WarriorWarrior

Anyone use this? I've ordered myself one. Apparently it's way better than SuperPass PS. how does the real-time-save thing work in supercard? I don't quite understand how to save my games properly yet. How come the save feature for GBA games is better with the SuperCard Mini SD than it is with the original supercard?

I don't see how I'm missing any points you've made. You asked if I could find a place to quickly download an entire magazine set and I did. The Games machine is only one complete set of magazines of several from world of spectrum. keving, it's great that you have the superplay. I thought Mort's concern with uploading the Nintendo were because of his own personal fears of breaking the law. I don't really see why he will stop you from doing it? Upload to retromags and have those suckers preserved forever. Your own DVDs could get lost in a fire and hard drives die. Let retromags have them and you will have a place to get them from should such an unfortunate incident occur. Plus, Mort will get shiny kudos points for the scans without risking his online magazine disc-sale business and you'll get a nice medal for the uploading of them, and everybody's happy. I give you a big thumbs up and a green light go ahead, kev.

I was lookin on the official site just after I posted this, philly, and looks like you're right: http://eng.supercard.cn/manual/superpass2_...nt.htm#session2 .. but I need a parallel cable and I don't have one laying around. This is such a pain, why can't this 'programmer' device just do it all down the USB cable? eDIT: I actually don't need a parallel cable at all, and it just plugs clumsily into the printer port as it is. This is queer enough without having to do the most stupid and awkward and just plain inconvenient thing to get the supercard to boot into NDS mode: All I can say to that is.. WTF?! Plug in the SuperPASS *while the system is switched on*? Queery In addition to the arsing around involved: Is this even SAFE? I don't want the DS Lite to suddenly go POP! Looks like it's less hassle with the Supercard Mini version but still, it requires arse ache. Suggestions/opinions? Thanks all.

I recently bought a DS Lite and it's much better than the old one but when I plug in SuperPASS II with SuperCard to try and run a DS rom on it, it doesn't get past the boot up screen. Yet, on the SuperPASS II box and everywhere I've read so far, it says that it is compatible with the DS Lite. Is there's something I'm missing here? Do I need to do something to get it to work? The supercard itself works fine in the DS Lite because GBA roms work through it. Thanks all

Here's one: World of Spectrum FTP > login > magazines > download > play drums on the desk -- I now have Mort's The Games Machine scan collection Mort has proven that he IS actually a nice guy for donating the DVDs to this project's cause. I'm looking forward to seeing his scans being available to those with no luxury of having a large disposable income to throw at the wind. PS. Do you have the Super Play collection that Mort scanned?

Hi, I finally got my hands on a SuperCard SD, SuperPass II and I'm trying to get Sega Arcade Gallery working in it (GBA). When I start outrun it has bad graphical glitching in the sky, any ideas what is causing this? am I doing something wrong? I run it through the SuperCard v2.53 patcher program and everything. Also, why is it that some NDS games won't work? Some just won't run at full speed and some won't get past the menus?

Mort, why don't you upload Superplay to alt.binaries.emulators.misc? What they don't know can't hurt them? It would be a shame to let your work go to waste, give someone else the burden of distributing them if you're too scared to, if you've a lot to lose?

This is where Mort's scans come into play....

Nice one Mort! I knew you'd be willing to donate if asked. You've really proven yourself to have a decent emulation community spirit. I knew combining sources with ZzapSuperstore was a good idea. I'm glad it's worked out. Mort, would there be any chance of donating the Superplay stuff to Retromags? I hear that you aren't allowed to sell it at your store, so maybe you'd be willing to let Retromags basically seed it to ensure it's legacy lives on in more than one household? Great work, Mort!

I have an older scan of that pullout I mentioned and I compared it to the one in the big torrent, and yes, it's darker, but the detail isn't as destroyed. I'd have thought that the clarity of the Nintendo quality seal logo would be a good indicator of the overall quality of the scans, and whether or not this high contrast alteration is actually improving or worsening them. Strangely enough, it's also half the file size than the high contrast one. Minor niggles maybe. The Nintendo Power 032-043 - Zelda 3 Comics which were included with the big torrent are strangely 250% bigger in file size than the ones I have, and the ones I have are much larger and higher in quality scans. I think maybe this contrast adjustment is a big contributor to an unnecessary inflation in file size. I'd also like to mention that there's a few omissions from this big torrent: Nintendo Power XXX - Mini Guide - Pikmin (2001) (EN) Nintendo Power XXX - Mario Mania Player's Guide (1991) (EN) Nintendo Power XXX - Game Boy Player's Guide (19xx) (EN) Any ideas as to which issues those 3 were supplemented from?

Is it me or is the contrast on these scans in the big torrent set a bit too high? Check the Classified Information pullout to see what I mean. On the first scan, the Nintendo Seal of Quality stamp has been destroyed somewhat - it's like looking at direct sunlight almost, makes you want to squint. :-\

I'm just wondering what the progress is on this, Phillyman? Would be great if "some" of these magazine dvd content were released in a big torrent like your awesome work on the Nintendo Power. Maybe we can come to some sort of arrangement on a select DVD? I'd be willing to give a couple of my earth pounds to the Retromag pot if say, we got about 5 or 7 willing people to pitch in to buy the disc? Just a thought. Regards

Thanks for info trance, I finally decided to go with a normal supercard + 512 memory and superpass 2 and 10 cds full of NDS roms (?60) - I hope the guy holds up his end of the bargain. :-|

Thanks for the advice, sav, it's helped a lot. I've found some website selling a SuperPass 2 (only one available - think they're all SuperPass 2 now by the looks of things), Super Card SD and 512 SD Card with 300 NDS roms on 10 CDs. It's a bit shady, but it's all for ?60, ie $114. Looks good - sent the guy an email already. Would've prefered a miniSuperCard, but cosmetic differences don't bother me too much. Just on a side-note, which are the best emulators for the DS that would play Genesis, SNES etc through this SuperCard? Also, is there a SNES PSP emulator as good as SNES9x or ZSNES for PC?

It's about a year old (last year's april) and it's UK region. Thanks, sav.

thanks for the reply, sav. So you're saying that I'd need to buy 1x Supercard miniSD (miniSD to GBA/NDS Adapter) 1x miniSD Card 1gb memory 1x Superpass 2 This is what's needed in order to get NDS commercial roms and GBA commercial roms to work in a NDS? This comes to $125. Am I missing anything here? Just need to be 100% sure. Thanks. I'm also wondering, does the above work on any DS console from any region?

Is there anyway to do this? A winamp plugin? A media player? Is there any that can play a folder of zipped mp3s without actually havin to go through them and unzip manually and click? Any help appreciated

Which would you say is the best to get? I've been looking at a few but really do not know what I'm looking for or at. What should I consider before buying one of these? I just want to play GBA and NDS commercial roms, which is the main thing, but I'd also like to mess around with snes and megadrive etc emulation on it. I'm looking to run this flash linker thing on my DS and not the GBA. Any recommendations, opions or anything? Thanks.

Nice little pack by ZTTFan! But, oh dear, something seems to have gone wrong with the first half of the scans in the SWATPro issue, they're too small and the quality suffers with fine writing being illegible. Some of the scans are a bit on the small side, quality wise, in the other magazines included too. And I just want to point out that tagging the actual magazine pages ruins it a little bit, but at least they're not too intrusive. I appreciate your efforts, but hopefully you can use my points to make your scans for retromags even better for upcoming magazines on your scanner's horizon.. Is the Acclaim magazine the entire magazine or just incomplete - for $3.50, I'd have thought it'd have more pages?

At last, seeing things my way! Retromags doesn't need money to pay for the entire archive. Just the ones that aren't available anywhere else (e.g. world of spectrum). Like the Amtix and the Mean Machines. I doubt costs would be anymore than what you're already paying for paper mags off ebay. I'd donate if you're going to go ahead and do this.

You can do with it exactly what I said in my previous post. So we agree on the fact that what Mort is doing is wrong. Why shouldn't Retromags take his discs and distribute them for free as part of the Retromags' archive? Retromags would be putting Mort's wrong right. He sells, Retromags buys with donation funding, then takes the scans, which Retromags paid for, then distribute the contents of those scans illegally, as its doing with the Nintendo Power and all the others. Just like the Windows XP disc (speaking analogously in referral to Retromags' possesion of Mort's scan DVDs), you buy it (same as buying Mort's DVD(s)), you put the OS on your computer, add programs to it, burn to a bootable backup disc for own use (basically, Retromags does what it wants with the scans, since it paid for them). Since you can't legally distribute the XP disc, you illegally distribute it online, in modified form if we wish it (in terms of Retromags: Magazines distributed online in scanned form and touched up (ie, modified, and in CBR archives)). That IS. the way it is. Apology accepted, but first impressions are so important in this modern world, and the first impression I had of you wasn't a good one; but, having said that, I'm not here to make friends, just to do a bit of business and help out a project. Hang on... "donations for his work"?? He's blatantly selling his scans, which we've already agreed upon?? He's selling his work. By doing that, he's saying, "hey, you buy this, and you've got a DVDs worth of scans to do what you want with - cool eh?". Retromags = consumer, Mort = salesperson. Retromags purchases to shelve his product, much like a retail business would purchase from a supplier to put on their shelves. It is no different from Retromags buying paper mags from ebay and distributing the contents of those mags online. Again, I reiterate for emphasis; it's "no different". As for Retromags not requiring donations, this isn't strictly true. From what I've seen, certain things (like certain scans) are offlimits until donations are given. Yeah, I've had a look around the forum. However, I do like the Retromags' system and am in full support of it, so long as mags are eventually distributed for free and they're not "blatantly sold", as Mort's doing. Mort's always scanning in things from what I can tell. He's recently put up Dragon User DVD "for sale". Again, we agree that selling it is wrong. The public donates to this site, which gives them a right to see the magazines purchased with their money shared with them (the public), by putting them out through Retromags. Which makes the using donation money to purchase from Mort and distribute, all the more of a good idea! d:-) I don't see what differences it makes to share Mort's scans with a few people (after purchase) rather than Retromags. The moral principle of doing either remains the same. You either don't distribute or distribute. There's no inbetween. Technically, as stated above, donations are cost split between Retromags users, in much the same way it'd be cost split between you and a few friends. Sure, a few non-retromags users would get a hold of them too, ie, via newsgroups, but it's not like you're going to restrict your few friends use of those scans is it? They're spread it to non-friends of dstryr420 in much the same way Retromags spreads to non-Retromags people. Yes, extortionately priced! Which makes it even more of a p?sstake to even suggest Mort has any rights over his scans when they're in *YOUR* hands after purchase. I could very well buy a few discs and slap my name on his scans and upload them to Retromags, if I had the cash to spare off my non-existent money tree. It's not logical to waste loads of time scanning the same mags in again when they're already available. That could be time spent scanning in magazines which aren't already scanned. Whether you or/and Retromags agrees with it or not (I'd prefer it if they did - hence this thread), I'm a logical thinker and I've had much thought on the matter, and I conclude I am very right. If I ever do buy his discs, I will be sure to share them via torrent websites. Again, apology accepted. I'm very aware of the sarcastic and vulgar majority that populate the net and have begun to expect abrupt and presumptuous retorts from those sorts of people; which is why I find no offense from reading their posts. My eyes roll though and I'll maybe sigh a bit, but other than that, nothing. On a side-note here, business is impossible to be done with those types of people, because they've already arrogantly and ignorantly made their minds up. Regards, WarriorWarrior

Fair enough, but I thought Retromags had its magazines scanned in by numerous third party sources (as the request for scanners on the front page emphasises)? So essentially, you're repacking their scans and releasing them under Retromags trimmings. High admin or high chief and commander of Retromags should at least ask Mort to upload his scans to Retromags, as he's done so already with World of Spectrum and Sinclair-Heaven, if you don't feel comfortable with buying them and then just sharing them here. This would give Mort a chance to redeem himself in a way, because he wouldn't look like, as you say, such an "a$$hole", if he's willing to share them for free. Regards, WarriorWarrior

Yes, you can put your marker pen squiggles on the disc, and customize the disc contents (the OS itself) by adding programs to it and reburning to a backup bootable OS disc. You have that right because you bought the disc. If you're talking about legally distributing over the net, then of course you're not allowed to do that, just as Mort isn't allowed to legally distribute the contents of his scans. Yes, the actual 'images', they're copyrighted, just like Nintendo Power's are. I've made a suggestion to Retromags to make their work-load lighter (which is a contribution in itself - so I don't know where you and some others are getting the impression I'm not contributing from). If they're going to scan in magazines then maybe use a source of already scanned in images, to save re-scanning them later? It's not my responsibility to buy these discs and share them for nothing, but if I was filthy rich, I might just do that. Retromags, however, with all the donations it has, and thus, the funding it has to go buying paper magazines on Ebay, maybe would be used wisely by investing in actual already-made scans too? Here's something more for you to think about. Has Retromags asked the publisher of PSM magazine, after buying off ebay, (for example) if they can scan and distribute the pages online in electronic format? I find it ironic that you are saying, no it's not alright to buy and share Mort's scans on Retromags, but then again, you're saying it's alright for ME MYSELF, to go and buy from Mort and share with Retromags. To me, this sounds like you actually think it's a good idea for Retromags to distribute Mort's scans after purchasing the discs. Kind regards, WarriorWarrior.

I agree, if Mort is to upload them to us without Retromags paying for them, Retromags should indeed get Mort's permission first. It's the morally right thing to do. And, they are his scans... but... the content of the scans aren't legally his to sell (as I've already pointed out). And they have every right to be, if their scans aren't included in the Retromags project (or edited without permission and screwed around with in some way - what a great sign of disrespect!) and credited accordingly for those scans (e.g. thanked in the official Retromags .nfo file). This is an example of the right way of getting credit, rather than the wrong way, which would be to sell extortionately priced DVDs to multiple individual customers. What an easy way to make money!? Scan a few magazines and profit on the same scans, time and time again. Scan magazines in once, back them up, get DVD burner at the ready, and you've got your own mini-production line! Sell to the world! Double your money, try to get rich! Good philosophy. Best not to piss off those bouncers in the nightclub or some 6'8" hulking mound of muscle. This is where I have to say, I disagree with you. I'll use an analogy to better explain why: If you buy a video game for standard RRP (retail price), and your friend asks if he can borrow it, would you get on the phone to publisher/developer of said game and ask them for permission first? Answer: No! Of course not - you'll lend it out to whoever you damn well please and maybe would even let them copy it or rip it to their PC and share it online with others. After all, you paid ?30-40 for it. If Mort freely and willingly lets Retromags have his scans, then credit him like any other donator/scanner's credited here. If Retromags has to BUY the scans from him like everyone else, I really don't see why he should be credited at all, since you've purchased the item, you can do whatever it is you want with it, which is lend the disc out to friends, or share them on your own personal network or public one. The only thing Mort cares about is making money from his scans, as shown by those ridiculous prices he charges. I'm sure he'll be very happy to sell to Retromags, thus, giving retromags ownership of the DVD purchased, thus giving Retromags the right to do whatever it damn well wants with the contents. This is buying and selling. This is how it works. Regards, WarriorWarrior.

Hello again, But, if I did buy one of the discs available in that online store, wouldn't that give me the right to do what I want with those scans? Which would include sharing them on P2P networks, and like you say, share with you? Wouldn't that be exactly what Retromags would be doing by purchasing a disc? Buying the right to do whatever Retromags wants to do with it, which is share it with you, share it with everyone here? Legally: What gives Mort (the guy responsible for Zzap64 Superstore content) the right to sell those scans for his own profit, when the content of those scans is owned by Newsfield (among other publishing organisations). He's already removed Future Publishing content because of his 'legal' standing and the fact he doesn't own the rights. Morally: I really don't see an issue with Retromags expanding its content using content made available from Mort, it's not like he's got exclusive rights to scanning and selling those select magazines. He'd get the money for it, from Retromags, which would then give Retromags the right to host them for everyone. I don't see a problem with that? More on of being legally and morally wrong: Surely Retromags would be doing less of a wrong by making them available >FREE< in packs via newsgroup, bittorrent (like with the current work being done) than Mort is by selling them? To be honest, I don't know how Mort lives with himself, skinning people alive for ?14.99 for a single DVD. So, baring in mind the selfishness involved in selling these for profit, and getting down to the blatant obviousness; maybe morally, Mort's in the wrong? I've seen Mort upload his content to World of Spectrum for example. Maybe asking him wouldn't be such a bad idea, rather than just dismiss the idea so quickly? What's stopping Retromags asking Mort for the rights to host his scans? He can dip into his empty sack of rights and pass them on to Retromags. This may be 20 questions, but they're all rhetorical, so no need to answer each of them. Just give what I say some thought and think about it. Best regards, WarriorWarrior