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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Guide to making Japanese anime releases English friendly Posted: 17 Sep 2015, 21:38 |
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It still does exist a lot of web sites with subtitle files, but not laserdisc friendly. Mostly for ripped DVDs converted to xvid or something. Of course, you could do that with laserdisc, rip and convert it, but that takes a lot more time and effort than from a DVD. This is the type of thing people take for granted while it is commonly available. Suddenly it just disappears and nobody kept backup of it. I PMd publius earlier this summer and got a link to his archive (here). It is 90MB and not sorted. He also linked a couple of seperate archives for Ghibli movies and Mobile Suit Gundam. This big archive contain subtitles for just a small portion of the anime available. Some are incomplete or won't convert in SubStationAlpha.
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Guide to making Japanese anime releases English friendly Posted: 18 Sep 2015, 21:20 |
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Been looking into how to convert some of the old subtitle files. Many have the filename "*.js", which is very ancient. These are JACOsub files. JACOsub is a subtitle program made for the Amiga computers. For those of you who don't know, those computers were very popular in the late 80s and through the 90s. The company went bankrupt in 1994, but the computers were still popular until around the year 2000. These computers are a completely seperate platform from PCs and not Windows/DOS compatible. I've seen references to a program called "js2ssa" several places, mostly ancient forum posts. Do anyone happen to have this program available? I'd like to get my hands on it. The Princess Mononoke subtitles doesn't convert in SubStationAlpha, I need to convert these another way. Not easy stuff, but if the files can be converted, then it will give us a few more possibilities with anime releases on laserdisc.
_________________ Player: Pioneer HLD-X9 and CLD-2950 My LD collection Recently started collecting some anime on LD
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lons_vex
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Post subject: Re: Guide to making Japanese anime releases English friendly Posted: 18 Sep 2015, 23:00 |
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samaron wrote: I've seen references to a program called "js2ssa" several places, mostly ancient forum posts. Do anyone happen to have this program available? I'd like to get my hands on it. The Princess Mononoke subtitles doesn't convert in SubStationAlpha, I need to convert these another way. I have js2ssa - but I'm not sure if I ever used it. As Publius mentioned, you can open .js files with SubStationAlpha. If that does not work there is a error logfile that hopefully explains what the problem is. It is called sconverr.log - check it. Some other converters I have are called: SubAdjust / multicon.exe, smi-conv.exe (they don't not work on w7-64 anymore) / Sconv 1.30 It's been a long time since I used any of them, so not sure which one worked best. Just playing around a bit and SubAdjust seems to enjoy to crash a lot
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Guide to making Japanese anime releases English friendly Posted: 18 Sep 2015, 23:09 |
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I'll look into that tomorrow. Side 1 opened fine (and got converted to ssa), but side 2 and 3 gave an error message. I'll check out that error log and try adjusting the values manually. Would it be possible to use subtitles from a DVD? Were thinking it should work if the timing were adjusted, hopefully just the start delay. Also, if I could get a copy of all those old conversion programs I'd be very happy. Exactly the type of thing I like to backup, never know when it comes in handy. Don't worry about me not being able to use it, I own PCs all the way from 8088 to modern i7. I do also own some Amiga computers, but don't have a compatible genlock. If not I'd just run the js files directly the way they were intended to be.
_________________ Player: Pioneer HLD-X9 and CLD-2950 My LD collection Recently started collecting some anime on LD
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dancadera
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Post subject: Re: Guide to making Japanese anime releases English friendly Posted: 20 Jan 2022, 21:14 |
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samaron wrote: I PMd publius earlier this summer and got a link to his archive (here). It is 90MB and not sorted. He also linked a couple of seperate archives for Ghibli movies and Mobile Suit Gundam. This big archive contain subtitles for just a small portion of the anime available. Some are incomplete or won't convert in SubStationAlpha. Apologies for resurrecting a long dead conversation, but after noticing those links were broken I went on an mini archeological dig and believe I found them. I dunno who else would be looking for such a thing in 2022, but maybe it'll help someone. https://archive.org/details/scriptclub-archive
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