New Releases - 05/25

[KarlyPilkboys]

Yeah, I had the same issue!

I also think it's the extra issues being added for Christmas. They would get 13 issues in a year rather than 12, as they released them roughly every 4 weeks.

I was looking through these and trying to figure it out myself. Looking at the "Next month in PSW" pages, they would have the release date of the next issue. And they were normally a month off....so if it was released in Jan, it would be the Feb issue....if that makes sense.

Anyway, I got to something like this for the issues around that time:

028 - May 2002
029 - Jun 2002
030 - Jul 2002
031 - Aug 2002
032 - Sep 2002
033 - Oct 2002
034 - Nov 2002
035 - Dec 2002
036 - Chr 2002
037 - Jan 2003
038 - Feb 2003

[gater]

No problem! And good news, with the rest of my collection and some very kind donations from KarlyPilkboys we will almost have the entire run of PSW uploaded once I am finished with them.

That's great, thanks!

[gater]

While I mainly came to see the Australian ones, the British magazines are also interesting, and in fact i remember some of them from my youth, which i believe means that they must have been imported to Australia too at some point.

Some of our Aussie PSX mags had a lot of reprinted UK content.

[rygel]

Thanks kitsunebi-san, yeah I know the situation with magazines all of a sudden removing their published month on the coverpages (or any other pages inside the magazine itself) ... there are a few other mags where this is/was similar. My point was just the weird naming that was used in the Retromags DB: if issue 31 has a cover print of "August 2002", how can issue 32 be sorted as "July"? Makes no sense - if today is Monday, tomorrow cannot be Sunday 

You are correct that as from issue 32 on, there is also no cover date inside the mag. Usually I am just kind of double-checking the numbering with the published months on Retromags or MagazinesfromthePast, before archiving them on my NAS drive, so that I have a proper file name in use. No big deal though, I will then follow the numberings from the latter. Thanks for your input!

[kitsunebi]

Thanks kitsunebi-san, yeah I know the situation with magazines all of a sudden removing their published month on the coverpages (or any other pages inside the magazine itself) ... there are a few other mags where this is/was similar. My point was just the weird naming that was used in the Retromags DB: if issue 31 has a cover print of "August 2002", how can issue 32 be sorted as "July"? Makes no sense - if today is Monday, tomorrow cannot be Sunday 

I think you already knew the answer before you asked - Retromags is wrong.  True, any cover date at all given to those issues isn't official, but even as fabricated dates go, those are obviously wrong.  But as I said, the person who created that particular database at Retromags is pretty much incommunicado at this point.  I'd say it's unlikely to ever be fixed there unless someone starts uploading UK mags there and whoever starts linking files to the database notices the discrepancy. 

Actually, without saying who in case it's not meant to be known, there's someone here that had been in talks with Retromags to release their scans there as well.  Indeed, I was told to expect a massive dump of mags all at once, which were supposed to drop...over a month ago.  Unfortunately, the same person who created the PSW database and doesn't read PMs is also the person who would be responsible for bringing over hundreds of mags, posting them to the downloads and updating databases, galleries, etc.  That's a lot of work for someone who usually doesn't even log in to the site for more than a few minutes per week.  And there are other outstanding projects that person has committed to as well, such as a torrent of 2024 releases which was promised at the start of March but has yet to arrive.

But at any rate, if those mags start showing up there, I imagine some work on the UK databases will HAVE to be done, and having the mags in hand (or rather on file) will make doing so more accurately a lot more feasible.

P.S. I agree that Retromags is wrong and someone made a careless mistake when filling out that database, but there actually IS precedent for mags with cover dates going backwards and forwards in time.  I discovered this myself when creating the database for Dengeki PlayStation (these dates are correct and very clearly printed on the cover):
#47 (June 13 97)
#48 (July 11 97)
#49 (June 27 97)
#50 (July 11 97)

[Gregorick]

But as I said, the person who created that particular database at Retromags is pretty much incommunicado at this point.  I'd say it's unlikely to ever be fixed there unless someone starts uploading UK mags there and whoever starts linking files to the database notices the discrepancy. 

Well they have been sitting on my entire collection of scans for about six months now so I'm gonna assume adding UK mags to Retromags is an extremely low priority. I have offered to add them to the site myself but not got much in the way of a reply.

Edit: replied before reading the rest of your post but yeah it's fine for it to be known. I offered up my older scans to Retromags a while ago (when it looked like OGM might cease to exist) but looks increasingly like they won't ever get added.

[kitsunebi]

Well they have been sitting on my entire collection of scans for about six months now so I'm gonna assume adding UK mags to Retromags is an extremely low priority. I have offered to add them to the site myself but not got much in the way of a reply.

Edit: replied before reading the rest of your post but yeah it's fine for it to be known. I offered up my older scans to Retromags a while ago (when it looked like OGM might cease to exist) but looks increasingly like they won't ever get added.

Don't take it personally.  It's not YOUR scans, or even UK scans, that aren't a priority.  It's the website itself that is no longer a priority.  And if your PMs are ignored - welcome to the club.  It's not even just that they aren't ever answered, it's that they're never even READ (which is obvious, as their PM software tags messages as either "read" or "unread."

Retromags is something of a rudderless ship.  Once complete collections of Nintendo Power, Gamepro, and EGM were scanned, the people in charge sort of faded into the background, since those were the only things they were personally interested in.

I sort of fear for its long-term future (especially considering how much of my own time I've invested in it.)  Right now, I believe they make enough in donations to cover costs and then some (and hopefully any excess is saved for future costs rather than going into someone's dinner-and-a-movie fund), but if keeping the site operational ever required them to reach into their own pockets I have to wonder if they would.

I will point out, however, that since you were made a team member, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to upload things yourself.  Unless you don't have a password to the QNAP, I guess.  Get that, and you're good to go.

[perfinpuz]

Hey Kiwi, Ace #018 has it's Download title as Ace #01. The file is named correctly.

[Kiwi]

Six issues of Nintendo Magazine System (UK) that were scanned eons ago by Nipedley have now been added to the site ...

   
   

[Kiwi]

Hey Kiwi, Ace #018 has it's Download title as Ace #01. The file is named correctly.

Fixed. Thanks for the heads up on that ...  Kiwi

[Kiwi]

Warplane issues 30, 31 and 32 are now available ...

   

[Kiwi]

Gregorick brings us five issues of Play .... er, make that .... 64 Game Buster, a Nintendo mag for a change    ...

   
 

[Gregorick]

Gregorick brings us five issues of Play .... er, make that .... 64 Game Buster, a Nintendo mag for a change    ...

Quit trying to pigeonhole me, I'm not just a PlayStation guy.








...anyway I'm going back to my scanning of PSW magazine 

[Gregorick]

Also a quick apology for issue one of 64 game buster, it was in a horrible state when I got it but I've tried to do what I can to clean it up. If anyone has a better copy please feel free to overwrite it.

[slider1983]

Edit: replied before reading the rest of your post but yeah it's fine for it to be known. I offered up my older scans to Retromags a while ago (when it looked like OGM might cease to exist) but looks increasingly like they won't ever get added.

Actually, without saying who in case it's not meant to be known, there's someone here that had been in talks with Retromags to release their scans there as well.  Indeed, I was told to expect a massive dump of mags all at once, which were supposed to drop...over a month ago.

That's interesting, I sent a scan to E-Day to get approved but he sent it to Phillyman who hasn't got back to me so obviously Phillyman won't respond. I think E-Day shouldn't wait for approval unless he really must get approval from Phillyman beforehand.

Ace #18 is now available. Ahh!! The Konix Multisystem ... literally the "Supersega" vaporware of the late 1980's. All the mags of the day were touting how great it was but it ended up cancelled before ever seeing a release after the company went bust.

I remember Retro Gamer doing an issue where they showed off the Konix. I believe it was the chair they showed off. Seemed interesting and the ability to remove and detach controllers was nice.