Tech Romancer [NTSC-U] *Repack*

Dreamcast Resurrection - 2009 (since 2008)

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Ripped: Nothing (read below).
Downsampled: Videos (read below).
Source: GD dump and Kalisto's release files.

There was a big Karaoke video in the GD, but the american version don't play it for a obvious reason: everything is in japanese. Well, the problem is that I didn't know that when releasing the game for the first time, so I included that on CD and all the videos had to be downsampled a lot to fit the CD. In this repack I removed the karaoke video file, so the rest of videos almost fit the CD without downsampling. Well, I re-encoded them using VBR. As VBR gives higher quality for the same size, I could re-encode the videos at the same bitrate it was originally and make them fit on CD. Of course there was a little quality loss because of re-encoding process, but the quality is almost the same of the original videos. And I let the original audio of videos untouched. Result: videos of this repack have a much better quality than my first release.

Hey, and you got curious about the not-shown Karaoke video? I included it in "Extras" folder with the name KARAOKE.MPG. Video is untouched (I just de-multiplexed it from SFD and then multiplexed it back) and audio was encoded with a very high quality so you can have the same experience that japan players could have.

BELOW MY ORIGINAL README FILE:

Tech Romancer (NTSC-U)

Dreamcast Resurrection - 2009 (since 2008)

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Ripped: Nothing.
Downsampled: Videos.
Source: GD dump and Kalisto's release files.

All the files of this game, except videos, are in a no standard format. This game is huge and Kalisto made a wonderful job (and what they did that wasn't?) downsampling this no standard audio format, so I just kept it this way. Then I got GD files, downsampled videos with a higher quality (because there was some space free in disc) and they got much better than Kalisto's. So I dummied, optimized original file order and burned it in selfboot format (of course). Have fun.

Features of my release:
- Not corrupted files at all, it was made with Kalisto's release files and GD dump.
- Used correct file order (same of GD), that was optimized later, what means faster loadings and less noise of Dreamcast reader.
- Selfboot.
- Dummied for 700mb CDs (although dummy file is very small).

About the game:
- It has VGA Box support.

Other comments:
- "Extras" folder in the pack contains some useless stuff.
- Release comes with covers.