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For Jedi 2.6, any thoughts on removing the Sega Dreamcast quality Sarlacc appendages? That would be my only suggestion on top of the color adjustments.

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ott said:

i got kk650’s 50GB Phantom Menace… as anyone been able to put this on a BD50?

I don’t really feel like reencoding it so my only other options are USB or splitting the file up on two discs?

thanks for your help. 😃

I have been looking for the 50GB version for months! Can you please send me yours or link me to it? Thank you!

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Does anyone know how to get these edits? I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find them. I tried finding them on myspleen too but couldn’t find them.

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BDawg said:

Does anyone know how to get these edits? I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find them. I tried finding them on myspleen too but couldn’t find them.

They’re on myspleen and not hard to find.

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KK650’s ESB Semi-Specialised Edition does include the theatrical Emperor courtesy of Adywan. See description:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/kk650s-Star-Wars-Semi-Specialised-Edition-HD-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Semi-Specialised-Edition-HD-Return-of-the-Jedi-Semi-Specialised-Edition-HD-Help-Needed-Please-/id/16001

kk650 presents: The Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition

Technical Specs:

Name: The Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition

Size: 15.4 GB

Video: 1920x824 H264 23.976

Audio Track: Uncompressed PCM track based of Belbucus’s 1993 PCM audio mix

Subtitle Track 1: English Subtitles

Subtitle Track 2: Spanish Subtitles

Like many, I was unhappy with a lot the changes that were made for the Special Editions and most recently the blu-rays.

Harmy’s Despecialised Editions are great for those that want to see the films exactly as they were when they were originally released theatrically, but some of the changes (especially the updating of special effects) actually make the films better IMHO, so I decided to make ‘Semi-Specialised’ editions of these films to remove what I considered the bad changes while keeping all the good changes/additions.

After working on and off on these three films for almost two years, the Star Wars Semi-Specialised original trilogy is finally finished.

I hope that you enjoy these releases as much as I enjoyed making them. Do please let me know whether you like this release and if not, feel free to say why. If you run into any problems, also let me know and i’ll see what I can do.

Below is a brief summary of the changes made to this film:

The Empire Strikes Back:

Audio changes:

The emperor’s original dialogue from the theatrical release has been restored

The original voice of Boba Fett from the theatrical release has been restored

Luke’s line ‘you’re lucky you don’t taste so good’ after R2D2 gets spat out has been restored

Darth Vader’s line ‘Bring me my shuttle’ has been restored

New lossless pcm audio track created to fit this semi-specialised edition, based off Belbucus’s excellent 1993 Empire Strikes Back PCM audio mix

Video Changes:

Regraded to remove blue tint running throughout the whole film that was introduced for the first time in the special edition DVD and was carried over to the blu-ray

The original emperor from the theatrical release has been returned (my thanks goes to Adywan for the original emperor footage taken from his Empire Strikes Back colour corrected ‘purist’ edition)

The digitally added sparks for the blu-ray in the scene where chewie is trying to get c3po from the dwarves have been removed

All extra shots of Darth Vader going back to the Executor and the arrival on the star destroyer that were not in the theatrical release have been removed so they do not interupt the escape of the millenium falcon

Lightsabers made more consistant so they are not constantly changing colour, Vader’s lightsaber is now red all the time rather than turning pink.

The latest, v2.6 in 22GB, is on the 'spleen.

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stretch009 said:

BDawg said:

Does anyone know how to get these edits? I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find them. I tried finding them on myspleen too but couldn’t find them.

They’re on myspleen and not hard to find.

Really? I searched for them on myspleen and there were no torrent links that I found for them.

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Tip: try “kk650” in search field…

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BDawg said:

stretch009 said:

BDawg said:

Does anyone know how to get these edits? I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find them. I tried finding them on myspleen too but couldn’t find them.

They’re on myspleen and not hard to find.

Really? I searched for them on myspleen and there were no torrent links that I found for them.

Search: kk650
there you go…

edit: unbelievable, zigzig posted at the same exact time.

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stretch009 said:

BDawg said:

stretch009 said:

BDawg said:

Does anyone know how to get these edits? I’ve been looking all over the place and can’t find them. I tried finding them on myspleen too but couldn’t find them.

They’re on myspleen and not hard to find.

Really? I searched for them on myspleen and there were no torrent links that I found for them.

Search: kk650
there you go…

edit: unbelievable, zigzig posted at the same exact time.

I did that too and I still couldn’t find them. Can someone just PM the torrent links to me? Or send me a link to the myspleen page that has all of the links? Thanks.

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alexp120 said:

KK650’s ESB Semi-Specialised Edition does include the theatrical Emperor courtesy of Adywan.

They mean his ESB: Revisited Emperor, not his restoration of the theatrical Emperor. Two different things.

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ChainsawAsh said:

They mean his ESB: Revisited Emperor, not his restoration of the theatrical Emperor. Two different things.

My mistake, sorry. I don’t think that this one is on the spleen.

Oops.

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I’m curious on a couple thing as of recently. It seems with paradox down for Doc Brown knows how long, It seems he’s become a little active on the spleen. Hopefully that version ESB 2.6 with the 04 Emperor will come out and the ROTJ 2.6 (With choice of You Nub or Victory Celebration) will be coming. Hopefully in time for The Last Jedi. Side note after reading what Hal 9000 suggested, that would be a interesting replacement of the Emperor using Ady’s revisited version. My 2nd curiosity. Now with that impressive Star Wars Technicolor Recreation by NeverarGreat, I wonder if he’ll take some elements to maybe add for a 2.7 of A New Hope ? Being is was mostly sourced from the blu ray, he could put the falcon training scenes from that being in that version the lightsaber through and through is blue. Like I’ve mention months ago, that part in his regrade with the 2011 shots from the blu ray of the falcon training was what made it so come close to being perfect as a whole. I guess time will tell.

All my life as I looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never in my mind did I know where I was, what I was doing.

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So, for someone new to the party, what are the options these days for actually obtaining the semi-specialised edits?

MySpleen accounts are no longer available and tehparadox is gone. Do I just have to accept the fact that I’ve missed my chance and will never get to see these?

Seems like such a waste that kk650 is doing such great work but newbies like me are unable to access it.

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Other than my spleen I can’t really help you. I can tell you I’m working on my own “custom” special edition and I’ll try to make it available via other means when its ready. Actually ANH is done and ESB is almost done but I just haven’t released it yet.

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Spectrum said:

So, for someone new to the party, what are the options these days for actually obtaining the semi-specialised edits?

MySpleen accounts are no longer available and tehparadox is gone. Do I just have to accept the fact that I’ve missed my chance and will never get to see these?

Seems like such a waste that kk650 is doing such great work but newbies like me are unable to access it.

I have plans to put up the latest Semi-Specialised Editions as public torrents as well as a new regraded V2 The Force Awakens release and also the regrade of Rogue One I did last year when we get closer to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi.

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Possessed said:

Other than my spleen I can’t really help you. I can tell you I’m working on my own “custom” special edition and I’ll try to make it available via other means when its ready. Actually ANH is done and ESB is almost done but I just haven’t released it yet.

Are you planning to regrade them as well?

I’m curious to see what colour choices you make if you do, especially for Star Wars.

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Well, sortof. I don’t plan on doing a full extensive shot by shot regrade as I don’t terribly mind the 2011 colors overall just doing a blanket correction that fixes the overall darkness and red faces using the settings specified in this thread (http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Original-Trilogy-Blu-rays-SPC-Single-Pass-Corrections/id/54847) that just sortof takes the 2011 color timing but makes it more appealing and natural looking.

The other main draw of mine will be that they will have all re rotoscoped lightsabers and blaster shots courtesy of a user here named telecine7, but that’s a whole other topic.

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kk650 said:

Spectrum said:

So, for someone new to the party, what are the options these days for actually obtaining the semi-specialised edits?

MySpleen accounts are no longer available and tehparadox is gone. Do I just have to accept the fact that I’ve missed my chance and will never get to see these?

Seems like such a waste that kk650 is doing such great work but newbies like me are unable to access it.

I have plans to put up the latest Semi-Specialised Editions as public torrents as well as a new regraded V2 The Force Awakens release and also the regrade of Rogue One I did last year when we get closer to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi.

Man, that would be so awesome. I missed out on ESB 2.6 and I was really looking forward to that one. Unfortunately I forgot to download it before tehparadox went down 😕

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kk650 said:

Spectrum said:

So, for someone new to the party, what are the options these days for actually obtaining the semi-specialised edits?

MySpleen accounts are no longer available and tehparadox is gone. Do I just have to accept the fact that I’ve missed my chance and will never get to see these?

Seems like such a waste that kk650 is doing such great work but newbies like me are unable to access it.

I have plans to put up the latest Semi-Specialised Editions as public torrents as well as a new regraded V2 The Force Awakens release and also the regrade of Rogue One I did last year when we get closer to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi.

That sounds like an excellent idea! Looking forward to it.

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I have plans to put up the latest Semi-Specialised Editions as public torrents as well as a new regraded V2 The Force Awakens release and also the regrade of Rogue One I did last year when we get closer to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi.

You would’nt believe how much I was happy to read this ! I have the Original Trilogy in LD, the SE on DVD (bad images…) and the Despecialized edition in BR (except the end of ROTJ with Victory Celebration that crash every times !). I can’t wait to see the semi-specialized editions of yours ! Please let me now !

When you have to shoot, shoot ! Don’t talk.

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kk650 said:

Spectrum said:

So, for someone new to the party, what are the options these days for actually obtaining the semi-specialised edits?

MySpleen accounts are no longer available and tehparadox is gone. Do I just have to accept the fact that I’ve missed my chance and will never get to see these?

Seems like such a waste that kk650 is doing such great work but newbies like me are unable to access it.

I have plans to put up the latest Semi-Specialised Editions as public torrents as well as a new regraded V2 The Force Awakens release and also the regrade of Rogue One I did last year when we get closer to the theatrical release of The Last Jedi.

Any updates on this? I haven’t been able to find your stuff yet.

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I should have the regrades of The Phantom Menace and Rogue One ready to put up as public torrents either later on today or tomorrow. The regrades of Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and the Force Awakens hopefully a day after that. Finally i’ll put up the current versions of the Semi-Specialised Editions.

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kk650 said:

I should have the regrades of The Phantom Menace and Rogue One ready to put up as public torrents either later on today or tomorrow. The regrades of Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and the Force Awakens hopefully a day after that. Finally i’ll put up the current versions of the Semi-Specialised Editions.

Please do point me in their direction when you do! Just found out about your work!