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Post
#99834
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99834/action/topic#99834
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Originally posted by: atodorovic
perhaps an off-topic question for this thread, but can anyone here shed a little more light on the 'Code 9 Trilogy', I've had the covers for it for a while now, and am wondering if this really exists, and if so where might one be able to obtain a copy of it...

Thanks
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The Code9 is an honest bootleg - It's a 3 on 1 DVD copy of the official DVD's - the DVD's that we talk about here are FAN Preservations and Edits.

BUT yes this was and still is a torrent out there somewhere...

Post
#99827
Topic
“Re-Making Magic DVD” (My Little Project on the CD-ROM “Making Magic”)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99827/action/topic#99827
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Originally posted by: GuruKenn
Hi,

Just wanted to fill you all in on a little project I have been working on. It was very frustrating for me that I have not been able to use my CD-ROM “Making Magic” on my Windows XP system. “Making Magic” was included as a bonus CD-ROM in one of the Lucasarts re-issue game bundles a few years ago, and does not work with newer operating systems.

What I have done is make a high quality VGA to S-Video capture of all the CD-ROM content, and I am now in the final stages of re-assembling it all using Adobe Premiere Pro 6.0, Adobe Encore-DVD and TMPGEnc encoder. The format of my “Re-Making Magic DVD" will almost exactly match the one on the original CD-ROM, and the video quality is very close to the original. The hard part of this project so far has been re-constructing the menus and the menu buttons. It has been slow going as I am also learning the Encore DVD software at the same time.

I know that most of the content on this title is in the realm of the Special Editions, but there is some out-take footage of the original Han & Jabba scene from Star Wars that cannot be found anyplace else. I also placed the Star Wars lost scenes from the “Behind the Magic” CD-ROM as a little Easter Egg off one of the menus. So with that content included, this title should fall into the Original Trilogy Preservation category.

Any Comments?

GK


If I have ANYTHING that can be contributed please let me know!


Post
#99589
Topic
MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99589/action/topic#99589
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Originally posted by: oojason
casualimp - I'm looking forward to his v2 of The Clone War too m8, and if it's on dl dvd that'd be even better.

IIRC Rikter mentioned that MagnoliaFan is quite busy on another project at the moment, so I suppose we have to patiently await to see what he comes up with in his v2 release, and for his take on Episode 3 (prob some time after the dvd release?).


Hey there gang!

Yep - it's true MagnoliaFan is SUPER busy with a few other projects, a few of which will be REALLY awesome and there MAY be a DL set but we will all have to wait and see...

BUT - till then here is a sneak-peek at my new covers

Episode I: Balance of the Force - Prototype 01
http://home.comcast.net/~blaksvn/MagFan_01_-_Type_01_Sample.jpg

Episode II: The Clone War - Prototype 01
http://home.comcast.net/~blaksvn/MagFan_02_-_Type_01_Sample.jpg


Some elements were lifted from other sets as I was lacking - 1 font and I have now idea how to make things 3D with photoshop yet (Again THANKS Russ for getting me the Bodega Sans!!!!)
Post
#99503
Topic
<strong>The &quot;EditDroid&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99503/action/topic#99503
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Originally posted by: spoco2
One really big question is begging to be asked here....

Why even use DVD Decryptor with these fan made discs? Surely the Only purpose of it is to get around encryption, which is never an issue with these discs.

Why not just copy the disc onto your PC, and then onto another DVD disc. Or, if you have two drives, just straight from one to the other?

On another note, I completely stopped using DVD Decryptor when I discovered DVD Shrink... so very easy to use in Decrypting, shrinking, or reauthoring... create piece of work.



It can also spot errors in the disc - SOMETIMES if I use Nero to make an image some errors can be ignored making the disc a copy with write errors - DVD Decryptor catches these rare errors.

I do not copy official DVD's PERIOD - My DVD collection consists of 12 other DVD's besides Star Wars (Singles,B5 The Gathering, Batman, The Death of Batman, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Halloween, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Dune, Blade Runner and Space Balls) - I've only watched the discs MAYBE once (except Nightmare )
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#99431
Topic
<strong>The &quot;EditDroid&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/99431/action/topic#99431
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Once upon a time in this very thread the EditDroid creator(s) wrote:
[forwarded by Dr_Gonzo] "To those who don't understand our
wishes to keep a lid on the distribution of our product, I say that it
is our desire to remain in a third camp, one that would like simply to
produce these discs for ourselves and our friends, and not worry about
quality control down the line, generational issues, Lucasfilm legal, etc."

And now ReverendBeastly who started the thread (and sent the copy to Rikter for distribution ???)
boasts of having never burned a disc compliant with the DVD-Video standard.

Quality control indeed !

And Rikter is trying to find the missing JACKET_P and DVD-ROM contents.

Generational issues indeed !
O the irony....


Maybe I should clarify what I meant. I have never burned a DVD that I authored in any other manner than just burning a data DVD with the folders. Any time I am copying a single-layer DVD, I always rip a disc image rather than copying the files and folders. I would also like to point out that Rikter was never trying to find the JACKET_P and DVD-ROM contents of A New Hope, as they were included on the disc that I sent him. The DVD-ROM content was included in his torrent and the JACKET_P folder was available as a .rar file after he realized that he forgot to include it in the torrent. I had no hand in the distribution of ESB and ROTJ, so I can't speak for the missing contents on those, but I can tell you that the disc I sent Rik was practically a carbon copy of the disc I was sent.



Yep, he speaks the truth - WHEN I copied the disc "DVD Decrypter" did not copy the original JACKET_P folder so I did not include that in the torrent BUT I did grab the DVD-ROM folder I excluded the the JACKET_P folder as I thought it was a useless folder that some DVD authoring software had included - I'VE nevere seen a JACKET_P folder before and Adobe Encore, TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6, ULEAD and Nero have never created one so I tossed it.... I did update it with a .RAR file so those that wanted to include it could (This only effects SOME with Sony DVD players and some Denon DVD decks).

THE next DVD's I got were from three (3) OTHER fans and EACH one did not have the DVD-ROM folder - THIS happens as DVD Decrypter only copies the VIDEO_TS and the AUDIO_TS folders....

SO, when the discs are copied it DOES not include the DVD-ROM folder so if your not aware that the folder is there it can be overlooked.

We have to remember that NOT every fan is Super Tech Savy and things like this can happen.

DVD Decrypter is a good program and I will always use it, but ALWAYS explore the disc for extra features now and I suggest to ANYONE planning on coping a FAN created DVD - Explore the disc for extra folders and copy them over also