NES classic games manuals!
So on Nintendo's site they have PDFs of all the games manuals that come with the NES classic. So if you're missing a manual you can download it and print it out if you feel so compelled. I thought it was cool anyway! Zelda has the overworld map too.....
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/index.html
Check it out!
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/index.html
Check it out!
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I got only one made up ready to print so far (Infamous First Light on the PS4, which only had a physical release in Europe, but like some new games, only had an online manual.)
If anyone wants it, PM me.
Anyone have any tips for printing these? I don't want to print them in a way that would ever be confused for the real thing, like reproduction manuals. For example, I want to print the smaller manuals in the largest size I can still fit in the box. The main issue is that they seem interspersed with different kinds of formatting, like they usually have one page at a time but sometimes the information is spread across two pages and you get a single wide image of a double-page. I'd need some printing application than lets me place these individual pages appropriately for printing.
Did anyone figure out a way to download them all at once, so we don't have to click on each one?
I clicked each one and still did it super-quick. Here's how:
In Chrome I held CTRL for each click so that the new tab would not steal focus. When all 30 tabs were open, I switched to the last one. I hovered my mouse over the download button in the PDF viewer then clicked. This opened the Save As dialog. I accepted the suggested name and download directory by pressing Enter, then I pressed CTRL+W to close the tab.
Closing the tab automatically moves to the next tab with my mouse remaining right over the download button, so I kept one hand on the mouse and one hand on the keyboard and kept repeating this until I was done. It took about a minute when I went back through and did the electronic manuals too.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
...
Hope this helps!
I saw that when I got mine but I never have done it. Also need to download a QR reader app.
The URL appears below the QR code. You don't need an app for that (except your web browser).
I loaded the URL before launch. There was a placeholder message at that point. Then I downloaded all the PDF manuals on launch day.
The electronic manual has the StarTropics secret message.
Yes, just like the Virtual Console version, but the printable version is still incomplete. Someone working off the hard copy long after the website is gone has no official recourse even with the official printed version.
Not sure why they even bothered including the letter in the printable version at all if it wasn't going to serve its purpose.
I was kinda hoping they'd mess up in a different way and give us the Tyson letter with the wrong version of Punch-Out!!
Nintendo released a PDF guide with the Gamecube Zelda Ocarina of Time Master Quest Bonus Disc back in the day and included a card instructing users to download and print it if they want. When I was looking around to replace my copy after it had been stolen (burglary; lost all my game stuff), I came across several copies of the game for cheap. I sold some extras on eBay for about $100-$120 each while all the others were selling for $80-$100 (the price has gone down since then; ~2004/2005). I guess that the service of downloading, printing, and binding them along with the materials was worth about 20% more to some people, even though it was supposed to be a free bonus (couldn't legally charge for them anyway).
I didn't do anything special: Just a cheap color laser print, a 3-hole punch, and one of those binders with the pieces you fit through the holes and bend out. Tossed it all in a padded envelope and that was that.
Did anyone figure out a way to download them all at once, so we don't have to click on each one?
I clicked each one and still did it super-quick. Here's how:
In Chrome I held CTRL for each click so that the new tab would not steal focus. When all 30 tabs were open, I switched to the last one. I hovered my mouse over the download button in the PDF viewer then clicked. This opened the Save As dialog. I accepted the suggested name and download directory by pressing Enter, then I pressed CTRL+W to close the tab.
Closing the tab automatically moves to the next tab with my mouse remaining right over the download button, so I kept one hand on the mouse and one hand on the keyboard and kept repeating this until I was done. It took about a minute when I went back through and did the electronic manuals too.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
Click. Enter. CTRL+W.
...
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the tip. I will try it.