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Title: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SuperDeadite on February 10, 2013, 07:58:53 PM
So little known fact, there was a Cosmic Fantasy OVA released on LD and VHS back in 1994, a few months before CF4 came out. I wasn't aware of it until recently when Dan asked me to find it. I was able to pickup the LD for cheap. I recorded it, translated it, and now is available on youtube with English Subtitles.
It's about 40mins in length, and honestly nothing too special. But worth a watch for Cosmic Fantasy fans I'd say. Animation is better then I would have expected being a Telenet property. Though this was actually a PC-Engine Fan Magazine project.
Enable captions for English subs. It's slightly buggy in a few places (CaptionTube is still in beta), but I'm happy with the results. I was a bit liberal with the translation, but that's how I roll. :)
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: tpivette on February 10, 2013, 08:43:37 PM
Nice! I'm in the middle of playing CF2, so the timing of this couldn't be more perfect. Don't have time to watch right now, but I'll check it out when I get home from work.
Thanks for the translation, SuperDeadite!
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: roflmao on February 11, 2013, 01:22:43 AM
Awesome! That's a really good-looking rip. Laserdiscs don't play that well from my laserdisc player. :)
EDIT: Your "liberal" translation has made me lol a couple times.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SuperDeadite on February 11, 2013, 02:04:21 AM
LaserDisc video is very dependent on the player. I used my LaserActive, which is typically considered a poor movie player by most lol. Getting this result was easy but took about 2 days...
1. I fed the composite out to my HDD/DVD recorder in forced progressive mode. 2. Ran the video through VirtualDub's deinterlacer filter to clean out the artifacts. 3. Saved that file as uncompressed RGB (82gb file lol!) 4. Used AVISynth's LanczosResize and YUY2 color convert. 5. Encoded into mpeg2 using HCenc on max settings. (This took over 8 hours!) 6. Muxed in the AC3 audio with Imago.
Done lol.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: Nando on February 11, 2013, 03:03:38 AM
NICE! thanks for the share SD!
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: Necromancer on February 11, 2013, 03:10:34 AM
Thanks, S.D.! Good timing, as I'm playing through the first game right now.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: Nec.Game.head on February 11, 2013, 04:27:14 AM
AWESOME .. GREAT STUFF THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR LINK !
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 11, 2013, 05:30:31 AM
You're a hero!
I never seem to be able to find this LD for less than $50 so I've always avoided it.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: roflmao on February 11, 2013, 06:17:04 AM
LaserDisc video is very dependent on the player. I used my LaserActive, which is typically considered a poor movie player by most lol. Getting this result was easy but took about 2 days...
1. I fed the composite out to my HDD/DVD recorder in forced progressive mode. 2. Ran the video through VirtualDub's deinterlacer filter to clean out the artifacts. 3. Saved that file as uncompressed RGB (82gb file lol!) 4. Used AVISynth's LanczosResize and YUY2 color convert. 5. Encoded into mpeg2 using HCenc on max settings. (This took over 8 hours!) 6. Muxed in the AC3 audio with Imago.
Done lol.
Thanks for sharing your process! I've been wanting to tinker with capturing from my laserdisc player. Lots of old animations I'd hate to lose when the player gives up the ghost.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SuperPlay on February 11, 2013, 06:26:07 AM
Great work :-) Thanks for sharing this.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: xelement5x on February 11, 2013, 08:47:33 AM
AWESOME! Thanks SuperDeadite, I didn't even know about this!
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: arromdee on February 11, 2013, 08:58:55 AM
Is this a real translation, even if you did spice it up?
How about releasing the script? It should be possible to use the script and a video to actually play it as a real video with subtitles rather than using Youtube. Maybe some fansubber could even make a version with the subtitles in the file.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SuperDeadite on February 11, 2013, 10:51:31 AM
The translation is quite accurate for the most part. I just took a few shortcuts to save time. Like during the intro sequence the narrator gives the usual basic speech about young people going to space and exploring for hopes, dreams, adventure, etc. It's pretty much the same thing in every space anime I've ever seen, so I said f*ck it.
Most of Saya's spell names are pure gibberish (same as in the actual game manuals), so I just made them up towards the end. As for other "weird" parts. See Japanese people tend to use a lot less vocab then we do. They reuse the same insults over and over. So I can either use the same English word over and over, or I can spice stuff up a bit. :) And I was going for an early 90's style, a very Working Designs approach if you will.
I do have a translation file if anyone wants it. Most media players can use it optionally, I see no reason to hardcode in subs in this day and age. Any decent DVD authoring software can make subs optional.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: ParanoiaDragon on February 11, 2013, 06:10:11 PM
I feel like I heard BITD about this, but never saw anything to confirm it's existence....till now!
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: arromdee on February 20, 2013, 10:23:16 AM
A group that commonly has fansub torrents has a torrent of the Cosmic Fantasy OVA available for torrenting. However, unlike most of their stuff, their Cosmic Fantasy OVA is not subtitled. A subtitle file would work well with it. I don't know if I'm allowed to give the URL here.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: SuperDeadite on February 20, 2013, 11:11:25 AM
The issue though is that unless their file is exactly the same length as mine, the subtitle timing would be off.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: Sadler on February 20, 2013, 12:06:54 PM
Wow, that was 100% awesome! Thanks man! :D
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: tpivette on February 20, 2013, 12:20:47 PM
Noticed in the anime they called the main character "Yuu"... however, in the US version of CF2, they name him "Cobra". Is that just a rename done by Working Designs, or does the guy change names throughout the series?
Forgive my ignorance, but watching this OVA, and the US version of the game are all the CF references I have at the moment
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: compil3r on February 20, 2013, 02:31:09 PM
Great job! And thanks for sharing :)
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: runinruder on February 20, 2013, 02:36:45 PM
Noticed in the anime they called the main character "Yuu"... however, in the US version of CF2, they name him "Cobra". Is that just a rename done by Working Designs, or does the guy change names throughout the series?
His name is Yuu in the Japanese games. "Cobra" is a name Working Designs came up with.
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: esteban on March 09, 2013, 11:52:12 PM
So little known fact, there was a Cosmic Fantasy OVA released on LD and VHS back in 1994, a few months before CF4 came out. I wasn't aware of it until recently when Dan asked me to find it. I was able to pickup the LD for cheap. I recorded it, translated it, and now is available on youtube with English Subtitles.
It's about 40mins in length, and honestly nothing too special. But worth a watch for Cosmic Fantasy fans I'd say. Animation is better then I would have expected being a Telenet property. Though this was actually a PC-Engine Fan Magazine project.
Enable captions for English subs. It's slightly buggy in a few places (CaptionTube is still in beta), but I'm happy with the results. I was a bit liberal with the translation, but that's how I roll. :)
http://youtu.be/jscfV8T-KTA
DUDE! I don't care how mediocre the OVA is, I'm watching this bad boy tonight!
STATUS: Added Cosmic Fantasy Anime to my itinerary. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png) (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png) (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png) (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png) (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png)
Title: Re: Cosmic Fantasy Anime, Translated and Live
Post by: BlueBMW on March 10, 2013, 05:08:33 AM
Did you take a few ummm "liberties" with the translation. "everyone wants my vag?" ROFL!