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DocRhino 22 Apr 5:23 PMHave seen that with search showing nothing, I mostly just want indexed content anyways, never really use it. -
kitsunebi 18 Apr 9:54 AMThe search engine here is near useless it's so brutal with its wait times. Do a search...nope no results. OK, do another search...DOH!! Gotta wait 30 seconds between searches! Yeah, that's a totally reasonable amount of time.
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E-Day 11 Apr 7:29 PMI have no problem paying a one time fee of $10 to access content that I scanned because I am actually paying for the search functionality. I wanted to do that here for years. I am hoping this and Game Informer coming back will get other publishers to make their stuff available in a more comprehensive manner than we are. - E-Day 11 Apr 7:29 PMWell, the whole point of this site was to do what none of the publishers were. We have known for years that EGM wanted to do something like this. Steve Harris contacted us years ago asking about using our scans for a project. I think it if wasn't for us scanning everything, their archive would have never gotten off the ground.
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- kitsunebi 8 Apr 11:18 PMOf course, what if they also asked that your scans be removed from Retromags or any other site offering them for free? At that point, you'd strictly be creating scans for the purpose of making someone else a profit. Which would essentially make you an employee. An unpaid one. Hopefully, that won't happen.
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bogusfrank 8 Apr 11:02 PMI'm totally ok with it. They did create / own the magazine rights after all. I'd feel different if it was just some random person who made a copycat site of Retromags. I think all the attention that EGM and the VGHF have been getting is pretty cool. Glad to see there are other people who care about preserving history - kitsunebi 8 Apr 10:45 PMMinus any credit, I assume. Naturally. I've never scanned any EGMs, but for anyone who has, how do you feel about other people monetizing your efforts? I'd have been more comfortable with them offering everything for free, but I guess you can justify it in your head by thinking that you're paying for the search function, not the scan.
- E-Day 8 Apr 10:05 PMI checked it out earlier today. The fact that you can search anything up is amazing. It looks like issue downloads will be available at some point, so we will be able to download our scans from their site
- bogusfrank 8 Apr 7:52 PMAnyone else get access to the EGM database through their kickstarter for the EGM Compendium? It's a really good looking site
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- kitsunebi 8 Apr 1:48 AM@newyokohama if you decide to scan/edit yourself, just upload the finished scan to any free filesharing host and PM a link to a mod - they can post it here for you. Then, you'll be made a team member and can do it yourself.
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TresHombres 7 Apr 5:48 PMI goofed up, sorry
[I can only edit the message here, I can't delete it, otherwise I would have, haha] - newyokohama 7 Apr 1:40 PM@Areala Thanks! Is there an address I can physically send them to? I could potentially scan and edit myself, though I have no way/permission to post :-)
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Areala 6 Apr 5:14 PM@E-Day could probably help identify the issues the GamePro supplements go with.
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Argus 6 Apr 1:03 PMIf @dablais is doing so, I'll also start uploading everything I scan at 3200px/300dpi. I've kept the 300dpi .TIF files of all my scans too, so I'd even be able to update those when I have the time. -
Sivilius 6 Apr 4:49 AMThe EGM Blazing Dragons insert was late '96, but I'm not sure of the specific issue. - Areala 5 Apr 3:28 PMNew goodies are always needed! We try to include the supplements within the file for the magazine each one shipped with. I'm not sure which issues those came from, but if they get scanned, we can work on updating the magazine files with those supplements!
- newyokohama 4 Apr 1:35 PMgreets - I have a handful of GamePro, Ultra Game Players/EGM supplements that I can't find here or archive.org. Wondering if they're needed?
cheers - kitsunebi 1 Apr 1:08 PMI've recently been saving two versions of my mags - one approximately 300dpi (which is what I upload here and keep saved in my own storage), and one copy in full 600dpi, which I upload to archive, because why not - they've got 50+ petabytes of storage.
- kitsunebi 1 Apr 1:02 PM2200 (besides being a completely arbitrary number) was decided upon over a decade ago, back when bandwidth was more of a concern. Pretty sure members could only download 5 mags per day back then, too. 3200 is a lot closer to (approximately) 300dpi for most mags, so it's a more sensible baseline, nowadays.
- dablais 1 Apr 11:48 AMFinally decided, all new scans from my part will now be at 3200px instead of 2200px.
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twiztor 30 Mar 7:52 PMa lot of sellers don't immediately leave feedback because they feel it harms them in any disputes. overall, the value of feedback has dropped significantly over the last decade or so - kitsunebi 30 Mar 7:46 AMIt's not eBay protocol. It's sales protocol. When you hand over your money at the register, who should say thank you first, the cashier or the customer? Is it OK for the cashier to take your money and not say anything at all unless the customer thanks them for taking their money first?
- Areala 30 Mar 6:10 AMI wish I could answer, but I haven't used eBay since around 2009, so I've no idea what the current protocol for feedback is. :(
- kitsunebi 30 Mar 2:42 AMWhat's your opinion regarding eBay sellers who refuse to leave feedback until AFTER they've gotten positive feedback from the buyer? Like, HELLO? I already paid you - my part of the transaction is DONE. You're supposed to say thank you? These people get no feedback from me.
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- kitsunebi 26 Mar 1:47 AMHey guys, Game Informer is back. Signing up gets you access to over 10 years of back issues. Print mag coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoVfBvxKdm0
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Phillyman 24 Mar 4:07 PMSo I woke up this morning and had a ton of these in my mailbox, I doubt Retromags got mentioned on some big website, more than likely it was someone spidering the website to grab all magazines -
- DocRhino 24 Mar 2:04 PMOur Drupal instance was doing that a lot last week, but we were also fighting off attempted hackers
- DocRhino 24 Mar 2:00 PMWork as a devops engineer, what type of 500s? I noticed recently on the site I manage that people can feed certain urls you would expect to give a 404 and because of how the server handles it, it will throw a 500 or 503 instead, could be a hack attempt
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- kitsunebi 24 Mar 1:51 AMLOL that's awesome, @perfinpuz. Anything to encourage people to use those "thanks" and "like" buttons they seem so allergic to. My go to anaolgy: If I baked y'all a bunch of cupcakes and laid them out on a table with a "Free! Take One!" sign, would you take one, stuff it in your mouth, and walk away without saying thanks? Because they might not be cupcakes, but we work hard on these scans.
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perfinpuz 24 Mar 1:39 AMOn the download page, Mark the reaction with "Thanks" if you download. When you read it, change your "Thanks" to Like or an Emoticon to show you read it. It would be your own secret code. -
- kitsunebi 22 Mar 11:25 AMPC Games v3n7 scan updated: https://www.retromags.com/fil...ames-vol-03-no-07-july-1996/
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- newyokohama 21 Mar 2:39 PMhowdy, any good way to "mark an issue as read" I guess? Like if I visit the page for EGM #001, is there a way to keep track of what I've read, and not read? (thanks)
- kitsunebi 14 Mar 11:20 AMHeyy! Second time's the charm. And it only took 32 minutes. WHOA THERE QNAP!! Better slow down, you're gonna get arrested for being so fast!
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- Phillyman 7 Mar 3:47 AMcoming back up, had a power outage at like 8am today, I was at work...it should have come back on by 6PM automatically as I have it set to power on at 6am/6pm if it is ever off. I forgot to check when I got home
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- kitsunebi 6 Mar 8:37 AMNo worries, I wasn't implying it was your fault. Everyone knows when you need something done, you're the most dependable person to ask.
- Areala 6 Mar 4:46 AMSorry, real life is a shit show for me at the moment. I promise I'm not purposely ignoring anything going on here. It's been approved and fixed. Apologies it took so long, and thanks for bringing it to my attention.
- kitsunebi 5 Mar 9:52 PMIt's more annoying that it's been (purposefully?) ignored for over a week, but I'm not going to worry about it any more. If the admins don't want to approve it, they won't. I'm too busy working on other contributions to the site to spend my time reminding other people of their responsibilities.
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- kitsunebi 28 Feb 10:22 PMCan someone approve the DB entry for Nintendo Strategies so I can stop having to remember that it needs to be approved? Please? And remove the suffix? https://www.retromags.com/str...al/nintendo-strategies-r670/
- kitsunebi 27 Feb 9:07 AMIf only they gave us any credit for that hard work. I didn't expect them to ask if they could use my scans (they didn't, btw), but I had hoped for the courtesy of at least an acknowlegment of who they got them from (no, "Retromags" did not create any of my scans.)
- bogusfrank 27 Feb 1:10 AMI just saw the VGHF launched their digital archive with a bunch of our scans. It's pretty cool to see so many new people getting access to all our hard work! Keep it up everyone!
- kitsunebi 26 Feb 8:51 AMWhat are you using? Again, I know it's not the best, but it's pretty rare for plain ol' google translate to be unable to translate a page. I just picked one at random that had text across a colored background image and it did fine:
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tcaud 25 Feb 5:42 PMThe most difficult part is where there is background color, because those sections pretty much never OCR correctly especially the characters are kanji. - kitsunebi 25 Feb 8:38 AMForgot to add, furigana can throw everything off. So translating stuff intended for kids is actually harder than stuff aimed at adults. Old Famitsu can be a pain because of the furigana, for example, but since everyone knows kids don't read magazines anymore, newer issues don't use it and are easier to translate.
- kitsunebi 25 Feb 8:30 AMOCR sucks. But just point any camera at it and google translate can do a pretty good job (a million times better than it was 10 years ago.) Obviously a tablet is more convenient than a phone. I've heard chatGPT is even better at translation, but I've never used it.
- tcaud 25 Feb 8:06 AMI've been trying to translate Japanese game mags, but the OCR just isn't very good and my brain just isn't picking up the kanji.
- kitsunebi Today 10:09 PM@getseosolution I hear what you're saying, but there's no need for name-calling. What did Phillyman ever do to you?? Also, that stuff about your hemorrhoids? TMI, my friend.
- kitsunebi Today 1:41 AMI only joined in the first place because there was something specific I wanted to reply to. And then the reply button didn't work on any of the posts in that thread, despite working elsewhere. So I deleted the account.
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- kitsunebi 18 Feb 10:11 AMSocial media just ain't for me. I remember years and years ago, I joined twitter, and somehow my account was banned before I'd done anything but fill out my profile. Just joined Bluesky, and the comment/reply button doesn't work - clicking it does nothing.
- kitsunebi 18 Feb 9:23 AMThere are hundreds of them on eBay at any given moment of the day. What they meant to say is "unless it's a sewing, traveling, or photography magazine, people are smart enough to know they can get more money selling on eBay than to a thrift store."
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Z33R0 18 Feb 4:16 AMDoes anyone ever have any luck finding PC Gamer magazines at thrift stores, all the ones in my area all say the same thing, they tell me that unless its a sewing magazine, a travelling magazine, or a photography magazine, they just throw them out
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Pinzin 8 Feb 4:41 PMThis is amazing, you all are amazing. I need to go through some old boxes and will keep my eyes peeled for good finds. Trying to pop by a game crazy today in fact. -
paskvild 3 Feb 10:49 AMhello, do i remember correctly that someone here had early issues of psm2 uk including second issue? if so, would you be willing to sell it and ship it to uk or europe? thank you
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- DocRhino 20 Jan 1:22 AMJust contributed for the fundraiser, thanks for getting the site back up so quickly after the outage
- Areala 5 Jan 7:18 PMBeen a while since I contributed anything of value here, so I indexed issue 75 of Computer Gaming World.
- kitsunebi 4 Jan 10:47 PMDon't change on my account, I have no intention of interacting with any of RM's social media sites (isn't that the reason we have a forum?) I just thought it was odd that we were advertising FB and X on every page but not the others.
- kitsunebi 4 Jan 10:42 PMFacebook and Twitter are at the bottom of every page. I can't access Twitter, so I didn't realize we don't even HAVE a Twitter account anymore. But anyone with RM bookmarked who contributes anything (even if just to the forums) would bookmark this page, not the home page, so I never see it.
- Phillyman 4 Jan 9:03 PMso kitsunebi, you want me to make them appear on every page, I can put them in the sidebar for ya
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- Phillyman 4 Jan 5:41 AMhomepage under each release shows the others, IPB is slow to add others to the software
- Phillyman 4 Jan 5:41 AMwe dont use Twitter any longer, I deleted all our posts and left a link to others
- kitsunebi 4 Jan 5:40 AMSpeaking of socials, why does Retromags have accounts all over the place, but only show links to Facebook and Twitter (the worst ones?)
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- kitsunebi 4 Jan 5:35 AMMegaStore and BugBug are the only two adult gaming mags still being published, so they're the ones that will get new covers periodically. You've already blocked the entire 18+ ads category, so that's everything else.
- Phillyman 4 Jan 5:34 AMotherwise I will just have to do it at the country level of Japan to be safe
- Phillyman 4 Jan 5:34 AMhit me up with a list of all the nude categories, so I can make sure they wont go out
- kitsunebi 4 Jan 5:33 AMI literally can do nothing about what randomly gets posted to social. If it wants to pick something uploaded two hours prior in lieu of newer stuff, what can I do? 🫤
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- kitsunebi 4 Jan 4:56 AMLOL @Phillyman looks like you forgot to add the MegaStore cover gallery to the block list. NSFW here, too hot to handle on social media. Better get to deleting them there posts!
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Ethereal Dragonz 2 Jan 5:31 AMHappy New Years and congratulations heading into the 20th year in operation! Amazing! -
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- Phillyman 30 Dec 12:27 AMits replaced on this site, I am working on the seedbox now, and then the NAS
- Phillyman 30 Dec 12:27 AMI know, its that time of year that I forget to replace the SSL cert in time
- Rando1975 26 Dec 2:53 PMHope everyone had a Merry Christmas! And you got some cool retro gaming stuff.
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- kitsunebi 20 Dec 12:45 PMHOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY...................
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