New Releases - 06/23

[Kiwi]

The February 1992 issue of Bits & Bytes is now available.

[Kiwi]

The Post Mortem Strategy & Solutions Guide is now available.

[kitsunebi]

Dengeki PlayStation 120 features their first in-depth look at the upcoming PS2.

Get it HERE.

[Kiwi]

The Fade to Black Players Guide is now available.

[Kiwi]

Amstrad Action issue 28 is now available.

[Kiwi]

Amstrad Computer User issue 06 is now available.

[Kiwi]

NGamer issue 43 is now available thanks to AralDite.

[Kiwi]

I have come to the conclusion that I am never going to get everything online if I continue editing other members scans on top of trying to scan the 1500+ mags still in my basement gathering dust. To move things forward I am going to straighten cover scans and then upload other members scans as-is. That may mean that scans might be classed as raw scans. If anyone feels like downloading those magazines and editing them to resubmit cleaner versions that will help free up time for me to scan my collection. Don't worry though, anything uploaded as such will be perfectly readable as-is but I really do need to free up my time.

First up in this class are four Game Players Nintendo Guides scanned by AralDite.

 

 

[Kiwi]

Three more of his Game Players Nintendo Guide issues are now available.

 

[Kiwi]

Next up are four of his scans of Official Australian Xbox Magazine.

 

 

[kitsunebi]

LOL, I had no idea those Game Players were on the docket.  I think I have those in my closet right now.  Haven't scanned them because they aren't really a priority.  But they're so tiny (less than 80 pages?  LOL the Japanese mags I scan eat 4 of them for breakfast) I always figured I'd do them at some point when I felt like knocking out something super quick and easy.  I still probably will, eventually.  Not because there's anything wrong with the scans posted above (which I've not even seen), but just because I refuse to sell crap on eBay and I feel guilty just throwing stuff in the garbage, but if I scan them, I can throw them out guilt-free.  I'll post them to archive regardless.

I wouldn't worry about people being dissatisfied with raw scans.  Unlike comics, where any flaw in a scan like an unjoined spread will get the scanner absolutely EVISCERATED by the community, magazine downloaders don't seem to really give a %$#! what stuff looks like.  They neither praise nor complain, regardless of the quality.  So the only reason to make something look nice is if doing so is something you take pride in for your own sake. 

I had no idea you were editing other people's scans, but yeah, you should absolutely stop doing that, since it's pretty hard to take pride in fixing someone else's handiwork.  I like to make my own scans look nice, but it's an empty experience spending my precious time doing the same to someone else's scan.

Maybe one day there will be enough multiple scans of the same mags floating around the internets that the mag community will finally get organized like the comics community and start uniformly naming their files, complete with scanner name so that people can tell just by looking at the filename if they will be getting a carefully scanned and edited file from a dependable scanner or just a raw scan.

[Kiwi]

Yeah, I think I have 400 odd scans of Aral's on the NAS and I also have gladiator's CVG scans, all of which would be great to get uploaded so I can make inroads into my mag collection but all need some amount of editing.

It would be nice if people picked up some of the editing work but I'm thinking it's simply better to have them available rather than sitting on my NAS and thus unable to be worked on if someone does put their hand up to help out. If you can't download it you cant edit it!! 

[Kiwi]

Thanks to AralDite issues 28 - 32 of NGamer are now available.

   

 

[Kiwi]

Another five issues of NGamer have been added to the download area, those being issues 33 - 37

   

 

[Kiwi]

Issues 38 - 42 of NGamer are now available thanks to AralDite.