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Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast Instruction Manual Scans (+32X & SMS)
TSOLfan:
Manual for Zaxxon Motherbase 2000 has been scanned and uploaded.
TSOLfan:
Tomorrow I'll be starting what I'm thinking will be my last manual scan project. As mentioned previously, I don't yet have a complete NTSC-U set of Sega Master System titles, but probably more than enough to get started scanning manuals and inserts (95 out of 114).
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For the games listed above, I have eBay Saved Searches to watch for deals. Damaged manuals and inserts I'm scanning in anyways and will eventually replace. Some games aren't too hard to find, but I usually hold out for an auction with a decent starting price (like 99 cents) instead of Buy It Now style auctions, or I'd rather wait for a "manual only" auction on my "missing manual" games rather than buy another entire copy of a game. I do/did have a few of the "missing games" already, though, loose carts or they have since gone missing (I had a package of a deal I got on Kung Fu Kid, Quartet and Rampage that the seller shipped to the wrong address originally that I'm starting to doubt will ever make its way to me).
If anyone has extras of anything I'm missing that you would be willing to part with, send me a private message and we'll see if we can make a deal. Also, since I know more than just TCP members have my site bookmarked, when a game comes up in the schedule that I'm missing, I'll put a link to a quick contact form for any interested party that wants to part with a copy.
Lastly, I would possibly be interested in doing a scan project of Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear manuals, though, my Genesis set was damaged in storage (only had about 50 games, primarily Sega published titles) and my Game Gear games are from my younger years, and I've no clue where they ended up (only had about 20 games, and haven't seen them or my Game Gear (or my Sega Nomad for that matter) since probably 1997). Anyways, long story short, if people think there might be interest in donating manuals to a Genesis and/or Game Gear project, let me know. Similar to this, but the link is currently down:
http://byuu.org/snes/preservation/
Though, Byuu never released any scans that I'm aware of. He also wanted games, though, I'm not necessarily interested in having a full set of Genesis games (I do have to share this house with the wife and kids :)), plus I would think people might be more willing to donate spare manuals than entire games, and I'd cover shipping costs (letter rate would be pretty cheap, or even media mail if someone has a stash). Or even, forego donations and have people just mail me their stack of manuals, and I'd cover shipping costs for return shipping once they've been scanned, and I'd have the list on the site of what's already on its way, and I'd post scans of games as soon as I finished them.
I think my site, ratigators.com speaks for itself in that I'm serious about scanning and not just hording stuff.
Would anyone be interested in anything like that or have any better ideas?
TSOLfan:
First set of scans are up (Action Fighter and Zillion II: The Tri Formation). Also, to note, the Sega Master System had a ton of variants, primarily due to the fact in America it was released and marketed by Tonka (not Sega), and eventually, Sega took things over (so, some things were reprinted, and some things got stickers to cover up Tonka text).
A fantastic resource for all of the variants is here:
http://shinobiman.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=8587&page=1
And an also fantastic write up on what caused all of these variants (as well as why the last 4 USA releases were actually just EUR versions with new UPC stickers) is here:
http://www.smstributes.co.uk/view_article.asp?articleid=26
xam925:
many years ago,an user called "bombman" started to preserve all sega related manuals,but in japanese form. Sadly,this user vanished from the net leaving uncomplete the project,so,if you want some japanese manual scan let me know k? thanks for all the work you've done
TSOLfan:
I switched up all of my links to use the new MediaFire gallery format. They previously defaulted to the old gallery format that they had since removed, which resulted in the links going straight to just a file list.
So, now they are back to a nice gallery view if someone wants to read a manual without ever downloading it.
Also, as noted on my site, if you could care less about viewing a manual online and just want to download it, just remove the "/view" from the URL. The old gallery format had a "File Manager" button to get back to the file listing, though, the new one does not.