The folks on HybridZ.org have really come through on this one.

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=107279&highlight=wangan

It's in Japanese and a little corny but the S30 looks great and the street scenes look pretty sharp.

Awesome, I'm downloading it now.

I believe the car has the headlight wiring upgrade

646 MB? Holy crap! Ever hear of compression?

It is compressed. its like a 2 hour movie, not 45 minutes of Lost or Battlestar galactica.

There arent any subtitles, and you have to watch in in the div x movie player. Doenst seen to work in Media Player, even with the right codec. maybe MP10 can handle it. I was using an older version.

We need someone to subtitle in into English though.

Wanna get a Fansub going?

Ah, that explains it. I thought it was just a preview.

Awesome, I'm downloading it now.

I believe the car has the headlight wiring upgrade

I can't believe how bright its headlights are myself.

Leave it to the Japanese to take a masculine theme and effeminate it.

Wanna get a Fansub going?

So i'd been thinking about this for a while, ever since seeing the movie a while ago.

I thought it would be pretty easy to strip out the audio, cut it up into small sections, and make a simple web app that would allow japanese speaking people to download a small section of the dialogue, and type in (in english) on a web page form what was being said. Of course this would probably violate all sorts of copyright laws, and the hard part would be finding japanese speaking/ english writing people to translate it.

I havent found any video editing programs that can open the file either. So getting the subtitles back onto the movie would be difficult too.

opinions, suggestions?

I'm downloading it now. I love Wangan Midnight. I found out about it when the arcade game came to my local arcade. I cried when they took it out about a month later because of low revenue...

I always got to play as the Devil Z because I knew the special code...

Cam, I haven't even tried google, but what are the chances of getting the script from somewhere. Perhaps that would be easier in terms of distribution and ease of translating.. then just need someone to fit it all back together.

Just an idea.. :/

Script would be in japanese too i imaging. if you go to wikipedia and search for wangan, it gives a pretty good background as to whats going on in the movie.

Yes, but it saves people having to download movie clips, and also if you have ever tried translating a movie before, you'll understand it is quite difficult to do on the fly! Having text ready to be translated would make it easier on the translator.

And also, if no one was up to the task of translating, you could just churn the whole thing through Babelfish to get a "good enough" idea of what is happening.

I recon we just email sbs and ask them to show the movie. That way they would translate it. and i could copy it from my hdtv tuner card.

Tell them its a cult movie and they might go for it.

Fun movie, not too thrilling though. I found myself trying to figure out the plot, around which I assume the Z is the hingepin.