link343 said:
So Video Collector sent me a copy of his Z version a few weeks back. Good news is that it's full. Bad news (if you want to call it that) is that he combined the two mpg files into one. Quality is the same as the VCD circulating on a.b.starwars.
If you want a specific screen capture, just ask.
Here's some thumbnails to tide you over until the upload finishes.
Yeah, and you're welcome by the way. A simple thank you goes a long way towards covering cross-atlantic postage.
I still have the original VCD discs for the Z-version, and they are still readable. I also have Nero Image files of the two discs archived on my harddisk.
Funny thing, if you play them in a PC they autostart a small VCD player program from Sony.
It was just for convenience sake I edited the two files into one for easy access on my computer. In the process I also edited out the +/- 30 seconds of overlapping footage between disc 1 and 2.
The source for this VCD is PAL* VHS SP recording. During the climactic battle over the droid control ship, the VCR's display shows up for a few seconds accompanied by a small jumpcut, just as the ship starts to explode.
*It has an awful amount of ghosting, which may indicate a NTSC to PAL conversion somewhere along the line.
The Z-version is the only one I ever encountered, so going by that I'd say it was the most proliferated boot.