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Orakio's new PS books...

Postby orakio_rob » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:44 pm

Orakio strikes again! These have just arrived here, straight from Japan:

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I'll keep the PSO books intact, but as usual, I'll scan the books related to the classic series that I haven's scanned already - that is, I'll tear the pages off in order to get good scans... and yes, that hurts A LOT :( They are:

- PS II Japanese hintbooks (2 volumes)
- PS III Japanese hintbooks (2 volumes, plus the extra hintbook with the blue cover)

As you know, the other two ("world of Phantasy Star" and the PS1 hintbook) are already available at http://gazetadealgol.com.br/diversos/downloads/.

The PSII hintbooks are fantastic. And the PSIII one (blue cover) has an amazing manga telling the initial story of PSIII. It's short, but it's great. There is a picture of it here:
http://gazetadealgol.com.br/blog/?p=618

It will take me a few days to start scanning it, but I'll do it soon and make the PDFs and JPG files available as usual.

A few notes:
- I'll keep the really-hi-res files with me, since they are ridiculously large. I'll convert them to JPG to make them available for download, but you'll still get quite good quality;
- These books are NEVER cut in a precise way, so it's next to impossible to get the pages really straight. Some may be slightly tilted, but not something very noticeable. I can't help it, as it would take me weeks to scan each book if I went about fixing this kind of thing.

Hope you like it!
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Postby Black Waltz 0 » Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:47 pm

Oh? Ooooh?

Orakio, you are the best PS fan ever. :D
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Postby BenoitRen » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:56 pm

Great as always, orakio_rob!

This makes me wonder how many hintbooks actually exist for the Phantasy Star games.
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Postby Missagh » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:18 am

Wow Orakio Rob, amazing! I cant wait to view the scans!!

I hope that you are getting some donations through for your contributions to the community.
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Postby Wing-0 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:09 am

I wish I could have the chance to read them. That's quite the collection.
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Postby Seyka# » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:08 pm

Thank you.
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Postby Zucca » Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:45 pm

Sir, you are now offically ranked as a greater phannie.
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Postby Black Waltz 0 » Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:15 pm

Zucca wrote:Sir, you are now offically ranked as a greater phannie.

Heh heh, fanny. :lol:
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Postby orakio_rob » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:18 pm

Missagh wrote:I hope that you are getting some donations through for your contributions to the community.


Well, up to now I've managed to collect the fantastic amount of... ten dollars :(

But that's all right, I love buying these books, and even though it hurts to destroy them, I like to make PDFs out of them.

I guess I'll start scanning them today. I'm almost done scanning the manual for the Mega Drive version of Starflight (a game I really love, and I've managed to get a copy of it recently). In any case, I took a few pictures of the PSII hintbook with my camera and sent them to my friend Yoz, you can check it out here:
http://intellectdeluxes.zip.net/arch201 ... 12611366-0

Yoz is the guy who did that amazing job at capturing PS1 sprites:
http://gazetadealgol.com.br/diversos/sprites/ps1
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Postby Edge » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:32 pm

You're the man... On a side note: Star Flight is one of the best games ever... I never played the PC version, only the genesis and 3DO versions, but damn... That game is fricken' awesome.
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Postby orakio_rob » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:42 pm

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Yes, I've got the PSII hintbooks scanned! :)

A few notes:

- I'm not tearing the pages off these books anymore. Now I try to open them as much as possible in order to scan them. But I'm really not scared off ruining the book, so i think the scans are still quite good. Honestly, it's way better to see them on screen like this, two pages at once.

- The PDFs are of lower resolution now, and are abour 10 MB in size. They will look good on your monitor, and that's what I'm really trying to achieve with the PDFs. But in case you want to actually print this stuff, or edit the images, check out the...

- Hi-res images packaged for your convenience :) These are PNG files, and they are quite large. By "quite large" I mean ten packages 60 MB each, for each of these books. I've edited a few images to make they look better in the PDF file, but in the image packs the images are unedited.

Orakio, I love you! Give me the links!

Ok, here they come:

PDFs: http://bit.ly/a1JRKU
Image packs: http://bit.ly/9a6lvW
Online gallery: http://gazetadealgol.com.br/diversos/livros/start

I'm still uploading the image packs for volume II. And I've already started scanning the bigger PSIII book. As you know, there is a four-page manga in it, and... well, here is the manga:
http://intellectdeluxes.zip.net/arch201 ... 12611366-0

Hope you like it!
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Postby Wing-0 » Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:01 am

I love you, man. :)
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Postby Eleah » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:18 am

Oh, God... this are so cute! Thanks so much for sharing them! I wish I could help with some donation, but I'm broke... :( However, I wish you the best to be able to either get more donations, or being able to find more interesting stuff...

About not tearing the pages off anymore... I think I've heard some books breathing relieved :P It looks great, anyway!
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Postby orakio_rob » Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:07 pm

Wow, it's been a while since I last posted here... I completely forgot to mention that the PSIII hintbook (the one with the blue cover) is already available!

Here is a sample:

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You may find the PDF here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BxrB4v ... ZjJi&hl=en

And the low res HTML version is here:
http://gazetadealgol.com.br/diversos/livros/start

Hope you like it!
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Postby vilkacis » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:52 pm

Awesome. Thanks!
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