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- Subject: Re: Turbo CE - "Secret message" [fact]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.104920.1@csbina.csubak.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:49:20 GMT
- References: <BzDCGp.Mnz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec17.192002.23939@hellgate.utah.edu> <4fBn5ki00VIK80w2Iy@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <4fBn5ki00VIK80w2Iy@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Robert W. Igo" <gryphon+@CMU.EDU> writes:
- > Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.sf2: 22-Dec-92 Turbo CE - "Secret
- > message".. WEST JASON BRUCE@ponder. (1406)
- >
- >
- >> "This game to played in blah blah blah blah. Not to be played in the
- >> United States, Canada, Japan, or ?????. blah blah blah.
- >
- >> Any people violating this will be prosecuted to the fullest extent
- >> of the law blah blah. Copyright infrindment blah blah. Fines blah blah.
- >> Jail term blah blah. "
- >
- >> But, it did make it VERY clearn the chip was highly illegal around here and
- >> not meant to be here in anyway. Seems to me like some Capcom engineer/janitor
- >> had the smarts to EPROMM burn copys of all the throw away chips to make himself
- >> some money.
- >
- >> - Jason
- >
- >
- > Yeah, but this seems to conflict with this:
- >
- > Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.sf2: 22-Dec-92 Turbo edition The
- > Prock@teetot.acusd.e (4967)
- >
- >
- >> Well It seems that I have the opportunity to review the new Turbo
- >> SFII for all the reading hordes. Some of this has been mentioned
- >> in another post.
- >
- >> I played it this saturday down at the Hazard Center in San Diego.
- >> The arcade is Yellow Brick Road which is owned by Capcom. They
- >> got the Turbo in on Friday.
- >
- >
- >> Andrew Prock
- >
- > Now, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but it's puzzling... My
- > initial confusion was "if it's illegal, why could Capcom have put one in
- > one of their own arcades?" Perhaps there is more than one version of
- > the accelerated game running around, or perhaps the one in the first
- > poster's local arcade was a stolen chip which the clerk put in the old
- > box without having to pay Capcom to get the official turbo game.
- >
- > Puzzling...
- >
- >
- > [********************************* Bob Igo ********************************]
- > "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --Prof. Larry Wasserman
- > [***************************** gryphon+@cmu.edu ***************************]
-
- I think he was talking about the BlackBelt, and Andrew meant the REAL,
- Capcom-made Turbo. BlackBelt was a hack, but Turbo was Capcom's legal counter,
- so nobody had an excuse to buy pirate chips.
-