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I am offering to scan some manuals or inserts. Are there any in-demand stuff that I have? I have a complete export collection (excluding variations). Most (but not all) games CIB.

Is there anything missing from the scans section that you'd like?

Make me a request and I'll scan it :)

I think Maxim will make you a more detailed answer, but basically if you fancy browsing the Scan section some are of quite bad quality and clearly needs to be redone.

Maybe we can set up a page listing all the low resolution scans? (it should be faisable with a fancy search query)

Well, searches can't do numerical comparison :( The best way would be for people to tag low-quality scans.

Anyway, here's some searches that tend to show up bad scans:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AScan...

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AScan...

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AWidt...

A specific request:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Sega-Catalogue-01-TheSegaVideoGameSystem

This seems to be missing the inner pages? It's only found in early EU releases.

Ahh so I assume the priority is to get better quality of items currently scanned rather than scanning new things?

I'll upload some things as soon as I can but right now I'm too busy to do so =(

No, it's just that missing things are harder to list. Ideally I'd like to get scans of things we don't have scans of at all, like many GG games, but I assume you are referring to an SMS collection.

I forgot that most Euro/Aus covers are near-identical, just the Aussie ones have a slightly smaller width.

As for game gear games I do have about 80 however 60 or more all are just loose cartridges and don't have boxes

Well, we're adding those cut-off Aussie boxes separately.

Any chance you could scan the manual for the game Exerion for the SG-1000?

I just added the Japanese manual:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Exerion-SG-JP-Manual

Maxim wrote

I just added the Japanese manual:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Exerion-SG-JP-Manual

Many Thanks.

Is there also an English language manual?

I'm sure there is but nobody has scanned it yet.

Here is a better ALF

[Admin: attachment removed]

Can I get it in PNG? It'd come out a lot better with some preprocessing before the JPEG compression.

http://img89.imageshack.us/i/alfpngformat.png/

Thanks :)

It looks like you scanned it at low res and the scanner's done a bad job of resizing. Better to scan at 300dpi+ if possible and bilinear resample in software (or let me do it). Still, it's way better than the old image :)

You're welcome. I'll see if I can play around with the DPI settings next time I scan.

I've been looking through the low-res scans but almost all are US/EU and almost all my games are AU so I guess they wouldn't be much use?

Quite the opposite - if it's different, we want it.

Awesome =)
I'll scan some up next time I have access to a scanner.

OK I scanned two more.
Ayrton Senna Super Monaco GP II (Australia)
WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge (Europe)

Both png, both 300DPI. 11mb files so too big for forums/imageshack. I've emailed them to bock and maxim. Hope they look ok!

I've attached a scan of the Spanish Limited Edition version of Winter Olympics as it was missing from the site. My scanner is not great and the cover has a sticker on the back, but as it's such an uncommon variation I hope it will do for now.

I wasn't sure where to post this - maybe there should be a dedicated thread for submitting scans? (Or is there one already which I've missed?)

EDIT: I've also added the Spanish version of The Jungle Book (El Libro de la Selva).

I've added them:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-ES
http://www.smspower.org/Scans/WinterOlympics-SMS-ES

Best way is to email scans or start a thread of your own.

This isn't in the scans section yet.

My scanner can't do this it's too big :(

However I took the best photo I could, sorry for the poor quality!

SAM_2990.JPG (1.16 MB)

Miracle Warriors MAP

You could scan it in parts and let someone else combine the scans.

I'm pretty sure I have some scans of that waiting to go online, but I'll have to check.

I've attached a few more scans - some "new" variations and some replacements for existing scans.

Bank Panic (EU) (The Sega Card)
F-16 Fighting Falcon (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limitsSM)
Sonic Chaos (EU) (Sample)
Spy vs. Spy (DE) (The Sega Card)
Spy vs. Spy (IT) (The Sega Card)
Super Tennis (EU) (The Sega Card)
Super Tennis (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limits®)

Unattached, added and linked :)

Perhaps it's staring me in the face, but I can't see the difference between Bank Panic - EU - Card (A) and Bank Panic - EU -Card (B)?

The most noticeable difference is the line under the title on the front, but there are other minor differences as well.

Thanks, I can now see the differences in the grid pattern as well - don't know how I missed them the first time around. :)

Next batch:

Baku Baku (BR) (address on blue background)
~~F-16 Fighter (DE) (The Sega Card)~~
~~Ghost House (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limits®)~~
~~Great Soccer (DE) (The Sega Card)~~
Great Soccer (IT) (The Sega Card)
Hang On (IT) (The Sega Card)
~~Olympic Gold (FR) (Limited Edition)~~
Olympic Gold (ES) (Limited Edition)
~~Super Tennis (DE) (The Sega Card)~~
~~TransBot (DE) (The Sega Card)~~
Ultimate Soccer (EU)
Winter Olympics (EU)
Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap (EU) (8 Langs - No R)
World Cup USA 94 (EU)
World Cup USA 94 (DE) (Limited Edition)

Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section.

barney wrote

Thanks, I can now see the differences in the grid pattern as well - don't know how I missed them the first time around. :)

After further PM discussion, I've removed the "variant" as it was really just some lazy photoshopping.

barney wrote

Next batch:

Added. This prompted me to dig up and upload the original 150dpi scans from Nop's which I'd resized down years ago to save bandwidth; these days I'm not so worried about that. As a result I rejected the struck-through scans as his were better (less blurry and almost the same resolution).

barney wrote

Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section.

I'll wait for someone in Australia to scan them :)

Maxim wrote

Added. This prompted me to dig up and upload the original 150dpi scans from Nop's which I'd resized down years ago to save bandwidth; these days I'm not so worried about that. As a result I rejected the struck-through scans as his were better (less blurry and almost the same resolution).

Cool - as I've said before, my scanner is pretty poor so unfortunately these are the best I can do with the hardware I have.

Maxim wrote

barney wrote

Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section.

I'll wait for someone in Australia to scan them :)

The AU version of Hang On has already been scanned and is identical to my IT version.

barney wrote

The AU version of Hang On has already been scanned and is identical to my IT version.

Yes, I've left both http://www.smspower.org/Scans/HangOn-SMS-AU-Card and http://www.smspower.org/Scans/HangOn-SMS-IT-Card available although they're almost indistinguishable. For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see...

Maxim wrote

For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see...

I have both (AU) and (IT) versions of Ghost House and the boxes/inserts are identical. I should have some more (AU) cards coming soon so I'll be able to confirm once they arrive.

In the meantime, one new scan and two replacements:

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-IT
http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-FR
http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-DE

barney wrote

Maxim wrote

For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see...

I have both (AU) and (IT) versions of Ghost House and the boxes/inserts are identical. I should have some more (AU) cards coming soon so I'll be able to confirm once they arrive.

I now have both the Australian and Italian versions of Ghost House, Hang On and F-16 Fighter, and I can confirm in all cases that the inserts are identical. I can scan them all if necessary, though it seems a little pointless.

I bought some more sample artwork similar to the Sonic Chaos sample that I scanned last year:

Scans attached - I'm still struggling with a poor-quality scanner I'm afraid, but some of these are pretty interesting so I hope they're good enough for now.

[Admin: unattached, see http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Aladdin-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/AsterixAndTheSecretMission-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/DeepDuckTrouble-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/EccoTheDolphin-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JurassicPark-SMS-EU-Sample ]

p2010100.jpg (194.54 KB)

Nice scans! Curious to see they've used the Ultimate Soccer (Mega Drive) text for these samples (oh and various Mega Drive screenshots).

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Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Offering to scan a few manuals/inserts! Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:12 pm
	Hello I am offering to scan some manuals or inserts. Are there any in-demand stuff that I have? I have a complete export collection (excluding variations). Most (but not all) games CIB. Is there anything missing from the scans section that you'd like? Make me a request and I'll scan it :)

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 6328 Location: London, UK	Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:20 pm
	I think Maxim will make you a more detailed answer, but basically if you fancy browsing the Scan section some are of quite bad quality and clearly needs to be redone. Maybe we can set up a page listing all the low resolution scans? (it should be faisable with a fancy search query)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:40 am
	Well, searches can't do numerical comparison :( The best way would be for people to tag low-quality scans. Anyway, here's some searches that tend to show up bad scans: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AScan... http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AScan... http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Index?action=search&q=group%3DScans+%24%3AWidt...

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:56 am
	A specific request: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Sega-Catalogue-01-TheSegaVideoGameSystem This seems to be missing the inner pages? It's only found in early EU releases.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:45 am
	Ahh so I assume the priority is to get better quality of items currently scanned rather than scanning new things? I'll upload some things as soon as I can but right now I'm too busy to do so =(

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:32 am
	No, it's just that missing things are harder to list. Ideally I'd like to get scans of things we don't have scans of at all, like many GG games, but I assume you are referring to an SMS collection.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:38 pm
	I forgot that most Euro/Aus covers are near-identical, just the Aussie ones have a slightly smaller width. As for game gear games I do have about 80 however 60 or more all are just loose cartridges and don't have boxes

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:32 pm
	Well, we're adding those cut-off Aussie boxes separately.

ikrananka Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 2	Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:03 am
ikrananka Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 2	Any chance you could scan the manual for the game Exerion for the SG-1000?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:51 am
	I just added the Japanese manual: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Exerion-SG-JP-Manual

ikrananka Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 2	Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:25 pm
ikrananka Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 2	Maxim wrote I just added the Japanese manual: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Exerion-SG-JP-Manual Many Thanks. Is there also an English language manual?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:48 am
	I'm sure there is but nobody has scanned it yet.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:56 am
	Here is a better ALF [Admin: attachment removed]

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:26 pm
	Can I get it in PNG? It'd come out a lot better with some preprocessing before the JPEG compression.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:55 am
	http://img89.imageshack.us/i/alfpngformat.png/

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:38 pm
	Thanks :) It looks like you scanned it at low res and the scanner's done a bad job of resizing. Better to scan at 300dpi+ if possible and bilinear resample in software (or let me do it). Still, it's way better than the old image :)

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:13 am
	You're welcome. I'll see if I can play around with the DPI settings next time I scan. I've been looking through the low-res scans but almost all are US/EU and almost all my games are AU so I guess they wouldn't be much use?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:36 am
	Quite the opposite - if it's different, we want it.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:51 am
	Awesome =) I'll scan some up next time I have access to a scanner.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 10:06 am
	OK I scanned two more. Ayrton Senna Super Monaco GP II (Australia) WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge (Europe) Both png, both 300DPI. 11mb files so too big for forums/imageshack. I've emailed them to bock and maxim. Hope they look ok!

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:53 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	I've attached a scan of the Spanish Limited Edition version of Winter Olympics as it was missing from the site. My scanner is not great and the cover has a sticker on the back, but as it's such an uncommon variation I hope it will do for now. I wasn't sure where to post this - maybe there should be a dedicated thread for submitting scans? (Or is there one already which I've missed?) EDIT: I've also added the Spanish version of The Jungle Book (El Libro de la Selva).

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:12 pm
	I've added them: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-ES http://www.smspower.org/Scans/WinterOlympics-SMS-ES Best way is to email scans or start a thread of your own.

Tycho Joined: 16 Dec 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Outback Australia	Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:27 am
	This isn't in the scans section yet. My scanner can't do this it's too big :( However I took the best photo I could, sorry for the poor quality! SAM_2990.JPG (1.16 MB) Miracle Warriors MAP

Christuserloeser Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 270 Location: Pangea	Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:33 am
	You could scan it in parts and let someone else combine the scans.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:17 pm
	I'm pretty sure I have some scans of that waiting to go online, but I'll have to check.

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:05 pm
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	I've attached a few more scans - some "new" variations and some replacements for existing scans. Bank Panic (EU) (The Sega Card) F-16 Fighting Falcon (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limitsSM) Sonic Chaos (EU) (Sample) Spy vs. Spy (DE) (The Sega Card) Spy vs. Spy (IT) (The Sega Card) Super Tennis (EU) (The Sega Card) Super Tennis (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limits®)

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:23 pm
	Unattached, added and linked :)

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:06 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Perhaps it's staring me in the face, but I can't see the difference between Bank Panic - EU - Card (A) and Bank Panic - EU -Card (B)?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:52 am
	The most noticeable difference is the line under the title on the front, but there are other minor differences as well.

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:23 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Thanks, I can now see the differences in the grid pattern as well - don't know how I missed them the first time around. :)

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:57 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Next batch: Baku Baku (BR) (address on blue background) ~~F-16 Fighter (DE) (The Sega Card)~~ ~~Ghost House (US) (The Sega Card) (Now, there are no limits®)~~ ~~Great Soccer (DE) (The Sega Card)~~ Great Soccer (IT) (The Sega Card) Hang On (IT) (The Sega Card) ~~Olympic Gold (FR) (Limited Edition)~~ Olympic Gold (ES) (Limited Edition) ~~Super Tennis (DE) (The Sega Card)~~ ~~TransBot (DE) (The Sega Card)~~ Ultimate Soccer (EU) Winter Olympics (EU) Wonder Boy III - The Dragon's Trap (EU) (8 Langs - No R) World Cup USA 94 (EU) World Cup USA 94 (DE) (Limited Edition) Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:11 pm
	barney wrote Thanks, I can now see the differences in the grid pattern as well - don't know how I missed them the first time around. :) After further PM discussion, I've removed the "variant" as it was really just some lazy photoshopping.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:37 pm
	barney wrote Next batch: Added. This prompted me to dig up and upload the original 150dpi scans from Nop's which I'd resized down years ago to save bandwidth; these days I'm not so worried about that. As a result I rejected the struck-through scans as his were better (less blurry and almost the same resolution). barney wrote Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section. I'll wait for someone in Australia to scan them :)

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:36 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Maxim wrote Added. This prompted me to dig up and upload the original 150dpi scans from Nop's which I'd resized down years ago to save bandwidth; these days I'm not so worried about that. As a result I rejected the struck-through scans as his were better (less blurry and almost the same resolution). Cool - as I've said before, my scanner is pretty poor so unfortunately these are the best I can do with the hardware I have. Maxim wrote barney wrote Note: The (IT) versions of Hang On and Great Soccer are, I believe, identical to the (AU) versions - I'm not sure if/how you can tag this in the scans section. I'll wait for someone in Australia to scan them :) The AU version of Hang On has already been scanned and is identical to my IT version.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 9018 Location: London	Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:44 pm
	barney wrote The AU version of Hang On has already been scanned and is identical to my IT version. Yes, I've left both http://www.smspower.org/Scans/HangOn-SMS-AU-Card and http://www.smspower.org/Scans/HangOn-SMS-IT-Card available although they're almost indistinguishable. For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see...

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:59 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Maxim wrote For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see... I have both (AU) and (IT) versions of Ghost House and the boxes/inserts are identical. I should have some more (AU) cards coming soon so I'll be able to confirm once they arrive. In the meantime, one new scan and two replacements: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-IT http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-FR http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JungleBook-SMS-DE

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:50 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	barney wrote Maxim wrote For SMS games the inlays were often cut off in Australia, I'm not sure if that applies to cards though, so I'll wait and see... I have both (AU) and (IT) versions of Ghost House and the boxes/inserts are identical. I should have some more (AU) cards coming soon so I'll be able to confirm once they arrive. I now have both the Australian and Italian versions of Ghost House, Hang On and F-16 Fighter, and I can confirm in all cases that the inserts are identical. I can scan them all if necessary, though it seems a little pointless.

barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:49 am
barney Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Posts: 14 Location: Scotland	I bought some more sample artwork similar to the Sonic Chaos sample that I scanned last year: Scans attached - I'm still struggling with a poor-quality scanner I'm afraid, but some of these are pretty interesting so I hope they're good enough for now. [Admin: unattached, see http://www.smspower.org/Scans/Aladdin-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/AsterixAndTheSecretMission-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/DeepDuckTrouble-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/EccoTheDolphin-SMS-EU-Sample http://www.smspower.org/Scans/JurassicPark-SMS-EU-Sample ] p2010100.jpg (194.54 KB)

S.F Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Netherlands	Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:56 pm
S.F Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Netherlands	Nice scans! Curious to see they've used the Ultimate Soccer (Mega Drive) text for these samples (oh and various Mega Drive screenshots).

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