Anyone here own / have scans of EGM from 2000? MGS GBC related

[Tanooki]

Recently on ebay (day or so back) someone sold a fold out front and back 3 page length poster which doubled as a full on guide for MGS for the GBC. It had the entire stages mapped out entirely, some description texts, points of interest and items marked and so on. I contacted the seller, they didn't have the magazine anymore so they didn't remember and I'm coming up empty on using google other than finding the year it was published.

Do any of you have that year with the magazine and can find it? I'm going to try and buy the old issue online or see if I can use the issue # to help find a scan of it at least. I never could finish the game back in the day on GBC and I'd like another crack at it with that to help.

[JSoup]

In those days, most gaming magazines offered guides for games the month of or the month before official release, and in some cases the month after but that depended more on the publication. Checking MGS GBC's release date, we're looking for an issue in the range of April 24, 2000.

Pull the three most likely issues up on Retromags, but they don't have any information listed for them, aside from the covers. I don't know how major of a release this game was, but it didn't make the covers of any of the three, not even a tagline note.

Do you have a picture of the poster? Googling showed me one really small thumbnail. Normally these posters have the copyright date and issue number listed on them in small print.

[Tanooki]

Yeah actually I have some pretty good sized front and backs, problem is they're angled enough you can't make out the useful imagery on the top halves of them.

It was as far as GBC goes a huge release when it popped up, at least Nintendo made it out to be as did Konami in the earlier gaming online press as 2000 was the big heyday year of the GBC as was the year after into the GBA snuffing it out.

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I did try retromags, first place I thought of, but they list on the site them not having them archived.

[drunk3nj3sus]

While not exactly what you're looking for pretty sure these maps are what I used when I played it awhile back http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear:_Ghost_Babel_Walkthrough

[JSoup]

While not exactly what you're looking for pretty sure these maps are what I used when I played it awhile back http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear:_Ghost_Babel_Walkthrough

Not from the poster, but still really good, if not better.
I guessed this before clicking, those are by StarFighters76, pretty much the most prolific game cartographer around.

[Tanooki]

No doubt about his skill. Sometimes his maps get a little confusing on a few games I've tried them with but on the whole his stuff is fantastic. I just like original stuff when I can find it, and it's an oddity which caught my eye.

I still would rather find that fold out map and do what I did with Faria and high resolution scan it and throw it up on DP for anyone to enjoy. I'm not opposed to buying a new old bagged copy of EGM or whatever it could take within reason to do it which is why I was trying to find which issue it was in.

[Aussie2B]

If you manage to find it, I'd be interested in scans. MGS is one of the few GB/GBC games I own that I've yet to beat, and I've been thinking about starting it up, but since I have very little experience with the series and stealth games in general, a bit of outside help would be nice, especially if it's polished professional coverage.

[JSoup]

..especially if it's polished professional coverage.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/gbc/914401-metal-gear-solid/faqs
StarFighters' maps can be found there, Bagman's guide is the most complete if the maps aren't enough.

[Tanooki]

Hah we're alike then. I'm not good at stealth games, the fact is I can not wrap my head about something the very apparenetly brainless and oddly designed AI and gotcha moments with these types of games so I mostly avoid them. I took down MGS Integral twice on PC, never on PS1, did maybe a 1/3 of MGS2, never did but watched 3 and 4, ignored the rest. I had this one back when it was new, looking at the schematics online(linked in this thread) for the maps I probably took down 2/3 of the game but I got so horribly lost I stopped and moved on to another as I was in college at the time. I've had almost no experience with the stuff outside of MGS and the horribly annoying stealth part of Uncharted 2 which just confused me a lot, so any time I can find a map I'm taking it.

I promise you this and anyone else. If I can find the map I will give it the same spit and polish fine treatment I gave the Faria map. I did a 4000x3000 sized super scan of that one, PDF'd it and uploaded it along with the JPG (uncompressed) masters of it too. I cleaned up a few ink bits one side of that map had, and in this case I'd attempt the same, and since it's a fold over if there's white lines through things if I can manage it I'd blend them out with surrounding colors.

It was at the time one of the very few GBC games I bought new and never put to bed. Dragon's Lair was another but I went in knowing I never would because I can't remember the sequences and haven't in decades.

[JSoup]

I find it hard to believe that there aren't proper scanned archives of most of the more popular gaming magazines out there, but damned if a casual search does provide any breadcrumbs. I'm interested in this beyond just this topic. Once I got my Nook, I became interested in finding archives to binge.

[Tanooki]

I've been that way off and on with both my Kindle and the tablet too, it's a nice portable resource.

As of yet I have still nothing and I really do not want to buy a whole year of a magazine I dislike for a fold out poster. :)