Magazine Scan Thread - let's share!

[Sketcz-1000]

Beautful work gentlemen. I want to say special thanks and kudos for providing accurate page names. It saves me renaming them when saving to my archive.

For those interested in scanning, I recommend:
IrfanView

It's a free utility to rename and resize images in large batches. I may have recommended it earlier in the topic, but I like to recommend it as often as possible. It really is great!

[beach1]

This thread is making me miss all my game and anime magazines from the 90s that I lost throughout the years..

[roushimsx]

The utility I most recommend for image swiss army knifin' is XnView. It's a lot like how ACDSee used to be, except free and multiplatform.

It's UI is pretty easy to navigate and it makes it easy to rotate (image -> rotate -> custom...and then you can just hit the up and down arrows to do automatic increments in tenths of a degree or manually in hundredths of a degree!) and crop pages (select your region and then edit -> crop). Renaming is as simple as either pressing F2 or edit -> rename.

When I have to do a batch conversion (like when I'm turning my native 300dpi BMPs to JPEGs for uploading), I just use the built in file manager (hit enter or click on the browser button on the upper left), select which images need to be converted (just like Windows Explorer, you can hold down ctrl to select multiple images not in a sequence), click on tools -> batch processing and then go to town in there.

Even supports batch renaming if you're doing a lot of sequential scans (awesome awesome awesome)!

Imgur scrubs the name/metadata from anything you upload (boo!) but it saves the trouble of having to manually build thumbnails. My full archive is always available here, but I really do need to go back and clean it up a bit more (a good number of them use poor compression and are way too large with no benefit).

edit - I accidentally said alt instead of ctrl

[Sketcz-1000]

Ooh, I'll have to try that.

[nickz]

I have scans from 64 Magazine, issue 48, from 2000.

They have some interesting coverage on the Gamecube. The controller was pretty different in the beta state. There's also some other stuff like Dinosaur Planet and Sin and Punishment.









I'll be back with more later. I scanned everything last night and still have to organize everything

[ZenithianHero]

Jan 6, 2013 10:27:31 GMT -5 roushimsx said:

Imgur scrubs the name/metadata from anything you upload (boo!) but it saves the trouble of having to manually build thumbnails.

I was worrying about the thumbnails then I realized that Igmur provides its own names. lol I used mostly photobucket prior. I will continue to type the source when I post scans here so if any confusion I"ll be sure to help.

[roushimsx]

Jan 6, 2013 17:10:39 GMT -5 ZenithianHero said:

I was worrying about the thumbnails then I realized that Igmur provides its own names. lol I used mostly photobucket prior. I will continue to type the source when I post scans here so if any confusion I"ll be sure to help.

Yea, the snazzy thing about imgur is that you can take the filename it gives you and append either an s or l to the end of it for small/large thumbnails. No control over the size beyond those presets, though. When I post stuff on my blog I tend to just do manual thumbnails 200px wide (and 4 images in a row), so I really only tend to use imgur for forums and whatnot.

(or when I just want to throw something up real quick for a friend to check out)

[corsair]

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[roushimsx]

I had a chance to demo the glove once and was pretty impressed at the time with its ability to simulate analog control in games that only supported digital input (I think I tried it with the first Ridge Racer). It was a neat function, but I couldn't get behind the rest of the design.

[ReyVGM]

Lol at that EGM Super NES retrospective taking the Star Fox last boss pics directly from VGM.

By the way, I've been looking for the EGM Yoshi Island review, but guess what? There is none. EGM never reviewed the game. I wanted to see what their take was on their game, considering Game Players mag gave it a semi-lower score ( i16.photobucket.com/albums/b41/ReyVGM/forums/fail1.jpg ).

But then I remembered that initially, EGM2 was publishing the same content as EGM, so I guess the review might be there. So, anyone has EGM2s from back then?

[Sketcz-1000]

They say Yoshi's island has graphics like a first gen SNES game? - WTF!

[nickz]

I have Letters To The Editors in the same 64 Magazine from earlier. Some of it is insightful, some of it is an interesting look back on what was on the minds of gamers back in 2000. Other parts are just stupid/funny. Enjoy





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[nickz]

This stuff is from Game Informer 118. We hae an interview with Mortal Kombat's Ed Boon and a huge preview on the sadly "never going to happen" Fear Effect Inferno.

[nickz]

This is a Player's Guide to R-Type DX. It's from Nintendo Power from the June 1999 edition. It doesn't cover the R-Type 2 side as good as the first one, but it's pretty cool and is great for studying if you plan on completing either of those games.

[nickz]

These scans are from Play Magazine's February 2003 edition. They have a very detailed Developer's Diary on SCEA's flop Primal. It's pretty cool to read and gives a huge 13 page "making of" on a game that is pretty much forgotten today.