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Pretty Sure I just bought two bootlegs. Got them from an Asian import shop in town.

Haven't watched either yet, I've seen a bad bootleg of BR before on VHS the curretn BR that I have appears to have the French cover, with Beat Takeshi's face in the upper left corner, but it's got a red bar over the top saying "special 122 minute Director's Cut DTS edition"

I knew it was a little iffy though because the credits are listed on the bottom of the front cover and are slightly blurred. But I tested it and it plays in an old American Xbox. Says it's put out by HK Video Co.

Now moreso than that one is the BR2 I got from the same shop. It too has what appears to be the French cover from what I've found on this site and some other research but the BR2 logo is Black over the sky not white, and the grass underneath the tank is blurred from about a centimeter on down. This one would not play in a PS2 or Xbox (I'm in the US by the way) but does play in Windows Media player 9 on my and my roomy's computer. We both have a lot of Divx codecs installed because of editing software though.

It has english subtitles, but from what I've seen so far they're only when people talk. On the back it has the Region "all" listed with NTSC and MPG-5 And it is the Revenge version.

So, I couldn't find either of these exact versions anywhere for sale online so I'm guessing they're bootlegs, am I wrong? Does anyone else know about these versions? Are they good/bad translations? I'd like a BR2 I could play on a regular DVD player. Oh and this BR2 says it's put out by Red Sun.

Thanks for any help =)

Well that sounds ok then,

I payed 20 bucks for each and was just wondering how bad of a deal that was. I've watched the first 20 minutes of BR2 now (don't have a lot of time lol) and teh subs are pretty good but there are some typos. And the special stuff doesn't seem to have any subs so oh well to that.

I just wish I could play it on a regular dvd player, in my case being xbox or ps2, but it runs alright on the PC. Some notes of interest are that selecting the second audio option (2.0) makes it skip to "chapter 53" from the software's perspective, and doesn't seem to change the audio at all. And when it auto-plays, it lags a little at the beginning, but it's not pc performance related because on two different pc's it lagged the same way at the same exact frames.

Thanks for the insight though. I guess if nothing else I should be greatful for someone who took the time to sub it and find a way to at least get it out in the states. And I guess that would mean this shop I got it from buys off ebay.

Hey thanks.

Is the version of BR2 in that box set the "requiem" version? I wouldn't feel so bad buying it if that were so because then I'd have the two different versions. It's kind of interesting about that too, because it shows how much editing affects a film. I own three different versions of Brazil, and the story is litterally different in each of them.

But anyway, and do you know if the specials have english subs in that one? It seems that that is the Korean release which just happens to lucky enough have english subs and be Region (ALL). Do all Korean releases normally have english subs? Makes me wonder why I got a legit version of Volcano Highschool then, because I imagine the shop owner had a Korean dealer for that one.

I was unaware that English was a common-enough language in Korea for them to include it on a lot of their DVDs.

Anyway, thanks again, brings some piece of mind to know where this stuff comes from, or at least, get closer.