Turbografx-16/Turbo Duo Collecting Reference

[Necromancer]

Have manual scans for the US games been scanned already somewhere?

Replacement Docs has quite a few, but by no means all of 'em.

Would anyone find this useful?

I personally wouldn't, at least not for the entire library, as I'd rather pay a few bucks and get the real deal.  Surely there's a lot of other peeps, though, that just want something to fill the case and would greatly appreciate quality scans. 

[esteban]

A while back in chat Zeon mentioned to me that manual scans would be nice.  Have manual scans for the US games been scanned already somewhere?  Would anyone find this useful?  It would be a fair amount of work (and I would have to buy a scanner) so if I would be wasting my time please let me know. 

Would anyone like to see it done?

A few years ago some dude (I want to say "Validus" but I don't think that's correct. OK, his name was "avatarloki" and you could download the manuals at avatarloki.com) over at magicengine.com forums scanned nearly all the U.S. manuals.

I thought it was a great idea, especially because I had scanned ~40 manuals on my own before getting tired. I had intended on hosting all the manuals at my site, but then I moved on to other projects...

...we could simply find the avatarloki's stuff and make it available again (the were OK quality scans).

I think it would be great to have all the manuals available.


TANGENT: We could also be crazy (I'm a perfectionist, at times). If you (we) did this, I would love to do it right:

A. Start from scratch. Create PDF's with high quality scans (Phase 1).

B. After getting that done, and making them available, I would like to embark on Phase 2: I have software that uses OCR to convert images to text, embeds the text, and then spits out a PDF. The original look and feel of the manual is untouched... AND...

Embedded text makes the PDF's searchable. I always thought this would be a wonderful resource (searchable scans), and I want to do this with my magazine scans as well. Of course, the OCR is not perfect and I have to manually fix any garbled nonsense generates.

Anyway, if you were willing to scan, I would be happy to help out with other stuff (hosting the files, working on OCR, designing a nice-looking page layout, etc. etc.)

[RoyVegas]

Oh sure esteban, take an already large possible project and turn it into an epic one.    Let's see if some more people are interested in the manual scans and we can go from there.  If there are people that want it done then I'll take you up on that offer.  I'd much rather it be up on your site where it can actually look nice.  My web skills are obviously nil lol.

[Sparky]

well, to add into the f*ckery i have all the tg16 box scans for the fronts and backs.... i download these awhile ago i beleive from working designs site before it closed down
Anyway i was using them to make some custom inserts for myself before i went sticker crazy there are no water marks on them and there ok scans at 5x6 100dpi.
I have these individually or stuffed/zipped (35mb) if anyone has a domain to hold these for downloading.

just throwing that out there....

 

[RoyVegas]

I wouldn't mind getting a copy of them Sparky (If you don't mind).  I have no clue how I can put them on my site but I'll give it a try.  I'll send you a PM.

[mrhaboobi]

i believe i still might also have that zip of images, but would have to find them.. Roy i lke the site, keen to help as much as i can and go through my gear as well..

now wouldnt it all kill us if there were magical chase variations

[mrhaboobi]

Also a question, did you get around to seperating the French/candaian  and US boxes and manauls out?  I know i have a jackie chan that also has french instructions..   plus a few others..

[RoyVegas]

i believe i still might also have that zip of images, but would have to find them.. Roy i lke the site, keen to help as much as i can and go through my gear as well..

Helps never turned down and always appreciated.

Also a question, did you get around to seperating the French/candaian  and US boxes and manauls out? 

I sure did take out all the pics with French/Canadian boxes and manuals.  I really hadn't paid that close attention to that when I took the pics the first time.  All of the pics up now are the US versions. 

[mrhaboobi]

id be keen to know what you found out about the french / Candadian stuff.. i think its useful to have perhaps in an additional section?

[RoyVegas]

id be keen to know what you found out about the french / Candadian stuff.. i think its useful to have perhaps in an additional section?

I can't say that I really found anything out about the French/Canadian stuff yet.  I've mainly been focused on the U.S. stuff.  I don't really have enough of it to really add an additional section right now.

[esteban]

Oh sure esteban, take an already large possible project and turn it into an epic one.    Let's see if some more people are interested in the manual scans and we can go from there.  If there are people that want it done then I'll take you up on that offer.  I'd much rather it be up on your site where it can actually look nice.  My web skills are obviously nil lol.

Hahahahahhahhahaha!

I know.

Well, folks, anyone out there with lots of stuff, if you are willing to help...

I have nearly all the manuals, but I am missing some that cost $$$, so we'll see...

[RoyVegas]

Well, folks, anyone out there with lots of stuff, if you are willing to help...

I didn't mean I wasn't willing to help.  I just meant I will help with the scans, I just prefer it on your site where it will look good.  I'm more than happy to do whatever scans you need me to. 

Speak up people, do you want a full run of manual scans?

[_joshuaTurbo]

Sorry to change the discussion....but

just curious:

How many US/ Import TG16/CD/SCD/PCE/ACD/SGFX games does everyone own?

me?  I'm at a whopping 6! WAHOO!!

Just got:
Blazing Lazers
Legendary Axe
Vigilante
TV Sports Hockey
TV Sports Football
and Implode on SCD! 

[Necromancer]

How many US/ Import TG16/CD/SCD/PCE/ACD/SGFX games does everyone own?

I have somewhere around 150 games.  Check out PCE Daisakusen!!, where many members have listed their PCE/TG collections, as should you; it's what all the cool kids are doing nowadays.

P.S. - Sorry about 1/3 of your collection being TV Sports titles. 

[_joshuaTurbo]

How many US/ Import TG16/CD/SCD/PCE/ACD/SGFX games does everyone own?

P.S. - Sorry about 1/3 of your collection being TV Sports titles. 

I'll have to quickly get TV sports Basketball to make it a clean 3/7 of my collection!! 

And thanks Necro-
http://www.pcedaisakusen.net/2/29/my-collection.htm