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[dablais]

Super Argus! 

Danny

[kitsunebi]

  On 7/30/2024 at 1:18 AM, Argus said:

I'm going to be slowly building up the French portion of the database over the course of the year (Some of which I've uploaded already), but I do have a few English-language magazines as well. 

*edited to remove MASSIVE LIST

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Très cool.

[Interesting]

I've got the entirety of "Strategies for Nintendo Games" that I own scanned (the Consumer Guide one), and I'm gonna be poking at it a bit to touch it up and hopefully submit it.

Not gonna go too super crazy with the restoration (like I did with the How To Beat The Video Games cover), but I got the scans at 600 dpi and hopefully I'm gonna get it looking real good.

[kagato1980]

I've got a couple of PC Format issues, and in talks now with an Ebay seller who says he has maybe 100 more. I'd like to get the 1995-1996 years complete. Is anybody else interested in picking up / scanning PC Format?

[kitsunebi]

  On 9/15/2024 at 2:15 PM, kagato1980 said:

I've got a couple of PC Format issues, and in talks now with an Ebay seller who says he has maybe 100 more. I'd like to get the 1995-1996 years complete. Is anybody else interested in picking up / scanning PC Format?

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For anyone interested in PC Format, Old Game Mags has 248 issues of PC Format available, including scans of every single issue from 1 to 168 (the rest of the later issues are digital rips).  That's physical scans of every issue from October 1991 to December 2004!

It's a members only site with a one-time joining fee, but it's worth every penny, and the money is needed to help keep the site and servers running, as unlike Retromags' 16,775 members, OGM is made up of just 336 totally awesome members currently.  Also, while Retromags has 5,055 downloads available, OGM has 12,500, many of which can't be found anywhere else. /plug  

[kagato1980]

  On 9/17/2024 at 8:33 AM, kitsunebi said:

For anyone interested in PC Format, Old Game Mags has 248 issues of PC Format available, including scans of every single issue from 1 to 168 (the rest of the later issues are digital rips).  That's physical scans of every issue from October 1991 to December 2004!

It's a members only site with a one-time joining fee, but it's worth every penny, and the money is needed to help keep the site and servers running, as unlike Retromags' 16,775 members, OGM is made up of just 336 totally awesome members currently.  Also, while Retromags has 5,055 downloads available, OGM has 12,500, many of which can't be found anywhere else. /plug  

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That's awesome, too bad the registration is closed it seems..it's https://www.oldgamemags.com/ right?

[kitsunebi]

  On 9/18/2024 at 5:16 AM, kagato1980 said:

That's awesome, too bad the registration is closed it seems..it's https://www.oldgamemags.com/ right?

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That's it.  Where are you seeing that registration is closed?  The site owner is on a family vacation at the moment, but he still checks emails and should be able to approve new members.  Did you look in the place that says "Want to become a member?  This is the place to look!"

[kagato1980]

  On 9/18/2024 at 9:47 PM, kitsunebi said:

That's it.  Where are you seeing that registration is closed?  The site owner is on a family vacation at the moment, but he still checks emails and should be able to approve new members.  Did you look in the place that says "Want to become a member?  This is the place to look!"

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Oh wow completely missed that part somehow..thanks

[PaulrusKeaton]

Well like I said in another thread I've 80% finished a scan of Famitsu #521, even though kitsune already has that one in their archive....

Well, this is my first scan and I'm using GIMP... which makes everything pretty rough. Also, the tutorial provided is for Photoshop and I'm not getting similar results. Specifically, the brightness/contrast makes everything look washed out. 

[kitsunebi]

  On 10/8/2024 at 10:24 PM, PaulrusKeaton said:

Well, this is my first scan and I'm using GIMP... which makes everything pretty rough. Also, the tutorial provided is for Photoshop and I'm not getting similar results. Specifically, the brightness/contrast makes everything look washed out. 

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I'm not familiar with GIMP but for what it's worth, I do use Photoshop but I still disagree with/don't follow a lot of the advice in that guide.  The scanning guides are E-Day's process - what works best for him, and are a good starting point for someone who has no idea what to do.  But any scanner/editor worth their salt has to eventually find their own path of what works best for them.  Different scanning equipment will give different results, just as different editing software might require different techniques to bring out the best in a scan. 

And for that matter, different magazines will require different editing techniques from one another.  You can't just develop one editing profile and apply it to every scan.  Different types of paper used in different mags can reflect the scanner light differently, affecting the results, and mags of different paper types, ages, and storage conditions will age differently, requiring different editing techniques to make them look their best.  You can probably get away with editing the June and July 1984 issues of Computer Gaming World using the same exact editing techniques, but the June 2014 issue will need to be handled differently.

[MysteryCorgi]

I've been working on scanning some magazines for the .hack series while I'm recovering from surgery. Some are only a couple of pages (like fliers) and others are larger (like mooks). Of course, I only found out that the machine screwed up the scans after I got back from surgery, so I'm not currently able to fix them.  (It cut off the bottom of each scan, sigh.) Wondering if I could send the thin ones that don't need de-binding to someone else to scan and return to me until I have access to a better scanner. 

Anyway, here's the list:

• .hackey 1
• .hackey 2
• .hackey 3
• .hackey 4
• .hackey 5
• .hackey 6
• .hackey 7
• .hackey 8 
• .hackey GIFT Special
• Beat Magazine 2010 December
• .hack//The World Magazine Vol.1 (Comptiq 253 Special)
• .hack//The World Magazine Vol.2 (Comptiq 258 Special)
• .hack//The World Magazine Vol.3 (Comptiq 272 Special)

 

I don't think I saw anyone else working on them, but do let me know if I missed something.

[PixelBoy]

  On 10/8/2024 at 10:24 PM, PaulrusKeaton said:

Well, this is my first scan and I'm using GIMP... which makes everything pretty rough. Also, the tutorial provided is for Photoshop and I'm not getting similar results. Specifically, the brightness/contrast makes everything look washed out. 

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I use PaintShop Pro to most of my image editing, but I know something about GIMP. What exactly is "rough" with it?

If you want to find an easy way to make your scans a little bit better (should work in most cases), try this:

Colors - Auto - White Balance

It should make white whiter and colours a bit brighter with a single click, and you don't need to use any brightness/contrast sliders.

 

And if colours looking faded is the problem, maybe there's something that you can do with the scanner to fix that. In my scanner using the Photo mode to scan makes colours look a bit more vibrant than the normal setting (as can be expected), so hitting that one button before scanning will save a lot of editing work later on. But obviously that depends on what kind of scanner you are using, and whether you are having issues with moiré patterns or not, etc.

[jdjenkins83]

I found two scans from EGM Issue 61 in Megalextoria:

https://www.megalextoria.com/magazines/index.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FElectronic_Gaming_Monthly%2Fegm_1994-08&twg_show=Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_61_152.jpg

This one is actually page 154. Not the one duplicated from page 152.

https://www.megalextoria.com/magazines/image.php?twg_album=Video_Game_Magazines%2FElectronic_Gaming_Monthly%2Fegm_1994-08&twg_show=Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_61_034b.jpg

The other one is the other side of the insert between pages 34-35.

[dablais]

Thanks!

I corrected the page numbering.  A new version will be available in the next 30 minutes.

[Lucoshi]

  On 8/21/2023 at 11:39 AM, Argus said:

With the flight sim guides all finished it's time to post the rest of the guides I plan on working on. Mostly Prima, but there's also a couple BradyGames and Nintendo ones, plus one from Sandwich Islands. If somebody happens to already be working on any of these just let me know.  

Banjo-Kazooie - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (1998)
Banjo-Tooie Official Strategy Guide (BradyGames) (2001)
Diddy Kong Racing Unauthorized Game Secrets (Prima) (1997)
Donkey Kong Country Player's Guide (Nintendo) (1994)
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Totally Unauthorized Secrets (BradyGames) (1995)
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Official Player's Guide (Nintendo) (1996)
Mega Man X Official Game Secrets (Prima) (1994)
Rayman 2: The Great Escape - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (2000)
Silver - Prima's Official Strategy Guide (1999)
Super Mario Kart 64 Unauthorized Game Secrets (Prima) (1997)
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 Player's Guide (Sandwich Islands Publishing) (1995)
(^On hold for now, too wrinkled to scan as is)

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Do have any Donkey Kong 64 Strategy Guide to scan?

[Argus]

  On 2/5/2025 at 10:14 PM, Lucoshi said:

Do have any Donkey Kong 64 Strategy Guide to scan?

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Nope, that list contains all the strategy guides I had for scanning and I haven't bought any more since then.

[Interesting]

So I managed to carefully un-bind the Consumer Guide's Strategy for Nintendo Games and during a long day of nothing at work, scanned each page in as a 600 dpi PDF.

It's about 2 GB right now for everything but I have the raw scans now. they'll need some cleaning up now.

[dablais]

  On 2/10/2025 at 12:22 AM, Interesting said:

So I managed to carefully un-bind the Consumer Guide's Strategy for Nintendo Games and during a long day of nothing at work, scanned each page in as a 600 dpi PDF.

It's about 2 GB right now for everything but I have the raw scans now. they'll need some cleaning up now.

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I can do the edit part if this is what you are looking for.  Just send me a link where to download it and I can do that last part.  Thanks for this scan!

Edited February 10 by dablais

[Interesting]

You're welcome! Admittedly things have been incredibly stupidly busy on my end so I haven't gotten a chance to upload the scans to anything, but I'll put all the raw files on a Google Drive or something and then DM you the link if that's alright.

[Crator]

Not sure exactly where to put this one but I scanned the Brady Games Monster Hunter Strategy Guide for the first PS2 game. I couldn't find it anywhere online so bought it myself and preserved it online. Always appreciated what others did, so decided to dip my own toes and do my part. I uploaded it to the Internet Archive for now. I tried to on here but that section is greyed out for uploads, guessing it needs to be approved. I'll just leave the link here. The scan is not perfect but everything can be viewed and read fine.

https://archive.org/details/mh-1-brady-games

[kitsunebi]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:29 AM, Crator said:

Not sure exactly where to put this one but I scanned the Brady Games Monster Hunter Strategy Guide for the first PS2 game. I couldn't find it anywhere online so bought it myself and preserved it online. Always appreciated what others did, so decided to dip my own toes and do my part. I uploaded it to the Internet Archive for now. I tried to on here but that section is greyed out for uploads, guessing it needs to be approved. I'll just leave the link here. The scan is not perfect but everything can be viewed and read fine.

https://archive.org/details/mh-1-brady-games

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Thanks for the link, I'm sure there are people who will appreciate it.

I'm curious though - you refer to it as a scan, but appears to be photographed.  The pages are obviously curved and there is a light source reflected off of them.  This isn't possible in a scan, since the page is pressed flat against the scanner glass.  Did you use one of those Czur camera "scanners" which is essentially a mounted camera?

[Crator]

Ya I got a Czur ET. I didn't know the terminology. 

[kitsunebi]

  On 3/15/2025 at 1:54 PM, Crator said:

Ya I got a Czur ET. I didn't know the terminology. 

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Thanks for letting us know.  There are always people wanting to scan magazines but unable to commit to the necessary step of destroying them in the process of debinding who are curious about photographic camera "scanners" like the Czur, but there have been precious few real-world examples of what the results of using one on a magazine looks like.  Now they can take a look at your guide and decide if a Czur is right for them.  Thanks again!

[Crator]

Ya for sure nothing would beat ripping it apart and scanning it on a flatbed. I'm unwilling to destroy it though. For sure the scans could be better even on the Czur if someone didn't use the autocrop feature which isn't completely accurate and edited it by hand in Photoshop. Admittedly I did this to use as part of a video I'm making on the game and they are good enough for that, it worked out as a bonus that since I was doing the process I'd scan the whole thing for the internet. I actually do have a small collection of old magazines. I'll go through them and see if any aren't online as well. Happy to hear it at least was worthwhile.

[newyokohama]

hey, greets - I recently completed a complete scan of NOURS Magazine, which Namco gave away for free in their arcades from 1993-2006 (The sequel to NG Community Magazine), lots of behind-the-scenes goodies for arcade games not found many other places.

https://archive.org/details/nours-magazine-complete scans from "765 Style" are from me. Some additional notes:

• 600DPI, flatbed scans
• CBZ's
• Descreened and color-corrected

I finally convinced TOSEC-PIX to include the PDFs in their latest set, but would love to see them hosted here, in addition to there, and the Internet Archive. Happy to chat - thanks!