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Hibernatus has coded a brand new Elasto Mania 1.2 unofficial version offering many new features.. wait! That was three years ago! Yes, we are very well aware of that and as a main central of Elasto Mania community we should have released the new patch alot earlier. Our sincerest apologies for the delay.

However, we would like to come clear the actual reasons for the delay. The most important reason was that as we have high standards, we must carefully evaluate all the new patches to see whether or not they should be published - which basicly means checking for bugs and so on, because we don't want to confuse people with first a release and th en a bug fix right after. Of course there are many sound arguments against this reasoning, and we might eventually change our standards. One other important reason for the delay was the famous editor bug in the Final version. We wanted to have a solution for that and apparently Hibernatus fixed it for us after we requested it. This happened about one year ago. Also, we had planned on releasing the 1.2 at the same time with Paprika and I thought it wouldn't take more than a month or something. But as it turns out, it took alot longer than that! But anyway, here we have it.

This Very final 1.2 should be totally bug free, no known bugs involved:

• XP lag bug is fixed
• Across levels work in total time counter (they were problematic for example in Hoyla Mission total time calculating)
• The editor bug is fixed

A brief summary of the new things in Elma 1.2 compared to 1.11a:

• New options such as screen resolution, zoom, centered camera, replay saving reminder and possibility to edit locked levels
• Lev-Packs
• Advanced fast search in menus
• Merging replays
• Alovolt, brake alias and esc alias keys
• VCR-style controls when watching replays

A detailed list can be read on the Elma12.txt and some other information on the Elasto Mania information page.

Download the patch.

John drove two new WRs.

John drove two new WRs.

One new WR.

One new WR, by Raven.

14 new WRs. Yes, fourteen. And 13 out of them by TorInge, who now has 27 WRs in one table (that's half of all WRs). The previous record was 22 by Zweq (table #152).

The Golden Apple Awards 2005 was held in January 15th 2006. The winners are:

1. Internalist - TorInge
2. Externalist - axxu
3. Battler - Markku
4. Rookie - Tm
5. Designer - Zebra
6. Team - ICE
7. WR - 54. Apple Harvest 1:26,90 TorInge #199
8. Multi WR - 30. Pipe 21,62 Stini & Stini #127
9. Style - axxu's Apple Harvest
10. Replay - WCup515, 49,47 by Jalli
11. Level - WCup504 Mada Mada Dane by skint0r
12. Contest - World Cup 5
13. Contribution - Zebra: Mopobattles, #battle stats, contest arranger, programs
14. Achievement - MP: World Cup win for the second time in a row
15. Site - MopoCorner

Congratulations!

Logs, detailed results and comments on Mopolauta. And thanks to SveinR for arranging the event. And hey, some donations are needed, for prizes.

skint0r has made a movie of best available replays, it's a very nice. Read more and download it on Mopolauta.

Finally Dyrox has been added to blacklist and also all his fake nick names (Xian, Phoenix, Dreyfus, Ashe, Anette, Java at least) in Mopolauta have been banned. He has cheated his times several times by state.dat editing in the past. It's a one year ban (will expire in 20. Jan 2007) and the status will be changed to forever ban if he creates a new nick name during the ban period.

Thanks for petsen for telling some details.

Two new WRs.

No new WRs to be updated.

Four new WRs.

Three new WRs.

One new WR.

The danish elma meeting, or DEM in short was held in Fjelstervang, Denmark 14-16th Oct. I (BarTek) had quite fun, met whole bunch of kuskis that most of us are pretty familiar with. The majority was of course Danish participants, but also a slice of Norwegian kuskis made their guest appearence, and myself (Swedish). For those who would consider a bigger Elma meeting but don't have money or transportation, I suggest DEM as an alternative. That is why I am writing this, seemingly how FEM gets so much publicity I wanted to make you all aware of DEM as well.

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Two new World Records.

Three new World Records.

Even more. Six new World Records this time.

The newest table presents us five new WRs.

Two new World records this time.