DarkDream High Quality Anime Archive + Future Release Plans

Yotoden - Wrath Of The Ninja OVA is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Osmosis Jones is now available for download.

Enjoy!

Sorry guys, an event started in a game I am addicted to and it opened all previous events for me to get ahold of all of the gear I missed in it. I been working my ass off trying to get some of it so I didn't do anything encoding wise over the weekend.

I threw up a movie to have an upload to put up, while a second draft script for Initial D - Second Stage is going through the encoder. Hopefully this will turn out how I am hoping this time around.

Initial D - Second Stage (720p) screenshots are now available.

Which to work on next is the question.

Now that Second Stage is finished, I am going to go ahead and do Fourth Stage next. I will save the biggest challenge for last, which is First Stage. I do not expect amazing quality out of Fourth Stage because of the low resolution it was on the DVD, but it's the best I can do without the Japanese Pit Box 2 Blu-Rays. If I ever get those, I will redo this stage.

Sorry guys been very busy. Had a new addition to the family. My grandpa is also in the hospital with heart troubles. Also got a new puppy, so I have been quite busy with life this past few days.

I'll resume work on Monday. I need to keep up with family for the next couple days.

I will be leaving on Monday for a wedding. This will be half way across the country out on an island in North Carolina and I will be gone for a full week. I have been told there is no cellphone service out there and the hotel internet may be either poor, or non existent.

It's possible that I will not be able to get online at all to reply to anyone during this time. If I cannot get online for replies, be patient and I will return in a week.

EDIT: I guess were leaving on Tuesday instead.

DarkDream787 wrote:

Also got a new puppy, so I have been quite busy with life this past few days.

Can you post some pics with the adorable puppy ?

Sheldon131 wrote:

DarkDream787 wrote:

Also got a new puppy, so I have been quite busy with life this past few days.

Can you post some pics with the adorable puppy ?

I did on Discord

https://mega.nz/#!o9pQhSaI!gXzRE9orswUS8x76tNYr2d9fwHGybNfeYkg9Yej79Q0

https://mega.nz/#!0tYE2QjD!6kxsFX74W-4DxKUPbBkcH6GM7xC9LeHKR8TU9QlUx1o

I am back home as of today. All of my torrents I re-uploaded have resumed seeding so if any slowed down, this should help.

I broke my laptop screen somehow during the trip even when I was careful not to put anything on top of it. It still broke and got split though. I will need to just buy a new laptop I guess. I could replace the screen, but I'd rather update my laptop and just keep the old one as strictly a seeding computer that's on all the time.

I took the screen off, the keyboard then broke, so I just took out a keyboard, mouse, and speaker set. I then plugged it into the laptop, and plugged the tower HDMI into the laptop. Then I set it on top of one of my PC towers I never really use, but let kids play games on when they come over. It's basically just a computer tower now that seeds torrents and gets used for browsing websites lol. Portability is gone, which sucks, but whatever. I will just work towards a newer laptop. Possibly even one of those expensive gaming ones.

I will probably get back to work on Initial D - First Stage (720p) within the next couple of days. I have some catching up on things before I feel like getting back to that.

Work on things will resume tomorrow. I will probably throw up a quick movie, just to have an upload up while I finish up the last 2 stages of Initial D in 720p.

My encoding computers hard drive space is almost completely full. I will need to clear up some space to make room for the rest of Initial D. All my externals are maxed out too even after I have cleaned them of things I don't care about as much. I been doing that just about every time I added something new to them because they have been full for a while. I just don't have much more that I am willing to delete to make room for more stuff. I am going to look into getting about 4-5 10TB hard drives. I also really need a new laptop.

Because of this space issue, I am going to put up some things I have had prepped for encoding or that simply needed muxing after the work was done so I can clean out all of the files. I will put Elemental Gelade 720p and Duel Masters 720p up next since they are taking up about 120GB combined, while I continue to work on Initial D. Elemental Gelade 720p is running through the encoder right now. Duel Masters 720p will follow once I get it uploaded and all the files removed from my computer.

I'm still working on Initial D, I just need the space to be able to run the scripts through the encoder.

Elemental Gelade 720p is now available for download.

Enjoy!!

Duel Masters 720p is now available for download.

Enjoy!

It took long enough to arrive in the mail, but the Initial D Battle Stages 1 & 2 DVD's have finally arrived.

I will get to work on those asap and then put up a new torrent that is the entire series all in one. So if you downloaded the previous 6 stages and extra stages, you can just move those into the new download directory, do a file Re-Check, and you should already have it about 90% or more finished. Once I get that new torrent up, I will finish up the 720p complete series that is about 80% done overall.

Great to have found this place. Thank you for your work!

I am resuming work on Initial D Battle Stage 1 tomorrow. It looks like it is going to be quite a bit of work. I got the framerate and interlacing all fixed after some first draft script encodings, now I need go through and do some frame by frame work for the final draft scripts. So far it's taking me several hours, but I am going to see if I can finish it by tomorrow. Then I will begin work on Initial D Battle Stage 2.

One thing I am liking about this so far is the audio includes not only the Japanese Dub, but it also includes music only track so you can listen to it without words being spoken if you wish.

I will get back to everyone later this week about my progress.

fantastic sounds like your going pretty well so far minus how time consuming it is, thats pretty cool so you can get the full intensity of that sweet sweet eurobeat lol

ahem. is the music only track also going into the final files.

I didn't feel like working on things too much during the week because of the amount of annoying frame by frame work I needed to get done. However, I got all of the frames individualized twice by watching it from beginning to end twice frame by frame slowly which took a pain in the ass amount of time, but it allowed me to fix the black video splits at the bottoms of certain scenes, and to filter each individual race with its own filters. Each separate race shown is from a different episode or stage, so I cannot do the entire thing with all the same filters. I have to go through it and filter each episode clip with its own filters so I do not over-filter or filter things with filters they do not need.

I got all the frames isolated which was the time consuming part. I will go through them one section at a time and set up all the filters now for each of them. This will not take nearly as long as the examination because I have the frame numbers specified already. I am going to do everything I can to get Battle Stage 1 scripts completely finished this weekend. I will also see if I can get the subtitles done as well by the end of this weekend. I think I can easily do that unless the subtitles are alot more work than I believe they will be and I need a break from the boredom of making the subtitles.

more power to you

geez sounds like there was a lot of work involved with the 2 battle stages glad you got through it lol yeah sittign there doing subs does not sound entertaining what so ever haha cheers for doing this man

The heater in the house had to be replaced so I stayed at a friends place for a bit until it got fixed, so I was not home to do much. I got the video script done, but did not finish the subtitles. With it being thanksgiving week, I doubt I will do much work until the weekend is over. I'll at least see about finishing the second battle stages video script before that day.

See ya soon!

I got the second battle stage examined after Black Friday shopping, and the frame by frame work will not take nearly as much work as the first one did. I will still need to do some selective frame work to filter each episode section as needed, but it should go a bit faster not needing to go through everything twice.

On a side note, this Black Friday I snagged 4, 10TB external drives and 4, 256GB Sandisk Ultra thumb drives. Space shouldn't be an issue for a while. I'm running the last 2 of the of the external drives through diagnostics to test for bad sectors or errors before transferring any data to them. Their taking about 16 hours a drive to finish. That way I can make sure their safe to use and I do not need to return any of them.

Just for the hell of it, I think I am going to test some of my older externals as well, since I have never done it to them. I doubt they will take as long because they are 4TB, but while the examinations are running, I will not be touching my computer. This might possibly mean I will need until Tuesday/Wednesday instead of Monday to return to working on encodes. It all depends on how long it takes them to finish.

Had a very busy week and didn't get any work done until today. Battle Stage 1 is finished and Battle Stage 2 is being finished up. Hopefully before I go to bed tonight it will begin running through the encoder. The Blu-Ray for Battle Stage 1 was garbage like the First Stage episodes Blu-Ray, but the Battle Stage 2 was quite a bit better, so that might be a 576p Blu-Ray downscale when I add it in with the 480p/576p batch torrent. I will look at the detail retention tonight and decide for sure then.

I also managed to get ahold of Initial D Fourth Stage Japanese Blu-Rays, so that means a more improved Fourth Stage will be available. I only compared the first episode to the DVD's and French Blu-Ray but they appear to be better and are not nearly as destroyed as the French Blu-Rays were. I will check it more when I get the rest of the episodes. I am currently in the process of downloading them from a donor. Re-encoding will be a bit time consuming but quite worth it, especially when doing this in 720p and 1080p later.