EtherealDragonz upload thread - Update 11/17/2020 Famimaga Apr 20 1990

[Setolam]

Thank you Ethereal Dragonz. It will be great if anybody have some The Super Famicom issues, I have about 6, I will try to scan and clean it when I have time, because some are dirty. I can help to scan some issues, but I take time because I only have a flat scan, and always need crop and give the right shape page by page. 

I already scan The Super Famicom 1992 No. 22 if anybody are interested, you can take it from my archive. 

https://archive.org/details/@sneslegacy

 

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [10/18/2019] 
https://archive.org/details/supersoftavgrpg31987

[JonnyCGood]

People have been posting guidebooks from Perfect Dark for a few years now, but it seems they avoided posting any of the magazine scans. Likely just because they're less timeless and less topical.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [10/23/2019] 
https://archive.org/details/msxsoftwarecatalog1989

I saw catalogs for some of the other years, but not for 1989. So here you go.

[gingerbeardman]

On 10/23/2019 at 11:42 PM, Ethereal Dragonz said:

I saw catalogs for some of the other years, but not for 1989. So here you go.

The others on Archive?

[Ethereal Dragonz]

2 hours ago, gingerbeardman said:

The others on Archive?

Right, I only saw 87, 88, and 91 on there. I found this one on Perfect Dark.

[kitsunebi]

Btw, I dunno about the others you mentioned (although I assume they're the same), but the one you posted here is a free supplement to the Jan.89 issue of MSX Magazine.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [05/09/2020] - Weekly Famitsu 48 April 9 1988
https://archive.org/details/famitsu-1988-apr-9

Hey there, its been awhile. I've been too lazy/depressed to do anything other than hit a "like" button. I have a bunch of new #notmyscans to upload and I have a partially edited Xbox Famitsu that I should get around to finishing.

There is also a giant box of old Japanese magazines that I never got around to mailing to E-Day that has some pretty special stuff.

[kitsunebi]

It's a real shame that Retromags has essentially become E-Day Mags, with all other scans on the net originating at the Internet Archive or OldGameMags.  It would be great if some of the people scanning Japanese mags came to us first so that we could have a few more exclusives that didn't come from E-Day.  Alas, the foreigners who scan Japanese mags can't be bothered to edit them, and the Japanese who scan mags are thoroughly useless when it comes to sharing them.  So I suppose we will have to continue to have to rely upon the Internet Archive for everything that isn't a mainstream American release.

At the very least, I ardently hope that every Japanese mag you upload to the Internet Archive causes at least one Japanese scan hoarder to shake their fist in rage at you for de-valuing their collection of scans to privately trade.

[E-Day]

12 hours ago, Ethereal Dragonz said:

There is also a giant box of old Japanese magazines that I never got around to mailing to E-Day that has some pretty special stuff.

You can still mail them. If you send them I'll scan them

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [05/10/2020] - Famimaga April 1992
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-1992-apr-17

[kitsunebi]

18 hours ago, E-Day said:

You can still mail them. If you send them I'll scan them

How would you feel about receiving 600 or so Japanese mags (I'm just guessing, really, but it's A LOT OF BOXES  full of thick mags)?  If anyone wants to front the 10 million dollars in shipping from Japan to Canada, I'd be happy to unload my Japanese mags to you if you'd scan them.  Well, no, that's a lie.  To be honest, even just boxing them up and taking them to the post office is more work than I feel like putting into it at this point.  Recent times have got me reevaluating my life and I've realized that it's asinine to spend one more second scanning magazines I don't care about.  I've got no more interest in video game mags than I do in mags about cross-stitching.  They just aren't my thing.  Too bad you can't just drive over and pick them up.  THAT I'd be fine with.  So whaddaya say?  Fly to Japan, take a train to my place, box em up and ship em back to yourself, and then fly home.  You could even do some sightseeing while you're here!

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [05/17/2020] - Famimaga Dec 1987
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-dec-1987/

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [05/23/2020] - Famimaga July 1987
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-jul-1987

[JonnyCGood]

Famimaga seems to be one of those right to left magazines. I can't seem to find any coherent way to determine if a Japanese mag is right to left or left to right. Only by checking 2 page spreads.

[kitsunebi]

2 minutes ago, JonnyCGood said:

Famimaga seems to be one of those right to left magazines. I can't seem to find any coherent way to determine if a Japanese mag is right to left or left to right. Only by checking 2 page spreads.

It's actually very simple.  Just like all Japanese magazines or books, if the text is printed vertically, it will be read right to left.  If the text is horizontal, it will be read left to right.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [05/28/2020] - Famimaga March 20 1987
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-mar-1987

Edited May 29, 2020 by Ethereal Dragonz

[kitsunebi]

Btw, when you're uploading these, you should probably include the full date.  Family Computer Magazine was published biweekly, so, for example, this is the March 20th issue.  But there was another issue published in March as well (probably March 6th).  So to keep things organized, best to include the full date, not just the month.

[JonnyCGood]

These all from Perfect Dark? Neat findings. Probably should have been scouring that P2P network years ago.

[kitsunebi]

Considering all the times I've seen people selling loose debound pages on Yahoo auctions, it's obvious that SOMEBODY is scanning stuff.

You'd think there was some sort of Japanese Copyright Gestapo busting down doors and locking people away judging by the way people are terrified of publicly sharing the stuff.  I think they see the stories of people distributing manga scans being arrested and think the same thing will happen if they release 30 year old magazine scans.  But it's completely different - the manga is continuously in print, so pirating it, no matter how old, is eating into potential profits for the publishers and creators.  But no one's making money of of old periodicals, so no one's going to bother prosecuting anyone for sharing copies.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [06/13/2020] - Famimaga May 15 1987
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-may-15-1987

[JonnyCGood]

GameCenter CX (ゲームセンターCX released some books. Might wanna check for those. There's also Continue magazine that interview Arino (like around 2009) and  I've never seen them anywhere.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

14 hours ago, JonnyCGood said:

GameCenter CX (ゲームセンターCX released some books. Might wanna check for those. There's also Continue magazine that interview Arino (like around 2009) and  I've never seen them anywhere.

I did a search for GameCenter and ゲームセンタ. I was not able to find any books or magazines, but there were a number of game review videos. No hits for Continue magazine.

[Ethereal Dragonz]

Newest upload [06/18/2020] - Famimaga Feb 23 1990
https://archive.org/details/famimaga-1990-feb-23

[JonnyCGood]

On 6/14/2020 at 12:18 PM, Ethereal Dragonz said:

I did a search for GameCenter and ゲームセンタ. I was not able to find any books or magazines, but there were a number of game review videos. No hits for Continue magazine.

That was always going to be a long shot. Thanks for searching.

There's another P2P Japanese program called "Share". Might be worth checking out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P)#Legal_issues

And here's some common phrases to check. Just "Guide", "Official Guide", "Perfect Guide", etc that commonly appears in guidebook names.

ガイド
公式ガイド
公式ガイドブック
公式ガイド

公式完全ガイドブック

パーフェクトガイド