Phillyman

Ok now before i post the link .....I signed up and started recieving issues a few weeks ago ......The Subscription tag on my issues does reflect i have a year until expiration Im not sure if there is a catch or not .....But the forum where i found this link .....I havent seen any negative feedback about them charging you....It does look to be totally free All you need to do is fill in the appropriate information on the website (they dont ask for a credit card) .....and you will start recieving mags in 6-8 weeks .....If you call EGM ....You can have them give you the phone number to Mercury Mags to talk to them and make sure you arent gonna be charged Again this link has been active for quite a while over at Slickdeals.net .......And i dont see anything bad from people who have used it http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/10115 Happy Reading!

Ok so many of you probably wonder how we find some of these lots of magazines on Ebay ....When searching for Magazines on ebay many people dont list them in the correct section .....or even worse they dont list them correctly .....Search for the following Nintendo Power Nintendo Magazine SNES Magazine NES Magazine Nintendo Books Nintendo Comics Sega Visions Sega Magazine Dreamcast Magazine Saturn Magazine PSM PSM magazine Playstation Magazine Gamefan Next Generation Gamepro Game Pro and the number one way to turn up old mags is VideoGame Magazine That one turns up a bunch of misplaced magazine listings .....Feel Free to let us know if you see something that may interest us for purchase .......Just dont post a Link for 200+ magazines and tell us that you would like us to buy it ......If your gonna suggest something to buy ....Please make sure that you can throw $5 -$10 to the purchase , Because if your not willing to donate .....nobody else probably will also Also if you just want to purchase some magazines and have them sent to me for scanning .....I have no problem with that either......Just remember we scan in our free time and editing the issues takes longer then the actuall scanning

http://cgi.ebay.com/GIANT-LOT-of-OLD-VIDEO...1QQcmdZViewItem Ok so who wants to make a push for this lot ??? I have $20 in the Retromags Paypal fun for usage .......I think if we get up 2-3 users to contribute $10 each ....that we could aquire this huge lot of magazines $20 Paypal $10 Member $10 Member $10 Member $10 My Pocket ------------------- $60 total Which would be a $25 bid with $35 left over for shipping as its 80lbs of magazines And incase anyone is wondering .....If you donate and we dont win .....the money rolls over to the next big lot of mags we try to aquire .....it doesnt go in my pocket Click the link in my signature to donate $10 if interested!

Let me know if we can pull resources together .....For example The first issue of EGM usually goes for about $50 on ebay when its posted .......I would be willing to join forces to aquire hard to get mags like this .......we could either... 1) Each Chip in $25 .....hopefully getting donations from each of our forums 2) Buy the magazine , Scan it , Relist it on Ebay .....And if it sells for less then what we bought it ....we split the loss between us .....maybe it only resells for $35 ......and we each take a $7 hit

You must have posted while i had removed it .....Yeah i took it off the front page I didnt change anything in the post because i dont want to confuse anyone , They will come to this site wondering whats going on , and if i removed the post totally they wouldnt be able to see the progression of this situation from start to finish So i left the post in tact but unstickied it ......It should fall to the 2nd page when Retrogoth posts his next set of Emulation News. I will put together a list of whats missing and we can see if we can finish out the Full Run of Nintendo Power 001-146

Ok I am going to post my thoughs and explainations on the Retromags/Racketboy situation Retromags.com started off as an attempt to give back something to the Emulation community, Most of us take for granted the blood, sweat and tears that people go thru to aquire, dump and properly emulate a videogame. www.gamemanuals.net is the inspiration for Retromags, They are a group of people scanning game manuals for the cause. Anyways back on topic . Retromags.com is a small site only around 100-150 Unique IP hits per day , there is very little advertising for the site , most of our hits come from Mininova.org and a few Emulation forums that mention the project Back on June 26th a member on my site mentioned that he was thinking about posting our current project on Digg.com http://www.retromags.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=754 He posted it soon after but soon realized that someone had posted a simular story that gained more exposure then his post Retromags Digg http://digg.com/gaming_news/Site_dedicated...gazines_on-line! Racketboy Digg http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/06/pdf...l-aug-1988.html I am not going to lie , I did see an increase in hits because of Racketboys Digg , But only because someone posted a link to my site claiming we had already scanned that Issue A few days passed and i started to recieve feedback from my users on the forum. Now lets explain that its VERY hard to find people who will donate there time and patience to a project. Its even harder to find people who will do this and recieve no recognition for there work. Most Scanners and Editors join up anxious to do there first scan/edit. Sadly many fall into a pitfall of noticing there are more leechers then contributers. Not everyone who comes to the site is willing to contribute or even seed the releases. So many Scanners/Editors throw the towel in. I cannot expect ANYONE to join the project and help , If the scans are showing up on other websites and I do nothing about it. So Last Night I Contacted Joystiq.com and asked them to correct the misprint. And I also created a retaliation Digg Retromags Retaliation Digg http://digg.com/gaming_news/First_Issue_Of...ower_Ripped_Off! Also i posted over at the Racketboy forums. I hadnt noticed he had a Forum until after i made the Digg. So why did i make the Digg over 1 magazine? Well i didnt ......While at his site i saw the first issue of PSM had been claimed also . That was what drove me to make the Digg ....In addition to the fact that many of the sites that took the Digg news and posted it on there sites had also made it seem as though Racketboy scanned the magazines Below is a Quote from Joystiq.com http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/08/download...er-1988-in-pdf/ ========================================================== Chances are, if you were a wee tyke who liked video games in 1988, you wanted the first issue of Nintendo Power when it was released that July. Well if missed it, Racket Boy scanned the whole thing into a downloadable PDF for your retro reminiscing pleasure. ========================================================== And Joystiq wasnt the only website who made it seem as though Racketboy scanned that issue. Along with the fact that if you go to Google.com and type "Nintendo Power" about the 10th link down is Racketboy looking like his site is the one who scanned it, And no where on Racketboys website at the time did it correct the misprint and state that he had aquired it from Underground Gamer (Where a few of our torrents are) So basically thats the story. Maybe i should have contacted Racketboy first. But when you see two pieces of work from a project your working hard on , And Multiple Emulation sites are quoting that He Scanned them. Well All you can do is become a little pissed off. Anyone who Downloaded the 129+ Nintendo Power Torrent , 75% of that was done by 1 man (KMFDManic) Now that Racketboy has properly given credit to Retromags for the release of the magazine , I have no problems whatsoever with him or his staff. Again Its very hard to find people that will donate time and patience to a project such as this. Where you put out 110% and only recieve 10% back. I dont want to see anyone else get discouraged and give up over this The Final goal of Retromags.com is to find 20 people who can scan and edit just 1 magazine per month. That would equate out to 4-5 releases a week. And is at a pace that no one will get burned out or feel taken advantage of. I offer my applogy to Racketboy and hope that together we can put our resources together and archive some magazines together -Phillyman

Well It had to happen sooner or later.....but someone is claiming they scanned the First issue of Nintendo Power ......Even better he is claiming he scanned the First Issue of PSM ......Let me clear this up .....On Mininova.org you can find our PDF version of Issue 1 and it was posted back in December .....The Scanner was KMFDManic .......The Issue of PSM was Posted a few months back and was Scanned by ZTTFAN Oh so you scanned this Issue Racketboy??? Lets Enlarge that Bottom Corner a bit .... Its pretty damn underhanded to sit there and pretend like your doing this scanning work ......I would have had no problem with you mentioning the scanning on your website .....Or even hosting the files .....But to mislead people and make them think your doing this service .....Is a Slap in the face to my team that scans and edits these magazines I anxiously await your reply to why No where on your site do you mention that these magazines were scanned over here .....To anyone reading this that came here from Digg or Joystiq feel free to look on Mininova and Search "Nintendo Power" and know who scanned the magazine really UPDATE I have since spoken to Racketboy and He has kindly linked back to our site .....Hopefully this calms down a few of you guys that PM'd me asking what was going on.....I know you guys work hard and want your due credit

Well it comes with the territory ......since we dont watermark issues they can rip them off .....but when a user goes to Mininova and searches for more Nintendo Power issues ....they are gonna see our torrents and know that we were the original source

This is why i dont watch soccer :laughing:

I only bid $2 ......since he is overcharging for shipping $20 to ship 10 mags is crazy!

I will pass you off a mag or two on Monday :grin:

I had a chance at buying over 100 issues of Next Generation a few months back ......unfortunatly it was about $100 and no one chipped in when it was announced :unhappy:

Absolutely ......Over the past few days i have dumped around 80 gigs worth of data off my computer ......and will be starting up the scanning full speed again ......we can always use editors

Before i installed the Search Engine Recognition ........Gigablast Spider came along with 30 some odd IP addresses and thats where the number came from I found the reset the other day .....and remembering what happened .....I reset it ......now if Gigablast sends 30 IPs it will only show up as 1 user and wont screw up the number

http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/rec...rAnimation.html :laughing:

So i need some help comming up with Ranks for you guys ......lets have your suggestions here 0 Posts = Newbie 1-10 Posts = Member 11-25 Posts = Advanced Member 26-50 Posts = Retromags Regular Thats all i have so far ....and even that could be tweaked ......I would like to get your suggestions 0= 1-25= 26-50= 51-100= 101-250= 251-500= 501-1000= 1001-2500= 2501-5000= 5001-10000= I think thats the way it should go .....Now we just need your input :grin:

Did you update the firmware of the SuperPass ......that might be it

I sooo agree about the Spread gun ......brings back memories of being 8 years old .....that weapon rocked for its time :fear:

I should so buy that for my girlfriends birthday .....then i can bring her to the darkside ......and we can play Mario Kart DS together

I wont object to anyone submitting this site to Digg or Slashdot :happy:

need pictures

Need Ideas for Newsbots Avatar ......Submit entries here :grin:

Here is the video from the first Kingdom Hearts game

Wii should win over the console market as the "Second Choice"......which is a good thing since they pretty much came in Third place with the Gamecube