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He Sivilius, I PMd you about an EGM mystery I'm hoping you can help out with. Just letting you know Since this site doesn't allow scans that go as far as I need I've been at a loss to find anyone that can help.

Always love seeing more scans of this one. Thanks!

Yeah, I made this topic after reading that and wondering where "this page on how to donate magazines" is since I saw no link anywhere! Someone better fix that. I'll let anyone interest post here since I'm sure any scanners will see this topic. That would be funny sending them to Japan since I got them from there not long ago, so it'd be like going back and forth. I will definitely have to post when I am getting other magazines just to make sure someone else hasn't already got them.

So I've got all issues of this Japanese magazine dating from November 93 up to January 1995. I'm still not sure, but I might be looking to hand them off to someone that will scan them. I'm trying to get a whole bunch of other JP magazines and quite frankly can't afford taking up more room. I looked around the site but I can't find anything that says how to donate. How does donation work? The weight of these things is pretty heavy too, so shipping won't be simple. If anyone were in the Bay Area like me it'd be easier to just meet up and hand them off. Do you guys buy magazines off of people if they offer them? Let me know. I plan to be getting tons of issues of Playstation Magazine, Dengeki Playstation, Dengeki Nintendo 64, and Sega Saturn Magazine which I'd also give in the future. My primary thing is I want to sell what I have to afford more, but I only want them to go to someone who will scan them.

OK, glad that's behind us I tried to edit my last post but couldn't so I'll just say what I had written then, but I'm not totally against newsgroups since it seems to be a more permanent way of magazines staying up. If it's only like $3-$10 as quoted anyway, not bad for unlimited access. My only worry would be if that'd deter potential contributors, but then again they can always donate their scans for the archive in addition to providing their own links outside of the newsgroup for anyone if they wished. Speaking of competition, it really isn't since it's only French, but http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/ is one of the best places I know for French magazines. Such a huge archive and easy to navigate, I wonder how they can afford to host so much on that one server.

I think you missed the entire point, which was simply that since money was requested and donated, everyone was owed an update of some sort on what's going on after the main guy behind it all being missing for a couple months now. It's not a matter of what I'm doing or how long it takes to reupload all the files, I never said he was obligated to have it all done immediately because I want my free magazines right now! or something ridiculous like that, which seems to be the impression you got. I'm merely just pointing out something that should be generally accepted as common courtesy. If no one makes a scene of any sort, well we might still be left in the cold wondering what's going on. Pointing it all at me shows you just see someone complaining and decided to use the typical "what are YOU doing to help!?" argument, which misses the point entirely. God forbid someone not involved with a project that's meant for public consumption wonders what's going on after someone that took money just vanishes, right? And it looks like Phillyman has come back and given an update so there. It's good to know he's still around. Honestly, it wasn't asking much I think.

Unless he got into a car accident or has some health issues, this is really just an old excuse that's getting used too much. It takes practically no time to just come by and make a quick update. I seriously SERIOUSLY doubt he's completely deprived himself of internet usage, so it follows he has some time to say something? Quite frankly, when I see someone that took money have their lackeys constantly stand in for them saying "Oh, well, real life" in his place, it just starts pissing me off and I feel like going in rage mode :x You don't ask strangers to fund your hobby and then vanish. Say something already for gods sake. I'm likely making myself look bad but heck, if it's gets the people that did donate some assurance I may as well be the one that takes the punches for them since I have nothing to lose.

I never donated but I'm wondering the same. I come here and every so often there's this one thread that keeps getting bumped with people saying stuff like "Love the site, brings back memories, you've got such a huge archive!" and all I can think to myself is wtf are you talking about, there's absolutely nothing here! Real life can get in the way, but not to the point where if you accepted donations from people, you just stay away forever leaving someone else here to speak for you and say "he's M.I.A, real life and stuff." You can find time in your life to make a simple post. Seriously, why do so many people do this in life. It only takes a minute. It'd be nice to get an updte on where that money went too. From what I undnerstand, it was raised to give to somewhere/someone that was commissioned to write a whole new site design. Surely the money was at least given to them and there's progress on that end? Or is the money just being sat on until this Phillyman feels like giving it to them? I don't see any reason for that if so. Why the only recent update to the site is a link shortner when there's absolutely nothing to even use that on at all yet is a mystery to me, btw. Whew, I've wanted to get that off my chest for awhile Again, I didn't donate and I may be complaining for something that ultimately ends up in my hands for free for doing nothing. But if you're going to make a site for the public and take their money, then it's really not much to ask they take the responsibility they gave themselves. Else, don't make a site. That said, I look forward to any updates, if they ever happen. The net needs a site like this, all others I've come across like Out of Print Archive where you only have one person giving us one magazine a week or longer is nothing compared to a site like here where everyone can contibute.

As mainly a Sega gamer in my earliest of gaming years, there's tons of Sega magazines I'd love to see on the site eventually if there's any generous contributors out there. Throwing these names out there since it's impossible to find any scans, besides like one or two issues of a select couple. I think most are UK but a couple may be US? Mega Drive Advanced Gaming Official Sega Magazine(the precursor to Sega Saturn Magazine, if I'm remembering correctly) Sega Power Sega Pro Sega Force Sega Force Mega Super Sonic And any others anyone knows of The sheer amount of Sega-centric publications amazes me, and makes me wonder exactly which ones got the more exclusive content, as opposed to others who just had the exact same screenshots as all other magazines got. Mean Machines Sega seems to have been the real main one, or at least from all the scans I've seen on Archive.org, they've got more exlcusive previews from test carts they were given as opposed to press shots all the other mags were taunting. Well, here's hoping!

Just thought I'd mention all of these links don't work anymore, but I found this site: http://www.enlaceitor.com/enlace.php?id=4194 Several issues in each rar file. Downloading time is sloooooow, but better than nothing.

So will all the downloads come back when the site is revived, or are a lot of downloads lost now? Hoping to especially see all the "Video Games The Ultimate Gaming Magazine" scans that I can't find anywhere else.

Should Famitsu get it's own section under international publications now? As it is you can only find it there because it's on the side as the last addition to the international section. I can't figure out any other way to find the link to it, so if something else gets uploaded then the link can't be found.

Cool link ccovell. I found ads just like that in some magazines I skimmed through, including an add for an FC clone. I probably should have saved it. Thanks for the Famitsu release too, however slow you go I look forward to more. Enjoyed the mini manga towards the end where Mario's apparently shaved Luigi's pubes Stuff like woulda never flown in US mags, really interesting to see haha. Still on a hunt for more magazines out there. I met a guy on IRC years back who had lots of JP magazines from 96 and so, hopefully they're still obtainable somewhere.

Famitsu? Where? I'd love to see those Sega Magazine's. I found more Chinese magazines and got a couple of new prototype shots of Mario World and Sonic 1, so obviously these foreign magazines have a lot of rare shots that go unnoticed by lots of people. Who knows what those ones you have might contain! I'm probably getting my hopes too high though

Yeah, that's the issue. I actually searched a bit and found scans of the pages I mentioned for Mario RPG. But seeing scans of more issues would be nice. Nostalgic to find that cover again though, I still have the issue but the cover got torn off and has been missing for years now. Mario doesn't look quite how I remember hehe. ccovell I recognize you from Assembler! I posted the magazine there first a few days back now. Didn't know you do Chinese. Yeah, that beginning comic is a joke. the A'can is one arrogant prick. Funny how the kid appears unconvinced until he learns there's gonna be *gasp* ten titles released at launch. Now you see how Nintendo wins with their quality over quantity rule I've been slowly translating the whole magazine randomly just for my own personal practice, not sure where that's gonna go since I'm losing interest, written Chinese is such a pain compared to conversational text. Literally takes hours to do one page sometimes.. Some other magazines I learned of that would be cool to see someday are Megadrive Fan, Gamest, and Sega Saturn magazine. BTW ccovell, you're the one that found that I think Famitsu that had early shots of Super Mario World, correct? I remember the finding of those shots just showed me how much has been hidden in Japanese magazines all these years that no one over here ever knew about. Exciting to think what else could be in them.

Wow, wasn't exactly expecting to be making a thread that started this.... That is a shame about not taking scans from elsewhere, it would be nice if there was one concentrated source for all magazine scans out there rather than only what's scanned from a specific community, since that way it'd be easier to locate things rather than have it all dispersed. But I understand the site's reasoning. Doesn't stop me from making my own amassed collection anyways The Video Games magazine I'm not sure what it was a successor of, all I know is I have one issue with Mario on the front and it had a big section for Mario RPG with tons of shots of the game that looks completely different from the game that was released. Very intriguing that they seem to be the only magazine that got those shots, never saw them in previews from any other magazines. I look forward to if Famitsu gets attention too. Any idea on the time span of issues that are available that are planned? Hope whatever happened here doesn't blow up into anything too big...heh. Thanks for the responses(the good ones)!

Just registered today. It's great to find a site preserving all of this stuff, brings back lots of memories. I hope it doesn't end up dying anytime soon, which I was scared was happening when I saw the front page! Anyways first I wanted to share something, but I'm not sure how to submit it. I'll just link to it here. It's not my scan though. This is a magazine from Taiwan that previewed Taiwan's first and to this day only console, the Super A'can. You can look it up on Wiki, but the basics of it for anyone unfamiliar is it was pretty much a console with the same technical prowess as the SNES, if not a little stronger. It died much as the 32X did over here, with only 12 games being released in the end(at least, that's as many have been found so far). This magazine shows off games that weren't released, along with other stuff that showed how over ambitious the company was, including an unreleased add-on that looks exactly like a 32x heh. Here's the link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJ94QNB2 Since this is already all zipped up I assume all someone needs to do is rename it .cbr and link to it on the site? The site I got this from has a few other Chinese magazines that were scanned, and if they were all saved on this site that'd be cool, so if anyone can tell me how what the submission process is that'd be great. Lastly I was curious if anyone has heard of any of these magazines or has any issues and plans to scan them in the future. Video Games N64 Magazine(UK) Dengeki 64(JP) Famitsu(JP) ...or any other magazines from Japan during the ninties. One thing I love scanning through old magazines for is shots of unreleased games or early development shots, and I know JP magazines would probably have lots no one's ever seen yet over here Looking forward to more scans to come. Great site!