January 23, 2012
DDLs may die
Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you must have heard that Megaupload has been shut by the feds, and other cyber-locker sites are closing or stopping filesharing.
as a result many, if not all our DDL links may become dead, so from now on all our posts will also include links to the #precure channel on irc.rzon.net and the packlist for the [Precure]AllStars IRC Bot
For those of you who don’t know what that means, I’ve created a video to help. (and before i get any idiots posting about it, The_Code_Monkey is the Alias I use on LJ and TotalCodeMonkey is my Youtube name)
As well as the video, my good friend Elizara has posted a text walkthrough on her website to help out: http://madavies.briggsphoto.biz/irchelp.html
January 20, 2012
YPC5 38 – You shall go to the ball tonight
"I beat people up in competition for half-price lunchboxes"
If you don’t understand the caption, go watch Ben-To (one of the better offerings from the anime season that just ended), then look up Yarizui’s seiyuu.
In this episode: Milk plagiarizes, Urara shows us her idea to transform without the Pinky catch, Karen stays in character, Bunbee tries the same thing Arachnea tried back in episode 16, and Nozomi wants the happy ending that she craves.
January 15, 2012
Help Stop SOPA – What’s going down on the 18th?
As many of you may be aware the PROTECT IP / SOPA Act is making its way through the US Congress. We are asking for your help to stop it. Please follow the links below to pledge you support, even if you don’t live in the United States.
I, Force Gaia, may be a resident of the United Kingdom, but I still care as many Fansubbers, including Zalis, are based in the US, and there are elements of the bill that will affect those outside the US like myself.
This bill will cause a major problem for fansubbers all over the world as it will give powers that will allow the entertainment industry to prevent access to those sites in US borders, but most importantly, it’ll pave the way for other countries to pass similar laws and will meddle with the inner workings of the internet.
But I’ve just scratched the surface, here is the skinny directly from the http://americancensorship.org/ site.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
The other thing you may want to know is that in protest to this, a number of sites, both large and small, will be going on strike on the 18th.
EDIT 17/01/2012 00:41 GMT by Force Gaia: As i write this there has been some officially confirmed sites that are striking, including: Reddit, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mozilla, Tucows and Twitpic. For a full list of sites both confirmed and unconfirmed, look here.
December 30, 2011
YPC5 37 – The After Christmas Diet Plan
Coco is in denial about his overeating this Christmas period
I can’t believe I QC’ed this on Christmas eve, although it feels nice to be one of the few fansubbers dedicated enough to do something over Christmas for a non-weekly show.
In this not-so-christmassy Christmas release:
Coco scares the cures, Nuts becomes a hamster, Milk turns food critic, and Hadenya considers quitting nightmare to become a sales rep.
Zalis: Well, it would’ve been closer to Christmas, if I’d been a little less lazy. So now it’s a “New Year’s Eve Eve” release instead.
December 5, 2011
YPC5 36 – How to get a Promotion at Nightmare
Just like every villain in every episode before this one, genius.
The caption was either that or “No shit, Sherlock”
I bet you didn’t expect one this fast? Well as Zalis thought I was as out of action (I originally did too, but i found I’m not so much actually) so he did most of the work for this one himself behind the scenes while I was Qc’ing 35. (Zalis: Actually, I translated and timed it in the 12 hours after 35 was released.)
In this episode:
Nozomi complains, Karen acts the school council president for once, Nozomi complains some more, Rin collapses, and Gamao learns not to trust management the hard way. Oh, and the pretty robotic butterfly is used again.
Zalis: I’ve realized that Pretty Cure 5 aren’t just Magical Girl Warriors, they’re class warriors. And they’re engaged in class warfare against Nightmare, which is clearly a job creator. I mean, look how many employees are in those meeting rooms every episode, getting paid to do practically nothing! But no, Pretty Cure have to throw up all these job-killer regulations with all their talk of justice, fairness, and restitution for the Palmier Kingdom.
Nightmare even has a perfect way of dealing with unemployment and poor people: drive them to the breaking point until they go insane and get themselves taken out by law enforcement, or in this case, Pretty Cure.
December 1, 2011
YPC5 35 – Key and Lock
Any Shugo Chara! fans in the audience?
Sorry we took so long. As we explained: my university course started up again and I had to prioritise that and Zalis’ Convention staffing kept him busy. I’d also like to take this chance to mention that the next ep won’t be touched by me until I get my assignments done and handed in, so that may be Dec 18th or later, actually i should be able to fit some in as i’ve not got as much work as i expected, but during the winter break I will try and make up for lost time.
In this episode: Komachi actually has more than one line of dialogue at a time, Milk gets forcefully silenced for once, Coco premieres as a stalker, we finally see Mr. Bloody in “action”, and there’s something going on after hours in Natt’s House.
November 19, 2011
The formats of our releases
First the good news, before i get really heavy, depressing and rather pissed:
Zalis mailed the script for 35 to me on Wednesday and I’m about to get onto QC’ing it
Now for an abrupt tone-shift:
I jsut want to make this as clear as i possibly can, as we’ve had at least three different people ask about it. To be honest, i can’t believe that I’m actually clarifying how we release as it’s really not hard to understand (plus zalis was doing it EXACTLY the same way while subbing splash), and it’s probable that it’s only a dozen or so ejits morons lesser-than-bright people who can’t get their head around it, but here I am in the hope it’ll stop the aforementioned people from asking stupid questions.
We will continue release as we are doing so currently:
- Torrent (which Zalis starts then a few friends from the precure community help seed it)
- Direct Download Link (DDL, provided to us by CureGecko, and on occasion by Elizara if she’s feeling generous and gives me one when she catches me on IRC)
- Presence on the [PreCure]AllStars XDCC bot in #precure@irc.rizon.net (when Rika_chama notices there’s been a release and puts it on there)
Did anyone notice a method that wasn’t listed there?
Yes, the method I’m talking about is Streaming, and it’s not happening, EVER.
and by that i mean:
WE ARE NOT UPLOADING OUR RELEASES TO ANY FORM OF STREAMING SITE, AT ALL, FOR ANY REASON, EVER, EVEN IF YOU ASK.
and by asking I mean even if you ask us were you can find one already up, and the answer is: we don’t know because they shouldn’t be there
November 3, 2011
Temporary lull
Zalis:
Sorry things have been quiet around here lately, but I’m staffing a convention (http://www.animenebraskon.com/) this weekend, and things have been busy due to all the last-minute planning and preparations. Starting next week, I should have more time to get things rolling on some more YPC5 translations.
Force Gaia:
It’s funny how me and Zalis both have these periods of not being able to do anything at the same time. I’m a bit bogged down with University work at the moment (and it’s only a single module that’s doing it!) I’ll do what i can when i can, but I’m betting the next time I’ll be doing a reasonable amount is after the 16th December when my uni term ends (or when that module decides to give me a break from trying to do the impossible)
But as i said last time: you’ve waited years for this, and we’re on the case now, we’re not going to disappear, we’ll get it done eventually. We aim to get it done, but we never said we’d get it done fast.
October 2, 2011
Of Codecs and Playback
Recently we’ve had a few comments saying they can’t see the subs. (chalk up another one as of 22/01/12)
As we’ve had MANY people enjoy our subs with no problems, I can say for sure it’s a problem on their end, most likely with their playback software.
When fansubbing anime we have to encode our releases so that what you’re downloading isn’t all that massive, but that also means at the other end, you guys have to have the right stuff installed to play it back. What you need then is a codec pack.
Read on for info of how so get yourself ready to watch our releases.
September 17, 2011
YPC5 34 – A Knight’s Tale
Sorry for the wait, real-life happened.
In this episode:
Nozomi gives the fan-pairing more ammo, Milk is strangely quiet and non-annoying, Hadenya shows us how to properly throw a Kowainaa mask, and Karen uses a lightsaber.
Zalis: True, Milk is tolerable in this episode, but I did get some Shilling The Wesley vibes. And isn’t it convenient that they can forget about Pinkies for several episodes at a time, only to find the exact one they need, when they need it?
Incidentally, this is the first episode that I did not translate for Aesir months ago.
