meppi

Just wanted to say thank you to Chris for the Famitsu magazine, it's downloading right now.

The Taiwanese magazine was very interesting as well puddinpops.

Really love to see stuff just like this.

In a day and age where it's relatively easy to find just about anything about western releases online, these kinds of magazines are a bit of a treasure trove of information.

For a moment I thought you were talking about the UK Sega Saturn magazine.

It's really a shame that Japanese gaming magazines are so hard to come by over here.

I was able to grab a little bundle of Sega Magazine issues a couple of years ago, but haven't found the time to scan them and didn't know if people were at all interested in them either.

It's only 10 magazines and range from 1996-1998.

I also have a bunch of Neo Geo Freak magazines, which I had started scanning, but got sidetracked by others like OSSM,MAXIMUM, etc.

One day, I promise, one day.

Why don't you do the whole world a favor and get run over by a train.

Jesus Christ.

Nice use of language there.

Says the guy who used to call anyone and everything "gay" all the time.

Not to mention all the derogatorily names used for certain parts of female anatomy.

I was referring to Steve Harris. If his feelings about magazine preservation is "colourful", then why bring it to his attention again? I'd rather not risk that he decides he doesn't like the idea and we have to pull his stuff down. If he was favourable to the idea, that would be different. But otherwise, I wouldn't bring it up with any publisher/editor.

Then learn how to use the quote function for once. Especially when someone else has posted a reply to the one you're responding to 5 hours earlier, which in turn make your reply look like it was meant on a completely different subject.

No need to stir the pot with him. If we leave him alone, maybe he'll leave us alone.

The fuck?

I did get credited in Retro Gamer about 2 years ago (the NiGHTS issue), by helping Damien McFerrin with getting scans for his Official Sega Saturn Magazine feature.

They got my name right and all, but somehow misspelled out-of-print archive...

Shows how much you know.

If I really wanted to see you removed and felt strongly enough about it, I would have done so myself.

And no I won't explain that part.

That is all I will add to this flame bait attempt.

Meppi is correct, neither he nor Triverse deleted any magazines from the download section. Meppi when this all went down, I offered to remove your submissions. While I appreciate you leaving them on Retromags.....I will still honor that offer. All of this has left me drained, I wish I could turn back the clock and do things differently. I am not only talking about D-Day but even way before that, at this point if we cant mend friendships....I would just like to move on from this point. It does neither of us any good to continue going back and forth.....if the end result is not a friendship again.

My offer stands for Triverse also, his posting privileges are have been reinstated for what its worth.

-Robert

Thank you.

I've sent you a PM and you'll see why... my rant has already been proven as well it seems.

Just wanted to add here as well that I'm not angry at you anymore, in fact I'm sorry about the BS you have to deal with in the past but also at this very moment.

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I see that underneath an extra veil of innocence, you haven't changed a single bit.

You may fool most people who don't know how you play your little mind games, but you won't fool me again.

I'm done with this.

I hope Triverse added the info on the download page which gives credit to the scanner, editor and all that other info I hate doing. This seems only like good etiquette to me. I thought you guys new this stuff.

One last thing.

I just feel the need to put this one right as well, since Triverse can't defend himself here since his posting privileges have been removed.

I put the correct information in each category, in over 80 issues that I edited over there for other members.

So please look up these kinds of things before putting something like that out in the open and make us look like unscrupulous types.

I just read it as him not knowing better because he wasn't around when the unedited magazines were removed, and had made an assumption that you removed them upon leaving. If it was a legitimate dig at you, then that is a different story.

My comment about it being nice and quiet around here was directed at everyone, myself included

Fair enough.

It's been nice and quiet areound here lately. Let's not start yet another tired argument about trivial things.

Please look at who is throwing mud at who again and then come to a conclusion about placing the blame.

As for staying on forever, didn't some users that got kicked off the site(I believe for using other peoples' scans as their own), the mags were removed from the site as well?

You are absolutely correct.

I was in fact the one who removed the members magazines due to him making that request at the time.

My decisions was however overruled and the scans were put back online to piss the person in question off.

So that's a pretty sad precedent.

I don't mean to step on your toes. I was young once too and have been fired for my own shortcomings. I was even small enough to throw a fit and looking back I'm ashamed of my behavior and wish I could turn back time but I have to let go and learn from my mistakes.

No offense taken. I was in a bit of a bad mood due to the stuff above being implied... Sorry.

As for having this in writing. When I signed up which wasn't as long ago as you, I signed this page.

[img*]http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/738/rules.png[/img]

Rules may be rules, but when they go against common sense, not to mention respect towards the members, that's where I have always personally drawn the line.

I could in fact counter that picture of these rules by saying that I never agreed to any of them when I signed up on this site so many years ago, so I fail to see how it would matter in this case.

When you signed up here and anyone who signs up here, you are agreeing that any submissions will become property of Retromags. They will always be your scan and you will always get credit. You are encouraged to share your scans anywhere you like but once they are posted here, they stay forever.

You're stating the site's "rules" to me? How cute.

So the scans become the official property of retromags?

Would you be willing to put that in writing? That might get interesting if certain people came to read that statement...

I think Meppi/Triverse may have deleted a lot of their stuff when leaving as there are definitely pre-2000 mags missing now that were here before.

Glad that this thread has been brought to my attention.

I strongly resent such lies being spread around as such a thing never happened.

Philly can attest to that.

That being said, if it were up to me I would choose to have my files removed at this point in time, especially when looking at a certain agenda being pushed these past few weeks.

But than again I know such a thing will never happen as certain people find too much joy in keeping them online here just to try and get to me, to do such a thing.

And no, I'm certainly not talking about Philly.

Hmmmm smaller, lighter, 120GB Hard Drive, play's Blu Ray movie's and now priced at 299 euro's. You know I'm starting to get a little tempted.

I was on the fence for a very long time as well, and only jumped in 4 months or so ago.

For that price I'd say go for it, there's bound to be quite a few games out there that you'll really enjoy, even though the system doesn't have the library of classics that the PS2 had.

Great things to be found on PSN as well.

And it's a very good bluray player as well, even though I never use it as that anymore since getting my Panasonic setup.

Lots of games already mentioned so I'm only gonna add one single game to the pile.

But it's a true hidden treasure which everyone who loves the PC-Engine should definitely try.

Gomola Speed

A probably badly written review can be found here: http://users.telenet.be/twin-dreams/PC-Engine/Gomola_Speed.html

GameBoy for sure. I got my NES for good grades in school if I recall, but I saved up for the GameBoy when it started to appear in the Club Nintendo magazines that can be found on the site. Such a awesome and exciting time that was.

Just watched Chungking Express last night again for what must be the 5th or 6th time since I first saw it last summer.

But this time on bluray! Wonderful film, so certainly one to add to the list and right at the top of it actually.

Hehe, thought so.

Although I started to wonder if I had overlooked another one hidden in there somewhere.

Some great stories in here. Love to read them so keep them coming.

I believe people my age and right around it were the luckiest in the world: we've seen games evolve from blips and bloops of Space Invaders into the amazing array of first-person shooters, RPGs, and action titles that a mere 30 years ago would have been a joke.

Oh absolutely!

I think of myself as being very lucky not only by growing up during the boom of videogames but also at the time and place where it allowed me to constantly play an arcade cabinet and a pinball machine from the early age of 3.

Those early years made me into the gamer I am today and when getting a NES many years later solidified it even more. Yet discovering the MegaDrive and later on the Saturn, both at a time where I was thinking I was growing out of games, pulled me back in in a whole other way and made me realize that I need arcade style games to be happy.

So I'm extremely glad that I can appreciate games from the early arcade days just as much today as I do modern games. Although my gamers heart lies in the past.

That is probably the reason why I'm not happy at all with the current generation and partially the last one as well.

Arcade games have become a dirty word. Looked down upon as throwaway games that lack depth and are only good to be played for 5 minutes before moving on to the next one.

The flaw in this reasoning, and I can't believe the overwhelming majority of gamers today feel this way is, arcade games have such a huge amount of replayability to them.

While lots of todays games can be enjoyed only once through and then no more, unless you truly love the game in question.

I can easily sit down with Elevator Action or Xevious and spend the whole afternoon or evening playing those non-stop. While at the same time I find myself getting very easily bored with the latest and greatest gaming has to offer.

Not that this applies to everything. As I can just as well play an all-nighter of Crash Commando for instance or WipEout HD.

Yet, this probably has to do with what kind of games these actually are. Disguised in a nice shiny HD coat of paint, but at heart arcade styled, trying to fool people there are something else.

Something entirely different that I've observed, but which has been mentioned in the thread.

Kids today growing up with PS3s and 360s not only not appreciating classic games, but seemingly unable to handle them.

I've watched this happen on many occasions over the past couple of years when I went to babysit a friend's kids who started gaming on a PSone at a very young age.

They moved on the PS2,Xbox, GC and now PS3 and Wii.

They played basically nothing but 3D games and can most of the time hold their own, and in many others even kick my butt.

Yet, when I bring a NES or MegaDrive or SNES with me and let them play Super Mario Bros or Super Mario World for instance, games which we all agree upon are timeless classics, they not only seem to get bored of them rather quickly.

But what's more surprising and a bit shocking to me at the time is that they can't seem to handle them.

Remember when we played SMB for the first time with the d-pad? Running towards the first pit and dropping straight into it, having even trouble jumping over it when we know we had to?

Well these kids have now about 8 years of gaming under their belts, so they should be able to handle something as archaic and bare bones as SMB?

Guess what, they can't. Watching them plummet to their death and jump headfirst into a Koopa over and over again is so painful to watch.

The worst part is, instead of pushing on and learning how to play the game like we did, they just give up...

So there's definitely a flaw with the logic lots of modern gamers use in describing 2D games as simple, boring and outdated.

For us those games might be simple, well simple to understand anyway, because we played nothing but for a decade or more.

But for lots of kids today they are not.

So in the end yes, I'm absolutely 100% happy about growing up when I did and feel a bit sorry for the kids today that crave their 50+ hour story driven, FMV loaded, bloated "entertainment packages" that pretend they are videogames...

And that's the end of my old fart rant.

I actually prefer Resident Evil 4 on the Wii by a very large margin.

Games I would certainly add:

F-Zero GX: incredibly hard but such an awesome racer. No-one seems to make them like Sega do. Although I still prefer F-Zero X and certainly the original one.

Doshin the Giant: Only released in Europe and Japan but if you're able to get it, be sure to do. Such a relaxing and captivating experience. Extremely underrated as well. Nothing like it exists, besides the N64 DD original.

Beach Spikers: arcade beach volleyball game by the masters at Sega AM#2. One of the best multiplayer games and I hate sports games.

Crazy Taxi. One of my all time favourite games despite the priests and old ladies always yelling at me to go straight.

I am straight damnit!

I still see it for some weird reason.

You don't mean the www.banned.com link by any means do you?

Can you edit his posts to remove his link.

I actually already did.

If it wouldn't cost so much to ship them to Europe, I would have gotten those in a heartbeat.

Some really great mags in there!

Holy cow, that's a lot of money!

They must have signed the deal when Wolverine was sleeping.

hey might have been able to subdue Juggernaut and the Hulk, but I refuse to believe they got the best of this hairy beast.