Recently I acquired a very high bitrate VHS rip of this early version of the first episode of Pokémon (comparable to the 2-37 that had been on Hulu). I made a comparison video for myself to make cutting a new improved raw easier.
Well, I let my source see the video - and although I intended to keep the source private apart from the minimum I needed for my project, he explicitly asked me to encode and release it and make the best of the source, so that at least *something* was out there. I can see his logic.
May it be possible to do a better encode...most likely. But this is what I've got - taken from a good, albeit not *great,* rip of the first VHS edition, before it was withdrawn due to the Porygon incident.
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Pocket Monsters - 001 - Pokemon! Kimi ni kimeta! (First Ed) [RAW-VHS-WinxBloom1980][CF1A8D6B].mp4 (367.2 MiB)
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