16bitsOfHerbert

Passing this info along to the software developers of this forum software. This might be fixed in the 4.0 release which should be out in a few months.

Nice! That would be great!

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_One. "Le magazine cessera sa publication en janvier 2000 (numéro 104)" means that the last issue came out in January 2000 (issue 104).

Hello!

I'm having trouble with the BBCode editor for indexing magazines. Let's look at this magazine: http://www.retromags.com/magazines/category/uk/super-play/super-play-issue-8#.VQVpWt_0_CJ

When creating a bullet list and indenting it, as in the DRIVING GAMES SPECIAL heading in the indexing of the linked magazine, it will (sometimes) flatten the indentation after previewing if there isn't a non-indented bullet right after the indentation ends. In the example I am using an empty bullet right after the indentation. If the empty bullet is removed, the indentation will flatten after a preview. Go on and try it if you wish by pressing Edit, but please use Preview instead of Save. Note that it looks as it should before Preview or Save are clicked.

Sometimes it works without a bullet aftewards, as in the end of the ADVERTISEMENTS heading. If it works or not seems completely random, and looking at the BBCode source there doesn't seem to be any difference between them.

Does anyone know of any solutions to this problem? Is there an update to the BBCode editor available that fixes these issues?

Also, sometimes the editor doesn't let me change boldness or italics. Try for example selecting the SYSTEMS COVERED heading at the top and changing boldness. For me, neither the button or the keyboard shortcut works. I can change boldness if I rewrite the text.

Moreover, some minor edits like adding a line break and then clicking Save will not be saved.

Thank you!

Can anyone speak french? I came across this article the other day on Kotaku about this magazine cover.

http://kotaku.com/boy-this-magazine-cover-sure-was-grim-1655722977

So I started to look for any information on "Player One" magazine, and came across this website.

http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/index.php

I just need help reading how many issues of each magazine exist, so that I can bring up a France section in the database and start creating records for all of these magazines.

There are 104 issues (1-104) plus 3 special issues (HS 06, HS Chroniques, HS La compil 1994) of Player One.

I can't read French, though ^^.

Thanks Phillyman!

Hello!

Here are some (minor) issues I'm having with the site:

• When an issue is edited by clicking Edit Issue, making a change and then clicking Save, Phillyman is always(?) credited when clicking Magazines in the menu bar. Is this because his name is almost always leftmost in the Page Credits field when editing a magazine? It doesn't matter that much if credit isn't given when I'm making edits; it's just a bit weird.
• When clicking a video game magazine that hasn't been edited, you are informed about the 2014 competition. I believe it's over. Again, just a minor issue

Also some requests:

• As I've stated in my earlier forum post, the submitted Nintendo Magazine System issues are actually for the AUS version. Could someone create the AUS version and place the files there instead?
• Could someone add the missing Super Play Gold 1993 issue to the Super Play magazine section? I want to index it.

And a question:

• Is it ok to submit scans from the Internet Archive like this one https://archive.org/details/Superplay_Issue_06_1993-04_Future_Publishing_GB (The whole magazine can be downloaded to the left)? I have not uploaded it myself.

Thank you!

Well, first Micro Hobby needs to be added as a section (which probably only someone with higher privileges can do), and then you just provide download links for the magazines.

Hello!

The two downloadable issues for Nintendo Magazine System (UK) are actually for the Australian magazine with the same name. As of now, there is no Magazines section for the Australian version.

Thank you for a great site!

Hello 16bitsOfHerbert,

We are creating the custom databases via the forum software that is used by this website. I am pretty sure that it can handle everything above, it's just going to be tricky to call fields from relational databases into the page template for the database. This is why I need to hire someone familiar with Invision Power Board and the module IP.Content. The only issue I can see in the above schema is how we would handle magazines that changed publishing companies? Nintendo Power was handled by Nintendo up until around 2006, and then went to Future Publishing.

As far as the gaming database, some of the information is there only for reference. While we don't "need" to put in the genre or country information, but it may come in handy down the line. Once we start getting information from Japanese magazines.....some of that information will only pertain to games that were released in Japan. The genre field will be just used for sorting and filtering search results. I hope to have it where users can go into the game database and choose "Super Nintendo" and "RPG" and only see the games that meet that criteria.

Just to show the complexity of pulling information out of the database and into a webpage using PHP,,,,,,

<table class='ipb_table'>
	<tr class='header'>
	<th scope='col' style='width: 25%'> </th>
		<th scope='col' style='width: 45%'> </th>
	</tr>
		{parse striping="maps" classes="row1,row2"}
		<foreach loop="$records as $r">
			<tr>
				<td>
					{$r['field_16']}
				</td>
				<td>
						{$r['field_17']}
				</td>
			</tr>
		</foreach>
</table>
<br />

Sounds great! Tell me when you need a transcriber.

GP June 1994 has Earthworm Jim on the cover, right? I'll look through the stacks and see if I have it.

*huggles*

Areala

I cannot find any front cover for that issue, but it's possible. If the Earthworm Jim one isn't #41, you should still upload it anyway. #41 will be used for a video game Wikipedia article.

Dammit! I have April 94 and July 94. So close. I never had a sub, instead a friend gave me a few stacks when he was cleaning out. Have plenty of later ones though.

*Well that's weird. I wanted to see what mags you might have been missing but the games, mags, and guides tabs at the top don't work. The page doesn't change. The gallery, forums, and other tabs are fine though.

Or you can try this link: http://community.retromags.com/files/

None of them seems to be uploaded already.

The tabs doesn't work for me either. I believe it has to do with the events described in the beginning of this post: http://community.retromags.com/topic/8311-retromags-20-arrives-in-2013-now-100-funded/#.UPZ23iftWSo and will maybe be fixed soon.

Hi!

I'm a new member here at retromags. By starting a wikipedia video game article I ended up here, and realized how valuable a database with video game magazine article information would be for us wikipedians. Therefore I would love to transcribe some magazines.

Firstly, I wonder if there is any need for transcribers, i.e. someone that puts notes about articles in a database. If the new database (described here: http://community.retromags.com/topic/8311-retromags-20-arrives-in-2013-now-100-funded/#.UPUu-SftWSo) is on its way, there is maybe no point in starting now, as the work needed to port it to the new database maybe would be even greater than transcribing. So how is the Database progress going?

Secondly, I have some database experience myself and would like to propose a SQL database schema (modified slightly from the posted one):

Retromags SQL Database Schema Proposal

Magazines - This is used for Magazine information, not about specific issues.

id (key)

name

country

editor

publisher

Issues - (Often) used in conjunction with Magazines table.

magazine_id (key)

issue_number (key)

year

month

contents_summary

cover_page_link

download_link

Games

id (key)

genre (necessary?)

country (necessary?)

publisher_id

release_date

youtube_video

game_synopsis

Quotes from the reviews of the time it was released (NP, GamePro, EGM, etc)

Note about the Games table: Ratings are not needed in Games table because of Articles table.

Articles - Would often be used to find information about which magazine issues hold information about a specific game. Highly valuable for wikipedians ^^.

game_id (The id of the game in the article)

magazine_id (The id of the magazine the article is in)

issue (The issue of the magazine)

page (The page in the magazine the article starts on)

rating (The rating in the article, or mean of rating in percent)

quote (One quote from the article)

Publishers

id (key)

name

Advertisement_scans

game_id

link

Game_names - Used since games can have different names (e.g. Contra III: The Alien Wars, Contra Spirits, Super Probotector). Makes the schema much more searchable.

game_id

name

At first, this database design may seem overly complicated, but there are some advantages over the posted one:

• More searchable.
• Less redundancy (Saves space).
• Still highly usable due to the SQL JOIN.
• Less room for spelling mistakes, due to no names being keys.

Probably the database schema being worked on looks more like this instead of the one posted.

Please criticize and point out mistakes, I can take it.

Thirdly, I'm looking for a scan of Game Player's 41, June 1994 ^^.