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  1. 1,156 downloads

    GamePro Issue 44 (March 1993)
    5 points
  2. 200 downloads

    Official Xbox Magazine Issue 077 (December 2007)
    4 points
  3. 222 downloads

    PC Gamer Issue 176 (July 2008)
    4 points
  4. 240 downloads

    Official Xbox Magazine Issue 046 (July 2005)
    4 points
  5. 228 downloads

    Official Xbox Magazine Issue 043 (April 2005)
    4 points
  6. 231 downloads

    Expert Gamer Issue 82 (April 2001)
    4 points
  7. 212 downloads

    Official Xbox Magazine Issue 075 (October 2007)
    3 points
  8. 332 downloads

    inCite PC Gaming Issue 2 (January 2000)
    1 point
  9. https://iremdb.com I finally managed to get something out ... This has become a much harder effort that I could have ever imagined. Having to both index magazines (currently at 17k pages) and build that horrible website, has become a very hard job, Hope it somehow people enjoy it. I got the basics out, list platforms, publications, magazine, search feature, and a basic viewer. Some things you can find there: All pages that contains Super Mario Bros 3 : https://iremdb.com/platforms/nintendo-entertainment-system-nes/super-mario-bros-3 All famous Sega ads "Genesis does what nintendon't": https://iremdb.com/search?mode=ads&tags=123 All John Madden Football ads: https://iremdb.com/search?mode=content&games=38633&contentTypes=Ads All content published by "Andromeda" editor from Gamepro: https://iremdb.com/search?mode=editors&editors=43 The entire "Legend of Zelda" comic strips from nintendo power published over 12 issues https://iremdb.com/search?mode=content&tags=228&contentTypes=Comic I need now to integrate a user management into the site, so people can start contributing if they wish. Some progress I made in automating the whole thing: I had managed to do some neat tricks such as automatic ads detection, given that 50% of those magazines are ads, I used a perceptual hash algorithm to finger print each ad page, and for each new issue, it simply looks in the database and usually get 80-90% of all ads indexed (it does miss about 10%, and there's always some new ads on each issue). I have also played with using custom object detection, and it works fine, for instance I automated all detection of gamepro reviews by looking for those silly faces, problem is that data labeling to train a model is as expensive in time as actually, you know labeling the page I had set a goal to release this to public as soon as I reached March 1993 (exact 30 years ago) in magazines indexed. I'll keep pushing new issues, and adding more features, need to get user integration or this is just a waste of my time. Once again, if you want to participate ping me again, I had to shut the other site down. I may also have to one day keep the viewer behind a login screen, the site has never been shown to anyone else but somehow hundreds of bots from some countries are just crawling it nonstop, if I want to keep CDN costs at bay, I may need to just let the thumb images to be public, other pages, and future features such as like, collection, custom searches, to be only for registered users. Constructive (does not need to be good, just constructive) Feedback is welcome
    1 point
  10. Thanks for your comments, the goal is to fill all the holes of the database, we should be close to it when I will be done scanning what I have in hands. The good news, there is more to come.
    1 point
  11. More fine work from dablais, its great seeing these little holes in the catalog get filled in. They used to have 100+ Official Xbox magazines on the Internet Archive (archive(dot)org) but nearly all are gone now. I dont know if it was a legal thing, but this site is one of the most reliable when it comes to vg mags that I have found. Aside from ones that require donations or a subscription, so its great that Retromags makes them available to all. Thanks again for 3 more missing issues in the last day or so.
    1 point
  12. Quick update, these are done now: Official Xbox Magazine Issue 6 (May 2002) (Scan ok, I might re-scan it) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 7 (June 2002) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 14 (January 2003) (Scan not good and some page are torn, I will re-scan it) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 42 (March 2005) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 43 (April 2005) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 46 (July 2005) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 74 (September 2007) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 75 (October 2007) Official Xbox Magazine Issue 77 (December 2007) dablais
    1 point
  13. 105 downloads

    VideoGame Advisor Issue 09 (September 1996)
    1 point
  14. 1,120 downloads

    GamePro Issue 43 (February 1993)
    1 point
  15. 174 downloads

    Computer Game Review Issue 050 (September 1995)
    1 point
  16. 206 downloads

    PC Gamer Issue 207 (December 2010)
    1 point
  17. 397 downloads

    PC Gamer Issue 069 (February 2000)
    1 point
  18. thanks for preserve this beauty, I am from Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro, and I had some of this magazines
    1 point
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