These are mainly hybridizations of the official versions. Because Star Wars home video has such a bad history of colars, I’ve done what’s possible for me to do to make the base sources look good.

And as the changelog describes, there are a few creative tweaks from myself and others that I’ve included editorially. These include the Falcon being seen in a blue hyperspace tunnel in ANH (thanks to Sir Ridley), improved appearance and close-to-original dialogue for the Emperor in ESB (stolen from Adywan’s lawn), and modified vocalizations for Boba Fett.

But, I do like the old school look and feel of these movies and so I don’t want my go-to version to modernize everything. The SE already puts these two things in tension and so for better or worse that’s the model: some of the rougher things are helped (although sometimes just made digitally rough) but the overall feel remains the same. I love Adywan’s work, and I love the work by Harmy and others to present the original versions. This project is the middle ground I’d prefer to watch.

I hope I didn’t go too far. What’s in this box? Oh, it’s a change I considered for a while, but decided against.

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