*ressusitates usf ripping* by arbingordon at 1:31 PM EDT on May 22, 2009
Here you go. Frontend will be up eventually, which will list what isn't tagged, numbered, who ripped it, etc etc. Banjo-Tooie isn't up there yet, still getting around to retagging it in accordance with someone42's spectacular Banjo Kazooie rip.
tldr freestuffs leech leechLEECH
(as a note, a few sets in there from the prelim dir on hcs site are tagged, eg turok 2, twine, etc, so don't be stingy =P)
Before you put up Banjo-Tooie, I have my own set that has what I believe to be better names and a better track order.
There are still some problems though, such as missing notes in the Mayahem Temple Main Theme and the Glitter Gulch Mine Dark Rooms (a strings instrument stops briefly at the three second mark).
There's also this strange characteristic of some tracks beginning by quickly fading in (i.e. the get a jiggy theme). I believe a previous preliminary version had one that started normally.
Actually, I'm going to be using joshw's final rip without the errors and other crap, and the dynamic all-in-one tracks, and just renumbering most of it like someone42 did. Thanks though.
ACH, YOUR SPELLING MAKES ME CRAZY! by Yoshinkeru at 12:24 AM EDT on May 23, 2009
The word you were looking for is "resuscitates". Just so's you know.
Spelling/Grammar Nazi?? Who's a Spelling/Grammar Nazi?!
Really? That's odd. Firefox is the spellchecker I used to make sure of the real spelling.
I was afraid you'd point out the "so's" (but am still surprised you did!). :) I just thought it sounded like normal conversation; that's something I go for when I type sometimes.
it's not really the best of descriptions for what has predominantly been a re-tagging/re-packaging of the existing sets (which was really needed to be done anyway from what i remember of the state of the sets) from what i've been able to work out from the irc conversations.
hopefully this thread can also be used to point out errors.
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon - Shigeru Arabi should be "Shigeru Araki". Kato Yusuke should be "Yusuke Kato", and Yusumasa Kitagawa should be "Yasumasa Kitagawa".
@Mastery Probably, but I can think of a few scenarios where the times wouldn't match up. One version of the track might just repeat, while another could have a few different segments. Or the variants might have different tempo.
My apologies, nensondubois, I fear I may have lost that in the process. Next time I have the opportunity to fix that, I will. Edit: I can't seem to find any tagged/timed miniusf files, nenson, could you provide them? Also, it seems that the set is actually up (uploaded on the 22nd of may), just not tagged.
As far as that comment about resuscitating usf ripping, I just pulled something out of my ass to get peoples attention, I'm not really encouraging it all that much. (other than directing attention towards them)
Before you put up Banjo-Tooie, I have my own set that has what I believe to be better names and a better track order.
There are still some problems though, such as missing notes in the Mayahem Temple Main Theme and the Glitter Gulch Mine Dark Rooms (a strings instrument stops briefly at the three second mark).
There's also this strange characteristic of some tracks beginning by quickly fading in (i.e. the get a jiggy theme). I believe a previous preliminary version had one that started normally.
Your tracks are way out of order, and your names are the same as my tags save two. :D
If you used the final set, the missing .1 second at the beginning of each track was fixed.
The Mayahem Temple theme is the only incorrect one. The strings really do that in GGM for some unknown reason. That place has a lot of ass-backwards music.
just went through all the sets i had and replaced them with the newest ones. great job with all the retagging and other fixes! some of the sets i had were really, really out of date. nice to see USF getting some love - especially looking forward to the front end as well.
is anyone up for some subtle nudges? because there's about five games i could tag off the bat if they were ripped :>
[rant] Personally, I wouldn't put much effort into satisfying nenson. He's rather a braggart, and thinks a bit more of himself than I can tolerate from someone for so long. He also refuses to learn much useful information, and has the ego of someone with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
I'm to the point that I pretty much won't do anything for him, now that I'm not desperate for something to do. Calling him a moron and knowing I'm right brings a grin to my face. I even get some enjoyment out of thinking about just how I could best insult the guy, and it'll probably make up for all the time I've spent waiting for him to stop being useless. I can only hope nobody else reading this wastes their time on him to begin with. [/rant]
Sorry if you don't need a rant-like post, but a lot of people probably have better things to waste their time on than him, and should know as much when picking their next project.
ugetab, could you take another look at Super Mario 64? (specifically the Bowser's Road song, iirc the tempo is off; figure you could figure it out) [if you feel like it]
@everything else: updates when I can, don't have active internet any more, so it might be a while
the tempo is off on all the super mario 64 rip. infact, it sounds quite dramatically different to the OST release (less DSP, inverted stereo image, certain instrumentation changes even...) tempo is off in yoshi's story too, and maybe many other sets, who knows?
@Lunar: Don't trust the OST. The OST was made, I believe, from the master versions, not from the game. This is evident especially in songs like the Main Theme (instruments aren't as full and notes drop out), Water (massive polyphony issues in the game version), Koopa's Road (slightly different arrangement, instrument differences), and probably a few others. Consider the OST versions "remastered". You may be right about the USF's having tempo issues, but judge based on comparison with the game or recordings from it, not the OST. I have a few game version MP3's if you'd like to hear the difference.
ah, fair enough. i never thought to check the ingame music on hardware. i should check that, just to make sure the tempo is definitely the same, since slow speeds are a common thing with USF.
There's an emulation issue in likely every USF set due to Project64 being used as the basis for the winamp plugin, and it having said error(apparently up through 1.7 versions). The tempo, or speed at which the notes are played, is wrong in the emulators as well as the USF sets.
If it took a bunch of N64 nuts from 1.4 through 1.7 to figure out how to fix the problem, I'm not holding my breath on getting the info on my own.
The best bet would be for hcs to ask zilmar about such issues.
zilmar doesn't exactly trust me: Mainly due to me cracking the alpha versions and then adding insult to injury by inline patching them (keeping UPX intact, whereas DigitalSpider does the lame approach of unpacking then cracking :/)
odd I just tried downloading them again on a different connection (before I tried dta, regular firefox, opera, and ie and everything yielded a 566KiB file that would not open) at any rate, the shit on the site will be updated as soon as I can find my ftp password or if/when hcs does it