New Releases - 02/25

[kitsunebi]

Yes, that's it. They marked it incorrectly there as #3, it is actually #4.

I'm guessing, of course, but I'm fairly confident I know exactly what happened.  The original scan of that issue is the one I linked to.  It's 2200px high (Retromags' base standard size) and is listed simply as the August 2000 issue (though the cover actually says "Autumn 2000.")

Next, someone downloaded the issue from the Internet Archive, except this someone was an IDIOT, and downloaded the PDF instead of the CBR.  This happens with alarming frequency, since people who fall into the idiot category tend to have never heard of CBRs, so they ALWAYS go for the PDF.  The problem is of course, that the PDF is just an auto-generated file that is super low-res and compressed (in this case it is 1100px high and also crazy compressed). 

So anyway, this idiot then uploaded the crap auto-generated PDF to some other site (they also mislabeled it as issue 3 because...idiot.)  Next, good ol' Sketch the Cow (Jason Scott) came along and scraped that site, including this issue, and uploaded it to the Internet Archive.  So even though the file was already there in uncompressed form, Jason Scott uploaded a crappy half-resolution copy which itself originally began as an auto-creation of the Internet Archive, simply because he doesn't actually have time to bother looking at the stuff he's scraping and uploading.

I'm not being a smartass, by the way, this is the scenario I genuinely feel is the most likely to be true.

[Kiwi]

JabbaTheGamer and Gregorick continue at pace trying to collect every PlayStation mag ever made with four issues of P2 added to the collective ... 

     

[Kiwi]

Also incoming from Gregorick are issues 01 and 08 of Solutions for PlayStation 2 & PSone ...

 

[bigkev]

JabbaTheGamer and Gregorick continue at pace trying to collect every PlayStation mag ever made with four issues of P2 added to the collective ... 

     

Thank you for the uploads. I remember this publication and liked their review style (four differing opinions and scores to determine the overall verdict).

[Kiwi]

gater and Jason team up to bring us a lovely scan of a real oldie, Big K #07 ... 

[kitsunebi]

Thank you for the uploads. I remember this publication and liked their review style (four differing opinions and scores to determine the overall verdict).

I was gonna say that just sounds like the classic Famitsu review style (the one EGM copied), except then I took a look and they also let one of the 4 reviewers write a normal, lengthier review to accompany the brief Famitsu-style reviews.  So I guess it's the best of both worlds.

[Gregorick]

gater and Jason team up to bring us what I believe is issue 06 of Planet Gameboy ...

Just a heads up but the link for this one isn't working.

[Kiwi]

gater and Jason team up to bring us what I believe is issue 06 of Planet Gameboy ...

Just a heads up but the link for this one isn't working.

Fixed!! One extra character in the file name screwed it over!! Sorry about that!!

[Kiwi]

Jason scanned the Australian Mega Guide to the Internet (1997)

[Kiwi]

JabbaTheGamer donated and Gregorick scanned CVG #242. Fantastic!!

[Kiwi]

Seeing a new release of CVG gave me an itch to get three more of gladiator's scans online so issues 105 - 107 are now available ...

   

[Kiwi]

Bundwest uploaded PC Pilot #01 straight from the publishers DVD so I have extracted the pages @ 600dpi to get the best text resolution and it is now available in the downloads area ...

[kitsunebi]

Here's my all-new scan of Nintendo Strategies. I don't know what the previously available scan of it looked like, since I couldn't find it on the site (looked in the wrong place), but since I've provided you with that handy blue link above, you won't have to worry about having that problem.

[Kiwi]

JabbaTheGamer and Gregorick team up to bring us another three issues of P2 ...

   

[Kiwi]

gladiator's scans of CVG issues 108 - 110 have been added to the site.