I got a reply regarding that Harry Potter thing:

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
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From: Martyn_Leek@mrn.co.uk Add to Contacts
Date: Thu, Nov 29 2001 11:12:03 AM +0000

I’ll be in touch
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I must really learn to stop posting up my e-mails and replying to them on my site.

Regardless, i went out and bought myself a copy of Harry Potter on VCD anyway. I skimmed through both discs and the movie seems to be pretty much intact. No scenes dropped at all. The end credits seem to be missing though. I guess they couldn’t fit it in. I’ll have to give it a proper viewing to be sure about everything though.

I took some screenshots.

A BIG FAT OWL!

See? Chinese and Malay subtitles. Which you can’t turn off. Even on the bootleg DVD version.

Damn you Harry Potter and your big fat owl.

As you can see, it’s full screen. Which sucks. The bootleg DVD version (when it comes out) will probably be in widescreen.

I went to the mall today. Ate at McDonalds. Bought my mom some floral tea (Which cost 41 bucks. That better be some good tastin’ tea…). Bought two magazines. Empire. The November 2001 issue and a special Directors Issue featuring Steven Spielberg.

VERY INTERESTING NO?

I also asked around about the price of PS2’s over here. They’re selling em for around RM$1800. Modded. And they’ll throw in 10 games for free. You only get one controller though.

RM$1800. Which is about BN$900. Which is roughly about US$450-ish. Which is simply ridiculous.

I don’t think i’ll ever get a PS2 anytime soon so long as i’m still over here. I want one. I REALLY want one. And the first game i’m gonna get is Metal Gear Solid 2.

Bootlegged PS2 games only cost about RM$5 here (US$1.30). CD version of the games that is. Which probably have a whole chunk of stuff cut out. Devil May Cry for exmaple comes on 3 CD’s. And there’s this complicated thing you have to do when you wanna continue the game on the second and third discs.

Bootlegged PS2 games that come on DVD however, cost RM$38 (US$10). They’re pretty much exact copies of the original games. Nothing missing in the game itself.

Of course, much like bootlegged movie DVD’s, bootlegged PS2 DVD’s come with no instructions, no liner notes and whatnot and they have crappy packaging. Same goes for the CD versions.

Fucking hell man. I think i want to be a journalist too. I want to get games early from software houses and play them till my eyes bleed.

But then i’d have to be a good writer.

So that’s not happening anytime soon.

Poo.

I actually picked up 3 other VCD’s last night. I managed to track down Drive: Director’s Cut, Demons and Demons 2. All ripped from DVD and put on VCD. Without any of the features of course. You only get the movie itself when you buy VCD’s.

All three are what you would call B grade movies. Bad (in a good way) low budget flicks that’ve gained a cult following.