1. if it has an sfv/md5/par use that
2. run through wimpck to check for sync errors, etc.
3. lookup on freedb w/ mediatagger, otherwise check track number and lengths
I have over 2,000 official albums at this point, I might be here a while...
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edited 4:56 PM EDT April 14, 2013
Check out the vgmcentral.no-ip.com DC hub, I see a few people sharing it there, but you'll have to wait...
<spam>The #gamemusic irc channel is a nice place to meet other game music enthusiasts.</spam>
I'm thinking of keeping this as a running journal of sorts, let's see how that works out.
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World without Logos is the best song ever.
Thanks in advance. Mouser X over and out.
In other news, E.G.G. is up. I think it's all there, if someone who gets it could check the sfv and let me know that'd ease my mind (I'm not waiting to download the whole 100 MB again myself).
Oh yeah.
STUFF THAT IS GOING ON IN TEH OH SO BORING LIFE OF PETER S CONWAY AKA UNKNOWNFILE
Graduation is coming up shortly.
I'm going into Grade 9 soon.
Oh yays.
I will not be attending the dinner OR dance that follows graduation, as all the guys in my class are obsessed with rap (you know, the kind of music with guys pretending to have lots of cash and ho's and also pretend to be tough and walk around on the streets. Oh yeah, rap also promotes the objectification of women. I'm going to go download some real music (e.g, all of hcs' USF rips). ) and girl's asses. (Honestly.)
Following that, I will be absent for a month, starting July 3rd. Reason - I am going to summer camp. DUH. If anyone wishes to contact me during that time, tooooooooooo bad.
Oh yeah, and I STILL haven't finished ripping Wario Ware Inc. I plan to get that done by the year 2000000000000000000006. Or better yet, I'd like to request help from Caitsith. :P You know where to find me. In case you have forgotten, thats unknownfile@irc.lfx.org:6667.
So on a similar note I've put up a few tracks from the recent Gurumin OST. It's a two disc set and I originally got it as an APE+CUE so I can only fit the first and last tracks from disc one, converted to LAME APS MP3, but they're my favorites. If it's popular enough I'll put the whole thing up when I take down E.G.G.
Anyways, for all you xsf junkies, I uploaded the complete Fire Emblem Sacred Stones GSF to GSF Central. Thanks to Q 3 for tagging it. No comment on Caitsith2.
Anyways, I'm off to work on UFBot now. Maybe later, I will craptap a set. :)
Later.
--~UNKNOWNFILE~--
"I need a new tagline"
Now I have lost interest in craptapping that set tonight because I am so depressed.
Well, later.
about the best quality I can pull from an out of focus scanner that only returns values from 64-255.
http://www.gamingforce.com/
Go to the forums, and get yourself an account. From there, you can access the "My Stuff" folder (or something like that). Eventually, you'll find the thread that contains massive amounts of FTPs you can access, so long as you follow the rules. I'm pretty sure there's instructions on their site as well on how to sign-up and find the FTP sites.
That's where I've gotten the massive majority of my VGM (unless it's emulated audio, then that comes mostly from Zophar or, for SPCs, SNESmusic).
Anyway, thanks for the help, HCS. Mouser X over and out.
Anyway, thanks again. Mouser X over and out.
100 CDRs for $10, I only picked up 50 of those.
So now I can finish backing up my VGM, I was down to my last 10 DVDs.
I put a bunch more of these quotes online for all to see.
What I have now works, but it doesn't do the encoding itself. You can use the standard devkit mono DSP encoder to make a DSP, then convert it to Donkey Konga format with my tool.
It wasn't the first time someone asked me about this, but it's the first time someone was able to track down the GC devkit themselves and actually test my output on the hardware (and it works, too!)
Also I've finally hit 50% of my bandwidth usage this month. Keep it up, guys, make my host work for what I'm paying!
Check it out!
We stayed in a hotel two days, with cousin a few and a friend of my mother for a few more.
Lots of touristism... Universal Studios, saw a Dodgers game (Phillies won), attended a Bach & Vivaldi concert at the Hollywood Bowl, saw a great performance of Richard III for free (apparently one member of the group is a voice actor for Samurai Champloo and Paranoia Agent, though he wasn't performing that night).
I stopped in a store called Ameboa Music on my cousin's recommendation. I went straight to the soundtracks section and found Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale for $6 (marked as used but still in original wrapping with OBI), so I picked it up. The FF9 OST was there, but it was used and in pretty crappy condition and still $50... I saw FF Tactics for $12 and for whatever reason I passed on it. I regretted that for the next few days and stopped by again, only to find it had been sold! FF5 Piano was there instead, but I already have that in lossless form and it isn't really my favorite. When at Universal Studios we walked through the big outdoor mall "City Walk" and stopped in a Sam Goody, where I got the second Hellsing OST (RUINS).
Still regretting Tactics (and to a lesser extent FF1&2 (GBA) which was there was there as well).
I checked on the forums once from each location (so 3x total).
Now let's hope I don't shortly end up needing it again.
They're all encoded via Lame 3.91 (according to encspot and headers within the files) --alt-preset extreme (if the directory naming is to be believed) with two exceptions:
1. track 12 of OGC1 in this set was from a bad rip, the one which is most often found and includes very bad clicking. I located a slightly lower bitrate (Lame 3.89 VBR) copy which is clean and substituted that for the bad one.
2. track 11 of OGC4 (The Dream Oath~Maria and Draku, one of the best tracks in the whole series) had a click (more like a click and a squeal) in the final two seconds or so (just dead air from the live recording) which I found intolerable. I used a program to clip the last few seconds off the end of the MP3 without decoding and reencoding it. What it did do, however, was bash the Lame headers clear off. This is still from the same set of MP3s but won't be recognized as Lame encoded.
If you want my personal advice I'd recommend OGC4 (almost entirely on the strength of the Final Fantasy opera, 23 minutes of genius) or OGC1 (because of the number of very cool tunes). The others, for the most part, I'm not crazy about.
[edit]
some links:
OGC1 OGC2 OGC3 OGC4 OGC5
edited 5:47 PM EDT August 20, 2005
Also, I was wondering about the Zelda OoT Rearranged set you have. I have a few different versions (with tags, w/o tags, low bitrate/high bitrate, ect.), and I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help you confirm that set as good.
Thanks in advance for your help. I'll probably reply again, later, when I have my list of requests down to a manageable size (meaning, a list for you to choose which to put up). Mouser X over and out.
The other FVCs, however, also have a few failing tracks, but they seem to have actual sync errors, reported by EncSpot. I do recall hearing glitches in these, and when I check the files with the times for the sync errors given in EncSpot I get either a glitchy sound or a bit of silence, depending on what player I use.
OoT Rearranged has only one bad track, track 5, but it has two sync errors and thus stays in "failed check" until I replace that file.
So Falcom Vocal Collection 1 is exonerated, other than that...
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seems to have worked ok... weirdness.
edited 5:42 AM EDT August 22, 2005
By the way, OGC1 is available for direct download here. I can't speak to the quality of this, though.
edited 6:12 AM EDT August 22, 2005
Crap, it took four and a half hours for track 11 and it crapped out on the last half megabyte. FTP servers that don't support resuming suck.
edited 11:00 AM EDT August 22, 2005
OK, that one track is now up, finally. The others are also on their way. I also made an sfv, if someone could let me know when they have the files and have checked it that'd ease my mind (as I'm not going to redownload them myself).
edited 5:01 PM EDT August 22, 2005
I do remember reading, however, how this was a rare release exclusive to the jap crowd and I don't believe I ever came across it while going through some of the (both then and now) more... "respectable" rom repositories either. All that suggests, it's possible that there's no such thing as a proper 64DD dump for mr. Gashlin, or anyone else for that matter, to tinker with in the first place, which of course would make the whole USF request idea kinda moot. Then I figured, since you offer to share a piece of your VGM pie, you have it in your collection and I can't seem to get anywhere with the RPGamers.net servers lately either, I might as well ask for it here too.
Point of all this is, if anyone can confirm there's no hope for a 64DD USF rip, I'd help to know so I could remove the request from up there, looking silly n' all. Also, in the same case, I'd like to ask, if there's anymore space, to squeeze it in along with the OGC so those of us who haven't done so yet might get a shot at it, even in mp3 format (from what I can tell, it doesn't seem to have more than 4-5 new scores in total, so it probly won't be too huge to fit in whatever space the OGC would leave).
K, that is all. Thanks in advance.
I've got 13 tracks I've collected from a few different sources, all recorded from the game, totalling 30 MB:
BIGFOOT (twice)
BIG BLUE 3 = JAPON (therefore twice)
MUTECITY (not sure why this is here, doesn't sound different from the non-DD one)
RAINBOW ROAD (twice)
RED CANYON
REGENERATION (twice)
ROLLERCOASTER
WHITELAND
if I only pick the higher quality (not necessarily the larger file) of the redundant tracks it's 17.6 MB. I'll put 'em on the queue ahead of the OGC4 track on their way up.
edited 3:12 AM EDT August 23, 2005
Hmm, on second thought while JAPON an BIG BLUE 3 are very similar they're not quite the same, so I'll upload them both.
edited 3:16 AM EDT August 23, 2005
F-Zero X tracks now up.
edited 10:17 AM EDT August 23, 2005
Again I request that someone check the sfv and report back.
edited 4:15 PM EDT August 24, 2005
First I had to fix the news updating scripts which have been broken for months. Then I synced everything with all released sets I was able to find on the major mirrors.
Yay.
Weird, I still don't know what was wrong with the NSF page but I've developed a workaround. It seems like the server is refusing to show the page, possibly because it's too large? What I did was make a dummy PHP script that reads it out from a .txt file, which works. Now on to GBS, GYM, VGM and SPC.
It looks like someone overwrote the GBS index with the NSF one, so I'm going to have to manually reconstruct it...
OK, apparently it's not the size with the NSF page, because the SPC page is much bigger and has no problem. Drat, what's going on?
edited 11:49 AM EDT August 25, 2005
On a different note, I looked through your OST collection, and I've finally narrowed it down from about 300 to about 18. Here's my list, cut and pasted from a TXT file.
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Tales of Eternia Original Soundtrack (MJCG-80064)
PHANTASY STAR ONLINE Blue Burst EPISODE IV SOUND TRACK
Phantasy Star Online OST
Nights - Another Dream
Nights - Christmas NiGHTS (Saturn Redbook)
NiGHTS into Dreams - Original Soundtrack [APS LAME]
Genso Suikoden Original Soundtrack
Genso Suikoden 2 Original Soundtrack
Genso Suikoden 3 Original Soundtrack
Genso Suikoden 4 Original Soundtrack
MISSING TRACKS
Phantasy Star Online 1 & 2 - Premium Arrange
Sonic R
NEED TRACKLIST
Zelda, Legend of - Link's Awakening Re-Arranged
Chrono Cross Demo Rip
Skies of Arcadia Gamerips by Lian_Kazairl
Tales of Destiny OST
Phantasy Star Online 1 & 2 - Songs of RAGOL Odyssey
Dragon Force Game Rip-192bit
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The ones I want THE MOST are the "Tales of," series, "Genso Suikoden," series, and "Phantasy Star," series. However, I'd really like the Link's Awakening stuff, and the CC Demo Rip.
I have Skies of Arcadia there because I figure the Gamerip will have more tracks than the OST (since the OST combines overworld songs into 1, most of the time).
Okay, that's just for future refferance. Thanks in advance!
[EDIT] I found this interesting. In the PSF section at zophar.net there's a PSF set that's larger than 60mb up for download. If I recall correctly, Zophar was only allowed to host files that were 60mb or less... If you search the Zophar news archives, or PSF_Rippers, you'll probably find the referance for that information. I beleive it was n4rvick that posted the info.
In all honesty, I don't really care if it's up at zophar or not. The reason I bring this up though, is that if someone else finds out, I don't want zophar.net, or HCS to get into trouble for it being up. Whether that would happen or not, I don't know, but I just thought it should be brought up, just in case it was important. I leave now. Mouser X over and out.
edited 4:13 PM EDT August 25, 2005
The Skies of Arcadia rip is just a 6 extended tracks:
Armada Battle (Extended Version).mp3
Cave Dungeon (Extended Version).mp3
Hatred (Extended Version).mp3
Horteka (Extended Version).mp3
Legend (Extended Version).mp3
The Dark Rift.mp3
totalling 53.8 MB.
The OSTs you mentioned can be found fairly easily online. Take a look through the sites on my VGM bookmarks list.
Additionally, I'm not putting anything up in place of OGC4 for a while, it took me too long to upload to replace.
Just to let you know, it appears that when you updated the Zophar GBS page that you accidently took down the GBS sets that Gavin posted two months ago. Thought that you should know.
--Mouser X--
You have good taste if you like the NiGHTS soundtrack. (I really like it; it is one of my top 5 favorite soundtracks.) If are still looking for the NiGHTS music, try the following sites:
NiGHTS OST/NiGHTS Remix
http://www.megat.co.uk/museum/
NiGHTS Full Selection (Better than OST, includes DSS tracks and Christmas NiGHTS. You will need a download manager to download it.)
http://www.sonicstrike.net/users/sonicroms/music/%5BRip%5D%20NiGHTS%20Full%20Selection/
NiGHTS Full Selection does not include the Dreams Dreams Instrumental track from Christmas NiGHTS. You can find it here along with some other NiGHTS music.
http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/green/MUSiC/tune/music.html
Enjoy.
--Note to everyone--
Does anyone know where I can find the Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2 soundtracks at? Thanks for your help.
edited 12:11 PM EDT August 27, 2005
And thanks for the NiGHTS links. If I see any Super Monkey Ball soundtrack around I'll let you know. There are some listed on CUBED WORLD but not for direct download.
Thank you for looking for the SMB soundtracks for me. I have been waiting for Cubed World to put them up for some while. But, their FTP went down a few days before they were ripped, and it hasn't come back up since. >_<
I hope that you enjoy the NiGHTS music. If you don't have Full Selection yet, be sure to get it. It sounds much richer that the OST, and is has the complete DSS music. Using the DSS you can customize the music to make it sound like the interactive music in the game. The only downside is the aforementioned missing instumental track, but it is easily acquired elsewhere.
there ya go
http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=33B3JZFPCNJN23JPFXMRD1CX03
edited 2:24 AM EDT August 28, 2005
I would if i lived in the US.
Hmmm, your only 5 months older than me.
edited 1:42 AM EDT August 29, 2005
Bleh.. you have just added something onto my xmas/bday list by showing me that >_>. I want too many things already...
Oh, by the way, happy birthday hcs.
edited 2:44 PM EDT August 30, 2005
And to hcs: hes only also a few months older than me ^^
bye bye
P.s. Why is noone tagging the rips?Ok i dont want to provokate ;) only the hope u accept my "wish", because then i would continue taggiung =P
bye bye
http://cubedgz.dynamic-dns.net:8080/
There you go.
I've resurrected my "Now playing" winamp plugin and companion PHP script. It's simple but effective, and I've even gone so far as to make it configurable. So maybe I'll release it soon.
edited 5:01 AM EDT August 31, 2005
now uses new URL format
edited 3:30 PM EDT August 31, 2005
http://unknown.halleyscometsoftware.com/moo.htm
The Peter Conway Project
So now I've got a board that works fine except it has no way to output sound, a fairly expensive battery, and a 40 GB laptop hard drive.
And now I must run to my Intro to Music Theory course...
Back, awesome show. A bit of rain but it let up quickly enough, though they did have to pause to move the equipment out of the way.
edited 12:40 AM EDT September 18, 2005
Time to read through all the crap and pick out the worthy stuffs.
I make a rhyme every... well, whenever I attempt to do so.
Am I crazy or just wanting to pick up a CD I've loved for over five years?
Wow, I'm lightheaded now...
am i crazy, or isn't anyone ever on IRC.
I also spend some time anxiously awaiting a CBFD rip... not to be irritating but I very much look forward to it.
edited 6:38 PM EDT October 12, 2005
So do i.
Actually i think i found out what i did wrong when i tried to rip it, i must of accedently hit a key in the wrong place making D96D instead of D96C
Well i decided to try and fix the set, which actually in the sample the first ~half a second was left out, and this was because a dlist was being processed and that many hundreds of TLB errors were there.
Well, i managed to get rid of the dlist, but the TLB errors were problematic (as problems tnd to be). I was able to remove the tlb errors, but apparently they are required to be there to Init the music (inited by the exceptions caused?)
Well, after figuring out that i cant remove all the TLB errors i continued with what i got (but still a little from the start is missing, but since it is most likely un-noticable i will work with that. This leads to 2 bad things.
The first is that i will have to re-rip all the ones i have ripped so far (the ones from the sample, which was about 4 hours ripping total), and the second problem is that i will be using a savestate for all the tracks saved after the music already has loaded, which means that the midi data will be in the .miniusfs instread of the lib, which will most likely make the set up to (and including) several megs larger.
Other than that, everythings fine and dandy so i will try to muster as much cpu proccessing power as i can for this.
edited 9:02 PM EDT October 12, 2005