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I played most of Doom (2016) on PC without cheating but had to turn on a cheat mode where i'm at now just so I don't die so quickly. It's not a God mode, you can still die but at least not immediately. I'm not the greatest at FPS with a controller. I got a XIM4 for my PS4 just so i can use my keyboard and mouse. Actually better and more enjoyable that way.

i just meant I expected to know zero before looking at the list...was suprised to know most of them.

Still didn't finish Doom from June lol. I'm pretty far just need to finish but its hard even on easy...i stink at games.

I'm in America and a lot of them are ones you'd think most people would know...like Godzilla, Mario, Hello Kitty and Pikachu. Gundam...smaller crowd. The rest...probably only hard core international gaming fans.

Yeah, my OCD wouldn't allow me to not edit a subpar edit if I knew the jpegs were there for me to clean up.

Ah, that stinks about not being able to upload here. Oh well. I was gonna upload Sega Challenge Issue 1. I just checked out Archive.org...omg, SC Issue 1 looks terrible there lol.

Retromags Presents

SUPER GAMING - Issue 1

SUMMER 1991

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Ah, doh, i don't know why i didn't think of just doing it manually while I waited for an answer....let's just say i had a major dumb attack.

Sorry for all the questions but just thought of something else. What if I have a magazine I got from another site and see that you guys don't have it. Am I allowed to post it here? I ended up cleaning up all the pages a little bit (blemishes, watermarks, color correction, rotation) from whoever originally did it. 

My "entertainment" PC is connected to my projector in my living room and is the main way I watch anything. I stream a dance music station so my PC is on 24/7 and all my movies, music and tv shows are on it. Every other TV in my home has a Roku connected to it and I watch my personal collection wiht Plex. So simple and works. Otherwise the usual Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. Family members and friends log into my Plex account to watch my movie collection at their houses. 

My incomplete list

Morons who cruise in the passing lane of a highway

Morons who don't move over even though no one's around them when you're merging off a ramp onto the highway

Morons who throw cigs out their window in front of me

Morons who ride my ass even though I can't change lanes

There was actually one idiot who was in the middle of a 5 lane highway who was going to miss his exit so he STOPPED in the middle of 5 lanes and slowly crawled over. He's lucky no one smashed into him or was killed...its the only time I kinda wished a semi blew by and wrecked his chit.

all done and also added all the content info after I seeing that other mag uploaders post it. 

Only problem now is the New Release thread I made. Thought it was simply copy and paste the template and edit info. Did that but when I post the thread I still just see all the text/code.

Not sure what to do since I thought it was just a basic copy and paste thing.

Also...when someone is credited for Page Credits...what is that?

Retromags Presents

MEGA PLAY Vol.2 No.5

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1991

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uploaded Super Gaming Issue 1 but after the fact I noticed there wasn't the fields for the MD5 check and the Database link and all the credits fields when submitting the file. All those fields were in the main database to edit though. I guess that's why the image is missing from the Latest Releases thumbnail.

Cool..thanks. Yes, the next mag i just finished I turned constrain back on and did the 2500px height again. So all should be good

Ah good to know kitsunebi....your reasoning makes perfect sense. Sorry I wasn't aware of it.

Yes, i had constrain off and just rounded the width to 1920. All of the images were around 1905-1925px in width and I thought pages were supposed to all be the same WxH so rounded them all to 1920 which isn't noticeable just looking at them.

Will definitely keep in mind when I scale down my next mags. I saved as jpegs at 10 quality instead of 9. Should it always be 9 also?

How/Who do i alert for my next scan to be looked at before approval for upload? I guess I would upload to my own server first for you to look at just to be 100% sure I didn't it according to spec this time?

Working on Mega Play V3N5 Oct '92 and Super Gaming Issue 1 Summer '91

Nice, done. Thanks again

BTW, you had the vol/number transposed.

Thank you. Uploaded. Although i didn't know what i was supposed to put in the database field so i left blank. Is there something I'm supposed to put there? How does it change in the database from missing to preserved?

nevermind...i resized to 1920x2500 and saved at 10 quality jpeg to get the file size down a litte.

Only issue now is when i go to submit file, i can't select Mega Play as the magazine. It's grayed out and not clickable. Any ideas?

Yeah, i'm using a flatbed scanner.

Is 2500x3250 @ 300dpi too large for my page size for upload? Right now the mag would be about 375mb which is kinda large compared to the file sizes I've seen of other Mega Play mags.

Woot..my first mag scan done for the most part! Just going through each page for the last time to make sure I didn't miss anything. Not gonna lie, quite the task to scan, adjust, touch up lol. 

Went with 300 DPI, looks good without the extra scanning time wait and file size.

Will upload soon. 

Thanks for the useful info! I thought there was some fancy program needed to turn the scans to magazine but I see its just having all the scans zipped then renaming zip to CBR/CBZ. Looking 2 up on a screen, 300 vs 600 dpi wont make a difference...but if people like to zoom in, then it would probably make a bigger different. Will definitely test out some pages zoomed in at 300 vs 600 to see if its worth the extra scan time. So far the couple pages I did at 300 dpi zoomed in looks fine to me. 

No color correction and it looks very close to the magazine original

yeah, i turned up the option to save as best quality possible. 

I edited my last post so you may have missed my one question...is 300DPI fine or should I go bigger for each page scan to start with for some reason?

Good to know, thanks for the info. So far I've found 2 Mega Play mags that are shown as missing. 

The scan guide says to save scans as tiff files if possible but my Epson only saves as jpeg. I assume that's not a problem.

I planned on just scanning each page at a time, straightening, photoshopping marks, folks and all that out and then doing whatever the guide states at the end to turn it into a magazine.

I was going to just scan at 300DPI. Should i go bigger?

Do i need to make a thread stating the ones I'll work on so no one else happens to just start them?

Hello there, Enjoy the site and the mags on here but never have contributed scans myself. I have some of the earlier Sega Mega Play mags that are "missing" which according to the site means no one has them. I guess that means I can start the scanning process? I did a quick search and didn't see anyone saying they're working on any Mega Play mags unless I missed it.