Super Famicom manuals

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:03 pm

I've meant to do that for a long time and I've finally started to add game manual scans to my site. Only a few are available so far:

Battle Zeque Ken
Kiki Kaikai
Joe And Mac
Ushio To Tora

The PDFs are located at the bottom of every review page, in the Omake section. I've also been adding manuals for the PC Engine system. Do not hesitate to let me know what you think and also if there's a list of game manuals you'd like to see there first...

Post by **badinsults** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:07 pm

"PLEASE CLICK HERE IS VGDEN GAME MENU IS MISSING"

Probably should read:

"Please click here if the VGDEN Game Menu is missing"

The manual scans could probably use a bit of alteration with a sharpen filter.

Also, watermarks = gay.

anewuser · Post by **anewuser** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:46 am

I think I'll agree with badinsults about the watermarks. Sure, it takes time to search for manuals and scan them, and that 'your work' should be credited and meh, but seriously, now that some (most?) torrent sites allow to download entire sets of game system manuals...NON watermarked makes you look, hrmm...you know, gay.

Good all around content.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:00 am

super gay watermarks, like thhhewper gay.

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:02 am

Actually, I didn't use to watermark my images. But people happened to directly link to my images and eat up a lot of my bandwidth by doing so - some would even link my images from their Ebay auctions !
So I decided to watermark my images - linked images still eat up some of the bandwidth I pay for every month, but now it also advertises my site.
So now you know

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:03 am

you might want a hotlinking countermeasure instead along with unmarked images

Post by **badinsults** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:19 pm

No kidding, there are ways you can prevent hotlinking. The watermarks on your images are quite annoying and obvious. Besides, sites like Replacement Docs are going to take them and remove the watermarks anyways, so why bother?

You'll note that on my own site, not a single image has a watermark. I have never had any problems with hotlinking.

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:54 pm

Sorry guys but the watermarks are here to stay, at least for the time being.

The manual scans could probably use a bit of alteration with a sharpen filter.

That's a really good point, I've also been thinking about that... they look a bit soft... I'll try to sharpen them up a bit.

Probably should read:
"Please click here if the VGDEN Game Menu is missing"

Thanks for noticing that. I too noticed it couple of years ago but this line is embedded in every page and I never got to change it...

I'll do it when I switch the site to a more 'dynamic' page generation.

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:05 pm

More updates and manuals:

46 Okunen Monogatari (EVO)
Gaia Gensouki (Illusion Of Gaia)

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:37 pm

More updates and manuals:

Daimakaimura (Ghouls & Ghosts) - SuperGrafx
Chohmakaimura (Super Ghouls & Ghosts) - Super Famicom
Demon's Blazon - Super Famicom

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:11 pm

More updates and manuals:

Kaze Kiri - PC Engine
Akumajou Dracula (Super Castlevania IV) - Super Famicom

Neo Kaiser · Post by **Neo Kaiser** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:00 am

lkermel wrote:More updates and manuals:

Kaze Kiri - PC Engine

Thanks to you now I got another game to play. It looks very interesting.

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:45 pm

Thanks Neo Kaiser

More updates and manuals:

Dynastic Hero - PC Engine
Mother 2 (Earthbound) - Super Famicom

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:42 am

Hi !

I'd like to wish you all some Happy Holidays !
I've just published a new update for my site and added a bunch of Super Famicom and Famicom Disk reviews. Also, as a Christmas gift, I've removed all the watermarks from the cover arts/medias & screenshots (there're still some here and there that I may remove later).

List of new reviews:

Dracula II - Famicom Disk
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa - Famicom Disk
Replicart - Famicom Disk
Warner No Mori - Famicom Disk

Battle Cross - Super Famicom
Bonkers - Super Famicom
Jerry Boy - Super Famicom
Mickey Mania - Super Famicom
Super Back To The Future II - Super Famicom
Wrecking Crew'98 - Super Famicom

Enjoy

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:06 pm

More updates and manuals:

Bahamut Lagoon - Super Famicom
Sonic Wings (Aero Fighters) - Super Famicom

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:12 pm

>> Bahamut Lagoon was never officially released outside Japan, it was however fan translated and unofficially released in 2002 as a downloadable Rom.
>> unofficially released in 2002 as a downloadable Rom.
>> in 2002 as a downloadable Rom.

what

also, you didn't mention how your dragons' growth affected their linked party members' abilities which is somewhat of a badass system

or how flaming gay zendak was throughout the damn game which is somewhat less badass

also thumbs up for a game subverting the classic princess trope

lkermel · Post by **lkermel** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:02 pm

Thanks grinvader for pointing out the Bahamut fan translated section - I actually forgot to update this section with my new text. It is now fixed

bombman · Post by **bombman** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:28 am

You removed the watermarks as a "Christmas gift"?

Everyone's saying they're gay as fuck, why can't you just take a hint?

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:33 am

But, but, if he doesn't watermark his images, someone will steal them. All that effort gone into scanning and cleaning up the images is gone to waste if nobody knows he's the real person behind the work. Well, if he's in it for the fame.

Seriously, if someone wants to waste their own web space and bandwidth just to rip off your work, so be it. If they're just hotlinking, you can feel free to give hotlinks a nice Goatse or Tubgirl or something equally disgusting. You can even make hotlinks auto expire by using some creative .htaccess and PHP scripting to make hash links that work for between one and two hours, so referral spoofing will fail as well.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:08 pm

Or use invisible watermarks ._.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:13 pm

Yes, supposedly Digimarc can go through a few iterations of recompression, depending on the watermark strength. Of course, the stronger the watermark, the more visible the noise is.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:14 pm

Nobody cares where they get the images from. If the watermarks are invisible, they really won't care. You can go out of your way and say, "use this stenography tool and you'll see my site is embedded in the image!", and absolutely nobody but you will care.

Also, watermarking is lame as hell.

or how flaming gay zendak was throughout the damn game which is somewhat less badass

He really ruined a lot of the story from that game, getting creeped out every time you have to go talk to the old pedophile. Anyway, he needs to be localized a bit more so that non-Japanese can understand his character. I say we change his class to Catholic Priest.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:25 pm

byuu, oh the irony wrote:I say we change his class to BYUU RAEP.