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  1. It's something I'd very much be interested in scanning. But absolutely have no room on my plate for. Try and hold onto them though. I may in a year have room. I'm absolutely interested in scanning Japanese Mega Drive coverage. Generally I've found most people will accept donations if you pay for shipping. If you don't get any offers I'll take them, just know they won't be scanned anytime in the near future. I would like to see them preserved.
  2. Ok so 53 had some major issues. It wasn't previously cropped or edited and had a missing page so this is a great update. 51 was OK with nothing major wrong with it, but it was an older issue at a lower resolution. (Actually I just browsed the older issue of 51 and it was pretty fantastic quality. I'll have DL the new one and check it out.) Thanks for the updates!
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    Mindscape Visions advertising insert included loose in the bag with EGM issue 77. This scan also available as part of the complete EGM 77 download.
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    Neo Geo insert included in EGM issue 31. Also included in the complete issue of EGM 31.
  5. Interestingly this issue has a Neo Geo supplement inside. It is included as part of the page count for the issue. But this is a first that I've found, the supplement is stapled and standalone, but was glued into the binding of the issue. So it wasn't evident it was a stapled supplement until I debound the issue with my heat gun. Also this issue has a 3 page fold out ad for SNES Konami games behind the front cover that I stitched together into one image.
  6. EGM 24 updated thanks to Retro Defense page he scanned for us. The issue is now verified complete. New version is on the current download page which can be found here. https://community.retromags.com/files/file/2801-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-024-july-1991/#.V-LZcvkrJaQ
  7. Until 1 year ago, I had never even heard of this magazine. Never saw it not once. I notice it was by Imagine. I do really like the visual layout a lot. I'll stand buy that seeing it the first time. The two issues I've scanned both have interesting presentation. The review system is interesting as a curiosity, but I agree it seems kind of pointless. I think some of those predicted interest graphs are totally made up. I see some of them just exactly repeated. I guess it tries to make it look anylitical or something, but they did also use a star system and a recommendation on whether to buy rent or avoid,
  8. Ya well I'd don't remember getting a refund on my Next Gen.
  9. I don't know. So many games. You know what game kind of wowed me at the time that would be amazing to recapture the excitement, Lunar on Sega CD. I mean I was mulling Phantasy Star. But I was absolutely enthralled by Lunar. In a world of speechless games, here was this game with voice acting, CD music , animated cutscenes, a thrilling story. I was frankly just blown away at the power of the Sega CD. The game seems kind of quaint and antiquuicated now. But I mean it was an experience unlike many other favorite console games you couldn't even get in the arcade. It was just at the right time and place to be completing amazing. Sure there was similar CD fare, on the Turbo CD with Y's, but I didn't have one, and I had played that game on the SMS. It just added animated cutscenes. Lunar was built for the CD medium from the beggining.
  10. Probrably a Rage Against the Machine song like Bomb Track.
  11. I actually kind of like it. It has a nice visual presentation. With a good mix of game art and screenshots, comic book style. With fairly wordy reviews.
  12. Game Buyer #1 complete. Next up with 30 votes to preserve is EGM 31. EGM 30 was next with 29 votes. So in all likelyhood that will follow.
  13. I was briefly an IGN insider around 2000 and they briefly forayed into a magazine and I do remember them offering a magazine with insider status.
  14. This is this first of 4 issues of Game Buyer. Ultra Game Players became Game Buyer briefly before shutting down for good. Of course Ultra Game Players was the revised itteration of Game Players. From their it gets a little murky. But Game Players was made from the consolidation of Game Player's Nintendo Guide and Sega Guide. Which itself was an offshoot of the original Game Player's. So this issue is the beggining of the end of a long legacy of a classic game magazine.
  15. Retromags Presents! Game Buyer Issue 1 July 1998 Database Entry! Download Directly! Thanks to Major Lag for donating this magazine for scanning!
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    Scanned 600 dpi, resized 300 dpi, constant 2200 pixel height. 600 dpi version available upon request from user Sean697.
  17. Nearing completion, but once again, these two spread spreads are infuriating me again, the magazine pages as cut on this one spread were so off of straight that when I combined them to line up the two pages end up crooked. It's like they cur it and glued it totally crooked in the mag. If aligned with a commone element across both pages it leaves a huge triangle at the intersection. It aligning to where the margin meets, they combined image is skewed. Eighter way it's a lot of work to make it look seemless. The last spread I did with page 128 and 129 I aligned the image pretty well, filled in the missing part of the image, and found the page was still slightly skewed. But not enough to be noticeably enough for me to go back and fix it. Because then the other side of the page wit I agates on the outside of the margin would have to crop information or filled I with fake clone stamp data. Anyway it sometimes is frustrating making a two page spread when they cut the magazine all crazy. Anyway I have like 33 pages to go.
  18. Ya I remember my first cover uploading 2 years ago and it wasn't easy finding information to do it right. It's only easy if you've done it it. We should make it more clear.
  19. Sean697

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    Also that brain is a reflection of the paper quality they used and the printing. That's normal and don't worry about that. If anything,mif you can find a setting make sure always to descreen if you have that option with your scan software. It removes Moore patterns on printed material that is I troduced during the scanning process. You'll notice this is you scanned image has pixelated edges and color patterns. Mostly a problem with shiny paper.
  20. Sean697

    Uploading Gamepro

    it doesn't look too bad. It could use some editing. You don't have to get carried away like I do. But on the larger creases on some of the pages you can try to remove them with the clone stamp. Small dust particles and stuff, is up to you how much time you want to spend on it. But at least for the large creases and defects it's nice to try and remove them. Cropping and straightening look fine. As far as the darkness you probrably can just do some level adjustments to clear that up. You can do it to one page, save the level adjustment and use a macro to do the same adjustment to the rest of the pages. Here is a good tutorial. http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/tone-color/ But if you want a quick and dirty way that will still look loads better, find a page with a good range of colors and some dark black and bright white. Open the levels dialog and use the black eh dropper and click on the blackest spot you can find. (The tutorial will show you how to find the absolute blackest level but this is the easy way remember.) Use the white eye dropper to find the whitest area on the image. Finally for the grey most one adjustment, just manually move the slider instead of sampling until the colors and tone look nice to you and are pretty close to the page. When you are happy with it save the level adjustments to a file. Then make a macro and load that level adjacent file, apply it to the image and assign it to a key. Now you can just apply your adjustment with your key for that magazine. I think a good level adjustment will bring the colors back into tone and retire the brightness.
  21. Sean697

    Uploading Gamepro

    If you can u-load it to Dropbox or something and post a link I'll look at it. That's how I usually do it. A free account is usually adequate. Unless someone had already contacted you. If you post it here of course anyone can check it out.
  22. Ya I preordered that collectors edition. Because that Genesis that powers on with the Sega sound is pretty nice.
  23. Thanks, this issue is one of the issues that got me into magazine collecting.mhad purchased then-previous issue with the TG-16 on the Lotus on the cover and read about the Genesis. Then this issue came out and that iconic photo of the Genesis on the column made me have to get one. Along with EGM #2 and #3. These issues were the Genesis of my collection of game magazines. Been waiting for this one forever. Some good news articles in there. But for the life of me, I don't know why they were reviewing Phantasy star 10 months after it came out.
  24. We in fact do as a general rule scan most posters included with mags. I know Eday has and I have. They are generally included in the scan. Unfortunaty we at this time don't track which ones have posters anywhere. Though on stuff I scan on the new release post I always try to make a note of it.
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