Ooh this is a fun idea! Is there a good methodology or technique or uhh camera app for document scanning at home? I’m seeing vimm’s manuals could make use of some color versions, higher resolutions, and maybe even just general redundancy in case of regional or version differences.
Also cool note, midnightmeattrain’s resources link to this fantastic nintendo resource for WiiU software AND HARDWARE documentation ゲーム機本体・周辺機器・ソフト 取扱説明書（Wii U）｜サポート情報｜任天堂サポート
so much so that Ratalaika’s recent reissue/loc of the Sunsoft SFC game Shounen Ninja Sasuke (“Justice Ninja Casey”) clearly swiped their manual scans for the embedded gallery, grime and all:
FWIW, someone at Ratalaika recently said an external party has been handling the wrapper on their more recent reissues; their wrapper/frontend has conspicuously changed as of late, and not for the better, so I could believe it wasn’t their purview.
The semi-recent Gimmick! reissue, dev’d/published by a different studio, also contained publicly scanned materials, so I almost wonder if Sunsoft themselves might be sourcing this stuff online and giving it to licensees who don’t know any better—Sunsoft’s own internal archives are relatively comprehensive, so I would hope that wouldn’t be necessary, but stranger things have happened.
@Kiki I am at GDC right now but I have the game at home. I’ll check next week if the answer hasn’t arrived by then.
I have the four issues of Sega Saturn Magazine that have not been scanned, or at least never made available in Sega Retro. I wish I would know to whom I could safely entrust them, so that they could be archived properly. Maybe the VGHF via @exodus ?
Does anyone happen to own a copy of Yuji Naka’s Prope developed 2011 fishing game Fishing Resort for the wii and would be willing to scan the manual?
I’m playing through it on streams in the IC adjacent discord and like streaming it kinda made me not pay much attention to the fishing mechanics and although I love the vibes I’m kinda lost at sea as to the in-depth fishing mechanics. Also by posting I just learned this game is rare and expensive but of course an XSEED published 2011 wii game is rare.
Their names are ラビッキュ (Rabikkyu) and デビニャッチ (Debinyacchi). Probably as in Cupid Rabbit (or Cute Rabbit) and Devil Cat. Cupid in the angel / cherub sense, not the money sense. He/She comes from Ｑpid village. They are both explicitly described as being respectively a rabbit/bunny (usagi) and a cat, in case your audience (or your own criteria) is extremely strict on which character qualifies as a bunny.
Romanization is left to our collective imagination but i’d probably go for something literal (maybe Rabbikyu and Devinyatchi) on a Twitter/Bluesky thread. For an actual localization, I’d probably try something a bit fancier like RabbiQ and DeviMyao.
ラビッキュ (Rabikkyu) and 
デビニャッチ (Debinyacchi). Probably as in Cupid Rabbit (or Cute Rabbit) and Devil Cat. Cupid in the angel / cherub sense, not the money sense. He/She comes from Ｑpid village. They are both explicitly described as being respectively a rabbit/bunny (usagi) and a cat, in case your audience (or your own criteria) is extremely strict on which character qualifies as a bunny.