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Retro Game Master (Gamecenter CX) DVD collection coming soon! Will contain 12 episodes that were shown on Kotaku. Two audio tracks. One with the english narration and one will the full Japanese language and English subs. The Tamage and other segments can't be licensed for various reasons. Extras will be hard to come by. Licensing Japanese TV is a complicated process. We're trying for a summer release. Depends on if we get the artwork soon enough. I'm hoping for July but it might be more like August. We will be retranslating the subs with someone more familiar with the series. There is a possibility for more episodes in the future but it really depends on the success of this set. If it sells well then we will try and get more episodes. I personally love this show so much that I basically took a chance with it because of how addicted I am to watching it!
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Retro Game Master (Gamecenter CX) DVD collection coming soon! Will contain 12 episodes that were shown on Kotaku. Two audio tracks. One with the english narration and one will the full Japanese language and English subs. The Tamage and other segments can't be licensed for various reasons. Extras will be hard to come by. Licensing Japanese TV is a complicated process. We're trying for a summer release. Depends on if we get the artwork soon enough. I'm hoping for July but it might be more like August. We will be retranslating the subs with someone more familiar with the series. There is a possibility for more episodes in the future but it really depends on the success of this set. If it sells well then we will try and get more episodes. I personally love this show so much that I basically took a chance with it because of how addicted I am to watching it!
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I'd like to point out that the person re-translating the subtitles is zari-gani, one of the members of the Something Awful Forums who regularly translates episodes along with the rest of the SA GCCX team, and the same person who drew the poster presented to Arino when he visited the US recently.
So you know you're getting an excellent translation!
Good luck to them!
I hope it sells well, and get things moving for more translated episodes in the future.
A great way to sell the DVDs is to include Retro Game Master 1 and/or 2 for Nintendo DS in the set. Of course, a deal has to be made between the companies responsible for them.
God damn it. These companies really suck. Just let them use all the footage.
I think I'll just stick to the fansubbed episodes. They cut out a lot of the best parts when it was on Kotaku.
@James FoxI really would like to support it. Maybe if it's cheap. But I just can't justify spending too much money on it. The most I would be willing to pay for it is maybe $15. Unless there are some really cool extras or something with it. First of all, like I said they cut out some of my favorite parts like where he goes out to arcades, and video game stores and does interviews and stuff. Almost half of the show ends up getting cut out. Also, they didn't pick very good episodes to put out either, only a few of them were games I have even heard of (which isn't necessarily a terrible thing, but I do enjoy the ones of games I have played better.) Even if I did buy it I probably wouldn't even watch it because of the above reasons. It sucks because I love the show, but that's just how it is.
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Regardless if it is the official US release, it's still a butchered release.
Granted, in this instance it is Japan's fault and not ours, but I can understand someone not wanting to support something that is incomplete.
He never said it was unofficial.
Me love RGM! But this is not for Europe. T.T I guess I would only buy i as a collectors item though. The fansubs on Youtube are where it's at!
You do know that the extra segments are cut from even the Japanese DVD sets as well, right?
Dang I hope the extra footage are in this DVD
I will definitely be supporting this. Mostly because I know this must have taken a lot of effort to put together and the subs will be great if they're done by one of the GCCX guys at Something Awful.
Well Im definitely gonna buy this. I just got into this show by watching it on Youtube and I'll gladly support official release.
And its gonna have subs too? And one of the translators did worked on the ones on Youtube? Definitely not gonna miss this one, even with all the Gamecenter visits removed.
I can't wait. Day one buy.
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