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Good to know! I'll look for some. I'll also be scanning without any of the image-editing settings. What you're saying makes perfect sense. If I'm being honest, I'm only scanning these guides so that Japanese-reading people in the Satellaview community can look over them and find relevant information, which they can do with unedited pages, so I'm not sure how long it'll take me to dig into the whole editing process (the only image editing program I'm proficient at right now is MS Paint). So if anyone else wants to edit these pages and upload them to retromags, they'd be very welcome.

24-bit it is! It looks like the "Document" setting just brings the exposure up, so some detail is lost on the art... but on the other hand, the stuff on the other side of the page is less obvious, so I kinda like it more. (These were scanned with descreening, but I've decided to skip that after reading your post.)

Thanks for the tips! I ended up debinding the first book with a clothing iron and I think it went pretty well for the most part (there were a couple of instances where the pages seemed stuck in a different way and there was some tearing on the surface along the edges, but luckily those parts are completely blank). Now that I'm ready to scan, I have a few more questions: - Is there any benefit to going with 48-bit color over 24-bit color for this? - My scanning program has a setting called Auto Exposure Type where the options are Photo or Document. I should go with document, I'm guessing? - There's also a setting called Descreening that has an option called "Magazine (133 lpi)." Should I enable that? I can upload some examples of pages scanned with these settings if that's useful.

Hi, I came across this topic because I recently bought guidebooks for some Satellaview-related Super Famicom games that I'd like to scan (three for RPG Tsukuru Super Dante, two for RPG Tsukuru 2, one for Sound Novel Tsukuru, and one for Ongaku Tsukuru Kanaderu). From reading previous pages, it sounds like debinding is the way to go for this. Do you guys have a guide for how to do that, plus scanning tips in general? (DPI, stuff like that.) I own an Epson flatbed scanner.