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as for debinding... i've had a lot of luck pulling most pages out, starting at the cover. It sounds more barbaric, but I think it came much better than the cut jobs, since you're getting the whole sheet out. pull the cover back, and rip it off the spine. it'll take some of the binding with it. then, one or two or a few pages at a time, pull the pages back, and holding the top corner, flip the pages like you're turning them, and when they're back, hold the book steady on a table, and slowly pull the page, using some pressure to pull downward towards the bottom of the book. make sure if you do a few pages at a time that they arent stuck together anymore.. (if you're using an autofeeder, make sure to pull off little bits of glue from the pages you take out). after a handful of pages, use your nail or a razor to start removing the leftover glue on the binding.. if the glue is too high up over the page, you'll rip it. when you get down to the last dozen pages or so, the glue can easily be pulled off. just separate the last few, and thats it. Ya i know it sounds really rough, but especially if you have an autofeeder, having the pages all the same size/straightness is key- a few crooked cuts go thru crooked and look bad, and any splintered pieces of book jam up the machine badly -Jay

and if thats not powerful enough, i saw a bigger fan in a jet at the airport we can try next;)

ok, From what it seems, the retrozone guy is selling a USB computer chip that's cheap and easy to get, BUT he wrote the program for the chip, and made it very difficult to copy that program off it. So basically, his program is the only thing in his stuff that's special or not common. This other guy wrote his own program for the chip and posted it for free. My plan is to get a chip and program it with his code. If it works, I can get a circuit board made that would be the same as the programmed chip. IE- flat, small chip that could fit in the controller. End result: retrozone product for MUCH less money... and since my friend thinks snes is very much the same... if you do one, you can do any of them, i guess. As for the N64 controller... well, in theory, it should be possible, since all these controls are similar to a degree. however, if noone's done it (properly) as of yet, there must be a reason why. My friend would know more about it, but until I speak with him, post up and links to technical docs for the n64 and controllers here, and I'll look at it and see if i have any ideas. my friends have all those games in thier college dorm, so when i next see them to attempt the Nes control thing, i can certainly play with the n64 idea...

so much for me doing work at work....lol

the games were also most original (different types of gameplay, stories etc... seems to me like all games today are either 'build an army' type sim, first person shooter, sports, or a few other narrow categories) and there were just so damn many, that it kept snowballing.... till the next generation of systems came out

I drive a saturn... shut up in advance...

i did a search after last post, and i found that site... its good, but the problem is (unless im reading wrong), that this guy is talking about using the chip from retrousb, which is still pretty expensive, considering we're providing the nes controller and all the work. I found in the reviews of that article some guy's page that has more detailed info on making this adapter from scratch: www.Zero-Soft.com/HW/USB_NES/ The site is more geared towards an engineer (i.e. me), and I plan to finish reading the page, and figuring out what i need and how i can go about building his controller. My friend looked at it quickly and said a snes-usb controller is very similar, and I'm interested in that, too. This guy says right on the page to email him if you want to buy any of the parts or need help, and that he's not looking to make money off this idea, and all his code and diagrams are available for free. When i get this to work, im willing to help anyone else who wants to try it. According to the page, the design is on a printed board which will fit inside the nintedo controller, which is my goal also... My friend also knows of a PCB design company that has reasonable prices- so if anyone still reading cares to buy any, we may get a bulk deal buying more than one or two batches. But even with the right chip, it will fit together nicely. I"ll post more as I go along. If anyone has any more info, please post, i'd like to read more on the topic

sounds like it... and i wouldnt be surprised in the least

say, you don't know any build-it-yourself type sites for these. do ya? i've got a ton of the controls... would love to do it if anyone out there has any info?? thanks -Jay

i've been lookin for something like this for a while... can't wait for my first paycheck to buy some controllers! lol

I think the smb 3 guide was scanned already, no? I have a bunch of issues i scanned from 89-102 that need to be cropped, rotated etc- and maybe contrast and brightness... are you any good at doing that? or do you know how to set up photoshop CS2 to batch it? I have CS2 and can do it if you can give any pointers.. my autofeeder scans the entire bed, it doesnt detect page size, so 95% of my scans have blank space on the left and right sides...

yup... changed it automatically someone else wanna test out the other 6?

only one way to find out... crap can't wait to hit the post button and see what it says!

that sounds cool, i'd like to see that...

I scanned a bunch of stuff, and you have my blessing to use any clippings of it on your site, just cite retromags/me or whatever... and im still scanning a ton more, but mostly its stuff philly mailed me to scan, as for scanning it, i still dont mind, if philly's ok wit it, since they ARE his mags... Jason

i know i have a couple of them, buried in the vhs cabinet in my basement;) ill eventually dig them out, MJB, do you wanna send me instructions on how to capture/Divx it correctly? (i have a cap card on my vid card, only problem is that theres a little wavy line that runs thru all my caps... if you can help me get rid of it, i can cap/post what i have) msg me or reply, im up for sharing what i have

im working on a bunch of newer issues for philly, but in between, im gonna do the nes atlas- lot of the pages are loose anyway, so ill take it apart and run it thru the autofeeder one of these weeknights soon... its been hectic lately -Jay

ill help too if you need... i started a new job this week, and it slowed my scanning down quite a bit (sorry philly, lol, i need the money!) but this is something i can do from my desk... but if you want me to edit it, i dont know how to take apart pdfs really, so send me zip/cbr etc. lemme know if anything else i can do;) Jay

i'd prefer cbr or cbz 's (zip or rar archives) over pdf anytime... feel free to msg me to discuss that mario mania page that can use redoing.. it wasnt my scan either, but mine's too far gone to touch up, and i dont have any of the newer ones you mentioned that are missing pages :( ya im a completist too.. .if copies don't turn up to fill in the missing pages, ill buy copies off ebay for this, if need be, once i start getting paid from my job.. -Jay

mario mania's been scanned already, but maybe you can re-scan that inside foldout, if yours is better condition. otherwise, id like to see any of the nintendo power brand ones, preferrably the older;) maybe super metroid? thanks!

I'm 24 and an Computer Hardware/Software Engineer. I found retromags myself about 6 weeks or so ago, when I was searching for Nintendo Power mags online (after recently discovering comic book scans, i figured everything's gotta be out there...) I have an HP all in one machine with an auto document feeder, I love it, its the best. I've already scanned thousands of pages of old bills, photos, whatever's sitting around on paper that I want to keep but dont have room for, so cutting apart my old NP's and scanning 'em for this was a good idea, and a good way to give back to those scanning the stuff I'm interested in downloading myself..... I like long walks on the beach, candle light dinners, and.... oh wait, wrong 'about me' section, disregard

Anyone have any good ideas to cool my system down a lot? I found my CPU running at 76 degrees this week! If i stay with fans, I want them to be quiet but powerful, anyone know of any? does anyone have a water cooling system or anything else that works really reliably? I'm running a P4- 3.0ghz HT on a Neo2-P 865PE motherboard... thanks!

i thnk i have encore somewhere, it sounds really familiar... ill give that a try too. and i think MBJ's idea with dvd decrypter sounds good.. .thats what i normally use I kinda figured out some stuff with nero vision I never knew before, it seems a lot more powerful than it looked at first- so if anyone's interested, that one's pretty good too. thanks

I had DVD Author installed... i looked at it, and i didnt understand much, but looking at it again now, i think i know what i want to do.. .thanks my one other question i'd have to ask is about changing an existing dvd. I have a dvd with a bunch of 3 stooges movies on it. There are 24 shorts, and two menu pages- page one has a button to play all, or to go to the next page. Thing is, I want to replace one of the shorts (each is a title) with another video file. (the one on the dvd has a part missing, and I have an mpeg file with the full version. Any easy way to do this? or at the very least, extract the menu background image so I can redo the dvd on my own? lemme know if you can think of anything. thanks so much for your time! -Jason

I own: TelStar (like Coleco vision) Atari 2600 Nes SNES GB GBA By far, my NES collection is the biggest- i have about 300 games And the robot and power glove