AND TODAYS GUEST* : * = JIHAD OF HITMEN. -------------------------------------> > hello and feel welcome jihad! and nice to have you here... * thank you willie! > can you tell me abit about yourself and how you got into the business... * ok. my name is as you allready knew JIHAD and i live in germany... i'm 20 years by now and a member of the group hitmen. ahh, well, i'm not sure but i think i got my FIRST computer in 1984... (i've got my THIRD or FOURTH by now, coz i shot sum machines... ha! ha!) * after laming and gaming around some time, i decided to learn how to code in assembler. but, to be honest i'm NOT a cool democoder or sumthing... in fact it was CURLIN/HITMEN. ex. vision who introduced me to the real scene, so i became a member of VISION. then sum month later SPIT- FIRE/ACTION asked me to become a cracker in action and i said yes! well, i cracked some games and got a bit famous.. later, me and spit had some quarr- els and i LEFT action.. and founded * HITMEN * * with MUCH luck, i joined some COOL members. now i'm running a NICE group, that most of the people should like at least a bit. ah, by the way, i think SPT/ACTION DECLARED WAR to us by now coz he dislikes that CURLIN tells shit about ACTION in VINEWS, but i can't help it, it's everyones OWN opinion. me and spitfire and the other actioners are STILL friends, so i really don't care at all... > ok. have you tried cracking games from cartridge yet? * no, UNFORTUNATELY not.but i love to * to talk to POWERPLANT of LEGEND about cartridge-cracking, coz i suspect the companies to use bank- switching with $de00 - $dfff and that may be hard to crack. (you should know that, if you once tried to LEECH the save-rutin from MK5, AAARGHH!) > please tell me about your best and worst crack! * nothing to say about my best crack, i'm not THAT selfish... but my WORST crack was in fact... * GIANA SISTERS, because i got it FROZEN from a local lamer and inst- alled a cheatmode menue then... but, i haven't been a real scene- mate then.. that's long ago.... > can you tell me about your hardest crack? * hmm, the HARDEST crack was X-OUT, because the protection was in $4806 and no one starts searching at this lame and strange location. i didn't and i had to search for THREE hours! before i found that ONE and ONLY byte i had to change. > can you mention some cool cracking groups? * ok. in no special order: genesis p. action, illusion, ikari+talent, extasy and SURELY some more, but don't KILL ME if i forgot someone... > ok jihad, what about your favourite crackers then? * well, my favourites are theese four guys: snacky/g*p, crisp/action, powerplant/legend and rockstar of extasy... > and what about the worst crakers and cracking groups? * every groups who RE-cracks! but i don't want to mention any special group! > what do you use for tools then? * eh, no one belives it, but i don't use any available cartridge like nordic power, mk5 or so, i'm working with a SELF-burned eprom with S-MON (revised by me) and some own utility routines. > what's your opinion about using short or fat intros? * if you ever checked 1 of my cracks you'll see that i don't give a DAMN about the lenght of the intro. i think it's important if the intro looks pretty, not if it's short.. > what do you think about cheatmodes and double cheating and so on? * BAAAHH!!, I HATE DOUBLE-CHEATS and everybody knows that they are lame.. but this is everyones own decision, some buddies seem to LIKE double- cheats. IT'S THE SAME ABOUT IFFL! * everyone makes overload-iffl by "OPEN" and "GETBYTE" and that's not as cool as it looks like. you know it's not effective in any way... ok. thousands of buds say now: -aaha! jihad is UNABLE to iffl-crack and tells shit about it. but ONE should know I CAN DO IT. but it doesn't change any thing, not in the loading time, not in the file length. > have you cracked any hard protect- ions? * the HARDEST protection i have done * was the protection for... "LOGO" (c) by starbyte software. it was done by MWS/RADWAR, who is a GOOD friend of mine, but he stayed COOL and didn't react on my quest- ions how to DE-protect it... > what do you think of the quality of the games released these days? * 90 out of 100 games are TOTAL CRAP! i'm just keen on "HAWKEYE 2", be- cause MARIO is working on it with a damn GENIUS system. > can you mention any cool software companys these days? * NOONE today, in the past "EPYX" ruled, everone knows why... > what do you think about the cracking scene today and how do you want to change it? * i dislike the scene today, it grows LAME more and more. thousand lame- brains stretch their mouth and try to RAG on serious groups ripping cheats from all others versions and boasting round with it.. that's so lame. i'd apreciate it, if someone * was so fast with supplying originals that there was only ONE group that was RULING!! > what do you think about speed and quality? wich one is the most imp- ortant? * speed is surely important, but is in fact only a question of connect- ions while QUALITY demands some ABILITY. i'm not sure, what is more important, everyone judge for your- self? > what do you think about the idea of the gamers guide? * gamers guide is ABSOLUTELY COOL, but i really get pissed about the importance you put in the length of the cracks. but the rest is cool, really... (you all know we have CHANGED that now to please EVERYONE. hope you like it/w.g ) > ok jihad no more questions thanx for the interview. it has been cool!! * ok. william! thanx for interviewing me, i hope it's not too much... l8er.. jihad of hitmen in 1991.