- Have you ever rented a game that came with no instructions? - Have you ever bought a used game and found out later that the package you received didn't come with an essential map or answers to copy protection questions required to play the game? - Have you ever bought a re-released game and then realized that they only included an Installation Guide, no game instructions at all? - Has your wife (or husband!) ever just thrown out all your game manuals because they thought "you didn't need them anymore"?
If so, replacementdocs is here to help! We're here to provide you with those manuals for situations when you really should've had them to begin with.
The replacementdocs.com pledge replacementdocs.com pledges to bring you only high quality scanned images of instruction manuals in their full, original format with all original artwork and other graphical elements intact. There will be no text-only documentation unless that is how it was originally released. There will also be no conversion to monochrome images or any other severe quality degradation.
Posted by sleepy - Thursday 03 November 2011 - 22:21:14 -
I received a generous offer from pelleas (who is well-qualified for the task) to join the editorial staff and assist with getting more docs posted for public consumption. A big "thank you" and "welcome aboard" goes out to pelleas!
Posted by sleepy - Friday 30 September 2011 - 18:05:58 -
Well, comment spam was starting to take over the site. Thanks Alastair for letting me know what was going on.
So, I just finished banning dozens of spamming users and I also deleted about 7000 (yes seven thousand) spam comments. I'm sure I missed some but things should look MUCH cleaner now.
Also, since new spam comments were outnumbering new legitimate comments by about 1000-to-1 I'm disabling comments completely for now. This should upset all the spammers and they will all hopefully go away. I will re-enable comments in the future once I feel confident that most of the spammers have left or I have had a chance to spam-proof the comment system.
Posted by sleepy - Friday 10 June 2011 - 17:49:08 -
Wow, those hackers have been busy these past few weeks. I kept removing the malware and they kept putting it back because I didn't have the time to really fix the vulnerability that allowed them to put the malware on the site in the first place.
So, I just had to sit down and really take the time to fix it right. It took most of the day, but it's done. And I'm pretty sure that will mark the end of the hacking and malware.
I gave everything a good once over to make sure the key features are still operational, but as always, if you notice anything weird, let me know. Thanks!
Posted by sleepy - Thursday 05 May 2011 - 13:06:11 -
For years now, I have often been a bottleneck to getting docs out to the public download area. The editors have always been a great help in quality assurance, but the process to actually move docs from pending uploads to the public downloads area has always been a painful (and dangerous) one that I only felt comfortable doing myself.
That time is now past. I just completed some tools that will let the editors go completely from initial upload to public download with no intervention by me necessary at all. Once they get used to the new system I'm sure we will see a great influx of new docs. We should also see a distinct lack of "Now we have to wait on Sleepy" forum posts.
So, if you see something that you want in the pending list, let your editors know. But still try to be nice please! The fact that they now have the power to give you what you want doesn't give you the right to demand it. Remember we are all volunteers here.
Posted by sleepy - Saturday 26 February 2011 - 09:55:09 -
replacementdocs would like to extend a hearty welcome to Jamos who is our latest addition to the editorial staff here. He will be joining SimonU in plowing through our mountain of submissions.
News::Rumors of the death of rdocs have been greatly exaggerated
Posted by sleepy - Tuesday 22 February 2011 - 08:29:28 -
As is prone to happen every time life gets busy for our all-volunteer staff here, people declare the site is dead. That is not the case (I just posted about 40 new docs). Is it not being updated as quickly or as often as you would like? Probably. But even figuring out the best way to fix those problems takes time.
The response from the call for editors last year was pretty minimal unfortunately. And of those that did respond, most either very rarely visit the site and/or have never submitted anything. So I have difficulty believing they would actually help much with the workload of going through our backlog. There's maybe one exception who I will be contacting shortly.
I've also been considering setting up some kind of "Assistant Editor" system. This would be for people who don't have the software to create or edit PDFs, but could still be helpful to the editorial staff by fixing naming/categorization issues and flagging uploads as "Duplicate", "Corrupted File", "Banned Doc", "3rd Party Doc", "Bad Page Size", "Provisional Quality", "No Problems Found", etc. when they look through the pending uploads.
I think that having a system like this in place would be a great help to the editors and myself, but it would also require some significant programming effort on my part to set up... so I'd want to know that people would be willing to participate first before I waste my time. Comment here if you're interested.
Posted by sleepy - Friday 30 July 2010 - 10:01:33 -
As the pile of uploads awaiting approval grows larger and larger I think it's time once again to add to our editorial staff in order to help with editing submitted manuals and getting them up to our standards of quality. So, if you think you've got what it takes to help the replacementdocs team produce top-quality game manuals, download this quick test.
Instructions and further details are included in the RAR archive. We are requiring this test just to make sure that you have the knowledge necessary to do the job well and to make sure that you are serious about helping out. If you know your way around Acrobat really well the test should only take you a few minutes.
If the right person(s) come along, we may be adding to the staff within the next few weeks.
Also, if you have submitted a test during a past call for editors we probably still have your test on file. Just send me a PM to let me know you are still interested in helping out and we will keep you in mind.
Re-uploaded Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel manual for PS2. I uploaded if by request a long time ago but it never got on the site, so I try again. If editors have critc, plz let me know so I can improve. Have a nice day! /Peter
About PDF compatibility, you're likely to get different answers from different people. I'm sure there are a few people still running Win98 on dedicated old-school rigs who would appreciate Acrobat 5 compat, if you're going to be upping any old DOS/Windows game docs. But it's your call, regardless.
ZR, After you upload 10 docs (and notify sleepy of such), sleepy alerts the editors to give your submits a quick once over to check for dupes, quality etc., then they give a thumbs up so FC status can be fast tracked.
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