This is just a passing thought, but why would DIC purposely send Shout Factory a set of crappy tapes, what would DIC solve by doing that? Its not like they wold be saving any money, i mean the tapes masters or otherwise are just sitting over there in their vault collecting dust, didnt B Ward say back when all those people were creating that fuss about the Mario 3 glitch, didnt he say that DIC said they had sent him the only copy they had.....film can degrad over time when not stored properly. Also, I dont know about other people but i knew back in Dec. that some of the org music was going to be taken/replaced in Captain N, because it was on wikipedia, although anyone can change anything on wikipedia, the point was it was stated back in Dec. On the Dungeons and Dragons dvd set that BCI put out, on the most famous episode "the dragons gravyard" i read a whole music score on it was changed, and who knows why, could have had something to so with permissions and copyrights, same with captain N/ Super mario 3.  I own the dungeons and dragons dvd set, and never saw and because i was 3 years old when it was aired in 84-85' i didnt see it until a few years later when it was in syndication, so i wouldnt know what the orb music sounded like on that episode, the point is who knows why the music was changed in the mid 90's when super mario bros 3 and captain N were aired again, they could have done away with the org copy after they made the copy with the new music on it, and thats all they had, but there is no reason that DIC would hold back a copy of the master, whats the point, there is no finicial gain or loss from something like that.

I know about the replacement music on Captain N since I have a tape with the original music on it, it's mainly Shakedown or Danger Zone that's used in that series.

As for Super Mario Bros. 3, the original music masters are still at DiC as they used it for the UAV and the Disky releases (well except Kootie Pie Rocks, all versions have the ending cut out). I think DiC keeps the masters for preservation, just in case they get mouldy or worn out unless something got changed within two years. However one of the known episodes with the original music is destroyed for Super Mario Bros. Super Show (2 Plumbers and a Baby).

Besides if DiC's copy is the only one that Shout has (personally think it's from NBC like Captain N), it's the only one that can be used.

Well to be honest you can post it on ebay and sell it. I know excatly what you mean about the money and the DVD Disc with the GLITCH I was very upset with that has well I'm sure alot of people are but Shout can't do anything about it thats the sad part we even spoke to other people who had those Episodes on VHS We had a pretty good Idea that maybe If we send Shout a VHS Version of the episodes in excellent condition we were thinking maybe they can transffer it to DVD but Brain W said he couldn't do that so I was disgusted by that but I believe even till this day that It can be done with all the technology out there today but I also couldn't get my money back so what I did was kept It, But Brain said that DIC did not take care of their Masters. Lets just hope that when they release the Capt N and The New Super Mario World there will not be any glitches at all and no footage missing!!!!!!!!!!!.