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*kitsunebi edition!* Nothing wrong with the older scan of this issue previously made available, but I scan everything in my collection regardless, and I do feel that my version offers some improvements. Most of those improvements are due to better debinding, which allows for better editing. If you start with a guillotine cut in the debinding process, there's nothing you can do when editing to account for the part of the page you cut away. As always, my scans are first debound with a heat gun, to allow for the entire page to be scanned. This allows two-page joins to be edited together more seamlessly. Other differences include whiter pages and a higher resolution (3200 px vs the older scan's 2200). I've tried to show some of the differences with animated gifs this time. Even though they're alternating back and forth, it should be easy to spot which of the two is this new, improved version, especially if you look towards the center of the join. *you can click on these gifs to see them in a larger window: And some joined pages of Games for Windows actually have a printed overlap, where the same part of the image is printed on both pages. In this case, the older scan (despite having some of this overlap area cut away during debinding) still has part of the image appearing twice, whereas this newer scan has more seamlessly edited the pages to remove the doubled overlap:11 points -
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*COMPLETE* kitsunebi Edition! The other scan of this issue available here is very good (albeit partially incomplete), so this is not a slight against that scan - I simply scan everything in my collection for my own sake. It does offer some improvements, however, so if you want to decide if this new version is worth your trouble downloading, I'll try to highlight the differences below. Higher resolution (3200px high) than the older scan (2200px high) Whiter pages Debound with heat gun to get a complete scan, so every page has slightly more information on the gutter side Images that cross both pages have been better joined A complete scan has been made of an advertisement which was partially blacked-out in the old scan An 8 page fold out advertisement is included (missing from other scan) subscription card inserts are included (who cares, right? Not me. But they're here if you want them) Here are some comparison screenshots to help illustrate the above points (new scan is shown on top): I don't know what's going on with the older scan of the below ad - looks like part of it is covered with something? Weird... But now fixed! Highlighting some of the gutter joins: Notice the album title: "To Bring You My Love" vs. "To Bring Yor Love" LOL. (Little fish, big fish, swimmin' in the water. Come back here, man, gimme my daughter.) And of course there's the 8-page fold-out ad which was missing entirely from the older scan (smushed into one pic here for your viewing convenience)10 points -
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This magazine was a bit more of a restoration project than a typical scan. All pages had wrinkles I couldn't flatten out and had to touch up in Photoshop, but the worst offender was page 9, which had a lot of faded text (8 had it as well, but not near as bad). Normally I'd consider this a write off, but considering the rarity of the magazine I'm not sure when I'd find another copy, if ever (at least, I think it's rare. Haven't seen it mentioned or scanned anywhere else). So, I decided to take the time to replace the lettering bit by bit - not a hard job by any means, just incredibly tedious. As for the magazine itself, one thing that surprised me was how little overlap there is between issue 0 and issue 1. Some games aren't mentioned at all in issue 1, and those that are have their articles re-written (Space Station: Silicon Valley goes from a Beta Look to a full review between issues, for example). No clue if that's the norm or the exception for preview issues, but I thought it was interesting regardless.10 points -
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Before writing in this box, I always do a quick flip-through of the mag and comment on whatever happens to strike my fancy, so to speak. This time, it was Bruce Willis. Bruce's rugged bald pate from the ad for his PS1 masterpiece, Apocalypse, really stood out from the rest of the ads, not to mention the rest of the games featured in the mag. It's just so...Western. Not that Apocalypse is the ONLY Western game to appear in this issue, but the other one is Crash Racing, and that's just cute enough to almost pass as a Japanese game. But Bruce can't be bothered with cuteness, he's too busy blowing $@^& up. Yippee kay yay, mother trucker.8 points -
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There's a report on the PS4 release complete with lots of pictures of people waiting overnight in the cold and proudly holding their newly purchased goods like they're some sort of hero showing off the head of the beast they vanquished. I've never bought anything at a midnight release event and never will, but if I DID, I think I'd rather not have my picture taken and printed in a magazine. Who could you ever show it to? "Oh, you waited in a line for 24 hours to buy a video game system the moment it was released? Wow, uh...cool story. --NNERRRRRD!!!!!"7 points -
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It's been a while since we've had one of these double-number issues of Famitsu, so for anyone out there who's confused, here's a brief explanation. This is a single issue that is counted as two. The preceding issue is numbered 1358 (December 25, 2014), and the following issue is numbered 1361 (January 15, 2015), making this issue #1359/1360. This sort of thing happens 3 or 4 times per year. It doesn't mean that the double issues are double length. Sometimes they're longer than average, sometimes not (this issue is 280 pages, which isn't unusually long for Famitsu.) What it DOES mean is that the staff took a vacation. As you can imagine, turning out over 1000 pages of magazine per month is nothing to sneeze at (especially when you consider that Western mags were typically producing less than 100 pages of content per month), so a few times per year, the staff would be...ALLOWED TO SLEEP!!! This particular mag came out around New Years, which is the biggest holiday in Japan. Everything shuts down for 5 days or so while everyone stays home to celebrate with their families (its closest Western equivalent would be Christmas.) So every year around this time, Famitsu releases a "double issue" so that its staff can enjoy the holiday like the rest of the country. But since this is Famitsu WEEKLY, I guess they don't want to break the illusion by having less than 52 issues per year, so whenever they skip a week, they just add an extra issue number to make up for it. So since this issue was on newsstands for two weeks, it gets two issue numbers. Kind of dumb, and definitely a pain in the ass when I was first putting together the database, but that's the way it is. Now you know, and yadayadayadaYOJOE.7 points -
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ADULTS ONLY I uploaded the CD-ROM that came with this issue HERE. One day I'll have to find something to scan I can upload with a big "KIDS ONLY" warning. Maybe if I find a mag that's cover to cover Minecraft, Fortnite, and Splatoon. Or maybe if I ever re-scan any Nintendo Powers. At any rate, this is not that mag. (If an issue of Tech Gian DOES ever appear with the words "kids only" attached, for god's sake don't download it - you're likely to be arrested and have your hard drives confiscated by the FBI.)7 points -
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Scanned by J of Oz It's funny - I actually HAD the collector's card mentioned on the cover. But at some point between debinding all of the Star Trek mags I bought and shipping them off to J of Oz to get them scanned, I misplaced the card. I'm sure it's around here SOMEWHERE, and if I ever find it, I'll add it to the scan. But to be honest, as useless tchotchkes attached to UK magazine covers go, this was a pretty lame one. Just a thick cardboard card with a picture of the Enterprise on one side. Maybe mine decided it wanted to follow in the footsteps of all of its fellow useless cards which graced the cover of this issue, and magically floated itself into my trash to join with its forebears? Don't shed a tear over its absence, is what I'm saying.6 points -
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Hope you all are enjoying playing with whatever toys Santa brought you this year. This mag was released in early 1998, and was an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan, what with the prequels looming as a still-nebulous but guaranteed new hope on the horizon. I was actually buying quite a few of the toys at the time, mostly out of nostalgia for the original Kenner toys I had as a kid, despite the absolutely fugly sculpts on many of the new releases... Of course, unbeknownst to me, tragedy was just around the corner, as when the prequels actually began appearing a year later, they mercilessly slaughtered all appreciation and goodwill I had toward the franchise to the point that I can't watch anything "Star Wars" to this day. But for the time, at least, all was right with the world, and Boba Fett was still one of the coolest dudes you could slap on a cover.6 points -
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