Foxhack

Well, there's this... https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/walmart-gamecente/ This was released in physical and digital versions. I have a couple of issues of the physical version, and they're slightly different from the digital one released by Walmart. But I haven't seen a physical one since uh, issue 64... I get not including fanzines, but this (and the GamerZines) have official content straight from the game developers and publishers, so hopefully the staff will reconsider their inclusion here.

That's cool, they don't have to be hosted here - but the database will probably need to be updated to add these. These magazines ran for several years and while they were crude in that uniquely 2000s British way, they have a lot of info about games that are just forgotten now. Hopefully someone will pop up with the missing issues, there's a lot that were just not saved by the wayback archive, or that were corrupt.

GamerZines was a series of magazines published by Cranberry Publishing in the UK for worldwide distribution, they released them as PDF files. I managed to find a ton of them on the Internet Archive, and other online places, so I've reuploaded them for ease of reading and downloading as single issues to the Internet Archive. There's one listing with several books, all misc. uploads by the publisher. https://archive.org/details/@foxhack?and[]=subject:"Gamerzines"&sort=titleSorter Feel free to mirror them here if you want.

Topic. Anime Play was a magazine created by Hirameki International, who published a bunch of translated VNs in the early 2000s. The first four issues had articles about their own games. I've collected issues 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, and am only missing issue #4 for the full run. I plan to get these scanned and posted online, but I can't do that until I get the book with the DVD, and while I did find the book and disc for sale separately on ebay, the prices are obscene and I'm trying to save money. I've already gotten about 90% of their DVD releases for preservation, I'm only missing the issue above and a couple of variants of their first game. If you can help out, please send me a PM. Thank you.

I'm sticking to PC and Mac formatted discs, but if they also talk about console stuff (like the Ultra Gameplayers discs), I'll take them. Console demo discs from stuff like OPM or Xbox have been taken care of by a lot of people already, but there might be some folks who'd be interested. Thank you, but I'm sticking to computer stuff! Lots of PS stuff has been preserved already.

I appreciate that, thank you. I'll ping you with an updated list once I get this package and update things. I might also need to get some replacement discs since some of these are in very poor shape because I didn't take care of my CDs as a kid. So we'll see.

What the topic says. I'm trying to get as many game magazine CDs (and those with gaming content of any sort) to start cataloguing them, index their contents, and eventually post the disc images online. Think of it as a complementary project to the work being done by both Retromags and Gaming Alexandria. I want to do magazines too, but that's far beyond my current capabilities. I'd basically take the discs, scan them, dump them to Redump specifications, post a list of their contents somewhere (this is still being worked on), and eventually post the Redump spec dumps online. A mostly complete list of what I have can be seen here. I'm waiting for a package to arrive, and I have a small bundle of discs that I haven't catalogued yet since I'm looking for secure ways to store them. My mailing address is in the US of A. I'd be happy to buy or trade for stuff. Lemme know if you can help.

Through sheer luck, I managed to find a brand new Brother ADS-1700W in town for a very affordable price. It can do up to 600 DPI in color, which is more than enough for the stuff I'm thinking of scanning - game magazines from Mexico which are largely unpreserved. I think I sent a bunch of stuff here for scanning, but I should still have some stuff in storage. My main concern right now is figuring out a way to calibrate the scans. Can I use one of those color targets in ADF scanners? I don't know how those work, so I'm pretty clueless. Also, some of these magazines have glue binding. Will any hairdrier work to loosen the glue, or do I have to get something with a specific heat / speed?