Sean697

1. In so far as getting these distributed to the most people possible, archive.org is an excellent platform. (My personal primary concern is these magazines get preserved and made available to all)2. It relieves bandwidth stress on the site. 3. More people are familiar with archive's digital library, and scans with the retro mags page attached bring awareness of this site as the actual people archiving these magazines. 4. Have you been to their magazine section? They have excellent embedded readers that you can read mags in the browser with no additional software. A lot of time people don't need to download a whole magazine, they just need to look something up. It's great for skimming magazines to find what you are looking for. 5. Archives status as an online digital library gives them a somewhat better chance of surviving a lawsuit or being able to legally host these magazines. 6. It allows more users to get access to thes mags. 7. There are already extensive magazines of the site already uploaded on archive, some of them even not by people from our site. 8. The more digital online lockers and storage places for magazines the better, if one goes down there are other places where the information is backed up. 9. I don't believe magazines like these should be in some kind of exclusive access club , and I don't believe our restrictions are meant to do that, they are meant to prevent abuse of our DL manager. Having an archive option fills that need. We've all seen the problems that come when people claim ownership of scans and how it can tear communities apart. 10. Archive cannot replace our database functions or processes for preserving magazines, this site still is extremely relevant regardless as a game mag preservation hub. 11. Archive.org doesn't have bullshit wait timers and spyware ads constantly popping up every time you visit like file factory etc. When you go there you don't feel like you need to disinfect you PC with a full anti virus scan. And it is 100 percent more reliable as a download source. It is a much better second option than file factory is.

I haven't uploaded my own scans there yet because I was waiting to see what would become if this.

This is like the 3rd book out or coming out that is taking advantage of the NES anniversary. This one. (Which has been derided a bit for using pixelated game shot for backgrounds , but that may appeal to people here as it kind of is a throwback to old magazines.) Jeremy Parish book called Good Nintentions: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Nintentions-Unofficial-Entertainment-GameSpite/dp/1512109746/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1445783051&sr=1-1 And the guy behind Questicle http://questicle.net Dylan Cornelius is working on getting his book with reviews for every NES game out as well.

I think all this is reasonable. I'm kind of against restrictions but none of these seem unreasonable. My only thing is kind of in place , letting a new user DL at least 1 a day. So if they like what is here they wil probably more likely to come back and maybe contribute. Rather than see a site that has no DL at all unless you post. I had been browsing this site for years previously and the pain in the ass it took to just DL one magazine I was looking for caused me to not want to come back a lot of times. In the last few years it's been great. I don't think this new policy will hurt anyone . I like it.

You lost me at depth and creativity of Hyperdimension Neptunia.... I've seen plenty of Japanese mags. They aren't all that different. A lot of US mags copied the likes of Famitsu. What the Japanese mags were doing with small self published games was only mirroring the early 80's mag scene where the exact same thing happened with readers submitted games. There is something to be said for learning all aspects of programming though. I do believe it helped make better Japanese games on a smaller budget in the 8 bit era.

lol it all equals out in the end I guess.

100 pages. Staples. It's done already. BTW what's your opinion on using the low setting on dust removal? From your experience has it mad much of a difference in detail? I used it on one page of EGM 9 for the second page of the castlevanis preview. I might start using it for pages that are predominantly black.

So this EGM 13 is pristine. I mean every page is crystal crisp with no faults. I mean it feels like it just got off the newsstand. Has all the cards inside. It doesn't even want to open because it feels like it's never been read. It feels as new as any magazine I've ever gotten new. It should make an outstanding scan. Scanned the insert cards. Now time to de bind this issue and add some wear. I certainly hope I find a good way to re staple issues as it will probably sell for good money.

Someone bought this at that price it turns out.

EGM 13.

Ya, you deserve some thanks anyway,

EGM issue 9 is uploaded. Sorry it took longer than expected. Database Entry! Download Directly! Next up is EGM issue 13. August 1990.

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 9 April 1990 Database Entry! Download Directly!

I'll have this up shortly. But I ran into my first real fluorescent orange issue. I just adjusted all kinds of shit till it looked pretty close. It was on a Taito newsletter card. Any advice for the future in adjusting colors to get the fluorescent look would be appreciated. Because what I did was pretty unscientific. Trying all kinds of adjust meant options and sliders with saturation and color till it looked pretty close. I guess my scanner can't handle fluorescent orange. Can any?

I did try that app. It doesn't allow you access to app data still so it was a no go. Got the 128 GB.

That's awesome. Youre saving me some money down the road in my quest to get 100 percent EGM! Plus that issue hasn't shown up on eBay for awile.

I messaged him an offer for 25.00 is no one bites. Which I think is generous. We'll see. The one I just missed last August sold for less than 10.00.

I've been on the lookout for this. But that is way overpriced. I picked up other early issues for far less in the same condition. Dude is trolling for Christmas money I think. Most I would pay is 20.00. I scored EGM 13 for like 9.00. And EGM 7 was maybe 15.00. A cheaper one will come up.

Just a quick update. I've been swamped lately and have had little time to work on EGM 9. But the last few days I've been pounding it out. I'm going to try and finish it up tonight. Once I'm done editing, applying correction and resizing will be quick with macros. I have maybe 10 more pages to edit. And they are easy pages. I want to get it done but if not, it will prob. get pushed back to the weekend or Monday at the latest. Due to the holiday and all. Fate has been working against me tonight as I've had two power outages that negated my current pages work both times. And one corrupted file that luckily I was able to restore. Thank you Windows backup. (Though Imcould have just rescanned it of course.) I noticed that issues of varying vintage, the color corrections are not suitable to reuse between issues. So I will now make a new levels file and adjustments for each magazine. Seems to give better results. As using a file that looks good on one issue doesn't not look as good as another. So that may take me 20 minutes to tweek to what I like. Also I've been destaplong these stapled issue to get the full page scans. So I got these issues that are complete but need staples. I've been looking at ways to re staple them. I could buy a stapler I saw at Office Depot today that can staple up to 12 inches. Or I could try to meticulously put the staples back on the existing holes. Which Imkind of tried already, and it didn't work too well as it was extremely difficult to keep the staples in place while placing pages on them. Any advice on the best way to do this? Anyway I've kind of found that issues less than 50 pages or so I can scan without de stapling. Over that I'm removing the staples and scanning the individual pages. And when I get to bound stuff I'm going to remove the binding and call it a loss. These early EGM's I have are just too nice to not put the staples back in.

Awesome. From the thick years of EGM too.

I only did this once. I don't know about an automated tool. But you can just save all the images from the pdf and the. Pack them in to a rar of zip and change the extension to cbr or cbz.

You can upload the covers to the cover gallery. An admin will have to create sections for them and sort them. Just name them all consistently. Example, Top Jeugos Issue 8 July 1995. (Made up example.) Naming them properly will help sort them easier.

You should check out the new USB GDROM cards they are selling now for Dreamcast. It's a board that you swap out with your GDROM drive that allows you to load games off of s USB hard drive or thumb stick. I think this is going to be the way to go for Dreamcast. I just got my card but haven't had the time to install it it yet. I'll be sure to post when I do. Sure you can download ISO disks,mount if you want you can rip your own game disks to use with it. Saves wear and tear and protects you collection from disc rot. Eventually all DC games will have disk rot so if you want to play on real hardware this is going to be the way to do it. As far as computer gaming. I like it it. I love Steam. I'm not a fan of sitting in front of a computer to play games. I may pick up a steam box at some point. My gaming PC is still fairly robust though. For multiplayer games I much prefer PC because of mouse keyboard controls, game mods, and custom servers that are not run by game company's. I tend to stay away from PC for single player games. Except Valve games like Half Life and Portal, due to the PC versions being generally superior to console.

What's interesting in this top score, the old one is they have the quarter an column. One of the many things that would transition to EGM. Among other sections. But you can see the newsletter is still more arcade focused. And is only just starting to dabble in home console gaming. The EGM top score is mostly interesting for the interviews it has with companies running their game help lines. Other than that it's is mostly cheats for games and ads.