I'm not sure which ones exactly you mean, but I'm halfway through downloading LOGiN and Family Computer Magazine, if that helps. This one too, because it's the only one missing (as far as I can tell).
Going by memory I think pretty much all Famitsus from issue 5 or 6 have a Sega console section. Might as well include all as the first few issues probably still contain some Sega (or NEC) info, and it would seem a bit petty to exclude a couple of issues out of thousands solely on the basis that they don't have Sega relevant content. Edit: I did start documenting this before, the Sega column started with issue 5 and here's the main game coverage through 1987, but there was usually some extra content, along with some Sega coverage in other parts of the magazine such as SoA CES stuff in the news, Mark III sales charts, and release schedules; Famitsu Published 005 86.08.01 Fantasy Zone 006 86.08.22 Fantasy Zone 007 86.09.05 Action Fighter 008 86.09.19 The Circuit 009 86.10.03 Gulkave 010 86.10.17 Miracle World 011 86.10.31 The Castle 012 86.11.14 Ashura 013 86.11.28 Hang-On/Safari 014 86.12.12 Space Harrier 015 86.12.26 The Ninja 016 87.01.09 High School! Kimengumi 017 87.02.06 Double Target 018 87.02.20 Great Golf 019 87.03.06 Woody Pop 020 87.03.20 Retrospective 021 87.04.03 Sukeban Deka II 022 87.04.17 Great Volleyball 023 87.05.01 Enduro Racer 024 87.05.15 Rocky 025 87.05.29 Makai Retsuden 026 87.06.12 Akai Koudan Zillion 027 87.06.26 OutRun 028 87.07.10 The Pro Yakyuu 029 87.07.24 Anmitsu Hime 030 / 31 87.08.07 Fantasy Zone II 32 87.09.04 Great Basketball 33 87.09.18 Alex Kidd BMX Trial 34 87.10.02 Penguin Land 35 87.10.16 Nazca '88 36 87.10.30 Master System 37 87.11.13 SDI 38 87.11.27 Afterburner 39 87.12.11 Phantasy Star
It probably be judged on a case by case basis, but I think we can afford to house every early issue of Famitsu. There's also situations like these: https://segaretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(Mega_Drive)/Magazine_articles The idea would be that every magazine article is given a description. And I could easily see situations where we go "Famitsu gives the Mega Drive version 10/20; it previously gave the Famicom version 15/20[1][2]", and we'd want to point to earlier issues. Currently there aren't many of these tables linked up with descriptions - mostly just Sonic ones because of legacy stuff on Sonic Retro. The bigger question for me is whether it's worth making a divide between "Famicom Tsuushin" and "Weekly Famitsu" (or Shuukan Famitsu?). Strictly speaking in 1986 it was neither distributed weekly nor (officially) called "Famitsu".
I think I might have arbitrarily chose "Weekly Famitsu" when creating some page covering the magazine in the past (although the current page seems to be more recent, maybe continuing from where I left off). I think I solely chose that as the most recognisable name at the time, whilst knowing that it had been through several name changes. Personally I don't think there's any need to separate magazines which change name but continue the numbering scheme. As a subscriber to S I always found it strange that Sega Power was considered a different magazine on the wiki despite it just being a refresh with a change of name whilst retaining the numbering system, staff, and continuity from S (letters etc), and most importantly as a 12 month subscriber to "S" your subscription went straight from issue 12 of S to issue 13 of "Sega Power". So yeah, as a subscriber at the time I never considered them different magazines, and I don't expect Famitsu readers would have either.
Quality isn't great, but just chanced upon this video game-based edition (unknown date) of TV Champion with footage filmed at Yokohama Joypolis If I'm not mistaken, the graphics seen behind the participants frequently throughout are the debut work of Mie Kumagai (as described here).
Dunno where to put this so might try here : I recently bought the April 1994 issue of Super Game Magazine Haōh (スーパーゲームマガジン覇王) as it had exclusive beta screenshots of Streets of Rage 3 and it had a lenghty SEGA special coverage, featuring a Sonic 3 review and developers interviews. Not sure if its of any interest but I uploaded them there: https://mega.nz/folder/gVFVkbJK#bJ9rAXqARDkMmdshgkRnbw
Category:Dreamcast US manual scans Uploaded the remaining US Dreamcast manuals from archive.org - there's a few missing because I was too lazy to add missing page placeholders.
Spot the problem: Keisuke Tsukahara (composer) So the idea is to have game credits on game pages, which thanks to wiki magic, will automatically update people pages. When this article was originally written, we couldn't do that, nor could we handle PDFs at the time (I suspect), which it means one of the references is this link: https://media.vgm.io/albums/86/4768/4768-1191149488.jpg A JPEG from VGMdb, or specifically the riot that is "4768-1191149488.jpg". It's definitely a number. It's why we like having images hosted locally with descriptive names. I had to do a bit of digging to find out what this was, and it turns out it's a scan from Galaxy Force II & Thunder Blade Original Sound Track. Except look, the VGMdb page doesn't list the image. I don't know if this is a new policy of theirs - the wiki page is also pointing to another VGMdb URL that wants you to log in, which suggests to me they might be hiding things from us unregistered plebs. (the trick to seeing the full size image is just to remove the "medium-" prefix, e.g. https://medium-media.vgm.io/albums/86/4768/4768-763ec43fd4ce.jpg becomes https://media.vgm.io/albums/86/4768/4768-763ec43fd4ce.jpg ) I don't know if this is VGMdb genuinely erecting walls or we just had some dodgy links, but we might want to make sure we're mirroring all relevant images, especially multi-page booklets (which I know for a fact I avoided back in the day because we didn't have the means to store them). I've had our ref templates pick up external JPEGs for years. I know the assumption is that when something is uploaded onto the internet, it'll be around forever, but I can't stress enough - that's not the case. The internet wayback machine might not pick it up. The internet wayback machine might not be around forever.
The entirety of the Japanese Seaman site is gone and I'm devastated... please everyone, try to do your part!
Seeing a lot of "Premium" in those links, which has become a tiny problem with some of the JP books I've been looking at this past month. Though the ones I have downloaded (and haven't uploaded) have some extra fluff that I don't know what do with (posters, etc which I don't know if are extra or part of said book).
At the tail end of 2015 I scrubbed Sega Sammy's corporate website for investor relations documents: Category:Investor relations documents https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/ Time has passed. While all of this is in the scope of Sega Retro, most of the documents are finance related, so will likely sit on the wiki not being used. However there are important documents here - corporate restucturing and the occasional important announcement. There are probably Japanese editions of everything too. It needs dealing with. I'm not sure if I dealt with it properly seven years ago. Make decisions etc.
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi did a YouTube interview a while ago, looking back on his career and performing some 'greatest hits'. It's obviously all spoken in Japanese, but there are fully translated English subtitles, which can of course be downloaded. How would Retro handle this (and most audio/video only interview transcriptions in general?).
Downloaded Youtube subs are a separate file from the video. If storing both as separate files on CDN is a problem (not sure why it would be), the subs could always be muxed with the video as an mkv.
That's fine as long as the raw video link will show them (and the wikis if the video display ever gets fixed).
Oh look, the Mark III Tsūshin section from Famitsu originally started in LOGiN 1986-02. I guess that's why it's missing from the first four issues of Famitsu, it was probably still running in LOGiN.
Game Boy Advance scans of value https://archive.org/details/%40tabor62gb In case I don't upload them myself at some point.
