Bootleg dragonbox?

[Ashura]

I'm usually magicwanding clear spaces with one colour and no texture and then do the cleaning, or you can set up edges and lot of stuff to get the best result. Our ''rule'' is to make things fast and in HQ. When I'm describing something, it comes from how I do it and what I know my colleagues, we are using different paths to reach the same finish, so my graphic messages are not the ultimate paths to reach it and when talking about printing, I have high end machines, like ofset in mind

Sorry for off-topic

I've magic wanded before and cleaned up, of course. But yeah, I get what you mean. There's a million different ways to do things when it comes to graphic design, and any good design is always looking for a quicker, better way to do something.

And ditto.

Has anyone ever posted clips or screencaps of these bootleg sets?

I'd like to see how bad they are too, and how much macroblocking they suffer.

[SSJ3_Gogeta]

It's certainly not from the FUNimation masters but I can't confirm if they're dragonbox. If they are, they've been filtered to remove most of the grain.

That's basically 25.5 or 26 episodes a disc.

The low bitrate is probably the 'grain removal' part, since it's all probably smudged to heck from the macroblocking.

I think this one has it beat though, it's 5 dvds for everything:


30 episodes per disk.

I have to say, I'm pretty impressed what the the bootleggers did for the 'DBZ' logos here:



I'm impressed they expended that much effort, since it's a pain in the butt to do special finishes and raised lettering and stuff. That requires a lot of masks and the illustrator files to be specially prepared. Just for that effect, it's 2 or 3 artboards right there.

Those are indeed good-looking bootlegs, but any good fan will realize that they took the box arts from BT3 and BT2 respectively for the Z bootlegs, not to mention that the BT3 one would be better suited for the 2nd set and BT2 for the first.

At any rate, 30 episodes per disc is ridiculous! I wouldn't be surprised if the picture quality of the actual footage looked like garbage.

[DemonRin]

I have somewhere, and don't know where exactly, I'd have to find it, but I have a pair of bootlegs of the Saiyan and Namek arcs. It was a really slick set actually. It used Dragon Box masters (tho with way too many eps per disc, so there was artifactting and macro-blocking) and for the cover art it used those blue and yellow images from the Dragon Books. (These ones) and on the back was the shot of Son from the back of the Japanese DBox books. (This one)

The discs were ripoffs of the Dragon Box disc art as well. Tho, the people doing it were stuffing too many eps per disc, so they didn't line up as well as the Japanese and/or English ones do.

[DBfan4life]

I have this bootleg version of Dragonball Dragonbox . I would take pictures of it, but I don't know how to do it. I heard VLC media player can take pictures, but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. If someone wants to explain to me how to do it I will give it a shot and then post it on here. Also, I have never posted a picture on here so I'm not exactly sure how to do that either. Oh and in case you are curious let me tell you how many episodes each of 6 discs have.
Disc 1: ep 1-22
Disc 2: ep 23-44
Disc 3: ep 45-65
Disc 4: ep 66-84
Disc 5: ep 85-118
Disc 6: ep 119-153
Oh man thank god I have the blue bricks and the 2 disc collecters sets.

I have somewhere, and don't know where exactly, I'd have to find it, but I have a pair of bootlegs of the Saiyan and Namek arcs. It was a really slick set actually. It used Dragon Box masters (tho with way too many eps per disc, so there was artifactting and macro-blocking) and for the cover art it used those blue and yellow images from the Dragon Books. (These ones) and on the back was the shot of Son from the back of the Japanese DBox books. (This one)

The discs were ripoffs of the Dragon Box disc art as well. Tho, the people doing it were stuffing too many eps per disc, so they didn't line up as well as the Japanese and/or English ones do.

I have bootlegs too that use that picture for the cover art, but it switches each time, there is like Goku super saiyan, Gohan, Frieza, Vegeta, Trunks, Cell, and some more.I think it was mentioned somewhere that these were low quality rips of the Dragonboxes. It came in three boxes and it was a total of 40 discs. They, however, used 7 episodes on each disc, except later on there was more added. How many episodes on yours since you said they used a lot? Obviously though they are not as good as the Dragon Boxes, which I still have to get Box 6.

[The Time Traveller]

You'll usually see Chinese and English subtitles listed as features on DVDs like these, which are always red flags.

There are actual anime DVDs from China WITH Chinese and English subtitles, and they're rarely region 0, mostly region 3 of course.

They're always old series that don't have US releases, like that Tom Sawyer anime, I think Masako Nozawa's in that.

[Krycek7o2]

I have this bootleg version of Dragonball Dragonbox . I would take pictures of it, but I don't know how to do it. I heard VLC media player can take pictures, but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. If someone wants to explain to me how to do it I will give it a shot and then post it on here. Also, I have never posted a picture on here so I'm not exactly sure how to do that either. Oh and in case you are curious let me tell you how many episodes each of 6 discs have.
Disc 1: ep 1-22
Disc 2: ep 23-44
Disc 3: ep 45-65
Disc 4: ep 66-84
Disc 5: ep 85-118
Disc 6: ep 119-153
Oh man thank god I have the blue bricks and the 2 disc collecters sets.

Curious question, are they on DVD9 or regular DVD5's? I know that 22 episodes per disc is just ridiculous, but come on! At least be a dual layered DVD!
DVD5 with 22 episodes, jesus christ! I can only imagine the pixelation on these discs!

[Sshadow5001]

My brother got a bootleg Sonic X Boxset with Chinese and English subs. Sonic was called Sonicrat and Tails was Dilus, not a very good boxset.

[DBfan4life]

Curious question, are they on DVD9 or regular DVD5's? I know that 22 episodes per disc is just ridiculous, but come on! At least be a dual layered DVD!
DVD5 with 22 episodes, jesus christ! I can only imagine the pixelation on these discs!

Well, it doesn't say anywhere, but I think its just DVD5. Either way the PQ isn't good.

[DemonRin]

My brother got a bootleg Sonic X Boxset with Chinese and English subs. Sonic was called Sonicrat and Tails was Dilus, not a very good boxset.

I once saw rips from a One Piece Hong Kong Bootleg set where Sanji was called "Sunkist", "Nico Robin" was called "Nickelbao", and when Nami said the Japanese equivalent of "Make a U turn" they put "Turn the ship around like the letter 'U' Now!" XD

[Ashura]

My buddy had a bootleg of the Ah! Megami-sama movie. Keiichi and Belldandy -- and I'm dead serious -- became:

Ping and Poonpurdy.

[Castor Troy]

I have this bootleg version of Dragonball Dragonbox . I would take pictures of it, but I don't know how to do it. I heard VLC media player can take pictures, but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. If someone wants to explain to me how to do it I will give it a shot and then post it on here. Also, I have never posted a picture on here so I'm not exactly sure how to do that either. Oh and in case you are curious let me tell you how many episodes each of 6 discs have.
Disc 1: ep 1-22
Disc 2: ep 23-44
Disc 3: ep 45-65
Disc 4: ep 66-84
Disc 5: ep 85-118
Disc 6: ep 119-153
Oh man thank god I have the blue bricks and the 2 disc collecters sets.

Curious question, are they on DVD9 or regular DVD5's? I know that 22 episodes per disc is just ridiculous, but come on! At least be a dual layered DVD!
DVD5 with 22 episodes, jesus christ! I can only imagine the pixelation on these discs!

The original blue DBZ Dbox bootlegs I used to have had 9 eps per disc on dual layer dvds.

The quality was pretty decent, but the fight scenes were incredibly macroblocky. I ended up giving it away to my old housekeeper back in the day.

[pjay]

I always thought someone should put up a page of all the different Dragon Ball bootleg DVD's out there so people would know what to look out for

[Ashura]

Looks like this made it onto Yahoo Auctions:

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/au ... enlargeimg

It even uses the old gradient logo without the Z... that's pretty funky. It's hard to tell if this is legit or not, probably not. It looks similar to the Korean sets, says it has Korean subtitles...

[Levlik]

For a bootleg those are damn nice production values. I love that spine art.

[Puto]

They're always old series that don't have US releases

Actually, the official Detective Conan movie R3s have English subtitles. Not exactly great English subtitles, but better than bootlegs or even most R3s tend to be.

[The Time Traveller]

They're always old series that don't have US releases

Actually, the official Detective Conan movie R3s have English subtitles. Not exactly great English subtitles, but better than bootlegs or even most R3s tend to be.

Well you can get stuff like Tom Sawyer (Starring Masako Nozawa!), Sindbad, The Trapp Family Story, Daddy Long Legs, Perrine En Famille, so classy sounding old stuff, but there's also Ghost in the Shell SAC 2nd Gig, Gundam Seed and Detroit Metal City.

I only own the Gundam Seed boxes and one volume of Detroit Metal City, the subtitles for Seed are ridiculously bad, they can't make up their minds over characters names, Athrun goes from Aslan, Asland, Athlan to "Osila" and there was a hilarious moment, can't remember which episode, where Kira says "How you know fuck?!" or something totally out there with a fuck thrown in.

Detroit Metal City has awesome subtitles though everyone speaks to fast and over each other so they're not on screen for long, but it's not exacly hard to speed read "RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE" or "HE'S RAPING THE TOKYO TOWER!"

I own some movies too like a Yu Yu Hakusho movie, and some other stuff, they're all bad subtitles but at least you understand them.