DVD Sized Manuals for Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and PS1

[BadChad]

Yeah, I have most of the SCD in pdf too. MOst of them are available over at emuparadise. I mostly need saturn manual scans. Guess I could make a list sometime.

[TSOLfan]

It seems the consensus is to prioritize Sega Saturn over Sega CD since it seems there's already a decent source for those.  I figure I'll pull a title from each end of the alphabet as I do these, which means, the massive bulk of sports games will be last (Madden, NBA, NFL, NHL, etc).  I don't think there will be too many complaints there.

I should be able to get started next week.  I'm coming off of a couple of weeks of 18 hour shifts to meet a project deadline at work, so I should have more time here in the mornings to do scans.  Though, I have post-crunch vacation scheduled for August, so I'll be off the grid for a while then too.

As for hosting, I'm estimating that if I actually get through them all, it will be about 5GB of images.  A 20 page manual came in right around 10MB (which means Sim City 2000 will run about 50MB

Anyone feel up for accepting/trading some DropBox email invites for manual scans?   Either that, or willing to give me a FTP to upload these to?

[TSOLfan]

I noticed other users have posted links to MediaFire and it advertises unlimited space, so I thought I'd give it a go.  I started a thread over here with my first two Sega Saturn scans:

Sega Saturn Instruction Scans

The first two up were 3D Baseball and X-Men Children of the Atom.

Concerning MediaFire, is it common to see "server offline" messages on particular images?  I'm seeing a few in my X-Men Children of Atom folder.  I tried re-uploading the file and it was still there, so I tried deleting the file and then re-uploading, and it's still there.

Today's my first day as a MediaFire member/user, so I'm not sure if things like that are common place.  I guess there's not much room for complaining, since it's a free service and all...

[TSOLfan]

Added the second round of uploads here this morning.  As far as the following games go:

Sega Rally Championship plus International Rally: Netlink Edition
Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers: Netlink Edition

They just came in a standard jewel case with a 1-sheet of artwork in place of a manual (solid white on the back).  They were packaged together in a larger box when I purchased them back in the day at Toys R' Us with black and white "Netlink Manual Supplements".  Currently, I have no idea where those are, probably in a random box in our cellar, so I can't guarantee I'll be able to scan those.

Also, the original Virtua Fighter, at least the USA release, had no actual manual (it was the pack in game in a jewel case).  Instead of a manual, it was a fold out poster with a move list.  I'll see what I can do about scanning the poster, but I can't make any guarantees on that one either.

[sheep2001]

i've just scanned the english bits of my EU VFighter manual if you want to include it?

It was pretty difficult as the manual is about a CM thick as it's in 6 languages.  I have done some base level cleaning but some text etc would really need straightening out before printing because of the thickness of the spine.

It's running at about 40meg rar file if you'd like me to send it.

[TSOLfan]

i've just scanned the english bits of my EU VFighter manual if you want to include it?

It was pretty difficult as the manual is about a CM thick as it's in 6 languages.  I have done some base level cleaning but some text etc would really need straightening out before printing because of the thickness of the spine.

It's running at about 40meg rar file if you'd like me to send it.

I probably wouldn't include it in my scans, just to keep it a solid NTSC-U thread, but I would be curious to see it (I do have a NTSC-J version of the game, but as you would expect, the manual is in Japanese).

[TSOLfan]

I went ahead and did this one this morning as a test for the next batch once I've finished with Sega Saturn:

Sega Dreamcast
4 x 4 Evolution

[TSOLfan]

For those that are still watching this thread, I've gone ahead and started scanning Sega Dreamcast games in as well on a schedule, and also did a few choice Sega CD games for Halloween (I'll be doing all of the Sega CD as well once I've made decent progress on Sega Dreamcast).

[KaiserWAVE]

I'm sure there are quite a few people watching this thread so please don't think all you do is in vain. Personally I have no interest in DVD sized manuals but still I read this thread and appreciate your efforts So I think there are a lot of people who read this thread but just don't comment or don't know what to say.

[TSOLfan]

For those not checking my other thread, 3248 scans and 4GB+ later (8GB+ if you count the zip files), my Sega Saturn Instruction Manual Scan project is complete.  I'm still scanning Sega Dreamcast, and Sega CD I'll start scanning in next year.