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Info Wanted: International 1997 SE audio questions

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I am curious with what is available in terms of foreign language dubs (and subs) for the 1997 special editions. For what languages are such things available? I have heard that the 2004/2011 audio mixes could be synced to the 1997 Episode 4 almost perfectly (the most noticeable difference would be the infamous Han shot first scene, but since his “Yeah” is cut off it would go back in sync shortly after), but Episode 6 and especially Episode 5 are kind of out of luck with syncing…unless somebody wants to do more than edit the beginning of the audio files…

Thanks to the GOUT, various foreign language audio recordings of the original trilogy are readily available, and even where it is lacking Harmy’s despecialized EP4 has several different languages, and the other original trilogy episodes will have more coming on the way as ESB and ROTJ eventually get their 2.0’s…

That leaves the 1997 at the short end of the stick.

So i guess my question is this:

What foreign language dubs are available for the 1997se? (You can count the 2004/2011 audio for ANH, but it must be labeled as such. 2004/2011 ESB and 2004/2011 ROTJ don’t count.)

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I'm 99% sure there is a Polish voiceover used in at least one VHS release and TV broadcast. It's not available anywhere on the internet though.

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For Episode IV, stick to the 2004 mix, add a delay at the beginning and you'll have nothing more to do. The Han-Greedo shooting is the same. That's what I did to make a French dub of Harmy's Respecialized Edition. If you want to use the 2011 mix, then the Han-Greedo shooting is different (shorter I believe), so that you'll have more editing to do. Plus the 2011 mix includes the new scream Obi-Wan makes to scare the Sand People.

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The 97 Special Editions were also dubbed in German.

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There are German and French PAL laserdisc of the 97se trilogy (as well as English), plus Italian PAL VHS Hi-Fi Stereo; I used them for my SET project.

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