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8 minutes ago, dablais said:
Super let’s do that! I can take your sheet and created the Google Sheet if you want, I will add my stuff. It would be nice if for example every scanner has their tab of stuff.
Sounds good!
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1 minute ago, dablais said:
@Phillyman do you think it would be possible to share your list with scanners? For example, you share it on a Google drive so we all know what you currently own and we don’t need to look for these. I can even suggest that each scanner own a tab with what they have in their possession so we can all focus on acquiring the right magazine.
Let us know, I think it could be very beneficial for all of us. I’ll be the first one to go and my stuff in it.
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
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4 hours ago, kitsunebi said:
...Where the heck was this kind of team spirit when I first joined RM 10 years ago
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.
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3 hours ago, TheValintyne said:
No need to be rude or dismissive. I'm only trying to help the end-goal here.
If you're a purveyor of any "lost media" wikis or groups, you'd know that, 9 times out of 10, what people are looking for is usually right under their noses. "Missing commercials" have been found on random YouTube collections. In turn, many documents, books, etc. have been found on IA, just waiting to be discovered by the right person that's looking for them.
It wasn't as easy as typing in the magazine title and the issue number/date as many of those were incorrect, using varied numbering styles, etc. I flipped through about 600 results to put together what I did. As far as I can see on the forum, no one else decided to do that in order to help complete collections.
If that's the case, why accept donations/gestures like this? I checked all of my "finds" and all but two confirm sourcing from the Video Game History Foundation, scanned in at 600p resolution.
Relying on people who claim to have "x" number of issues and will mail them out, only to go radio silent for years, unfortunately, isn't reliable if the end-goal is preservation of every issue of a particular magazine. It was really disheartening to see so many threads like that abandoned for whatever reason.
Again, not trying to fight or disagree just to disagree, I just want to understand why something like this is considered inferior when there was a massive list posted of people excited to finally fill the holes in several magazines' libraries... only to have that languish and be seemingly forgotten about.
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.
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19 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:
But yeah, I agree. There's always going to be plenty of people out there who scramble to reupload other peoples' scans like they think they're doing the world a service.
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?
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3 hours ago, TheValintyne said:Is there a reason why you only use scans that users provide? There wasn't anything about that in the newcomers section, so I'm genuinely curious -- especially since no one could claim ownership of these (because it isn't "theirs" to begin with).
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Interesting, let me check the bug fixes for this months version and see if it is addressed, if not I can start a ticket with the developers
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On 10/20/2023 at 3:41 PM, E-Day said:
When is that happening exactly?
It is is the mail as of an hour ago. ETA is Thursday
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12 hours ago, CutTheRug said:
I sent in this issue, and the remaining missing PSM magazines 4 months ago.
Issues 120-123 and 130.
Can anyone confirm they received them or why credit is going to an account that as of right now, on 10/19/23, hasn't logged on in almost 2 years.
I don't care about credit, I figured it would say anon or something. I'm just so confused as to why certain issues still say "missing" and why the issues I sent in that have been scanned are credited to someone else.
Just need to know what's going on for future donations.
Thanks for any help.
I have them with me, and am shipping them up to E-day for scanning. Looks like another person sent in the same issue, they just did not know you sent them to me. The others should credit you.
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