Neat project, best of luck with it.

Yeah , I know it, but for now we can use the French BD which is nearly the same.

Again, that is not a raw. I refer you to any Anime sharing site on the planet--a raw is the raw video with Japanese audio and no subtitles or alternative-language audio tracks. If it contains subs, or includes non-Japanese audio tracks, it's not a fucking raw. There's no discussion to be had here, you're just plain wrong.

Oh, so now you admit that what you're releasing is not a raw, good. I'm posting here about it because Coyote26 said that the raw for Third Stage's bluray is being shared on a private French tracker, which he clearly has acquired but that I have no access to. So, being interested, I was asking for a non-private method to acquire the same content.

I see that you haven't read the entire message...

Oh, I read it all right. The thing is, as I've already said once before, the 'raw' is the first step in any translation project. Its existence does not require the existence of any other component, and thus can be--and usually is--released before any translations are. As I can understand Japanese just fine and am curious as to the quality of the bluray transfer, that's why I was interested in what Coyote26 was posting. Waiting for your Definitive Version just to get my hands on a glimpse of what's on the bluray is a waste of my time.

For reference, the bluray transfer is not bad. I imagine the chromatic abberations were actually present in the original 35mm master, so they did the best they could with what they had.

You're actually right about this bit, even if you're not quite phrasing it correctly. Coyote26 also just 'happens' to be the same person who uploaded the rip in the first place to that tracker, and only bothered to include the French audio.

What, because I (correctly) pointed out that PayPal isn't in the business of supporting illegal activity? Look, I really do have respect for what you're trying to do. It's the single most ambitious Initial D project I have ever seen, laughably so. If it were me, I wouldn't go nearly as far as you're planning, so I can't even imagine the work that would have to go into completing it. I truly hope that you manage to succeed in all of your goals and that every Initial D fan gets to partake in the fruits of your endeavours. Heck, I told someone else I'd share an updated Battle Stage script with them, and I have no problem sharing that same script with you for your own project.

That all being said, I do have a problem with you personally now, because frankly I'm not a fan of your attitude ever since I made an attempt to interact with Coyote26. There was no need for you to behave the way you did, and your continued belligerence shows that this is no one-off situation. Hopefully you can get that under control, or at the very least not allow that personality trait to affect your progress. I wouldn't worry about any 'beef' between us lasting much longer, however. In fact, I would wager that within the next few hours we'll just go back to ignoring one another until your project bears fruit.

The ghosting is because of converting the cell animation from 23.976 to 29.97, and it is also present on BD (although they filtered it to remove some ghosting)

In fact I do not have physical copies but I do have the BDMVs of that (I confirmed with someone who has a physical copy that these are not fake and that they also have a real DTSHD audio), and I think what you saw in the past was the BDRip, a pretty bad upscale. What I can also say is that the original seasons from the bluray differ a little bit from the "HD Remaster".