KiwiArcader

And that screws up the whole compatibility thing for me to the point where a NDS XL is no longer a good buy. The thing is I like the screen size so given the way Nintendo work maybe I now wait for 3DS XL which is bound to happen sooner or later

I'm guessing it will probably be a UK magazine as the bulk of the gaming cover art on mags in the 80's seemed to come out of there rather than via the US. Thing is I have shiteloads on mags and I cannot recall this one. Sure it wasn't a Spectrum mag like Crash? Unfortunately not all C64 mags have been scanned etc ...mags like Commodore Computing International have only had 4 or 5 scanned to date. I've even gone through all my archived Zzap 64's, Zero, Ace and still no go. Will keep checking ....

I guess the big question for me is ... how long before games crop up that require the 3DS analog stick? .. therefore cannot play on the old consoles or have playability issues without analog. Or will there be titles that are 3DS ONLY? The DSL I have has a buggered mic so I have been thinking about the XL due to the lovely screen size but the 3DS throws the issue of future compatibility into the ring. How many times have we heard about 100% compatibility only to find that isn't quite true? It tends to make me want to wait for the dust to settle before handing the money over.

You gonna show Areala yer 'Ninten-dong'? I think it only fair that she respond in kind though.

We'll have to wait and see what the reviews are like but I'm not convinced that the optics will be as good as a standard dedicated scanner to be honest. Its like photographing a book .... passable for casual reading etc but really not good enough for archival work. Still .... might be wrong. When is CES 2011 anyway? April 1?

Blue Valkyrie is about to die .... da daaa da daaaa ..... aaarrgggggghhhhh!!! My favorite 4 player arcade game for sure....

Nothing says Shinobi like the arcade flyer though .... Didn't play this more than a handful of times in the arcade though. Always preferred Golden Axe myself.

Found this NES/GB version of the advert online. Very similar but the screenshots show a world of difference between the Genesis/Negadrive version and them .... Mind you, after playing this and the SNES version on emulators I have to say the SNES one whips the Sega version's ass in my opinion. Better grapjics, better music .... just better all round really.

Sounds good. I'll PM you about this.

I see you advertised these over at OoPA as well. I know Meppi has a heap of these already so it might be good to work out what he needs for the set if he's missing certain issues and then when he/we know what issues he wants to scan up to and I'll happily look at whether I can afford to take the ones he isn't prepared to scan (he might want to release all issues up to a certain level so I could cover the rest). Are you happy to send 10 issues and wait a month for the next lot? As it's a bit of a hit on my finances .... Maybe some people here wanting to see these could contribute something towards postage costs as well? I'll happily agree to scan these first and foremost so we would see them up reasonably quickly as I have an A3 scanner, so it doesn't take as much effort as Meppi has to go through when using an A4 scanner. I am more than happy for Meppi to take my work and work his magic on them as well and release anything of mine over at OoPA as well. He knows that anyway

Damn. Postage to New Zealand would be prohibitive I'm guessing. I'd love to know what the price would be to surface freight them though. Or the cost to send 10 issues at a time?

N64 is very thin on the ground re mags available online .... read that as "2 issues available over at OoPA" only .... so yeah .... it would be great to see some more online. I know I certainly would love to see some ... the N64 is still my favorite console to this day.

Holy cow. This post is over a year old and someone posts into it? Hehe .... Anyways ... re posting NP PDF's ... well ... I'm on a bit of a sabbatical over summer break. So I'll post mags if I find the time and the desire to do so at this stage. Plus I am on a fairly tight Broadband usage plan nowadays so I'd rather spend the MB's uploading new stuff rather than conversions of E-Day's NP CBR's to be honest.

I am just burnt out at present. So I am not saying I won't take up the challenge of trying to wade through my mags again at some point .... just that I REALLY, REALLY need some time out from what is probably the most challenging preservation type of them all. It's just so intensive when you try and do justice to the mags. It's summer here and way too hot to be sweating over the PC etc so I'll enjoy the weather and sit down and work it all through in Autumn next year when it starts getting wet and you wonder what to do with yourself when you can't get outside again. I agree with you KBF .... if publishers would just get with the fact their old IP still has a following and create digital stuff themselves I'd happily pay to bypass all the time I'd have to spend scanning (assuming they don't butcher it by removing content like they did with the Retro Gamers...bah!!!) E-Day ... I appreciate the ability to Mod the download forums. I've tried to help out by doing covers where they need them and ensuring you don't need to do anything at all re my submissions. Sorry I haven't been uploading CBR's but our broadband usage limits in NZ are crap so I thought it easier if I uploaded new content rather than halving it by supplying both types. That's also why I've not been uploading PDF versions of other peoples submissions. I don't want to get throttled to dialup speed by going over cap. Pain in the ass really ....

Re Newsfield content. Well .... while Zzap64's and Games Machines are available already the quality on those are pretty crap really .... simply raw unedited scans. So over time I want to scan the 50 Newsield mags I own to get good quality versions online. OoPA got Newsfield to allow official digital distribution so it seems fair to make them available there. E-Day. Being a Mod was never something I thought about really. If we were to be realistic about it most of our 'Mods' have never submitted or edited a magazine for the site so their worth in my mind was less than Team Members anyway. After all, a site like this can survive without Mods but its whole worth is based upon the Teamies who provide the content. Re Nirv - yeah, a total pill in most ways but I did agree with the principle that if a publisher isn't making digital versions of their mags then there is a risk that they will be lost if not preserved. That was what I meant about agreeing with him. That's all though. But I find myself at a crossroads where I'm approaching 50 and I find I am spending too much time on this stuff. Phillyman said you only need to submit one mag a month but the sheer volume of mags I have has pushed me to doing as many as possible. I've been running to a schedule that tries to get 1500 mags scanned which in hindsight was probablly totally unrealistic. Unfortunately, this has pushed significantly into my free time and my family have commented on it. In light of that and other things I realised that it is having an impact on my personal life. Hence the decision to wind down. Lastly, for the record OoPA have nothing to do with this. I think Meppi may be a little shocked after I also told him I was stopping scanning. They're not holding their breath either now re the Newsfield content after I told them they'll see stuff as/when I feel like getting back to it. Which may be never .... I just don't know at this stage. All I do know if I am burnt out and need to relax for a while. Time for me to try and locate a working Dreamcast and get back to playing some cool games methinks. Been too long ....

Well .... it worked out ... but probably not as you expected. I have decided to cease scanning for this site. I originally started doing this because I wanted digital copies of my magazines in an effort to reduce the volume of paper sitting in my basement. I found this site and thought this was a great way to motivate myself ... by helping with the preservation cause. Since then I've been banned (twice), harrassed over my opinions/preferences for the PDF format, and generally felt unappreciated to the point where I have decided to go back to my original desire ... that being to do this for myself first and foremost. To that end, I would recommend that someone motivates themself to downloading all my magazine contributions that are available in PDF format only as these are currently stored on my personal Megaupload account that I purchased to help provide a backup for this site. At some point the files will be taken offline ... I won't be renewing the account more than likely ... and if you don't upload them to E-Day's MU account they'll be gone at that point. This is not some retaliatory measure at E-Day for leaving me out of the conversation or not being 'worthy enough' to be a mod ... I've made my views on this known several times so he knows them all anyway (and I agree with some of Nirv's comments too) ... but I find I need to take myself away from all of this. The only contributions I will make moving forward are those that align with publisher approval ... Newsfield content over at OoPA etc ...

Hmmm ... I thought Team Members who had been actively contributing would've also been consulted, given we make this place what it is. Now I guess I know where Mister Zero's comments about my not being a Mod were coming from. Not to say that I am unhappy with the decision.... I've made similar comments about this in recent times .... but given the contributions made by some of us in time/mags etc it would've been polite to include us in the conversation.