Nico0020 wrote: Only for about 30 mintues. I ran around the first area talking to random people. Here is an example of the downsampled audio in the 99 minute version. Please note that not all NPCs sound like this, the free speech seems better than the cutscenes.
Sorry for the shakyness, I recorded from my phone, but you can easily hear the audio.
Thanks for posting that, Nico. Now I have to apologize. There's a bit more compression present in that clip than what I heard of the 99min version from doof's clip and Disc 4 of the 80min (which is identical to the 99min dub's Disc 4, apparently). I only heard the faintest hint of robot in Shenhua's voice on Disc 4 that was barely noticeable, and didn't really hear any compression at all in the earlier clip posted, but it's definitely noticeable in yours. If this is a good example of the quality, something tells me that certain voices and such will only get worse in Discs 3 & 4 just as the entirety of all the speech -- especially the street NPC's -- did in the 80min dub since those discs must be chock-full.
Still leagues better than the 80min version, though. If you have both, just compare and contrast when you get to Disc 2 to see what I mean.