Reupload of an older torrent, I'm not the author and merely reuploading.
This upload includes v2 of certain episodes that had some issues that are now fixed.
Special 1 used lower quality audio, this is now fixed.
Episodes 076 and 242 had audio not synced with the video, this is now fixed.
Episode 146 had wrong next episode preview in the audio, this is now fixed.
Episode 227 had wrong subtitles, this is now fixed.
Special 1 fixed by original uploader.
Episodes 076, 227 and 242 fixed by sonkun2018
Episode 146 fixed by Anonymous
Example screenshots:
https://a.doko.moe/pbpndm.png
https://a.doko.moe/yutdic.png
https://a.doko.moe/pshwgd.png
https://a.doko.moe/jrmeya.png
Decent amount of grain is preserved.
Here's YouTube video with what you can expect in terms of audio, though slightly worse than this upload because of YouTube compression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISnWtcd3-L4
Original description:
"For six years, all I had to work with of the original broadcast audio was the first 17 episodes, and maybe a couple loose episodes from later in the series. Then suddenly, the rest of the episodes fell into my hands. Almost the entirety of the Japanese audio is now from original broadcast sources. The video sources are the Funimation “Levels”, so far as they existed (including 5 episodes from XBOX Live that were not released on BluRay); their version of the Dragon Box (with the episode footage color-neutralized as well as I could); and additional DVDs for the specials. Where I used different sources for video and subtitles, the subtitles are presented as .ASS text subtitles. For the other episodes, the bulk of the project, the subtitles are the Vobsubs taken from the DVDs, and amended to synch with the new audio.
Note: Unlike some of my previous DBZ releases the audio tracks here are only Japanese 1.0/English 2.0"
These are the same encodes as the old torrent by WinxBloom1980 that got deleted by original uploader for some reason, except the audio in a few of the episodes that have been v2 fixed has been adjusted to fix timing issues.
@boobychan -- i think original torrent was taken down because people harassed the uploader.
i don't think the original uploader did this either. the harassment was bad.
i guess whoever uploaded this got around it by doing it anonymously.
of course whoever did this, it doesn't matter; people are going to be horrible to the original uploader anyway, because there's no way to prove it wasn't them.
No drama please, just leave that out of here, this is purely for people who have been dying to get their hands on this rare release.
And before anyone asks, i'm not the uploader but i did have access to these and am seeding now.
finally, it's back. lets work hard to make the comments as much of a shitshow as last time.
>Was the original torrent taken down due to some drama?
yep https://i.imgur.com/3Zpa356.png
Well, this is my review of the torrent, based on the original upload. It really is a very good encode. The video files are indeed color corrected to a certain point, but that's far from everything that was made.
Firstly, it's a little zoomed in. I beleave it's due to image stabilization. The encoder reverse-telecined the video so that it is ~24fps progressive instead of ~29.9fps interlaced (which is very good). Also, the encoder changed the original resolution of 720x480 (and the pixel aspect ration is 17:18, if you do the math (it may be different)) to 680x480 (probably with a standard pixel aspect ratio of 1:1). There's obviously compression and therefore it lacks grain a little bit. It has a soft look, but it does not make the encode any bad.
The only thing I bevieve was really unnecessary is the image stabilization. I rather have the jitter image than faces and bodies unconfortably and oddly huge on the screen. That is already a problem in the 16:9 releases, although in this torrent is MUCH less severe.
Unlike the original Japanese Dragon Box, the preview for the first GT episode IS included in the last episode. And finally, I noticed that the chapter file (which separates: intro - part 1 - part2 - outro - NEP) of some episodes are missing, but that's not big of a deal.
I have a DBZ project too. I converted all the .VOB subtitles to .ASS format just like the first 39 episodes are. What I am currently doing is syncronizing the subs and the original broadcast audio to the raw R2 Dragon Boxes from this torrent: https://nyaa.si/view/937283. I'm pretty sure I'll end up with ~500GB in total. I'm basically prioritizing the grain and the sharpness over the color correction, image stabilization, reverse telecine and the convienient smaller video files sizes. Also, I don't care about the english audio.
I have already 90 episodes done. :)
PS: All of the my review is, of course, are just details. Although screenshot don't do justice to the actual video, here are screenshots from R2 Dragon Box for comparison:
https://a.doko.moe/onqjjb.png
https://a.doko.moe/gzgerc.png
https://a.doko.moe/duqeze.png
https://a.doko.moe/cxvssk.png
This gives an idea of how good the encode is compared to an uncompressed version. To me, the compression is only really noticible when you compare them at full screen.
>@Anonymousse
Romao, can you share your retimed .ASS subs for this?
Do you mean 'converted' instead of 'retimed'? I'm retiming them to the R2 version, they were already syncronized with this torrent.
But there are problems with them. The vertical position of the lines varies a bit and some are with wrong font style at the opening. There's also the problem that all of the linebreaks are done manually asigning two vertical positions for two lines with the same time instead of using the '\N' command. This is all because of the automatic .VOB to .ASS conversion. All of the manual corrections I made was on the 90 episodes retimed to sync with the R2 source (I fixed the episode 227, for example). Although I'm certain that there no typographical error, the .ASS subs timed to this torrent are very flawed.
>@Diogo_23
Will you share it with us? :D
I'm planning to, but my upload speed is only 5 megabits per second. Maybe I will release only the subs and the audio. Or maybe I will realease all of it and seed for a month and hope for a hero to keep seeding.
Romao, even still if you could share the .ASS subs that work with this torrent I'd be grateful, those problems you mention seem minor and ultimately I'll take clean subs with minor issues over VobSub any time of the day.
@Anonymousse
Fair enough. :)
I've just fixed episode 227 for this version, since it was unwatchable with the old sub. The only difference from this to the original VOB subs is that, in episode 274, Buu went to a cake store and the original subs misspelled "choux à la crème." :D
Repeting: this version is full of flaws; feel free to fix it. Sometimes, the major fix needed is to replace all "Dialogue4" by "Dialogue1" within the file.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uw3p543t0w4x1k5/dbz_subs.zip/file
Note: You will need PutoInsanity and Funimitation fonts in your matroska file (or installed in your pc) for these fonts to work.
@Diogo_23
Ok, I will do that later. :)
Here's an album comparing the color differences between this pack and the r2 dbox's if anyone is interested.
https://imgur.com/a/dDQjzsT
The colors in the r2 dbox seem more saturated (I think that's the right term) while the colors on this winxbloom1980 pack seem brighter. I'm not sure if this difference is due to encoding or a difference in source material. Also like Romao said, the video source for the winxbloom1980 does seem a tiny bit zoomed in.
Seeing passionate folks like you guys trying to make the best possible version is so refreshing, considering all the drama. I wish you guys all the best working on your projects.
boobychan, the colors in this indeed were color-corrected a bit because the Dragon Box colors are completely wrong and are very skewed towards reds.
You can see it in Goku's gi which is basically red in Dragon Boxes when it's supposed to be orange.
The color correction seems to be of minor nature though since sky isn't as blue as it should be and whatnot but that's due to aging of the film from which Dragon Boxes were source and color correcting all episodes by hand scene-by-scene would without a doubt drive a person insane so I don't blame the author of this for not fully color correcting it but just giving it enough of a pass to fix the more glaring issues.
And DBM, the original upload was removed because the author apparently got harassed and doxxed by angry collectors who were selling this audio underground and weren't happy their golden goose got cocked.
@Anoymousse
If that's the case, then I appreciate this pack even more.
Also, does anyone know how the level set episodes in this pack compare to the ones from iKaos's torrent pack (https://nyaa.si/view/1054232)? iKaos used the encodes from [Grupa Mirai] as his video sources.
@boobychan The level sets in this pack are 720p but with a slightly higher bitrate. I could tell the difference in resolution on my TV though which is why I sought out a 1080p source when I decided to do my project.
The bitrate on the Dragon Box encodes in this release is a bit low for my liking. Of course the real gem is the Broadcast Audio.
@ikaos Oh I see. I remember trying to compare them on my monitor and they looked nearly the same to me so i ended up deleting winxbloom's and keeping yours since yours also had the Ocean dub. Although my monitor is only a 1080p 60hz so maybe that's they looked the same to me.
edit: actually, i looked at them again and the difference is pretty apparent. Nevermind.
@DBM
It was removed because there was a lot of drama about this audio getting released here. There are people who put a lot of work into obtaining and encoding this audio and they were trying to get Toei interested in using it for an official release, but I imagine Toei won't be very interested in working with them and using their audio recordings when they are pirated all over the internet
@Anonymousse
I don't think anyone was selling it underground, they were trying to get it used on an official release. It was only shared with a small group of people, mostly those who contributed broadcast recordings from their own collections
For anyone interested there is a Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box rip on Reddit that was originally uploaded on Demonoid in 2009 [BJ79].It is 136 GB total, 480 MB per episode (2000 kb/s video bitrate) and it isn't filtered or color corrected in any way.I used the video from that rip with the WinxBloom Broadcast audio and the Funimation Dub with the Faulconer music and the subtitles from the Blu-ray rips for the BUU Saga because I couldn't stand the quality of the Final Chapters.
I don't understand why you wouldn't want corrections though considering Dragon Box footage is all kinds of fucked due to film deterioration.
@Bodhi
It was being sold by some people, here's proof:
https://i.imgur.com/dVTTZ70.png
https://i.imgur.com/UiAW5Dk.png
https://i.imgur.com/XR75M1g.jpg
Only a very small group of others actually wanted to get Toei and Funimation to do something with it but Toei said no and while Funimation took it, they also can't release it because Toei told them no.
Everyone else was an asshole collector that didn't want to share or straight up sold it as proven in pictures above.
Now can we please move on from this topic that has been ridden into the ground already?
Just enjoy the torrent, I know I am.
>I couldn’t stand the quality of the Final Chapters
@Rom69 what do you mean by this? Are you talking about Kai: The Final Chapters? Is it just because of the green tint that the final chapters is considered so bad?
@Anonymousse
No disrespect for the original uploader of these files.I think everybody is grateful that he decided to share the broadcast audio, but there are also people that just want Dragon Ball Z rips without any image alteration even with the commonly known problems.
@H94
I don't know if I'm allowed to share links from other sites here but this is it: https://www.reddit.com/r/megalinks/comments/5q9u2k/tv_dragon_ball_funimation_dub_japanese_and_dragon/
@boobychan
The Dragon Ball Kai Final Chapters are notorious for a green tint over the image, worse and not-fitting music as they changed the original composer, 16:9 aspect ratio and leaving much filler that contradicts previous episodes.
@Rom69 what do you mean by changing the original composer? You mean changing from Yamamoto to Kikuchi due to the plagiarism incident? Or you don't like Yamamoto to begin with? I personally think that this scene with Yamamoto's music is superior to the original with Kikuchi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBuRlN17UyU
@boobychan
I was talking about Sumitomo.The ideal would be for me to let Yamamoto finish the series.Or after the plagiarism incident use Kikuchi's score with the appropriate scenes as close as they could with Dragon Ball Z and not what they ended up doing.
@Rom69 I Knew someone would end up mentioning that release. Man that release cuts the bottom of the screen a bit. I had downloaded most of it but opted for these and ikaos release of 1-39. You can compare if you like. Already did myself
That link had nice video encodes (better cropped than this torrent pack), but unfortunately the file size is a bit bloated because it has english dub + kikuchi music which sounds really scuffed and has 640 kb/s. Extracting each one would be too of a hassle for me.
Also, the transfer rate limit for mega.nz is too much of a hassle.
Guys it seems I made a mistake.The Dragon Ball rip from Reddit isn't the same with "[bj79] Dragon Ball Z - Dragon Box [H.264.AAC][DVDRip][Dual.Audio][Eng.Subs]" that was posted at Demonoid in 2010.That was 108.89 GB total with crf video encoding and doesn't have seeders anymore.
@boobychan
I used MKVToolNix to add the Broadcast audio and the Funimation dub with the Faulconer music to the Boo Dragon Ball Z episodes.For the previous sagas I chose KAI and used the Yamamoto soundtrack for all 95 episodes that he had created and also added the fan-made Faulconer one.I solved the 5 GB limit problem for MEGA.NZ simply by restarting the router every time the notification came up.
@Rom69 Unfortunately I can't change my IP so easily so I have to use the Windscribe VPN method.
>For the previous sagas I chose KAI and used the Yamamoto soundtrack for all 95 episodes that he had created
You used the Kai audio for the dragonbox? How did you sync them?
>also added the fan-made Faulconer one
you mean the one someone did on kanzenshuu? http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40195
@boobychan No! I replaced the Kikuchi soundtrack in Kai for episodes 53-95 with the original soundtrack that Yamamoto had created for these episodes. I found that on Kanzenshuu as well as the fan-made Faulconer one that you posted the link. For the Dragon Ball Z rips from the Dragon Boxes for episodes 200-291 I added the Faulconer OST with the English dubs that Funimation used for the Orange Bricks.
Hasn't anyone created subtitles for the Buu-Kai Arc that was broadcasted in Japan? It seems that only 10 episodes were different from the international version so the subtitles from the Final Chapters should synch perfectly with the remaining episodes.But every Japanese Blu-ray rip that I find is RAW.
I can also confirm the link Rom69 posted wasn't bj79's release but is an unaltered encode of the Region 1 Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box. The password is "megalinks" (without quotation marks).
@boobychan Seems like you are willing to start something. I personally use three softwares: mkvtoolnix, audacity and aegisub. Audacity is good to sync audio wirh audio and aegisub to sync the subs with the video/audio files. Knowing how to do some scripts also helps a lot.
@Rom69 That mean you can separate the sound and the BGM ?
Also, Do anyone where to find the BGM of Z ? i found the release in 2006 with 3 cd collection. I don't expect it full every score. but still shock how little it is. i don't even find out the score of some of most iconic moment
If anybody else here used Chrome's MEGA extension this past week to download the links Rom69 posted (or anything else from MEGA using it), there was an unauthorised update which allowed the extension to steal passwords and crypto keys. For more information to find out if you've been affected and what to do: https://torrentfreak.com/rogue-mega-chrome-extension-stole-passwords-and-crypto-keys-180905/
If anyone is looking for the original funimation audio to sync with the dboxes, I've extracted them here:
https://mega.nz/#F!2fhg2KyY
decryption key is !2VNJ3Et4Ia3Os8b26u73Pg
Okay. Why the hell were all the Japanese credits, lyrics, and episode titles scrubbed from the videos? It's bullshit, and removes the point of watching it with the OG audio. The video is butchered with the removal of the credits, lyrics and episode titles. Fix this. It pisses me off.
It doesn't even feel like I'm watching the original Japanese broadcast at all. I feel like I'm watching a butchery of the original broadcasted video.
@Anonymousse . When the title card is supposed to come up, there is no Japanese text, just the english subtitle for the episode The intro and ending have no Japanese text for their respective credits and lyrics. There is no Japanese text for the next episodes title.
Actually, despite their lack of tact, samuraisnake is right, the WinxBloom1980 Level Set encodes have the text scrubbed from the title cards at the beginning and end of each episode - I believe this was done to avoid using the English titles, as there is no Japanese title card present on the Level Sets. Assuming the video files are the same here as in the original upload, then I imagine this is still the case. This was one of the reasons why I used a different source for my encodes.
@samuraisnake You must be talking about Level Sets then which DO NOT HAVE a Japanese release. Japan never made a Bluray remasters of DBZ ever.
Funimation did the Level Sets exclusively for Wetsern market but dropped them after 39 episodes due to being expensive to remaster and the discs not selling all that well and instead opted for god awful shitty 16:9 cropped aggressively filtered DVD upscales.
Level Sets is the absolute best quality we have for DBZ episodes 1-39 so you bitching about lack of JP text in those is frankly retarded.
Seek psychiatric help dude.
Beautiful.
I'm glad that this torrent has been reuploaded.
I downloaded the torrent when there was drama and I think it was pathetic. All that crying and moans from those who supposedly wanted to collaborate with Toei. Bullshit. They sold this torrent in other places and that's why they went out to complain. Collecting of all kinds is full of selfish and ill-intentioned people.
But i don't give a damn about them. I am willing to contribute and upload again the files of this torrent as many times as necessary.
And I do not care about being doxed. I don't even live in the United States or Europe. Fuck them.
Greetings to all who enjoy sharing.
Hi, original encoder here. ;)
Someone asked about the blank title cards on 1-39 and surmised that it was to conceal the English titles. You're 100% correct. ;) I edited them out myself.
Also, I agree with what Mr_X said about the people creating drama over these files. *The reason they created drama is because I killed their golden goose.* That's really all there is to it.
@sarachikorita
Thank goodness you commented. So, I tried to download this via torrent web, and the videos crash after a few seconds when I try to play them. Should I just wait a little longer or is there something wrong?
@sarachikorita
Thank you for making the torrent this one basically copied. Toei would never have used broadcast audio in an official release so I'm glad you went and uploaded it for common DBZ fans like me to enjoy. I truly appreciate your work, and I'm sorry people doxx'd and threatened you =( I will torrent and then seed this as much as possible. Screw them.
if i want sync broadcast audio with bluray rip how long should i delay in ms?i just learn about mkvtoolnix, but cant be sure about sync it perfectly.can someone help me?
Are there no English subtitles past episode 39? They aren't appearing. Regardless, eternally grateful for the hardwork people have put in restoring the original broadcast audio, even if I can't understand it lol
This is my preferred way of watching DBZ. Of course an updated version of this torrent with Team Mirolo's V3 sync would be amazing, but as someone who primarily watches DBZ on a laptop with only 1 TB of storage this is perfect for me. If you want to watch DBZ and don't have the money to buy hard drives for the raw remuxes Romao made or iKaos' release this is a perfect alternative. Also as far as I know this is the only Broadcast Audio sync for the R1US Dragon Box.
Best Dragon Ball Z video tbh.
https://nyaa.si/view/1331089 - Tons of Audio Choices
https://nyaa.si/view/1331090 - BA JP only
Don't need this anymore, unless for archival/historical reasons.
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