Sean697

I actually looked at this section extensively while checking this issue out and it seems ok to me.whats interesting was the editorial page doesn't have a page number. The advertising index lists pages 2,3,4,5,6,7 etc as the ads which they correctly are. And the editorial page just sits in there page less. Anyway I think the way eday did it looks good. Those 4 images really aren't supposed to be joined into one. There is the first two, and the second two.

Just wanted to thank you for scanning all those EGM;s I sent. It totally made getting rid of my mags worth it. You've made a huge, huge dent I. The EGM collection in the last year.

I found this thread. https://community.retromags.com/topic/9570-egm-20-misprint/#.V0U0MZBpah8 It verify the content was never there and it was a misprint. So the magazine is complete. That's good enough for me,

So I am al last done scanning EGM 20. Got to the middle of the magazine and am missing pages 51-66. This is equal to 4 of the 2 by 2 sheets in the mag. Now I took the staples out myself so I am kind of surprised. Can someone who has this issue check to make sure EGM 20 actually has these pages? And if they do scan them for me? Alternately mail me the issue I can scan and mail it back. I even looked around all over in case the somehow slipped out of the magazine but didn't find anything.

A good starting point is the guide on scanning and editing for the site. At the top click on help and then how to guides.

I imagine you'll be relieved to finally work on something else for awile. But if you run out of stuff and I don't get there first, I always have the 2001 issues.....

Love the posters though!

Yes. It was pretty minor. Only removed a duplicated page.

The real celebration begins when we have all of the first 100. Get your party hats ready.

Lol. Actually I was on a submarine on deployment. Mail was a little spotty. I may not have gotten this issue.

Actually I might not have ever seen this one eighter. I was overseas at the time it was released. I was out of the country and isolated from all Media from Sept. 95 to February 96.

Steve Race did alot right. But they were trying to position the PS as an edgy machine. But it often lead to some wrong thinking like this. That and having only 3D games for the most part early on. I thought that Doom table of contents mural came out well too. Its one of my better joins Iv'e done. it helped of course being a brand new issue and debinding it.But seems like the adjacent pages on this mag lined up nicely and left little to no cutoff between images.

Next up is EGM Issue 20. I really dont know if its the most requested issue of the ones I have to scan, but it has 20 votes so its up there. Plus I want to finish off all my stapled mags and be done with them already and this is the last one I have. Also this will be the last missing issue from the first 25 (29). So yay I guess.

Also the DKC2 strategy guide in this download, I accidentally packed in the cover twice. You can remove the the 1200 pixel version from your downloaded copy. (Change file name to .zip , delete the duplicate 1200 pixel high cover, rename file extension back to .cbz) I'll upload the corrected version tomorrow.

This issue is the longest issue Iv'e done to date. Also of note this issue was scanned from a bagged copy so it is 100 percent complete. It includes at the end of the magazine a DKC2 stratagy guide, a mindscape advertising insert, and a 3DO poster. This also was my first poster. Enjoy.

Retromags Presents! Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 77 December 1995 Database Entry! Download Directly!

Well I, sure the whole images existed somewhere originally on a computer disk or hardrive or an actual piece of art.But these magazine renditions may be all that is left of some of them.

Very true. I also don't think missing a millimeter here and there affects anything. I think every scan helps.

I Would probrably change that to NEVER perpendicular. I just try to be content aware. I have no problem cropping when it doesn't contain relevant content. More often than not I'll choose content over straightness when there is something in the image worth preserving. I just like being able to make that choice. Is why I don't automate it like Kiwiarcader. On pages with art next to the border I want to get all of it. On pages with black edges or meaningless background pattern I crop it away. Sometimes there is no good choice and I end up having to choose to keep the most intact side with the most interesting detail. Like if one side has a face or something on one edge and some random vegetation on the other. I'll choose to keep the face side and crop some of the vegetation as an example. Other times I've rebuilt the edge with data not there. Eighter from another source, or extrapolating and drawing it in. The most editeding page I ever did, was an early EGM CES section cover page. It listed the games they covered across the page diagonally but the page was so crooked it was missing a ton of lettering on the side. I literally used the clone brush to find other letters on the page to repair the names going down the right side that were cut off. You would never be able to tell but the whole right side of the page was missing maybe 1/2 inch that I filled in what it was supposed to look like before being mangled by the printing press. Too much work? Probrably. It's like you said you enjoy editing. I don't really enjoy it, but I enjoy putting out the best possible product. I've come to terms that it means I won't get the magazines I have to scan out as quickly as I want. I'd rather take longer and put out a quality scan. Which does. Not mean I'm not open to to reducing the time it takes to do that as much as possible. I just refuse to sacrifice quality for quantity.

I think the mistake is trying to get through everything that you own. It kind of a Herculean goal (I'm assuming you have a huge collection.) you don't have to take the world on your shoulders. But if completing your whole collection is your goal, scanning everything first does make sense. If only to remove the the physical magazines and take up less space. Editing can a,ways come later. I'd just be reluctant to ever release something unedited. Well at least not cropped and straightened. But I'm sure there are people who would rather have something than nothing.

Thanks again I really appreciate replacing the scan with a higher res version when the old one was serviceable. Now we have a really great copy of this issue.

Ya so most of the jokes I can think of are extremely tasteless. Blond jokes, black jokes, dead baby jokes, you name it. I can't really repeat them. (What can I say I used to buy all the truly tasteless joke books.) But even tasteless racial jokes have something funny in the, if you remove the negative connotations, or sometimes what is funny is the steorotyopes, even if you don't believe in them. Sometimes I think a part of people's mind enjoys laughing at something they know they shouldn't be laughing at. So this joke I heard in an email chain about 6 years ago. But it's the one that made me laugh the hardest in maybe the last decade. It's not racism, sexist, or gross. But it is a little raunchy. The baby photographer. The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, "Well, I'm off now. The man should be here soon." Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning, Ma'am", he said, "I've come to..." "Oh, no need to explain," Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, "I've been expecting you." "Have you really?" said the photographer. "Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my specialty?" "Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat " After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?" "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there." "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Harry and me!" "Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results." "My, that's a lot!" gasped Mrs. Smith. "Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that." "Don't I know it," said Mrs. Smith quietly. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus," he said. "Oh my God!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat. "And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider her mother was so difficult to work with." "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep to get a good look." "Four and five deep?" said Mrs. Smith, her eyes wide with amazement. "Yes", the photographer replied. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in." Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "Do you mean they actually chewed on your, um... equipment?" "It's true, Ma'am, yes. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away." "Tripod?" "Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too heavy to be held in the hand very long." With that, Mrs. Smith fainted.

Looks great! Ok not really. The EB card after page 146, the back of the card (2nd page) you accidentally put the image from the next subscription card instead of the correct image of the backside of the EB card with the Pokemon.