Since wiki makes my nose bleed, I'm just gonna dump some stuff here. http://I.imgur.com/hTB7T.jpg Sonic 2 Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/hhhm6.jpg Sonic 3 Platinum Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/qYrOb.jpg Sonic & Knuckles Platinum Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/EgzWl.jpg Ecco the Dolphin Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/PYuVX.jpg Golden Axe II Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/5vEyn.jpg Turbo Outrun Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/Z4pSl.jpg Wrestle War Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/vN31t.jpg Wonder Boy in Monster World Gold Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/SeFq1.jpg Aladdin Platinum Edition (AU) http://I.imgur.com/rWNL4.jpg Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition Platinum (AU) http://I.imgur.com/Itqrm.jpg Aladdin & Ranger X Double Pack (AU) http://I.imgur.com/pkcjS.jpg Australian Rugby League (AU) http://I.imgur.com/fK6e7.jpg Shane Warne Cricket (AU) http://I.imgur.com/3bkJw.jpg Aladdin (JP) http://I.imgur.com/0yxK4.jpg Granada: Maneuver Cepter (JP) http://I.imgur.com/vqPtu.jpg Outrun 2019 (JP)
Lovely but is there a story behind that Aladdin cover? The current one has all sorts of information that's not present on yours. A pirate?
Yep. Just to be clear, each game came on their own separate cartridge, so no fancy multi-carts require dumping
Any chance of picking up something from the Sega Sport series some time? I've never seen the boxes at any decent size.
I'll keep an eye out, but it's getting really hard to come across old MD stuff now. I suspect people are just chucking them out rather than attempting to resell them. I had dreams of owning a complete set of gold and platinum editions at one stage, but I left my run too late and I think that ship has sailed.
This booklet is not on smspower.org, so I assume that it probably isn't anywhere - so possibly a Sega Retro exclusive? Also testing out my new scanner. I pretty much left the settings as default but upped the resolution to 600dpi. Am I doing it right? Let me know if I could do things better (settings, file formats etc.) Click to enlarge John Sands Sega Home Computers.pdf - 32.95MB
nice Sega Retro's current policy is that each page of a manual is scanned as a JPEG, named accordingly and shoved in a .CBR file (I.e. RARs with a name change so comic book readers will open them). PDFs aren't ideal for older manuals. Also I suspect a large chunk of that filesize is due to white background below the manual which hasn't been cropped out. Sega Retro's upload feature will start to whine if an upload exceeds 5MB (a limit that I think should be pushed back to about 10MB btw) - this is almost 33MB. Also 600dpi is a tad excessive for online use. It makes a relatively small manual 5000 pixels in width, and the only benefits are the flaws formed in the printing process. It might be different for newer scans created with fancier systems, but I have no idea how that area of the industry works. Usually 300dpi is a better target unless the thing's covered in stupidly small text. I don't want to say PDFs are bad because a) CBRs are awkward to deal with if comic book readers aren't your thing and b) newer manuals with their vector graphics were designed with PDFs in mind, and will hence suffer if converted to JPEG+CBR. But cropping and resizing is definitely a good idea.
Also for stuff like the pen on that, a little light photoshopping to get marks off where it's fairly trivial to do so wouldn't be a bad idea, either (I have done this in the past).
This should make SS happy. This sticker has been stuck to most of the sega sport range, and the ones where it hasn't it looks like it had been removed.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/rig_veda/archive/2008/03/07 http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/rig_veda/archive/2008/05/06 Something tells me the majority of Australian releases were just the European versions imported (with the ratings stickers... or maybe reprinted covers), or in later cases, the European artwork but with packages made in Australia. Is this really the case?
Sega's presence in Australia pre-dates Sega in Europe. I'm pretty sure John Sands Sega (who handled the SG-1000 and SC-3000 in Australia) broke away from their parent company and became Sega Ozisoft with the Master System and Mega Drive, but I've got nothing to confirm that. We had the manufacturing side of things set up long before SoE, so we looked after ourselves for a while. It wouldn't make sense to import just the artwork when it would be much cheaper just to print our own. The ratings stickers were stuck on some games due to the introduction of ratings occurring after games had been manufactured, with later games having the ratings printed directly on the insert. We manufactured our own cases, carts, inserts and manuals, but I'm not sure about the pcbs and roms. I'll have to crack one open and see if there is any indication on the inside. The only games that were imported were probably the fancy ones like the codemasters Jcarts and I'm pretty sure Sonic & Knuckles wasn't manufactured here, but I don't have my copy handy to check. Also, games with limited appeal (like American sports games) were imported due to being more cost effective than a small print run. They are uniquely Australian, but tend to be of a cheaper and poorer quality plastic, and our manuals were crappy 2-toned leaflets. When the Saturn came along, management of Sega Ozisoft changed (hostile take over ?), things were poorly handled and we stopped manufacturing our own games. With the Dreamcast, the original management got back in and they had a good crack at it, but we had lost that manufacturing infrastructure and continued to import games.
Yeah that's right, I'd forgotten that. I wish I had some documented historical evidence. I'm pretty sure I read that the guy Infogrames put in charge was the guy that was in charge of sega ozisoft before the saturn era, but I don't really know for certain. I vaguely remember Sega themselves might have had the controlling share during the saturn era, most likely SoE, can't remember.
