JohnSmith

I just noticed that my thread for posting my work has been archived, so I'll start a new one. Is it not possible to "unarchive it" so I can have one thread for all of my work? Fusion, August 1995 Info/download page - https://archive.org/details/Fusion-Magazine-1995-08 Fusion, January 1996 Info/download page - https://archive.org/details/Fusion-1996-01

Great job on scanning Next Generation magazines, marktrade. I'd easily recommend rescanning any issue you have. As for me, I've only uploaded four Next Generation magazines: May, June, July and September of 1996. All of the rest are from someone else, so those comparison pictures you're showing aren't from my scan. The issues I scanned were to fill in holes of digital collections I've come across, and they're all posted in my upload thread (I haven't done anything in a good while, due to other projects). I had plans of going back and redoing some of the posted NextGen mags, because their quality is generally poor/average, but when you're using a flatbed scanner those large Next Generation magazines are very daunting. Also, I wasn't aware of using a heatgun to separate pages (I actually have a heatgun I could use, oddly enough). I use an exacto knife and try to cut as near as I can to the edge of the page. I've noticed my uploads are better than most for preserving edges in comparison, but your method has really produced the best two-page spreads. Is there any trick to using the heatgun? You just point it at the bind until you can tear the pages away? As far as color and editing on my issues, I use the standard setting from the scanner, then snip the ends of the level chart to make the blacks and whites closer to black and white. Color is a tricky issue, and I generally don't mess with it. I find the blacks and whites more important since it makes text easier to read.

I think that the only way that I'd be able to get one of these machines is if a company was liquidating or closing and just gave it away. i really love the idea of having one and being able to preserve magazines quickly and efficiently.

God, this output is incredible. It can take me a full day to do one magazine based on the flatbed method. How expensive was your feed scanner so I can easily know that I'll never be able to get one?

Hey marktrade, this is a great scan! I was worried about the quality of a feed scanner based on what I've seen in the past, but this is clearly good quality, and done at a high resolution. I think it's great you're doing this, and I would really recommend continuing on with the project and preserving whatever magazines you have on hand. As for resolution, I personally do it around 300 dpi, but anything between 300 and 600 DPI is what we should be scanning at. Most everyone has large hard drives and access to high speed internet, so file size isn't as much of a problem anymore. Also, if anyone does want a smaller package, they could just repackage a larger DPI themselves.

I made a scan of the Final Fantasy VII Versus strategy guide, which you can see here: https://archive.org/details/Final-Fantasy-VII-Versus-Guide It's a very well regarded and expensive guide, so it was a goal of mine to make a free scan of it. Right now, there's no place for this, as the Versus strategy guide section is empty on the site. I have two other versus guides that I previously uploaded to archive.org, the Resident Evil 2 & 3 guides, which are also not hosted on this site yet. I don't have the ability to add them, so someone else would have to make listings for them.

I'm just reading this thread now, but I'd like to say that I'm dedicated to scanning the missing issues of Next Generation magazine. I do it from a flatbed in a good quality and host the files as CBRs on Internet Archive. Depending on the quality that you get from a feed scanner, I'm assuming it's less, especially if you don't edit the results in Photoshop. The magazines will come some day. I wish I could be doing it more right now, but I have two major projects that trump it, so it might be a year or so before I can really have a consistent scanning schedule.

Electronic Games, March 1993 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-03 CBR file - https://ia601503.us.archive.org/21/items/Electronic-Games-1993-03/Electronic%20Games%201993-03.cbr

Do you think I could get a front page mention for the last Electronic Games I scanned? And I just wanted to let everyone to know that an ebayer named golfinelle just put up a bunch of rare Electronic Games issues: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Electronic-Games-Magazine-May-1995-Featuring-Donkey-Kong-Generations-/171705683223?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27fa74cd17 They being sold one at a time, but he's got quite a few. I'm going to be bidding on them, just for scanning someday. It'd be nice to not have cross-bidding going on, since I imagine most people who care frequent this site.

Electronic Games, September 1993 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-09 CBR file - https://ia601504.us.archive.org/1/items/Electronic-Games-1993-09/Electronic%20Games%201993-09.cbr

Next Generation, May 1996 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Next-Generation-1996-05 CBR file - https://ia902601.us.archive.org/27/items/Next-Generation-1996-05/Next%20Generation%201996-05.cbr

This is an issue that I had scanned earlier, only to realize that a scan already was uploaded. I was going to shelve it, but when I compared the quality of mine to the one available, I noticed how bad the previous scan's quality was. It's too bad that most people avoid scanning anything that's already available, but some of those early scans are of noticeably low quality. Next Generation, September 1996 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Next-Generation-1996-09 CBR file - https://ia601406.us.archive.org/6/items/Next-Generation-1996-09/Next%20Generation%201996-09.cbr

Electronic Games, February 1994 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1994-02 CBR file - https://ia902706.us.archive.org/35/items/Electronic-Games-1994-02/Electronic%20Games%201994-02.cbr

I picked up some more Electronic Games, just have to scan them. I have a large project that's taking up a lot of my time recently, so magazine scanning got pushed to the backburner.

Electronic Games, May 1993 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-05 CBR file - https://ia902702.us.archive.org/19/items/Electronic-Games-1993-05/Electronic%20Games%201993-05.cbr

Finally working on editing some magazines again. Just put together some stuff that I had scanned a while ago. Next Generation, July 1996 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Next-Generation-1996-07 CBR file - https://ia601405.us.archive.org/29/items/Next-Generation-1996-07/Next%20Generation%201996-07.cbr

Thanks for the positivity TOLUST.

I'm starting on Next Generation magazines. Moving from the earliest to the latest. I don't know how often I'll be doing this because I've got a lot of work lately, but I can scan, edit and upload all in one day. It's just a matter of forcing myself to do one issue when I have the time. Next Generation, June 1996 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Next-Generation-1996-06 CBR file - https://ia802301.us.archive.org/35/items/Next-Generation-1996-06/Next-Generation-1996-06.cbr (151 MB)

Back with a couple more magazines. It took a while, but I wanted to get the rest of the Electronic Games issues I had scanned. Since that's the last of the issues that I have, it's hard to say how long it would take before I buy more of them. I currently have a large backlog of Next Generation and Ultra Game Players magazines to get through, so I should work on that before I spend money to buy even more magazines. I also made a credit page for the end of the scan that lists the Retromags and Archive.org sites. Electronic Games 1992-11: Info page - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1992-11 CBR file - https://ia902308.us.archive.org/12/items/Electronic-Games-1992-11/Electronic%20Games%201992-11.cbr Electronic Games 1993-10: Info page - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-10 CBR file - https://ia902307.us.archive.org/30/items/Electronic-Games-1993-10/Electronic%20Games%201993-10.cbr Electronic Games 1993-12: Info page - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1993-12 CBR file - https://ia902302.us.archive.org/9/items/Electronic-Games-1993-12/Electronic%20Games%201993-12.cbr

This is rare based on the price and from what I've seen. Found it while searching for Electronic Games magazine. I'd bid, but it already went out of my price range. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Electronic-Game-Player-1988-/281404682337?pt=Magazines&hash=item418506b061

I only have the later issues of Next Gen, so I'd love to take all of those issues that you just posted. I'll private message you for more info.

I have two more issues of Electronic Games; the first and third issues. The first issue took quite a bit of time to edit, because there were a lot of two page spreads where the title text ran through the gutter. Probably the layout editor's design inexperience, as it doesn't seem to be present in later issues. Below is an example of one of the many instances of it. Electronic Games, October 1992 (1st issue) Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1992-10 CBR file - https://ia902505.us.archive.org/0/items/Electronic-Games-1992-10/Electronic%20Games%201992-10.cbr (104 MB) Electronic Games, December 1992 Infopage - https://archive.org/details/Electronic-Games-1992-12 CBR file - https://ia902506.us.archive.org/1/items/Electronic-Games-1992-12/Electronic%20Games%201992-12.cbr (124 MB)

I can start to do that, but I might make my own because I'd like it to say something about archive.org as well. They have a large resource of scans with a variety of download options at good speeds, thought their organization and presentation is terrible. Also, I'm having a bit of trouble using the retromag site, as most options are (presumably) closed off to me. Mostly, I just want to be able to update my progress to the site as I go, largely related to the showing of magazines being "preserved" on the issue lists after I've added a download link to the archive. It's annoying that someone else has to do that for me, and I don't understand why it isn't automatic or has to be handled by a mod. Also, sometimes I notice that an issue is listed as preserved but there is no download link, or vice versa. It'd be nice to fix stuff on the fly, because you usually forget what you saw where after you leave. Is this ability something that changes later if I wasn't a "newcomer" or are there literally only two people who have this power? I currently have to debind everything. It's a shame that there isn't a program in place that makes an institute's book scanners open to the public, as it seems like a good/fast way to get scans without destroying the magazine in the process. If it wasn't rather uneconomical and expensive, I would probably build one myself with some of the open-source plans floating around. Though, I'm actually going to have to figure out something non-scanner at some point, as I have a bunch of NextGen magazines that are to large to fit onto my scanner.