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BEst of the Best:Version 1.6 2002-2003 copyright By Thanos rulzs
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Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Nintendo GameBoy
Version 1.5
Created by Thanos rulzs
April 13th 2002
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Version History
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April 13th Version 1.0
Created the FAQ,with all statics of enemies done
April 14th Version 1.1
Make some changes to FAQ
April 15th Version 1.3
Made some updates on the FAQ
April 16th Version 1.4
Redo the FAQ and finally accepted by Cjay,it takes a while,whew~>.
April 30th Version 1.4.1
Minor changes to the FAQ
May 13th Version 1.5
Added Review to the FAQ
August 14th 2oo3 Version 1.6
Revamp the FAq,updated the legal notes.Updated on some enemy list as well as
training option.Also updated Review section.I'm still haven't receive emails
for the secret fighter so i need to appeal to gamers to have a solution on that
secret fighter.But there shouldn't be any more updates until i receive an
email,and after that it should be the final version.
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Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Legal notes
3. FAQ guide
3.1 Controls
3.2 The basic guide
3.3 Options
3.4 Knowing your opponents
4. Contact information
5. Codes and secrets
6. FAQ
7. Review
8. Credits
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1. Introduction
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Welcome to this guide. This is my first FAQ and I hope to make it a successful
one. I felt a bit bored so I decided to dig up some old games and play to
refresh my memory as well as to brush up my skills. Any suggestions to improve
my FAQ skills would be greatly appreciated.
This game is a fighting genre and it's created and copyright by Electro Brain
and licensed by Nintendo. Another appearance from the game is the Nintendo
system.
Now is a beginning of a new fighting chapter. You are invited to the Kumate
world championship where you face the world's best exponents with skill, speed
and intelligence. From a rookie status, you are going to make a name for
yourself in the ultimate world championship by competing against the best. From
here you make a reputation of yourself and earn the money where famous fighters
earned. And the main priority is to beat the best to win the titles and become
a recognized champion as "The Best of the Best".
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2. Legal Notes
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If you are planning to host this FAQ, plz email and ask me first.Or just link
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polite in your email and always have a subject head on it. The following sites
may host this FAQ: www.gamefaqs.com,www.cheats.de,www.faq.ign.
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Webmasters & readers take note
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This FAQ is a legal document of Thanos rulzs and no one should sell,
copy,modify, plagiarize ,displaying on your website or have any selfish
intentionsof benefiting yourself. In short, you can't do anything to this FAQ
unless you have my permission simply because the law is on my side. Do skip
this section if you want, but READ it if you have any intention of putting it
on your website.It is a free document that cannot be used in any sort of
commercial transaction, including selling it or giving it away as a gift.
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Readers take note
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If you find the FAQ a bit too long, feel free to save it in your hard drive
but do not plagiarize and modify this FAQ and claim it it's yours or alter
it and then put it on some game websites and claim it as your
work(plagiarize).Feel free to print it out for your personal reference
only.Thank you.You may not incorporate any part of this FAQ into your own guide
without obtaining my express written permission
With the legal notes out of the way, sit back and enjoy this FAQ.
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3. FAQ guide
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After the title screen, press any button to reach the menu for options. There
are 10 types of options available; Matches, name, preview, training, physical,
save, load, select hits, grading, next/previous options.
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3.1 Controls
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Dpad: To control character's movement as well as attacks
Controls:
Right: To move the character forward
Left: To move character backward
Down: To duck an attack (must be accurate when opponent is striking)
(Note: During the match, Dpad is used to determine the sort of attacks you
want.)
Select button: To exit the place you are in.
Start Button: To pause the match during the fight
Buttons:
A button: To attack or select something
(Note: Used with Dpad to enable certain attacks. Go to select attacks to find
out more.)
Buttons: To select character, start a match, to attack (during a match).
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3.2 The basic guide
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The aim is to knock out the opponent in order to win the fight. The rules are
simple, when you are to close the opponent or the opponent is temporary knock
out fight is stop. The referee will only start counting the fall when the
opponent is knocked out. A round has a time limit of one minute. The
floodlights above can easily identify your health bar. The left hand side is
yours and the right hand side is your opponents'. In the invitational street
fight the health bar can be identify as flames on the cone. There are no rules
there except when you get to close to the opponent, the fight would stop
(street fight). Go to the training room to train for the increase of ability so
as to increase the chances of winning. Strategize your fight well and plus some
craftiness and abilities, fight would be easily won. Don't get cornered or you
would be easily beaten unless you fight dirty meaning taking some cheap shots
if there's a chance. Be offensive when you can or you will never beat the
opponent. Jab attacks are good counterattacks, so use them often when needed
and the more strength you have, the stronger the jab is.One more thing to
add,if you do lose,let say during a tournment match,you will lose the lowerst
title you have and your abilities will drop.For street fights,you will only
lose your abilities at a ceratin percentage. On the last note,those on the
verge of defeat,all the floodlights become black,the attack power increase
rather high,so take note of that as opponents with head attack you will knock
you out cold but thier resist drop as one hit will knock them down.
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3.3 Options
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Matches
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This option allows a fight to begin depending on the opponent you select.
Before a match begin, a pom-pom a girl will come out to display number of
rounds. If you lose, the pom-pom girl will display a first aid sign. If you
win, the pom-pom girl will show the title you have won. There are up to 16
titles to be won. A referee is there to guide the match although he can't be
seen. The rules of the game are easy, when you attack or being attack by the
same move continuously he will stop the match for a while. The match will be
stop when the two fighters stay too close each other or a fighter is knocked
out temporary. The match is stop when a fighter is knocked out and the fighter
that is left standing is declared the winner.
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Name
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This option allows you change the name with a specific number of characters.
Please note that the name will not be saved when you load the password. If you
want, you can change the name you want.
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Preview
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This option to view the auto fights with an opponent. This option is best if
you want to observe our opponents' fighting style as well as to spot his
weakness.
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Training
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This option is to train your abilities; reflexes, strength, resist. You can
build up these areas by being at the training room often. The best tip is to go
into the room after each fight because you can build up your abilities fast and
it increases more than your usual workout.
Resist: You will need to keep hitting A until a point that the fight hits the
training pad.Maximum gain for each training reflex is 2%.
Strength: It's about the same as the Reflex, hitting A until a point that the
fight hits the training pad.Maximum gain for each training reflex is 3%.
Reflex: In this mode, the pads up,middle,below will move forward,hit it.It
calls for reaction for you,so the more you hit,the higher your reflexs are.This
is the easiest one to built up fast than the other two.
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Physical
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This option is to view your stats as well as your opponents' stats. This option
works best if you are preparing a fight with an opponent to gauge you and your
opponent's ability as well as to make a advisable decision to fight or not.
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Save and Load
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The save option enables you to save your current settings with your skills,
fighting style, prize money and the titles you have won all in tact.
The load option allows you to load the password you have save earlier when you
are playing this game. Don't forget that the name can't be change and it will
return as default.
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Select Hits
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This option allows you to view and experiment the different types of fighting
skills. Make sure you select the style that suits you most in order to benefit
from the fight. Try different combinations to see whether which one suits you
most. Remember that you have to select one you are comfortable with to bring
success to your quest here.
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Grading system
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This option is to view your titles you have won as well to see the titles held
by someone. This option also lists the top 8 money earners ranking. Remember
that you can increase prize money by simply winning a lot of titles or
increasing your abilities.
TOP 8 earners at first:
1.Cogneur $950000
2.Kun Liem $800000
3.Simpsom $650000
4.Gonzales $500000
5.Funari $350000
6.Elmutt $225000
7.Flimrick $175000
8.Goldman $150000
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Next
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This option is to view the opponents through and fro. Remember you can't face
some opponents because of bad ranking meaning you are not good enough yet.
The opponents in order: Tsong Po, Woodman, Le Blanc, Wantanabe, Ivanoff, Lord,
Chan Lee, Goldman, Flimrick, Elmutt, Furnari, Gonzales, Simpson, Kun Liem,
Cogneur.
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3.4 Knowing your opponents
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This section will let you know more about your opponents.
Name: Tsong Po
Abilities: Reflex 30%, Resist 20%, strength 20%
Strategy: This opponent is easy, just keep beating him with series of attacks,
don't let up your offensive attacks and you can beat him easily for his title.
You can brawl with him if you want.
Fighting type: Selection number 1
Name: Woodman
Abilities: Reflex 35%, Resist 25%, strength 30%
Strategy: Another easy opponent, slightly better than Tsong Po, easily beaten
if you keep up the offensive attacks and don't let up.
Fighting type: Selection number 2
Name: LE Blanc
Abilities: Reflex 30%, Resist 40%, strength 35%
Strategy: His attacks are not so damaging, so being offensive won't be a
problem. Just don't let up on attacks and beat him for his title.
Fighting type: Selection number 3
Name: Wantanabe
Abilities: Reflex 35%, Resist 45%, strength 40%
Strategy: Opponent is not bad, beware of his backhand attack blow to the head,
it can knock you out temporary. So avoid this and be offensive when you can
and you should do fine.
Fighting type: Selection number 3
Name: Ivanoff
Abilities: Reflex 30%, Resist 60%, strength 45%
Strategy: This guy is quite good, and his offensive attacks is good, so when he
tries to store up for a big kick, just wait for him to come and be offensive to
hit him. He will get hit and continue to be offensive and avoid the jabs of his
attacks.
Fighting type: Selection number 4
Comment: You will get an invitation fight from a fighter named Bear or other
names.
Name: The Lord
Abilities: Reflex 40%, Resist 60%, strength 50%
Strategy: This fighter is quite good, but just follows the strategy I use on
Ivanoff and you will do find and beat him for his title.
Fighting type: Selection number 4
Comment: It will display a "Welcome to Top 10 screen" after beating him.
Name: Chan Lee
Abilities: Reflex 55%, Resist 60%, strength 50%
Strategy: His attacks are quite good. But his fighting style is the same as the
Lord and Ivanoff so just use the same strategy and you will do fine. His
attacks are quite powerful.No idea why he's not top of the top 10 earners list
at first,because i feel that he isn't that strong,at the bottom half
fighters,it appeals to me that Wantanabe is more deadlier that the rest.
Fighting type: Selection number 4
Comment: Gets another invitation fight from the invitation fighters.
Name: Goldman
Abilities: Reflex 55%, Resist 65%, strength 60%
Strategy: This fighter is the best among the four similar fighting type
fighters, but the same strategy can be applied to this fighter and beat him for
his title. Be sure to build up your abilities, as fights will become even
tougher. Don't be on the defensive side as his attacks are quite powerful.
Fighting type: Selection number 4
Name: Flimrick
Abilities: Reflex 60%, Resist 60%, strength 75%
Strategy: Attacks powerful, can knocked the lights out of you should you always
be too offensive and defensive. Don't brawl, instead use some to damage and
counter his attacks. Beware of his flying kick,it's quite fast.
Fighting type: Selection number 5
Comment: Get another invitation from the invitation fighter.
Name: Elmutt
Abilities: Reflex 60%, Resist 85%, strength 75%
Strategy: Its fighting style is the same as Flimrick, so just use the same
strategy used on Flimrick.But it takes a while to knock him out as his resist
is rather high.
Fighting style: Selection number 5
Name: Furnari
Abilities: Reflex 60%, Resist 95%, strength 70%
Strategy: Very power attacks, quite fast in his attacks, but just close and
attacks him because he uses jabs and the damaging scissors kick. Beat him with
some jabs and some offensive attacks and close range attacks. This guy can soak
up attacks, as his resist is quite good.
Fighting type: Selection number 6
Comment: Get another invitation from the invitation fighter
Name: GONZALES
Abilities: Reflex 80%, Resist 70%, strength 90%
Strategy: Very good fighter. Fast in attacks and fights like Furnari. So use
the same strategy used on Furnari and you will do just fine.
Fighting type: Selection number 6
Name: Simpson
Abilities: Reflex 90%, Resist 89%, strength 88%
Strategy: Very strong abilities, so logically you will know he's a good
fighter. Be careful of his quick kick to the head, that can knock you out
temporary (about 2 food lights). Just try to attacks his legs and use jabs and
close attacks like whacking his legs but don't brawl with him.
Fighting type: Selection number 7
Comment: Get another invitation from the invitation fighter
Name Kun Liem
Abilities: Reflex 93%, Resist 94%, strength 95%
Strategy: This guy and Simpson fighting type is the same, his entire offensive
attacks uses legs as deadly knockouts. Leg attacks are quick and effective and
impressive. Watch out or you be knock out easily. Best tip is the strategy use
on Simpson.Kun liem seems to be tougher than Cogneur to me.
Comment: 2nd best fighter in world.
Name: Cogneur
Abilities: Reflex 99%, Resist 99%, strength 99%
Strategy: This guy has attacks from selection 1 to 7, close range, far range,
medium range all are deadly. Nearly flawless in terms of attacks. Best tip is
don't let him be too offensive and don't brawl with him. Instead, use jabs and
some close range attacks and whack the legs for him to be immobile. Or force
him to the far range attack, he should use the kick like Ivanoff or others,
wait for him to come and attacks and then use some close range attacks. After
a few rounds, you should become the world champion.
Fighting type: Selection number 8
Comment: "You have made it. Congratulations!! Now defend your title" appears
after beating him.
Invitational fighters (in order)
BEAR, PUNCHER, DOC JUMP, CRAZYLEG, HAMMER, WARRIOR, AND SECRET FIGHTER.
Note: Based on my strategies are not good enough, so go and train your
abilities for better chance of winning. After being one of the tops, your
fighter should flex and show off after beating an opponent. As for these
invitational fighters, they are all good and pretty damaging, so don't get too
defensive and don't brawl, instead whack the legs, use some medium range like
kick to the head and mostly importantly, use jabs because it's the most
effective offensive and counterattack attacks. And finally, I have no idea how
to face and beat this secret character. I just happen to be playing around with
the passwords. Any idea of facing or beating this person will be credited (with
no cheats).Invitational fighters matches are no holds barred,everything goes,no
time limit so that it rather fast pace and there can only be one winner that is
left standing after the fight!!!Do note that every Invitational fighters are
tough,after you beat one Invitational fighter,you will get another Invitational
fighter Invitation until you face the secret fighter but i can't beat him
yet:(.
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4. Contact information
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Any comments or strategies or anything I have left out, please drop me a mail
at
[email protected]. You will be credited and please don't be annoyed
when I don't reply because I quite busy at school at times. Thanks for reading
this guide.
Thank you for reading this guide.You also can post at my forum at
www.members4.boardhost.com/Thanos. Thank you and please be polite if you have
posting on forum or emailing to me.Take notethat I'm changing email soon and do
if you want to contact me,drop me a mail and I'll give you my email address. If
you plan to give constructive
criticisms,DO NOT bash the FAQ,just plain suggestion or email will be
ignore.
Emails I will take:
* Constructive criticisms
* Boss strategies
* Any things I miss out, corrections
* Requesting the FAQ to put on certain website
* Questions
* Useful information, bonus stage stratgies
Email I will not take:
* Spam mails, hate mails
* Spam my thoughts on the game
* Stupid questions
* Useless information
* Questions that's covered in the guide
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5. Codes and secrets
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Password for winning lower 8 titles: CTO6466H/
Password for winning 12 titles: NCSP4.BHJ
Password for winning all titles: N0S543PHM
Password for the secret fighter: N0S544PHP
Note: For the secret fighter, you need to beat a opponent first (eg: Tsong Po),
then the invitation card will appear then put yes to face him.
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6. FAQ(Q and A section)
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How to I get started?
By inserting the game pak into the Gameboy, turn on the power and you are done.
How to actually start playing?
In the menu screen, press any button to go into the option screen to get
access of any options you want (See FAQs Above.)
How do I improve my character's ability?
By going into the training room often, some good fights between opponents can
also improve your ability. Just be careful not to lose. (See Strategies
section)
How come my save can't load?
It's either you didn't press the save option to view password or you type the
password incorrectly
How come I can't fight some of the fighters?
It is because your ranking and abilities are not good enough to fight against
topnotch opponent so it displays BAD RANKING.
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7. My Review
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Introduction:
This is one of the few gameboy games I have.In fact,my gameboy games are few
and far between but most of the are 34 in ones.When i first bought the game,i
feel a bit bored at the fighting and the game look dead to me.Yes,dead and
boring to me because i didn't know the game very well back then and it look
crappy. But after a while, my thinking change as i began to be better and
better,seeing many fighting techniques impress me as well as the desire to
complete the game made me stick to the game for a while before i stop.Then my
friends borrowed it,said that it's quite okay and they have completed made me
go back to the game again,this time,i replayed the game and enjoyed.That's why
i wrote a FAQ over at the gamefaqs.L:)
Story plot:
The story is like this.You are invited to the Kumate world championship where
you face the world's best exponents with skill, speed and intelligence. From a
rookie status, you are going to make a name for yourself in the ultimate world
championship by competing against the best. From here you make a reputation of
yourself and earn the money where famous fighters earned. And the main priority
is to beat the best to win the titles and become a recognized champion as "The
Best of the Best".
Game play:
Gameplay is good, if you are a fighting fan or martial arts fan. This game
provide a wide range of attacks which have excellent number of fighting
styles.This game is not hard provided you got the fundamentals right as well as
some of the basic fighting techniques.There is a wide variety of options
here.The options are quite cool, they have a preview option to see the fight
and prepare with strategies for the perfect solutions for your fight to win and
the these variety of options that are
unique like changing of names and some of the options provide good information
you want to know(eg: Physical abilities and Grading system you might want to
know.) The best thing is: You can save at anytime of the game with a provided
password for you to load anytime you feel you want to have a break off this
game.It also have a training ground your you to built up your character
attributes and excell better in the game.You can also dodge from fights which
is quite cool to add to a fighting game but i prefer counter moves added,it
will make the game more interesting.
The Invitational fighters are quite cool,because it's a street fight.Yes,no
holds barred,everything goes,no time limit so that it rather fast pace and
there can only be one winner that is left standing after the fight!!!The only
thing I don't like about the fighting styles are they are about the same,only
more aggressive attacks are added and aggressive attacks doesn't mean that the
attack power damage is good,instead,the jabs are stronger and damage a
character which doesn't make sense!!
Controls:
Controls are easy to navigate as gameboy have two buttons and a Dpad with some
experiment in the Select Hits option and you will get adapt to the game
fast.The only trouble you have in the controls are remembering the moves that
you want,but after a while,it's no kick to you.But you want to perfect all
fighting styles,well, it takes a while to understand and utilise all the
fighting moves in the fighting style you select.
Difficulty:
Let me see,it's really not hard to do well in the game,as long as you keep
training and keep your stats up.But the more you play the better you are.So for
experts,completing the game is not a kick but beating the Invitational fighters
can be really tough as all of them are good,and the longer you play,the harder
the fighers going to be. Bottom line is to keep training and gets used to the
selection style of fight you like and you will be a good fighter in no time.
Video and audio:
Videos and audio are quite standard because of limitations the game boy
capability. It's not that great in terms of audio. It's rather crappy because
all the moves seem to have the same sound effects. Here come a question for you
to ponder: Where's the background noise from the crowd that you can view from
the screen? As for video, it's rather okay for anyone due to the black and
white graphics of the game boy. The fighting effects are quite cool because of
some styles of fight, which might impress you.
Replay Value:
Once you beaten this game, it's rather boring because you will go around
fighting your opponents to defend your title. However, the invitational
fighters in this game can bring some challenge to your replay value because
they are tough and hard to beat provided you have not completed fighting all of
them earlier in the whole Kumate championship.
Overall, this game is quite recommendable if you have the money and money to
waste whether on renting or buying this game. For fighting fans, don't really
go and get this unless you are bored and want to find new challenge.
Gameplay: 7/10
Music and Graphics:5/10
Entertainment:7/10
Replay value:5/10
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I like to express my thanks to:
* Myself (for this FAQ)
* CjayC (for putting this on his website)
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This document is updated and created by Thanos rulzs
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BEst of the Best:Version 1.6 2002-2003 copyright By Thanos rulzs
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