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That's actually quite interesting as I have been including the details of the magazines, including page numbers on the wiki pages starting with issue 19. (http://www.retromags.com/wiki/Official_Sega_Saturn_Magazine_019_-_may_1997_%28UK%29) I was actually thinking of including the scores as well, but there's only so much you can do with a Wiki. There have been talks in the past of exploring the option of creating more of a full site experience to Retromags, which at the moment is only an expanded forum. But nothing has come out of it for the time being. I had the idea of creating a kind of an online database of certain articles and reviews that made that particular magazine special which would get updated like a regular website as well as a more informative system for each magazine then the one we have on the Wiki right now. Haven't posted this openly untill now, but this was a bit of a test I put together before abandoning the idea: http://users.telenet.be/twin-dreams/VGI/re...s/features.html Quite a bit of the stuff on there doesn't work, only the first 3 articles and you might notice that the design is very preliminary and not constant throughout the pages. That's because it was in such an early stage. Only the above features page was something which I'd consider close to what it would have turned out in the end, if the project went through. This is the kind of page which would have replaced the wiki page. (Again far from finished): http://users.telenet.be/twin-dreams/VGI/retromags/test.html

It wasn't actually a golden cartridge if I remember correctly. Just some bootleg famicom game which was named "Golden Mario"

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Kablamo HW Sales Hardware Unit Sales Oct-08 PlayStation 2 136K PlayStation 3 190K PSP 193K Xbox 360 371K Wii 803K Nintendo DS 491K Top 10 SW Publisher Release Date Rank # Units 360 FABLE II MICROSOFT (CORP) Oct-08 1 790K WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA May-08 2 487K 360 FALLOUT 3 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS Oct-08 3 375K WII MARIO KART W/ WHEEL NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 4 290K WII PLAY W/ REMOTE NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 5 282K 360 SAINTS ROW 2 THQ (CORP) Oct-08 6 270K PS3 SOCOM: U.S. NAVY SEALS CONFRONTATION SONY (CORP) Oct-08 7 231K PS3 LITTLE BIG PLANET SONY (CORP) Oct-08 8 215K 360 NBA 2K9 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE (CORP) Oct-08 9 202K 360 DEAD SPACE ELECTRONIC ARTS Oct-08 10 193K Industry Sales Dollar Sales Oct-07 Oct-08 CHG YTD Oct 07 YTD Oct 08 CHG Video Games $1.12B $1.31B 18% $10.50B $13.13B 25% Video Games Hardware $470.47M $494.74M 5% $4.13B $4.72B 14% Video Games Software $514.60M $696.79M 35% $4.98B $6.76B 36% Video Game Accessories $130.81M $120.19 -8% $1.40B $1.65B 18% Originally Posted by Anita Frazier, NPD Analyst: Overall: "The video games industry grew an impressive 18% year-over-year in the first month of the critical fourth quarter. With 10-months under its belt, the video games industry is still poised to top $22B in annual sales in 2008." "The sales results are mixed this month, however. The console portion of the market made significant gains at 26% across hardware, software and accessories, while the portable side of the market stalled, declining 14%. Year-to-date the portable segment of the market is still up 7%." Hardware: "The greater supply of Wii hardware at retail is evident in the sales figures for the month with the Wii enjoying its best sales month outside of last November and December." "The price reduction on the Xbox 360 is paying dividends at retail as the platform realized a 7% unit sales increase over September. Keeping in mind that September was a 5-week month while October had four, the sales pace increased 33%." "The PS3 realized the greatest year-over-year monthly unit sales increase at 57%." Software: "Console software sales realized the greatest percentage gain year-over-year of any category. This month, Fable II captured the top spot selling 790K units across the standard and limited edition SKU's." "The expanding variety of content available for consumers to play is clearly paying off for the industry. Looking at the top 10 games for the month, half are "M" rated games while the other half are "E" rated games and they span disparate genres. There is something for everyone on this list" Accessories: "Accessory sales are down for the month but we should expect this category to pick up again with the anticipated increases in hardware sales for the holidays."

I had nr.5. It sucked Monkeyballs. Hmm, I thought your favorite would have been nr.3 with the kids in their underwear and all.....

The best you can do to get a new page looking uniform with the other ones is go to one of my pages (Club Nintendo/Maximum/Sega Saturn Magazine) click the edit button and copy everything. The just paste all the data into your new page and edit the content where necessary. That's how I do it. I started out to get the EGM pages all up to date as well, but as it's such a huge undertaking and my time is limited I just gave up for now. It's either do the wiki or spend time scanning and editing pages, so I chose the latter.

Yep, turned out to be a bootleg game like the dozens of Sonic games on SNES etc.

Ah, that's actually pretty quick then. I thought it would be somewhere around the 15th or so. Just checked on the Nintendo Europe site, it's the 5th. I thought there was actually a version coming out with Wii Speak included and at least in Europe that's still the case: Also didn't realize you could import things from the DS version. The only one I would love to import is whatshisname, the orange mouse with blue ears, a filthy mouth and a kiss my butt attitude that talks behind everyone's back all the time. I got so close to that one character that he actually gave me a framed picture of himself to put in my house. I'd love to just import him and the picture, but I don't think that will be possible...

I'm gonna pick it up for certain. The DS game kept me busy for close to a year. Breeding rare flowers and such. But I'm not certain when it comes out over here. I believe it's somewhere in December.

Let me know when that's done, because donating magazines also has it's perks. hint, hint.

EGM 136 and 137 Gamefan Media Kit Gamefan Volume 02 Issue 03 February 1994 Gamepro Issue 010 May 1990 GamePro Issue 066 January 1995 NES Game Atlas Nintendo Player's Guide + all the Nintendo Power issues up till nr.50, which means 28-50 are on rapidshare as well now. Phew, what a job.

Allright, I've been doing quite a few test runs and have come to the conclusion that I'm going ahead with this method for editing black pages and big black text boxes. They look so much better than when I adjust them by hand. When a page has a big background image on a black background, then for the most part I won't be able to use this technique as the contrast between the background image and the black background would huge and won't look natural at all. But when I'm dealing with black pages that have images pasted on top, the I will use the technique of first tracing the edges of the particular screenshots or artwork, copy them, then fill the black background with the bucket fill tool at a tolerance that looks just right and after all that past the original images back on top. That way they won't look like they've been partially "eaten" by the background. Sounds complicated, but the result looks extremely good I think. Here's an example page where you can see the difference for yourself: The top half of the page is as it was released before, and the bottom one is after the new method was implemented. I'm already half way through my previous scans which I thought would be my final editions of those magazines, but as you might have come to know by now, I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so if I'm not happy with my own result, I will find a way to improve upon it. I hope you don't mind that you might have to download yet another "latest" version of my magazines.... But I think it's a small price to pay for what you get in the end. The only thing now is a way to set these versions apart from the old ones... I might add a small label or something on the thank you page at the end.

That's not how I would phrase it... They do make a good counter to the more liberal news stations, this is true, but all to often they mix it in with pure stupidity, fear mongering and pure hatred. If they would kick out the idiot extremists it would make a pretty good news station, but then it would probably not get the ratings. A nice synopsis why Fox News is laughed at all the time: As for Palin, she really has herself to blame the way she seemed clueless in several interviews, which was the reason for the parodies: But then again, the way Fox shoves everything that went wrong into her shoes to fit their agenda if far from fair either: I'd much rather watch a "news bulletin" like this one: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obam...auses_obsessive

Fox News, classy as always. Since I'm on vacation this week, I ended up watching or at least listening the whole day to CNN and other news stations. Went to check out Fox News for some laughs, but the usual idiots weren't anywhere in sight at the time. It looked like a regular news channel for a change, so I switched back to CNN+BBC World. Read about some real embarrassing things that did go on during the day though, and this is just one of them. Just when you start to think there is still hope for humanity these morons show up.

Official Sega Saturn Magazine 025 - november 1997 (UK) Wiki page here. Download page here. Rapidshare link

As you probably already know already, I really hate editing pages with black backgrounds. The look great once they are all cleaned up, but the big problem is that if the original magazine is quite old then the black pages can look awful. Parts of the page might look more like grey instead of black. This can be fixed by copying a cleaned up part of the page and the "paint in" all the discoloration between all the letters and sentences. The big problem is that this takes a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge amount of time. Sometimes up to 2 hours to do one single page perfectly. This has 2 negative effect. First off, it takes much much longer to release a magazine, and secondly I tend to get burned out editing these pages since they are so incredibly hard to do. So I'm going to be going for a new way of editing these pages. But only on the ones that have a full black background with no background images beneath the text, sine that won't work on those. I'm going to start using the paint bucket tool and paint those backgrounds black. I've just tested this and they look about perfect with just one mouse click. The only thing I can find is that when there is any artwork on the page, the black seems to "bleed" into it which makes it very obvious that there's something wrong on the page. So for those pages I will fist fill the background with black and then cope the artwork from the original copy, cutting as close to the edges as possible, and put this version into the filled page, where I can manually adjust it if necessary. Why post all this? Well perhaps I'm not the only one with this dilemma, so my idea on this could be helpful to others, or someone has a better idea of fixing the problem and I can learn a thing or two from him/her. I normally am against using the bucket tool to fill in the background of pages, as you tend to lose the magazine feeling. Especially on colored pages, but also on white ones sometimes. But I feel the black ones area bit of an exception in this case. If anyone feels different about this, feel free to mention it.

I am sure that I speak for millions upon millions of people around the world when I say that all eyes are focussed on the outcome of todays election. So don't forget to actually go out to vote and make a difference, no matter how small or big it might be. Have a great day America!

As you might have noticed I'm a bit behind with uploading the magazines to rapidshare, but I'm working on that as we speak. Check the Retromags News section for updates on that. I'm hoping on getting almost everything on RS this week, but I'm not sure if I have enough bandwidth left for that. Once everything is up and you notice a magazine that doesn't have a RS link or where the RS link is broken, send me a PM and I'll do my best to get one up ASAP.

EGM 95,99,101,102 and 108 uploaded to Rapidshare

Funny you should ask. I actually wanted to watch my latest Asian horror movie last night since it was Halloween (LOFT: A Japanese psychological horror movie by Kiyoshi Kurosawa who also made Kairo=Pulse and Cure), but I couldn't keep myself awake since I had just done a full week of the early shift. (up at 4AM). So I decided to go to bed and watch it tonight instead. I ended up going to sleep around 8.30PM and I slept until 8AM straight. Kept busy today by editing the next Sega Saturn issue and uploading mags. But I should hold off until after midnight as I'm quickly running out of bandwidth.

gamefan volume 5 issue 4 april 1997 Diehard GameFan > gamefan volume 5 issue 4 april 1997 Nintendo Power 21,22,23,24,25, 26 and 27 have all been uploaded to rapidshare.

Nintendo Players Guide - Mario Mania Game Player's Issue 50r - March 1995 Computer Game Review Issue 43 Feb 1995

The last shouts were the following: All the curent MEGA issues have been uploaded to Rapidshare EGM 144, GamePro 30,31,36,40,59,65,67,72,74,75,143 rapidshare'd. EGM 75,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135 and a couple other mags have been rapidshare'd More to come soon.

Since certain groups can't view the shoutbox, that can't see the updates I'm doing when I'm uploading magazines to Rapidshare, So I'm going to post everything I upload to rapidshare on here. That way guests and newbies alike will know which new releases or even old ones which aren't yet up on rapidshare, like Nintendo Power, have been put up for download on there.