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| travistouchdown:
I've noticed lateley it's pretty easy to get carts, or good repro carts. Boxes or repro boxes a little harder, and thankfully the TCP exists for those of us that prefer nice hardshell cases (how could you not! :) Manuals however are still out in the desert....Some people are making repro's with very limited availability. Originals can be found here and there but i've often spent years waiting to find manuals i'm missing. There are a lot of scans of manuals online but they are often not to scale or of printable quality, they are really only meant as digital copies (for now.) How cool would a sister site be, or part of TCP, called "The Manual Project." With print ready files of manuals, where you could print, cut, and staple them yourself or at the print shop. Wouldn't this be a great resource? I feel that anyone who can appreciate a good cover can appreciate a good manual, and maybe it would be just as valuable a resource. Thoughts? |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: travistouchdown on August 31, 2018, 07:41:53 AM ---Wouldn't this be a great resource? --- End quote --- ... for some sleezy person to sell the manuals that others have spend time making/scanning, cleaning and editing. This happens to everything we publish here. We do have some manuals here well hidden, like: Printable NES Final Fantasy 3 English manual, or printable NES Mr. Gimmick color manual in English, or almost print ready emptied (as in all text removed so one can add their own text) SNES Super Bomberman 3. Also 600dpi high quality scans for many others exsist. |
| TDIRunner:
I think the biggest issue with manuals is the time requirement. Assuming we are talking about making manuals at the same quality levels as our covers, then you take the time spent on making a cover and multiply it over many pages. A lot more time gets put into making something for one only one game, while the time could be spent making many more covers. I'm certainly not saying it shouldn't be done, but I understand why fewer people are willing to do it. The other issue is getting scans. I have no problem scanning my games, but unfortunately, the only good way to get high quality scans of manuals is to take them apart and scan each piece of paper separately. That's something that I'm not really comfortable doing. Yeah, it's possible to scan manuals while leaving them intact, but it will be near impossible to get completely flat scans. |
| Tech13:
I would like to see Sega saturn and Sega CD manuals converted to fit into a DVD case. |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: Tech13 on August 31, 2018, 10:13:34 AM ---I would like to see Sega saturn and Sega CD manuals converted to fit into a DVD case. --- End quote --- All one would need for that are editing program, high quality scans, lots of time and some skill... hint, hint, nudge... ;) |
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