Today on "weird things that turn up on archive.org" https://archive.org/details/gundam-...om-the-ashes-scripts-materials-translation-ch Localisation documents for Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes. This is multiple documents stitched together, and there's probably a story somewhere explaining why they're here. I don't know the game - someone more qualified will need to make sense of it all.
I'm recreating the covers of the tec toy brazilian releases (for personal use) and while looking for some of the artwork I found this little bit of trivia about the art for the cover of rolo to the rescue. https://www.originalvideogameart.com/home/rolo-to-the-rescue-sega-genesis-box-art-r638/ "An overlay has a notation to remove the tail of one of the critters (it is written "Scitek tail out," a likely reference to the Scitex imaging workstations, which may have predated Photoshop). Curiously, while the tail was removed from the US release, it can still be seen on the Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian releases of the game; alternate art was used in European territories."
Added to the wiki. Thanks! Formatting might not look too pretty right now, the wiki's heckin slow for me today.
Anyone fancy a fight with Deluxe Paint https://archive.org/details/Lowe_GodfatherSegaMSFinishedL5Backgrounds Don't know if there's anything else of value to us in this archive: https://archive.org/details/@dave_lowe_disk_archive
I dont know japanese but going by google translation, one of the devs for the game hybrid front shared some interesting stuff about the game development in november. https://x.com/rew_w/status/1853482816358732023
Morning https://archive.org/details/Joypolis-Perfect-Guide-600DPI/Joypolis Perfect Guide/ (there'll be another upload later by Detchibe to correct a few scanning errors, so no mirror yet though)
I'd completely forgotten it existed until seeing this but yes, at Niigata Joypolis. Although I think it's one of those that Sega parachuted in and didn't develop themselves. See also: Alien War at the Trocadero, just before Segaworld came in
Im not sure it is wiki worth (not a SEGA Exclusive game) but again looking for some of the artwork in high quality I found the artist for the art in the power monger cover. https://www.instagram.com/peter_scanlan/p/CYKZP7tLcok/?locale=de&hl=am-et&img_index=1
Football Manager 25 has been cancelled... which means there's a job to absorb as much information about the project as possible before it's swept under the rug.
https://archive.org/details/Amusement-Journal-2007-02 https://archive.org/details/Amusement-Journal-2007-04 More to come still
I must've been using entirely wrong search terms (or the site was throwing a sick already) Some Tech Saturns have definitely been coming through for the first time of late https://archive.org/details/tech-saturn-1996-02 https://archive.org/details/tech-saturn-1997-01 https://archive.org/details/tech-saturn-1997-02 https://archive.org/details/tech-saturn-1997-03 Two of the early 1997 issues make a really big deal out of the cancelled VF3 port and interview Yu Suzuki on how it could be achieved (albeit with constant "screenshots from arcade version" asterisks).
I just do https://archive.org/search?query=sega&sort=-publicdate or https://archive.org/search?query=sega&sin=TXT&sort=-publicdate and scroll past all the guff. Or just go here.
That's what I do too - sometimes things already up on Retro are just filed under different terms or its search function disagrees with me. Dengeki Sega EX now too, for anyone who doesn't https://archive.org/details/dengeki-sega-ex-1997-02 https://archive.org/details/dengeki-sega-ex-1997-03
Glad to know I can be a reliable source of Sega stuff now ahah. I do have some more TECH Saturn and Famitsu Bros. to work through, then I'll be Sega-less for a while outside of Coin Journal and Amusement Journal coverage. If there's a particular mag folks want scans for, feel free to let me know and I can look into nabbing some issues. I've been trying to use the scans on Sega Retro as a guideline for pickups but it's always nice to have more direct input. Y'all might want to pop Game Pia on the wiki as well, it covers an array of weirder games topics including some of Sega's arcade releases (I saw Scramble Training in an issue). Vol. 2 even has the Wonder Mega as a cover feature. https://archive.org/details/GAME-Pia-2
Excellent job - genuinely, you're finding things we didn't even know existed Japanese arcade-y magazines from the 1980s and early 1990s (basically anything pre-internet) are maybe the most lucrative goldmines at the moment, because so little of this area is documented. We've got a list of old Sega Worlds, and most of them are dated "19xx" or "xxxx" because we have no idea when they opened, nevermind what they look like (and some are really kinda funky - I don't think we're going to beat CYBER DICK but who knows). I mean just today I spotted "SS-Phoenix" in one of your uploads. Unreleased Sega Saturn video phone? That wasn't documented until a few hours ago.
It's been agonisingly difficult to come across more 80s-90s Japanese coin-op industry mags but rest assured, I nab them whenever I can (wouldn't be possible without some very generous contributions from others). I've started looking into lifestyle/weekly news magazines in the hopes of more on-the-ground coverage of game centres, fingers crossed I'm not throwing my money away there. When I get some time I'll take a look through my remaining Coin Journals for things that might be of use so they can be prioritised (I usually just scan what I feel like). I know there are also some other 80s issues of Coin Journal in Gaming Alexandria's Hubz' possession but those are very far down in his stacks.
