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  1. 357 downloads

    Electronic Game Player Issue 3 (July-August 1988) This issue was graciously lent to Retromags for scanning by Coury Carlson from My Life in Gaming. Visit them on YouTube
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  2. Yeah, but let's be honest. 95% of the people (who aren't Japanese) who download Japanese mags from our site couldn't care less about things like interviews, because they don't speak Japanese. Like it or not, the only reason most people download our Japanese mags is for the pictures. The number of Japanese-literate foreigners is far too small to qualify as an intended audience for these scans. If that handful of people enjoy reading the interviews, that's great, but it isn't as if the scan being made available has suddenly made that information available to the English-speaking world. For all but a few, those brief summaries and anecdotes in English publications are still a more valuable source of info than an untranslated scan of a Japanese mag will ever be.
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  3. To be perfectly honest though, there are indeed only a limited number of years worth scanning. Not just Famitsu, but all magazines. Retromags is a site for people nostalgic about not just games, but more specifically the magazines they used to read. Emphasis on "USED TO." The reason everyone here has a hard-on for GamePro, Nintendo Power, and EGM is because those are the magazines they read as a kid, back when magazines were actually valuable sources of information about new and upcoming games, and not just a sad rehash of information everyone has already seen online like they are nowadays. No one's ever going to be nostalgic for magazines published today because: A: There aren't any. Well, almost. And B: People are nostalgic for stuff they liked as kids, and kids don't read any of the handful of mags still being published. No one's going to grow up and say "Oh awesome! It's a scan of that issue of the Official Xbox Magazine me and all my friends used to pass around in school when I was 10 back in 2019!! Man, that really takes me back!" So while there is cause to scan stuff covering the 8-32 bit eras, and probably the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era to a lesser extent, by the time of the PS3/Xbox360/Wii era magazines had pretty much stopped mattering. Very few if any people will ever be nostalgic for any mags from that era in the same way as people are about something like Nintendo Power #1. So there isn't going to be much enthusiasm driving anyone to scan those mags. Personally, I feel that our current cut-off dates already allow for literally 100% of all the issues that anyone actually cares about to be scanned. Anything we don't allow yet isn't actually something anyone's particularly anxious to get a copy of.
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  4. Current number of issues of Famitsu: 1614 Total number of scans released by all members of Retromags since it launched 14 years ago: 1681 Best of luck to you, then.
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  5. Sorry, I wasn't clear. By default, ScanSnap paper size is set to "automatic detection." This is actually autocrop. By manually selecting a paper size, you are turning autocrop off. If you select a size larger than the page you're scanning, it will ensure that you're scanning every part of the page. Unless my calculations are incorrect, if you scan two issues of Famitsu per week, you could be caught up in around 22 years. And then you could die with a tombstone engraved with "He wasted his life. What was he thinking???"
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