Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
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Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
The stuff out of Hawaii can't be considered a fansub as it was intended to go out on a commercial TV channel. Had lots of tapes starting with DB in 1992 and ran until Funimation made them stop subbing at about DBZ 114 if I'm not mistaken. Was nice to have first gen right off the air tapes of the show and not have to rely on craptastic quality CD-Rs with Mpeg 1 video...
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mpeg 1 video? You were lucky! .rm video of these were the most common versions to get a hold of!dougo13 wrote:The stuff out of Hawaii can't be considered a fansub as it was intended to go out on a commercial TV channel. Had lots of tapes starting with DB in 1992 and ran until Funimation made them stop subbing at about DBZ 114 if I'm not mistaken. Was nice to have first gen right off the air tapes of the show and not have to rely on craptastic quality CD-Rs with Mpeg 1 video...
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Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
There was a GT fansub group I watched before I got FUNimation's sets. What was their name, Super5 or something?
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Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
Yeah, and their subs were horrible.SHINOBI-03 wrote:There was a GT fansub group I watched before I got FUNimation's sets. What was their name, Super5 or something?
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That's the group I was thinking of! Yes, they were quite bad.sangofe wrote:Yeah, and their subs were horrible.SHINOBI-03 wrote:There was a GT fansub group I watched before I got FUNimation's sets. What was their name, Super5 or something?
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Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
It's entirely possible the episode aired, but whoever was recording the series off cable in Hawaii wasn't able to capture it.Milton wrote:Funny note, and I'm curious if anyone knows the answer to this here: my Freeza saga episodes that were from the NGN broadcast seem to skip over episode 79 entirely. The tape that I had featured 3 episodes; 77, 78 and 80 were from NGN while 79 was from the Pearl broadcast. Given how brutal some of the content was in that episode, did NGN purposefully skip that one for content?
Before the days of streaming video, one had to ask around for watchable copies on VHS.sangofe wrote:mpeg 1 video? You were lucky! .rm video of these were the most common versions to get a hold of!dougo13 wrote:The stuff out of Hawaii can't be considered a fansub as it was intended to go out on a commercial TV channel. Had lots of tapes starting with DB in 1992 and ran until Funimation made them stop subbing at about DBZ 114 if I'm not mistaken. Was nice to have first gen right off the air tapes of the show and not have to rely on craptastic quality CD-Rs with Mpeg 1 video...
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It's pretty cool to see that a lot of these guys actually subbed the movie promotions as well. I don't think I've ever seen them subbed in English before.
Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
DrBriefsCat wrote:It's entirely possible the episode aired, but whoever was recording the series off cable in Hawaii wasn't able to capture it.Milton wrote:Funny note, and I'm curious if anyone knows the answer to this here: my Freeza saga episodes that were from the NGN broadcast seem to skip over episode 79 entirely. The tape that I had featured 3 episodes; 77, 78 and 80 were from NGN while 79 was from the Pearl broadcast. Given how brutal some of the content was in that episode, did NGN purposefully skip that one for content?
Before the days of streaming video, one had to ask around for watchable copies on VHS.sangofe wrote:mpeg 1 video? You were lucky! .rm video of these were the most common versions to get a hold of!dougo13 wrote:The stuff out of Hawaii can't be considered a fansub as it was intended to go out on a commercial TV channel. Had lots of tapes starting with DB in 1992 and ran until Funimation made them stop subbing at about DBZ 114 if I'm not mistaken. Was nice to have first gen right off the air tapes of the show and not have to rely on craptastic quality CD-Rs with Mpeg 1 video...
Yes, and no. There was a website that put up full episodes of dbz in .rm format 80 kbps (10 mb an ep lol), when the vhs days were still in full force in the mid 90's.
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I'm still looking for that episode myself. I put the tapes away years ago never intending to have to pull them out again. My bud in Hawaii was still recording them for me long after the subtitled versions ended so there are boxes of these tapes everywhere. I'm still looking through boxes in the main storage room for DB/Z and other series tapes so it's slow going. When you collected for more than 20 years and didn't catalog them, it is hard to find specific things. And now I've been side-tracked with other stuff so it's even slower. But we still have a couple months of winter here, so I'll get around to it sooner or later...
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It would be great to get subbed copies of many of the one off specials they aired in Japan like top 10 anime shows for that year, history of SF manga, World of Leiji Matsumoto, Super Monster Special, etc. I have them all and most were shown exactly once with no inclusion on DVDs or LDs. Don't know if there was a DB/Z angle other than what might have been on a top 10 special. I'd have to check some of those tapes and find out...Bansho64 wrote:It's pretty cool to see that a lot of these guys actually subbed the movie promotions as well. I don't think I've ever seen them subbed in English before.
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How do you make a fansub tape, anyway?
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Re: Back in day, what were some of the best fansubs?
I know he's mega controversial but allow Otaking to explain what you need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0 Start at 1:58
One detail is that he mentions Laserdisc while most fansubbers use Raw Broadcast. Even back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYlqLlbix0 Start at 1:58
One detail is that he mentions Laserdisc while most fansubbers use Raw Broadcast. Even back in the day.
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