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I've uploaded my raw scans for the first RPG Tsukuru 2 / RPG Maker 2 (SFC) guide to archive.org, in case anyone is interested in editing and adding this to Retromags (if not, I'll get around to it at some point): https://archive.org/details/rpg-tsukuru-2-official-guidebook-introduction-raw-scans

I will take a look at it.

I’ll be more than interested as well!

Josh, that is very nice of you to acknowledge and thank us .

I am going to take you up on that offer!

Hey, Josh from EGM here. Now that things have calmed down a bit on the Archive launch, just wanted to hop in and offer a personal thank you for your support of the project here, and for your efforts in working on preserving the magazines for all these years. We definitely couldn't have done this without your community, at least not at the level of quality and on the timetable we did. As many of you have pointed out, the bulk of the scanned material we're using definitely originated here. (We'd asked Phillyman for his blessing ahead of time, FWIW.) We did do our own clean up work (both image processing and fixing pagination errors), and we also did our own rescans of certain issues and missing or damaged pages within issues. But yeah, would've been impossible for us to make the whole history of EGM so accessible to people without the RetroMags community, so I wanted to let you know we're grateful. If your scanning work wound up on our archive and you pledged to support the campaign, we'd like to give you a little bonus as a thank you, so please let me know here or send me an email (josh.harmon@egmnow.net) and I'll hook it up.

Yup. I am very typo prone when using my phone to post messages.

I wish they'd bring back all the ads, those were fun back in the day.

I have always been a bit of a retromags lurker but I've tried to start contributing more and hopefully I can add some more scans/images to the site. I am often a bit too shy to interact on the forums but please know that I appreciate the work all the scanners, website creators and contributors have done preserving magazines, adverts, strategy guides, information and more.

I found Retromags a few years ago while looking for scans of CVG. I am really grateful for all the work that has been put into preserving the old magazines. Cheers!

I've had a great time revisiting the magazines of my video game obsessed kid days, though not like anything has really changed with me being obsessed with video games, ha ha! I enjoy the preservation aspect and do find game preservation to be very important, and it's nice to see that magazines and strategy guides are falling into that category too! I'm very indeed down with that and am willing to help with anything I haven't seen on the site in my eclectic, random assortment of magazines.

I've been a registered user at Retromags for only the last 6 months or so, but I've been looking for digital copies since 2005. I will answer your question @kitsunebi, but I will do it based on why I visited BEFORE I registered. I found my way here because of an ad page at the end of a magazine I found on the Internet Archive. I started downloading the Torrent Packs around #3 or #5 because I was looking for a place I could download more than one mag at a time, and this place was great. I kept coming back to find more torrent packs. I did look at the New Release page every so often, but I didnt bother downloading any because I didn't mind waiting for a new torrent pack that just had everything. I liked the quality of the scans way better than most other sites, and this was one of the only places that had a good number of Nintendo Power, EGM, GamePro and a few others. The Archive did have some good quality scans, but you could have four versions of the same mag, so you had to look at all of them to find the best version. I loved that there was just one entry here. This site seemed to embrace the .cbr and .cbz format rather early compared to others, and once I got more familiar with them, I totally preferred them. I grabbed all the mags I could back then. I never checked the forums, I never looked at the comments on different mags from other users, and I never read the info/description listing for issues. To be fair, most other videogame magazine sites didn't have a comment section for each issue, or a place for users to interact with the people that scanned or published a new issue. So, I didn't really expect it on other sites, nor did I really care to interact with others. I got the magazines I wanted and left. I was around 25 years old back then, I was going to college, and I didn't spend time in other forums or registering on other videogame sites. Now, I'm over 40, and I decided to thank those names I've been seeing for all these years. Since taking the time to talk to members, I've found a lot of passionate people that love magazines even more than I did, and now I'm always signed in (aside from my tab "sleeping"), always check new releases, talking to other members, thanking everybody for their hard work. And I love every minute of it. It feels better to share these memories with others. I like the look of this site and the way its organized more than others. Some mag sites still use frames on their pages, and they haven't been updated in 10 years. But its probably run by one person. I just wasn't as social when I was younger, but it also wasn't easy or very practical to send messages to other users on the Internet Archive in order to thank them for an upload. I hope this insight helps.

OK, I am gonna say this just once. Please do not make me repeat myself. DO NOT FUCK WITH OTHER PEOPLES WEBSITES! I don't want to see any more shit in the forums or shoutbox about Archive, Jason (@textfiles) on Twitter. Or any of the rest of it. Look I get it, you guys bust your asses to preserve magazines, I am not paying you, you guys do this out of a love for preserving stuff, but I also don't need the bullshit from this fight. So if you are going to work yourself into knots when you see something you made.....elsewhere on the internet. Then please do not submit it here! I can't prevent people from coming into this website and grabbing a copy and putting it elsewhere. It happens all the time, it has happened since I started this site in 2005........and guess what.......in 2050 IT WILL STILL BE HAPPENING.We are finally at the point where we have ZERO restrictions on letting EVERYONE download EVERYTHING, and we still seem to find stuff to complain about. So again, chill the fuck out, take a Valium. I can't control what you say over at other sites. But this site will not be a spring board for some turf war.