Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast Instruction Manual Scans (+32X & SMS)

[TSOLfan]

Today's update:

Arcade's Greatest Hits: Williams
World Series Baseball II

As for Williams, it was nice to have a short manual for a change, as opposed to 30-40+ page sports games' manuals.

[starcontrol]

Hi!  We should be working together.  I started a Saturn manual project over at UG a couple of years ago.  I did a whole lot of scanning while finishing up the Darkwater Saturn torrent.  I now have 600 dpi raw png or 300dpi cleaned scans for all *EXCEPT* the following U.S. titles:
Astal
Baku Baku
Batman Forever: The Arcade Game
BattleSport
Blast Chamber
Blazing Heroes
Clockwork Knight 2
Contra: Legacy of War
Corpse Killer
Crypt Killer
Daytona USA CCE   Netlink
Deep Fear
Die Hard Arcade
Doom
Dragon Force
Earthworm Jim 2
Galaxy Fight
Golden Axe: The Duel
Herc's Adventures
High Velocity:  Mountain Racing Challenge
House of the Dead, The
Iron Storm
Lunacy Adventure
Marvel Super Heroes
MegaMan 8: Anniversary Collector's Edition
Megaman X4
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Olympic Soccer
P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations II
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Primal Rage
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire
Sega Ages Vol.1
Shining Wisdom
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha – Warriors' Dreams
Street Fighter Collection
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Virtua Racing (Time Warner Interactive's VR)
Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
Winning Post
Worldwide Soccer '98
WWF In Your House

I've been working on cleaning up manual covers and backs, with the thought of putting together a Saturn extras torrent in the not too distant future.  The Saturn directories you would be interested in are about 40GB now.  Cleaning the manuals is not my priority at the moment, but I would be glad to share the work with you if you want to make it a project.  Do you know of a suitable server where we could exchange data?

I've also got a similar thing going for Sega CD USA that is about 60% complete.  Sega Game Gear is about 25% complete.

[TSOLfan]

Hi!  We should be working together.  I started a Saturn manual project over at UG a couple of years ago.  I did a whole lot of scanning while finishing up the Darkwater Saturn torrent.  I now have 600 dpi raw png or 300dpi cleaned scans for all *EXCEPT* the following U.S. titles:

That's fantastic news on two fronts.  I've been scanning because I couldn't find anyone else that had.  Secondly, I have all of your requested titles except for Daytona Netlink, which I don't see myself ever owning (I'm not paying $500+ for a mode I'll never use).

As for a server to transfer the data, initially I would think MediaFire, since it's unlimited, though, you'd have to upload everything (which I know would be a pain).  I'd be more than happy to mail you a spindle of DVD+R DL (which it would take about 5 of) with return postage paid, but the biggest problem for me (which sounds like yours as well) would be time.  I just don't see myself having the time to clean anything up, but I do manage to find some time each day to make a few scans.

So, I say we see where this thread goes as far as any other volunteers for "scan cleanup".  I can continue working through my list as time permits, as it actually might not be a bad idea to have some extra copies if there's any damage on either side (your manuals or mine).

Also, you mention Sega CD as well.  If you need manual fills, I can also provide for that.  Same goes for Dreamcast, as I have a complete collection for that too.

[TSOLfan]

Also, I'm heading out on vacation here for a week, so it will be all quiet from me for a while.  Though, to have fun with things, I did manage to get a bunch of extras scanned in (instead of just 2 today), enough for each day I'll be gone.

I posted a script at my personal site to release 1 from each end of the alphabet each day automatically (which will also be nice so I don't have the SPAM the forum with each update).

http://www.ratigators.com/

I tested it by modifying some dates to see if things showed up, so it "should" work just fine until I get back

As I mentioned, see you guys in a week, and enjoy the auto-released scans

Best Regards,

TSOLfan

[TSOLfan]

I'm back on the grid.  I did notice that in my Baku Baku scans, I had the corner of one page folded, so I re-scanned and re-uploaded that page and zip.

Again, rather than post here every day when I link the next two uploaded scans, my script at ratigators.com is running on cruise control, so you can just check there each day to download that day's release.

Though, I will post here any notes about the manuals or scans that I come across, and also, feel free to let me now if I missed a page or something like that (as I'm burning through these pretty quick, and sometimes MediaFire fails on a file upload and I may not have noticed).

Speaking of notes, my True Pinball manual has some damage on the back cover at the very bottom where the copyright text is (very minor), and my Steep Slope Sliders manual looks to have gotten wet in the upper right hand corner causing some slight damage to the inner artwork.  I put both of those in my eBay Saved Search queue, so when I come across a good price for a replacement, I'll pick them up, and assuming that happens post-scheduled release, I'll come back around and re-scan and re-upload.

I also have a few games still sealed (when purchasing lots, I opted to keep the sealed copies if I came across any because more than likely, I had already played the game).  Nothing incredibly rare, so I'll also be picking up spares of those to scan in (and flipping my sealed copies to cover the cost).

[TSOLfan]

Today's scan from the lower half of the alphabet is the original Virtua Fighter, which never had a long box release in the US, which means, no full size manual like all of the rest.  It was actually in a jewel case with a fold out poster instead of a manual.  I did my best to scan this, and ended up with about 10 scans (5 per side) that I merged into just 2 files (front and back).  There are still fold lines, but granted, this thing has stayed folded for most of the past 16 years.

If someone "really" wanted to print up a US long box for it, I'd suggest going with my Virtua Fighter Remix scans from a few days ago (which is from the long box release) and swapping out the cover art and perhaps the art (and screenshots) on the inside, perhaps with art pulled from the European (which was full size) or Japanese (which was jewel case) release.  I have the Japanese release I could scan, though, not the European release.

[sheep2001]

i have the pal vfighter instructions scanned if anyone wants them - too big for my box.net though.

[TSOLfan]

i have the pal vfighter instructions scanned if anyone wants them - too big for my box.net though.

I assume they would fit on a MediaFire account?

Also, with Sega announcing the release date for Guardian Heroes on Xbox Live yesterday (October 12th, and up to 12 players, twice as many as the Saturn release allowed), I uploaded and linked the Guardian Heroes manual ahead of schedule so people can prepare.

[sheep2001]

i heard radiant silvergun is released the day after that too.

Might have to unpack my 360, but it's on an old dash and I was hoping to JTag it.    Hmmm - still might be cheaper to buy a new 360, and get Radiant Silvergun, that it is to buy the game for Saturn.

[tiktektak]

i heard radiant silvergun is released the day after that too.

Might have to unpack my 360, but it's on an old dash and I was hoping to JTag it.    Hmmm - still might be cheaper to buy a new 360, and get Radiant Silvergun, that it is to buy the game for Saturn.

Cheaper yes. The same feeling no.

[sheep2001]

i agree completely - but Radiant Silvergun in HD on my 52 inch Sony............it migh be too much temptation to resist! )

[tiktektak]

i agree completely - but Radiant Silvergun in HD on my 52 inch Sony............it migh be too much temptation to resist! )

Yeah that actually sounds not too bad. Just depends how they did the upscaling. Who was responsible for the conversion? If Treasure themselves then nothing can go wrong.

[TSOLfan]

Yesterday's scan of Street Fighter Alpha 2 was one of only three Sega Saturn manuals released in full color (excluding the Working Designs games, which always had full color manuals).  Tomorrow will see another one of the three.

Any guesses on the third (again, excluding the Working Designs games)?

Also, I've finished going through and auditing all of my manuals, and here are the ones with "issues":

Heir of Zendor
Iron Man/X-O Man-O-War: Heavy Metal
NFL Quarterback Club '96
Olympic Soccer
Pandemonium
Shining Force III
Steep Slope Sliders

Heir of Zendor, NFL Quarterback Club '96 and Olympic Soccer are still sealed, so those will be skipped until I source a reasonably priced replacement as I've already done with the other games that I had that were still sealed (for those that are curious, they were Last Gladiators: Digital Pinball, NHL All-Star Hockey and VR Soccer, nothing crazy rare or anything).

Iron Man/X-O Man-O-War: Heavy Metal and Pandemonium both have level codes written in the back in ink, and the individual that owned Pandemonium prior to me at least made the codes into a lovely border on the back of the manual (one of the few manuals without a "Notes" page, and apparently it needed it   These are being scanned "as is", and I'll replace the scans when I again source reasonably priced replacements.

Shining Force III and Steep Slope Sliders both have water damage.  Steep Slope Sliders, you can only tell in the upper corner of a few pages where artwork has been damaged separating the pages.  It's been scanned "as is" and will eventually also be replaced.  Shining Force III is as good as garbage, almost as if the entire thing is glued together.  I bought a replacement off of eBay a few years ago, though, of course, the seller didn't ship it with the manual, said they would try to find it, and of course never sent it.  Since I had long since beat the game, it was off my radar.  Though, for now, it as well will be skipped until I source a reasonably priced replacement (hopeful I can come across an auction with just the manual, as I don't need another game/case/back insert).

One last note, Lunacy (an Atlus RPG) and Madden '97 both included large foldouts (Lunacy had a map, Madden '97 had an entire poster playbook).  I hadn't originally planned on scanning these, but I'll add them to the pile if there's interest.

[TSOLfan]

Up to day 50, which means 100 game manuals scanned and linked, plus the 4 I did out of order, Guardian Heroes and the Panzer Dragoons.  Speaking of the Panzer Dragoons, I went through and re-scanned Panzer Dragoon Saga to stretch the manual as much as I could without ripping the pages, and I'm much happier with the scans.  These have been re-linked.

I also noticed that Crime Wave was incorrectly pulling up the scans for Creature Shock (I guess no one bothered to even click on that one to notice), and that's been fixed.

If there are any other questions/comments, let me know in this thread.  Other than that, continued radio silence on my end and the daily linking, unless there's something else I feel like noting, and if so, I'll again leave comments over here.

[TSOLfan]

I just want to go ahead and prepare people for any possible disappointment.  Sunday is when I "should" be linking Shining Force III, though, I still haven't sourced a replacement copy.  Once I do, I'll get it scanned in and linked. 

You can still enjoy the full color manual for Shining Wisdom today, and the one for Dragon Force tomorrow.