terpsfan101

February 9, 2013

Mediafire suspended my account. So all the download links no longer work. A lot of Retromags content will be lost as I do not have a back up of everything that was uploaded to the account. As I no longer have access to the email address I used for the account, so I have no idea why it was suspended. Mediafire has really turned to shit over the last year. It used to be unlimited storage for free accounts, now there is a 50 GB limit. And they also disallowed free users the ability to share split archives. Fortunately, I used split zip archives, which mediafire didn't notice as split archives. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted.

June 25, 2012

You can find the July 1983 issue of Electronic Fun at the Digital Press Library. Here's the direct link:

http://www.digitpress.com/library/magazines/electronic_fun/electronic_fun_jul83.pdf

These aren't high quality scans, but they are readable.

May 20, 2012

What do you mean by the links are blocked? What happens when you click on a link? Try removing "http://anonym.to/?" at the start of the links.

April 18, 2012

My parents got me a Playstation back in Christmas 1996. MK Trilogy was one of the 3 games my parents gave me, along with NBA Live 97 and Triple Play 97. I was very disappointed with MK Trilogy. The load times were awful, and the computer AI was brutally difficult. I only played it a few times. If I remember correctly, the game retailed for $60, which was $10 to $20 more than the usual retail price for new playstation games at the time. 15 years later, I still feel guilty for asking my parents to buy this lousy game.

April 17, 2012

A few people have complained about mediafire taking my files down. There might be a problem with the links, but all the files I originally uploaded are still there. I don't have the time to check all the links, so post any broken/not working ones here and I'll check them out.

March 30, 2012

Do you remember which magazines you clicked on? I just tried various links from Edge, EGM, GamePro, and Nintendo Power (not logged into my mediafire account) and they worked fine.

March 30, 2012

Every scan that E-Day and I have can be found here:

http://www.retromags.com/forums/topic/7043-external-links-to-magazine-scans/

Isn't this a more viable option than downloading from newsgroups? As long as mediafire doesn't tank, the links will be working for years to come.

March 21, 2012

Thanks!

March 21, 2012

Is there any I can get this thread pinned?

February 23, 2012

Here is a list of scans that I don't have. E-day is missing all of these as well. So if you have anything on this list, please upload it.

USA:

Analog Computing: Issues 006-009, 015, 020-079 (KiwiArcader)

Blip Issues 001, 003 (Phillyman)

Color Computer Magazine Issues 002-010 (KiwiArcader)

Electronic Games Issue 31 January 1985

Misc:

3DO Club News Issue 6 September 1995 (Phillyman)

Bergsala 1991 (Phillyman)

Computer Game Review Guide To 1830 (Phillyman)

Consumer Software - November 1985 (s1500)

UK:

Computer Gamer Issue 025 (KiwiAracader)

Commodore Computing International [1985 05] (KiwiArcader)

Total Games Guide to Pokémon (1999) (wonderman)

International:

Club Nintendo (MEXICO) Issues 001-011 (Vladi)

Nintendo-Magasinet (SWEDEN) Issues 003, 030, 035, 040, 041 (BarbieOnWeed)

Super Power (SWEDEN) Issue 001 (Phillyman)

Bits & Bytes 1987 08 (KiwiArcader)

Club Nintendo (Slovenia) 4_1993 (mpx)

Club Nintendo (Slovenia) 5-6_1993 (mpx)

Famicom Tsushin ("Famitsu") #1, June 20, 1986 (reprint) (ccovell)

Famicom Tsushin ("Famitsu") Volume 5, Issue 22, Oct 26, 1990. (ccovell)

GameBoy Magazine 1989-8-4 (ccovell)

Master - časopis za kompjutorske igre (Croatia) December 1994 (mpx)

Pilot Video (Yugoslavia) Issues 001-003 (mpx)

PlayJoy (Serbia) Issues 001, 002 (mpx)

Score (Czech Republic) (mpx)

Super Game Power Issues 001-028, 059 (bdois)

The Stars of Famicom Games, a picture book (ccovell)

When I'm Sixty-Four Issue 01 (ShockSim)

Strategy Guides:

Rogue Trip Vacation 2012 strategy guide (strikefile)

REVIVE Sosei Perfect Guide (strikefile)

D2 "Deep File" Guide Book (strikefile)

"Kuro no Dansho" - The Literary Fragment - Guide Art Book (strikefile)

"Kuro no Dansho" - The Literary Fragment - Guide Art Book II (strikefile)

Flyers & Promotional Booklets:

Blast Corps Comics (strikefile)

Game Boy Brochure (Jake)

Game Boy Brochure (unknown3125)

Judge Dredd Poster Mag (strikefile)

Killer Instinct Promo Comic (Eml81gLaCluS)

Loaded Collector's Edition Comics (strikefile)

Marvel Super Heroes OST Booklet + Spine Card (strikefile)

Nes Brochure (unknown3125)

NES Hardware Brochure (Jake)

Nintendo Power of Choice Brochure (unknown3125)

Nintendo Power of Choice Brochure (Jake)

Nintendo Service / Troubleshooting Brochure (unknown3125)

Nintendo Service / Troubleshooting Brochure (Jake)

Re-loaded Collector's Edition Comics (strikefile)

Sega Saturn Brochure (unknown3125)

Sega Saturn Brochure (Jake)

Sega Saturn Brochure Letter Size (unknown3125)

Sega Saturn Letter Advertisement (Jake)

Snes Brochure (unknown3125)

Super Nintendo Brochure (Jake)

X-Men Children of the Atom OST Booklet + Spine Card (strikefile)

February 23, 2012

Do you remember to inverse telecline or deinterlace your video from a DVD source? I see a lot of interlaced video on youtube, like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdiHSjJB_Pk

It looks terrible.

February 22, 2012

I never tried AutoGK. Does AutoGK have built in support for opening mkv and mp4 files? I like to use VirtualDub and TMPGEnc Xpress (not free). Both of these programs will not open mp4 and mkv files on their own. You need to create a script with avisynth, and then open the script with VirtualDub or TMPGEnc.

Handbrake does work with flash (flv) video input, so it's still useful. Virtualdub and TMPGEnc Xpress won't open flash video. Does AutoGK open flash video?

February 21, 2012

I liked Handbrake too, until version 0.94 when they dropped support for outputting avi/xvid.

February 18, 2012

Well, there's the process for converting an mp4 video to xvid, if anyone ever needs to do it. The process is the same for converting mkv (Matroska) video as well.

February 17, 2012

This file contains VirtualDubMod, AviSynth, the Xvid codec, and lameACM. All are freeware programs. Virtualdubmod can only convert video AVI (generally MPEG4). It can't convert to DVD video (MPEG2). Many DVD players and current video game consoles will play back MPEG4. If you are looking to convert to DVD, then I just wasted an hour writing up this explanation. Anyway here are the files you need:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2ylsdytmzg2dnhp

Extract VirtualDubMod to your programs folder. Install AviSynth. Install Xvid (follow the special instructions if you have a 64 bit system). Extract lameACM to your programs folder. If you have a 32-bit computer, right click install on LameACM.inf. If you have a 64 bit system, follow the special instructions (HOWTO Install LAME-ACM) on x64). Open up the Example avisynth script I provided you with, and change the file location to where your video file is located on your hard drive. It's the part in quotations. Change the file extension from mp4 to m4v in the script. fps will be 29.97, 23.976 or 30 for NTSC, and 25 for PAL. You'll have to figure this out. Save the changes to your script.

Open up VirtualDubMod. Go to "Open Video File" under the file tab and change "files of type" to AVIFile input driver. Now open the script you just created. Your video should open. Click on "Full Processing Mode" under the Video tab. Then click on compression under the video tab. Select Xvid MPEG-4 Codec and then click on configure. Change the Profile to "Advanced Simple @ L5). To keep it simple, change encoding type to "single pass". Make you're target bitrate approximately the same as the video bitrate of your source file. Click OK. Then click OK on the "select video compression" screen.

Click on "Stream List" under the streams tab. Right click on the stream, and select "Full Processing Mode". Right click on the stream again, and click on Compression. Select Lame MP3. Click on "show all formats". If the audio of your source file is 48000 Hz, select 48000 Hz 128kbps CBR, Stereo. If the audio of your source file is 44100 Hz, select 44100 Hz 128kbps CBR, Stereo. You can change the bitrate if you want to. Just make sure you stick with CBR. I recommend you choose the bitrate closest to the audio bitrate of your source file. Click OK. Then Click OK on the "available streams" screen.

Click on "Save As" under the File tab. Name your file, click save, and your video will be processed.

February 8, 2012

February 6, 2012

The reason why the torrent doesn't show up when you search for "Nintendo Power" is E-Day misspelled Nintendo as Nintedo. I believe you can edit the title for torrents you uploaded. You should edit the title because I couldn't even find it before you posted the link.

January 29, 2012

Didn't mean to lecture you. I'd hate to see what those 7zip compress/decompress times would be on my old Celeron with 256 MB memory.

January 29, 2012

Don't compress the 7zip file, if it contains cbz/cbr archive. Use "store" as the compression level. Here's a test I just ran using Nintendo Power 127. Notice how the 7zip file is larger and takes significantly longer to compress and decompress when using compression.

Nintendo Power Issue 127

File Size: 261,470 KB (255 MB)

File Type: cbz

Compression:

Archive, Level, Compression Time, Archive Size

zip, store, 2 seconds, 261,470 KB

zip, best, 15 seconds, 261,476 KB

7zip, store, 1 second, 261,470 KB

7zip, maximum, 1 minute 58 seconds, 262,906 KB

Decompression:

Archive, Level, Decompression Time

zip, store, 2 seconds

zip, best, 2 seconds

7zip, store, 2 seconds

7zip, maximum, 25 seconds

January 29, 2012

A few suggestions about the magazines being added back to the download manager:

Store the cbr/cbz/pdf file in a zip archive, instead of 7zip? You can password protect zip files. And you are not gaining any extra compression with 7zip because you are compressing a file that is already compressed (cbr/cbz), and zip and 7zip achieve the same levels of compression with pdf files.

Do not compress the downloadable archives. The cbr/cbz file inside the archive is already compressed. The file size of the downloadable archive is actually larger when using compression, instead of store. Plus it will de-compress faster if you use "Store" as the compression level, whether you're using zip or 7zip. With pdf files, I can see using compression as you will save a little bit of space.

January 24, 2012

Yes, I was aware of the 1999 rule. But I am curios as to why there are Nintendo Power magazines from 2000 with Retromags coversheets. April 2000, May 2000, June 2000, July 2000, February 2001 issues have Retromags coversheets.

The final reason why I though it was OK to include the post-1999 issues, was that the "Big torrent" released a few years ago is full of content that violates the 1999 rule for current publications, and you did not post any objections to it at the time.

Sorry again, for the misunderstanding. I will post a new Nintendo Power torrent soon. I have to figure out how to exclude the offending files without having to move them to another directory. If I knew how to do this, I probably wouldn't have included them in the first place.

January 24, 2012

Couldn't you have just deleted my post and sent me a PM, instead of making me look like an ass by censoring my post?

January 24, 2012

Newest issue in the torrent was from early-2003. Didn't think it was an issue since the content isn't being hosted here. And you were not very clear about the 1999 rule when you have discussed solutions to the current upload problem.

Here's a quote from you:

"Then I will grab them so that I have a copy of everything. RAW scans and stuff that was not in the Downloads section when MegaUpload went down is not a concern."

A copy of everything, some of the post-2000 stuff, has retromags cover sheets.

January 24, 2012

The newest issue in that torrent was from 9 years ago. I didn't think it would be a big deal since these 9+ year old issues are not being hosted on the site. I also didn't think it was an issue because you stated in another post that you would be willing to host some of KiwiArcader's uploads on the FTP, many of which go into the 2000's. content isn't being hosted here on the site. I don't want to be rude, but some of those post-1999 issues were originally hosted here on Retromags (like the June 2000 issue). And you haven't been exactly clear on how you are going to move forward. I offered to upload a bunch of issues to the FTP, and you ignored my postings.

January 23, 2012

I created a torrent for Nintendo Power using uTorrent's embedded tracker. You can download the torrent file here:

[Link edited by E-Day]

Be patient, my maximum upload speed is only 250 kb/second.

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