Glad to hear the project is back on, the new shots look really good.
Looking forward to this one.
Whish I could help with a project name but I’m hopeless at naming things lol all my projects are named project hope, project empire, project Jedi and so on🤦.
I’m new, be gentle.
I’m looking for some assistance. I followed the step-by-step instructions for the downloads. I have the .rar files for the .MKV version. I’m using 7Zip to unpack.
The instructions state than when you unzip the first file it should combine the files or something to that effect. That isn’t happening. What is happening is after I unzip the first file I see a video file. I go to play it and I get a copy of the film voiced over in some Eastern European language.
What am I doing or not doing right here?
Edit: I managed to get the audio working but the following tracks will not play. This is while attempting to play back on Windows 11 Media Player.
TRACK 1) 5.1 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 70mm six track mix)
TRACK 2) 2.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 35mm stereo mix)
TRACK 3) 1.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1977 35mm mono mix)
File part02.rar is also saying incorrect password.
Hi Fanafel,
I could be wrong but I’m guessing it’s the 7zip that’s not extracting all the files as 1 file.
Not used Windows for awhile but have you tried highlighting all the files and right clicking on the 1st one and then select extract.
Or maybe trying extracting each file individually (pretty sure you will get an error message tho).
Hi all
Just wanted to share this find, while just having a browse at my local Currys/PC World just wasting some time I seen this on offer in the bargain bin section so thought I would share it here incase anyone was interested.
https://www.currys.co.uk/products/bitty-boomer-portable-bluetooth-speaker-darth-vader-10273122.html
I did pick one up, the sound is ok nothing great or special but only got it mainly for display and listening to an occasional podcast.
I think you can share clips and trailers but not links for the full edits. I’m just guessing tho so best to wait to hear from someone with knowledge lol
Hi Merculix, thanks for introducing yourself and welcome to the OT.
Just watched Brazil (1985), always put off watching as never thought it would be something I would enjoy but I really loved it and to top that off jumped onto ebay and picked up the 3 disc Criterion collection dvd for £11 bargian🙌.
I highly recommend the Hal9000 PT and OT edits and Nightstalkerpoet’s Gout upscales and why not his Phantom Menace upscale for good measure😅.
Myself🤔 is a tough one, 🤞possibly adywan’s ANH Revisited HD, possibly Hal9000’s Empire strikes Back and Nightstalkerpoet’s gout Return of the Jedi.
Could change by may '26 tho lol
Just ignore those red labels on the ‘food health bar’ 😉 Goes down well with either a cuppa or a tipple…
😂😂I’m diabetic and occasionally suffer from selective colour blindness🤣🤣.
If you haven’t tried the Aldi’s fruit and Nut I highly recommend.
Also goes down well with a cuppa😉.
Hi everyone, longtime Star Wars fan (since early childhood) and recently heard about the D+77 project, it looks absolutely amazing. I own legal copies of the films, and would like to obtain access, for personal viewing if possible. Still finding my way around the forums. Google brought me here after I searched for information about the project, but I haven’t been able to locate any details on how to access it. Any help would be appreciated, many thanks!
Just a suggestion but maybe try sending oohteedee a pm asking how to obtain a copy or 00jason has an excellent thread for new members here
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/An-Index-Of-Projects-Help-Thread-for-Star-Wars-Preservations/id/57297
With information.
If all else fails I know their available on torrent sites.
Have a good browse around and I’m sure you will find plenty of cool and amazing projects here.
😂😂🤦Fairplay that’s given me a good lol
This is amazing, very good work NSP. Haven’t seen puppet Yoda since '99 lol quality of video is awesome considering the source.
Thank you very much for sharing, it’s very much appreciated.
Awesome news, thanks Spence.
Love your Kenobi edit so looking forward to the improved technical change.
Thanks benduwan👍, think that’s the same one 00jason shares with me, has all the links listed.
I used JDownloade to get the ones ofd youtube👍
Thanks 00Jason, I know their quiet old and available on YouTube but thought maybe helpful for someone’s project. I run an Emby server at home and use them as extra features.
So unfortunately, I might have lost all my data to a PC failure. The computer fell off of a desk, was refusing to turn on (proably forever, its an old computer anyway) and I am still waiting for the shop I contacted get back to see if the data can be recovered. All I have left is the trailer and screenshots.
For the moment this Fan Edit is temporarily on hold, though I am planning to get back to it. I do want to try fan-editing some other Star Wars Content first, however…
I’m pretty bummed that it failed, but I’m hoping I can soon recover and get back to it. I was already an hour and a half into editing the film’s new VFX, and was planning on sending a whole bunch of new screen shots and clips (which are now gone) this week.
😔That sucks sorry to read this MK.
If its not a mechanical hard drive you might be ok but guessing as you said it’s and old PC it is.
I would get a cheap sata to usb adapter first to try the drive before paying out for any data retrieval.
Update: 24/11/25
Sorry if this inconvenience’s anyone but I no longer have these available. I decided to make room for more important preservations as these are already available.
Old Original Post
Hope I’ve posted this in the right section
Hi all, on my recent star wars binge and journey I started watching a lot of the old documentaries on YouTube and 00Jason was kind enough to share a txt document with me that contains a list of available documentaries online.
Unfortunately anything that’s on YouTube isn’t forever and can be taken down without any notice as I found out the hard way as there was an amazing documentary about the Port Talbot Plaza Cinema which I used to love watching.
Anyway I decided to download some of these Star Wars documentaries run them through handbrake so they are in all the same format of x265, ac3 stereo and uploaded them to my Mega account to help preserve them.
Here is a list of what I’ve managed to get.
Behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM special effects makers.
CBS 60mins The Phantom Menace preview (April 1999).
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga.
George Lucas: Academy Class of '89.
CBS Fox home Video intro 1983.
CBS Fox home Video intro 1984.
Star Wars THX intro 1997.
Oliver Harper’s Retrospective/Review: Star Wars.
Oliver Harper’s Retrospective/Review: The Empire Strikes Back.
Oliver Harper’s Retrospective/Review: Return of the Jedi.
Ralph McQuarrie: Tribute to a Master.
Star Wars: Classic Creatures Return of the Jedi 1983.
From Puppets to Pixels, the digital characters of Episode II.
Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: Behind the Scenes.
Star Wars within a Minute: The Making of Episode III.
Star Wars Empire of Dreams (Full).
Star Wars The Beginning, the making of Episode I.
The characters of Star Wars featurette.
The Empire Strikes Back: SP-FX.
The Empire Strikes Back 30 years later: A conversation with the masters.
The Making of Star Wars 1977.
The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (by Michael Parbot 1980).
Obviously these are quite old and mostly old TV VHS rips that have been uploaded to YouTube so the quality isn’t exactly amazing or even great but thought they are nice to have.
If anyone would like a link please just send a PM, not requests in thread/post please, a polite pm goes a long way.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and take care.
Like a lot of the other comments it really does depend on what you are watching but would also mention it will also depend on your setup also and do you feel the need to upgrade.
Myself I’m perfectly fine with bluray or dvd and not so long back I purchased a bluray player that upscales to 4k (it doesn’t play 4k discs but upscales the bluray to 4k) either way Terminator has never looked better on my 12" portable b&w😂, all jokes aside my tv is 56" 4K and the picture on dvd is just as good compared to bluray to my tired old eyes.
I know this is an old post/thread but only wread it on Friday and actually lolled.
Good work guys, loved the comment “He isn’t building a Wampa or a Star Destroyer (not unless it’s out of Chocolate Hobnob packets and Timotei bottles)” 😂😂🤦.
I purchased an audiobooks Star Wars: The old republic - Revan. Really enjoying so far, got 5hr 46 mins left.
Will leave a review in the appropriate thread when finished.
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Update
27/12/25
So what started out as a very simple cut and paste job of just the opening title/crawl lead to down a path of editing to say.
I don’t by any means consider these to be edits but more of a tweaking an edit to fit more in line with what I want when it comes to the Star Wars movies.
I was first introduced to my first fan edit around 2018/2019 when a friend showed me Hal9000’s Cloak of Deception and I will hold my hands up I was very reluctant to watch it as at the time I wasn’t expecting the quality of work to be any good and was expecting something amateurish.
What I saw blew my mind I could not believe what I had just watched and was in a slight state of disbelief that a fan had done this and made all these improvements to something I had hoped to avoid and never have to watch again.
That one single edit brought me here to the OT and everytime I scroll through the forum I’m blown away by what the fans are doing and have seen some incredible work and some amazing changes that even seem so small or little have an impact on how the film is now seen and plays out.
Originally my “so called edits” were just title/crawl cut and paste from Hal’s main PT edits back to their original title/crawl, not really taking in or thinking about why Hal had done this to begin with. Along the way I realised that I could do a little bit more by just cutting and splicing at the right time or scene, doing this I was able to re-add the Otoh Gunga scene and the Yoda V Palpetine, so at first I was very happy and proud of my efforts I just couldn’t rest at that, I started getting into the forums more and reading people’s posts about what they did or didn’t like and some radical ideas which then took me deeper down a rabbit hole of wanting to do more.
Now as I have mentioned and don’t want to keep mentioning I do not consider these edits but more of a slight tweaking, I haven’t done anything radical or reinvented the wheel with these but just altered something so it’s more in tune with what I want. I don’t take or want any credit for any of these and have left a edits used with my cutlist so all credit goes to those people who had not just done some incredible work but also were amazing enough to share and encourage me to do so also.
With each cutlist I have also included a link to the original editors post/thread to their edit as I think it is important especially for new comers to check these out as they are what has inspired my edits.
Here is my plan so far, I will update this as I go along.
There are further details about these at the end of my planned cutlist.
Star Wars: Project Deception.
**Updated - 3/1/26
Edits used - Main Source Blu Ray Rip, Hal9000 - Cloak of Deception (for C3PO AI backstory and Deleted Probe Droid Scene).
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Episode-I-Cloak-Of-Deception-Released/id/15663
Used Original TPM Title/Crawl.
(After some back and forth and using the orignal title and crawl or Hal9000’s Cloak of Deception I have decided that now having to revisit once again to revert back to the original title and crawl for the main reason of I love Hal’s CoD edit and want to be able to have both in my collection, so going forward I will now only be using the original title and crawls. Apologies to anyone who has been following and prefers the CoD but hope you understand the reason behind the change back).
Cut Neimoidians line “Are you brain dead”.
Cut battledroids lines “Roger, Roger”, “Uhh Ohh” and the Jedi fleeing the destroyers.
Cut Jar Jar’s line “Yousa follow me now, Okie day” as the Jedi follow him into Lake Paonga.
Made various cuts and trims of Otoh Gunga - Jar Jar being arrested, Boss Nass interaction with the Jedi, Jar Jar’s line “Count me out of dis, better off dead here than at the core, my gods what’s amesa saying”.
Cut Jar Jar explaining why he was banished.
Cut Neimoidians “you didn’t tell him about the missing Jedi” cuts to next scene after interaction with Lord sidious.
Cut battle droids line of “Roger, Roger” when asked to take take the prisoners to camp.
Cut Qui-Gons line “that won’t be a problem” after Captain Panaka says “There’s too many of them”.
Trimmed Qui-Gons interaction with battle droid when escaping Naboo, cut Quigons repeating that he’s taking the queen to coursunt and battle droids line of “uhhh that does not compute”.
Cut Jar Jar stepping in poop when they arrive on Tattooine.
Cut Jar Jar antics in Watto’s shop.
Cut Qui-Gon trying to use his Jedi mind trick on Watto and trimmed their interaction.
Used Hal9000’s A.I generated line for C3PO.
Cut Shmi and Anakin explaining about their implants and them blowing up.
Trimmed Anakin fixing up his pod racer, cut JarJar antics.
Cut mention of Midi-chlorians during Qui-Gon and Anakin’s interaction.
Used Hal9000’s A.I generated line about him not leaving his last mission in one piece.
Moved probe droid scanning tattoine before race to later.
Cut and trimmed various parts of pod race - Cut almost all of two headed announcer/commentator, cut animal farting in JarJars face, cut Jabba the Hutt completely, moved tuskan raiders to later and some reaction shots.
Moved probe droid searching Tattooine to when Anakin is freed and leaves home with Qui-Gon.
Added deleted scene of Qui-Gon cutting down probe droid, clip provided by Phase3 but ended up just using clip from Hal9000’s CoD.
Cut/Trimmed Jedi temple scene so there is no mention of Midi-chlorians.
Trimmed Qui-Gon and Anakin’s interaction about Qui-Gon not being allowed to train him and anakin mentioning mediclorians.
Swapped scenes round - after Jar Jar returns from Otoh Gungan explaining that it’s abandoned we then cut to Neimoidians and Darth Maul interactions with Lord Sidious, then cut to Jar Jar, Queen Amidala and the Jedi finding the Gungans to then queen Amidala going over the plans with Captain Panaka, the Jedi and Boss Nas, cut Jar Jar being promoted.
Various cuts, trims and scenes moved round of battle of Naboo, mainly following Hal9000’s Cod but with some little/minor alterations - Battle droids Roger, Roger line cut, Anakin is told to stay in the ships cockpit, trimmed and moved his line of “We gotta do something R2” now just hear him off camera saying “we gotta do something” followed by some beeps from R2 as the queen is being attacked by destroyer droids, The ship he’s hiding in takes off on autopilot, cut Anakin’s lines “wooah this is intense” and “I’ll try spinning, that’s a neat trick” that’s just a few of the various trims and tweaks.
Trimmed Qui-Gon asking Obi-Wan to train Anakin.
Trimmed Obi-Wan’s interactions with Master Yoda.
29.Used Hal9000’s CoD end Credits, to thank and include everyone who has contributed to changes used on his edit as this is mainly based off of his ideas used in CoD.
Special thanks and credit goes to Hal9000, JarJarBricks and Phase3
Star Wars: Project Rogue.
Edits Used: Main source - Hal9000.
Special thanks and credit goes to Hal9000.
Some Tech-Specs and Info for those who are still interested in these.
Hardware used:
My PC setup is not complex or ott but just a simple Dell T3600 that I was originally using as a home media server with a Intel Xeon cpu and a nvidia P400 gpu.
Software used:
I’m a Linux user and haven’t used Windows since Microsoft discontinued Windows 7 so I use xubuntu, which is very light weight and bloat free.
Tools used:
Mkvtoolnix
Avidemux
Handbrake
Audacity
Kdenlive
Ffmpeg
I thought I should list what I’ve used in hopes of maybe encouraging some of the new members that join to just simply ask “hey I love Hal’s RotJ but would rather see Force ghost Hayden” or like myself I love his PT edits but wanted the original title/crawl and show that you don’t need an overly powered pc even some of the basics are achievable on an old laptop.
Mistakes were made:
Sigh quite a few times and a lot of the time the same mistakes made more than a couple of times.
Originally for my TPM edit I had managed to get hold of Schorman13s HDTV capture, I love the colour grading and the roughness of it as in grain so set out from there to achieve what I did consider my own full blown edit, lol always check your source material first 😬🤦, I hadn’t checked to see if the subtitles for Watto were burned in and they weren’t which means I would need to add them manually, that’s not to much of a biggie I know how to do that but how do I then get them to match through out the rest of the PT, no problem I’ll use Hal’s edit for those scenes, first mistake, then I get to the Jedi temple scene with the council and realise I got puppet Yoda 🤦ok I’ll just use Hal’s again for this scene to and when I’m done I’ll just colour match the clips😅yeah right lol not as simple as I had thought lmao.
OK back to drawing board this time I got a friend to rip my blu ray for me and he took it literal as just the movie, no subs or audio lol.
Attempt number 3 I managed to source another copy but same mistake as the first no subs😩.
Ok, ok I’ve done it I managed to get hold of KK650 regrade🙌yeehaw
But not sooo fast lol after getting everything set all the scenes right and affects added I watched it back to realise I had just made pretty much copy of Hals🤦ffs lol.
Ok so here we go again I use both of Hal’s edits along with kk650’s regrade to get the scenes added I want, all done affects in place audio sorted and rendered out🙌.
Not sooo fast, so I have the edit a quick once viewing skipping to the adjustments to make sure all was good and all was, so to make free space I delete my files and just keep the rendered file.
What could possibly go wrong right?
Well first I should have checked the edit in full because I forgot about one scene and when I got to the No promotion for JarJar the transition seemed janky 😭.
So unfortunately learning things the hard way but sometimes that’s the best way so will try again lol.
(Sharing this info to show how much work I have put in and that it’s not all as simple as it seems).
P.S
Please no spamming for requests, a simple polite pm goes a long way so please keep thread comments for questions and reviews.
alright i finished them all!
here is the link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15x2nMC8SGa_L-E0RrEFZH6we_LjWm1WE?usp=sharing
Amazing work LTD, thank you very much for sharing.
I’m very new to the Star Wars EU but listened to my first audio book last week. Did a Google search of where to start with the Legends books and gave Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void by Tim Lebbon, took awhile to get into but really enjoyed and highly recommend to anyone who hasn’t read/listened to it or like myself just starting out with the EU.
Here is a link to the wookiepedia site that gave a list of where to start, if anyone is interested.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Legends_books#js
After revisiting quite a few times recently lol just want to say I love the new additions like 3po’s back story. I had an idea not sure if it’s possible but thought it may be worth mentioning, one would be Anakins line to padame when they first meet, would it be possible or doable to change his line from "Are you an Angel? " to "Are you a Princess? " thought it may help show how strong anakin is with the force as she is the queen also another idea would be Shmi’s line of “you have given hope to those to have none” to “you have given hope to those who had none”.
Sorry if these have already been thought of and I know they don’t really bring or add anything but I don’t know lol just spit balling.
OMG this looks incredible, the vfx look outstanding as the changelist sound just as amazing as the new effects do.
Some really out standing work being done by PixelJoker.
