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Welcome to Steppe's and Yodelking's Ripcompo!
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PRIZES
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The Ripcompo has ended.The winners will be contacted by us as soon as possible. Thanks a lot to all of you who helped us clear the requests. Be assured that you did a great service to the SID community! But now check the higscores for the final results.You think you're a good coder/ripper? Then that's your chance to prove your skills against other coders/rippers! Here you will find a list of c-64 games or demos containing SID tunes that so far NOONE has managed (or even tried) to rip. Most of these tunes have been requested by SID fans all over the world, some have been found by us, the HVSC team. We tried to provide links for most of the files, but some of the stuff is really hard to find, so feel free to submit the ones without a download link to us. Not all of the requests are missing completely. Some of them are in HVSC already, but they don't work with Sidplay2, a real C64 or there are one or several subtunes missing. By taking part in this compo you will not only get the chance to win some nice original software or programming books (some of them can meanwhile even be called collectables!), you will also help the HVSC team to preserve C-64 music for the future! And at the same time you will make the requesters very happy, because you'll make it possible for them to listen to their favourite tunes not only on a real C64 but also on demand whenever they use a PC or even as mp3 in the subway station. :-) Not to forget: You're doing an invaluable service to the evergrowing SID community. After the compo has ended we will announce the winners here, on C-64 news sites like c64.sk and probably even on diskmags. So you see, there's considerable fame to get by winning that compo! ;-) THE RULES:To receive points you have to submit a clean rip that is working in Sidplay2 or a real C64. To make the generation of the SIDs easier for you we suggest you use SidEdit , a mighty PRG2SID converter that will automate certain features for you: You can fill out the necessary header infos like name/author/releasedate, edit the init/play adress and set the PSIDv2NG flags for PAL/NTSC and for the SID chip (6581/8580). It will even generate HVSC standard compliant filenames and has a useful dis-assembler built in. Give it a try!If you manage to do a working rip on a C-64 but still don't know how to convert the tune into a PSID file, send us a mail , and we'll try to help you. To get the full amount of points the rips has to be complete and not be missing any subtunes (soundeffects are OK to skip, but if possible, please rip them too.) Digi-tunes should be sent in as RSID files, instead of the old PSID format, which wouldn't work on a real C-64. Read more about RSID in the RSID TO DO LIST section of the compo. If you can provide us with d64's of those files we miss out on you'll also get points. We will strike the requests from this list as soon as we get a working SID-file of it, just to make sure you don't waste your time on ripping already ripped tunes. So be sure to check back to see if any of the requests were striked, if we have added more requests or if we added an URL to a d64 for any of the requests. HVSC-crew members are also allowed to compete in this compo, with a few restrictions (see below). Points:5 points will be given for each complete SID HUNT rip or if you manage to fix a bugged tune (fixing in this case also means to provide more subtunes, should we have forgotten some).3 points will be given if you find a d64 that we're missing out on from the SID HUNT list (not the RSID list). 2 points will be given if you rip from the RSID list. HVSC members will only get 1 point for that. Sorry, folks. But now: Happy Ripping! :-) |
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