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« on: March 28, 2003, 10:30:13 AM »
We've got even more movies of Link kickin' ass.  Now in MPEG and Windows Media 9 Format!  Hiiiiyaaahhhhhhhhhh!

We just got our shiny new import copy of Soul  Calibur 2 from our good friends at Video  Game Depot (order now!), and put Link to the test.  We've got the full  intro and Link playing in a bunch of different battles.  Warning:  If  you don't want to see the final boss in Arcade Mode, don't watch Movie #8.

We've decided to encode these videos 2 ways:  Windows Media 9, and MPEG. 
Don't forget to right click and save this file to your computer.

*You will need Windows Media Player to view the Windows Media Files.

Soul Calibur 2

Windows Media:

Movie 1 (11.9MB Windows Media File)
Movie 2 (8.4MB Windows Media File)
Movie 3 (2.6MB Windows Media File)
Movie 4 (2.9MB Windows Media File)
Movie 5 (3.8MB Windows Media File)
Movie 6 (3.8MB Windows Media File)
Movie 7 (4.2MB Windows Media File)
Movie 8 (6.0MB Windows Media File)


MPEG:

Movie 1 (28.1MB MPEG)
Movie 2  (20.3MB MPEG)
Movie 3  (11.4MB MPEG)
Movie 4  (12.4MB MPEG)
Movie 5  (16.5MB MPEG)
Movie 6  (16.2MB MPEG)
Movie 7  (18.0MB MPEG)
Movie 8  (25.9MB MPEG)

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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2003, 10:58:25 AM »
The MPEG versions are MUCH MUCH MUCH better.  Thank you.

Link totally kicks ass.  
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2003, 05:04:53 PM »
yeah soul calibur 2 looks almost too good
i cant wait to get it when it comes out in america
oh yeah- link is just plain awesome
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2003, 10:44:07 AM »
Thanks for the MPEGs, Billy!

I appreciate the extra work that you put in to support those of us that can't seem to make Windows Media Player work.

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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2003, 11:45:25 PM »
Yes, cheers guys. The Mpeg's actually run and look fantastic! The downside - bigger file size. Oh well, they're worth it.
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2003, 04:33:18 PM »
Ok, I just won't give this one up, as no staff member has told me why they aren't using Divx, I have gone ahead and converted the first movie to a http://members.shaw.ca/rebirth2/sc1.avi.

I only have 10MB of webspace per account, and I have devoted this account entirely to serving this movie, but I had to cut a corner to do so.  The original movie for the conversion was the MPEG version of course, but the audio was too big.  As it stood, if I had kept the audio quality at the size it was, it would have taken 4MB, and I wasn't prepared to sacrifice THAT much video quality for a barely perceptible gain in audio.  I think the end result is fairly good considering that I don't have the original for the movie, and compression artificts exist for both the MPEG and Divx formats.  Nevertheless, I still think it's better than the WMV version, and if the audio was at full quality, it would be at about the same size.

Audio format:  128kBit/s, 44100 Hz Stereo.  2 channel MPEG Layer 3.
Video format:  380kBit/s, 352x240, 29.970fps, Divx 5.03.

Video was rendered at almost 60fps, total time being ~1:30 on an Athlon XP 1800+ at stock speeds.

Anyways, I hope I don't get into trouble for this, but I would appreciate staff comments.
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2003, 04:35:06 PM »
Links don't work they way they should in Fuse Talk.  ARGG!

Anyways, since I can't edit my post, the link for it is here.
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2003, 09:32:03 PM »
Yes, mad props for putting them up in MPEG format.  I'd like to see some more throws by Link though, I believe I've only seen one but I know that in the original each character had at least four throws.  Anyway, thanks for putting them up for all to see free of charge
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