Phillyman

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MegaFan Issue 2 Last issue needed for this section.

Winner winner chicken dinner on this bad boy!

Dimension PS-X Issue 3 Scanned the last issue we needed to complete this publication

Super NES Buyer's Guide Volume 4 Number 6 Scanned the last issue of Super NES Buyers Guide for a complete digital collection.

Sounds good!

Yup was posting it in the Team Member section just now. Probably a good idea to make it in to a Google Sheets and then grant Team Members here the ability to edit it with what they have, etc

Let me see what I have.... and it looks like I have it.

I think it is the snowball effect. When you have 200+ issues of Nintendo Power that need to be scanned, and only 20 are done, it looks daunting. Once the projects are on the flip side, and people see, oh snap.....we only need 13 more issues of X to have a complete collection, it is much more enticing to join into the process and see it finished.

Sending a PM

Right, but again I am saying there is a difference between Frank from Video Game History Foundation coming here and telling us directly that Retromags can either... 1) Rehost their scans as is 2) Fix up said scans via Photoshop and rehost. And us just going all over the internet, sucking in found magazines from anywhere we can find them. If you look at his account on here, he has been a member at this site for probably well over a decade.

And I have no issues with them rehosting. It is when they rehost and snatch out the Retromags Thank You page at the end. Or downgrade the quality or convert it to some oddball format. Take our scans, put them on Usenet, put them on public torrent sites, put them on private torrent sites. Just provide them the way you recieved them. So we get a tiny bit of foot traffic and a few members sign up and thank our team members. Otherwise they start wondering, does anyone even care that I am putting all this time into scanning, editing, and releasing this stuff?

To be honest, it is a few things. First of which is pride, we take pride in being the origin of many scans that are mirrored elsewhere. I believe that Internet Archive would not have a single Nintendo Power on their site if it wasnt for us scanning them. I forget when IA started to host magazines, but back in 2005 I don't remember anyone scanning Nintendo Power, EGM or GamePro. It is so easy to just find and rehost files. We exist to preserve what has not been preserved. Second is we are not big enough. Even with over 4000 magazines, this website barely clears $45 per month in donations. While this site probably actually costs twice that to keep running. If we just became a mirror for thousands of more magazines that we just stumbled upon, those costs would rise. The donations however would proabably stay at the current levels. Being a site that is not paywalled, and doesnt beg for donations every week on Twitter, plus providing unlimited downloads to users who don't even need to register. Not many can claim to do that along side of us. Third, there is always users who claim ownership of their scans. I dont want to deal with users coming here and complaining about something that was ripped from their website and released here without their permission. Do they have a claim, probably not. But all the same, its draining and I would like to stay clear. Anyone who scans stuff for IA, is more than welcome to give us permission to put their scans over at Retromags. If they do, great. If they don't, we will eventually scan our own copies Plus some of the stuff over at IA and these other sites, is not the best quality, its just thrown together and uploaded. We have quality checks, where we try to scan these magazines just once, destroy just 1 issue per scan, to get that perfect digital copy so that no other copies need be destroyed. Hopefully this cleared it up

Interesting find, I would be open to a fundraiser to grab these issues so that you guys can have a full set. However we only provide scans that we make ourselves. So the set would be incomplete from ourside, but for anyone gathering scans from everywhere, it would be complete.

Game Informer is the only one that I personally have had someone ask us not to preserve. We were uploading Game Informers and mentioning it on Twitter and an employee basically told us not to. So we resepcted that. We heard second hand, that GameFan did not want us to preserve their magazine, however that was like 12+ years ago and I personally never was a part of that conversation (nor was I shown that convo). So while we respected it for the last decade, we decided that until one of the mods here gets a notice, and I see it....that we will start letting GameFans be preserved.

I shall dub this new feature...... At a glance! What is Phillyman talking about? Well have you ever strolled into our Magazine database and wondered......How close is Retromags to completing this section? Well ask no longer! I give you AT A GLANCE!!!!! Now the status tags from a particular category will tally themselves up into the corner. Giving you insight into how complete that section is The best part is once a magazine is fully preserved, it just cleanly lets you know because only values that are greater than zero records will show. EDIT: Actually there are three clean situations I see. A category is completely missing any scans, it is completely preserved, or it is not allowed at all. Every other situation is a work in progress for that category.