KiwiArcader

Unfortunately the "anyone's" with the physical copies usually have no desire to spend the time scanning them

I also don't see why making downloads available here makes any difference to how I choose to run my site. BTW, how many magazines have you scanned for Retromags Trinity? Hmmm ..... I think you are just one of those people that freeload off everyone else's hard work.So really, your view on things is nothing I am going to lose any sleep over. Have a great day

That would be, in order by date: CVG - the second real multi-format magazine I owned after Computer Gamer which I actually preferred but it died after a couple of years (these mags were from the photo the screen age) Amiga Format - sure there were dedicated Amiga games mags but they just weren't as good as this as far as I was concerned Computer Gaming World - started getting these after they went PC only. Absolutely loved them until I found ..... PC Gamer (USA) - I bought the first 80 or so issues when Imagine were publishing them. The Future versions just don't cut it compared to those early issues. PC Format - WTF you say? I hear you but having won an auction with lots of early issues I am really getting a kick out of reading the game reviews from a retro perspective. They are great and the magazine feels like the spiritual successor to Amiga Format in every way that counted compared to it's cousin PC Gamer (UK)

Is this the one you are looking for? It's another M.I.A issue over at SegaRetro......

Dreamcast Official Magazine (Japan) issue 068 is now available over at Kiwis.World. This issue is one of the missing issues over at SegaRetro so big thanks go out to Cuckooguy (GunyenTony) for the donation of his print copy.

Absolutely agree. Each to their own. scotto10 needs to work out what is acceptable to him then come up with a plan for getting scans to his desired level. However, he was asking for guides to do so when, as I stated, guides are really dependent on what software, both scanning and editing, that he is using along with the aforementioned levels he is prepared to go to obtain the output he wants. He didn't provide any information on anything other than he can access a FI-6770. I'd wager I am the only one here with a Fujitsu A3 scanner of that model, mine being a FI-5650c, so as far as their use is concerned I might be his best bet......

Creating a guide is entirely subjective and depends entirely upon the software you have access to vs that which is being used by someone else with a Fujitsu scanner. No point asking for someone using Quickscan if you are using something else entirely. E.G, Quickscan uses ISIS drivers and allows you to create individual profiles for different paper sizes (A4, Letter or even customer pages sizes for those weird sized UK mags) and allows for bulk scanning whereas TWAIN is essentially a page at a time scanning. Then there is the whole editing side of things. Some people like Meppi, or Kitsunebi77 like to edit the pages so they look like a digital copy which slows down outputting magazines but they look very nice. Others like myself, who used to work to similar levels, decided to perform a certain amount of processing only. That way we make a lot more magazines available faster, but they don't like as nice. It really depends on your personal thoughts on what level you wish to go to then adopting a plan to make it work for you.

Haha, Yeah I know mate. Was just kidding around with you. I do have several PC Gamer USA's and a whole lot of UK issues to scan but I'm kinda trying to clear out my console mags as I don't really like them and just want them into recycling so the A4 scanner is taking a proverbial beating at present. The fact I'd have to debind those lovely mags to scan is also playing on my mind although I wrote off a $80 copy of Automobile Year scanning it the other day so quite why I have a hang up on debinding those PC Gamer's is a wee tad weird right?

I wonder that was aimed at me?

Dreamcast Official Magazine (Japan) issue 010 is now available over at Kiwis.World

Shenanigans were here at Retromags. Work was just a recipient of mags as a result of it. Not worth rehashing old crap!!!

1960's. Teens in the 70's. So yeah, everything is different nowadays....

Another of Cameron's mags gets scanned, this time it's Computer Pilot Vol.05 Issue 01

Yeah, the mag was a totally different beast to the UK edition. I know as I have a truckload of the UK version on my scanning pile, and I actually owned the first 90 or so issues of the USA version back in the day before I dumped some at work and burned the rest thanks to shenanigans around here a while ago. Sometime in 2002 Imagine disappeared and Future took over the magazine and it's really been a pale version of it's old self ever since. I'm only really keen on getting the GP/Imagine versions scanned but as I have a pile of later issues I will scan them, it's just the interest factor isn't really there for those Future branded issues.

Dreamcast Official Magazine (Japan) issue 002 is now available thanks to Cuckooguy

Hiya mate, If there is a problem regarding donated mags feel free to give me a link if you want them on my website while you get things sorted out over here. I'll put the relevant acknowledgements to the donator and yourself as the scanner etc and when/if Retromags gets sorted I am happy enough to take it down again or link within the page back to Retromags. I can provide separate links for CBR & PDF versions easily enough. Happy to help out if required........

Nintendo Dream issue 98 is now available thanks to Cuckooguy. That's release #23 of his donated pile of mags sent to me with only two issues of this particular title still to scan.

Be thankful that they ARE kids magazines then and not ADULT mags

Sure. But there are lots of mags on SegaRetro like Sega Saturn Official (Japan) that are crap quality on their site that you would think there are high quality versions of on the scanners HDD but they just don't seem to turn up anywhere so we do what we have to do. It's a little akin to Mort's old scans. He released raw scans in pretty crap quality and for years they were the only ones available. Now he's released 600DPI ones but they are still raw scans off some fairly so-so looking scanner and I'm still not happy using them as base scans for my website. I'd rather scan my own than deal with the editing making them usable. But that's just me.....

Well, I don't really like using other peoples scans if they aren't scanning members of my site or haven't given permission and as Cuckooguy paid a shite load of money to send them to me I don't have any qualms about scanning my own versions anyway.

I'm way too busy scanning the 2000 mags in my collection and 100+ issues of Dreamcast Official Magazine (Japan) sent to me by Cuckooguy to deal with even more issues. And I'm still recovering from the rather large tax bill from the New Zealand Government for those mags to be in a position to afford postage costs shipping more mags out from Japan anyway. Looking forward to seeing them though

I believe this is the reason why Imagine Publishing released their original digital issues of Retro Gamer, Games tm with placeholder images for the advertising material. There was some discussion of their forums regarding the fact that the advertising was a single print agreement with the advertisers advising on a per issue basis regarding ads they wanted to run across multiple issues. However, they must have changed their agreements as the digital issues released on iTunes etc and within the Readr app all contain the advertising material. That or they have taken legal advice which has altered the scenario around ownership rights. I'm guessing but maybe the release of digital copies of issues comes under the "back issues" scenario? In which case a digital issue is no different than providing a print copy? Dunno, but something has changed to the point where they and Future are releasing full monty issues rather than cut down versions like the old Xbox Official content only releases.

Nintendo Dream issue 103 is now available thanks to Cuckooguy