The Ultimate PS2 Launch Guide VHS Version Remastered | 4K/60 Aspect ratio fixed |
28This is just an upscale of the VHS version of the PS2 launch guide I made over a year and a half ago. I fixed the aspect ratio, upscaled it to 4K to make it even more ridiculous considering this was recorded from an actual VHS tape.
So what I did was take the video after I finished editing it, encode it into DVD format, hook up my DVD player to my VCR, recorded the DVD onto a VHS, and then captured the footage from my actual VCR. No VHS filters were used in this video, just a real VHS tape. I didn't even mean for the tape to mess up a little at the beginning of the video, it just happened that way. I chose the VHS format, because in the year 2000, VHS was still the main movie watching format. Some people have disagreed with me on that, but DVD players were still relatively new, and were expensive at the time, and VCR's were still a mainstay in most households.
The point was to make the video look like it was made in the year 2000, a couple of weeks before the PS2 hit. I wanted to make the PS2 launch guide that I wish I could have watched back in the year 2000 just to see the games in motion. It was one thing to see screenshots in a magazine, but a whole other thing to finally see PS2 games in motion.
When I uploaded the video, some people did complain about the stretched aspect ratio, so I fixed that, and also cut off the weird visual glitch the cheap upscaler I was using at the time put on the video. Other than that, this video is identical in content to the original video. The sound sync is a little off now, because I changed the video from 30fps to 60, but it's not terrible off, and only starts to show toward the end of the video.
to see the original version go here: https://youtu.be/QnNTL4OeSDc
Fun Facts: I purposely spoke in a higher tone for this video to sound more like a gaming journalist. Also, I totally like Tekken Tag way better than DOA2, but I was mirroring the sentiment of the gaming publications at the time who were putting DOA2 over Tekken Tag. While my insights about TTT are legit (People tired of Tekken 3 would find little new about TTT, the backgrounds were the same endless scrolling backgrounds, and how it's design wasn't the next generation design we were expecting on the PS2), I would still rather play Tekken Tag over DOA2. It's not even close in my book.
0:00 Intro
3:21 Armored Core 2
4:04 DOA2: Hardcore
4:41 Dynasty Warriors 2
5:42 ESPN International Track and Field
6:24 ESPN Winter X-Games Snowboarder
7:14 Eternal Ring
8:03 Evergrace
9:03 Fantavision
9:38 Gungriffin Blaze
10:21 Kessen
10:57 Madden 2001
12:42 Midnight Club
13:51 Moto GP
14:34 NHL 2001
15:22 Orphen
16:08 Q-Ball
16:39 Ready 2 Rumble: Round 2
17:42 Ridge Racer 5
19:17 Silent Scope
20:03 Smuggler's Run
21:35 SSX
25:38 Street Fighter EX 3
26:32 Summoner
28:55 Swing Away Golf
29:42 Tekken Tag Tournament
32:07 Timesplitters
34:17 Unreal Tournament
36:16 Wild Wild Racing
37:27 X-Squad
38:13 Upcoming Previews
44:50 In Closing
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