMENTS:

 Past Performance - 

 Actual Performance : OGN had a disapointing month despite doing 2 quality titles
 with Pharaoh and GTA2. But is 6 release (among which 2 are addons and one got 
 nuked ) enough for Oct. a big month in the year like Oct. , we don't think so!
 OGN USA was quite disapointing only coming up with Pharaoh (even if it's a quality
 title, which was fucked by a poor mp3'ing) that ain't much since USA produced like
 35 games + this month. OGN Europe did ok in limeyland as per usual but it was a slow
 month in Europe anyway...
     

        European Domination - Consistant European supply team but nothing they could
        do there as the UK was pretty slow this month.

        Reputation Factor - OGN due to certain of their members isn't perceived as
        a quality & mature group. Too bad for them they have braindead members because
        they seem to have conistant european suppliers and a good USA backup with the 
        help of DVNiSO

        Crackings lacks - OGN has a talented cracker in the person of DJ who managed
        to crack VOB protection (bows down to him for that), but apart from him OGN
        seriously lack from day to day cracker is that available to handle USA store
        jobs, the supplies are there (ie : DVNiSO's thief Gold, Snowmobile ,
        Demolition racer etc...) but the cracking force isn't doing its job!

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 |      ||   Azim says: A pretty disapointing month for OGN after their
  \_/|\_/    excellent performance in Sept. The USA team didn't produce 
 (| o O |)   much and the Euro side couldn't do much as the UK was so slow
  |  |  |    this month..
  (_---_)    
   |___|    
             



 Predicted Performance - They are #3 this month, but expect them to rise
 at #2 next month if Europe gets more games and if theirs crackers learn
 to work efficiently on the USA store pick up side!



                    
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|Release Name              Company           Status   Size   Points   Bonus  |
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Driver Music add on        GT                 ADD!      7       1        2  
Force 21                   Redstorm           PAT!      1       1
HOMM3 ADD ON               3DO                NEW!     31       7.5      1  
Space Invaders             Activision         TRN!      1       1         
Shadow Company             Ubi Soft           TRN!      1       1
Corum Trainer              X                  TRN!      1       1
Extreme 500                THQ                NEW!     50       7        3-2 
Extreme 500 add on         THQ                ADD!     09       1
Pong                       Hasbro             NEW!     22       5.5
Demolition Racer           Infogrames         NEW!     14       7.5
Demolition Racer Music AO  Infogrames         ADD!     12       1
Madden Update              EA                 PAT!      1       1
NBA 2000                   Fox                NEW!     38       7
NBA 200 ADD ON             Fox                ADD!     15       1
Revenant                   Eidos              NEW!     30       8        1.5 
Abomination                Eidos              NEW!     40       7        1
Jersey Devil               Infogrames         NEW!     49       6.5
Thief Gold                 Eidos              NEW!     48       6.5     -2
                                                               ---      ---
                                              SUBTOTAL POINTS  73.5 BONUS 6.5
                                                            TOTAL : 80

# OF GAMES RELEASES : 9

 QUICK REVIEWS:

 HOMM3 good standalone addon for a Triple A game. 85%
 E500 boring racing game. 70%
 Pong oldie but disapointing prefer the original game. 50%
 Demolition Racer descent racing game 77%
 NBA 2000 boring basketball everyone wants NBA live anyway. 67%
 Revenant OK game. Might worth a look. 73%
 Abomination Self explanatory... (hothouse creation...) 40%
 Jersey Devil 2 years old PSX plateformer ported on the PC 60%
 Thief Gold : 3 new missions for that classic game 65%

 ANON PAKI COMMENTS:

 Past Performance - During Q1 they were the only group that has ever
 beaten CLS on regular basis during the last 3 years which made the
 scene intresting again, then during Q2 CLS slowly came back but
 due to external events that almost killed the group they are left
 with a much lesser output...

 Actual Performance : 
 

        Supply Lack - PDM has lost most of its supply power so they have
to rely on third class suppliers and also on ISO sites... Us paki thinks
it's LAME to reply on the LAMEASS ISO scene , the RIP scene being the
most prestigious games scene , it shouldn't therefore reply on GEY 
scenes where no namers like DVNISO can succeed.

        Cracking Ability - Even tough many of their talented crackers
are retired or semi retired. They still have a hardcore of capable
crackers who are hungry for games and never motivated up to the point
of spending a whole night to fix Revenant, good for the group to have
such motivated people , sad for them because they must have no life!
but anyway us paki thinks trying to get games from ISO groups in 
return for ISO cracks is LAME! A game is a team job between supplier
crackers etc...
        
        Reputation Factor - A good group but not extacly a friendly
one , everyone recall what kind of loyaulty their key USA members
had last spring....

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 |      ||   Azim says: Really a slow month on the supply side 
  \_/|\_/    from PDM , their cracking skills are saving them
 (| o O |)   on a few games : e500 , revenant , abomination
  |  |  |    HOMM3 addon but overall they aren't extactly 
  (_---_)    competitive on the supply side. Must be very 
   |___|     boring to count of new protection to count on 
             winning the game from slow suppliers or by making
             a deal with an ISO group.

 Predicted Performance - Expect them to win a few USA store games
 and get a few games from krautland next month.. They might do 
 well when protections changes a bit ; ie : PDM prolly won abomination
 & revenant due to being faster to adapt to the new Cdilla... But
 as Cdilla doesn't extactly change that often they might not be
 that lucky next month! Expect them to perform well also if VOB
 would be used next month!



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|Release Name              Company           Status   Size   Points   Bonus  |
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 SC broad wars Patch     Blizzard             PAT!      1       1
 Descent 3     Patch     Interplay            PAT!      1       1
 Driver        Patch     GT                   PAT!      1       1
 TA : K        Patch     GT                   PAT!      1       1        1
 R6 RS         Patch     Redstorm             PAT!      1       1
 Drakkan       Patch     Psygnosis            PAT!      1       1
 Tanktics      Trainer   Gremlin              TRN!      1       1
 TA : K        Patch     GT                   PAT!      1       1        1
 demo Racer    cheats    Infogrames           CHT!      1       0.5 

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                                              SUBTOTAL POINTS  8.5 BONUS 2
                                                            TOTAL : 10.5
 
 QUICK REVIEWS:
 Patches aren't reviewed so nothing to report...
 

 ANON PAKI COMMENTS:

 Past Performance - This group is dead plain & simple only miracles like
                    Tiberian Sun saves them ... 1999 has been a terrible
                    year for them leaving them even lower than groups such
                    as DVN , iNTERGANG or MiNiME. SAD!
                    
                    

 Actual Performance :

        Their release group being dead, they are now a Patch group and
        they are doing OK in that area, then again it quite motivating
        for their members to do so as they are listed as suppliers for
        the patches! (so elite!!!!!!!!!) Unless a miracle occures don't
        expect anything from them in Nov apart patches and MAYBE a 
        crappy game or 2...

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 |      ||   Azim says: Last but not least, Razor 1911. A very slow month
  \_/|\_/    for the "GODS" (as all months in 1999 were for them!). What
 (| o O |)   were the key factors to this setback then? Well, lack of 
  |  |  |    motivation among some members and lack of power with the US
  (_---_)    store pickups. 
   |___|    
            
 


 Predicted Performance - Void, Nothing , Nada....

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GRAND TOTALS
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This Month's Totals               Previous Rankings
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1. Class - 150                      
2. Paradigm - 80           
3. Origin -  32            
4. Razor -   10.5           

Current Records (since Oct 1st) 
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Points - 150 (CLASS)
# Of Releases in 1 Month - 22 (CLASS) 
Total # Of Releases - 22 (CLASS)

  If *YOU* have anything to report please notify us at pakireport@paki.com


SUMMARY:

This is Achmed, Apu, Amer, Azim, Azif, Achmed, Anwar, Abdul, and Punjab
signing off.  Catch us next month and always remember...
THE ONES WHO SAY "QUALITY NOT QUANTITY" ARE *ALWAYS* THE LOSING ONES!

Greets: Zila and his bunch of Arab playahs - Who the biggest Gs in New Delhi
        now?  We thought so!  That famous Paki (we know what you're thinking
        but surely there is one somewhere).  Mujibar "Scarface" Patel - Hell 
        yeah beotch, the cops ain't got shit baby word is bond you'll be a
        free Paki again.  Gamisha - Bitch, I ain't the fatha of yo 57 kids!
        Sally Struthers - Why you gotta be talkin trash cryin on TV, 30 cents
        a day might feed some ratty ass kid but it don't buy no endo.  Mad
        Turnip - Yeah boooooooy.  You da man.  Thanks for showin everybody
        that someone on this Earth is lower than us Pakis!

Be sure to watch "Towelhead and Captain Rahib: Defenders of Islamic Justice"
daily on WPKI Channel 1, Pakistan's only station!

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