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 Scans
 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:29 pm
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Should there be a sticky thread in this forum to allow people to easily submit scans?
It seems that new threads created solely to submit scans are unwanted. Since there is no other obvious way to submit through the website, this appears to have led to the impression that the scans themselves are unwanted. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:35 pm
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That is correct, it was an error on my side to suggest there was a sticky thread at the time. I think the reason being not having a thread is that we would like to receive higher-resolution as possible scans (possibly lossless) and maybe this doesn't work well with attachments.
Since the thread linked above we added this page to clarify scan submission: http://www.smspower.org/Scans/HowToContribute And I imagine we should promote this thread as Sticky or let Maxim reformulate his own first message for such thread :) |
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:29 pm
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| To be honest, we have too many stickies right now :) We should think of a better way, maybe an index thread or having some auto-linked HowToContribute pages in each group. | |
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 9:21 am
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Perhaps the current sticky threads could be replaced by a single "How to contribute" sticky? This could contain links to the existing threads and to a new thread for scans.
In the meantime, I'll attach a couple of scans (found elsewhere on the web) here. 
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US Scans (Inserts & Manuals)
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:22 pm
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This seemed like the best place to post this. In a little over a week, I should have everything ready and setup to start scanning in my US Sega Master System collection. I've already completed a number of other Sega systems, and I've been posted everything on my site at the following URL:
http://ratigators.com/ I went ahead and posted a single Sega Master System game as a test. This was originally started based upon some conversations over at The Cover Project in the RAW Scans forum (again, can't provide a link :) I'm still about 20 games shy of a complete US set (with just a couple additional games missing manuals), though, if my previous work is any example, I plan on tracking the last few down (I'm a patient person and can wait for a deal) and eventually posting those as well. Also, usually when scanning in manuals, I might find a couple with some issues, that I'll usually go ahead and scan and replace later if I track down a replacement. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:34 pm
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| Awesome - I'll try to keep up. (Assuming your posting here counts as permission to user your scans - you didn't explicitly mention it.) | |
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:36 pm
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| Montezuma's Revenge - Featuring Panama Joe - USA Manual + OCR version | |
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:46 pm
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You assume correctly, and the fact that you listed me as the contributor is perfect. Thanks! As with my other system scans, I'll be doing 2 a day, one from each end of the alphabet. Also, when I'm actively scanning a system, I move it to the top, so you won't have to scroll so far down :) |
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:10 am Last edited by TSOLfan on Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:52 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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Today starts my daily scanning of Sega Master System games. I pull a game from the beginning and end of the alphabet each day. As mentioned previously, I don't yet have a complete NTSC-U set of Sega Master System titles, but probably more than enough to get started scanning manuals and inserts (102 out of 114). I've finished auditing everything, and here are my notes (so there are no surprises):
Missing Manuals Alf Fantasy Zone Teddy Boy Damaged Manuals Aztec Adventure (rough shape) Ninja, The (ripped off back cover) Damaged Inserts Ghost House (cut out UPC) Missing Games Alex Kidd in Shinobi World Casino Games James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing Power Strike R.C. Grand Prix Rampage For the games listed above, I have eBay Saved Searches to watch for deals. Damaged manuals and inserts I'm scanning in anyways and will eventually replace. Some games aren't too hard to find, but I usually hold out for an auction with a decent starting price (like 99 cents) instead of Buy It Now style auctions, or I'd rather wait for a "manual only" auction on my "missing manual" games rather than buy another entire copy of a game. I do/did have a few of the "missing games" already, though, loose carts or they have since gone missing (I had a package of a deal I got on Kung Fu Kid, Quartet and Rampage that the seller shipped to the wrong address originally that I'm starting to doubt will ever make its way to me). |
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:45 am
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I switched up all of my links to use the new MediaFire gallery format. They previously defaulted to the old gallery format that they had since removed, which resulted in the links going straight to just a file list.
So, now they are back to a nice gallery view if someone wants to read a manual without ever downloading it. Also, as noted on my site, if you could care less about viewing a manual online and just want to download it, just remove the "/view" from the URL. The old gallery format had a "File Manager" button to get back to the file listing, though, the new one does not. |
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 1:02 pm
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I picked up replacement manuals for the following games:
My Hero Pro Wrestling And picked up copies of the following games: Aerial Assault Bomber Raid Golden Axe Kung Fu Kid Quartet Slap Shot Spider-Man I also updated my post above to remove the items I no longer need. |
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:15 pm
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I'm halfway through scanning my Master System games, and as mentioned, I had to skip some games that I do not yet own complete copies of, and scheduled to skip 6 more, and will simply update the links when I find a good deal on a copy.
http://www.ratigators.com/ |
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:51 pm
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Today wraps up my scheduled Sega Master System insert/manual scans. There are still 6 games, 3 manuals and 2 replacement inserts that I still need to eventually pick up, and I'll post here in this thread when I make any updates.
I have 3 more games on the way that I'll get scanned and uploaded once they arrive, and edited my post above with what I'm still missing (in the instance where anyone here has spares they are willing to sell for a fair price). For those wanting some more stats, so far I'm at 1,182 Sega Master Scans, so if you take away the insert scans and do the math, that's another 2,148 pages of manuals scanned. As for MediaFire stats, they tell me I'm now hosting 11,348 Sega scans. If you take away the zip files and once again do the math, that means I've scanned about 10,564 times, resulting in approximately 21,128 pages of manuals scanned. I did post in a few places (TCP, CAG, DigitPress, SegaAge, etc) about trying to do a more collaborative effort on Genesis and Game Gear, with manuals either being donated or with me covering cost of shipping and return shipping (to ensure a level of consistency with all scans), and I received no response. So, other than scanning in any missing items I pick up or deciding to do back inserts across the board for Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast, this closes the book on my system level scan projects. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:22 am
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| Your efforts are much appreciated, I now have a huge backlog and the quality means I can OCR the manuals too - all great stuff to have online and available for everyone. | |
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:02 pm
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TSOLFAN, can you point out which manuals are still missing - i might be able to add some of them :)
I don't know what is on maxim's backlog at this moment and it would not be great to do duplicate work ;) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:24 am
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| I don't think there are any other US manuals in there. | |
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:53 am
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TSOLfan, I've just about finished downloading and I've got 1174 scans for 105 games - any idea what I've missed?
Edit: Ghouls 'n Ghosts was missing, now I've got 1185 scans for 106 games - three more that you thought, maybe for the three games where you've got an asterisk. Edit 2: Zillion II manual is missing pages 2-3. Edit 3: Zillion manual is missing pages 10-11. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 1:04 pm
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Yea, the games where I'm missing a manual but went ahead and scanned the insert, I didn't include in my count.
As for the missing pages, I'll check these and let you know when K have them uploaded Thanks for letting me know! |
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:29 pm
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I've scanned in the pages I missed and reuploaded all of the files (so the numbering is correct), including a new zip file.
When I get a chance, I'll run through the rest, but if you notice anything else, please let me know, as there's no point in me trying to build a resource, if that resource is wrong :) |
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:39 pm
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Sorry about that, I was including this in my count, which I didn't have directly linked from ratigators.com: Sega Master System Game Catalog 1986 (USA) http://www.mediafire.com/?b7vvj1p5h7e8m I also have the 1987 catalog, and if I can remember which of the games had one, I'll pull that back out and scan it too. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:38 pm
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| Picked up copies of Casino Games and Rampage, so both of those have been scanned in and linked. | |
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:40 pm
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Sorry, just saw this post. You can check ratigators.com which is where I have everything linked. I've noted the 3 games I'm missing manuals for, as well as the 4 games I still need to pick up. Everything else is scanned in and linked up for viewing online and/or downloading. |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:46 pm
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Just picked up a copy of Power Strike, and it's been uploaded to ratigators.com.
I'm still looking for a deal on any of the following: Complete Titles: Alex Kidd in Shinobi World James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing R.C. Grand Prix Manuals: Alf Fantasy Zone Teddy Boy |
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:59 pm
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| The copy of R.C. Grand Prix I purchased arrived has been uploaded and linked. | |
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:18 am
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| Finally got around to picking up a copy of Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, and I'll get it scanned in as soon as it arrives. | |
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:42 am
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| Alex Kidd in Shinobi World has been uploaded. That just leaves James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing as the only US insert I'm missing and Alf, Fantasy Zone, and Teddy Boy as the only US manuals I'm missing. | |
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:10 pm
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Found a reasonably priced copy of Alf, so I replaced my copy that was missing the manual, so the manual is now scanned in:
http://www.ratigators.com/ui.asp?c=SEGAMASTERSYSTEM I have two more games missing manuals (Fantasy Zone and Teddy Boy) that I'll eventually get around to picking up second copies of. If anyone has an extra manual of either of those from building their own collections, let me know. |
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