g'day people.

Must be ages since last time I made a topic around here, and it makes me happy to see that the community here is still alive

I recently picked up a really nice setup for digitally backing up VHS tapes, and suddenly the interest grew for promotional material and other oddities that were released on VHS.


So I'm just wondering, what type of stuff is floating around out there, slowly dieing away as the analog format of the VHS tapes is aging ?

Personally, back to the NES days, the only stuff I have is a full set of sealed Game Player's tapes, so I guess I'll sometime have to buy a 2nd set to open up to preserve for the future, as I just can't bring myself to strip up the sealed ones I currently have.



Besides those, all I've got is stuff from Snes "mid-90s" and up 'til now.


So, anyone know of any infomercial tapes or any other NES related stuff that might be lurking on some old VHS in the closet ?

ahah.

Well, I picked up a VHS/DVD recorder hybrid with a direct transfer feature.
Only thing that's a bit sad about it is that it lets itself be bothered by MacroVision, something which fortunately isn't an issue on promotional tapes, but it is a bit annoying that I have to go through multiple complicated steps to backup some of the movies I have that probably never will have a DVD re-release.


But besides that, it's really good, has a built in de-interlacer (DVFX) for the picture ouput to the TV, supports VHS out over component (really sweet), 576p, good tracking control (handled from the remote, which is nice, but I still wish it had a wheel to adjust the tracking instead).


The VHS tapes looks stunning on it, so I'm really happy with it, but the recorded footage drops a tiny tiny bit in quality when comparing the component output VHS playback on it to the playback of a DVD recorded with it. (But you gotta compare multiple still frames to really notice that).

So I guess sometime in the future, I might find myself hooking it up to a HDD recorder that supports component input.


So far, the stuff I've backed up is;

Some Japanese Snes-era tapes (not done yet, huuge pile of stuff)
Various N64 tapes (US/EU)
Some euro GC tapes.
Some random game specific tapes.
And... the entire "CFC" line-up from Capcom (Capcom Friendly Club), just missing the Street Fighter Zero 3 tape.


If it wasn't for the problems I for some reason have with uploading to Google Video, I would upload some of the nice promotional stuff there (I don't feel like splitting into parts to fit with the 100mb/10min limit of Youtube, though, I could fit some of the shorter stuff there).

Hopefully, the Google Video Uploader will be "fixed/updated" sometime in a not too distant future

Ofcourse, could always try to find a nice webhost in the future and make my own little player system for my own videos + anyone else who feels like sharing some video game history

I would freaking love to see that Maxi commerical, I have always wanted to see it.

I have a couple World Class Service Repair Videos that I have picked up from buy outs of the test centers.  One of them is really cool, and jammed packed with info.  The other one is about marketing and is turbo gay.

Maybe I should put some new energy into the project.... maybe some of you would be interested in "donating" videos for future volumes of the DVD set? either by uploading videos to an FTP (mine) or lending me some videos (which will be returned of course)...

But let's see if I can finish volume 1 first

Of course these DVDs would have no relation to NESWORLD as they would violate copyrights

Yeah, that's true.


Though, I suspect there's quite a lot of dead trademarks and non-renewed copyrights amongst the various stuff that's lurking in people's closets.

+ Anything that was meant for public promotional use, advertising purposes and as infomercials, are they even covered by this, isn't those more or less public domain due to their origin and originally intentioned purpose ?

Especially, if possible, in better quality than the very old tv card captures you can find of stuff on online video game commercial databases, where all videos are usually old captures, re-compressedm, downscaled and watermarked beyond recognition.


As for name, VGC v1?
I think Capcom in Japan had a similiar name on a lineup of various promotional stuff released on DVDs called something like "Capcom Consumer Chronicles" (3 volumes, two for console games and one for arcade, I think)

Hi-quality re-captures of all sorts of stuff would be excellent.

Guess the fun starts with finding lots of stuff, especially if one wants to fill an entire DVD