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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Atari ST Cracktro [027] Replicants from Double Dragon II: The Revenge

I will not have too many stories to write for 'CrackTros' (Demo screens that appeared as introductions to cracked video games) as I did not have very many of these back in the day.  I am mainly recording these now because they are art, and need to be preserved. 




I saw this cracktro back in the day.  I always like the intro; the music fits right in with the scroller that was programmed.  I really like the effect used.  I am sure this was used multiple times. Will see if I can capture/transcribe those scroller also!

DemoZoo Entry - https://demozoo.org/productions/86480/
Fujiology Download (Extracted ST Intro Only!) - ftp://fujiology.untergrund.net/users/ltk_tscc/fujiology/ST/R/REPS/REP_DD2.ZIP

Capture info -

This video was captured on May 23, 2018.

The demo was played on an Atari 1040 STf, TOS 1.4, 1MB, equipped with a CosmosEX from Jookie.
A Best Electronics ST Monitor to VGA cable was used, connected to an OSSC 1.6 (processing the video in Line4x mode), with the output being captured by a Startech USB3HDCAP.

Video was edited with Shotcut.

Transcription of the Scroll Text (Language censored with '*'):

3... 2... 1... GO!!! THE ******* BEST REPLICANTS COME BACK WITH: DOUBLE DRAGON II, CRACKED AND TRAINED BY: SNAKE... OK! ENOUGH OF THIS, HERE IS FURY TYPING THE SCROLLTEXT... I GUESS I'M GONNA WRITE A LOT AS THIS IS MY FIRST SCROLLTEXT TO ********. OK, LET'S START FROM THE BEGINING. THIS DEMO WAS CODED BY (GUESS WHO?): FURY... THE GRAPHIXX WERE DONE BY: FURY (YES AGAIN!) AND OF COURSE THE MUZAK IS BY MAD MAX ( MAGNIFICENT MUZAKS, THANX MY FRIEND). LITTLE NOTE: YOU CAN PLAY WITH THE LITTLE VECTORIAL SNAKE BY PRESSING THE ARROW KEYS. AS IT IS NOW, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS DEMO WAS ORIGINALLY CODED 6 MONTHS AGO FOR OUR MEGA DEMO. BUT AS WE WON'T RELEASE A MEGA DEMO, HERE IT IS!!! THE REASON WHY WE DON'T MAKE A MEGA DEMO IS BECAUSE THE CRACKERS WERE SO BUSY THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE A LOADER... ESPECIALLY ONE ( DO YOU SEE WHO I MEAN... HAHAHAHAH!). AND AS YOU MIGHT HAVE ALLREADY DISCOVERED, NO MEGADEMO MEANS MANY INTROS, SO CHRISTMAS WILL BE HOT!!! OK, SOME SPECIAL GREETS: TCB (WHY? WHY? WHY DIDN'T YOU COME IN AUGUST INSTEAD OF JULY? HEY NICK, I HAD BROUGHT BACK A COCA COLA CAN FROM THE USA ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!!! IF YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT, WRITE TO OUR CONTACT ADRESS WHICH WILL BE GIVEN AT THE END OF THE SCROLLTEXT (AND GUESS WHERE IT IS...) AND MEGA GREET TO MY LITTLE MOTHER ******* YELLOW BIRD FROM SNAKE), TEX (MY ALL TIME HEROES. GREAT GAMES), ST CNX (HEY MARLON, HOW'S YOUR DREAM DEMO???), DMA (HI LARCOCIEL AND LOCKBUSTER (ANY PIZZAS LEFT??? FROM FURY AND SNAKE), AVB AND THOR, ZAE ( WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU AT THE TIME WE ARE WRITING THIS. ARE YOU LOST IN THE JUNGLE SURROUNDING MY (FURY) HOUSE??? THANX FOR ALL MY FRIEND), VICKERS (STILL FULLSCREENING???). AND NOW THE GREETINGS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS IN THE UNIVERSAL FEDERATION OF CRIME: MCA, MIKE AND BIRDY, TXT , AUTOMATION, BIG FOUR, REVOLUTION, MEDWAY BOYS, LOST BOYS, AXEL OF XXX, TSB, PHALANX, OMEGA, SYNC, NO CREW, THE BROD, MANOLO LE GITAN, JOHN FROM GREECE, NEXT, AND BLOODY HELL WE'RE OUT OF IDEAS, SO **** TO OVERLANDERS.....................................          

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