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Kids these days have it so easy with their Crunchyrolls and Bits Torrent when they want to get their animes. Back in the day you had to get your fix through newsgroups, IRC, or weird poo poo like Direct Connect or Hotline which don't even exist any more. Hell, before cable internet came to my town you had to get your fansubs through mail order or from that place in Chinatown that sold bootleg wallscrolls. Releases followed an irregular schedule with different groups dropping and picking it up throughout the course of a season due to internet drama or personal issues, and sometimes you just didn't care about the quality when there were just a few episodes to go and nobody good was subbing it any more. For all the digital packrats out there, lets dig through our old CD-R spindles and boxes of VHS tapes to get a hit of nostalgia while we take a trip down memory lane. Let's show the youngins what things were like back in our day.           And, of course   Timed by KillShok
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I have a couple hundred gigs of fansubbed anime on DVDs in a box somewhere. I no longer have a way to play said DVDs.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:41
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My desktop only has an optical drive because I pulled it out of my fileserver to make room for more hard drives. Right now I'm having trouble finding my really old poo poo like Nadesico that were 50MB RealPlayer files on probably the first discs I ever burned.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:48
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I've got a box of VKLL subbed Sailor Moon VHS tapes in my closet. They're great.
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Mar 3, 2021 15:30
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Man this brings me back. I wish I could find the old subs of Love Hina I had. Some were decent, but this one set by DANCIN HOMER was encoded like a 6fps sideshow. Just awful. We need some screenshots of those DBZ Buu-saga episodes with swear words
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Mar 3, 2021 16:04
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I want the anime VHS tapes with the episodes of Dragon Ball Z that still have the japanese commercials on them, now that is some old fansubs.
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Mar 3, 2021 20:21
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Someone post the story of Miami Mike and how he made people mad
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Mar 3, 2021 20:31
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I'll have to dig through my old hard drives for stuff. I am a hoarder; I definitely have like, Laughing Man Subs divx copies of GitS:SAC.
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Mar 3, 2021 20:38
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Violet_Sky posted:Someone post the story of Miami Mike and how he made people mad https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2018-03-11/legends-of-vhs-fansubs-tracking-down-miami-mike/.128838 Miami Mike- I remember what you did to me at DragonCon
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don't worry guys, i'm here!
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Coxswain Balls posted:Timed by KillShok
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Mar 3, 2021 22:50
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I think of old DBZ VHSes with poo poo like "THIS ANIME NOT SUBBED BY KYLE HE'S A BITCH" and I wonder what knowledge is lost to time. Who were those lost fansubbers and why were they bitches?
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Pierson posted:I think of old DBZ VHSes with poo poo like "THIS ANIME NOT SUBBED BY KYLE HE'S A BITCH" and I wonder what knowledge is lost to time. Who were those lost fansubbers and why were they bitches? In that article I posted they tracked down Miami Mike but he says the story is a lot more boring than the one we imagined in our heads. Apparently ppl like Miami Mike are the reason we had those warnings in fansubs saying that if you bought it you got ripped off, that's the much more polite generic version of the "gently caress you miami mike" sentiment. He was just some guy who opened a store in Florida and realized he could buy these VHS tapes online and sell them in his store. Stalin-Chan fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Pierson posted:Who were those lost fansubbers and why were they bitches? Stalin-Chan posted:In that article I posted they tracked down Miami Mike but he says the story is a lot more boring than the one we imagined in our heads. edit: Stalin-Chan posted:He was just some guy who opened a store in Florida and realized he could buy these VHS tapes online and sell them in his store. TenementFunster fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 23:16
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I almost kinda of miss the days of Amiga/Mac early VHS fansubs
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It's nice that subs of every show are just ubiquitous now and usually even legally available, but it annoys the poo poo outta me that this means we don't get karaoke or even basic lyrics in the OP/ED anymore. What's the deal with that anyway, I assume it's some kinda rights bs?kdrudy posted:I've got a box of VKLL subbed Sailor Moon VHS tapes in my closet. They're great. I'm so loving jealous, I had the full set of VKLL Sailor Moon tapes when I was a kid and they were so drat cool. Custom plastic VHS jackets for each tape, so drat slick. I ended up giving them all to a friend as a gift so I don't REALLY regret that but i wish I had them!
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XboxPants posted:It's nice that subs of every show are just ubiquitous now
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TenementFunster posted:don't worry guys, i'm here!
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FilthyImp posted:Holy poo poo this one brings me back
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quote:From: Joe Anime [mailto:animejunkies@hotmail.com] Oh, AnimeJunkies.
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I like how they were torn between swearing and not-swearing 
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I pulled out some old tapes, and the real gem was a tape with two episodes of Goku fighting Frieza, right towards the end of the battle. I got these in the window when Funimation had finished just up to Goku showing up on Namek and taking out Baata and maybe Jase, but before it got popular enough on Toonami for them to start dubbing it again, so this was some extremely exciting forbidden fruit at the time. I gather Anime Labs was notorious for gratutious swearing, and this one has a bit of that.  This is real UNCUT JAPANIMATION PEOPLE!  The real 90s fansub VHS experience: 12th generation copies with awful tracking and lots of f-bombs so you know you're getting your money's worth.   Apparently they sold these, going against what I had been led to believe was some sort of fansubber's code about only making copies onto provided tapes. My friend made this copy for me so      Whoever Games and/or James were, they must have really hosed up.   This was really cool when I was a kid though. Goddamn.
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this loving rules. also i still remember how godawful the fansubs of the ninja scroll TV series were. i think i have an OLD old screenshot about how "a persistent man will get hated on" also come on, "miami mike" deffo did some poo poo. i wanna talk to the staff at Ctenosaur Video, not one of mike's former lackeys. Serial Season 3? TenementFunster fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Mar 4, 2021 |
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Mar 4, 2021 07:02
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donut posted:This was really cool when I was a kid though. Goddamn. Hell yeah dude, this poo poo rocks.
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*untuned piano music* “hi i’m sarah koenig and welcome to serial. this week’s episode is all about how Miami Mike totally didn’t do any molesting at DragonCon ‘94 and i’m in love with him now”
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TenementFunster posted:*untuned piano music*  The tweet no longer exists, I smell a cover up.
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coxswain balls i’m sorry for Being Me in your thread, but speaking of molesting at dragoncon, if you guys haven’t heard the Weeb Wars episodes of ALAB, you’re really missing out: https://m.soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-4-weeb-wars-pt-1 e: shoutout to The Helldude for coming RIGHT out of the gate with a great anime take. I'm the Helldude.
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Mar 4, 2021 07:26
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I'm wary of Miami Mike purely based on his name. You never trust a guy whose moniker begins with an American city or state. Not ever.
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Libra posted:I'm wary of Miami Mike purely based on his name. also back on topic, at the height of my corona boredom, i was feeling nostolgaic for the VHS era much like Something Awful Forums User SatoshiMiwa, and found some fairly old but not even the "worst" fansubs I could find of big name stuff. TenementFunster posted:hahahaha a buddy has a french VHS dub of DYRL from the early 90s that he transferred to an as-good-as-possible-480i version, and it's even worse than I remember: TenementFunster posted:this is my new favorite hobby
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donut posted:I gather Anime Labs was notorious for gratutious swearing, and this one has a bit of that. It's literally this right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvNxgHTWIlo
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XboxPants posted:It's nice that subs of every show are just ubiquitous now and usually even legally available, but it annoys the poo poo outta me that this means we don't get karaoke or even basic lyrics in the OP/ED anymore. What's the deal with that anyway, I assume it's some kinda rights bs? Yeah sometimes they insert translations into the streams at a later date. Typically happens because the translation is considered the official translation of those lyrics so there's a lot of hoops to jump through on the music rights side of things to get it approved.
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Miami Mike has big "Florida Man" energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPfZq7Qt6Z0
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Wark Say posted:Miami Mike has big "Florida Man" energy
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Anyone else remember the Ebichu translator's notes where they translated the puns before the episodes even started?
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Hey remember the "brought to you by these sponsors" screens? No idea what anime this is that has a drawing of R Lee Emery from Full Metal Jacket though, it's just funny because it covers his eyes
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Mar 5, 2021 20:47
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The United States posted:Hey remember the "brought to you by these sponsors" screens? I think thats more a Japanese TV thing then a fansub thing
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I mean it's something fansubs included that official releases did not (for obvious reasons) so are they not part of the experience?
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I remember that picture but not what series it's from either. I need to know. It's not super old because I only started watching fansubs as the bittorrent era began but that doesn't narrow it down much.
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