You are welcome. This was always the intent for my paper collection, since I knew through other people's massive efforts (MAME/Cowering/No-intro/Redump) that all the games were going to get preserved- but manual preservation was just too much work. It always seemed selfish to amass a collection and keep it locked in a basement, and I always shook my fist at the NintendoAge guys for celebrating their "complete NES manual collection" that is just garbage quality. I've felt that was an injustice because it stopped others from bothering because "all those manuals are already scanned." Well, yes they are, but damn they suck. As always, I kick myself for not picking up more manuals throughout the years, and now I have some sealed games I will likely part with to keep the project going, since I can't bear to open them like I did my PS2 set. In hindsight, almost 1200 of the 1800 PS2 games were still original shrinkwrap sealed until I scanned all the discs and covers in 2017. Probably could have recouped my investment just off the sealed Kuon, Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, etc. Oh well. Check out EvilBadMan.com for my covers and discs scans. I pop this wall up for my nostalgia rush:
http://www.atensionspan.com/evil/tn/index.html
(direct link)
http://evilbadman.com/
(old PS2 Archive site)
I know, I know- my html skills suck- it's just for reference :P
So a little history.. Peebs went public asking for crowdsourcing help to finish off the SNES collection two years ago because "I was taking too long."
I have been scanning my personal collection of SNES manuals off and on since 2014. So Peebs started with the ~600 poor quality scans out there, and was able to stir up some contributors to round up most of the remaining English manuals released in Europe and crowdsourced the US manuals up to 705 of 725. Then he hit the wall we all do- the remaining ones were hoarded or just too damn expensive. So his project sat as only a couple more trickled in.
Now being two years later, my "too slow process" caught up and I published a complete US SNES set in 2K resolution for front ends (still polishing a 4K version from the 600dpi original scans). Using my complete set for his last dozen (and the missing last two European manuals I was able to get from a German friend), Peebs was able to declare "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" and get all the credit. For the 600 manuals already there. And my complete US set of 725 personally bought, scanned, and edited manuals. For the ~175 he was able to crowdsource.
Now Peebs is a great guy (not knocking him for how the media played out), but because he made the publicity push two years ago, news outlets picked up on the "now you know the rest of the story", and here we are.
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you're welcome
Ahh.. MST3K.. truly you are a man of class and character. As I cast my shadow and hurl jokes at the classic manuals which came before me..
Thanks
You are welcome. This was always the intent for my paper collection, since I knew through other people's massive efforts (MAME/Cowering/No-intro/Redump) that all the games were going to get preserved- but manual preservation was just too much work. It always seemed selfish to amass a collection and keep it locked in a basement, and I always shook my fist at the NintendoAge guys for celebrating their "complete NES manual collection" that is just garbage quality. I've felt that was an injustice because it stopped others from bothering because "all those manuals are already scanned." Well, yes they are, but damn they suck. As always, I kick myself for not picking up more manuals throughout the years, and now I have some sealed games I will likely part with to keep the project going, since I can't bear to open them like I did my PS2 set. In hindsight, almost 1200 of the 1800 PS2 games were still original shrinkwrap sealed until I scanned all the discs and covers in 2017. Probably could have recouped my investment just off the sealed Kuon, Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, etc. Oh well. Check out EvilBadMan.com for my covers and discs scans. I pop this wall up for my nostalgia rush: http://www.atensionspan.com/evil/tn/index.html (direct link) http://evilbadman.com/ (old PS2 Archive site) I know, I know- my html skills suck- it's just for reference :P
KML
Yes, "Kirkland's Manual Labor" definitely a pun. I grew up reading Piers Anthony's Xanth series, so I poke fun at everything.
PS2 and SNES manuals
So a little history.. Peebs went public asking for crowdsourcing help to finish off the SNES collection two years ago because "I was taking too long." I have been scanning my personal collection of SNES manuals off and on since 2014. So Peebs started with the ~600 poor quality scans out there, and was able to stir up some contributors to round up most of the remaining English manuals released in Europe and crowdsourced the US manuals up to 705 of 725. Then he hit the wall we all do- the remaining ones were hoarded or just too damn expensive. So his project sat as only a couple more trickled in. Now being two years later, my "too slow process" caught up and I published a complete US SNES set in 2K resolution for front ends (still polishing a 4K version from the 600dpi original scans). Using my complete set for his last dozen (and the missing last two European manuals I was able to get from a German friend), Peebs was able to declare "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" and get all the credit. For the 600 manuals already there. And my complete US set of 725 personally bought, scanned, and edited manuals. For the ~175 he was able to crowdsource. Now Peebs is a great guy (not knocking him for how the media played out), but because he made the publicity push two years ago, news outlets picked up on the "now you know the rest of the story", and here we are.