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You create the site. Then you pick whoever you want.

Who created this site?

Capt. 2110 wrote

Who created this site?

Bock-bock-bock-boooock, I believe.

Ask yourself these questions:

What do you know about website administration?
What would you do as an admin?
Why do you want to be an admin?

These are rhetorical questions. You don't need to voice your answers. Just think about them.

The best way to become an admin is not asking to be one. I don't want to sound harsh, Believe me: it's not my intention. But let me tell you that "How do I become an admin" is a newbie question asked by many new users in every community. I know what I'm talking about.

When the site is in need of more admins, a public announcement will be made and you'll have your chance. Meanwhile, prove you can be one. Be helpful and show the community how knowledgeable you are. I'm not saying that you are not doing that already. You seem to be a nice person. Just ask yourself what can you do for the community.

Patience. Knowledge. Wisdom. Those are the keys.

KingMike wrote

You create the site.

There is no step 2. Sometimes we could do with web developers, and doing that gets you in. For the forum we may one day need moderators, but for now we manage OK.

Odd, the same thread popped up on a forum I moderate just this month too. I can't vouch for this site, but on my other one I do not think there is a moderator or admin who was not regular member for more than two or three years before they were considered. Knowing the community, owners and being quite the stand up guy helps I would assume. If there is no need for more staff, then they won't be looking however.

The question is more "what are you offering to the site?"
The site need content creators to fill in maps, screenshots, articles, music packs, translations, etc. We also could do with skilled web developers (effectively Maxim has been doing the vast majority of the web work in the past few years). I can't think of anything else we'd need at the moment but feel free to suggest something.

I have the original Game Gear box, ac adapter box, and car adapter box. How do I scan them? They aren't in the best shape, however, I do not see any scans of them.

You... use a scanner.

There's plenty of "unskilled" work to do, for example OCR on manuals and magazine reviews, taking game screenshots, making sprite images, recording game credits... and of course my scans backlog, which I haven't really been able to let go because I'm quite fussy about that.

Capt. 2110 wrote

I do not see any scans of them.

Oh, you were right.

Also, the current scan of the Game Gear manual looks pretty bad. I might as well drop this here too.

That's not the box I have. I have the US box.

Then you're still right :P

The more, the better. There were no scans yesterday, there will be 2 tomorrow.

I really hope scans of game manuals will be added as well.
It is very easy to find roms online, but scans of the manuals are much rarer. It is usually possible to understand the game mechanics by playing, but reading the manual first makes the experience much nicer.

kamillebidan wrote

I really hope scans of game manuals will be added as well.
It is very easy to find roms online, but scans of the manuals are much rarer. It is usually possible to understand the game mechanics by playing, but reading the manual first makes the experience much nicer.

But we do have game manual scans. For example, take a look at the Sonic scans page.

If you have wiki access, create the page for the upload with the multi-image template, upload the images and set :ScanOf: to Manual

We even have a manual scanning guide

Sorry for being unclear. I mean by adding manuals of the games for which the manual is missing

Scanning manuals require a lot of time. I was up to do that, years ago, but I assumed it wasn't needed and I never did so. Now I can't do it anymore since I recently sold all my games. I do have something else which I can scan, maybe I will.

That's what I'm saying :)

You can scan a game manual and upload it. You must use the multi-image template. In :ScanOf: enter Manual

Here's an example:

GP Rider Game Manual

Sorry for not undestanding. I understand now.

It would be cool, but checking which games have a scanned manual and which don't will take some time.

You forgot a b.

Capt. 2110 wrote

You forgot a b.

Right. I corrected it.

Tom wrote

Then you're still right :P

The more, the better. There were no scans yesterday, there will be 2 tomorrow.

I created the Game Gear scans page and added the Japanese GG Box. It's in bad shape and it's not the best scan, so if anyone has a box in better condition and can do better scans, feel free to replace my files.

Please add your GG box and manual scans here

You missed the existing Sega Game Gear page...

Maxim wrote

You missed the existing Sega Game Gear page...

:giant facepalm:

Sorry. I'll correct later today or tomorrow morning.

Edit: Corrected (thanks Maxim for clarifying).

I don't have a good fully functioning scanner, but these are what I have.

Game Gear:
http://msxresources.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/gamegear-box.jpg?w=300&h=271

AC Adapter:
http://shop.bresoftware.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/gg-ac-adapter-orig....

Car Adapter:
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_h3ff6kwEXGXhAEwR2Ft1jDCc...

I'm working on fixing my old scanner.

I fixed it and I'm adding my scans now(in theory).

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBack

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxFront

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxLeft

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxRight

Thanks to TinchoDJ for helping me put these Scans on the site.

Most of them seem rotated in the wrong direction? (whereas the thumbnails are ok)

Yes, how do I fix it? I fixed them later on my laptop, but I can't fix it on the website.

It's probably rotation data in the EXIF tags, which can be removed losslessly using the right tools. The thumbnailer probably ignores it...

Shouldn't there be "US" somewhere in the URL?

Yes :) In fact, I strongly suspect this is not the only US box variant, so you may as well pre-empt there being more and make it US-A (so we can add US-B etc).

It's not the only box for US, but I don't have the others. I would be happy to fix all of the stuff I didn't do right, but how do I fix them?

It's a bit weird in the first place, but I guess your tools are producing JPEG files which are not as simple as they might be, especially in terms of embedded rotation information. I suggest using different software. Always save scans in PNG so you can come back to them later if there's any issue.

For these, I will fix them myself, probably just by rotating/cropping/resizing/recompressing them, as they are a bit in need of adjustment anyway.

How to change the filename and URL

First you change the name of the attachments.

1. Go to one of the pages you created (for example http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop)

2. Click on Attach (at the top of the page).

3. At the bottom of the page, you'll find the files attached to this page. Click the R icon next to one of the files (for example SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop-thumb.jpg) and rename it to include US-A- (for example SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop-thumb.jpg). You must rename all the attached files with the same pattern.

Then you change the name of the page:

1. Go to the page you want to rename (for example http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop)

2. Click on Rename (at the top of the page)

3. Enter the new name for the page (Scans.SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop)

4. Click Move.

Thanks, Maxim.
TinchoDJ, I've renamed 2 of 5 so far. Thanks for all the help!

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop

http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBack

Note that the Sega logos in your box have a "TM". When editing the pages change TM to true or check the TM checkbox when viewing the page.

This is important for variations. Some boxes have a TM, others a SM, o include a slogan like "Now there are no loimits", etc.

Ok, thanks!

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Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	How do you become an admin? Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:07 am
	I don't want to be one(Well... that's a lie). I just want to know how you pick one.

KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 511	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:43 am
KingMike Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 511	You create the site. Then you pick whoever you want.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:03 am
	Who created this site?

homsar47 Joined: 16 Dec 2013 Posts: 69	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:11 am
homsar47 Joined: 16 Dec 2013 Posts: 69	Capt. 2110 wrote Who created this site? Bock-bock-bock-boooock, I believe.

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 3:43 am
	Ask yourself these questions: What do you know about website administration? What would you do as an admin? Why do you want to be an admin? These are rhetorical questions. You don't need to voice your answers. Just think about them. The best way to become an admin is not asking to be one. I don't want to sound harsh, Believe me: it's not my intention. But let me tell you that "How do I become an admin" is a newbie question asked by many new users in every community. I know what I'm talking about. When the site is in need of more admins, a public announcement will be made and you'll have your chance. Meanwhile, prove you can be one. Be helpful and show the community how knowledgeable you are. I'm not saying that you are not doing that already. You seem to be a nice person. Just ask yourself what can you do for the community. Patience. Knowledge. Wisdom. Those are the keys.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:16 am
	KingMike wrote You create the site. There is no step 2. Sometimes we could do with web developers, and doing that gets you in. For the forum we may one day need moderators, but for now we manage OK.

Jazzmarazz Joined: 17 Sep 2013 Posts: 140 Location: TC, MI	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:14 pm
	Odd, the same thread popped up on a forum I moderate just this month too. I can't vouch for this site, but on my other one I do not think there is a moderator or admin who was not regular member for more than two or three years before they were considered. Knowing the community, owners and being quite the stand up guy helps I would assume. If there is no need for more staff, then they won't be looking however.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8651 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:33 pm
	The question is more "what are you offering to the site?" The site need content creators to fill in maps, screenshots, articles, music packs, translations, etc. We also could do with skilled web developers (effectively Maxim has been doing the vast majority of the web work in the past few years). I can't think of anything else we'd need at the moment but feel free to suggest something.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:57 pm
	I have the original Game Gear box, ac adapter box, and car adapter box. How do I scan them? They aren't in the best shape, however, I do not see any scans of them.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:13 pm
	You... use a scanner. There's plenty of "unskilled" work to do, for example OCR on manuals and magazine reviews, taking game screenshots, making sprite images, recording game credits... and of course my scans backlog, which I haven't really been able to let go because I'm quite fussy about that.

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:18 pm
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Capt. 2110 wrote I do not see any scans of them. Oh, you were right. Also, the current scan of the Game Gear manual looks pretty bad. I might as well drop this here too.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:47 pm
	That's not the box I have. I have the US box.

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:59 pm
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Then you're still right :P The more, the better. There were no scans yesterday, there will be 2 tomorrow.

kamillebidan Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 384 Location: Osaka	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:17 pm
	I really hope scans of game manuals will be added as well. It is very easy to find roms online, but scans of the manuals are much rarer. It is usually possible to understand the game mechanics by playing, but reading the manual first makes the experience much nicer.

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:45 pm
	kamillebidan wrote I really hope scans of game manuals will be added as well. It is very easy to find roms online, but scans of the manuals are much rarer. It is usually possible to understand the game mechanics by playing, but reading the manual first makes the experience much nicer. But we do have game manual scans. For example, take a look at the Sonic scans page. If you have wiki access, create the page for the upload with the multi-image template, upload the images and set :ScanOf: to Manual We even have a manual scanning guide

kamillebidan Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 384 Location: Osaka	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 8:59 pm
	Sorry for being unclear. I mean by adding manuals of the games for which the manual is missing

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:07 pm
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Scanning manuals require a lot of time. I was up to do that, years ago, but I assumed it wasn't needed and I never did so. Now I can't do it anymore since I recently sold all my games. I do have something else which I can scan, maybe I will.

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:08 pm
	That's what I'm saying :) You can scan a game manual and upload it. You must use the multi-image template. In :ScanOf: enter Manual Here's an example: GP Rider Game Manual

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:20 pm Last edited by TinchoDJ on Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:30 pm; edited 1 time in total
	Sorry for not undestanding. I understand now. It would be cool, but checking which games have a scanned manual and which don't will take some time.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:27 pm
	You forgot a b.

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:30 pm
	Capt. 2110 wrote You forgot a b. Right. I corrected it. Tom wrote Then you're still right :P The more, the better. There were no scans yesterday, there will be 2 tomorrow. I created the Game Gear scans page and added the Japanese GG Box. It's in bad shape and it's not the best scan, so if anyone has a box in better condition and can do better scans, feel free to replace my files. Please add your GG box and manual scans here

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:28 pm
	You missed the existing Sega Game Gear page...

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:51 pm
	Maxim wrote You missed the existing Sega Game Gear page... :giant facepalm: Sorry. I'll correct later today or tomorrow morning. Edit: Corrected (thanks Maxim for clarifying).

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:20 pm
	I don't have a good fully functioning scanner, but these are what I have. Game Gear: http://msxresources.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/gamegear-box.jpg?w=300&h=271 AC Adapter: http://shop.bresoftware.com/thumbnail.asp?file=assets/images/gg-ac-adapter-orig.... Car Adapter: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_h3ff6kwEXGXhAEwR2Ft1jDCc... I'm working on fixing my old scanner.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:42 pm
	I fixed it and I'm adding my scans now(in theory).

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:14 pm
	http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBack http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxFront http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxLeft http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxRight Thanks to TinchoDJ for helping me put these Scans on the site.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8651 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:20 pm
	Most of them seem rotated in the wrong direction? (whereas the thumbnails are ok)

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 3:54 pm
	Yes, how do I fix it? I fixed them later on my laptop, but I can't fix it on the website.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:13 pm
	It's probably rotation data in the EXIF tags, which can be removed losslessly using the right tools. The thumbnailer probably ignores it...

Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:14 am
Tom Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 1356 Location: italy	Shouldn't there be "US" somewhere in the URL?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:11 am
	Yes :) In fact, I strongly suspect this is not the only US box variant, so you may as well pre-empt there being more and make it US-A (so we can add US-B etc).

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:13 pm
	It's not the only box for US, but I don't have the others. I would be happy to fix all of the stuff I didn't do right, but how do I fix them?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14744 Location: London	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:52 pm
	It's a bit weird in the first place, but I guess your tools are producing JPEG files which are not as simple as they might be, especially in terms of embedded rotation information. I suggest using different software. Always save scans in PNG so you can come back to them later if there's any issue. For these, I will fix them myself, probably just by rotating/cropping/resizing/recompressing them, as they are a bit in need of adjustment anyway.

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:03 pm
	How to change the filename and URL First you change the name of the attachments. 1. Go to one of the pages you created (for example http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop) 2. Click on Attach (at the top of the page). 3. At the bottom of the page, you'll find the files attached to this page. Click the R icon next to one of the files (for example SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop-thumb.jpg) and rename it to include US-A- (for example SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop-thumb.jpg). You must rename all the attached files with the same pattern. Then you change the name of the page: 1. Go to the page you want to rename (for example http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-BoxBottomAndTop) 2. Click on Rename (at the top of the page) 3. Enter the new name for the page (Scans.SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop) 4. Click Move.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:56 pm Last edited by Capt. 2110 on Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:04 pm; edited 1 time in total
	Thanks, Maxim. TinchoDJ, I've renamed 2 of 5 so far. Thanks for all the help! http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBottomAndTop http://www.smspower.org/Scans/SegaGameGear-Hardware-US-A-BoxBack

TinchoDJ Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:04 pm
	Note that the Sega logos in your box have a "TM". When editing the pages change TM to true or check the TM checkbox when viewing the page. This is important for variations. Some boxes have a TM, others a SM, o include a slogan like "Now there are no loimits", etc.

Capt. 2110 Joined: 27 Apr 2014 Posts: 281 Location: Texas	Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:06 pm
	Ok, thanks!

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