Yeah I just want to know how different the demo is from the actual game, and if people would be interested in playing the demo despite being similar to the full game
In 2009 an Italian director named Cosimo Messeri released a documentary titled The One Man Beatles, which was about American musician Emitt Rhodes. I have tried to find this film but am having no luck.
So we know it was certainly released, as showed by the Rhodes interview. However, it seems that you can't buy it anywhere and any link online either doesn't have it or is a seedy site that wants your credit card number. If anyone can help me, please let me know!
Are you sure that you have the correct release year? Because according to Rotten Tomatoes, it was released in 2013
Strange, I also got a free copy of this game in a package of Perdue chicken nuggets at the time. It was one of those tiny gamecube-size discs, but weirdly, I think it was the full game? I don't have it with me right now so I can't check, but going from a picture I took of it a year ago for a joke tweet, it doesn't say anything about it being a demo:
(ignore the case, that was just part of the joke) I also seem to remember playing more than one level, so I don't think it's what you're talking about. If you'd like I could check it when I'm able to, though. Or do you mean that you still have the disc and are wondering if people are interested in you uploading it?
The Perdue Chicken Nuggets one is actually the full game
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 18, 2017 2:39:42 GMT
If you're a Persona and/or Atlus fan, you probably know that several live concerts showcasing music of the series have been done (if you don't know what Persona is, is a series of JRPG games)
All of the "main" concerts have been released on home format (only in Japan of course, although most of them have found their way to the internet), however, a few exclusive concerts haven't seen official releases (as far as I know) and have been a one time thing, like the Persona 5 Mini Concert or the Persona 5 Electone Stage Concert. All of them have been streamed on Nico Nico Douga, so people only needs a screen recording software, and like I said, they eventually show up on YouTube or whatever, however there's one specific concert that hasn't appeared yet
On September 19th, 2015, a one hour long event called Atlus Presents Persona Special Stage was streamed, and it featured a mini concert with the series' singers: Yumi Kawamura, Lotus Juice and Shihoko Hirata, as well as the DJ WAKA. I actually watched this on Nico Nico and attempted to record it, but I couldn't find any decent screen recording software. I figured that somebody else would record it and release it on YouTube, but like I said, it hasn't appeared online. Google only matches me with information about the event, and I searched on the english version of Nico Nico Douga, but I had no results. I collect these, and I believe that this is the only one that hasn't appeared online, and like I said, as far as I know, it hasn't seen a official release either. Here's an article about the event:
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 16, 2017 20:50:39 GMT
Remember when cereal boxes had cool surprises inside like little toys and even PC games? Well, this is one of those stories
I remember going to the supermarket one sunday with my sister and my father, and, on a Froot Loops box, we saw a big hole which was displaying a CD-ROM of Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding. We all got super excited because we just got a PC not too long before this, so we bought it, it took me and my sister around 2 days to beat because it was just a preview, so I remember both of us getting highly dissapointed when we completed that first and last level
I don't know how many differences the demo has with the full game, what I do remember is that, like I said, only one level was playable, as well as another tutorial level (which was way smaller). The only playable characters were Goofy and Max (I assume the full game has more). I never played the full version so I don't know how different it is from the demo
I decided to check how well known this strange demo is, but I found no download links or anything, the only thing I found is a really old two part gameplay of it from someone who has it. So I was wondering, does this has any value as lost media? Like, is this a piece of lost media that people would be interested to have? I mean the full game is probably way more accesible so a demo has not much worth... right?
Here's a picture of the disc, by the way (the picture is NOT mine, but that's the exact one I'm talking about)
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Oct 9, 2017 17:55:20 GMT
I don't know if this one's already been found, but is still listed as missing, so I guess it hasn't?
I also don't know if this is the version you're looking for, so sorry for a false alarm if it isn't
Anyway, I think I found the redrawn of One More Time, actually I found it twice on YouTube. According to the description of one of them:
The source print is a silent-print version of a 1931 Merrie Melodie, starring Foxy (in his third and last appearance). Redrawn for Radio & TV Packagers by Color Systems in the 1970s.
So apparently the original audio for this cartoon was missing. and they had to replace it with some soundtrack. Also, it says that this redrawn is from the 1970's, so this isn't one of the digitally colorized versions. I'll leave both links for you to check them out
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 29, 2017 4:47:24 GMT
I found lot's of new info!
During these last few days, I've been trying to find information about the animation studio behind Pelezinho, and I think I found something on a old newspaper article talking about Pelezinho
Apparently, the series was produced by 3 companies: Antena 3 (which I already mentioned), Anima Dream Studio and World Wide Cartoons
I couldn't find anything about World Wide Cartoons, but I did find a little bit more on Anima Dream Studio. Apparently it was located in Bucharest, Romania, and I say "was" because I couldn't find anything about it, no website, not even a mention, so either the studio is already dead, changed names and distanced itself from its former presence, or it is so obscure it doesn't even have a presence on the internet to begin with
With that said, I found a huge lead: a senior animator called Cristinel Bostan. I found his official website and, on his resume, it says that he worked as 2D character animation, lay-out, clean-up lead and in-between artist at Anima Dream Studio for Pelezinho from 1994 to 1996. This dude actually has quite an impressive resume, he has experience with both 2D and 3D animation, and some other titles on his resume includes Prince of Persia, DeusEx Mankind Divided, Far Cry 4, and even Assasin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood
There was also an email on his contact section, so of course I send him an email asking him about Pelezinho, now I just gotta wait to see if I'll get a response from him
And by the way, no response from Mejenguerinho nor Jose Luis Turmo yet
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 28, 2017 5:47:42 GMT
I searched "Mejenguerinho" on Google, but I got only 4 results, all of them related to that Twitter account. I tweeted Mejenguerinho, even though I'm pretty sure that Twitter account is dead
With that said, I decided to see if I could get results from the YouTube channel where the intro was uploaded, seseturmo, and guess what? I got a match!
I found a Twitter account with the same name (seseturmo), and it belongs to a man named Jose Luis Turmo, he speaks spanish and seems to be a soccer fan, more specifically the Real Madrid and FC Barcelona soccer teams, both of them spanish teams, so there is a high probability that this seseturmo is the same seseturmo that uploaded the intro. Lastly, his last activity seems like it was on August 22, which isn't that far, so I'll take the shot and I'll tweet him about this, hopefully I'll get a response
There's a Twitter user who uses Pelezinho's design from the cartoon as his avatar. Although it looks like it was drawn by the user. Plus his profile description says:
"As my only friend is the ball, I decided to open a Twitter account."
The user could be referencing the talking ball in the cartoon. It's a bit of a stretch, but the user may have something relating to this cartoon twitter.com/mejenguerinho
Nice find! I took a look at this profile and this is my veredict:
Its last activity was a retweet on December 29, 2013, so the account is most likely dead. I also checked the URL on the bio, and I don't quite get it, but it looks like it's some kind of "expansion" for Twitter, although I don't see many differences, it looks more like a bootleg Twitter to me. With that said, that one seems to be dead as well. There's no dates of when all the tweets were posted, but I found a picture of an Adidas ball with the message "When I fall in love, I want to give her the best of me", that same picture with the same message is on the "real" Twitter, and it was posted on March 6, 2013, so that "bootleg" Twitter seems to be even more dead
As for the Pelezinho pic, it definitely looks like some kind of fanart, even though it is the same art style of the cartoon, it looks like it was drawn on Microsoft Paint or something, actually I think the background is a blurred live action pic
Finally, about the tweets, they all seem to be jokes, however some of them seem to be about biology degrees and overall the kind of joke a college student would make (sleep depravation and such) and overall a bunch of jokes, some of them of sexual nature, so I highly doubt this person was involved in the show's making, it's probably some soccer fanatic who watched Pelezinho and thought it'd be funny to create an account with that name
I'll try to message him just in case, but honestly this account seems to be dead, so I'm not specting any response. However I will try to find something about its user name "Mejenguerinho" (In case you're wondering, "Mejenguerinho" is a mixture of "Pelezinho" and "Mejenga", which is a slang for "soccer game")
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 27, 2017 5:19:07 GMT
I tried to get a bit more of information on Arturo Torrens Sestero and, well I kinda have bad news
I found out that he acted as a jury for some kind of awards called El Mejor Deportista del Año (Best Athlete of the Year) on 1980. So far, so good. What are the bad news then? Well apparently he died on October 24, 2015... Yeah, so there goes my only clue
With that said, I'm not 100% sure if this is the same guy because his last name is mispelled as "Torrents" instead of "Torrens", but it says that he died in Madrid, so there's a high probability that's him. Unfortunately there doesn't seems to be any kind of contact information for his family, so I'm back to square one. I'll try to confirm is this is the same guy later on
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 25, 2017 6:03:39 GMT
I found some information! I found a couple of really old articles from 1995 which talk about the series' premiere
Apparently I was wrong, Pelezinho is NOT a brazilian production, but rather a SPANISH production, with that said, not only Pelé was involved in the production, and even traveled to Madrid to give an interview about it, but it seems to be loosely based on the star's early days as a soccer player, and even some characters are based on people he truly knew in real life. It was co-produced by the spanish terrestrial television channel Antena 3, and apparently its budget was around 10 million dollars, so I was super wrong when I said it had a low budget, and more than 1000 people participated in its creation. Apparently it was released on January 1996
According to these articles, the series actually have 52 episodes, not 26, and its producer name is Arturo Torrens
There's a LOT of stuff I didn't remember about this show. Besides Pelezinho and Rex the dog, other characters include Neuzinha (the little girl) and Bola (literally "Ball" in english) which is, like the name suggests, a soccer ball... I honestly completely forgot the friggin' BALL was a character, I thought it was just for the intro. As for the villain, we have Leonardo Ketals, a famous trainer, who has "ultradefensive" and "ultraviolent" methods
In the soccer field, we could see Pelezinho moves and techniques which actually are apparently based on Pelé's real life moments, according to Torrens, the soccer games were animated frame by frame to make the movements look as realistic as possible
Outside of the field though, we get to see Pelezinho and his friends travelling around the world and having adventures, and Pelezinho, being an idealist, can't just stand while somebody is doing wrong, so he's always there to save the day
And that's all I could find for now, I'll try to dig more information later. I'll leave the articles here but they're all in spanish
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 24, 2017 20:13:07 GMT
I searched a little bit more and found nothing
I tried to make sense of the Wikipedia article of Turma do Pelezinho (even though the article is in portuguese, it is a language pretty similar to spanish, so I can understand a small fraction of it) and, for what I could understand, there's no mention of this cartoon. I also checked the creator's Wikipedia article (Mauricio de Sousa), but not mention of the cartoon either, only the comic, so my guess is that the cartoon and the comic aren't related after all
I also checked the comments of the YouTube video again, and there was a comment someone from my country left 5 years ago, saying that the same TV channel that broadcasted the cartoon so many years ago was still broadcasting it by the time that comment was posted, so I went to that channel's website and checked their current programming, and unfortunately Pelezinho isn't there, so it seems that they're not currently broadcasting it
Something that catched my attention from that YouTube video is that black bar at the bottom of the screen (the one that says "TCR" and a bunch of numbers), this is the kind of stuff that you find on material that hasn't been fully edited, like incomplete or deleted scenes from a movie, which makes me believe that this specific clip wasn't cut off of a recording of an episode, but rather it was taken directly from the studio, although now I'm just thinking out loud, so don't mind me too much on that last part
Finally, I decided to search on Google again, most mentions of Pelezinho are about the comic, the only mentions of the cartoon I found (besides the video) are from people on some forums asking if anybody knew the name of the cartoon and if they remembered it, so yeah, this one's pretty lost