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Title: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on January 18, 2014, 09:35:50 PM
I am looking for Super Mario World manual scans.
Thanks
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 18, 2014, 11:09:47 PM
Ok, I'm on it.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0vh0ykf680o7r/snessmwmanual

If this quality is ok I have other manuals too. We could have a whole cover/manual project thing going.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Mel on January 19, 2014, 02:32:21 AM
Thanks for the Super Mario world scans
What other manuals do you have?
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 19, 2014, 02:54:18 AM
Good condition

Alien 3
Arkanoid
DKC 1,2
F-Zero
Legend of Zelda (fair to good condition)
The Lion King
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Starfox (fair to good condition)
Street Fighter II Turbo (fair to good condition, couple bend creases)
Super Castlevania IV
Super Mario Allstars
Super Mario Allstars + SMW
SMW2 Yoshi's Island
Super Metroid (fair to good cond.)
Super R-Type (fair to good)
TMNTIV TiT

Fair Condition (maybe a little creasing on the cover but the rest is pretty clean)

Batman Returns
Choplifter III
Home Alone
Killer Instinct
Mortal Kombat
Ms. Pac-Man
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart
Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Mel on January 19, 2014, 04:28:40 AM
Super Mario World WIP

(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/3d9b/lpbsor3ql2k6a3l4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/lpbsor3ql2k6a3l/SuperMarioWorld78.png)
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 19, 2014, 01:04:51 PM
That looks great. Wish my manual was in better condition for the cover. Someone else might want to scan their cover...

 That will probably be the biggest challenge for manuals is finding ones with covers in great shape. A lot of the manuals I have listed as good conditon are in better condition than SMW so I can provide those.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 01:07:56 PM
That looks great. Wish my manual was in better condition for the cover. Someone else might want to scan their cover...

 That will probably be the biggest challenge for manuals is finding ones with covers in great shape. A lot of the manuals I have listed as good conditon are in better condition than SMW so I can provide those.

I has 20 or so Super Mario World manuals so propbably one of them is in perfect condition to scan.
I'll check when I get home in 2 hours or so.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 01:08:51 PM
Good condition

Alien 3
Arkanoid
DKC 1,2
F-Zero
Legend of Zelda (fair to good condition)
The Lion King
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Starfox (fair to good condition)
Street Fighter II Turbo (fair to good condition, couple bend creases)
Super Castlevania IV
Super Mario Allstars
Super Mario Allstars + SMW
SMW2 Yoshi's Island
Super Metroid (fair to good cond.)
Super R-Type (fair to good)
TMNTIV TiT

Fair Condition (maybe a little creasing on the cover but the rest is pretty clean)

Batman Returns
Choplifter III
Home Alone
Killer Instinct
Mortal Kombat
Ms. Pac-Man
Street Fighter II
Super Mario Kart
Super Star Wars
Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back


Didn't I send you Mortal Kombat 2?
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 19, 2014, 01:19:51 PM
You did send MK2 and Contra III as well but the covers have creases so they'd be more work to clean up in photoshop.

It's cool though, I still like having them.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 01:32:22 PM
You did send MK2 and Contra III as well but the covers have creases so they'd be more work to clean up in photoshop.

It's cool though, I still like having them.

What MK2 had creases? :o
Yeah it was bad one but it was my only copy (not sure do I even have one for myself, should have but not sure).

If I find my copies of those manuals I'll scan you the fronts so replacements can be done.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 19, 2014, 01:35:50 PM
On the other hand, that Super Castlevania IV is so mint it hurts. I'm afraid to touch the thing! :o
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 02:23:52 PM
On the other hand, that Super Castlevania IV is so mint it hurts. I'm afraid to touch the thing! :o

Store it in minigrip bag.
I can mine which is even mintier (of course I kept the better ;)).
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 02:24:15 PM
The ones you send me were excelent, I was bit ashamed to send you the 2 bad ones but I didn't have better ones.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: cesar2xtreme on January 19, 2014, 02:39:34 PM
Where I can find those manuals? I'll be super mega happy to print them since well... prices are insane :C
I saw that WIP, looks amazing! good job gentlemen, your are making the world a better place (:
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Arseen on January 19, 2014, 02:47:22 PM
Where I can find those manuals? I'll be super mega happy to print them since well... prices are insane :C
I saw that WIP, looks amazing! good job gentlemen, your are making the world a better place (:

I don't think we yet have any manuals ready.
Lots of good raws but nothing finished yet.
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on January 19, 2014, 02:53:01 PM
The ones you send me were excelent, I was bit ashamed to send you the 2 bad ones but I didn't have better ones.

You shouldn't be at all, I was good with our trade.

I'm just happy TCP exists. Collecting and casing retro games has seriously become a favorite hobby. :)

Edit: I have some other manuals too that I didn't count. They're all mostly in fair condition.

There are probably more snes manuals in the world sitting then there are boxes. Between all the site's members we could make scans of almost every manual out there 8) Damn, that's a Pandora's box of work you opened up to clean up all those scans, but with ebay prices for some of the rarer manuals it would def be much appreciated!

Other manuals (most in fair condition):

Cool Spot
Cybernator
Hook
Mario Paint
Mickey and Minnie- The Great Circus Mystery
Plok
Super Scope
Super Tennis
Tetris Attack
Toy Story
Title: Re: Super Mario World manual scans
Post by: Mel on January 19, 2014, 10:13:53 PM
I was thinking about starting on SNES manuals for the most common games first like Super Mario World, F-Zero and etc.
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on January 20, 2014, 02:13:19 AM
The Europe PAL manual of Super Castlevania IV looks the same in same ways to the North American manual but, the cover is different and it's not in Englsih.

Super Castlevania IV
Front Back
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/4zweeewl19ntbiw/SCIVfrontbback.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/636c/4zweeewl19ntbiw4g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /></a>

2-39
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/d0c5e92c2rldllx/SCIV239.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/5095/d0c5e92c2rldllx4g.jpg" border="0" alt="Simple, Free Image and File Hosting at MediaFire" /></a>

38-3
(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/32cc/wwii3iqoutvpw4b4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/wwii3iqoutvpw4b/SCIV383.png)

(http://www.mediafire.com/convkey/a299/kd57bigvdb35fup4g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/kd57bigvdb35fup/SCIV833.png)
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on November 04, 2014, 11:24:54 PM
Does anyone have the contra III manual scans?
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: FritzWhite on November 05, 2014, 12:07:39 AM
Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore.
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on November 06, 2014, 04:37:06 AM
I did end up finding another scan of the Contra III snes manual.
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Kirkland on November 06, 2014, 07:37:42 PM
When you *do* get ready to open that Pandora's box, I'm coming up on 20,000 pages of SNES manuals scanned at 600dpi (roughly 190GB of TIFFs).  To say it is painfully slow to make them perfect is an understatement, but the finished ones make it all worthwhile.  To appease the anti-pirate gods, I've slowly begun to resize them to 4K and 2K monitor resolutions for jpgs for frontend usage (of course saving the original and retouched 600dpi versions).  Foolishly these weren't scanned RAW, but only my Epson DS-510 made it possible to think about converting this many manuals (~650 of the SNES's 724).  I've got staples pulled on most of my Genesis manuals, and I know some people are going to enjoy me moving on to the rest of my manual archive....
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: monjici on November 06, 2014, 08:11:14 PM
I would be looking for the expensive ones. The ones you do not want to bleed money on it, but would really like to complete the set.

Example:
-Harvest Moon
-Mega man 7, X2, X3
-Soul Blazer
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Kirkland on November 06, 2014, 08:53:06 PM
For the US SNES manual set, I've got 42 left to get that appear to have never been scanned, 16 that have existing (inferior) scans I'd like to replace, and 7 that I have European ones as placeholders.  Luckily, I had a bunch of the semi-rare ones from 15 years ago.  Unfortunately the cost of the remaining ones has probably stalled me on this set for now.  Might have to sell some dupes before I crash their value ;)
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on November 06, 2014, 09:03:01 PM
I would be looking for the expensive ones. The ones you do not want to bleed money on it, but would really like to complete the set.

Example:
-Harvest Moon
-Mega man 7, X2, X3
-Soul Blazer

There is a manual scans of Mega Man X on the form but, I know that not one you are looking for.
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Arseen on November 07, 2014, 03:54:27 PM
For the US SNES manual set, I've got 42 left to get that appear to have never been scanned, 16 that have existing (inferior) scans I'd like to replace, and 7 that I have European ones as placeholders.  Luckily, I had a bunch of the semi-rare ones from 15 years ago.  Unfortunately the cost of the remaining ones has probably stalled me on this set for now.  Might have to sell some dupes before I crash their value ;)

Which ones.

I have quite a few manuals.
I have US, PAL (in many different languages) and JAP ones that I can scan.
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Kirkland on November 07, 2014, 05:22:18 PM
- 3 Ninjas Kick Back (USA)
x Aero Fighters (USA)
- Ardy Lightfoot (USA)
- Biker Mice from Mars (USA)
- Brainies, The (USA)
- Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus (USA) (En,Es)
- Casper (USA)
- Chavez II (USA)
E Duel, The - Test Drive II (USA)
- EarthBound (USA)
x Equinox (USA)
- Final Fight 3 (USA)
A Flintstones, The - The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (USA)
- Football Fury (USA)
- Fun 'n Games (USA)
x Genghis Khan II - Clan of the Gray Wolf (USA)
- Head-On Soccer (USA)
- Incantation (USA)
x Inindo - Way of the Ninja (USA)
- International Superstar Soccer (USA)
- International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA)
A King Arthur's World (USA)
x King of Dragons, The (USA)
x Kirby's Dream Land 3 (USA)
- Lamborghini - American Challenge (USA)
E Legend (USA)
x Lufia II - Rise of the Sinistrals (USA)
x Mask, The (USA)
x Megaman X2 (USA)
- Mighty Max (USA)
x Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Fighting Edition (USA)
- Miracle Piano Teaching System, The (USA)
- Nosferatu (USA)
x Operation Europe - Path to Victory 1939-45 (USA)
- Oscar (USA)
x Pac-in-Time (USA) [$45 CIB]
- Packy & Marlon (USA) (En,Fr,Es)
- Peace Keepers, The (USA)
- Pieces (USA)
- Pirates of Dark Water, The (USA)
- Pocky & Rocky 2 (USA)
- Prehistorik Man (USA)
x Prince of Persia 2 - The Shadow & The Flame (USA)
- Realm (USA)
- Ren & Stimpy Show, The - Fire Dogs (USA)
- Ren & Stimpy Show, The - Time Warp (USA)
x Rise of the Phoenix (USA)
x Romance of the Three Kingdoms III - Dragon of Destiny (USA)
- Run Saber (USA)
- SWAT Kats - The Radical Squadron (USA)
- Sink or Swim (USA)
- Sporting News Power Baseball, The (USA)
- Sterling Sharpe - End 2 End (USA)
- Super Bonk (USA)
- Super Goal! 2 (USA)
- Super Troll Islands (USA)
- Super Turrican 2 (USA)
- Syndicate (USA)
- Ultima - Runes of Virtue II (USA)
x Uncharted Waters - New Horizons (USA)
- WCW Super Brawl Wrestling (USA)
- Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars (USA)
E World Soccer 94 - Road to Glory (USA)
- Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (USA)

-=missing / x=have crappy scan / E=EUR version / A=AUS version
Now of course there are 63 unique to Europe, and it would be awesome to track those down as well (Populous 2? Cannon Fodder? Terranigma?) but I have limited resources- a.k.a. wife & kids. ;)  I also have a bunch of european manuals I could scan, but they are on the backburner until I make more headway on a US release since of course I am an arrogant American and the world revolves around us English speakers.  You know the drill :)
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on November 07, 2014, 06:12:45 PM
Arseen, which North American snes do you have available to scan? Do you have Zelda A link to the past?
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Arseen on November 07, 2014, 07:16:12 PM
Arseen, which North American snes do you have available to scan? Do you have Zelda A link to the past?

Way too many to list (200-300+).

Of course I have Link to the Past!
And yes I can scan it next day I have time (Tue maybe or Sat/Sun after that).
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on November 07, 2014, 07:37:29 PM
Arseen, Do you have any of the following North American manuals?

Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire II
Disney's Aladdin
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Illusion of Gaia
Mega Man 7
Mega Man x2
Mega Man x3
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
R-Type III
Street Fighter II
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Arseen on November 07, 2014, 08:06:08 PM
Arseen, Do you have any of the following North American manuals?

Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire II
Disney's Aladdin
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Illusion of Gaia
Mega Man 7
Mega Man x2
Mega Man x3
Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
R-Type III
Street Fighter II

My manuals are in box somewhere in storage so I can't check, but I believe I have all of those. Not 100% sure, but 99.9999%
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Mel on March 13, 2015, 09:27:33 AM
I am looking for any SNES manuals scans? Thanks
Title: Re: Super Nintendo manual scans
Post by: Kirkland on April 20, 2015, 01:47:39 PM
Any help would be appreciated on tracking down or sourcing the following US SNES manuals:

- 3 Ninjas Kick Back (USA)
- Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus (USA)
- Football Fury (USA)
- Head-On Soccer (USA)
- Miracle Piano Teaching System, The (USA)
- Nosferatu (USA)
- Peace Keepers, The (USA)
- Pirates of Dark Water, The (USA)
- Pocky & Rocky 2 (USA)
- Prehistorik Man (USA)
- Realm (USA)
- Run Saber (USA)
- SWAT Kats - The Radical Squadron (USA)
- Syndicate (USA)
- Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (USA)
(These 15 don't appear to have public scans available.)

x Aero Fighters (USA)
x Ardy Lightfoot (USA)
x Brainies, The (USA)
x Casper (USA)
x EarthBound (USA)
x Fun 'n Games (USA)
x Incantation (USA)
x International Superstar Soccer (USA)
x International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (USA)
x King of Dragons, The (USA)
x Kirby's Dream Land 3 (USA)
x Mask, The (USA)
x Megaman X2 (USA)
x Operation Europe - Path to Victory 1939-45 (USA)
x Oscar (USA)
x Romance of the Three Kingdoms III - Dragon of Destiny (USA)
x Super Turrican 2 (USA)
x Uncharted Waters - New Horizons (USA)
(These 18 have scans, but not at 600dpi) ;)

EUR Final Fight 3 (USA)
AUS Flintstones, The - The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (USA)
UKV Legend (USA)
UKV World Soccer 94 - Road to Glory (USA) [Striker / PAL]
(These 4 need a US scan- I have European placeholders.)