Accidentally found Korean magazine scans

More things for Retro CDN:

https://www.gamemeca.com/magazine/?mgz=gamechamp

Here's over 100 scans of "Game Champ" (????), a South Korean video game magazine from back in the day. We could do with this content being mirrored... though it's hidden behind an in-browser javascript reader, which means it's difficult to access by normal means.

I've got this far:
https://www.gamemeca.com/magazine/file.php?m=b&title=gamechamp&ym=1992_12_1&p=1
(change the number at the end for different pages)


can anyone see a clean way to download entire magazines? Google translate isn't playing ball with this one, and I don't want to be writing scripts to download this stuff en masse if I can help it.


There's also another pressing issue, and you might have noticed it already - I don't understand this magazine at all. This is entirely undocumented in the Western world - there are issues called "Game Power" sprinkled in here - different magazine? Supplements? Name change? Some of these magazines also aren't dated - it's dififcult to document things if we don't know what they are.


Now I know these requests rarely get off the ground, but here's some encouragement as to why we need to care:



Undumped Sonic 2 prototypes you say? But of course!

 

https://retrocdn.net/File:GameChamp_KR_1992-12_Supplement.pdf

Ding!

Python 3.x fans will need to replace the "raw_input()" call with "input()" (and maybe other things) - I was impressed to find that a Python 2.x interpreter was already on this box, so that script worked a treat.


This does take a while though (even if you were to knock down the sleep time), so I'd very much like to spread the load as much as possible.

 

Few issues in and I'm finding that the page numbers are sometimes a bit screwy. I'm uploading as-is because it's difficult to make the call where pages should be (and the chances of finding replacement scans are slim right now), but it's something to bear in mind.

Also while I don't know if these are just translated Japanese magazines, there is a lot of potentially useful information in there. I've found all sorts and I'm not past March 1993.

eek

follow my lead:

download this
https://retrocdn.net/File:JPEGtoPDF.7z

make PDFs

upload to
https://retrocdn.net/Category:Game_Champ_scans

 

Mediawiki will stop people from uploading the same file more than once - if you've followed exactly the same steps I did, you're probably clashing with the magazines I've already uploaded.


p.s., probably want to keep the same naming scheme (e.g. "GameChamp KR 1993-03.pdf" - things will get lost if there's just numbers in the file name (remember: there are 6000+ files on Retro CDN).

 

Descriptive and consistent file names is a strange definition of "flaw".

If this set is missing a magazine, it'll be tough to notice if every file is called random things.

 

For the record I am still interested in this, I just currently lack the time and patience to single-handledly upload 4380392480324GB of files.

(which is why I made the topic - to encourage people to do the work and take the credit, and start feeling comfortable with the software)


I haven't found anything super interesting about other Sonic prototypes, but there's a lot of other content, including data about how the games industry worked in Korea (which is extremely useful for people like me who are still fighting 25-year-old console wars).



And that's cutting-edge information as far as video games goes. The English language (and hell, even Korean language) history of Korean gaming can be currently summed up as "it happened"... which is pretty poor for a first world country with 50 million+ residents.