twistybit

Wow, an actual reply!

I've found a possible lead on the ending footage... As for the audio, the best I can do, unfortunately, is a VHS tape.  I don't think it was ever released on anything but VHS... and despite this, it's good enough to watch.

Do you know anything about the Southern Cross footage used in the movie?

I got about 10 minutes synced the other day; the movie is almost like they applied a Blender to Megazone. One of the very first shots is the very last shot of the oav reversed.

Hey there,

Long time reader… and a used-to-be poster, however, I completely forget what my username was here so many years ago.

So any oldschool anime fan probably knows about the Robotech movie, and how it was a huge flop. <span style="line-height: normal; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech_The_Movie</span> What exists out there for it is pretty much some captures from VHS. The Movie blendered Megazone 23, some scenes from Southern Cross, and a whole new animated ending together.

Currently I’m working on a project to restore Robotech: The Untold Story to DVD quality using the recent Megazone 23 DVDs, the recent Southern Cross DVDs, and footage from the international version of Megazone 23 part 2 (the original ending sequence.)

I’ve always wanted to watch this in better-than-VHS quality, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I feel this weird chapter in the Robotech saga needs to be restored and preserved.

Currently, I have everything but the ending sequence in DVD quality.

So I’m coming here, hoping for some help. 😃

-First, the hardest. I need the alternate ending. This is just a matter of finding someone who happens to have one of the two following DVDs. They’re both the ‘International’ version of Megazone part 2.

–First is the extras disk for this game: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PS3-Megazone-23-Aoi-Garland-Limited-Edition-USED-Japan-/370159606164?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item562f3b5994#ht_1985wt_1022  It’s a DVD with this International version on it, and it has, at the very beginning, the original footage.

–Secondly, there was apparently an extras disk you could get for ordering all three parts of Megazone in Japan that also has this version of MZ part 2 on it.

I’m hoping someone out there happens to have one or the other, and is willing to pull the scenes off the disk for me. The game is 70 dollars, and that’s pretty steep for a game I’m not going to play.

-I wasn’t a big fan of the Southern Cross portion of Robotech, so I have no idea which episode the footage they pulled for this movie is from. I have Southern Cross, I just don’t know which episode to pull the footage from. If someone has an idea of which episode(s) this movie pulls video from, that would be awesome.

-I need to figure out which font they used for the titling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYxduwj7DLU&feature=related here. I haven’t done any searching yet, though the font looks super familiar.

I need to figure out where the generic starfield/cosmos footage from the beginning of the movie were from. I need to ascertain if this is yoinked from something like Macross, Southern Cross, or Mospeada, or if it’s completely original footage they created.

Thanks so much for your time!