HCS Forum - xxx.joshw.info Music Archive thread of awesome

by marcusss at 10:52 AM EDT on August 30, 2019: Uploaded some more

* Grand Brix Shooter - Nice music in this shooter !

* Until You Fall - Also has lots of nice music

* Lunar Sanctus - Has some great music. A touch classical-ish but I love it !

* Valthirian Arc - Hero School Story - has some good tunes as well..

* Minoria also has some good stuff

* Windlands 2 - Annoyingly every piece of m usic ends 3-5 secs before the end of the track and requires txtp to manually loop the songs.. grrr

edited 11:20 AM EDT August 30, 2019

edited 10:37 AM EDT August 31, 2019
by bxaimc at 1:41 AM EDT on September 4, 2019: big one up

Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2019-09-03)(Toys for Bob, Iron Galaxy)(Activision)[PC]

enjoy
by hcs at 10:30 PM EDT on September 4, 2019: It's been mentioned a few times over the years, but might as well mention it again since I ran across it when checking my local mirror:

http://pc.joshw.info/f/Fall%20of%20Light%20(2017-09-29)(RuneHeads)(1C)%5bPC%5d.7z is broken. The upload may have been incomplete.

If marcusss still has the original around, it'd be worth re-uploading.

edited 10:31 PM EDT September 4, 2019
by marcusss at 11:26 PM EDT on September 4, 2019: I'm reuploading it now. Thx for letting me know. Maybe I missed the notice previously.
by marcusss at 11:34 PM EDT on September 5, 2019: Some new stuff. Mable, Remi, Ares and Seed of the dead have nice music.

* ARES - Extinction Agenda (2011-01-20)(Extend Studio)(ORiGO GAMES) [PC]

* Mable and the Wood (2019-08-24)(Triplevision Games)(Graffiti Games) [PC]

* Seed of the Dead (2018-12-14)(TeamKRAMA)(Eroge Japan) [PC]

* RemiLore - Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore (2019-09-05)(Pixellore, REMIMORY)(Nicalis) [PC]

* CYNK 3030 (2019-07-14)(Cynk Devol) [PC]

* Shards of Azuria (2019-08-11)(Blue Potion Games) [PC]

* Neon valley - Revenge Unleashed (2018-03-01)(Daydream Productions) [PC]

* Fujii (2019-06-28)(Funktronic Labs) [PC]

* (RERIP) Fall of Light (2017-09-29)(RuneHeads)(1C) [PC]

edited 11:45 PM EDT September 5, 2019
Request for Gamerip by blood_falcon at 5:10 AM EDT on September 7, 2019: Hi everyone, anyone have psf2 or gamecube adpcm files for game Pacman-Fever or could I please request them? It is a party game produced by Namco, it contains many of interesting tracks particularly remix of Pacman's theme.
by bxaimc at 10:10 AM EDT on September 7, 2019: .

edited 7:19 AM EDT September 8, 2019
by MurraySkull at 5:37 AM EDT on September 8, 2019: I noticed that there seem to be a number of Dragalia Lost tracks missing, including the Holiday and Halloween events.
Request for Gamerip by blood_falcon at 7:05 PM EDT on September 8, 2019: Hi everyone, anyone have psf2 or gamecube adpcm files for game Pacman-Fever (A 2002 party game not album) or could I please request them? It is a party game produced by Namco, it contains many of interesting tracks particularly remix of Pacman's theme. The OST was composed by Jim Andron and Chris Tilton.
by bxaimc at 8:39 AM EDT on September 11, 2019: I tried looking at both versions but the GameCube one seems easier to do.
by bxaimc at 8:48 AM EDT on September 11, 2019: I guess it’s time...

Kingdom Hearts III (2019-01-25)(Square Enix)[PS4]

Enjoy
by Puterboy1 at 12:50 AM EDT on September 12, 2019: @bxaimc Lovely...almost lovely indeed.

And for your next step you can add the SFX and Voices from KH III to the Sounds Resource, whatever order you prefer.
by bxaimc at 7:39 AM EDT on September 12, 2019: No, stop asking.
by Puterboy1 at 1:49 AM EDT on September 13, 2019: Of course, I won’t. I figured out how to make the sounds work.
reply to bxaimc by blood_falcon at 10:45 AM EDT on September 14, 2019: Bro, any progress with Pac-Man Fever (2002) video game, the gamecube version?

I hope there is good news
by hcs at 2:14 PM EDT on September 14, 2019: I made a a thread about Pac-Man Fever, as I'd really prefer to keep this thread about the archives.
by marcusss at 8:58 AM EDT on September 15, 2019: Some good stuff ripped

* Ephemeral Unnatural Balance ~ A bullet hell game similar to the Touhou games and has good music. It took me a while to manually loop all the songs, but it turned out good so enjoy.

* Tactics V Obsidian Brigade - RPG music

* Guard Duty - Has some nice music actually.

* Risky Wings has some very nice music !

* Death end reQuest - Very good music

* Crystar - Another RPG - also has some good stuff

* Overpass has plenty of Synthwave stuff

* Future GPX Cyber Formula Sin Vier - has typical racing style fast paced music

Other notable stuff are

Electronic Super Joy 2
Jets'n'guns
Citizens of Space

Plenty more coming....

edited 9:00 AM EDT September 15, 2019

edited 9:01 AM EDT September 15, 2019
[Asking for tools] Tools to rip CMN.DAT from R-Type Command by blood_falcon at 9:58 PM EDT on September 16, 2019: Hi, guys. I am not sure this is the right thread or not. But I am having difficulty in re-ripping R-Type Command / R-Type Tactics.

I saw in the rips, that the music were inside CMN.DAT and CMN.FAT.

Anyone who is willing to share the decrypter tools and tutorial to extract those .AT3 from .DAT?

to webmaster hcs: please do not ban me for this, for I am simply does not know where to create thread or post for request.
by marcusss at 10:51 PM EDT on September 22, 2019: Some good ones.

Lots of rips coming but ones that sound good

* Worbital

* Record of Agarest War Mariage

* Magebuster

* Horizon Chase with Turbo Summer Vibes DLC - nice Racing tunes

* Jumpgrid

* Jets'n'guns and Jets'n'guns 2

* Collapsed

* Windshift - Really Asian styled fast paced music

edited 8:03 PM EDT September 23, 2019
by marcusss at 11:27 PM EDT on September 25, 2019: More good ones

* Sydney Hunter and the Curse of the Mayan - Good music. Nice 8 bity or chiptune style. I like it

* Cat Quest II

* Space Overlords has some nice tunes too

* Astrox Imperium - 12 songs which are like 8 min to 15 min each. Space atmospheric. Nice and relaxing.

* Suguri

* Azure Reflection

edited 11:49 PM EDT September 25, 2019
Mister Mosquito by JomSpoons at 7:51 PM EDT on September 28, 2019: Hey, I've been looking to get the Mister Mosquito soundtrack, and it appears that the rip uploaded to this archive is played at an incorrect speed. The rip here plays at 48000Hz, while from my testing, in-game they seem to play at 44100Hz

For example, here is a song from the rip (Converted to MP3 for uploading purposes)
and here is the same song played in-game (This was just recorded using PCSX2 and Audacity, so it has sound effects and such still in it.)

I can confirm that the PCSX2 music playback is at the correct speed as I own a physical copy of the game and that's the same way it sounds running off my PS2.

That said, it might be worth fixing / reripping. Thank you to everyone who've made this whole archive possible!

edited 7:53 PM EDT September 28, 2019
by marcusss at 3:17 AM EDT on September 29, 2019: Couldn't one just use txth to force its playback rate in the meantime until it is reripped
by JomSpoons at 9:50 AM EDT on September 29, 2019: @marcusss Yes, I changed the playback to 44100Hz manually for my personal purposes, but I wanted to bring this up regardless because I think it's important we make sure all the rips here are as accurate as possible.

edited 9:50 AM EDT September 29, 2019
by ChillyBilly at 11:21 AM EDT on September 29, 2019: Got a few mobile sets here:

Android

Cartoon Network Match Land

Dice Mage 2

Dizzy Knight

Treasure Buster

iOS

Slayin

Swap Heroes

^All these soundtracks were done by Matt Creamer, who's probably best known for the Retro City Rampage and Shakedown Hawaii soundtracks. It's all some really fun stuff!

Also, in case it was overlooked, I did some rips for the PS2 Pro Yakyuu Spirits titles a few pages back. Check them out if you can!
by AnonRunzes at 12:32 PM EDT on September 29, 2019: @JomSpoons - what i'd do if i noticed something's wrong in an existing set that's currently available on vgm.hcs64.com i have is to do a "re-rip" of sorts that trumps out that set in terms of "quality" or "accurate-ness" of the rip by going to the Contribute page, upload the newly-made set, and (assuming i didn't delete the set after it's done uploading) hope that someone who drives this whole set site doesn't lose the set i had to go out of my way to upload "by accident" just days after the set has been uploaded in the first place. or refuses to add it into the set site because "it isn't playable".

what i'm saying is i believe you can do the re-rip.
by JomSpoons at 2:09 PM EDT on September 29, 2019: @AnonRunzes I tried for several hours yesterday attempting to extract the music from Mister Mosquito to no avail. I don't have much experience with code either so I don't know if I could rip them from hex or anything. I'll look into it more but Mister Mosquito has proven really difficult in terms of audio extraction for me.
by AnonRunzes at 3:18 PM EDT on September 29, 2019: coding isn't needed to extract CD/DVD discs. IsoBuster should do most of the work for you(its interface is easy to figure out) so long as you have a CD/DVD drive with your disk being put right into that drive.
by marcusss at 11:26 AM EDT on October 3, 2019: * Sermont - Contract with a devil
* Cube World

Both have some nice music, especially cube world

More later
by SmartOne at 10:25 PM EDT on October 6, 2019: For the record, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy "original" versions of the songs appear to be sourced from the XA files from the original Playstation discs with some kind of enhancement/treble boost applied. Still sifting through the files.
by tifaff at 1:33 AM EDT on October 24, 2019: guys someone can update this to the library

Dragon Ball Z - Shin Butouden (1995-11-17) FLAC
by novemberrhythm at 7:55 AM EDT on October 24, 2019: does anyone own or gamerip the mortal kombat 11, injustice 2 and snk heroines?
by DaveMan1000 at 12:58 PM EDT on October 27, 2019: Is there anyone capable of extracting the music from The Lion King 1/2 on GBA?

Strange choice I know, but the BGM was pretty catchy.
Mister Mosquito by JomSpoons at 2:14 PM EDT on October 28, 2019: Ok, so I've been trying to still rip Mister Mosquito's music correctly. I extracted the music files from my copy of the game using IsoBuster as suggested earlier.

They are all contained in a directory called "ADPCM" in the subfolder "INT". All the music files are in .int format which I've been having trouble figuring out how to convert from. Foobar + vgmstream plugin can't play it, and most software I tried is incapable of converting them into something more than unrecognizable staticy mess.

The most luck I've had is with VGMToolbox (r1040) using the "Create/Edit/Extract GENH" option. I'm able to recognizably convert the music, however, the playback speed is all screwed up, playing way slower than it's supposed to and sounding really stretched. Here is a sample of what it sounds like.

To be quite honest, I don't really know what I'm doing. I probably have some incorrect settings or something, so if anyone has any tips I'd appreciate it. Here are the settings I'm using for conversion.

edited 2:15 PM EDT October 28, 2019
by AnonRunzes at 6:10 PM EDT on October 28, 2019: create .txt file alongside the entirety of INT folder, nename said file you created to .int.txth, then check here.

sorry for this lack of explanation here but i can't be arsed to expand upon this one.
by JomSpoons at 8:09 PM EDT on October 28, 2019: @AnonRunzes Thank you for the guidance, this helps a lot. I'm still having trouble as I don't know what to add to my TXTH file to make the music play without sounding stretched.

I found that using a Tempo Shift DSP in Foobar2000 with the SoundTouch Algorithm at Tempo: + 100.00% gets it playing at what sounds to be the right speed, but using external modifiers isn't ideal of course.

I assume it has something to do with sectors or something like that but I've not had any luck thus far. Here is what I've got in my TXTH file so far.

codec = PSX
sample_rate = 44100
channels = 1
num_samples = data_size
loop_flag = auto

edited 8:13 PM EDT October 28, 2019
Request for Gamerip by blood_falcon at 1:18 AM EDT on October 29, 2019: Hey guys, anyone could rip this game?

Sky Gunner from PixelArts, a PS2 game.
by JomSpoons at 9:22 AM EDT on October 30, 2019: Ok, I finally finished reripping Mister Mosquito! The GENH files were ripped using VGMToolbox r1026 (since the raw data option in the latest build seems to be glitched) and the WAV files were ripped using PSound 2.01. .INT.txth file is included for direct playback of the INT files if you wish to do so. Big thank you to AnonRunzes for their help.

I uploaded the rerip to josh.info, but just in case, here's a mirror I made.
https://mega.nz/#!X9E3hQLS!bUBZSKXd2yAux3IKTeqVFZc5SivYlryV3CsCU9WJPEM
by AnonRunzes at 10:46 AM EDT on October 30, 2019: you're welcome.
also do make mirrors as vgm.hcs64.com might not have your set available for everyone to see after 3 weeks (or sometimes even a entire month) for some reason.
by ChillyBilly at 1:49 PM EST on November 3, 2019: @blood_falcon: I finally got the data for something you've been asking about:

Mighty Gunvolt Burst (PC)

^Unfortunately, I can't be certain whether or not the PC version uses sequenced audio.... because the files might be encrypted, I think. I'll look into it and see if I can find out anything....
by blood_falcon at 3:47 AM EST on November 4, 2019: Thanks bro ChillyBilly, hope you can isolate the bgm inside the datas.
by Basillica at 9:59 PM EST on November 8, 2019: The Touhou 5 rip doesn't include the remixes of all the previous PC-98 games that make use of the 6th sound channel usually used for sound effects.

Would it be okay for me to update it by adding some s98s of those tracks (made either through logging on Neko Project II or using pmd2s98)?

edited 1:05 AM EST November 9, 2019
by tails_ at 2:06 PM EST on November 12, 2019: You should probably ask that on vgmrips forum and use VGM format.
by MurraySkull at 12:49 PM EST on November 13, 2019: Would it be possible for someone to get Pokemon GO, especially the recent Team GO Rocket material? I would do it myself, but the music is no longer stored in the APK.
Message for ChillyBilly by blood_falcon at 2:12 AM EST on November 16, 2019: Bro, any hopes for Mighty Gunvolt Burst?

I know you managed to extract it and now analyzing ot. So I am just asking, is there any hopes for the gamerip?
BEATMANIA PS1 COLLECTION` by Hotcakes at 7:46 AM EST on November 20, 2019: Does anyone still have a copy of this?
by ChillyBilly at 12:03 AM EST on November 23, 2019: @blood_falcon: Haven't had time to give Burst a further look just yet, but rest assured, I'll let you know when further progress is made. Trust me, I want to find out myself if the PC version uses streamed audio. ;)

Anyhoo, it's been a while since I've did any PS4 rips, so here's a couple:

Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel

Ultra Street Fighter IV
by defcon at 2:41 PM EST on November 24, 2019: Hello.

Did someone succeeded in ripping music from the game THE CLUB (2008) PC/PS3?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/club
Composer - Richard Jacques
Asking by blood_falcon at 9:02 PM EST on November 28, 2019: Hi guys, has anybody done a rip for Neo Geo console? The AES one, not the Neo Geo CD.

If yes, can you please share some of the gamerips to the forum?

And if it is possible, I would like to request a game rip of Bomberman Panic Bomber for Neo Geo. It features a completely different OST from PC Engine and even SNES

edited 9:06 PM EST November 28, 2019
by despycl at 10:21 PM EST on December 1, 2019: any chance of a rip of the pc game Bug fables: the everlasting sapling?
by DaveMan1000 at 7:25 PM EST on December 11, 2019: Anyone able to rip the music from MediEvil 2019?
by Moonboy65 at 2:54 PM EST on December 20, 2019: Anyone rip the music from Indivisible yet?
by abuse of circ at 5:05 PM EST on December 26, 2019: did some files uploaded after 12-15 get removed?
not complaining, just checking sanity
by 1425720626 at 2:23 AM EST on January 20, 2020: Just uploaded a ripped music set of a PC fangame, are fangame sets allowed though?
by Kirishima at 4:53 PM EST on January 20, 2020: @blood falcon

Look up vgmrips, because afaik there is no xsf format for the neogeo.
Turok Rage Wars by Despair at 3:07 PM EST on January 21, 2020: Having a problem with The Turok Rage Wars USF set from http://usf.joshw.info/t/ . For some reason this one set won't play in Foobar, it just reports the error as "Unable to open item for playback (Not a USF file)." I asked around and somebody else is having the same issue, but says the set used to play some time ago. Not sure what the issue is.
by MurraySkull at 11:29 PM EST on January 23, 2020: Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind?
by bxaimc at 10:34 AM EST on January 24, 2020: soon. (Although, bold of you to assume the stuff can dumped :P)
by bxaimc at 2:06 AM EST on January 25, 2020: ahem.

Kingdom Hearts III + Re Mind (2019-01-25)(Square Enix)[PS4]
by DaveMan1000 at 10:36 AM EST on January 25, 2020: Is there anyone capable of extracting the music from The Lion King 1/2 on GBA?

Strange choice I know, but the music was pretty catchy.
by AnonRunzes at 7:33 PM EST on January 30, 2020: here's some rip i did some time ago.
Tales of Vesperia - Definitive Edition [Microsoft Windows - Steam Platform] (2019-01-10)(QLOC, BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc)(BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment).7z

now, this should not be confused with the rip that's already available on vgm.hcs64.com.
if i recall correctly, i created this file using 7-Zip-zstd.
Corrupted Files by DaveMan1000 at 6:07 PM EST on February 10, 2020: Just download the rip of Shark Tale and the following files wouldn't open:
- (mov) movies_91
- audiostr_1
- audiostr_14
- audiostr_18
- audiostr_22
- audiostr_31
- audiostr_37

They were all the exact same file format as the rest, but none of them would either play, or convert in foobar.
About resumable file upl by almendaz at 10:02 AM EST on February 27, 2020: Greetings.
I want to know, how does one know if a upload at vgm.hcs64.com/upload/ was succesful, and if not, then the reason, barring server upload capacity. Thanks in advance.
by Basillica at 3:14 AM EST on March 4, 2020: @almendaz
It usually takes a bit for a rip to be added. You can see all the currently queued uploads here:
https://vgm.hcs64.com/upload/list.php

edited 6:26 AM EST March 4, 2020
by Basillica at 6:24 AM EST on March 4, 2020: For rips from Macintosh games, is it okay to convert the file to MacBinary to make it possible to rip audio in the resource fork as GENH with vgmtoolbox?

Also, what sampling rates can be stored in GENH? Because in classic Mac sound files, the sampling rate is stored as a 32-bit (16:16) fixed-point number, and the game I'm trying to rip has songs with sampling rates of ~22254.54546... (0x56EE8BA3) and ~11127.27272... (0x2B7745D1).
by almendaz at 4:27 AM EST on March 6, 2020: Thank you for answer. Late but not never. I was just worried that my uploads did not appear on server; also because of new (?) upload limit of ~0.2 GiB for rips.

Also, if memory serves me right, you could put any number (4 bytes) as frequency, and vgms will play it fine, o.c. I did not test the ENTIRE range of continuous values. For better programming, use TXTH, inside of which you can write any math operation for the sampling rates; I do not know about float values, as sampling rate is unsigned integer (uint32).
by datschge at 8:23 AM EST on March 6, 2020: Sorry, fixed the space for the upload form. Some previous uploads weren't removed correctly so there was simply lack of space on the upload server.
SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS DLC Music by tRAIlOst at 4:23 PM EST on March 6, 2020: Would anyone be willing to rip the DLC music from SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS?
by defcon at 5:23 PM EST on March 6, 2020: by Ultrafighter at 5:45 AM EST on December 9, 2017

2) The club also has pretty tiny yet neat score which is lossless on PC but really lossy on X360. I'd still appreciate it if someone checked out PS3 port, if not for presumably higher quality then for alternate mixes / versions of those tracks or even unique compositions. If Blur (racerz) is rippable and there's even a BMS dedicated to 007 Blood stone then it'd be no problem to get a hold of BGMs.
A pair of tracks I upped are absolutely swell but there's much more to this soundtrack: dark ambience and driving beats aren't all what it's got to offer us!
Oh and I almost forgot the most important part! This original soundtrack's by Richard Jacques (he scored Western racing games or shooters as well as select Sonic spinoffs) and a few additional compositions are courtesy of Jesper Kyd (!);

Ultrafighter hello.

Do you have THE CLUB (PC version)?
by bxaimc at 8:11 PM EDT on April 4, 2020: Persona 5 Royal (2019-10-31)(P-Studio)(Atlus)[PS4]

Enjoy (Note: you’ll need to grab an automated build from appveyor linked in the vgmstream github page since this contains encrypted adx until a release is pushed out)

edited 8:14 PM EDT April 4, 2020
by ChiefKono at 8:02 AM EDT on April 12, 2020: @bxaimc
Sorry for forgetting to mention this in the filename, but my rip of infinity for the PS1 is a rerip. There's an existing rip made with a generic driver and missing one track.
by MurraySkull at 6:20 AM EDT on April 13, 2020: Would it be possible to get Shantae and the Seven Sirens, now that the full game is on Apple Arcade?
by Trogdorbad at 1:03 AM EDT on April 16, 2020: Does anyone have any sort of ETA on the Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack? I'm dyin to get my hands on those files
by bxaimc at 1:17 AM EDT on April 16, 2020: Bold of you to assume I have them already. But yea, soon™
by ChiefKono at 6:32 AM EDT on April 17, 2020: Hey bxaimc, thank you for adding my Infinity PS1 set to joshw.
Say, would it be possible to rename the archive name of the set to "infinity" with a lower case i? It's how the name is stylized officially and also the way the psf game tag is written so it'd be nice if the archive name was like that too for consistency.
by bxaimc at 8:31 AM EDT on April 17, 2020: Done
by ChiefKono at 9:20 AM EDT on April 17, 2020: Thank you
by bxaimc at 8:23 AM EDT on April 20, 2020: Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020-04-10)(Square Enix)[PS4]

Enjoy
by Layer at 10:01 AM EDT on April 20, 2020: I've a question. How have you extracted files from PS4 pkg if the game is encrypted and passcode not known ? Direct dump from your PS4 then ?
by Habanero at 6:38 AM EDT on May 1, 2020: Hello, first time posting in this thread. This thread is just for streaming music ripped from games and not soundtracks, right? And the files should be left in their original format when possible? Just checking. In any case, I have a few uploads.

Vampire Hurts (Windows) - An obscure Windows JRPG about a boy who moves to the city of Casketville that's inhabited by vampires. BGM was in its own loose WAV folder.

Tenerezza (Windows; Xbox version is already up). Personally I think the Windows OGGs sound better, but they're also shorter because they're meant to loop I think. Names are tagged according to their matching track in the official soundtrack.

Millennium Racer: Y2K Fighters (Dreamcast). This is a somewhat obscure Russian Windows racing game that was also going to be released on the Dreamcast, but never made it to release (was recently leaked). Music is Redband audio, headerless RAW (tracks 4-10). Track 4 RAW also exists as a WAV in the sound folder in much higher quality.
by AnonRunzes at 7:07 PM EDT on May 1, 2020: is there any possibility to see an PS4 rip of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection in here? just curious really...
by mariofan12ify at 3:08 PM EDT on May 7, 2020: Sonic at the Olympic Games [Mobile]: https://mega.nz/file/PFdiXQoS#GKQX31YjE595dhGnsyeo_Q48WImYiPl4JrJvgGeOjaw

Just drag the .awb file into foobar2000 and all the music will appear. Tried extracting each track with VGMToolbox but every track was named incorrectly.

edited 3:09 PM EDT May 7, 2020
by karma.mid at 11:52 AM EDT on May 10, 2020: Fushigi no Dungeon 2 - Fuurai no Shiren (1995-12-01)(Chunsoft)[SNSF]
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xr2ot75xqg7gnwc

Tool: ct2snsf08
https://www16.atwiki.jp/soundfile?cmd=upload&act=open&pageid=24&file=ct2snsf08.zip

Rename: oyasen20
http://oyasen20.tripod.com/sound.html
Masters by choatix at 2:11 AM EDT on May 14, 2020: Has anyone managed to actually rip the music from Pokemon Masters yet?
by SmartOne at 3:11 AM EDT on May 17, 2020: Ugh, the technical sound quality (lol quantity) of Final Fantasy VII Remake is worse than most games on the PlayStation, including Final Fantasy VII. For some reason someone thought they just had to use ATRAC. Which could probably be fine, except you can tell that the source tracks were already low-quality.

Frequency response cuts off at 18 kHz, and there's tons of noise.

Don't worry, Square Enix. No one will notice. Who pays attention to their senses anyway.
by almendaz at 2:27 PM EDT on May 17, 2020: Well, the noise would be more of a problem than the 'frequency response cut' (band threshold), which in itself is not an indicator of sound quality, except for captured audio/recordings.
by SmartOne at 3:42 PM EDT on May 17, 2020: I'd take the Final Fantasy XIII-ses 160 kbps MP3 or Final Fantasy XV's CRI HCA over our year-2020-state-of-the-art, trailblazing Final Fantasy VII Remake Sony proprietary, avoid-those-extra-CRI-licensing-fees ACTRAC9.

For a split second, I had hope that the ports might not use the ATRAC files we got for PS4. Then I came to my senses. Make Microsoft fork over the ATRAC licensing fees (as a small part) in exchange for getting the blockbuster title published on Microsoft's platforms. Cha-ching.

Even if there were newly encoded files for a port, the root problem is probably the mastering of the source files. Square Enix's trained monkey mastering technician prioritizes playing politics, as one does in a corporate environment, over producing quality (dynamic range). Don't want that next trained monkey to get the job, after all.
by bnnm at 4:27 PM EDT on May 17, 2020: Just so people aren't mislead:

SQEX uses an internal sound engine, that is perfectly capable of using CRI's HCA, ATRAC9, XMA, MP3, or whatever codec they want in a game, for one or multiple songs.
by MarkGrass at 8:10 PM EDT on May 17, 2020: @SmartOne
Final Fantasy VII Remake was built using Epic's Unreal Engine 4; 16/24bit lossless PCM audio is encoded with the ATRAC9 codec during packaging by default, when the target platform is PlayStation 4. Conversely, XMA is used for XBOX platform targets.

That said, I sincerely doubt Sony is going to profit from ATC3 -> XMA conversion, because it's not practical in the Unreal Engine when targeting home consoles. I mean, technically, it may be possible (XMA on PS4), but it would create a licensing nightmare for all companies involved. My guess is that the XBOX version will likely use XMA from original source assets.

I just spent four semesters learning Unreal 4. Yes, CRI middleware/ADX2 is available for home consoles, but at a very high premium (almost $10,000 per month that the game is on sale).

For the 18khz cutoff, blame Epic. Licensing, blame CRI. Video game politics and everything else, blame Square-Enix.
by chaos_warchild at 7:31 PM EDT on May 24, 2020: I wonder if that's the case for Trials of Mana? It's an Unreal Engine game with PS4, PC, and Switch versions.

There hasn't have been any uploads of the soundtrack from any of the versions though.
by bxaimc at 10:01 PM EDT on May 24, 2020: Whoops. I forgot to upload it
by rcsb at 3:11 PM EDT on May 29, 2020: @ChillyBilly, are you around, my man? Was doing a search on the Pro Yakyuu Spirit series and by searching the thread I saw you had a blast going through the series music! Your last post is from 2019, hope you're still checking here :)
by Nyarlathotep at 3:42 AM EDT on June 3, 2020: I noticed that some of the audio files were missing from the Vampire Night rip, I think these are everything that's currently missing. They were located in the "ADX" folder on the game disc.

edited 4:49 AM EDT June 3, 2020
by Nyarlathotep at 3:53 AM EDT on June 3, 2020: Also, it seems that the Deka Voice rip I posted about a year ago was never added, was there something wrong with it?
by rcsb at 8:38 PM EDT on June 3, 2020: -

edited 12:15 AM EDT June 4, 2020
USF artist corrections by hcs at 1:12 PM EDT on June 10, 2020: I bought the newly printed Glover soundtrack and noticed two things:

1) They use the titles from the USF rip, which iirc I made up. So that's kind of amusing. (or was there a sound test I'm forgetting?)
2) They have different artists, which are probably correct given that they got the rights: Rob Lord, Paul Weir and Mark Bandola. That should be corrected.

When I added tags to that rip many years ago I was just digging through strings in the ROM and it looks like I got the names for Allister Brimble and Richard Joseph from the adjacent Sound Effects credit (ref MobyGames).

I uploaded a new 7z (via the uploader) with the corrected tags, glad to finally get this right. The release date might still be wrong, MobyGames lists 1998-11-04 instead of 1998-10-31.

Another I think I probably have wrong is Zool, I got "Takaheshi Yamazuke" from some random web site, but I haven't found the credits yet to do it properly.

edited 1:13 PM EDT June 10, 2020

edited 1:49 PM EDT June 10, 2020

Raido has Ichiro Nemoto listed for music for Zool, and includes screenshots in a RAR at the bottom. MobyGames says Ichiro Nemoto worked on music for Pandora Box Super Famicom titles, so this cross-checks. They have 郎 instead of 朗, the latter seems consistent with the screenshot. I don't know anything about how equivalent these Japanese names are, I'll be writing it "Nemoto" anyway.

edited 2:09 PM EDT June 10, 2020

Ok, both changed and uploaded. I also corrected usf.hcs64.com. Glad to finally put this right.

edited 2:37 PM EDT June 10, 2020

I went looking for a soundtest in Glover, didn't find one but was surprised to find you can access the credits right from the Options menu. Oops!

edited 3:01 PM EDT June 10, 2020

Credit to dormouse, who named Nemoto back in 2013.

edited 4:01 PM EDT June 10, 2020
by rcsb at 12:57 PM EDT on June 14, 2020: Amazing research, hcs! Actually, I know of a similar story, where Capcom named the soundtrack for Demon's Crest for the SNES on the franchise sound box with the names created by the tagger SquareTex and used on the snesmusic.org rip.

It's really great to see this dedication turn into something official. Congratulations!
by hcs at 6:52 PM EDT on June 14, 2020: It's pretty generic stuff here, mostly "The Story" and "The Conclusion", which I think I modeled on the titles during the opening cutscene ("The Castle", "The Wizard", etc), and the "Lobby, Level 1" phrase.

Now we just need a Pilotwings 64 soundtrack! I'll even buy it on vinyl if necessary! Doesn't seem likely, though, the reason we're getting this for Glover now is Piko bought the rights.

edited 7:01 PM EDT June 14, 2020
by Nisto at 10:58 PM EDT on June 20, 2020: I already uploaded these via vgm.hcs64.com but they didn't make it to Josh W's server yet, so leaving these here just in case:

Gear Fighter Dendoh (2001-04-26)(Natsume)(Sunrise)(Bandai)[PS1].7z

Gundam Battle Assault 2 (2002-07-17)(Natsume)(Bandai)[PS1].7z
by Squaresoft74 at 7:16 AM EDT on June 22, 2020: Dino Crisis should be on joshw archives waiting for approval, here's a link for now:
Dino Crisis (1999-07-01)(Capcom Production Studio 4)(Capcom)[PS1]
Many thanks to AceK for his help, this one is a team work.
by jurassicPieter at 2:39 AM EDT on July 1, 2020: Can someone reupload many of the mobile games from nintendo? The download on joshw's archive is quite old as new updates added new songs.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp misses many furniture and amenities songs. Some updates also added new songs, like a few new rain variations. There was also a fishing event where you caught cheep cheeps and bloopers with a mario-fanfare when you caught one.

Mario Kart World Tour has a few new tracks with new music

I thought Dr. Mario is also missing the latest songs.

Super Mario Run misses a few fanfares, but not sure if the original uploader just didn't add these

If someone can provide me with links how to extract these myself, but extracting mobile games is still new territory to me.

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