Megazone scans

Hi guys, I've managed to bag a super old MegaZone for my collection that I thought you guys might want to add to your online collection. It's in pretty good condition and even still has the poster! Only problem is I'm unable to identify what issue number it is as unlike later issues it doesn't seem to state the number on the cover or internally, at least not that I can find so far. It appears to be the November 1990 issue before they switched to bimonthly. I've uploaded the cover for now. If you want the whole mag I can try and scan it into a pdf at work for you (if so do you have a recommend scanning guidelines to follow or advice for me?). I've uploaded the cover to your site here: https://retrocdn.net/File:Megazone_AU_Nov1990.png --Blake01 (talk) 02:10, 17 November 2019 (EST)

UPDATE: Matt from the RetroGamingAus Megazone wiki has given me this information about this issue.. "Thanks Blake – have never seen that one before. The National Library’s record on Megazone notes that their numbering dropped off after September 1990. Definitely can see it picks up on the Falcon cover #16 which is where the bimonthly run started according to NLA. The government’s record seems to assume that there was an issue number for January, but the editorial page for the Arachnophobia cover issue (Feb 91, don’t have the cover anymore but this page is on the Amiga Magazine Rack - http://amr.abime.net/issue_1840) suggests that there was no January issue. That issue is #12, so based on the existence of a December 1990 issue (which I believe would have been the first issue I had back in the day, as the Arachnophobia one was the second), it would be #10." --Blake01 (talk) 03:34, 17 November 2019 (EST)

Hey guys, Just thought I'd let you know that I scanned and uploaded the super rare issue 10 (at least we believe it's 10) over at segaretro https://segaretro.org/File:Megazone_Issue_10.pdf if you wish to transfer. However is is a compressed version and I'd rather preserve my original high quality version so I think I'll stick it on archive . org and send you guys the link to the pdf there if you want (although I hear you guys might actually support over 100mb uploads?). I'm the one that gave segaretro the covers for many issues including the 32-36 & 38-43 mags you both still don't have so after successfully scanning the editing issue 10 and seeing how easy it is I've decided to scan 32-36 & 38-43 for you guys meaning you will have a complete collection from issue 16 onwards plus issue 10. Once again these will be high wuality files over 100mg so I'll stick them on archive . org and send you guys the links to each should you want your own copy for here. :) Will post here again soon when the job is completed as scanning these mags takes quite some time at work lol! --Blake01 (talk) 04:26, 20 December 2019 (EST)

>100MB uploads should work here, although I've never tried myself because of my terrible upload speed. Staff can "upload via url", so if you upload it to archive.org and provide the link, I can copy it over with that if necessary. - Hivebrain (talk) 19:26, 20 December 2019 (EST)

Hi Hivebrain, the day has finally come! Everything I promised has been uploaded to archive.org so here are the details and links below for you...

Higher res version of Issue 10:

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau10/MegaZone_AU_10.pdf

High res MegaZone Issue 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 scans that were all missing from your collection:

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau32/MegaZone_AU_32.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau33/MegaZone_AU_33.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau34/MegaZone_AU_34.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau35/MegaZone_AU_35.pdf (some cover graffiti sorry)

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau36/MegaZone_AU_36.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau38/MegaZone_AU_38.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau39/MegaZone_AU_39.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau40/MegaZone_AU_40.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau41/MegaZone_AU_41.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau42/MegaZone_AU_42.pdf

https://archive.org/download/megazoneau43/MegaZone_AU_43.pdf

More MegaZone supplement book scans missing from your collection:

https://archive.org/download/sup37hot100cheats/Sup37_Hot100Cheats.pdf

https://archive.org/download/sup43mk2guide/Sup43_MK2Guide.pdf

(this one is a super rare find as it didn't actually come with issue 48, however page 6 in issue 48 tells you to separately go and buy an uncle tobys product to get this bonus item which clearly I must have begged my mum to do back in the day haha!)

https://archive.org/download/sup48minimegazone/Sup48_MiniMegaZone.pdf

And last of all I have second Megazone TV commercial video to add to that other cool one you have in your collection. Sadly my old tape is pretty damaged but hey its better than nothing hey!:

https://archive.org/download/tvcommercialmegazone25b/TVCommercial_MegaZone25.mp4

Well that is literally everything I have that you don't have. I'm going put together a youtube video ASAP that talks about this site plus the other sites and asks people out there to help us find more issues and fill all the remaining gaps in the collection so we can properly preserve this great old magazine forever. Will let you know when that's done and hopefully it'll bring some more helpers along! Regards --Blake01 (talk) 05:29, 28 December 2019 (EST)

Can see Black Squirrel has taken care of the transfers. Don't forget the new TV commercial I linked to above guys. :)

Well as I mentioned earlier my final act in this little project of trying and preserve as many megazones as possible I've made a blog post and youtube video that talks about what MegaZone is, our efforts to preserve it, our sites (gave you guys a bit of free advertising haha), and ways that people can help us find and preserve the remaining issues & other related materials. https://blakessanctum.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/sega-megazone-preservation-archive-needs-your-help/

I'm going to share it with all the Aus retro gaming internet personalities I know (Brian Since Spacies, Ausretrogamer, kotaku aus) and hopefully they'll share it around too. If you guys know any Australian retro gaming fans feel free to share it with them too! Hopefully it'll lead to some more scans coming and maybe even a complete collection preserved online one day. --Blake01 (talk) 08:48, 30 December 2019 (EST)