Phillyman

I will catch up on the various things said in this thread later, but I will work on the torrent this weekend and hopefully knock it out. Since January I swear I have caught like 4 different illnesses, and between that and renewing my license and passport before I am unable to do so because no one works for those departments, time has been thin.

Retromags 2025 Fun-Raiser Over the past month we have run a fundraiser to help offset the costs of running Retromags for the current 2025 year. We had 56 unique member participate and 98 donations of $20. I went to Google and did a random number generator between 1 and 98 I then looked for the 35th donation of $20, and the winner is.... @B coma Thank you all for assisting with keeping Retromags going for the upcoming year. I know the economy is not great right now and I really do appreciate you guys assisting with keeping our lights on.

More like it got lost in the shuffle. Back in the day, Retromags worked off a $10 per month webhost and we put all our files on MegaUpload or Rapidshare or Rapidfire, and everytime we got into one of those solutions, they would get shut down. The biggest problem was, if I "Phillyman" was not grabbing new releases as they came out....or I missed some.....and then the service went belly up, well I didnt have them to move elsewhere. Which is why, now all Team Members upload files to my server first, and then every 20 minutes or so, that server kicks a copy up to the seedbox for distribution. This way I can run backups and be absentminded and know I have a 1 to 1 copy here.

Cleaned up this thread, as it is about Magazine Database errors.

I have gone thru the magazine database and changed anything with 2015 from Not Allowed to Missing where applicable. I also ran a quick check of the following... Magazines that are of Status Missing, but have a Download Link Magazines that are of Status Preserved, but do not have a Download Link for the first one I found about 8 magazines where they were marked preserved but I did not find them in the Download Manager, on the flip side I found about 15 magazines that were marked Missing but had a download link in the Download Manager. After I get done with the Torrents for 2024, am going to go thru the Magazine Database and do error checking on various other parts, tidy it up for this new year. I will post progress here.

all fixed now, something got hung up on the seedbox and it needed a kick in the ass.

done, and I am now closing that offer now that I am caught up. Thanks to everyone who participated.

https://www.retromags.com/files/category/99-electronic-gaming-monthly/ Enjoy!

What is 1 million to the NFL? That is like 5 minutes of profit for them. Also isn't the NFL technically classified as a non profit? Which opens a whole other set of questions.

This convo reminds me of this..... Tale of the Tape: the NFL’s Copyright Claim to the Only Known Super Bowl I Recording https://www.kentuckylawjournal.org/blog/tale-of-the-tape-the-nfls-copyright-claim-to-the-only-known-super-bowl-i-recording

It is a two edged sword. Retromags can ask that people do not resell our scans, or provide them as though they did the work. But in the end, once downloaded our files are unencrypted, no DRM, etc....we have no control. But on the same token, the EGM collection is out there. You guys are seeding those torrents. If I am asked to no longer provide EGM, the torrents lose 1 seeder for each torrent, its not like they would stop working.

To be honest, I am not sure one way or another. I do not know if any of our scans are actually being used. But I can assure you I am not getting any funds from the Kickstarter. Here is the thing, in a perfect world, Retromags should not need to exist at all. Publishers should grant access to their past collections of magazines. Unfortunately we know that unless there is a big $$$ behind doing so, that it wont happen.

What I can say at this moment is Retromags has not officially been asked to take down the EGM/EGM2 collection. Until we get that email from EGM, the EGM collection will be up. And just to clear any confusion they are aware of our project.

This is fantastic news, please support this project. Any members who back this project at the $50 level or higher, send me a PM of the reciept and I will promote you to Lifetime Member over here at Retromags Edit: The project is funded, so I am going to stop the promotions over here. Thank you to everyone who stepped forward. Over its 25-year print run, Electronic Gaming Monthly captivated tens of millions of readers around the globe with its opinionated, fearless, and often irreverent coverage of the world of video games. The Electronic Gaming Monthly Compendium is an ambitious new book that honors that legacy, combining meticulously curated excerpts from the magazine with new insights and never-before-told stories to explore gaming's evolution, from its earliest frontiers to today's modern landscape. The EGM Compendium is more than just a book; it's a journey through time, spanning over 320 pages of rich video game history, from the well known to the largely forgotten to the downright bizarre. The Compendium charts the development of the most noteworthy games, franchises, cultural shifts, and industry trends from throughout EGM’s quarter-century of publication. New insights from the editors who worked on the magazine offer a behind-the-scenes look at the magazine’s creation, while contributions from gaming industry veterans and modern influencers add richer context. Read More! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egmbook/egmcompendium/description