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am I crazy, or are there a bunch of posts missing from this thread? I KNOW I've posted in here already..... And what happened to the "to be deleted" section? I thought you said it was gonna get deleted at the end of February, but I don't see it right now

I never had any trouble with the Awesome stage. Tubular, on the other hand....even with a blue yoshi. I always had a lot of trouble in level 6-2 in SMB2. The one where the whole level is jumping from albatross to albatross.

Thanks, I'll do some uploading when I get home from work. I'll also doublecheck about those posters and maps. Is anyone else interested in getting the entire NP collection finished? NP was always by far my favorite of the video game magazines, and is great for reading back issues, both for the detailed reviews (which often include maps and full walkthroughs) and for the pop culture/cheeziness of the features and articles. For the most part I have every issue from 1 to 200 in some state, but I may be missing some posters, etc myself, and as a policy I don't upload issues anywhere until they are 100% edited and in a final state. I know for a fact that issue 6 (with TMNT on the cover) and some other older issues still need a better scan......they're readable, but have the margins cut out on some pages.

I have a BUNCH of Nintendo Power issues which I've finished up in the last couple weeks. However, when I asked for help in how to upload them to the site, my request was ignored, so they've just been keeping me company now.....

The Game Atlas for NES, and all of Nintendo's official Game Boy/SNES guides have been scanned. Not all are retromags releases, but I can help you out if there are any others you need. Mario Mania was one of the first things I ever scanned. However, I didn't debind it and therefore some of the margins are cut off. It should be fine if you want to read it for the maps though.

Hmm, [censor bypass] was working for me the other day, but I'm having no luck connecting to it either. 420, who used to be one of the best scanners on this site, was handling his strategy guide scan project through that site, so I hope he finds a new place to continue it. I plan on releasing a Nintendo Power issue 1-200 torrent once I actually finish that project. Anyone want to help? I know I'm not the only person with old Nintendo Powers laying around.....

Born in 1980, the Atari 2600 age. I never had an Atari, but I had some friends that did...the NES was my first video game system, and remains my favorite.

If you still have magazines which have not been scanned at all, I would make those your priority, over rescanning issues which are already very presentable. Honestly, I don't know why you'd even want to rescan them when the first versions look almost perfect already. I've rescanned two Nintendo Power issues, but in both cases I did not scan the original one, and a horrible job was done on them (almost unreadable pages which are crooked or cropped wrong), so much that I wanted a replacement version ASAP.

Upon reviewing my scan, I'd rather not. This was one of the issues I scanned with the spine intact, and some of the text is cut off from the margins....not something that can be fixed in photoshop. For a mag like this where the maps matter more than the text, it isn't that critical, but it still could deserve a better scan.

The Super Mario World players guide is actually called Mario Mania, which has a 32 page feature of the history of Mario before the strategy guide starts. That was one of the first things I ever scanned for this project....it should be on this site somewhere.....

Thanks. This issue will be ready to upload as soon as I have those 7 pages. I even held onto my raw scans if somebody wants to make an unjoined version of it. Hmm, now it's legal on this site, maybe I'll upload issue 169 next.

*BUMP* cmon, at least one of you has to have NP 168. It's only 7 pages I need scanned!

How would it be BETTER to have it at the beginning? The cover of the issue should be the first thing that shows up when you open the file. Rename the file to zzthankyou.jpg and there shouldn't be any problems with any program.

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I scanned Nintendo Power issue 168 (May 2003-Golden Sun) a while ago, but since this site has a 5 year rule, I won't be able to upload it until tomorrow. I made a little screw up when I scanned it, so that some of the page numbers were saved with the wrong names, and because of that, I am missing a couple pages from this issue. Since I didn't edit this issue right away, and threw away the original pages, I wasn't able to fix this. The pages are 46, 109, 110, 111, 112, 118, 119. 46 was part of Army Man, and the others were Epic Center and Pokecenter. If somebody could please scan those pages and get them to me, I will be able to release the entire issue immediately, or as soon as we get to May 2008

What program is showing mek1's scans as 250? I put everything together in photoshop and they were 72 coming in and 72 going out. I did absolutely no resizing (aside from doubling the canvas space to fit the second page on, and in some cases stretching one of the two pages just a bit to make them line up properly). Some of these issues I still have the unjoined pages, and you're welcome to have them if you want, but since I usually edit and join at the same time, they're probably in a raw state. And Phillyman - I wasn't trying to attack you or criticize your raw releases. My point was just that I take great care in the issues I work on, and I'm not out to funk anything up (and I honestly have no idea why mek1's scans are showing up as 250dpi on meppi's computer, and 72 on mine). I really hope somebody can step up and help you with those EGMs. I might have even lended a hand myself, except that Nintendo Power is my pet project, and I have probably another year of work left before THAT gets finished.

You apparently didn't even look at mek1's scans. They were already at 72 in his release. I have NEVER resized anybody else's scans to make the quality worse. I upload some of the stuff that I work on (both my scans and other people's) as a courtesy to the other working members of the site. I also don't upload anything until I feel like it is in a totally edited, completed state, which is more than I can say for most of the stuff that gets uploaded here, which looks like it gets online the moment your auto-scanner is finished. In the case of NP#5, I specifically asked mek1 if he could scan that issue, as our old version really needed replacing. However, if all my uploads are going to bring me is grief, then I'm not going to upload anything else. I have filled in some of the specific gaps that were asked for, so theoretically I should still have an account here even if I don't upload anything else. If I'm just pissing off the board, I'll stop posting here too. My goal has ALWAYS been to get a complete set of Nintendo Power scans. I have the resources and the team (most of whom never even come to this site anymore) to get this accomplished without retromags, but I thought we could at least TRY to work as a team again, seeing as I haven't seen anyone else working on Nintendo Power in the last couple months on here. Guess not. And as far as the joining pages thing...anybody who actually READS Nintendo Power's strategy reviews should understand why it's better to have them joined. The only reasons I've heard against it seem to be from people who don't know how to use CDisplay. I didn't include the thank you page because I was only uploading it to this site, which has RETROMAGS.COM in the title. If I was putting it up anywhere else on behalf of retromags, I would have. I can't speak for mek1's release because I had nothing directly to do with it, other than asking him if he could scan his copy of the magazine.

Do you use CDisplay to read your issues? It handles zooming for single and joined pages just fine. It's actually LESS effort to press the left and right keys to scroll a page than it is to jump back and forth between two pages that have separated text or images, so I don't get your logic. Anyway, to get back on topic, thanks again mek1 for rescanning issue 5. I did some work with that scan and our older scan to get the issue in tip-top shape, and uploaded it to the site. Those of you who seem to have a problem with the way I edit the Nintendo Powers don't have to download it - mek1's original scan has a link higher up in this thread, so enjoy it as it is, or edit it yourself.

Explain why it is BETTER to flip back and forth between pages than to be able to view the entire layout at once? I'm not doing two releases of each magazine, just to please a couple picky people. My Nintendo Power releases get joined, most other magazines that don't do two page spreads don't. If some of the other members don't like it (and I've yet to hear one valid reason why this is such a problem), they don't have to download the stuff I work on. Everybody who I've personally talked to about this prefers the pages being joined, as long as it isn't a half-assed job that makes them worse.

Except I'm not making them useless, I'm making them MORE readable. Side-by-side programs only work if the pages are the same dimensions and are already lined up, which never happens from initial scanning. And these programs have no idea which pages are supposed to be lined up and which aren't (which comes into play when you get to the poster, supplements, etc). On Nintendo Power issue 5, which I'm working on editing as we speak, many pages have boxes of text that span across two pages. How do you expect to read those if you have to keep flipping between pages? Nintendo Power has always layed out their issues this way, and part of the process of preserving these issues is keeping their format in the correct order and presentation. If you have such an issue with this, don't download the stuff I work on.

Start with issue 6 please (TMNT on the cover). Like issue 5, which was recently rescanned by a new member, this issue was scanned with the spine intact, which causes up to an inch of the inside of each page to be either warped or totally missing. Issues 1-5 now have excellent scans completed. Issues 11 (SMB3) and 12 (Super C) could also need new scans. The other issues in your set have been taken care. Welcome aboard!

I'm starting to get the impression that some of the members of this site PREFER unedited, crooked issues.....

Great job on NP #5. That was one issue which really needed a better scan. That ad was reused in a couple other issues, so I can replace it from there. I'll give it a final clean up, join the pages and maybe rescan just the poster (which I still have) and upload it to this site.

just what is your Nintendo Power plan? It looks like you're seeding the old versions!

Thank goodness, I have the old READABLE skin back now! NEVER use a combination of dark colors on a site that actually has text. That is reserved for people who stay up til 6AM just for the hell of it.