Phillyman

55 minutes ago, E-Day said:

It's worth changing just to have you change yours to that!

Now thinking my name should be Harry Plopkins!

Fair point, I just had the Torrent announcement showing on the Forums home page, I made it show everywhere now. Not sure if I will keep it that way or find a better way. Its either 1 section or all sections and it looks weird in some areas.

21 hours ago, kitsunebi77 said:

You can sign up to receive new release notification emails so you won't miss anything.  For the past couple of months, there has been something released pretty much on a daily basis, so you may have missed quite a bit!

So on this, I wanted to point out a quick note.

The feedburner link that I have set to show below each release, is done thru Google without my interaction. But it is really only meant for non members of Retromags.

Members of Retromags - They should be using the notification system to stay notified of new releases. Our notification system is very powerful and they can choose whether to be notified off of the posts in the New Release Forum section, or they can be notified off of the Download Manager section, and if they choose the Download Manager section, they can further choose whether they want to be notified of all Nintendo Powers, or All USA magazines. They can also choose whether these notifications just show up when they log into Retromags, or if these notifications send Emails as they happen, or wait until the end of the week to send a summary of all releases that week.

Non Members of Retromags - they can use the Feedburner email that fires out at 5PM Eastern USA if a release was put out the day prior.

I too have thought about changing my name here at Retromags. Before I settled on Phillyman I was SmackedAzz and Southprker, I haven't used any of those since around 2002 with AIM.

Just got these

Only 4 more slots available, then I send the last $600 off to @CIVICMINDED and we draw a winner for the contest

The Download Manager just redirects you guys to leech.retromags.com/base, do you get the same issues downloading from there?

-Robert

Only 6 more spots available until we draw for a winner. Each of the remaining spots is $50

5 hours ago, gingerbeardman said:

The Electric Brain Wikipedia page is under threat of deletion.

Any experienced wikipedians in the house?

No, but this is why we have our own Wiki-like section for these types of entries to go into.....and we wont delete them

Just now, kitsunebi77 said:

I thought this was the scanner you use?  You're using something else now?

I still use the ScanSnap, I loves it, I just traded in my dual Canon Lide 110s for a Epson v370

I avoid CIS now too, especially with the neon colors on mags, they just dont come thru.....at least on the cheaper models.

Canon Lide 110 (CIS)

EPSON V370 (CCD)

Fujitsu IX500 (CIS)

Even though I was never a true fan of the Sega Genesis or Sega in general, I preordered one. Back in the 90s I owned the NES, SNES and GameBoy and then got a Genesis. I never really built up a library for the Genesis because of "The Sega Channel" which was an adapter for the Genesis that hooked up to the coax cable in your house and allowed you to download games to the Genesis and play. Most of it was demos and trials, but what I remember is the following titles.....

• Altered Beast
• Comix Zone
• Sonic 1-3 and Sonic Spinball
• Vectorman
• Earthworm Jim
• Eternal Champions

So my experience even to this day is very limited with the Genesis.

17 minutes ago, Areala said:

I am so confused. 

*huggles*
Areala

I got the specs for the model he has from Amazon and copy pasta'ed it here

12 minutes ago, Areala said:

That...is alarmingly precise. Did you, like, measure yours or something...?

*huggles*
Areala

no mine is bigger than 8 inches and weighs a tad bit more

4 minutes ago, Areala said:

I guess I should also find out how large this thing is before there's any talk of shipping, since I don't have a whole lot of room in my little office area for a beastly-sized piece of hardware.

*huggles*
Areala

25 minutes ago, hardcorehubz said:

 

@Areala If you're interested in it I can try and hook it up and make sure it works properly. If it does it's yours if you just send me money to ship it.

 

 

If the scanner works, and wont require a ton of money to replace out rollers or whatnot. Let me know what the shipping cost is to get it out to Areala and I will cover it.

3 hours ago, hardcorehubz said:

Am I the only maniac with 3 scanners?

I have four now, two of which I need to Craigslist.....

• Fujitsu ScanSnap IX500 (ADF)
• Epson V370 (Flatbed)
• Canon LiDE 110 (Flatbed)
• Canon LiDE 110 (Flatbed)

The Canons I need to get rid of, they are just cheapo $50 scanners from back in the day.

20 minutes ago, hardcorehubz said:

Could be, it's not as nice as the 7160 but it could be on par with an iX500 and has CCD.

Lets send it to @Areala along with a few boxes of magazines

I am just behind on moving the dates forward, we still follow the same 10/15 year cutoffs .For defunct magazines like Nintendo Power and GamePro we are up to 2009 (10 years back) for ongoing magazines like OXM we would only preserve up to 2005.

Also I will be making a post about this later, but one of the members of Retromags just donated the first 52 issues of OXM to me. So they will be going thru the scanner very soon.

Funny thing is I am still planning on driving to meet E-day this summer and bring him a few boxes of my collection as well It will be about a 9-10 hour drive from DC to Canada, and I was planning on bringing around 300-500 magazines with me.

CivicMinded Donation Drive Contest Slots.

• Slot #0 ($0 - $50) - Phillyman (Not Participating)
• Slot #0 ($51 - $100) - Phillyman (Not Participating)
• Slot #0 ($101 - $150) E-day (Not Participating)
• Slot #1 ($151 - $200) Hardcorehubz
• Slot #2 ($201 -$250) Kremdog
• Slot #3 ($251 - $300) Kremdog
• Slot #4 ($301 - $350) Ethereal Dragonz
• Slot #5 ($351 -$400) badinsults
• Slot #6 ($401 -$450) badinsults
• Slot #7 ($451 - $500) JhonnyD
• Slot #8 ($501 - $550) famiconsumer
• Slot #9 ($551 - $600) famiconsumer
• Slot #10 ($601 - $650) Rajen17
• Slot #11 ($651 - $700) Rajen17
• Slot #12 ($701 - $750) Rajen17
• Slot #13 ($751 - $800) Rajen17
• Slot #14 ($801 - $850) Rajen17
• Slot #15 ($851 - $900) Rajen17
• Slot #16 ($901 - $950) jonphilmitch
• Slot #17 ($951 - $1000) perfinpuz
• Slot #18 ($1001 - $1050) sean
• Slot #19 ($1051 - $1100) sean
• Slot #20 ($1101 - $1150) sean
• Slot #21 ($1151 - $1200) sean

Once Slot #21 is full, I will print off all names, put them in a hat and draw a name. Will post the video on Youtube and here!

4 minutes ago, hardcorehubz said:

Such a fantastic donation! CIVICMINDED you are my hero! Just donated to help out but I did get an error but it looks like it processed?

If you need any fellow scanners to help with this massive pile let me know. 

I got the donation, very curious about any error messages you guys get. If you remember it let me know, or if anyone else gets an error screen shot it and PM me the image.

So I am going to sweeten the deal, for every $50 donated towards the CivicMinded Donation Goal, you will be entered to win EITHER a brand new Super NT OR a Mega SG!

Obviously E-day and Myself are excluded from this contest, so that leaves 21 "Tickets" at $50 each to win one of these new consoles. If you pledge $100 you will have a 2 out of 21 chance of winning your choice of one of these consoles.