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Back in July, I started a Sega Saturn instruction manual scan project over at The Cover Project:

http://www.thecoverproject.net/forum...p?topic=6791.0

On Halloween, I started up my Sega Dreamcast project, and since it was Halloween, I queued up all of the "horror" related games from the start:

http://www.ratigators.com/

From there, I pulled/still pull one from each end of the alphabet (similar to what I did for Sega Saturn, which is now complete) to scan in my mornings before work.

I also got a jump start on my Sega CD project, clearing out the "horror" themed games there as well for Halloween.

With access to complete/near complete collections for all three (only missing Daytona USA Netlink for Saturn and ESPN NBA Hangtime for Sega CD), I thought I'd take a crack at scanning in all of the NTSC-USA manuals for all three systems. These are all 300dpi scans, 75% quality JPG compression.

For each of the games I scan, I also upload a zip with all of the image in a single download. Just click the "Image View" button in the upper right to see the manuals in a nice gallery view.

Here in a few days, I'll start on my Sega CD project in full.

The only other system I have a "complete" set for is Atari Jaguar/Jaguar CD, though, over at atariage.com, someone has already taken care of getting all of those manuals scanned in.

I've started uploading my Sega CD scans, so from here on out, expect 2 a day, 1 from each end of the alphabet. I'm still wrapping up my Sega Dreamcast scans as well, so my Sega CD scans are in addition to what I'm already working on.

Thanks for the work that you put in, I have about 50 disc only sega cd games :P

Sure, glad I could help. Here's some photos of a manual that someone over at The Cover Project put together using my scans:

http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/...ames-go-round/

It definitely takes a bit of effort to take my scans and convert them to printable sheets front and back to replicate a manual. I was going to build a utility to automate this (browse to a zip and it will chop and reassemble the inner page scans into printable scans for assembly), and had the logic worked out, but never got around to coding anything.

Though, if anyone wants to take it upon themselves and throw together a script/utility of their own, I'm sure it would be appreciated.

Keep up the good work! I have more disc only PS2 games from Gamestop's Buy 2 Get 2 free sale, but I do have a few DC games like Tech Romancer and others that I don't have manuals for.

Wow, this is an awesome endeavor!

3746 more scans later, my Sega Dreamcast Instruction Manual Scan project is complete (6994 scans total adding in Sega Saturn). In a little over a week, I'll be wrapping up Sega CD as well.

Today mostly wraps up my Sega CD scan project with an additional 1952 scans (8946 total when you add in Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast). I say "mostly" because I skipped 2 titles. I have a backup copy of Kris Kross: Make My Video on its way (the last game I had where my only copy was still sealed), so that will get scanned in as soon as it arrives, and I'll scan in ESPN NBA Hangtime '95 as soon as I pick one up.

Also, tomorrow I'm starting my Sega CD 32X scan project, though, this one will go quick, since there were only 5 games.

When those wrap up in a couple of days, that should take care of anyone looking for any manual for any US Sega console game on an optical disc format.

After that, I'll be taking a break from scanning for a few months, but then I'll be back (hint, scroll to the bottom

Rockstar effort man! Thanks!

Thanks! That is a huge effort and very helpful. Also- the scans look great.

These look great. What kind of paper do you print the scans on or do you take them somewhere? What's your process?

As I mentioned, Sega CD 32X was going to go quick, and today wraps up the entire collection, adding 57 new scans. Also, Kris Kross Make My Video came in the mail, so that has been scanned in and linked up in the Sega CD section (8 new scans).

Also, here's a preview of one of the things I'm working on next (after I return from a break in scanning for a while):

Sega Master System Game Catalog 1986 (USA)

Originally Posted by McCHitman These look great. What kind of paper do you print the scans on or do you take them somewhere? What's your process?

The links to the prints weren't mine, they were from another user at The Cover Project, and was the result of printing my scans. So, unfortunately, I can't answer that question. Though, as far as the process to actually make "front/back printable" pages, it would take a bit of work, though, nothing horribly complex. I would think it would be easiest to start from the center, since you can print that with no modifications. From there, take the right page of the scan prior and make it the right side of an image and take the left page of the scan next in line and make it the left side of the same image. That combined image would get you the "back" for the front/back print.

Just repeat that until you work your way through all of the scans for a particular game.

Where in the world did you get all the covers and manuals???!

Originally Posted by McCHitman Where in the world did you get all the covers and manuals???!

From 20+ years of collecting:

http://www.thecoverproject.net/forum...p?topic=4817.0

That's from over a year ago, so of course, a few things have been added here and there (such as, the Wii games have been moved upstairs to make room for more 360 games, receiver downstairs has been upgraded to a Pioneer SC-27, picked up a few more Gamecube games, a few sporadic SNES and N64 titles, etc).

Hey, thanks for taking the time to do this. I'm looking through and checking out the games I missed from the SEGA CD days. (I had one but only had about 30 games for it)

Awesome stuff. I loved my SEGA CD but just didn't have the money at the time to get many games for it.

EDIT: I miss manuals. There will come a time soon when they no longer exist.

I have that Mortal Kombat banner. I got it while working at a game store during the release of SNES/Genesis Mortal Kombat.

Oh, and awesome collection. I had one going that may have looked like that but sold it off little by little. :(

I started posting my 32X Cartridge manual scans (CD scans were already done) and also did a test Sega Master System scan (along with the case insert, since there doesn't seem to be a good source for a full set of scans for those either).

http://www.ratigators.com/

I'm missing a few games, so I'll go back and fill in when/if I eventually pick them up. Here's a list of what I'm missing to scan in:

Blackthorne
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Primal Rage (I only have a loose cartridge)
Spiderman: Web of Fire
T-Mek
World Series Baseball '95
Zaxxon Motherbase 2000

Donations/trades/deals on any of those are welcome, with the arrival of the second kid a few months back, not as much disposable income these days

Originally Posted by tsolfan I started posting my 32X Cartridge manual scans (CD scans were already done) and also did a test Sega Master System scan (along with the case insert, since there doesn't seem to be a good source for a full set of scans for those either). http://www.ratigators.com/ I'm missing a few games, so I'll go back and fill in when/if I eventually pick them up. Here's a list of what I'm missing to scan in: Blackthorne Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure Primal Rage (I only have a loose cartridge) Spiderman: Web of Fire T-Mek World Series Baseball '95 Zaxxon Motherbase 2000 Donations/trades/deals on any of those are welcome, with the arrival of the second kid a few months back, not as much disposable income these days

I have a complete US 32X collection, so I could scan these if worse came to worse? Problem is I'm waiting on the home I purchased to close so everything is boxed up at the moment.

Sweet stuff dude! I have a strange love for video game manuals, and way too many that are disk only. Used to visit replacementdocs a lot to get new updates, but that site has largley stagnated over the years. At work now, but will def. check out your uploads once I get home.

Originally Posted by Friend of Sonic I have a complete US 32X collection, so I could scan these if worse came to worse? Problem is I'm waiting on the home I purchased to close so everything is boxed up at the moment.

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it if I haven't picked up copies by the time I've finished Sega Master System scans. I've already crossed two more off the list, Primal Rage and Blackthorne.