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Post #1049689

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CatBus
Parent topic
International Audio (including Voice-Over Translations)
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Date created
23-Feb-2017, 5:33 PM

Okay, I’ve completed the whole Czech trilogy (first dub, early nineties) and they’ll be available in the usual places shortly. This is the first time I’ve effectively “despecialized” soundtracks that weren’t Special Edition tracks to begin with. But the tracks were so problematic that simply adjusting the sync offset wasn’t good enough. So it’s authentic in the sense that it’s all based entirely on OOT material, but it’s not the original badly-dubbed VHS experience, if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s patched together from multiple sources, spliced and diced and heavily adjusted. It how the early nineties release might have sounded if they’d done the sync right. Artistic license was taken, not every problem was fixed, yadda yadda.

I’d rate the Star Wars track as very good, the Jedi track as very good with one major hiccup (the aforementioned Emperor scene), and the Empire track is… eh, let’s just give that one a “most improved” award, shall we? It’s still pretty bad, but it’s watchable now IMO.