Encoded the series of Pokemon into MKV h.264 format with English Audio.
Finding this series was kind of easy, but it was hard finding it with DVD like quality. All of the others were very grainy or blurry and the quality of others was driving me nuts so I decided to make a higher quality version out of the DVD.
NOTE: (This is a re-upload and not a re-encode, so it is the same 2012-2015 uploads as the ones that got lost when the torrent sites it was on went down, only this time they're all bundled together in one torrent instead of by individual season)
**SCREENSHOTS**
Season 1
http://imgur.com/a/WsLGw#0
Season 2
http://imgur.com/a/1hIRY#0
Season 3
http://imgur.com/a/7iz5J#0
Season 4
http://imgur.com/a/zE7Ex#0
Season 5
Did not take any this time
I love your work!
Would you be interested in adding a fan restored dub of Beauty and the Beach along with the audio of Todd for ep. 51-53 to your collection?
@SilverFang
Beauty and the Beach was an episode that only aired once in English and never shown again (likely to Ash and Co stealing a boat). This episode was recorded on VHS but in terrible quality. So many uploaders of this episode matched it to the Japanese release and just hard-subbed the scenes that were deleted in the dub. With the Fan restored version the English audio was still matched with the Japanese release, However with the deleted scenes removed as if it were the original dub and a custom crafted title screen with typewriter lettering to match what the original title screen would have looked like.
As for Todd Snap, in the DVD releases of the episodes: Pokemon Paparazzi, The Ultimate Test, and The Breeding Center Secret the character from Pokemon Snap was called Snap, however when airing the episodes some legal stuff happened with a cereal company so they had to change his name to Todd, thus creating Todd Snap.
my beauty and the beach (actually was made by AtoMan) is not uncut, it is to simulate the actual dub release so it does not have the Japanese only uncut scenes. But it does have the English Title screen instead of the Japanese one and the Who's that Pokemon segment with Pidgeotto both of which is missing from darkdream's copy (and most of everyone elses). As for the quality, the video is the same source as darkdreams (Japanese dvd) and the audio come from the only English airing of this episode. (If darkdreams audio is clearer then I might use his to replace the audio in AtoMan restoration)
running out of characters so will continue in next post.
For the Todd Snap episodes. the dvd release (just about every copy pokemon you can find) uses the name Snap, while in the copy that I made you can change the audio track to say Todd if you wish. The video source is DVD rip though wasn't encoded the same as darkdreams (I would love to use his video for this) and the Snap audio is DVD as well, however the audio track that says Todd was never put on DVD, but I was able to find it on Netflix, so I ripped the audio from Netflix and simply added it as a second track to the DVD release of the episodes: Pokemon Paparazzi, The Ultimate Test, and The Breeding Center Secret. I am currently seeding them (slowly) if you wish to check them out for yourself. And if it is okay with darkdreams I would love to redo these episodes using his release.
Ah I see, thanks for the explanation.
You can ask him in his website, but you need to register:
http://blackstaranime.forum.com.bz/t158-darkdream-high-quality-anime-archive-future-release-plans
Just give him credits if you are uploading without asking him.
Extracted the subtitles and chapters from the DVD, episode 18 is excluded:
https://ufile.io/vb3l7
Subtitle from the DVD is having different positions, and sometimes overlapping each other but on different places, the timing is not that good either.
Tried to fix but gave up, thats why the first episode is different compared to the rest.
Maybe someone can fix it, and later add it to the blu-ray encode.
SilverFang: can you extract the chapters and subs from the other seasons from dvd? I will make a pokemon upload next year hopefully, this could be a great help for me. THX!
@kopygamez
Perhaps if nice Blu-Ray sets come out. Those Super Wallet DVD Sets are too hard to come by and I have not been able to get ahold of them to encode any more Pokemon episodes.
@Naughty_Gardevoir
Season 1 was the R1 NTSC. I only did the super wallet sets because the other seasons were not released in R1 at the time of me encoding those seasons.
R1 NTSC would suffice if their even released in R1 and or of good quality when compared to the Super Wallet Sets quality.
@DarkDream787
If it is just a matter of obtaining R1 NTSC DVDs then I believe you can get every DVD of the first 16 seasons here.
https://nyaa.si/view/625112
Hi guys, which is the best way to go after this to complete the series?
I noticed you guys refer to this one alot https://nyaa.si/view/625112 so that's probably what i'll get next. The thing is, i'm new to encoding and am a bit worried that i'll mess it up and have to download another release. There are a couple more packs around but i'm not sure which is the most complete/has better quality.
By the way thanks @DarkDream787 for the upload, great stuff you have here.
@Nysalie
If you are wanting to encode the series yourself then that like will provide you with DVD rips which are the best place to start with, however if you are just wanting to have the series in a video format such as .avi, .mp4, or .mkv then there are many torrents that can help you complete your collection.
Several of the late season 5 episodes are actually random episodes from Pokemon Chronicles, thus the actual episodes they're labeled as are missing.
Not to mention a lot of these episodes are misnumbered to begin with and season 5 was suppose to go all the way to 276 not 264. For example: 264 - Pop Goes the Sneasel is actually some episode from Pokemon Chronicles here, but had it been the real Pop Goes the Sneasel episode it would be numbered 267.
As such anyone who downloads this, I recommend you go through each episode one by one and ensure it's the episode titled in the filename by checking the title screen at the end of the OP. Then following an episode guide, renumber everything to proper order. Then you'd see which episodes are missing and can go get them from PM-Dragon's (they have worse video quality but better audio quality since they didn't re-encode lossy audio) release.
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