SnooPac

NP. dahmage did the work to fix. I just put it up there…

towne32 said:

… Maybe people who have each version should compare checksums of the rars themselves.

The rar’s were fine I think. Pretty sure it came with an .sfv file and I checked it with that. So whatever the problem was must have come during (or after) extracting the iso from the rars.

pittrek said:

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Jedit : Wait a moment, I have now realized I am helping seeding the myspleen torrent. I have a bad feeling that uTorrent has rewritten some of the bytes of the ISO to “comply” with the ISO shared on myspleen 😦

Sorry 😦

dahmage said:

Yep, the myspeen torrent probably modified your file.

Here is difference i have found so far:

a.b.starwars blocks 20004-20078:
CA 00 01 00 D2 2D 7E 00 40 00 00 00 10 1F E0 07 06 0C 0E 29 29 3C 50 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 2E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 51 2C 01 A0 00 00 00 00 2A 49 6D 67 42 75 72 6E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Ê…Ò-~.@…à…))<P…~…ÀQ,. …*ImgBurn…

myspleen blocks 20004-20078:
53 00 01 00 D0 B8 7E 00 40 00 00 00 10 1F E0 07 06 0D 09 32 06 07 4B 21 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 2E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C0 51 2C 01 A0 00 00 00 00 2A 49 6D 67 42 75 72 6E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04

S…и~.@…à…2…K!..~…ÀQ,. …*ImgBurn…

Man that’s annoying. Looks like by my quick count (I bolded diffs), there are just 11 bytes different. 11 bytes! That’s 2.7289303176173536412470897337513 x 10^-8% of the file corrupt. 0.0000000272893%! 😦

Chewtobacca said:

SnooPac said:
By “extracted”, its meant extracted from rar to iso. Iso not modified (intentionally).

Got it!

And this is a rule on myspleen that the rars need to be extracted.

Of course! That was never the issue.

Ok, glad we cleared that much up at least 😃.

dahmage said:

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After looking at the binary diff, all the changes seem to be in the file header, it looks like the author or maybe an authoring date got changed? but How?

That’s the million dollar question. I’m guessing its something in my setup. Bad corrupt disk on my server? Buggy version of unrar? I can’t really explain it yet, but that sucks.

dahmage said:

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Actually, why don’t you just edit your local file using a hex editor. See my previous post for the bytes to change. It is really very minor. Save it and run some checksums, it should match what Williarob posted at that point. THen you can re-upload the torrent. I think it will just be too confusing if i upload a new one, might be less so if you do?

Oh man. OK I can try. But I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it right. Can you please make your .torrent ready just in case I can’t get it right?
Alternatively you could…wait, I’ll take this to PM.

Sorry don’t have time to read all these messages (will eventually) but I’ll try to quickly answer a few.

Chewtobacca said:

This happens every time someone extracts the ISO. Why extract it? Why do anything to it?

By “extracted”, its meant extracted from rar to iso. Iso not modified (intentionally).
And this is a rule on myspleen that the rars need to be extracted.

dahmage said:

Well, SnooPac do you mind if i replace your upload with the fixed file or do you want to fix it? good news is it should only require minor download to sync the changes.

Go ahead. I think it will just be 1 or 2 torrent segments that are bad. Would be nice if you have the ability to diff. I’m curious if its just a few bytes that are bad or something more significant. Even if its just 1%, 1% of that many GB could still be a lot. Probably best to keep file name the same so torrent clients just auto “overwrite” my file and complete the few missing bad bytes? Can also delete the first torrent.

Also I would have tried to confirm the hash after extracting, but I couldn’t find it. Sorry all, my bad.

Very strange dahmage.
The version that ended up on spleen was just the exact extracted ISO from Usenet. No changes were made. Not intentionally, anyway.
Maybe Williarob can confirm which hash is correct based on the original file?

(I also get 183e36fe4591e7f947b9d63d07f1bb920f1039a35e9853355d835e3a33df132f)

I’m also thinking it was the uploader who took it down. Only because it was stuck at 99%!
I’d figure if the uploader wanted it distributed, he would have continued to seed to those leechers still on the torrent?

It’s on MySpleen now 😃.

Thanks for the info/link Density. The only free server I could find would only work at ~120k/s.

For those who still don’t want to or can’t try Usenet, take a look at spleen while its hot!
Also, it will be available on mega at some point in the near future, with links available via PM if you are interested.

Thanks again Rob. Hopefully you don’t have a problem with any of this.

Well the posts were just a few mins apart so maybe he was posting as the answer was being posted…

Sorry to ask, but, available where?

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Editions-Custom-Bluray-Set/id/49995

I’ll have it up on mega in a few hours. If people are interested, pm me. Should be a couple hours (torrent still downloading).
If Williarob or mods or anyone don’t want me sharing mega link over pm, let me know and I won’t.

Don’t want to take this off topic, but I just searched what VHS “baking” is. It looks like it actually means baking!
That’s awesome.

I feel like there’s suddenly a hole in my spleen.

Stinky-Dinkins said:

I didn’t see it in there, maybe I missed it, but what size are they? …

SW 2.7 ISO is ~23gb.

TR2N said:

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Is there something that was changed in comparison to the Mega upload some weeks ago?

Subtitles version 9.2 (9.1 was in mega link).

Hah. Just showing that the skinny-head post from 4 years ago looks like what they ended up doing in rebels.

Bingowings said:

From Rebels:

Are we talking about the guy on the right or left?
😃

Wazzles said:

What about those of us who have triangular tablets?

You can do it towne

Sounds like a fan edit is needed to make this happen 😃.

What do you type in your phone so often that it’s learned to autocorrect to ‘shits’ 😃.

I wouldn’t mind the link as well. Will make seeding even faster later 😃.

eiyosus said:

…How many of us tried to use the force to grab a toy when we were little kids? Unfortunately, the force doesn’t exist in the real world. 😛

Uh…ya, when we were little kids. That’s the last time I tried it too…

OK thanks.

FYI, the NFO of that wmv starts:

=========================================================
The Empire Strikes Back - Grindhouse (version 2-DCP sourced)

Welcome to our second official release, the 35mm version
of The Empire Strikes Back.

---

January 2015,

As a thank you to the OT community, and our fans, we are releasing another early version of the movie. We hope…

So I’m not sure exactly what this is, but it says version 2 (whereas the previous grindhouse was called “v1” within the filename I think).

towne32 said:

VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.

You can definitely watch the m2ts files in VLC. But everything up to and through the crawl is a separate m2ts. So you’d need to click the next one when it’s done, or make a playlist or something. Or wait for an MKV. 😃

So I just tried it (even though it’s still downloading 😃).
I loaded VLC and did “open folder” and selected the whole thing. It queued up a playlist on it’s own, and added both crawl’s (0000, then 0001, then 0002 m2ts files).
Anyway, that’s good enough for me. I’m sure I could set it up to skip one or whatever. I don’t know which one I’d prefer. I didn’t even know there were 2 of them until this thread (ya, I’m a noob when it comes to this original trilogy stuff!).

Thanks again.

edit (sorry, too much of a noob to say Jedit): Those using VLC. There is another (way).
Media->open disc. Then in the dialog that opens, pick Blu-ray radio button (keep the “no menu” checkbox checked), then browse, then go to and select the main “Harmy’s Star Wars Despecialized 2.6 (Towne32)” folder, then click “Select Folder” button.
It then more seamlessly plays just 1 crawl and then the main film (without closing the window and opening it again like it does with playlists).
In this case it chooses the “A NEW HOPE” crawl. I’m guessing if I just rename the m2ts file to something else it would skip it and play the other file.
Ok tried it. Just renaming the 0000.m2ts file to something doesn’t work. But if you rename the 0001.m2ts file to 0000.m2ts (and name the original 0000.m2ts to something else first), then it works.