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Looking forward to these the most. Supplements and strategy guides are so cool! Very curious about the two art books too.

My research indicates that Gamers' Republic 21 was never released because of a dispute among the staff about the cover. Someone on the staff might release a digitial copy of the unpublished magazine. That happened with GameGo!, which was cancelled after issue 1 and the unpublished issue 2 landed online. The Italian version of the magazine had no interruptions and the early issues were based on translations of the English magazine.

Each developer had little fan magazines and newsletters, and very few of them have been scanned. They are goldmines for art and information about the games. Capcom, Konami, Compile, and others all had their own. Compile's Disk Station magazine: https://archive.org/details/@mdoook

Thanks for uploading these Saturn magazines and thanks for GameMags1957 for scanning them in the first place! Were this and Total Saturn only 6 issues each or is that only the known issues? I like seeing these short lived magazines scanned in full since they're little time capsules.

I uploaded this to archive since I don't think it's on there and I want it picked up when people do searches. It has a nice article on Net Yaroze. https://archive.org/details/station-issue-1-1997

That list is from a private tracker focusing on retro games, and most if not all should be on the internet archive by now. Some of the Nintendo Player's Guides are attributed to "420 Game Scans", but I can't find anything on that person or scanner. The rest have no attribution. They're decent scans.

At the very least tell them that .cbz is the format they should be using. If they're okay with their scans showing up on retromags, that's good too. Oh, and speaking of people doing gamest scans. There's someone named Gamebookscaner on archive who scanned GM Vol.2 "King of Fighters '94" and GM Vol.14:King of Fighters 95. I figured it was one of you guys uploading their scans before they're edited to be put on retromags site. I've also confirmed that the new gamest scans that pop up on Japanese sites are new scans not old ones that re-surfaced. So they're probably aware of the Japanese magazine scanning project and is scanning books that aren't being scanned by that project.

That is an ugly cover. Yikes.

I meant co-ordination, not necessarily collaboration, just to make sure they're not re-scanning material over again. A lot of people have been scanning Gamest Mooks for a while, and not all of them are labeling them as such. This person has scanned GM 162 but that had already been scanned years ago. I saved their whole scan page for Gamest Mook and Other scans since who knows when a self hosted site could die? It's a little weird that they're not using an external host like Internet archive to host their scans. And of course they have no means to contact them other than twitter. Looking a bit deeper, their scan of Vampire Savior Fanbook is uncropped and their Cap! vol.11 doesn't have a direct link on their page so I am linking it here. But overlal the scans look pretty good. You should ask them if you can host them on retromags.

Some more Gamest Scan news: Super Street Fighter IIX Gamest Special Edition. Another Gamest Special issue was released by the Mystery Scanners. These just appear on sites every few months, and no one knows who is scanning them or if they're new or old scans. Also someone uploaded a bunch of Arcadia and Gamest issues to archive. And I found a new site doing partial or complete scans of Gamest Mook and other magazines. Maybe there could be some kind of co-ordination? At least tell them to avoid the pdf format and to upload somewhere more permanent than directly to their website.

You might find more by looking up the publisher and editor. They published GameFan from 1996-1998. It sounds like they were creating short lived failed magazines during this period. Former employee linkedin

Willow is fascinating for a few reasons. First it's a movie adaption of a sorta neat fantasy film that's kind of under-rated and it's a pretty good game in itself. Second, it was the last game directed by Akira Kitamura (mega man 1/2 direct) before leaving Capcom. However for some baffling reason the game was not talked about or reviewed in many magazines despite getting a world-wide release. Wikipedia only lists 5 reviews and half aren't even English! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_(video_game)

Issue 77 and 108, both dealing with SFII have dropped online. No clue who's scanning these or if there's any more out there. So you've said you don't have the "special issues" correct? So this could easily work out. This project does the standard issues while these special issues pop up periodically scanned by unknown parties. https://archive.org/details/ii-street-fighter-ii-dash-gamest-77 https://archive.org/details/ii-super-street-fighter-ii-gamest-108

That was always going to be a long shot. Thanks for searching. There's another P2P Japanese program called "Share". Might be worth checking out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P)#Legal_issues And here's some common phrases to check. Just "Guide", "Official Guide", "Perfect Guide", etc that commonly appears in guidebook names. ガイド 公式ガイド 公式ガイドブック 公式ガイド 公式完全ガイドブック パーフェクトガイド

GameCenter CX (ゲームセンターCX released some books. Might wanna check for those. There's also Continue magazine that interview Arino (like around 2009) and I've never seen them anywhere.

I have a better quality version of this book at higher resolution. Maybe it's an upscale though? If you think it's a better quality you can upload it to replace your version. Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ad7001fqq2zmbdp/[Comptiq]_Chotto_H_na_Fukubukuro.zip/file

Good news: There's someone scanning and uploading Silent Hill Japanese guidebooks. The version of Perfect Navigation File that I uploaded was some really sloppy scan where they just threw it into the scanner without unbinding it so I'm glad someone re-scanned it. They are uploading the raw .tiff images and then cleaning them up and uploading as .pdf. I've left a message explaining how cbr/cbz is a better format. https://archive.org/details/@bigmanjapan?and[]=Guide+silent+hill https://archive.org/details/silenthillperfectnavigationbookpdf/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/silenthillperfectnavigationbookpdf/mode/2up Bad news: I don't know who Sketch the Cow is but they upload a lot of files but they upload downscaled files sometimes. So first they uploaded the same R-Type Delta guidebook, but it's 80MB rather than the original size and they messed up the title! "R-Type Official Guidebook Gamemezz EX69". "Gamenezz" must be some kind of mangling of "gamest" More blatant is the Wizardy Gaiden 2 book I uploaded. My copy is 198 MB and I got it right from the original scanner's source. His copy is just 14 MB. I think he's getting this stuff from places and they're using some kind of bot to mass download and then downscale files for efficiency. Problem is that sometimes they're the only person that I can find that has certain files. Are those the original files or are they downscaled copies? And I really don't know. A lot of the stuff I get is from Japanese language manga sites and they always make sure to upload the original unaltered files. A few Guides that seem exclusive to them: https://archive.org/details/Princess_Crown_Adventure_Guidebook https://archive.org/details/Dynamite_Detectives_2_Official_Guide https://archive.org/details/R-TYPE_TACTICS_Official_Complete_Guide

Anime mags are just as important and cool as gaming mags but no one seems to be scanning them. Euro game mags are also fascinating and have somewhat spotty scanning. A lot of Spanish mags are scanned especially some of the bigger ones. French mags have scans but some are really awful and there's big gaps in them. Euro mags are also readable to me or at least easy to translate. Korean and Japanese are much harder for me to read.

Okay, just going through my files and making sure I'm not double uploading. Also uploaded Xanadu Databook vol. 2 https://archive.org/details/xanadu-databook-vol.2

https://archive.org/details/wizardry-gaiden-2-imaginations-guide-book/mode/2up I uploaded Wizardry Gaiden 2 guidebook. Now did you have this book and were planning on uploading it or maybe uploaded it before and I missed? Asking because I don't want duplications.

Here is yet another Gamest Mook that I found, this time for R-Type Delta. That's the good news. The bad news is that when scanned it cuts off a sizeable amount of text near the bindings as shown with the two-page spreads (the "Y" and "P" are almost gone). This affects the interview near the end of the mook. Unfortunately this means the whole thing will have to be re-scanned. But it's better than nothing I guess. https://archive.org/details/r-type-gamest-ex-69/mode/2up

These all from Perfect Dark? Neat findings. Probably should have been scouring that P2P network years ago.

Famimaga seems to be one of those right to left magazines. I can't seem to find any coherent way to determine if a Japanese mag is right to left or left to right. Only by checking 2 page spreads.

I did check, and then added it to my "To Do list". But I checked around Jan 2019 and these were uploaded around March 2019. Just shows how behind the times I am. Didn't think someone would do me the favor of uploading them.

http://www.greatdragon.ru/online/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200212064652/http://www.greatdragon.ru/online/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velikiy_Drakon 65 issues of the Russian magazine are scanned and hosted on that site. As we know sites tend to die though. Could anyone be a deer and collect them and upload them on archive? The mags are stored as images so they have to be individually downloaded and it seems like a chore.