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Xeal, on 14 April 2015 - 04:28 PM, said:

I just got some of the art for the packaging yesterday, so no. :P

In Re: to the questions for the 2011 edition. I imagine just from how the game is put together that the entirety of those were reverse engineered from the releases we already have and they had no code or sourcefiles. The the audio they have on there was likely ripped from CDs and fixed up the best they could. Etc.

If they had access to source stuff from Sega, I do not imagine the opening and closing cinematics would be frameblended, and worse, obviously recompressed, like they are. They're like that because that's the way they were on the Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic Gems and that's probably what 2011 sourced from. Whoever did MC/Gems had no idea what they were doing with video, unfortunately, and slowing down the ending in 2011 made it look even worse.

Actually, it was common back in the day for big or expensive anime to be packaged with lesser wanted anime. The idea was that you would try to make back your investment on the bigger shows and hope the others broke even. Pioneer/Geneon fell into a lot of this before their demise.

Not for nothing, but did 53-78 ever come out on DVD in Japanese anywhere? Or even at all uncut?

I have no idea what the masters are like, but I imagine they're Standard def with 2.0 Stereo. Pretty sure that's what's on the old Funi DVDs.