Would love to check this out. Could you send me a link?
Those names are not familiar. Someone linked me a Mega folder, but the vast majority of his rips were the exact same as I had, which I downloaded in 2011.
The three episodes I did were from the best cap source available at the time, one that had somewhat flickery colors, but was complete and slightly undercut, from Toonami UK.
Oh, that’s strange. Last time I talked to Arien he seemed to believe you were a friend of Clutchins going by the name of usotsuki over on Kametsu, guess he was mistaken.
Yes, I also have the TVrips you’re referring to. Most of those were collected on the now closed Cartoon World forum from back in the day. However, since around 2014 Dismantles revealed on Kametsu that he’s gotten possession of a bunch of YTV recordings. I’ve talked to Arien about this (who’s a friend of his) and he’s told me that the tapes feature high quality audio of all the Ocean and Blue Water dubbed episodes that aired in Canada, so for DBZ that would start off somewhere around the Cell Games saga when Gohan transforms and continue until the end of the series. The Trunks/Android & Early Cell saga episodes only aired in the UK and Netherlands so they’re unfortunately not available in the same quality.
That being said, last three Toonami links I posted were taken from DVD recordings by a person in the UK called Robo4900. Arien recently made a trade with him in order to acquire recordings of DBZ episodes 115-120 + 192 as well as GT episodes 52-56 + 64. This was a great find, especially for the Android saga episodes which weren’t apart of the YTV recordings.
Dismantles and Arien have talked about doing a remaster similar to yours (using FUNi singles as a video source for authenticity) and have expressed interest in getting help with that. It does appear that it’s taking Dismantles a very long time to digitize the tapes though so no word yet on when the audio will be made available.
With all these new sources a new remaster is bound to happen, it’s just a matter of when.
Ad?
The extent of my DNR is a filter called MDegrain2.
I edited my previous post to get rid of the ad, so that’s why you don’t see it anymore.
Anyway. I found your episodes and gave em’ a watch. I think your visual censorship edits are pretty seamless. As for the whole DNR thing, I didn’t notice any blurring or smudged images so ignore what I said earlier. You seem to know what you’re doing.
Have you been in contact with users named Arian and Dismantles over on Kametsu forum by any chance? They’ve told me that they’ve managed to acquire better audio for a lot of Ocean’s later Euro/Canadian dub. It would be fantastic if you all could eventually combine your efforts to make a definitive remaster.
Here are some examples they’ve shared with me to give you an idea what their audio rips sounds like:
https://youtu.be/dht89KATlxg
https://youtu.be/CI8IlfnPpyU
https://youtu.be/zSxSCjKsWTw (Clean stereo audio)
https://youtu.be/0RE-CmHm8RM
https://youtu.be/i9R1lUG2n7Q (Please note that the original credits sequence has Goku zipping off screen, unlike the current remastered credits sequence)
I just released 3 episodes of Z on Nyaa.
Looks pretty good, however, I recall a user on another forum doing something similar to the footage a few years ago. While close up and mid shots looked fine, any wide shots and especially long shots, would look incredibly smudged or blurred due to his DNR settings. In the end he considered it a failed experiment and left the footage as is. I’m not sure if your process is similar (I’m new to this forum and haven’t found out how to track down your episodes yet) but I just wanted to make sure you weren’t making a similar mistake. I’m very interested in eventually finding out more about your remasters.
Oh and that ad that was posted earlier wasn’t me. It appears my account was hacked somehow, sorry bout that.
Revenge of Boba Fett.
TV's Frink said:
Just load the movie into Google Translate. Done.
Well I'm pretty sure the films weren't translated word for word. Anyway I'm not so much looking for translations as I am interested in the stuff that might have been changed or altered slightly for foreign viewers.
If there's nothing unusual about the translated versions at all then I guess I can end my search but I'm just curious.
Since I only speak English and can only really understand the English versions I'm interested in finding out more about translations of the Star Wars films as I wonder if there have been any strange mistranslations or weird edits in other countries. Can anyone help me out?