Erm. I just ordered it directly from the site that doof_warrior posted. There was only one shipping option for international, so I took the $37 hit. Didn't see any other choice, really.
Nico0020 wrote: So I have tried both the 80min and 99 min release of this and they are both pretty similar audio wise. The 99 min audio is better, but its still more degraded than even the 80min Shenmue undub. Is it just not possible to get the English audio on a 99min CD-R without downgrading the audio a ton? Even though I prefer the JP audio, I'd still love to have a custom English disc version of the game too.
I really don't know what you guys want. Did you actually
play the 80 minute version through in its entirety? Because that link that doof_warrior posted was a cutscene from Disc 2, which Discs 2 & 3 have the absolute worst audio quality of the 80min set, and I remember distinctly just how horrible Xiuying in particular sounded. The audio in that link sounded
nothing like it. The audio speech quality between the two versions is not similar or comparable at all. The only part of the 80 minute version that the audio in that clip is comparable to is Disc 4, which sounded great to my ears, especially coming off of two discs with damn 8bit NES cartridge speech quality. That's not even an exaggeration on Discs 2 & 3. Whatever slight compression is present on what I've heard of the 99min version (Disc 4 & doof's clip) is so negligible it doesn't even really deserve to be acknowledged; not when you have the 80 minute version to compare it to.