Post #2493132

2026-05-06 10:50 UTC

Not been having the greatest time as of late with way too much stress going on and I need to be careful as to not let it spiral out of control again, so I&#39;ve been distracting myself with something that has always been my happy place since 1997: Sega Saturn. Went digging through my boxes for these as I never thought I&#39;d scan them, since &quot;how many people besides me care about Japanese magazines, and Saturn ones at that?&quot;. But you know what? Screw it. I&#39;m passionate about them. These are out there in decent quality, but with a lot of compression artefacts, so I feel I can do them justice. I was surprised to find out that I actually had the compete run as there only seem to be 9 issues made. I also ordered a handful of issue of the Japanese Sega Saturn Magazine, which cost way too much, so I&#39;ll probably never be able to do a full set, but oh well. Looking at a naming convention that respects the original numbering, so I&#39;m thinking of using this: Sega Saturn Magazine / セガサターンマガジン 1996/06/28 Vol.10 (Japan)

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@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza 2026-05-07 09:20

The scanning and editing of these is moving along really well. Helped my my enthusiasm for the content matter no doubt. Just wanted to give a little example of the differences between the old scans from what looks like 6 years ago that have been uploaded to the Internet Archive and the new ones I'm working on myself now. Some weird stuff going on. For example the scans appear to be 300DPI but saved at a lower JPG quality setting resulting in PDF's that are well under 100MB. The pages also appear to be stretched in weird ways. The sides match up on the left and right, but the middle stretches out an inch or so. I can't upload big gifs here, so these are jpgs instead. As you can see with the my scan on the right, it's quite a bit sharper and nowhere near as grainy as the old one. Also strange how two of the こ characters have the top parts missing on the other version... And how 5 of the big green kanji bleed into themselves. That might be due to printing being very different from one copy to the next though.

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@yesterzine@topspicy.social 2026-05-06 17:06

@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza I’m diving into another of your scans for June. In English mind :)

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