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Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast Instruction Manual Scans (+32X & SMS)
segamer:
looks good.
TSOLfan:
I finished transferring all of my images over to the new server, and all of my UI work is done (I'm pretty happy with my JSON work). Though, before I flip the switch, I'm going through and auditing Sega Saturn scans. It was the system I started with, and I went in naively thinking that of course all manuals are the same dimensions, I mean, why wouldn't they be? :)
So, when applying my crop dimensions across the board, on some manuals, you lost 1/8" of artwork (3D Baseball), and some you gained 1/8" of black space (Andretti Racing). It was really noticeable to me when I had everything uploaded and was checking to make sure everything pulled in correctly.
Honestly, I'm surprised no one said anything, especially since 3D Baseball was one of the very first titles I did. Oh well.
Fortunately, I still have all of my full scanner bed sized scans that I used to then crop, so I don't need to re-scan anything, just check, and re-crop if needed.
Also fortunately, when I started doing Sega CD, the size differences were so varied in the tall manuals, it was easy to see when glancing at files while they were uploading, so with the other systems, I checked each manual for the correct crop dimensions, and updated my batch settings to use those, so Sega Saturn titles are the only ones affected.
It won't be until the weekend when I'll get a chance to check/crop/upload those, so hopefully my MediaFire account sticks around a little while longer.
larryinc64:
You may want to pass your manual measurements on to Seymor Onion, He is planing extra tall Sega CD/ Saturn DVD cases after his other game cases are made.
How tall is a Saturn/CD case? Wondering how tall they are compared to 3DS 3DO boxes.
Also, thanks for the Dragonforce scans. BTW, the cover is cut off a bit on the right.
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TSOLfan:
--- Quote from: larryinc64 on February 27, 2013, 10:49:39 PM ---You may want to pass your manual measurements on to Seymor Onion, He is planing extra tall Sega CD/ Saturn DVD cases after his other game cases are made.
How tall is a Saturn/CD case? Wondering how tall they are compared to 3DS boxes.
Also, thanks for the Dragonforce scans. BTW, the cover is cut off a bit on the right.
--- End quote ---
I already did (and wow, didn't realize that was over a year ago):
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=10153.msg68372#msg68372
As for the Dragon Force manual, yep, just checked it and this is one of many that got caught in my "one size to crop them all", and it's not just the cover, you'll notice the vertical text on the right is also cut off on most pages (about 40 pixels worth). My original raw scans prior to batch cropping have everything, so, when I relaunch ratigators.com, the corrected cropped scans will be uploaded (someone keeps reporting my MediaFire account, so I probably won't even bother taking the time to update those).
TSOLfan:
I went through all of the A's and B's, and it's not as bad as I feared.
It seems primarily confined to the Working Designs games (with the big thick manuals) and any late release Sega Saturn game (that had the cheaper quality manuals, not the thick almost card stock) like Burning Rangers or the 1998 sports games by Sega (World Series Baseball and Worldwide Soccer). The later release games are roughly 1/8" wider than by default crop. The Working Designs games, almost, but not quite 1/4" wider.
Games like Batman and the Battle Arena Toshinden, where the game rating in the lower right is really really close to the edge, this is actually how the manual is, so those weren't bad crops.
3D Baseball, the edge of the right "L" is cutoff on my original manual, though, my auto-crop took off about another 1/16" which made it a bit more noticeable.