Japanese Mega Drive magazine scans - Anybody have any?

[JumpingRyle]

Does anybody have scans of Mega Drive Fan or Beep! MegaDrive?

It's easy to find non-Japanese vintage magazine scans for Sega stuff, but it doesn't seem like any of the Japanese mags are floating around out there.

These magazines are very well put together and full of awesome info. I'd love to know if anybody has scans! If not, I guess I'd better start saving since they're so expensive...

[Zz Badnusty]

Around 10 years ago I purchased a lot of maybe 10 Mega Drive Fan magazines from a Japanese seller. They were the early issues from 1990. It may have been around $50 shipped.
This was the only package I've ever had get destroyed in the mail. Apparently the seller used an old box and the end split open.
The post office delivered the split open box along with 2 complete issues and pieces of one other issue iirc, all stuffed into a bag.
One of the lost issues had a Herzog Zwei feature

I feverishly searched for those magazines year after, but only ever saw them at hefty prices like $50 each

Here are the issues I do have, though I'm not likely to get around to scanning them anytime soon. sorry
BEEP! MEGADRIVE
Apr-90
Aug-92
Apr-93

MEGADRIVE FAN
Nov-90
Jun-92
Jul-92
Aug-92
Sep-92
Nov-92
Jan-93
Sep-93
Oct-93
Apr-94

[JumpingRyle]

I think one reason that they haven't been scanned (if they haven't) is that collectors don't want to devalue their collections. I know a while back there was a lot on Yahoo Auctions for about 5 years worth of Beep! MegaDrive that sold for almost $1000. But it's a bummer that all that Sega history is just kind of lost...

If anybody posts some full scans I will gladly translate anything in return.

[Zz Badnusty]

I purchased them with the intention of scanning them.
Back when I got them I did scan a handful of interesting images and advertisements - those have mostly all been lost.
Presently I just have a bunch of other photo editing and cataloging I'm doing on my computer.
Though the enticement of translation will spur me to get them out of storage at least.

Perhaps after I see what I've got we can pick out some topics of interest, and I'll scan those pages to start.

[Zz Badnusty]

for some assinine reason I've got one folder with 375x600 cropped jpgs of spreads that I scanned back in 2004, but not the 300dpi full size scans.

1994 09_Beep-MegaDrive_Soul-Star_Rebel-Assault_Battlecorps.jpg

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

Zz Badnusty, the file attachment is broken. I believe that the server may have a limitation in terms of file size.

[Zz Badnusty]

Zz Badnusty, the file attachment is broken. I believe that the server may have a limitation in terms of file size.

Thanks for the heads up.
IDK, it's one of those things where it shows up on my computer, and when I go into edit the post the "manage attachment" area show an attachment and the 194.7 KB size, so it looks like everything is in order. But indeed the attachment doesn't show up on my phone or other computer.
I deleted it and tried reattaching. ...and here's a couple more
1994 02_Beep-MegaDrive_Saturn-prototype.jpg
1994 06_Beep-MegaDrive_Saturn.jpg

...ok, I did these with the "paperclip" attach icon, and the prvious post I did with the "insert image" icon. We'll see which works.

[JumpingRyle]

They show up now. Thanks! You might consider using photobucket or something if you're having problems with the attachments.

Now to find the 300 dpi versions so that the text is legible

I'll also repost these 3 partial scans of Beep! which have been posted here in the past:

September 1991
October 1991
November 1991

Unfortunately, the scans are such low resolution that it's difficult to read the text. It also seems that some of the links are down...

The November 1991 issue has interviews with the staff of Shining Force which I really want to read! There's also this:



"The Climax development room in its entirety". The desk in the bottom left is Kan Naito's, and it says he's working on another game. Of course he was programming Landstalker! Totally awesome.　Also, in the room on the top left with the beds, the arrow indicates "the ghost of a Buddhist monk that sometimes appears".

[negative chill]

1994 02_Beep-MegaDrive_Saturn-prototype.jpg
1994 06_Beep-MegaDrive_Saturn.jpg

That a mock-up proto of the Saturn?

[Zz Badnusty]

That a mock-up proto of the Saturn?

Seems to be.
That's why I scanned that page, never seen that image in an English publication.

[10golds]

That Saturn proto looks so cool, tbh the shape wouldnt be that much out of place in this generation.

[stewy]

Bumping this thread to ask if any of those mags listed have been scanned. I'd love to get a look at those pages.

[JumpingRyle]

Bumping this thread to ask if any of those mags listed have been scanned. I'd love to get a look at those pages.

I did find a single issue of Beep! that was posted on SegaRetro (July 1990):

http://segaretro.org/File:BeepMD_1990-07.pdf

[Zz Badnusty]

I got a select handful of Mega Drive Fan out of storage last time this thread was active. Here's a cover from January 1993


Hyper Information section with WonderMIDI and a Twin Peaks board game

[Zz Badnusty]

rear cover with Game Gear adverts


first page of Hyper Information section