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I will keep you up to date on what I have finished and what I am currently working on for the V2 re-encodes torrent right here, so you do not have to keep asking me or wondering whats going on.

I post constant updates in my Discord server. Feel free to join if you want continual updates and details of what I am currently doing or working on.

https://discord.gg/HQ7TWaGjrN

FIRST STAGE - Finished
SECOND STAGE - Finished
THIRD STAGE - Finished
FOURTH STAGE - Finished
FIFTH STAGE - Finished
FINAL STAGE - Finished

EXTRA STAGE 1 - Finished
EXTRA STAGE 2 - Finished

BATTLE STAGE 1 - Finished
BATTLE STAGE 2 - Finished
BATTLE STAGE 3 - Finished
FOURTH STAGE BATTLE DIGEST - Finished
BATTLE DIGEST - Finished

LEGEND MOVIE 1 - Finished
LEGEND MOVIE 2 - Finished
LEGEND MOVIE 3 - Finished


WANGAN MIDNIGHT - Finished (Added to bottom of post)

Encoded the complete Initial D series into high quality MKV h.264 format with both English and Japanese audio, along with English Subtitles as well.


(480+576p)

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/28759757

https://1337x.to/torrent/3537860/Initial-D-...DVD-Blu-Ray-Rip

https://anidex.info/torrent/220428

https://www.anirena.com/?s=Initial+D+Comple...D%2FBlu-Ray+Rip

https://nyaa.si/view/1112189

https://www.seedpeer.me/details/5c464b44562...20Rip%20(Fixed)


(720p)

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/33046508

https://1337x.to/torrent/3781094/Initial-D-...0p-Blu-Ray-Rip/

https://anidex.info/torrent/247132

https://www.anirena.com/?s=Initial+D+Comple...%5D+Blu-Ray+Rip

https://nyaa.si/view/1146112


(1080p) (V2)

https://1337x.to/torrent/5548543/Initial-D-...Blu-Ray-Rip-V2/

https://anidex.info/torrent/522507

https://www.anirena.com/?s=Initial+D+Comple...ay+Rip+%28V2%29

https://nyaa.si/view/1635825


((( A list of changes/improvements for V2 can be found here. )))
https://idforums.net/index.php?act=ST&f=31&...25#entry1355699




SCREENSHOTS


(480+576p)

[ FIRST STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/2ta0s9h

[ SECOND STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/UQJ1me1

[ THIRD STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/jZkKVG1

[ FOURTH STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/28oAqCP

[ FIFTH STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/MUELl1J

[ FINAL STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/hEc9Zcq

[ EXTRA STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/nVIREcl

[ EXTRA STAGE 2 ]
https://imgur.com/a/BO944R8

[ BATTLE STAGE ]
None this time

[ BATTLE STAGE 2 ]
None this time


(720p)

[ FIRST STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/Omtvbzx

[ SECOND STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/tBD2x2r

[ THIRD STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/Ff1cX1O

[ FOURTH STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/RwE7EC8

[ FIFTH STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/YvtW41u

[ FINAL STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/jrWKGws

[ EXTRA STAGE ]
https://imgur.com/a/krP14Kq

[ EXTRA STAGE 2 ]
https://imgur.com/a/FErFMXb

[ BATTLE STAGE ]
None this time

[ BATTLE STAGE 2 ]
None this time


(1080p) (V2)

[ FIRST STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/o8q9mJJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/A0I9S79.png
https://i.imgur.com/w7xMazm.png
https://i.imgur.com/lIDUJrY.png

[ SECOND STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/AXkNoOT.png
https://i.imgur.com/ndf2v0O.png
https://i.imgur.com/h4VRIzz.png

[ THIRD STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/ru1JJkh.png
https://i.imgur.com/NnJ8ufg.png
https://i.imgur.com/hm15yck.png
https://i.imgur.com/WVvhLw5.png

[ FOURTH STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/l43DOR2.png
https://i.imgur.com/qMl2JLm.png
https://i.imgur.com/R5gzwPD.png
https://i.imgur.com/PVjFLo8.png
https://i.imgur.com/BtItSIM.png

[ FIFTH STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/vEudyC7.png
https://i.imgur.com/R8Rq8UQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/ytyfmJF.png

[ FINAL STAGE (V2) ]
https://i.imgur.com/1wxFW62.png
https://i.imgur.com/bhQVl6N.png
https://i.imgur.com/7HlR5Pv.png
https://i.imgur.com/xtikIYB.png

[ BATTLE STAGE (V2) ]
None this time

[ BATTLE STAGE 2 (V2) ]
None this time

[ BATTLE STAGE 3 ]
https://i.imgur.com/S807NbM.png
https://i.imgur.com/lWDoiK4.png
https://i.imgur.com/lkjhHo8.png
https://i.imgur.com/U8yFKBz.png
https://i.imgur.com/IwuCKWj.png

[ FOURTH STAGE BATTLE DIGEST ]
None this time

[ NEW MOVIE BATTLE DIGEST ]
https://i.imgur.com/iBmQBrz.png
https://i.imgur.com/9bBUGrg.png
https://i.imgur.com/R6U6Zud.png

[ EXTRA STAGE (V2) ]
None this time

[ EXTRA STAGE 2 (V2) ]
None this time

[ LEGEND 1 - AWAKENING ]
https://i.imgur.com/9KF1Wj8.png
https://i.imgur.com/jK5gCNI.png
https://i.imgur.com/IvtOGPB.png
https://i.imgur.com/78tKatE.png

[ LEGEND 2 - RACER ]
Refer to Legend 1 screenshots

[ LEGEND 3 - DREAM ]
Refer to Legend 1 screenshots

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As a secondary gift I did the requested Wangan Midnight as well for all the requester's who loved this series and told me about it.

I don't really think the source is good enough to merit a 1080p scale, but I might go back and do a 576p and 720p scale for everyone. I am not promising it at the moment though.

https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=60226868

https://1337x.to/torrent/5304906/Wangan-Mid...ity-MKV-DVDRip/

https://anidex.info/torrent/478549

https://www.anirena.com/?s=Wangan+Midnight+...y%29+MKV+DVDRip

https://nyaa.si/view/1546845




SCREENSHOTS


https://i.imgur.com/BE1722f.png
https://i.imgur.com/IWOXtF5.png
https://i.imgur.com/bdMClUJ.png
https://i.imgur.com/zohARqZ.png
https://i.imgur.com/drVoKry.png

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on Mar 13 2024, 06:39 AM

Just dropping by here to say, I've actually saw your uploads on Nyaa, and it's really nice to see you contributing your encodes/uploads here as well - I've just stumbled upon this old forum as a old time lurker.

Really appreciate it, as most, if not all, my main series episodes collection are encoded by you.

Looking forward to the 4th stage 720p and Battle Stage 1 releases (it's really low quality on any sites sadly), and will help you seed em' as long as my own server holds it.

Thanks a bunch!

This post has been edited by linkwrighton on Dec 10 2018, 01:21 AM

Can't wait for 1080p, it has been like 8 years since last time I rewatched Initial D, want to rewatch again in best quality possible.

I finally got the 2 Battle Stages on DVD + Blu-Ray and got the entire series completed encoding, so I re-organized this thread post.

I am now working on finishing up the rest of the 720p release. I have no estimated finish date at the moment, but I will keep everyone up to date.

Enjoy!

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on Jan 22 2019, 03:01 AM

OMG!!! Before of years, its real!!.

Men, you are the best. Now Waiting your release about Battle Stage 2 in HD, for me, the best.

Great project, looking forward to the 720 release.

Initial D - Third Stage (1080p) is now available for download.

Because it has been taking me a while to get to 1080p and this is possibly the most in demand stage aside from First, I figured I would give this as a treat until I get the entire series in 1080p finished.

This is for all the people who loved my 480p/576p complete series release so much and have been eagerly awaiting 720p and 1080p from me. Consider this a gift for having the patience to wait for me to finish the entire series in 720p. I am almost finished with 720p complete series, so have some patience and enjoy!

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on Mar 1 2019, 04:35 PM

Thanks for these! I will download & seed the complete series torrent whenever I can

This post has been edited by JeffreySoftbark on Mar 27 2019, 09:56 PM

Would just like to give a Big thanks to the OP, Get to watch my favourite anime in better quality ... Will seed once downloaded.

I got all the Initial D First Stage 720p scripts finished today, and the audio done today. I will run the scripts through the encoder soon and begin work on the 720p subtitles for them.

It shouldn't be too long now and First Stage 720p will be finished. Then all thats left is to finish Fourth Stage 720 and the complete 720p release will be up.

Feel free to keep up in my Discord if you want. I post frequent updates and work on other things as well.

https://discord.gg/HQ7TWaGjrN

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on Mar 13 2024, 06:36 AM

I'm not sure how I missed this, and I see you have Battle Stage encoded, but I'll offer the same thing for your project that I did for a few others on here. I have a V2 script for Battle Stage available if you'd like it, since I'm the one who subbed it the first time.

First Stage is officially finished and screenshots are available.

I will get to work on Fourth Stage within the next couple of days. It's very possible this Stage is going to be a lot of frame by frame work, so I cannot give an estimated finish time at the moment. Keep checking for an update and I will fill everyone in on the amount of time I estimate after I begin getting into working on it more.

Thanks Nomake, but I prefer to do my own work and scripts.

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on Apr 28 2019, 05:26 PM

Thank you so much darkdream787, you're really doing the community a huge favor by doing this.

Just wanted to leave a comment just so you know that there are others like us checking back daily for your updates and continuously helping you seed the ratios up.

Really looking forward to the 4th stage encodes as that's probably the only one left that's still in 480p (even on streaming sites, they tend to put HQ/HD but it's also as good as 480p and below).


Cheers mate

I haven't been on this forum in years but just started watching Initial D again (probably for the 10th time) and thought I'd check it out to see if there are any higher quality rips out there and saw this post.

Just wanted to give you my thanks and that I'll help seed when I can.

I actually got quite a bit of progress done to Fourth Stage on Monday in the bit of time I had to work on it. If I can get the same amount done today, I should be able to have this running through encoder by Friday for sure. Maybe even a day or two earlier. Then that's it, 720p is all finished up.

At this rate, I can guarantee no more than 2 weeks and this will be all finished finally.

1080p will not take nearly as long because all of the subtitle work and frame by frame work was done for the 720p release. 1080p will come much faster than 720p did as a result.


EDIT: Okay well, fortunately the frame by frame work I had left for syncing of Fourth Stage was identical for all the episodes. I got it all finished today and I will run it through the encoder now.

Looks like less than 48 hours for all the episodes to finish. If they pass quality check and or I don't see anything I missed, I should be able to have them all up either this Friday or by Monday.

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on May 22 2019, 02:43 PM

Looking forward to seeing the differences. Good luck with the encodes and QC!

720p is now available for download.

Enjoy!

I will begin work on 1080p after I have had a short break.

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on May 24 2019, 05:07 PM

Thank you darkdream787.

We will all be seeding the 96.7GB batch infinitely. You go have your break man'

Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension.

Hah! Hilarious. I had a look at your "own work and scripts" since the torrent's nearly done. You reused my V1 script from Battle Stage (which has errors, you know? That's why I offered you the V2 I had done since November of last year?) and didn't adjust the placement for the increased video resolution over the DVD.

You've done great work with the encodes themselves, but I have to have at least a little bit of a chuckle when it comes to something I was actually involved with originally.

Battle Stage? I actually did a hardsub rip from multiple youtube videos and an old AVI file. I combined them together by taking pieces and different sentences from each, did some spelling checking, then retimed them and formatted how I wanted for that one. Positioning and placement is how I wanted it in the end. I did not take your v1 .srt/.ass subtitles exactly, nor have I ever even seen it. That crap took forever to finish because OCR for low quality video hardsub was pretty poor and I ended up having to manually type out most of it in the software instead of using the OCR like I would with a DVD or Blu-Ray subtitle track.

I believe for that one I have both my custom finished one and a second one that's mostly unaltered and from someone else from the AVI file in there. I think the subtitle creators names show at the end of everything for that second subtitle track.

EDIT: Yeah I do have multiple subtitle tracks and that info is still in there at the 50:54 - 51:04. There is no mention of a nomake wan in it though.

Also, when you said "script" and offered me a script, I thought you were talking about an avisynth script for the video. Thats the work I was referring to. I never heard of subtitles referred to as a script before. They have always been called subtitles or subs to me. If I'd have known it was subtitles you were talking about, I would have accepted and put as a 3rd subtitle track in the upload. If you want them in the 1080p release as a 3rd subtitle track, just PM them to me.

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on May 26 2019, 08:58 AM

The YouTube videos and that old AVI file were all my subs. I'm the only one who ever bothered subbing the full Battle Stage, so yeah.

Yikes.

[OMFG]_Initial_D_Battle_Stage_[79E236FF].avi, 50:54. Wanna try again?

Well, I've never heard of someone offering someone else AVIsynth scripts without having been asked for them before. Not to mention I specifically said in my post I was the one who subbed it...so...yanno...subtitles. I'm a fairly nice guy though, so rather than PM the script, I'll just post it here:

https://pastebin.com/JzBQ80FJ

I would recommend you use them as a basis to correct your first subtitle track, however. Seeing as your first sub track is using my V1 translations for scene transitions and those aren't entirely correct (I didn't have as good a grasp of kanji back in 2007 as I do in 2018).

This post has been edited by Nomake Wan on May 26 2019, 12:57 PM

That's not 100% accurate because there were multiple different translations from multiple people available. They said completely different things in each of them and some had things like text translation while the others did not. There were even versions of the Battle Stage that were much less in overall length with subtitles that said different things in them. Unless you made 4+ different translations for different length videos, work for Central Anime, and FXM-IDB, and can speak other languages like Spanish, and Deutsch, I doubt your the only one in the world who has done it.

When you encode as much as I do, and your entire forum and other forums you usually use are almost solely based on that, asking for and offering avisynth scripts is far too common. Subtitles are rarely ever even a topic, unless I ask about them. You may have specifically said you were the one who subbed it, but that doesn't necessarily mean you were offering subtitles, thus the confusion. When they are offered or talked about, their called subtitles or subs, not scripts in the communities I have always been in. All I got out of that was you were a person that subbed it or subbed it first, and were offering me a video script to use when I saw that. The word scripts usually refers to the video aspect when using avisynth in the communities I am used to. So there is where the confusion lied. No need to bother worrying about it anymore.

I don't consider coming in here and criticizing my placement or choice of subtitle positioning and telling me what I did or did not do correctly, then mocking and laughing at things like it's a joke, being a fairly nice guy. How they are is how I wanted them after piecing all the different things I had together. When ripped from youtube hard subbed sources all the positioning and font info was lost, so I placed things how I liked them. Unless a name was actually typed in the subtitles, there is no way for me to have known where they came from. Yours might have a name in them, but the ones I had for use did not have it in there. I am not sleezy and I do not remove credits from used or borrowed subtitles on subbed only sources.

I appreciate the subtitle offer and realize there was a mixup as to what you were offering, but please don't come telling me what I did and did not do right or wrong or how things should be one way or another. It's very nice that you offered to share, but all that was not needed. It will be as I wish it to be in the end since these are mostly for my viewing pleasure, and I just happen to be nice enough to share the encodes as well.

You want your v2 subs in the next release, I will add them in as a unaltered third subtitle track in the 1080p release. I may also check to see how the text translation differs, and if I like the way it sounds better, I would change some of them in my custom one. I will not be changing positioning though in my first track. Either way, the first track is going to remain how I want it when it comes to chosen sentences from the various different subs ripped from various different hard subbed videos. Positioning and colors will also remain how I want them, and the second one from the AVI/MKV will still retain everything it had in it, including names.

I care about the video way more than I do the subtitles when it comes to subbed only sources, that's why I specifically asked everyone in my forum if they wanted their own subs or had a translation they prefer, to submit them to me and I would put them in as extra subtitle tracks. No one ended up submitting anything so I made my own from several different youtube and an AVI hard sub rips, and kept the one from an AVI/MKV file as it was with only positioning, and timing adjustments made to small pieces because it actually had some info in it with the name of OMFG in it. Since this is an actual submission, I have reason to add it in with no changes and I also have a name to put in the track name of the MKV file.

If people want other translations or their own custom subtitles, and they did not get them to me for insertion, they are free to do so on their own time and add them in for themselves. I have it how I liked it with what I had available to use when I made it.

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on May 26 2019, 08:29 PM

Oh, my bad. Didn't know you were including non-English in your English-subs-only release. My bad. And you're right--there is an old Soldats rip up on YouTube, but that Soldats release is why OMFG's exists. It's missing about four scenes, is out-of-order, and the translation is sub-par. So if we're talking about English-language releases...I'm your man.

And yet, the very first part of any sub file...

So yes, I agree that there was confusion, I just think it was all rather silly. I mean, you're working with bluray sources, right? What good would a decade-old AVIsynth script for a DVD do?

Except for the parts you left in, of course. Easy enough to find via Google or right here on IDW where they came from originally using that info, were you to so care. You didn't. I also am absolutely going to criticize the placement on those scene transitions because it's 2019, not 2007. It's trivial to add something like

in order to allow the sub track to overlay the original text, and then properly center the text. Just sayin'!

Nah, I don't want them in it. I just thought this was a by-the-community-for-the-community situation, and clearly I was wrong about that. Yet more confusion on my part, I suppose. The subs are freely available, both the old ones (your "second track") and the new ones above. You can use them, or you can ignore them. Now, as the person who worked on both, I would certainly recommend using the newer ones, but hey, it's your pet project. And as you go on to say here...

OMFG is still OMFG. One Man Fansub Group. It's just that that "one man" is me, lol. So your second track and your proposed third track would both be OMFG, they'd just be v1 and v2. Odd, but since you don't care about subtitles in subbed-only sources...

This post has been edited by Nomake Wan on May 26 2019, 08:36 PM

And you called yourself a nice guy lol, what a joke. All you wanna do is be sarcastic, egotistical and mean apparently.

There was plenty more than just Soldats available in English. When you add up all the different Youtube, AVI and MKV files I found, there were at least 3 different English translated ones that all said different things. Yours was not the only one available. Central Anime left their name in their English subtitles.
Yeah, the other languages aren't included, but you did state that you were the "only" one who bothered to sub Battle Stage which is not true.

Not for Battle Stage I did not. The Blu-Rays for Battle stage were complete smeared out garbage like the first 2 stages. The DVD being upscaled looked much better. This was stated and talked about before I even began work on it in my forum.

in order to allow the sub track to overlay the original text, and then properly center the text. Just sayin'!

Oh I forgot, I specifically made this for you and you alone, that's right. You paid me to tailor to your wants and needs, also that there is apparently only one way to do things, so my own preferences don't mean squat here. What the current year is, means nothing. This is not yours and was not made specifically to please you only. Don't like it, then don't download or use it, or put your own in it after you download it, it's as simple as that. Being a complainer or whining isn't going to change anything.

I looked at the V2 you linked to. I would have to ask permission to change the timing, because its quite a bit off and would not sync to my encode. I think perhaps they were meant for a version without the opening text statement? I believe a simple adjust everything forward by ??? amount of seconds would sync it up. I would have to try.

Is adjusting the timing for sync going to be a problem for you?

This post has been edited by darkdream787 on May 26 2019, 09:50 PM

Love you too. I'm glad we're finally seeing things on even terms.

For Battle Stage? I'm surprised, to be honest, that C-A did that one. I don't recall that happening, only Soldats. If they did, then they did, and I'll take it. I have my own opinion about Central-Anime's translations, but it's irrelevant to the current discussion. They're usually good enough, and if they did it, they probably used a complete raw too.

Semantics and you know it. We're speaking English, this is an English-only release, clearly I'm referring to English. Stick to the Soldats and Central-Anime argument, it's way stronger.

Ah, right, I forgot, I'm the egotistical one, not the guy who doesn't know Japanese and believes the sub placement pictured above is 10/10. Pardon me for making such lowly suggestions, your majesty. Please, proceed with your life's work.

The timing on that file is based on the Japanese DVD with the intro segment cut out, yes, you're absolutely correct. That's why it doesn't have the translation for the "This work is fiction..." segment at the beginning. It's essentially the exact same script that was used to encode the V1 AVI, except with the translation errors fixed. As such it hasn't been updated from SSA to ASS format, and doesn't have the fancy text box code I pasted above for scene transitions (since, again, that would require ASS formatting).

Also since it's freely available, you're free to mess with it as you please without asking me for permission before making changes. Use it to fix up your own script, mess with the sync, whatever you like. I've long since gotten out of the fansub game, so it's not like I was going to make my own V2 release at this point anyway. That's why I've handed it over. If anything, just leave in the dedication to IDW, since that's where we're both posting.