KiwiArcader

I feel the same way about PC Format, PC Gamer (UK). Apart from late issue digital rips I feel like I am the only person scanning the early issues.

Same as this issue my friend. It is now available so if anyone feels the need to read it and can look past the cover it is perfectly readable. If I were you I'd still make the file available. Anything is better than nothing and if no-one submits a better copy at least you prevented it from being consigned to the history books as "unscanned/missing" right?

In case anyone is interested I am working on a 360 page monster of an issue next. The issue in question is #53 circa October 1998. Unfortunately this issue arrived in really rough condition. I have cleaned up the cover and although it is still rough it is a LOT better than it was. Expect to see it over the weekend. Being the equivalent of three normal sized mags it is going to take a while to edit.

A new day, a new PC Gamer (USA) with issue 112 now available over at Kiwis.World.

Well, thanks to the comments from kitsunebi77 I was FORCED to update the site to Joomla to enable people to create logins for the site so they can comment if they so desire. All kidding aside though, the other platform I implemented after my amazingly bad WordPress site crash was entirely too problematic anyway so the move was a necessity. Now that most of the uploads are back online (still a lot of PlayStation content to upload though) I am back onto scanning duties. The first title especially for kitsunebi77, is issue 124 of PC Gamer (USA) featuring Half-Life 2.

Yep. The scanner I use (Fi-5650c) is the previous version of Marktrade's Fi-6670. http://www.proscan.co.nz/fujitsu-fi-6670-document-scanner If it dies on me I will likely give up scanning as I couldn't deal with a A4 or A3 flatbed scanner after having one of these.

If I had to replace my scanner a brand new replacement of the same family would set me back nearly $11,000NZ.

Yeah, my Grandmother would give me a couple of dollars to go up the road to the Fish & Chip shop as takeaways were called back then when the only thing you could buy were fish and chips. I think I got 10c change which was enough for one game of the Taito Space Invaders arcade machine in the shop. I got pretty good at getting through the levels, so much so that Gran would complain that the chips were cold when I got back home. When I was working at the ASB Bank later, I could go almost the whole lunch hour on Jackal (Top Gunner in the USA) on one, maybe two 20c pieces with a mate from the lending department I worked in. Good times ....

Hahaha. No chance of that my friend. No chance whatsoever!!!

Nice!!! Very nice indeed!!! Yeah, I didn't know if you were totally okay with me hosting your files so I sorta kept clear of them for the most part as I didn't want to piss anyone off tbh

Now if only you'd scan some new Japanese magazines for my website ...

I have a stack of 40 PC Gamer (USA) mags sitting my floor waiting patiently for me to get the site downloads restored so I can make a start on scanning them along with the remaining issues of Computer Games:Strategy Plus in my possession

Don't worry. I'm really ancient so multitudes are Amiga/Commodore/Amstrad/multi-format mags from the 1980's of which large swathes of them have already been scanned but are terrible quality scans so they are there to make newer/better digital files at some point. Most of the magazines I am scanning at present, well, when I get my website back up 100% again after I decided on a newer platform because kitsunebi77 was sad at the previous version (I have to admit PHP-Fusion turned out to be pretty crap), are indeed never previously scanned titles.

Thank goodness they are staple bound. I was getting twitching in my privates at the thought of dropping a heatgun in my lap While I personally throw away my magazines after scanning them I am more than happy to put these back in the boxes they were shipped in and put them in the basement. The Japanese mags are fantastic artwise so if I were to retain any mags at all it would likely be those. Once we have good quality scans I see little point in storing Euro mags. And with two thousand mags in my basement there's literally a tonne of paper down there on my foundations that I am working on removing.

Woah!!! That sounds like, burn the house down dangerous. How do you NOT toast the magazine to a crisp? No, I don't own one of those but I'd look into it if it was safe. How long does it take to process an issue that way? The only heat gun I'd be happy or comfortable with would be https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/makita-heat-gun-50-600-degrees-celsius/p/124964 ... which is way more than $20 but with the low heat settings would surely be less likely to scorch paper in my mind.

Okay. Things have taken a different turn from your original post where you stated that if the whole lot were shipped you would be okay letting them go. I am super happy to scan and return the four issues you stated haven't been scanned previously. If they are stapled issues I can remove the staples and scan the two pages in one go as I have an A3 scanner. No problems there at all and you could possibly feed the staple back through or use new staples or get them re-stapled professionally. If they are glue bound then I would have to cut the spine away which is messy depending on the glue excess which can cause knife slips etc (I'm not rich enough to afford a $400 Guillotine unfortunately) Those would be a pile of individual pages. If you want the whole lot shipped back however, .... hell's teeth ..... that is some serious, serious costs right there ..... New Zealand Post ONLY ship airmail out of the country nowadays

LOL. That's not very polite kitsunebi77. Mind you, their ripping off our files and dropping the quality to crap levels is impolite too so I'd have to say that probably the comment is somewhat deserved

If you are okay with them being cut up to feed through a document scanner and are happy to ship to New Zealand I will happily scan any issues that you send my way and make them available over at my website and here at Retromags. I have a small amount of donations in the kitty so if you have PAYPAL I can contribute something towards postage. I'd happily take the whole shooting match with a view to getting 300dpi scans of them all and consign those RetroCDN versions to the trash where they belong but I am guessing shipping for that lot will be quite high. If people want these maybe they could chip in with the shipping costs? Price up the four issues to ship to Auckland, New Zealand and maybe a box worth as well for comparison and we can take it from there if you are still keen. Cheers .....

I'd take the Famitsu's at $10 but it would cost $1000 to ship them. That's a few too many zeroes for my budget

These would certainly be fantastic to add to Retromags or Kiwis.world. I'd scan these in an instant but I couldn't even begin to imagine what 400lbs of mags would cost to ship to New Zealand. Yikes!!!

I'd love to scan these. Japanese mags are really nice artwork wise and the RetroCDN versions have had the quality kicked out of them so they definitely need good quality re-scans. But if he wants them back, well, I couldn't see their being scanned to be honest, as the time taken to scan on a flatbed is just horrendous.

marktrade uses a Fujitsu document scanner which requires him to debind the magazine to feed the pages through. This essentially ruins the magazine but does allow for amazingly good scans as there is no blurring of the spine edges that you get with a flatbed scanner and holding the magazines onto the plate. I'm guessing if you want these back that isn't going to work for you. I have the same scanner that he has and I am happily cutting my magazines up to get them scanned at a good speed. With one of these I can literally scan a complete magazine in a matter of minutes.

Me too

The only games I like to play are Mario 64 DS and Mario Kart DS and they use the screen mainly for maps etc so it isn't a big issue for me in that regard. I am tempted to get a Nintendo 2DS XL though. Just need to find a cart that runs standard NDS games on it. My kids wore out my old NDS and NDSi .....

I agree with you on that point. My personal emulators of choice are: Project64 ... I still play Mario64, Waverace64 and Banjo Kazooie on that. I have a Nintendo to USB adapter so I use a real N64 gamepad with that Dolphin ... considering the level of difficulty emulating the Gamecube and Wii it's great!!! I use a Nintendo Wii with nunchuk using Bluetooth with this PSPPP ... for those games that run it's a blast ePSXe ... as kitsunebi77 said, it's a pretty stellar emulator for PSX. I use it to play the intro to Soul Blade on occasion. God it's good ...... DesMuME ... really acceptable NDS emulator when I want to try a little Mario Kart I actually use emulators for all things retro nowadays as I gave away my computer/console collection a few years ago.