For some reason the Japan Special collection set has much nicer colors than the other laserdisc sets and less denoising of the image. The first u.s. domestic widescreen set was derived from the same master, but the transfer is less nice than the japan release, very odd.

Can't wait to see what you've accomplished here with these Laserdiscs,

If it's anything like your first version you did with segaflip but without the subtitles and centered better on screen, than this should be the best Ntsc transfer period. aleast until the XO project is completed sometime in our lifetimes.