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| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 20 2004, 09:31 PM |
| After many requests it has been decided that we will be releasing First Stage. Not always 4 episodes at a time, just the amount we see fit each time. I have ripped this personally myself and there is a reason why I chose to have it this size. Enjoy NOTE:First Stage was made in 1998. The quality of First Stage was never done that well. Many of you will notice that the voices kinda have an echoe and other things like when 3D and 2D are together. That is all normal. DONT COMPLAIN, I ripped as best I could without making the file size too big. If I compressed anymore then the quality would drastically go down. I ripped this one many times. Please Dont complain unless you cant play the video or there is a major problem. Note:Voicing in Japanese with English Subtitles. |
| Posted by: Gabriel Sep 20 2004, 09:37 PM |
| Thanks Takumi Trueno! |
| Posted by: Perry Sep 20 2004, 09:38 PM |
| Thanks man. It's the best time to download now. There are 4 seeds currently. Get it while there are still seeds. : ) |
| Posted by: humbug23 Sep 21 2004, 02:09 AM |
| i'd like to know how big is the batch torrent, as i have somewhat of a space constraint on my HD.. thanks |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Sep 21 2004, 02:31 AM |
| The torrent is around 1500MB, and includes episodes 1-4 from 1st Stage This is also the first Seeder Team endorsed torrent so seeders should always be available for this one |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 21 2004, 06:08 AM |
By always he means until the next one  |
| Posted by: Zeus[urbanperformance.net] Sep 22 2004, 05:02 AM |
I've finished downloading and i'm now seeding but i'm having trouble playing the videos.. it's slow/fast, it goes either too fast or gets stuck while the audio is playing normally or sometimes the audio comes after the video.. i'm frustrated.. i've tried every codec there is.. i used GSpot to find out if i'm missing any.. no problem there.. Help.  |
| Posted by: Gabriel Sep 22 2004, 05:38 AM | ||
Maybe your computer is running slower than normal. Re-boot your PC and if you're still having problems try http://www.divx-digest.com/software/media_player_classic.html |
| Posted by: Zeus[urbanperformance.net] Sep 22 2004, 06:22 AM | ||||
Already tried that.. i gave up about an hour ago, thnks anyway  |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 22 2004, 06:39 AM |
| What are the stats of your computer? |
| Posted by: Zeus[urbanperformance.net] Sep 22 2004, 08:12 AM | ||
Didn't quite grasp what you meant but i'm guessing this: P3 500 Mhz (sucks) 384 Mb RAM (156 Mb available right now.. slow ass ram  )nVidia Riva TNT2 Agp 16 Mb (really REALLY sucks) Windows XP Pro SP1 (windows update finished downloading SP2 10 min. ago.. then proceeded to Crash P.S: it didn't even install it) |
| Posted by: Perry Sep 22 2004, 11:48 AM |
| Mmm ... 500 mhz might be a little slow for these dvd-rip quality video. You have good amount of RAM and you got a nice graphics card. Problem is the CPU is a little slow. If you have a CD burner, burn the episodes and watch it on another OS. Something like Linux or Windows 98. I recommend using Mandrake Linux 10.0 to watch video. It use very little amount of RAM and it runs really smooth. |
| Posted by: MAD MAX Sep 22 2004, 01:35 PM |
I was downloading it yesterday, I tried to continue the download today but it says that I have tracker connecting problem.  What the hell is that ?? |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 22 2004, 01:47 PM |
| Tracker's broken, you gotta wait till someone fixes it. |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 22 2004, 02:40 PM |
| Tracker is fine now. Every once in a while trackers go down. Expect it t happen, leave the torrent open and eventually it will connect again. |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 23 2004, 10:45 AM |
| More seeds, please? Don't make me castrate all of you who leech and don't help seed. |
| Posted by: ShiftLock Sep 23 2004, 04:57 PM |
| 1500 mb and its And only 4 episodes?!? Lets do some math: 1500 mb per 4 episodes and theres 26 episodes in 1st stage. Thats almost 9.7 GB. Takumi Trueno, I noticed your other rips are around that size too and while the quality is probably amazing and I thank you for releasing, 9.7 GB is a huge chunk of space for only 26 episodes. C'mon man not everyone has unlimited space on their HDDs or the money to go out and buy 250 gb HDDs whenever their other 250 GB HDD gets full or has a DVD-RW with a bunch of blank DVDs lying around. |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 23 2004, 05:18 PM |
| Movies and episodes arent meant to be kept on your hard drive forever. Look at the Torrent Section rules. Also if you have seen the original quality of First Stage you should know why I had to release at this size. ALSO, did you not read my first post, I explained it all there. Edit: ShiftLock, you have only been here one day. Dont start complaining now, Complaining for your first post= bad way to start out. Read before you post. |
| Posted by: Drifting Sep 23 2004, 06:10 PM |
| I think we should stop whining on how big the files are. These files are very good quality, and I hope he continues to host files. If you dont' like these files, go download some low quality videos from another site. |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 23 2004, 06:38 PM |
Thank You, Drifting. Thats pretty much what I wanted to say. Good Job.  |
| Posted by: ShiftLock Sep 23 2004, 07:09 PM | ||||||||
That 48 hour rule has no legal basis, its just like the 24-hour version. Downloading copyrighted material is prohibited. Period. There is no grace period, its just a common myth. (Not that I liked to bring that up)
I've seen the original quality of First Stage. Let me use an analogy: If you were to take a music CD with low quality audio tracks and ripped them to high quality, that doesn't make the sound of the audio itself high quality; the quality was low to begin with. Can you explain what would happen if you made the 4 episodes a bit more compressed so the file sizes reasonable to some people? Say from 1500 MB to something like 600 MB?
I've been 'here' for some time now, just as a lurker. I'm not complaining so much as i'm giving constructive criticism/my point of view. Nonetheless, like I said before i'm thankful that you even make these releases at all. Please correct me if i'm wrong about any of this (the encoding of 1st stage bit).
I'm not here to make enemies. -Shift |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 23 2004, 08:04 PM |
| Please dont analyze everything I say, thats one thing I dislike. Picking apart of my words. Also your analogy does not work for this situation. You should have picked this one out from your analysis. Which is that when you rip something the quality never goes up, it can only go down. So when you rip something you have to find the point where the quality goes down in the rip. If you dont find that point you will only undershoot over over shoot how much the video should be. If I rip a DVD at 4 gigs obviously the quality will not go up. If I rip at 700 mb then obviously too low. You get it? (Dont try to correct me, what I did was a for a reason) |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 23 2004, 08:39 PM |
| If you don't like how things are here, then leave. We don't have to put up with this. Forums are for people to come and share their common interests, not for newcomers to harass senior members. I don't care if you have "lurked" here for a while, you have not contributed a single thing as a guest, so you will be treated as a newcomer. |
| Posted by: FD3S Sep 23 2004, 08:51 PM |
thanks Takumi Trueno for your efforts  too bad i already bought the dvds from jackadeal like years ago ehhehee oh well im gonna dl and seed it for a while to share the wealth  |
| Posted by: BiBi Sep 23 2004, 08:59 PM | ||
stop whining dude. just download it first then convert it yourself if u must have a smaller file size |
| Posted by: Kar-b0ss187 Sep 23 2004, 09:06 PM |
| yo |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 23 2004, 09:24 PM |
| Yo? This isnt the Welcome Section. |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 23 2004, 10:37 PM |
| j0. Next time, try to post something more productive, like this: More seeds = faster downloading = more files downloaded = the shorter the wait till the next set of episodes. So everyone start seeding! |
| Posted by: Tezza Sep 24 2004, 04:18 AM | ||||||||||
fuk off man... you aint doin' shite to help!!!! he's doing all the hard work and you come out with this legal BS!!! we're lucky enuff to get it. you want other *better* quality shite? MAKE YOUR OWN !!!!!!!!!!!!! and yea ... i got the stuff. anyone wants an extra seed, PM me. |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 24 2004, 09:14 AM |
| Now now, both Takumi Trueno and I have already told him to stop. We don't need a flame war going here. |
| Posted by: ShiftLock Sep 24 2004, 10:23 AM | ||
No, /you/ f**k off. You didn't even read my post and you come here mouthing off. The only reason I brought up that "legal BS" I mentioned was in response to Takumi Trueno and I didn't say I wanted better quality anything. I love how everyone just jumps head first into this and brands me an asshole. Way to treat 'a newcomer' guys. Good job. All I ever did was open my mouth and to offer a 'constructive criticism' (If you don't know what constructive criticism is, look it up). On top of that I offered my thanks and acknoweledged your contribution in both of my previous posts but no, lets go off attacking the shit out of me because I thought I had an what I thought would be a better idea and wanted to share it and see what you thought. I should've realized the level of immaturity I would be coming across before I dared go against the 'senior members' here. Please forgive me Takumi Trueno. You are, afterall, more than just a 16 year old kid who gets his rocks off by acting like the big boss on the forums while surrounded by lackeys who follow you blindly. Oh wait. Seniority on these forums is not proportional to knowledge, reasoning and/or conduct as can be plainly seen here. Everyone singling me out because I opened my mouth and saw that the number of posts I had made wasn't even a double digit number and so automatically, i'm an idiot no matter what I say unless I act like a drone and kiss ass, making it pretty convenient to attack me.The only thing i've seen here is a couple of people with an insecurity problem (Takumi, Evil Taxi) and Tezza who decides that it's too much work to read a post properly and just keep kissing ass (EvilTaxi and Tezza). I won't be making any more replies to this thread. No point in talking with a bunch of immature kids who think they're boss or something. Go release your First Stage or whatever the f**k you want to do. I'll be sure next time not to respond to time wasting idiots like you. Way to set an example to all new and potential new members, Senior Members. -Shift |
| Posted by: ShiftLock Sep 24 2004, 11:22 AM |
| Oh just forgot one thing. I was the one who gave Takumi Trueno the missing songs he needed to complete the Initial D Arcade Stage Version 3 OST for all those people who said I didn't contribute anything. -Shift |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Sep 24 2004, 11:42 AM |
| No, you're assumed to be an idiot until you prove otherwise. Same goes for everyone else I meet. |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Sep 24 2004, 02:07 PM |
| Shift, please refrain from double posting .. if u got more to say, just edit ur previous post. Thanks This goes to anyone else who isn't aware, No Double Posting Pls! Thankyou. |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Sep 24 2004, 02:42 PM |
| Like I said ShiftLock, you started out bad. Thats why people jump on you. |
| Posted by: Drifting Sep 24 2004, 03:29 PM | ||||||
And...you were calling us immature?
And what was the point of that? To redeem yourself? Anywayz, back to the topic. Takumi, you f**king own. The videos I just downloaded are about 5 times better than the ones I have. Better subbing also...is this fansubbed? Or from the original dvd. |
| Posted by: vova Sep 24 2004, 03:37 PM | ||
First off, I want to thank you for the torrents you put up, since I have downloaded several of them in the past. You do however seem to have a negative reaction to most new people, which doesnt seem too welcoming. I dont really see anything wrong with what he said initialy. I understand you asked for people not to complain about file size, but I think he was just posting a thank you, and a comment about the downloads. I am not telling you what to do, I just think you all over-reacted. |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Sep 24 2004, 03:57 PM |
| The main concern was to be appreciative for what offered here as far as torrents and file sharing is concerned. Takumi Trueno among others go out of their way to provide these services and materials here at the forums, and while it is expected that not everyone will be pleased and you can't make everyone happy, it is important to understand that regardless credit should be given where credit is due. Call me an ass-kisser, brown noser or whatever i don't care but Takumi Trueno is seriously doing an outstanding job sharing material and regulating its distribution. If you don't like whats offered here, that ok, you don't have to get it. The IDW majority is satisfied with whats currently being done, so that in itself speaks for itself. |
| Posted by: DrEVOIII Sep 24 2004, 07:17 PM | ||
Indeed. Damn pricks. |
| Posted by: Kamui Sep 24 2004, 09:24 PM |
| w3rd yo |
| Posted by: vova Sep 24 2004, 11:52 PM | ||
I as well appreciate what he, and others are doing. And I think that the other guy also did. I am not trying to get on the wrong side of the flamewar, I was just stating that I think you guys missinterpreted his comment. And if your calling me a prick, I dont see why. I openly thanked the torrent providers, and tried to fix a missunderstanding between members. |
| Posted by: rageguy Sep 25 2004, 03:30 PM |
| vova u dont need to fix the flaming between members cuz u have no control over it. jus let them sort it out, if they cant, a mod will. thanks takumi for torrent, i havent dl-ed yet |
| Posted by: sep900 Sep 28 2004, 01:56 PM |
i tired to d/l it but the torrent says rejected by tracker  |
| Posted by: Smiley_DC2 Sep 28 2004, 02:19 PM | ||
Torrent tracker is down again ... keep checking the IDW Torrent Tracker page until it gets restored http://bt.go2id.net/ (when the tracker is fixed and the torrents are back up and running, they will be listed) |
| Posted by: Heero Maxwell Oct 7 2004, 01:36 PM |
| Ok. I've finished the download yesterday and play the episodes but what is with the sound? The voices are not like the original I mean the sound of them, it's like they are talking on a very big room and there is some eco. The video is a lot better than the Prelude and the Extra stage. You shold make all of your rips like this. Just the sound that is verry different than the normal. |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Oct 7 2004, 02:48 PM | ||
Damnit Heero, READ. I said in the first post that, that is how it originally sounded. I told people specifically not to complain about that. In the TP version they probably fixed that.
Need I quote myself? |
| Posted by: Horiyoshi Oct 7 2004, 03:05 PM |
Threads like these make the human race look stupid  It's nice of you to rip this, Takumi Trueno |
| Posted by: Takumi Trueno Oct 7 2004, 03:19 PM | ||
Well I try to tell people these things to avoid conflict but they ignore a Bolded Note which shows that it shouldnt be ignored. Everything that I write in Red is very important and should not be missed. |
| Posted by: lil_firzen Oct 7 2004, 05:11 PM |
| okay ppl, first of all, Thank YOU Takumi, I'm a new comer but i seen you contributing heaps to this forum. Im a 16 yrs old myself, i understand the stages that we have to go through. Schools...etc etc etc Anywayz, after reading this thread, its more like war. So lets end this in peace. Starting from now... |
| Posted by: Heero Maxwell Oct 8 2004, 09:48 AM | ||
But how do you explain the fansub files? Most of them are from the dvd 2 and they don't have this sound. And i don't think that they would change that on pro audio tools because it would be hard to get a prefect job. As far as i know they didn't remake the sound of the first stage so all videos should have the same voice sound. By the way I'M NOT COMPLANINING ABOUT THE SOUND I JUST SAID THAT THE SOUND IS NOT LIKE ALL THE OTHER FIRST STAGES I'VE SAW UNTIL NOW. |
| Posted by: DrEVOIII Oct 8 2004, 06:48 PM | ||
Shut up with your complaining shmuck. |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Oct 8 2004, 07:58 PM |
| Hmm, I wonder if IP addresses are logged here? Maybe we can ban the whiners through the tracker or through our individual BT clients. |
| Posted by: gt[R]86 Oct 10 2004, 10:00 PM |
| New comers must learn, and eventually stop making the mistakes, so just tell them nicely or something and they will get it, i know my first mistake and someone yelled the shit out of me..... felt like i didnt wana come back to the forums after getting yelled at and shit, but its cool now.. |
| Posted by: t0k3r Oct 27 2004, 03:30 PM |
| Yea ,that maybe true but when i was new i just went with the flow and mad no mistakes..i think. |
| Posted by: LAN EVO IV Oct 27 2004, 05:58 PM | ||
true that, Tak (Takumi) ripped these and encoded them... he isn't olbigated to do so plus he is going it for free be thankful for what you can get |
| Posted by: crzydriftin Nov 4 2004, 07:29 PM |
any chance more seeders around.....?  thanksdont wanna have TakumiTrueno, FastWay, or EvilTaxi and and and BIG ANNOUNCEMENT *drum roll.... Introducing DrEVOIII* drain there bandwidths..... but people please help so i can contribute myself as well. thanks again sorry again if ive missed anyone, but all the seeders out there thanks again for all your help *Including the Seeder Team* as well! |
| Posted by: DrEVOIII Nov 4 2004, 11:39 PM | ||
:Ahem: Where the crap am I in your list yo?>!  |
| Posted by: t0k3r Nov 4 2004, 11:44 PM |
| yea same?! |
| Posted by: DrEVOIII Nov 4 2004, 11:59 PM | ||
What?!! Wait until youre on the team first. |
| Posted by: EvilTaxi Nov 6 2004, 12:15 PM |
| Well bandwidth usually takes a nosedive when your university decides to cap your upload. |
| Posted by: Orfeu Nov 6 2004, 01:28 PM |
| That torret seems nice, i dont start the download cuz my connection is not to good but monday i think i will be able to download that... but, i really want to know if someone doesn't have rip that will take a less time to download... with don't i will download... cuz it's very big thesse rips, but doesn't matter... To Intial D i make sacrifces... Thankyou Takumi |
| Posted by: Orfeu Nov 20 2004, 03:45 PM |
| Hi, i download the best quality video from Takumi Trueno, but i have problems playing it, the video sometimes freeze and the sound always is delay, what i have to do to make this works? I have a Pentium III - 550 Mhz 128 Ram TNT Riva Nvidia 32MB and i installed K-lite Codec 344f what i have to do? I Try a lot of codecs to! I have to know if this will works or not, cuz if doesn't i will not download, the entire file... Thanks... |
| Posted by: LAN EVO IV Nov 20 2004, 04:13 PM |
| its because your computer is too slow to process the video quality |
| Posted by: Orfeu Nov 20 2004, 04:17 PM |
| I can't do anything to try make this works? Is not a codec problem? If i increase some Ram works? Thanks No Body Knows about this? |
| Posted by: SircatmaN Dec 11 2004, 10:27 PM |
| What I have to do is burn it to a vcd as an MPG and watch it on my dvd player :/ Why can't people have a crap quality version like back in the old days (Trigun, etc.) ? BLoody DVD quality. |
| Posted by: Kakashi Dec 15 2004, 02:37 PM |
| Good idea. |
| Posted by: xupux Dec 20 2004, 06:53 AM |
| u just went to www.divx.com and dled the free one and it has all codecs u need cuz my wmp wouldnt play naruto until i dled it so try that and if it dont work u might need more ram like u said or a better processor |
| Posted by: archerz Jan 1 2005, 08:54 PM |
| can somebody seed please... |
| Posted by: mtm584 Jan 17 2005, 08:33 PM |
| seeders please |
| Posted by: mlle_morika Jan 30 2005, 07:36 PM |
| I seem to be a bit stuck at 99%. If someone would please seed me to 100%, I will be on for a couple of days to help seed others... |
| Posted by: cappuccino_driver Jan 30 2005, 08:10 PM |
| wenever i download the video,i press play but then it just stops wut should i do? |
| Posted by: aceheart Sep 4 2005, 06:40 PM |
| thank you for your sharing. |
| Posted by: weskuo Sep 27 2005, 06:52 AM |
| PLEASE SEED THANKS PLEASE and all seed too |
| Posted by: fernando_khan Nov 9 2005, 06:04 PM |
| Hi firstly big thanks to takumi trueno! I have started downloading and only 2 seeders..So please seed as caring is sharing. regards |
| Posted by: ALieNxtrm Mar 26 2006, 11:33 AM |
| i've downloaded First Stage ep1-4 and First Stage ep5-9. here's my observation: Initial D 1st Stage 1-4 is 384MB, 24 mins, 128kbps, 720x480 resolution Initial D 1st Stage 5-9 is 245MB, 24 mins, 128kbps, 576x384 resolution i'm using P4 2.2Ghz 533 FSB, 1GB DDR400 ram, AGP8x GeForce FX5200 128MB with 80GB & 40GB seagate barracuda 7200rpm hard disks. playing ep1-4 in WMP is problematic. slow video & choppy sound. playing ep5-9 is good. to all the newbies hope u can judge if u can play by the type of hardware u r using b4 downloading using my specs as benchmark. downloading the codecs u need to play but it's the hardware that can't keep up with the high quality. converting to a smaller size would be hard coz it would take more than 5 hours for 1 DVD encoding or conversion w/ Nero Ultra or Roxio 8. No bashing whiners here. to lower spec pc owners -- 1st stage ep1-4 is not for u! save the bandwidth and ur time. there are some chopsuey Initial d 4th stage complete set torrents out there that i've dLd that plays fine. Thanks to Takumi Trueno and to all seeders 4 sharing! I also believe in the best quality conversion but sad that my specs couldn't keep up. Still luking 4ward to complete japanese dvd version of Initial D 1st to 4th stages. Keep it up! arigato |
| Posted by: drivewithskillz Nov 7 2006, 04:33 PM |
| thanks takumi trueno! we can all finally watch initial d thats NOT f*** up by tokyopop (well, for me its the first time). anyways, i'm new to both this forum and bittorrent, and my DL is creeping at 20 kb. is this normal? btw, i subscribe to comcast at 50 mbps. also, how would i seed this after i'm done? thanks, sorry if i broke any rules. |
| Posted by: D3MON Nov 30 2006, 01:01 PM |
hey im looking for all the stages but with french subs not english... any help would be awsome. im looking for a friend of mine to show him the show.  |
| Posted by: GAwes Apr 4 2007, 04:59 PM |
| hey Tak (Takumi), i'm a new comer here but do you plan on making more of these, i understand it must take a great deal of time. thank you so much for putting 1-9 up already. if you ever do any more of stage one i'd be glad to donate something for your time, it might not be that much but hey, it could help. I have stage 1 and 2 by tokyopop and i can't even stand to watch it after seeing these. thanks again man |
| Posted by: lonelydriver888 Apr 27 2007, 09:39 PM |
| Can anyone who has downloaded these episodes tell me what video format they are in? I am just curious. I normally watch AVI formats. I have to agree that the TokyoPop versions were pretty bad. That's the main reason why I didn't pick them up when they were officially released in the States. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your stuff with us, Takumi Trueno! |
| Posted by: Titiuu Jun 7 2007, 02:07 AM |
Big thank you!, but moar seed pls?  EDIT: Ah, forget what i said, sry |
| Posted by: Fredrick2003 Sep 23 2007, 01:36 PM |
| Come on guys, this needs more seeders. I am 1% away from completing it myself, and I will leave it up every time I have my computer on. I encourage all of you to do the same... |
| Posted by: Kurvay106 Aug 27 2008, 10:46 PM |
| YO THX DUDE!!! IM DOWNLOADING RITE NOW BUT CAN SELFISH PEOPLE SEED!!! SURE ITS AN OLD SEASON BUT AT LEAST SEED!!! IM STILL AT 0.0% PLEASE OR IILL... I'LL... I'LLL, UR LUCKY CUZ I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING RITE NOW!!! |
| Posted by: Lachlanus Nov 1 2008, 04:44 AM |
| Thanks for making these! Could someone with 100% seed? There are about 3 of us who have 99% completed but nobody has the last little bit! |
| Posted by: Shintaro May 8 2009, 01:45 PM |
| Thanks for putting this up. |
| Posted by: Fastway2006 May 9 2009, 06:45 PM |
| looking for it long times!!!! |
| Posted by: balidio Oct 16 2009, 12:19 PM |
Umm... is anybody still seeding this? my BT client has been waiting for sources forever... somebody please seed... please...  |
| Posted by: flow_sj Nov 4 2009, 01:20 PM |
| thanks i wanted to see them went to you tube and youtube deleted the entire first stage that scobyfann had posted |
| Posted by: j3wman Dec 5 2009, 05:09 PM |
| How do I get around the windows firewall? this is very annoying |
| Posted by: geokilla Dec 7 2009, 05:55 PM |
| Anime-Supreme has them all....decent quality too considering First Stage is so old. |
| Posted by: TheVenueGuy Jan 31 2010, 02:09 AM |
| obviously i'm a bit late for this torrent. damn. |