UPDATE (28/06/25): I have just bought the 2000 Japanese, Spanish, Dutch and German DVD releases of the film (though the Dutch is a 2-pack with the second film), which means more foreign dubs of the film will be included in the upcoming V2.0 update, I may also include the Digital LaserDisc tracks once the new ESI U24XL I just recently bought arrives and captures PCM audio perfectly. Other things that will be included in this update are a new closed captions track ripped from the raw LD capture I did, which was decoded and exported using VEGAS Pro (since SubtitleEdit is terrible at converting .SCC to .SRT), then saved to an .ASS file, using a CC style I made. And because of the Dutch DVD, it will now include the 5.1 Flemish track alongside the 2.0 track the Dutch DVD has. I even made V3.2 of the theatrical reconstruction audio since I did one minor change to it. Why did I switch to 3.2? Well, it’s because I remember that I actually did 2 versions before it. V1.0 is just the untouched DTS LD track with the right channel increased to 8.5dB, V2.0 being the one that was close to V3.0, while V3.0 itself is the same as 2.0 restored from the MKV file, while restoring the closing logos as close as possible. V3.1 changes the right channel again so that the mono parts sound mono enough, while 3.2…well you already knew. I decide to go with V2.0 because of the huge amount of dubs I’m expecting to include once they arrive, however I will do 2.1 as well once I got the Italian release and the French Anthologie set, since the French/Australian release include the Arabic dub and subtitles (I think) as well. Though I still need a quest to find the other pre-2005 DVD releases, including the Finnish/Swedish release to complete the inclusion of Scandinavian dubs, all NTSC releases including the Korean, Hong Kong and/or Taiwanese DVDs, and the Mainland Chinese VCD for the Mandarin dub for the Mainland dialect, though I don’t know if that dub was also included on those Chinese DVDs. If any of you happen to have those DVDs, feel free to PM me the link, but I highly recommend you decrypt them into an ISO file using MakeMKV’s backup feature since they would obviously be copy protected, and for VCD, use ImgBurn. The Blu-ray releases are welcome too, but make sure that the foreign tracks that Disney used is based on the 1995 theatrical mix. For easy spotting, compare the LFE channel from any theatrical 5.1 English track to the foreign track you have, if they match, then it’s the 1995 mix. If more samples of the LFE channel were used, such as the sound of Rex stomping as he’s about to scare Woody (as it was not in the theatrical mix), and something like Buzz punching Woody, the deep rumble from the claw machine, then the dub used was based on the 2005 mix, especially since I know about it a long time ago when I was scanning the channels for the Flemish dub, since it seems Disney didn’t bother to remix the dub to match the new mix, similar to what they did with the Hungarian dub. Of course, TV exclusive dubs are also allowed, but since they might be Dolby Surround downmixes, make sure you listen carefully to the out-of-phase surround channel of those dubs. If you hear the out-of-phase surround channel coming from the footsteps for Andy and his friends as they head back downstairs after playing around with Buzz for the first time, or the sound of the claw coming down as it’s about to catch Buzz, then the downmix is based from the 2005 mix. The theatrical mix don’t has those sounds coming from the rear channels as well. Oh, and VHS is welcome too, but make sure you have the best sound quality possible, such as a well calibrated VCR, a 24-bit audio capture card, and has to be saved in lossless FLAC, since I’m pretty sure none of the other foreign dubs are available on DVD, nor even officially until broadcasted on TV, though I would love to see a higher quality stereo VHS or DVD recording of the original 2004 Russian dub, since the mono one I have from an old torrent, is the best that I got. And yes, I know someone did try a stereo mix, and all it does is add a stereo spread filter, implying that the low quality speed adjusted (no pitch change) mono mix from its custom 5.1 mix is the best we have. Voiceovers are welcome too, but make sure they’re the ones that are officially approved by Disney themselves and were broadcast on an authentic TV channel that legally broadcasts programs. And for dubs, this means than the bootleg Persian and Albanian dubs, and the Russian voiceovers are not allowed, unless one of them was authentic since I got no detail about those Russian voiceovers from The Dubbing Database wiki, aside from the Yuri Zhivov voiceover, since that was a bootleg. So yeah, hope to keep you updated once it’s finally ready. And yes, you are free to do bit-perfect LD PCM (or analog if it doesn’t have that) of the foreign LD releases too. Though I would like to know what the second Japanese language option was on the Japanese version of the Deluxe Edition LD. Is it the mono downmix of the Japanese dub, or a Japanese isolated voiceover track for the commentary, similar to the Japanese Star Wars Definitive Collection LD set.
Oh and remember when I included the AD track from the 2005 UK DVD? I want to include it not just to support the visually impaired and blind, but because it uses the Dolby Surround downmix of the original theatrical mix, and since the narration was done presumably in-house by Buena Vista Home Entertainment themselves, hence the American narrator and no credit from the company that did the AD track, it would obviously work for American viewers too since I’m from the UK. Though I might think that there might be others before this one as well, such as one made by WGBH Media Access for the Descriptive Audio VHS release that I presume exist, considering that they’re extremely rare to find on eBay, and a British audio description track made by the Royal National Institute of Blind People and IMS as proven here: (https://web.archive.org/web/20030609082532/http://onlineshop.rnib.org.uk/display_product.asp?prodid=1742), which were also extremely rare.
Hopefully we’ll get these audio tracks as soon as we can.