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JaKoLaNteN GBA Charts 05/03
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  /     ____/_\      \/     \       << Issue 3 (May 1st - May 31st) 2003 >>
 /     /      /   ___/       \                << By JaKoLaNteN >>
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    Firstly this is the FINAL issue after only three months its over. Thats
    not too bad though is it? The Independant GBA Charts only lasted TWO
    issues! I read the GBA-NFO charts today and I must say they are pretty
    much exactly how a good chart to be. You all must understand that the
    whole point of GBA Monthly was to document the scene WHILE THERE WERE NO
    OTHER CHARTS. For this reason this issue will be the final issue and you
    should all read the GBA-NFO charts from now on. If anyone wants me to do
    comments in their charts I would be more than happy by the way =)   

    Welcome to another month! I hope you like the (slightly) new look and
    enjoy reading another (almost) quality issue!
    
    May had lots happen. Lots of interesting games from a lot of different
    groups and more trainers than usual too.
 
    Due to many complaints about the general lameness of IRC, every "IRC
    group" is chucked into the Independant section. This would have been a
    major change but GBATemp have now stopped releasing. Read about it in
    the ptc section =) With all the remaining IRC guys together perhaps 
    Independants will have a chance at accumulating a decent amount of 
    points. Well maybe :P 






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  __ _/  /  |  __/  /  / _/    \_  _/ _/_ __
 \\_\\ _____| _____/_____\__/\__/__\  \ //_//
      \/    |/                      \  /
 +-----------------------------------\/--------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
   14th   Rockman Zero 2 +11 Trainer                          JAP/IPS   +1
   19th   Wario Ware Inc. (C) Nintendo                        EUR/64    +1
   21st   Donkey Kong Country +6 Trainer                      EUR/IPS   +1
   23rd   Wario Ware Inc. Trainer Fix                         EUR/IPS    0
   24th   Tottoko Hamataro 4 (C) Nintendo                     JAP/64    +1
   31st   Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow +10 Trainer             EUR/IPS   +1
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   Cezar Getting into the training I see! A nice big +11 for Rockman Zero 2
   started the month well and surprised some since there hasnt been a cezar
   trainer for years. A new member who likes coding perhaps? Who knows. Good
   anyway.
   
   Wario comes pre-trained but has GFX errors caused by the trainer towards
   the end of the game. It still gets a point though because it was only one
   game out of like 200 that was broken and the game was still entirely
   playable. Its a pity it was 4 days before a fix was released though.

   Donkey Kong Country trainer was pretty early and had all the options you
   would expect for a platformer. Some complained about the lack of a level
   skip but who needs level skip when youve got a level unlocker that opens
   ALL the levels? Another interesting thing is that in the first cut scene
   type thing Diddy is supposed to be killed by an extra tough Kremling.
   However with the invincibility option turned on Diddy doesnt die and the
   Kremling just walks back and forth forever! For this reason start a game
   with invincibility off, save the game after the intro, turn the GBA off
   then turn back on and activate invincibilty.

   An above average month for Cezar.






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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   24th   Midnight CLub Street Racing (C) Konami              EUR/32     0
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Drastic and Lost. What a name. Perfect for a 2 year old euro dupe like
   this. Get someone to make a nice DNL file_id.diz too. People may then
   take you seriously (and the charts will be cooler :P)





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 \_   __/  |  |  /  <   _  |___   //\   _  _/
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  +-----------:------------:-----------MTX!-----------------------------------+
  | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
  +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
    01st   Naruto (C) Tomy                                     JAP/64    +2
    03rd   Castlevania: Minuet Of Dawn (C) Konami              JAP/64    +1
    05th   Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow (C) Konami              EUR/64    +5
    07th   Lufia The Ruins Of Lore (C) Atlus *FIXED*           USA/64    +3
    17th   Iridion 2 (C) Majesco Sales                         EUR/64    +3
  +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Naruto is a side scrolling platformer type thing in which you beat up 
    people. Its pretty kewl. Check out the new Eurasia intro too. Its got an
    awesome rainbow Eurasia logo and a nice Yoshis Island inspired 
    background. Worth the download for just the intro I say!

    Then we had Castlevania first in Jap then 2 days later the Euro version.
    Im impressed! Its pretty much the same as Circle of the Moon and Im sure
    Castlevania fans wont be dissapointed.
    





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 /  /__\/__/ _/____ /    /___ /    /(\S!
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  _____ _____  _____ ___     __             
 /   _/   _ /_/_   // _/____/_/___lIGHTfORCE
    _/    //  _/  /   \     _\    / 2 o o 3  
 ___\ _____\__\____\ ____________\-------------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
   10th   Sutekina Obentou (C) MTO                            JAP/64    +1
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   One Jap game. LFC have had better months. Still better than nothing. Hope
   to see Lightforce release more next month.





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   /      /        \/    /         \
  /      /              /    /     /
 /      /     /\       /          /
 '-----''----'--'-----''---------'-------------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
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   09th   Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (C) Konami              USA/64     0
   16th   Iridion 2 (C) Majesco Sales *BROKEN*                USA/64    -1
   21st   Weekend Miljonairs (C) Zoo Digital                  DUT/32     0
   25th   Chessmaster (C) Ubi Soft *BROKEN*                   USA/24    -1
   25th   Chessmaster (C) Ubi Soft *FIXED*                    USA/32     0
   25th   Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (C) THQ            EUR/32     0
   28th   The Incredible Hulk +5 Trainer *BROKEN*             USA/IPS   -1
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   Well here we are at the Independant section. As expected these are 
   probably the worst games of the month. Castlevania (terr. dupe) was
   GBATemps last release. Many people were happy about this but were they
   really THAT bad? The game was later repacked and rereleased by Sars. 

   We then had Trashmans uncracked/broken Iridion release. At least he beat
   the big boys to gettin it first. Too bad it hangs after a bit and is
   pretty much useless.

   Weekendend Miljonairs is a Dutch version of Who Wants to be a Millionare
   released by GBANow.

   Then there was Batman. His Chessmaster release was obviously broken with
   the tell tale sign of being only 24Mbits. He then fixed it and wrote a
   hilarious NFO with his extremely bad english. He also released that horse
   game which I thought had been released years ago. On further inspection
   though, I found that the one old Asgard version was a beta.  




   
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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
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   19th   Donkey Kong Country (C) Rare                        EUR/64    +3
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   An excellent release from Menace. This SNES classic is perfect for the
   GBA. About 3 or 4 weeks early too! I spent more time playing this than
   all the other releases for this month combined! WTF were they thinking
   with that dancing game though? 






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 //   \  /  \    /  //   |  |/   _____/____/ .
 _____|\/|___\______/\_______\_______/-rtx! _|-------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   07th   Lufia The Ruins Of Lore (C) Atlus *BROKEN*          USA/64    -1
   11th   Finding Nemo (C) Disney Interactive (C) THQ         USA/64    +3
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   After Marchs comments about the Demise of Mode 7 im glad to see this. The
   Lufia NFO clearly states that Mode 7 are still alive and kicking. As for 
   this release I really dont wanna have to deduct points, but when you sell
   items the game freezes. -1 Im afraid. A pity it was fixed by Eurasia and
   not by Mode 7 themselves.

   Finding Nemo is a nice USA firstie to bad all movie based games pretty
   much suck (This is no exception). An okay month anyway guys. 




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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
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   09th   Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters International (C) Konami    JAP/128    0
   20th   Iridion 2 (C) Majesco Sales *FIXED*                 USA/64     0
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   I really appreciate the effort Mugs put into their releases. Yugioh even
   comes with a scan of the cart in the archive. Now we can print it off and
   stick it on our flashcarts! YAY!
   
   On a much sadder note the Iridion nfo states that this will be the last
   Mugs release for a long time, if not FOREVER. Whether this is actually
   true or not is debatable but it must have some truth behind it for them
   to actually write it. We'll wait and see...  




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  |    |                                                                   
  |/___| - ATIENTZ                                                         
            PRESENTOS     
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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+  
   02nd   Super Puzzle Fighter 2 (C) Capcom                   USA/64     0
   12th   Matchbox Cross Town Heroe (C) THQ                   EUR/32     0
   13th   Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (C) THQ            GER/32     0
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Has Winmx been milked for all its worth? I sure hope so cause these terr.
   dupes are getting really boring...



 
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  | _/  /  \|  |  |  _/\  \ \  |  |/  / _/ |
 _| \__/    \_ | _|  |  \  \_  |  / _/  |  |_
 \| _|___/\  /_|_\| _____\  /__|____\_____ |/
 +|/-------\/-----|/------\/--------------\|---------------------------------+ 
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   09th   Medal Of Honor Underground (C) EA Games             EUR/64     0
   09th   Tom And Jerry In Infurnal Escape (C) Warner Bros    EUR/64     0
   20th   Sega Arcade Gallery (C) Sega                        EUR/64    +3
   24th   Disney Sports: Snowboarding (C) Konami              EUR/128   +3
   25th   Okaitoku Series 5 (C) Culture Brain                 JAP/64    +1
   25th   Hamster Monogatari 3 (C) Culture Brain              JAP/64    +1
   25th   Woody Woodpecker: Crazy Castle 5 (C) Kemco          JAP/64     0
   28th   Pro Beach Soccer (C) Wanadoo                        EUR/32    +3
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   Now that Patience are given any GBATemp roms, They of course have
   released a lot more games than usual. Even English firsties! YAY!   




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      /___)/___)/_  /     /  /___   /  /   / /\  /    0
     /    /  \ /__ /__ __/_ ____/__/_ /___/ /  \/     0
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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   12th   Wario Ware Inc. (C) Nintendo                        USA/64    +3
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   The PS2 guys Precision present their first GBA release! If only every
   groups first release was this good! A full english Made In Wario release,
   sorry Wario Ware Inc. Weeks early! This is what I like to see. Will we
   see more GBA games from Precision or was this just a one off thing? 





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 _  ___  _ _ ____ _ _ ______
 _cXc__ __ _ _  _ _ _ _ ____
 _  ___ __ _ _  _ _ _ _ _  _
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 ____ ____ _______  _______ +------------------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   23rd   Yugioh! Stairway to the Destined Duel (C) Konami    USA/128    0
   25th   Getbackers: Metropolis Dakkan Sakusen (C) Konami    JAP/64    +1 
   30th   Bouken Yuuki Densetsu Plaston (C) Takara *BROKEN*   JAP/64    -1
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   No points deducted for Getbackers as it truly was a race against RS.
   Bouken Yuuki Pluster World: Densetsu Pluston was uncracked. They even
   said in their NFO that they need some l33t crackers to crack their l33t
   games. Lucky RS stepped in and cracked it like they were told!





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 \__/  /_____\_____ /____\___|____\__\   /
   \___/    /_______\               /___/ 
         _______  ___ ___     _____       
        _) ____(__)  |  (_____\   /_       
        \_____  /________/\    \   /_     
 +----- /________/-------/___|_____\sDW -------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   20th   Britneys Dance Beat (C) THQ                         GER/64     0
   22nd   Bratz (C) Ubisoft                                   EUR/32     0
   23rd   Agassi Tennis (C) Cokem                             USA/32     0
   24th   Disney Sports: Skateboarding (C) Konami             EUR/128    0
   24th   Disney Sports: Football (C) Konami                  EUR/128    0
   25th   Getbackers: Metropolis Dakkan Sakusen (c) Konami    JAP/64    +1
   28th   Pro Beach Soccer (C) Wanadoo                        EUR/128   -1
   28th   Bouken Yuuki Plaston GP (C) Takara                  JAP/64    +2
   30th   Bouken Yuuki Densetsu Plaston (C) Takara *FIXED*    JAP/64    +2
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   The biggest thing this month would probably be Rising Sun. These guys 
   have been averaging at least a game a day since the started on the 20th 
   which is simply incredible. With some improved quality control these guys
   could easily be BIG players in the GBA Scene.

    


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  sUXXORS    _______ _____|     | _______
    2k3    __\  ___/_|_   |    _|_\  ___/___
           |______   |/        \|_____     |
            /___ ____|____|     | /________|
 +------------------------|_____|--------------------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   16th   Finding Nemo (C) THQ                                GER/64     0
   18th   Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (C) THQ                   GER/64    +3
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Released German before English? Havent seen that for a long time.
   A Playable world first gets three points though so well done guys.





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 .__________   // __________/---------------.
 |  /   /  / _/\____  \/   /    tristar     |
 | /  //__/   \ ______/  //       and       |
 |/__ /   \____\/-mo!/__ /    red sector!   |
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 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |    
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   17th   Tennismaster Series 2003 (C) Microids               EUR/64    -1
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Oh dear. This was released independantly about a year ago. There was talk
   of the ind one been a beta but I (and others) checked and found it was an
   exact dupe. Get a better dupe check next time! Hope next month is better.




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 |   /    /   _/   /   \    /  \  \  \      |
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 <----------------------- / --------mAZ!____|--------------------------------+
 | Day  | Game/ Company                                     | Info    | Pnts |
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   22nd   Sega Arcade Gallery +7 Trainer                      EUR/IPS   +1
   28th   The Incredible Hulk (C) Universal                   USA/64    +3
   29th   The Incredible Hulk +5 Trainer *FIXED*              USA/IPS   +1
   30th   Wing Commander Prophecy (C) EA Games                USA/32    +3
   30th   Rugrats Go Wild (C) THQ                             USA/32    +3
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Not too much activity at the start, but things picked up towards the end
   of the month. 3 US titles and 2 quality trainers. A pretty standard Venom
   month.

   The only game here I bothered to flash was The Incredible Hulk. Now I
   wish I hadnt. Heres my formula for figuring out if a game is good or bad.
   Game + Movie / GBA = Boring Shit. Its really that simple. At least the
   trainer had a nice menu :P    



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 | Rank | Group                                    | # Releases  | Total     |
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   #01    Eurasia                                      05           14
   #02    Venom                                        05           11
   #02    Patience                                     08           11              
   #03    Cezar                                        06           05
   #04    Rising Sun                                   09           04
   #05    Menace                                       01           03 
   #05    Precision                                    01           03
   #05    Suxxors                                      01           03
   #06    Mode Seven                                   02           02
   #07    Lightforce                                   01           01
   #08    Retards Dumping Games                        03           00
   #08    Most Ugly Gameboy Sceners                    02           00
   #08    Patienz                                      03           00
   #08    Drastic And Lost                             01           00
   #09    Tristar Red Sector                           01          -01
   #10    Independant                                  07          -03
 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   Eurasia is this months winner. Well done.

   Well thats the end of the final issue hope you liked reading it. I highly
   recommend you also read the GBA-NFO Charts. Good luck to you guys!

  

 <-------------------------JaKoLaNteN SigninG ouT.-------------------------->


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