What media have you found in best quality or even only with the methods of the high seas?
I am not looking for: “I only use my super jellyfin and so on setup because its almost free”. But rather I want to hear if you found rare pieces of media which are maybe even lost otherwise.
star wars holiday special? it was hard to watch even the one time.
ive got the full run of Columbo… show spanned like 30 years if you include specials
im not special enough to get into private traakkers so most of my uniques are due to age… i have mp3s i downloaded with napster
- Classic Doctor Who
- Halloween VI (producer’s cut)
- Kazaam (Sinbad edition)
- Fantastic Four
- Batgirl (I can dream 😂)
Batgirl refers to the film that was in post production that Zaslav canceled so that HBO could get a tax write-off. If I’m ever in the room with Zaslav, my partner understands I’m going to spend the night in jail.
Fantastic Four had a 1994 film that was made but never released. It’s able to be pirated tho.
I assume game ROMs, especially the ones by nintendo, who are notorious of letting their own history getting deleted and lost, are up there on that list.
For a short period of time GTA 3, VC and SA were removed from storefronts… replaced with the “GTA Definitive Edition” which was essentially a buggy mobile port, ported back to PC, not supporting any of the existing mod ecosystem.
During that time the only way to get your hands on the real “definitive” versions of these games was the high seas.
I believe the originals are restored now, but IMO Take2/Rockstar have fully lined pockets already so 🏴☠️🚢
I believe the originals are restored now
Nope. They temporarily made it so that buying Definitive Edition on the Rockstar Launcher granted the originals until outrage died down, but the original versions of the games still require either a disc or piracy now that they seemingly removed even that. I can confirm that the PS4 versions of the games that were the PS2 versions in an emulator are still missing, too.
In the same vein, dark souls prepare to die edition.
The original dark souls is impossible to legally acquire (other than managing to snag a physical copy, which is quite rare these days) as from soft removed it from storefronts in order to maximize profit on the remaster.
