With the exception of a raw of the infamous Porygon episode which I have had for nearly a decade, these raws are the sum total of 5 years’ collection, and 3 years of encoding while not involved with other, more pressing projects…a period of time during which I saw my Pokémon-Originals project implode in a destructive mess of factionalization, and then dissolve back into the original projects that spawned it, a victim of the group’s clashing egos (mainly me and FMA1394).

I don’t consider these the be-all and end-all - better can be achieved through cross-editing, and perhaps through various tweaks to the filter chains. But I believe these are currently the best versions in circulation.

38 is not my encode, obviously. I dug it up about 10 years ago and have held onto it for dear life.

Here you have:

1. The original series (including 3 episodes which never aired in the West) in original Japanese. I won’t say uncut; several early eps feature editing to tone down flashing.

2. As Japanese broadcasters consider it so to be, so do I: a 3-episode version of “Mewtwo Returns” is also included, in the position it takes on Kids Station and which it had on Hulu, following episode 180.

Note that a few encodes are taken from other sources than Kids Station and may be somewhat inconsistent with them; not all episodes are 100% intact (sponsor cards, previews, etc. might be missing from some of them) but the actual content of the episodes is fine. Also, there are variations between the TV masters (even those still aired on Kids Station) and the home video masters!

I have renamed all my older files (mostly from 2013) for consistency with the new ones, and to distance them from the now long-defunct Pokémon-Originals project - also fixed a couple romanization errors. Check your checksums - you may already have these files under different names.