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 Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 15:40 Post subject: City.Life.SFClone-Unleashed |
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| Quote: | P R E P A R E T O B E U N L E A S H E D ! !
City Life (c) Monte Cristo
Release Date : 05-14-2006 Protection : StarForce
Release Type : CD Game Genre : Strategy
Release Notes:
Welcome to the 21st Century city of the future, where urban management
is taken to a whole new scale.
Create exactly the city you want: build uniquely-designed structures,
from residences to corporate skyscrapers. Improve the quality of life by
providing recreational and entertainment opportunities - without letting
taxes spiral out of control. Solve traffic and pollution problems and
sustain the city resources needed to keep the peace. Spend wisely to
keep your town prosperous, wealthy, contented and healthy.
But will you be able to make the six cultures of City Life live
peacefully together without favoring one of them or will you promote
exclusion? How can you get the suits and the scum live together? How can
you satisfy both the young fringe element and the riche elite?
Install Notes:
This release can be played in two methods - Mount or 1:1 burnt. This is
a true 1:1 clone and not some emu only remove ide drives clone.
As long as you follow instructions, you should have no problem.
If you want to play mounted:
1. Unpack release, install.
2. mount the mini image with latest DT4, no need to remove ide drives.
If you want to burn a real 1:1 copy with no emulation:
1. Unpack release, and tool.
2. Copy tool to wherever you have CD1 image and run tool.
3. Look at your blank disc, and select that manufacturer in the tools
dropbox. If you select the wrong manufacturer type, the game will not
work.
4. Click patchme, and wait until it says Patching done.
5. A new image will be made called unl-cl1 patched. Burn this image in
newest A120 at 4x speed using the datatype SECUROM NEW Also, make
sure the write method is set to RAW DAO. Make sure that there are no
checkmarks next to Rectify subchannel data and Burn rmps to
recordable media.
6. When you hit start, it will say the image is bigger than what is
stated in TOC, select Leave TOC unmodified
7. Burn the rest of the discs as normal since they are not protected.
8. Install the game and play. You can play this clone from your IDE
drives.
Warning 1 - If you get verification failed during load, then your copy
failed.
Warning 2 - Burning to the wrong media type than selected in the tool
guarantees failure.
Warning 3 - Burning the clone with Profile Securom New 4/5 or with
rectify subchannel data or burn rmps to recordable media guarantees
failure.
Enjoy City Life English version, Brought to you first in Flawless 1:1
Quality by Unleashed.
Unleashed salutes all friends of the family, contacts and competition!
Do Not Annoy The Unmedicated Person |
homepage:
http://www.citylife.gameswelt.de/englisch
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 17:01 Post subject: |
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I noticed it, dling now, Im wondering what they mean with:
This is a true 1:1 clone and not some "emu only remove ide drives" clone.
and
Brought to you first in Flawless 1: Quality by Unleashed.
PC: Yes. Console: No.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 17:02 Post subject: |
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starforce cd can be copied 1:1 since ages...
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 17:23 Post subject: |
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That's awesome unleashed the game has been released for a few weeks already as a clone, that didn't require the IDE drives unplugged..
and honestly if you're not going to do a template worth looking at why not use the existing thread: http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22273&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 17:40 Post subject: |
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Great a simcity clone... Does this game actully have anything that Sim city 4 doesn't?
Also its rated 3 and up!? If a 3 year old can actully play this game I don't think its for any serious gamer.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 17:41 Post subject: |
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Its not rated 3 for ability, its rated 3 for content.
This game only has the culture system which SimCity doesn't. Simcity on the other hand has a lot of things this game doesn't, like good gameplay.
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deelix
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 18:31 Post subject: |
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Lots of hard games got 3+ rating, like THPS2...
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deelix
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 18:46 Post subject: |
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The p2p release a couple of days before was the same. But a bad sim city try.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 19:01 Post subject: |
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| ugmaz wrote: | | The p2p release a couple of days before was the same. But a bad sim city try. |
It was more than a coupel days ago, i got it last week and it had been out for some time then.
April 30th is a date suppiled by one site. It also had a mini-image.
Honestly this should be nuked for being pointless.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 19:30 Post subject: |
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burned to disc....doesn't work
failed to identify the disc
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 19:55 Post subject: |
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You have to use the Patchtool and you need to have the media listed in it, not the cheap rubbish you get somewhere, you need to have the Premium version of the media listed, like Sony Supremas.
PC: Yes. Console: No.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 20:44 Post subject: |
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i did everything listed in the nfo
i used platinum cd's
what i didn't find was " Leave TOC unmodified " in the nieuw a120%
i can only choose " keep toc as on source cd, write until end of image file"
" modify lead out adress to the length of the image file"
" keep toc as on source cd, write until lead out adress"
burned 2 times...with the first option , and second with the last option
both doesn't work
and my lowest burning speed is 8, i can't choose 4
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deelix
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 21:09 Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: | | ugmaz wrote: | | The p2p release a couple of days before was the same. But a bad sim city try. |
It was more than a coupel days ago, i got it last week and it had been out for some time then.
April 30th is a date suppiled by one site. It also had a mini-image.
Honestly this should be nuked for being pointless. |
The game or the release?
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 21:21 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | | crossmr wrote: | | ugmaz wrote: | | The p2p release a couple of days before was the same. But a bad sim city try. |
It was more than a coupel days ago, i got it last week and it had been out for some time then.
April 30th is a date suppiled by one site. It also had a mini-image.
Honestly this should be nuked for being pointless. |
The game or the release? |
The release.
Release works but a working release was the p2p release weeks ago.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 22:07 Post subject: |
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Yup this is a lot like Reloaded releasing a cracked TS2: Open for Business. Completely pointless. Sims games have been clones for years because maxis updates and no one bothers to stick around and crack the patches, they're often necessary. Suddenly coming in in the middle of a franchise and cracking one EP was stupid.
and what a shock, reloaded hasn't released a fixed exe for the patch either..
This game has been out for 2 weeks as a clone working in no different manner. Just because unleashed finally got around to it doesn't justify a release as far as I'm concerned.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 22:58 Post subject: |
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| crossmr wrote: | | This game has been out for 2 weeks as a clone working in no different manner. Just because unleashed finally got around to it doesn't justify a release as far as I'm concerned. |
then just ignore it.
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Baleur
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 22:58 Post subject: |
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Right, first you whine that a "group" release a clone when there already is a clone circulating..
Then you will whine that the clone got released when Reloaded releases a cracked one..
Always complaints.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:11 Post subject: |
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That's right.
What does it do for anyone two weeks later to release a clone with your name on it when there is already a working clone that is out there? Nothing. Someone already beat you to the punch, suck it up and move on.
As for reloaded's crack, they released a crack to an EP for a series that has traditionally used clones for a very good reason. The clone was already out, working, and a crack was again pointless. It was a complete waste of time.
It's actually one complaint just two scenarios. Groups releasing pointless stuff just to get their name on something. I'm not sure how that equates to "Always complaints".
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deelix
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:14 Post subject: |
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Well, i haven't tried the full version yet, but when a game dosn't get ANYTHING under 7\10 rates it dosn't suck at all.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:19 Post subject: |
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and you'll want to play it before saying that. Its much like some other game.. very shiny, but the gameplay is completely lacking. It has cultures which is interesting, but doesn't add much to the gameplay. Its all too easy to avoid culture war, so it becomes little more than background noise. It lacks any of the depth that made Simcity fun, and since it was so heavily compared to simcity in previews you'd expect a lot more out of it.
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deelix
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:23 Post subject: |
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What do you think i mean by saying full version.. iv tried the demo, not much to do, but i liked it.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:26 Post subject: |
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I played the full game. a week or so ago. I played it for about 15 hours over 3-4 days. Just not that great. In the thread above I detailed many of the issues I had with the game.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:27 Post subject: |
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Hmm 5 reviews with rating of 8+/10 on gamerankings vs crossmr's opinion.
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crossmr
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| Posted: Sun, 14th May 2006 23:36 Post subject: |
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Yes because reviewers are always dead on. I can't even begin to count the times I've seen reviewers just make crap up and pull scores out of their ass.
I'm not stopping you from downloading it and trying it yourself. I'm just telling you the probelms I've seen with the game:
1) Building repetition is horrible. There are massive areas in cities where you only have 1-3 different building styles and they're very close.
2)Mayor is inexplicably in charge of footing the bill to run businesses, grocery stores, etc.
3)Can't find any way to figure out how much power you're producing and how much you're using besides "not enough, or more than enough"
4)Service areas are too small for things like stores, and hospitals
5)While you can make income on certain buildings, inexplicably you can't on things like grocery stores.
6)Traffic handling is a joke compared to Simcity
7)no zoning. You just place individual building.
8)Culture aspect of game way too easy to ignore
9)seems to be a major bug with the budget where it doesn't actually charge you for any of the energy producing bulidings you have (the monthly cost)
That's just a start
pros:
1)its shiny
2)walking around your city in first person mode is kinda neat
3)3D element is well done, so you can place buildings/roads on an angle, though they didn't really explain that well how to do so.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2006 00:24 Post subject: |
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so if i understand right gfx is nice but the gameplay is shitty
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2006 00:29 Post subject: |
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i agree with glottis sure reviewers sometimes may get it wrong or just differ in opinion to your view but when the game is consistently getting good reviews http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/930964.asp theyre usually right so try for yourself dont just listen to one dissatisfied players opinion.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2006 05:43 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2006 12:21 Post subject: |
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How does this game compare to that other city sim released recently, New York Tycoon I think it was called?
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