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The Final Match - A Heart Hidden Behind the Mask

(With Less Line-Stitching)

Everybody who’s still following or curious about this project listen!

Phew, finally managed to get this thing all nice and done! In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.

Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!

Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1     WIP #2     WIP #3     WIP #3.5

So, this was the first episode I did as I got this mini-project going since it’s a favorite of mine, and now that I’ve gone on to do five others and have a little routine to go at it with, I’ve given it a revision.  Overall, the dialogue for this episode was more faithful than usual to the Japanese version, save for a card explanation or two, so with a fluff line cut here and a moved or recycled-from-another-episode line over there, it was easier to make this work with the Japanese episode.

A few parts were essentially done by just throwing in the Japanese version’s dialogue-less audio to eliminate some of the extra fluff, and others were more about rearranging or recycling certain lines to eliminate some more fluff or make my matching the JP script flow better (this happens during Yusei’s thinking about Akiza in his room, for example).  Duel Links audio came in handy for the Rose Tentacles scene, and with Akiza’s “enjoying destruction” at the end (which, THANK YOU DUEL LINKS FOR KEEPING THAT).  I also moved some lines to try and cut out some of the unneeded SFX 4Kids added; Yusei’s “I counter by summoning Speed Warrior in Attack Mode” was one I made “I summon Speed Warrior!” line to avoid doubling up on Speed Warrior’s grunts, for example, and I did also try to stitch together some lines for better card effect explanations from Akiza.  You can see those in action in the WIP videos above (it was Cursed Ivy’s activation and her explaining Rose Tentacles), but in case you don’t like how it came out, I did include a slightly less-edited version of the episode above that uses her lines from the episode (you can see a revised version of the Cursed Ivy stitching in this WIP revision)

Music-wise, I did revise a few things versus Version 1; I realized I looped “The Big Quake” incorrectly near the end as Aki pants, and I fixed the pitch I had “Incident” at in the beginning so the transition to the Japanese track as Yusei walks in the hallway isn’t jarring.  Do love hearing Mind Games as the duel begins, though, and Izayoi Battle helps the mood quite a bit.

Let me know what you think (maybe the music’s too low in spots?), but hope you guys enjoy! I’ll be going back to GX and finalizing 50-52 to round out Season 1 finally, but I’ll be working on revising 5D’s 24 here/there while I do to avoid burnout; looking forward to adding back some Synchro chants there.  Stay tuned!

A Disclosed Past - The Duel Profiler VS the Black Rose Witch

Everybody who’s still following or curious about this project listen!

Phew, managed to get this guy all nice and done! In case this is the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.

Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!

Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1     WIP #2     WIP #3

So, this was another interesting one to work with–I think overall this episode’s dub definitely benefits from having the Japanese music at *all*, but getting the dialogue a bit more in line with the Japanese script was the more "fun” task here.  A few parts were essentially done by just throwing in the Japanese version’s dialogue-less audio to eliminate some of the extra fluff, and others were more about rearranging or recycling certain lines (some from 23 or 24 when I needed something for Aki) to eliminate some more fluff or make my matching the JP script flow better.  I also fixed an error that bugged me from Tanner about the Black Rose being down to her last few “ATK” points; I ran a line of his from episode 7 through PhonicMind.com to remove the music and splice in “Life” there (I actually did that with much of the second half of that ep so I’ll probably try to do the JP OST thing there too~) For the bits that I felt were just too far edited by 4Kids that I couldn’t do much with them, I thought I’d slip in subs for the Japanese version of the scenes so you get the original context in there; that’ll just be for this hardsub, as you’ll have softsubs to work with when I post this for download over on NAC.  You can see it in action in this preview here.  Also going ahead and translating the “Today’s Best Card” and title cards along with the OP/EN going forward, lol.

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“The Fate of the Signers! A Future Shown By the Crimson Dragon!”/“The Fortune Cup Finale, Part 2”

Everybody, listen!

Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner, here’s the newest installment of this short Dub-Uncut series! (Check out a quick preview here of the final thing~)

So, to catch people up, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (22-27)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.

This one was… interesting.  There was a lot of added fluff between Jack and Yusei that 4Kids added, and I did my best to get a lot of it out; having the new 5D’s Duel Links voice lines and the other BGM-less episodes were a great help to that end, as they were when it came to adding back some lines that were removed in the dub (like card explanations being replaced by the Showcase Interruption), including a “dub” of the cut beginning of the episode showing Jack destroy Junk Warrior.  There was nothing I could do about Jack’s “settle for second” bit as he plays The End of Storm since the BGM-less episodes and Duel Links don’t feature Jack properly explaining it.  Likewise, when Yusei plays Meteor Stream, I kept Japanese Yusei there with subs explaining it since a Showcase Interruption cut it out.  And the MC having his “Yusei WON” scene at the end cut down a bit in the dub meant I had to get creative; I used part of his line at the end of 21 as the Bommer duel ends and one from the start of 23 or end of 24 to fill the empty space, then combined it with what was actually kept in the dub, adding back some SFX as needed for the fireworks.

The plot-relevant stuff was dubbed well, except for the gaffe with calling Godwin the fifth Signer; I made that line “with the power of the fifth Signer” instead of “with the power I possess as the fifth Signer.” Akiza also calling Satellite “New Domino City” was weird but “fixed” with a side-note subtitle.  And the dialogue pacing is pretty on-par with the Japanese version now, though it didn’t make sense to switch Lazar and Rex’s lines at the beginning to match, and I added back Trudge’s lines from 25 over his flashback despite the original silence since I couldn’t move Lazar’s “Maybe he had a point” to where Yaeger says something similar because of the SFX there.

The music recreation wasn’t too bad, but aside from the version of “Fierce Battle” used at the beginning being at a lower pitch, the uses of “Dragon” and “Legend of the People of the Stars” in this episode were a tiny bit sped-up compared to their album versions.  I saved the full versions in this speed before I cut them around to match their use here, and I’ll post them on NAC when I release this.  

Overall, quite happy with how this came out, but lemme know what you think, folks! Going back to work on GX 42 soon by translating that COSPLAY DUEL TOURNAMENT poster in the 4-5 other clips I need it for then getting started on it, then I’ll be going back to work on 5D’s 21-22 and revise 23-25 with the new Duel Links audio if there are spots for it before I get to start 27.  Stay tuned, and happy Turkey Day!

“Victim Sanctuary - Be the Star Engulfing Destruction! Stardust Dragon”/“Duel of the Dragons, Part 2″ 

Everybody, listen!

Here’s the newest installment of this short Dub-Uncut series! (Check out a quick preview here of the final thing~)

So, to catch people up, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (22-27)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.

Quite a bit of dialogue revision I tried to do, mainly to help smooth the errors 4Kids made in the gameplay descriptions (like borrowing from the later 28 upload to fix Yusei’s Junk Synchron goof, reducing the “under Rose Tentacles’ control” thing, and added a side-note sub to note that Akiza draws two cards, not places two cards face-down, from Magic Planter–oh, and I fixed Akiza calling Wicked Reborn the name of a mechanic that appears in the next story arc), but also to reduce the snark going between Akiza and Yusei.  I kept playing with the music to reach a good audio level, and I think I got it overall; I realized a bit too late in the game when I’d cut up all the audio that I could normalize the Official uploads’ audio to level things out better, so I applied it retroactively here–25′s rescoring should sound much better.  

For the “Hopeless Battle” scene later on, I used one of the [many] fan recreations that closely matched the original, except I had to speed it up from the part just when the guitar starts to the end to match the original song.  Throughout, I also restored some SFX that were a bit too quiet in the Official upload.

In terms of timing to cut/extended footage, it wasn’t too rough, though I had to get creative when Yanagi had these added lines over a cut reaction shot from Rua and Tenpei, and recycled some crowd jeers to cut out Sayer’s extra lines near the end.  Tried to borrow SFX from the Japanese audio where I could, too–since there was no talking originally in the beginning, it was a cinch to cut out the extra-fluffy MC lines there.

Oh, also translated the OP/EN, the title card, and preview (where I also threw in the dub lines from 25 that correspond to what the Japanese lines were in it [mostly; dub!Jack (and JP Jack) doesn’t have the two years/differing paths line in the episode proper, so I had to improvise with another line there], using the MC where Yusei would’ve read the title) to give this an actual “What if they actually did this uncut” feel, nbd

Let me know what you think!