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Holy cow, that seems to work exceptionally well! :o If it does it this perfect every single time I could save so much time simply cleaning up the files and not having to cut&paste them together myself!

Well, I must say that I find these kinds of thing very interesting myself, especially the Japanese counterparts which also came with DreamCast and Saturn games at the time. Not sure how this could be implemented into the site though as they are just single pages folded together. If we had the complete set it might be easier to present them that way.

Seconded.

Haven't tried to merge pages with CS3 but I have tried in the past with different programs and non of them did it on an acceptable level. So I just scan the pages from both sides, as well as the bottom strip and then merge them together manually. But it does consume quite a bit of time.

With that train of thought nothing will ever improve. It doesn't matter much where you live in this day and age, if we actually open our eyes we know that we are turning everything into shit and at an alarming pace.

Quick, someone ask me the winning lottery numbers while I'm on a role. Guess this sleep depravation thing I get every time I have the early shift does have some positive effects after all.

Indeed. I'd keep this on the front page till the election. It might do some good.

Half an hour before the US Nintendo conference and I'm calling it now. Excitetruck 2 and Kid Icarus.

If you prefer multi platform magazines, definitely MAXIMUM. Only had a 7 issue run, but it's one of the best mags ever IMO.

Oh and here's a movie you shouldn't miss. Lots of new games: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/conference20...ov/wii.html?n10

Hehe, then it all makes sense. Told you Picross is worse than any drug you can think of. Lately I've been able to put it aside for the last couple of weeks, mainly thanks to Dragon Quest IV, but I know it's only a matter of time before I go back to my secret lover. If we exchange friend codes for Picross, I can upload some Super Famicom 20x20 puzzles to my account so you can use them on your US copy. Here's a page that does really get me excited though. http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20081002/wiiss.htm

For some reason I'm not excited about this, but I'll probably get one when it comes out anyway.

Download and install the following program on your PC. (I'm guessing you're using a PC, if you use a Mac or Linux let me know) http://comicrack.cyolito.com/index.php?opt...4&Itemid=27 When you download a file from our site, unpack it with winrar or something similar. Then you will get a cbz/cbr file. Simply double click this file and the just installed ComicRack should open it. If not you might have to right-click the file and choose open with... Go to your program file folder and select "always open this type of file with" ComicRack and click OK. That should do the trick.

If you're not sure which magazines to scan first, you can always open a new topic in the magazine section along the line of GameFan or PC mags?, or something similar. I prefer the GameFan mags myself because I'm not interested in computer gaming at all, but several members have shown interest in those magazines, so there are bound to be people who would be happy with them.

If you read between the lines that is exactly what everyone is saying.

Wish I could help you but I'm pretty much a console only gamer, never even had a C64 or anything either.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for retro games.... Wild Trax Street Fighter Alpha WipEout XL on Japanese PSone.

Not at all! You don't realize how glad I am that you're dedicated enough to try and try and try until you get everything just right. I really appreciate it. I'm actually the opposite. I'm afraid to give comments on certain things because I'm afraid the person just won't understand that I'm not doing it to tear down their hard work, but to actually help them so that they won't have to through the same path I followed. I'm currently rescanning some magazines for the 3rd time in less then 2 years because I'm not satisfied with my own work and I'm certain I can do a better job now after all the mistakes I made and learned from in the past. This latest scan looks leagues better than the previous ones BTW. I would keep saving your JPG's in GIMP at 100%. 1MB for a 1440 JPG images is certainly not too big and it looks great. Another neat little trick that I can show you is the following. Try this out: You might notice that on your screen, the picture looks not as vibrant as the magazine itself. Washed out might be too strong a word, but you might notice that there is a sparkle missing which is there in the original mag. This is most apparent in bright colors, like in screenshots, titles or artwork. I know because my scanner does the same thing. Load your image in GIMP and go to colors, go to Hue-Saturation and up the saturation by 20. Click OK and save the page as gamefan3scaled2.jpg or something. (You might have to save the page at 90% now as that might be the quality the images was loaded at by not coming from the scanner. You can check by seeing if the size is almost identical) Now compare the 2 images by going quickly from the original to the new one and back again, over and over again. (you can make a cbz of the 2 pages if that makes it easier to display them at full resolution on the screen) See the difference? It's like there's a deeper layer of depth to your scan now.

That's great. We already have Richard Leadbetter of Maximum and Sega Saturn Magazine who is a fan of the work we do. Glad to see more people who originally worked on these magazines are starting to find us and actually like what we are doing.

Indeed, as Nreive has already said, I try to concentrate my attention solely on UK mags since lots of members are from the USA, so that side of the Pacific is very well represented on Retromags already. You can even see which UK magazines are already on my plate over here on the wiki: http://www.retromags.com/wiki/Acquired_Issues All the UK issues on that page are actually my own copies. The only problem is that I tend to take a bit to long in trying to get the magazine scans absolutely perfect. So I don't release magazines as often as I would like. I could also start releasing them first as raw scans but I'm afraid if I start doing that, that I might lag back even further in the editing department.

Strange as I heard Irfanview was quite decent... Never even heard of that Lexmark program, so I can't comment on it. I liked Photostudio by arcsoft very much on Windows XP, but their OS X version is barely a shadow of the original program with many bugs, so I had to look for something else when I switched. But yes, I have tried GIMP myself actually and it's very good. A bit clumsy at times, but that might be because I never learned how to configure the program to my likings before jumping ship. Saving the original scan ones it's resized in GIMP at a quality of 90 should give you a very good JPG picture.

Yeah, sometimes faults can be much easily recognized depending on what kind of screen you're using. I can attest to that myself. Just took a look at that new page and now it looks very blurry on my laptop. Its 1440 wide and I'm at 1440 so there's no re-scaling going on. Very strange that. Which program are you using to edit these images btw? Could be the scanner settings as well, but as you say that they look great on your screen I'm not exactly sure. Do you scan at a DPI of 300? Or perhaps it's because you took the 2448 image of 500kb and resized it to 1440 and saved it at maximum (1.6MB). But I still don't understand how that would make the image so blurry now. Strange...

Just had a quick look at the scans, and I'm not sure what actually happened, but there seems to be a massive amount of artifacting going on in those JPGs. Could it be that you saved the pages at a very low quality to compensate for their size seeing as a width of 2448 pixels and only about 500-600kb per image? Or it could as well be that you saved the scans as JPGs and kept saving them over and over again when you were doing the editing, therefor getting more and more artifacts each time.

I sent Philly a message as well so you should have the ftp info soon. But since it's Sunday now I'm not sure if it will be today as I've noticed that there's never much activity on Sunday for some reason. Thanks for the GameGo issue 2 pdf. I've tried converting one I found online to JPGs, but all to images and text are put together separately, so you can's simply export as JPGs. I tested out screen capping the files and stitching them back together, but that took very long at the time so I gave up. Might try again now that I have a screen with a higher resolution.

Club Nintendo Vol.1 Issue 3 - 1989 (UK) Wiki page here. Download page here. Rapidshare link