Version 2 of ROTS Expanded is coming along nicely with a few minor and major changes compared to v1.
All the deleted scenes have been replaced with bryantmh’s upscales, of which are the best I’ve ever seen for the Prequel deleted scenes (sorry Hal)
The Blu-Ray scenes have also been replaced with my own versions, as I scaled them down to 720p and then upscaled them to roughly 2K before putting them back in 1080p. Topaz makes them look pretty alright compared to before. The colour-grading has all been redone for those scenes too.
The last scene in the Rebellion subplot has been shifted around to where it was placed in the shooting script, which is right before the Jedi War Room scene, as not to disrupt the Obi-Wan sequence too much.
The shot of Palpatine’s shuttle approaching Coruscant has been merged with a 35mm scan of the trailer, as done by (I think) williarob. It needs some dirt and speck cleanup to be done, but it looks 10x better than the SD shot from the trailer.
One small snippet that I was never able to get my hands on was mentioned over at T-Bone’s Star Wars Universe, as all his links are mostly dead. Apparently the Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit DVD Board Game includes an alternate line for a Super Battle Droid calling R2 “stubby”. I couldn’t find the clip anywhere so I went out and bought the entire game myself.
Here’s how the clip is presented alongside a trivia question.
And here is my integration into the actual film.
Once I can get the 35mm shot cleaned, I’ll upload v2 in the same place and folder as v1.