So I just downloaded this laserdisc preservation, and I'm liking what I've seen so far. The colors alone make it worth it. Whether they're accurate to the theater or not, they're what I remember from my VHS tape as a kid, but with more detail. Unfortunately, the lack of alien subtitles is making me hold off from burning it to a DVD just yet. Has anybody made a subtitle file to go with this, or does anybody know what changes to the time code would need to be made to get subtitles meant for a DVD rip to line up with the right parts of this one? It's pretty obvious that an .srt or .ass file meant for the DVD wouldn't work without tweaking, since the Pioneer logo and everything is part of the file. Not to mention changes like the extended pod race scene further screwing up the timing -- if it were just adding the time for the logos, I'd have done it already and probably linked an upload here for anyone in my shoes.

Alternatively, is Adywan's reconstruction still floating around out there? I've looked, but for the life of me I can't find it. Not the DVD ready version, anyway. I found the AVCHD version on a torrent site, but there aren't any seeders and I'd have to convert it, anyway, potentially mucking up the audio if it's at a higher bitrate than 448k. Myspleen is missing pretty much all of his edits, for some reason. I'm kind of interested in that disc anyway because it has some nice special features and because DVD encoding and authoring is a major PITA on a dual core machine.