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by Lunar at 8:06 AM EDT on June 28, 2009
elven spellmaker: some xSF sets are streamed. F-Zero X for instance.
by JILost at 10:54 AM EDT on June 28, 2009
There's no way FZX is streamed. The minis are ~2kb and the lib is 10MB. There is no way that entire soundtrack fit in 10MB streamed. I could very easily be very wrong and Nintendo somehow managed to shove it all down into 10MB by making it mono and like 3khz or something but I doubt it's compressed THAT well. Plus I would think they would have used better synths if that were the case.
by manakoAT at 1:36 PM EDT on June 28, 2009
It is indeed streamed, the miniusf calls a stream instead of a sequence in this rip.

edited 1:37 PM EDT June 28, 2009
by bxaimc at 1:52 PM EDT on June 28, 2009
The magic of zlib compression
by hcs at 9:40 PM EDT on June 28, 2009
10 MB 22050 Hz mono 4-bit ADPCM is 15 minutes. Consider that the USF set, which loops at least twice, is 40 minutes (no more than 20 minutes of unique audio).
by CyberSpark at 2:56 AM EDT on July 4, 2009
Hm, a slightly different request then the usual. Would anyone happen to have the CDs to Live Music by Piano and Strings: Sekaiju no MeiQ I & II Super Arrange Version and/or Live Music by Piano and Strings: 7th Dragon Super Arrange Version and be willing to make an EAC lossless rip? :D

By the way, I hope to be sharing another EAC lossless album here soon, hopefully soon if I remember to do so. :)
by Elven Spellmaker at 2:51 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
CyberSpark, I dunno if you saw this a page ago, but its about the Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Rip:

Me: Also does anyone know why -GUN- Mobile (Boss) is a WAV file and not a FLAC on the SA2B CD Rip?
by arbingordon at 3:24 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
because it was his first rip and he probably didn't wait for the external encoder
by CyberSpark at 4:29 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
Indeed. There are a few other settings that needed adjustment for it to be a 1:1 copy of the original, like the read offset correction wasn't adjusted properly. It's alright though. As arbingordon said, it was his first rip. :-)
by Elven Spellmaker at 5:22 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
Oh ok, so if I just encode with compression level 6 using FLACs frontend, will that compress it properly?
by arbingordon at 7:08 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
I'd use compression level 8, but that's just me
and yes, that will compress it properly
by marcusss at 10:32 PM EDT on July 4, 2009
Yeah lvl 8 is fine as almost any recent flac will/should use imo :P
by Elven Spellmaker at 10:02 PM EDT on July 5, 2009
May I ask, how can a non-destructive compression have levels?

Surely its best to use the best compression always, and there should only be one level, maximum.
by JILost at 11:48 PM EDT on July 5, 2009
I've wondered that myself. Why do compression levels 1-7 exist?
by CyberSpark at 11:49 PM EDT on July 5, 2009
It may have more to do with things like decompression speed and computing power. The higher the level of compression, the longer it will take to decompress the data, also, when playing back the highly compressed audio file, it takes more computing power. Some lossless codecs are also tuned to be more sensitive to errors, others are tuned for slightly better compression and yet others for slightly less compression but more speed in encoding/decoding.

If you intend to use lossless compression exclusively for archiving, then using the highest quality compression is fine. If you use them more for playback or decoding, for when you want to burn the files to CD, a lower level of compression will do.

by kode54 at 2:43 PM EDT on July 7, 2009
Compression level doesn't affect decoding speed much, until you get to the ludicrous compression option which doesn't do much better than 8.

I would say that it has multiple levels similar to many archive formats, only those archive formats actually require more resources to unpack higher compression levels. Maybe some people just care more about the compression time, even if it is only once per file.
by hcs at 2:52 PM EDT on July 7, 2009
That sounds plausible, say if you're doing FLAC encoding in realtime on some tiny embedded thing.
by Omochao at 10:00 PM EDT on July 19, 2009
Anyone have the PS2 soundtrack for Tales of Symphonia?
by marcusss at 6:10 AM EDT on July 20, 2009
I have that also but its in VBR..

I'm trying to find a lossless rip of it still :( Sooo hard to find !!!




HERE

Can give you a pass if you cant get it there :P



edited 6:18 AM EDT July 20, 2009
by SmartOne at 9:50 PM EDT on July 29, 2009
Too bad Portrait of Ruin is the only handheld Castlevania game with a full synth soundtrack in addition to the typical distorted hardware recordings layered upon scratchy Gameboy/DS-ness.

Even relatively high quality MP3s of this one were hard to find.
by marcusss at 5:48 AM EDT on July 30, 2009
Yeah the lossless version sounds great :).. Yeah its a pity some cv games are scratchy
Requests + by CyberSpark at 6:03 AM EDT on August 13, 2009
Would anyone happen to have physical copies of the following albums:


Garden Original Soundtrack

- Out of print
F-ZERO GX/AX Original Soundtracks

- Out of print
Planetary Pieces: Sonic World Adventure Original Soundtrack


POWER DoLLS 1 Soundtrack Resonance


Project Soul the Primary Sound Box -Soul Edge ~ Soul Calibur I & II-


Sigma Harmonics Original Soundtrack

______________________________

I have a few things to offer in EAC lossless format and I hope to get around to uploading them eventually.

CUTS UNLEASHED: SA2 VOCAL COLLECTION - Properly ripped from an original copy, not a bootleg

Dreamfall - The Longest Journey Soundtrack EP - Rare!

PangYa Portable Original Sound Track - Rare!

Shenmue chapter 1 -yokosuka- Original Sound Track - Properly ripped from an original copy, not a bootleg

SONIC ADVENTURE "Digi-LOG Conversation" Original Sound Track - Properly ripped from an original copy, not a bootleg

SONIC ADVENTURE 2 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK multi-dimensional - Properly ripped from an original copy, not a bootleg

Cyaz!

edited 6:15 AM EDT August 13, 2009
by Mouser X at 6:28 PM EDT on August 13, 2009
Unfortunately, I can't help out on any of your requests (they do look interesting though). But, I am interested in some of the albums you say you have. There are so many Sonic Adventure albums out there (at least, I have multiples of them. Perhaps they're named differently depending on the translation?), that I'm not sure what the differences are. Would you be able to clarify that for me? More specifically, what's the benefit/difference of the albums you have, as opposed to others out there (mostly other versions/itterations/compositions/etc.)?

Also, Dreamfall (the name intrigues me) sounds interesting. I'd be interested in listening to that.... So, yah, if you get around to uploading any of those, there's at least one person here who's mildly interested.

Last, good luck on hunting down those albums. If you come across them, let us know. Thanks in advance. Mouser X over and out.
by unknownfile at 2:23 PM EDT on August 15, 2009
I'll just leave this here...

Half-Life 1 (FLAC rip)

Now back to being dead.
by bxaimc at 2:41 PM EDT on August 15, 2009
Hello and goodbye ma'am.
by arbingordon at 1:26 AM EDT on August 23, 2009
SmartOne: are you interested in mother 3+ in flac?
by SmartOne at 4:31 PM EDT on August 23, 2009
Yes please, that would be awesome. :)
by arbingordon at 2:36 AM EDT on August 24, 2009
here and as a bonus of sorts, banjo kazooie flac ost rip

both have cues/logs
by SmartOne at 8:29 PM EDT on August 24, 2009
Thanks again, and thanks to hcs for the hosting, as always.

Too bad Banjo Kazooie is no more than a hardware recording instead of the full synth sounds likely used in composition... even if they weren't.

Too bad Mother3i doesn't boast a decent production like Mother3+. Mother3i has great arrangements of equally great music, but it sounds like crap.
by Omochao at 11:02 PM EDT on August 24, 2009
Anyone have the soundtrack for the new Wolfenstein?
by manakoAT at 7:13 AM EDT on August 25, 2009
Omochao, I ripped the Xbox 360 version, bud didn't release the rip yet.
by marcusss at 8:51 AM EDT on August 25, 2009
Sounds interesting.. Wolfie :P
by arbingordon at 9:30 PM EDT on August 25, 2009
think smartone was looking for this too (or someone else, I don't remember, and don't care)

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Sound Track

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6LIY31JU

PASS = pr0t1um

uploaded by protium of ffshrine, he's a reliable source of great rips (eac/cue/log/hq scans)

kbai
by SmartOne at 11:35 PM EDT on August 25, 2009
Wasn't me, but I'll check it out.
by Elven Spellmaker at 6:28 AM EDT on August 26, 2009
Too bad Banjo Kazooie is no more than a hardware recording instead of the full synth sounds likely used in composition... even if they weren't.

Its 44K rather than 22ishK. They sound higher quality than they did on the N64.
by SmartOne at 2:08 PM EDT on August 26, 2009
Do they? Could be upsampling.
by Gedankenschild at 3:20 PM EDT on August 26, 2009
@arbingordon:
Thanks for the Eternal Darkness FLACs! I didn't ask for them, but I appreciate them very much.
by arbingordon at 3:28 PM EDT on August 26, 2009
oh now i remember, i think holyice was looking for it
by arbingordon at 10:37 PM EDT on August 27, 2009
Nights Journey of Dreams 3 disc set
disc 1
disc 2
disc 3
logs & scans
by CyberSpark at 2:13 AM EDT on August 28, 2009
Hi arbingordon .

Thank for sharing Nights Journey of Dreams 3 disc set, it's a good one that I forgot to request. :) I think that there were a few settings that weren't adjusted in EAC, as shown int the log file, but if you're interested in adjusting these files I'll gladly show you what to do and you can use it for future uploads, if you want. :p

Anyway, I'll be checking it out. Thanks again.
by arbingordon at 2:30 AM EDT on August 28, 2009
i dont buy vgm
nothing I upload is legally acquired
so I can't re rip it
sorry
by SmartOne at 8:21 PM EDT on August 28, 2009
NiGHTS into dreams... PERFECT ALBUM

Thank you!
by Elven Spellmaker at 10:00 PM EDT on August 28, 2009
While this isn't lossless its still worth linking, just incase there is something there that someone doesn't have and isn't avaliable in FLAC:

http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/green/MUSiC/tune/music.html

You might as well just use the SSF rip though, it sounds just about the same as the perfect album. Except the perfect album has more tracks.

edited 10:02 PM EDT August 28, 2009
by SmartOne at 1:57 PM EDT on August 29, 2009
The original 1996 soundtrack is not well produced compared the to PERFECT ALBUM.

The PERFECT ALBUM also sounds better than the SSFs.
by bxaimc at 11:35 PM EDT on August 29, 2009
No surprise that the ost sounds better since it was most likely remastered.
by SmartOne at 12:27 AM EDT on August 30, 2009
I can't stand CD audio games that use special "TV mastering," which basically entails pumping up the bass to compensate for people using crappy TV speakers. (Dracula X)

Why punish the people with decent setups?
by Elven Spellmaker at 8:42 PM EDT on August 30, 2009
Seriously I can't tell much difference between the SSFs and the Perfect Album.

Infact I prefer the SSFs.

But the original album is awful, and sounds nothing like the SSFs.

Is that what it really sounded like on the Saturn?

I'm sure it sounded like the SSFs...

hmm...
by SmartOne at 10:46 PM EDT on August 30, 2009
SSFs = ripped sequences used in-game.

There's a difference.
by manakoAT at 1:47 PM EDT on September 12, 2009
Would be nice if someone could upload this as FLAC:



Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Original Videogame Score



edited 1:48 PM EDT September 12, 2009
by holyice7 at 4:49 AM EST on November 15, 2009
This is a tough one.



The Boktai Rare Soundtrack. Its name does it justice; it was released in limited numbers as a pre-order bonus for Lunar Knights (Boktai DS) in Japan. Asking for FLAC is probably asking for the moon, but I'd at least like to find high quality MP3s if that's at all possible.
by marcusss at 5:50 PM EST on November 15, 2009
Did anyone get that Lunar Harmony of teh Blue Star soundtrack that came with the game when it was preordered? ;-) Theres a rip out already but yeah its in vbr. It sounds much better!! Lossless would be great.
by CyberSpark at 10:31 PM EST on November 15, 2009
Wow. I thought this thread was gone for good. It's good to have it back from the grave, though. :)

Hey, anyone got ALL OVER MELTY BLOOD ~ Melty Blood Actress Again for Limited Edition Original Sound Track or The War of Genesis III PART1 + PART2 Original Sound Track in EAC lossless or the actual CDs?
by arbingordon at 5:56 PM EST on November 16, 2009
CyberSpark, you plan to upload the 2CD ost for Sonic Adventure in flac?
by bucky at 5:54 AM EST on November 19, 2009
I have a bunch of stuff up here-
explod mp3s
Please download casually (no downthemall!). It's my friend's hosting space. AFAIK I haven't been a burden on his bandwidth, but I try not to test it too much. Focus has mainly been on NES stuff so far, but there are other things in there as well. Lots of obscure stuff, all ripped by me and not from official OSTs (which I sort of don't often trust as far as classic chiptune soundtracks are concerned).

Sorry for the audiophiles, my rips are typically 224k mp3. (I see all the discussion on lossless! :D )

For what it's worth though, I find that starting from a good emulation or hardware source is easily the first most important step. All the poor quality rips I stumble across are 192k and lower, and probably just ripped out of not-so-great emulators. My ear can't really tell the difference for chip vg music starting at 224 and up though.

I also use an mp3 tagging system I'm quite fond of. It'll put everything in one neat, organized little place in your library, hopefully some of you will dig it...

And there's a bunch of stuff up on youtube as well-
youtube channel

:)

edited 6:11 AM EST November 19, 2009
by CyberSpark at 10:13 PM EST on November 24, 2009
CyberSpark, you plan to upload the 2CD ost for Sonic Adventure in flac?

Hi arbingordon. I have EAC rips (with proper settings and offset correction) of both SONIC ADVENTURE "Digi-LOG Conversation" Original Sound Track and SONIC ADVENTURE 2 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK multi-dimensional, both confirmed to be from original copies and not bootlegs or CD-Rs. :)

If you're a long time member of GamingForce Forums, you can get SONIC ADVENTURE "Digi-LOG Conversation" Original Sound Track right now, otherwise I'll have to make a new archive and re-upload, which will take time because I'm working on many other things. The archive that's uploaded at GamingForce Forums requires 75+ posts, btw, and the archive is password protected.
by arbingordon at 5:40 PM EST on November 25, 2009
i think i have a gamingforce account, but i know i dont have 75 posts

it'd be nice if you uploaded it
by holyice7 at 3:37 AM EST on November 26, 2009
So does anyone have any clues about the Boktai Rare Soundtrack, or should I explore other avenues of acquisition?
by Elven Spellmaker at 10:52 AM EST on November 26, 2009
CyberSpark, whats the problem with a bootleg CD?

Isn't it usually the same CD with a different top and cover, resold by another company?
by Chupperson Weird at 1:41 PM EST on November 26, 2009
Bootleg (properly called pirate) CDs are not the same disc as official pressings. They are inferior in manufacturing and often audio quality. I have encountered bootleg anime CDs that sounded like low-bitrate MP3s. They are bad copies of the original. They are not the original.
Furthermore, the person who created the music does not benefit from the sale of the disc.
by SmartOne at 5:44 PM EST on November 26, 2009
The bootlegs I have (Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, and Viewtiful Joe 1 + 2) sound good. I know Jecht's Theme has a weird background hum, but I'm pretty sure that's part of the official pressing...?
by Chupperson Weird at 7:43 PM EST on November 26, 2009
Possible. Some of them you can't really tell a difference (but they are still certainly not a real pressing). But man those MP3-sourced ones are hilariously bad. I feel sorry for the people who get duped into buying them.
by hcs at 12:34 AM EST on November 27, 2009
I've never had a bootleg where I could tell from the data, luckily, but the materials are typically notably shoddy. There's the cover art scanned/photoreproduced from the original cover, with the original publisher and catalog number blocked out and replaced, occasionally backwards or upside down or from a different album. In one case a new CD had an opaque plastic disc holder, which blocked the reverse of the back cover (which they printed anyway).

The only points I see to buying albums are:
1) Showing support
2) Having a cool physical object
3) Having an authentic physical object

Bootlegs don't fulfill 1 and 3, and poor bootlegs don't provide 2. Those that I do have are from before I figured out that philosophy (and knew to be wary of unusual bargains) or where 2 won out.
by marcusss at 10:38 AM EST on November 27, 2009
I've had both and never had a problem... As long as it sounds the same or better quality than mp3s im sold :).. It is very hard to get originals sometimes so the chinese bootlegger shops will have to do. I have yet to have a bad sounding bootleg cd so far :D
by realizer at 6:09 PM EST on November 27, 2009
Most silver-pressed bootlegs are exactly similar to the authentic releases data-wise, except they usually have a different offset which can be fixed with Cue Tools. Say for example a bootleg differs in offset of 667 samples; it then can be readjusted in Cue Tools to match the original (the Accurate Rip database will tell you the correct offset of the original pressing if an entry exists and it has something to compare to like the bootleg) and all the track CRC values will match. Tools like TripleFLAC and Cue Tools will show all the offset results submitted to the AR database.

If you have both a bootleg and an original on hand, or you downloaded them in lossless, properly ripped with EAC, do a WAV comparison in EAC and you will find that the only difference is missing or shifted null (dead silence) samples.

edited 6:15 PM EST November 27, 2009
by fridgey at 2:59 PM EDT on May 10, 2010
Since I like this thread and would like to bump it, figure I'll post up something I made for myself a while back. Basically, I got tired of having to keep 4 copies of the ocarina of time ost around in order to have decent looping copies of all the tracks, instead of the single-shot copies on the complete JPN release. I took all the looping songs from the two european releases, along with 3 or 4 from the north american release (mastered a lot quieter than the other 3, avoided it as much as I could since I figured any major normalization problems would come from there), and all the fixed-length tracks from the japanese release. Applied the album replaygain values from the original releases to even out the mastering differences and put it all together into one complete, two-disc soundtrack. Obviously not for the archivist types, but if you just want good-sounding copies of all the songs you might like to have it. All of the tracks are in high quality mp3 (LAME V0).

http://www.hotshare.net/en/file/249425-5084167f3e.html
by SmartOne at 1:25 PM EDT on May 15, 2010
I am eternally searching for a Mother 3i rip that is not doubly lossy.
by snakemeat at 9:14 PM EDT on May 18, 2010
Atlus has the Zeno Clash OST for download through May 31: http://www.zenoclash.com/
by Elven Spellmaker at 10:41 AM EDT on May 19, 2010
Whoah that soundtrack is pretty epic, I checked it out because I love Trauma Centre's music, both made by Atlus.
by JudgeIto at 2:49 PM EDT on May 19, 2010
Atlus only published Zeno Clash. They didn't have a thing to do with the music.
by TRIFORCE89 at 2:54 PM EDT on May 25, 2010
Not an official soundtrack, but there was once a set to Banjo-Kazooie called "Complete Note Score" (I think. Can't really remember) floating around on the net. I'm not sure of the source of it.

The USF is more than sufficient now. But I wanted to compare the tracklist *order* of the Complete Note Score to the USF set.

Anyone have a tracklist?
by marcusss at 3:30 AM EDT on June 21, 2010
The author of the Gauntlet Dark Legacy put some music in its glory here on his website

[HERE]

I hope he adds more :P

edited 3:43 AM EDT June 21, 2010
Elebits FLAC by Trogdorbad at 10:29 PM EDT on June 4, 2021
So CyberSpark posted about it on page 42 and it doesn't look like it got linked afterwards, but I would love the FLAC rip of The Smile of You ~theme from Elebits~ if someone here has it :)

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