December 8th, 2009 niki
Something that needed to be done for a while. Yes, there is a pre-Final Fantasy Uematsu, and here’s the first part of these unknown gems. This first volume focuses on the Japanese retro PC releases, while the second will be about the Famicom ones. Warpstar recorded Genesis, Alpha and Blassty some years ago, and I completed his work with recordings from King’s Knight Special PC88 version from Hoot, and a wave write of Aliens 2 KSS archive.
Enjoy these rare pieces of the most famous video game composer on earth ~ ^^
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November 16th, 2009 niki
Soooo I’m finally back with an internet and my first action will be to post Drick’s Novastorm high quality rip he posted in the comments of Bobske’s original release.
Many thanks to him for his hard work ! <3
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June 5th, 2009 niki
Another game I used to play as a kid. I was very surprised to notice the music was that good when I launched it again a couple years ago. The music was composed by Alberto Jose Gonzalez, who’s starting to get some recognition in a number of chiptune niches. The style of Mr. Gonzalez is definitely typical of the European VGM scene, and I would even say some of the structures and melodies of his songs make me think of European medieval compositions (while remaining catchy as hell). I definitely need to rip more of his Game Boy works.
The best track (to me?) in this rip is obviously the insanely epic BGM 09 which was, I think, played on the sled stage. The Nes and Master System ports are neat as well, but the Game Boy version is definitely the most powerful. Maybe I’ll upload those as well later ~
Anyway, enjoy !
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Alberto Jose Gonzalez on Bucky’s Corner: 01 / 02
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May 30th, 2009 niki
A tiny, tiny rip this time ! Me and my brother used to play that game a lot, and as such it deserved a rip hehe. Probably won’t interest those who didn’t play it, but I think many people got this back in 1990 ~
Enjoy !
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May 18th, 2009 Emperor Udan
When I was about 8 years old, my dad often give me a coin to play Arcade Machine on sunday. The nearest Arcade Machine near my home was Toki, also know as Juju Densetsu in Japan.
I loved this game even if it was very difficult to me.
Years later, I trie Toki on Megadrive/Genesis but this version is far away from the Arcade version (too far, crap I mean).
I now will take my revenge on this game, buying the Jamma version for my beautiful New Astro City! ^^
Musics are from Yukihiko Kitahara for the Jamma version, the Megadrive version was adapted by Pierre-Eric Loriaux from Ocean French team and he make a great job, but it’s not exactly the same taste to me.
Hope you enjoy this piece of my childhood memory .
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May 18th, 2009 niki
I never played Novastorm. I’ve been familiar with some of it’s music for years though, via the French magazine game music CD I posted a while back. Having re-listened to it recently, I decided to finally seek the complete soundtrack for it, convinced from the quality that I would find a CD-DA redbook easily. Mistake ! Turns out the game’s audio is embedded into some complex compression system and that there’s no way to easily rip or even record it ! Player One Magazine must have received master tracks from Psygnosis themselves when they made that CD in 1994.
Anyway, searching around on the web, you soon notice that this soundtrack left a strong impression on those who played it. Youtube gameplay videos are full of music requests and lamentations over the lack of an official soundtrack. Among these, I noticed a person called Bobske who was claiming he actually recorded the game audio and could send it to anyone wanting it. And he did ! This is his work I am sharing here.
Sadly, I soon noticed the recording contained many skips and clicks. When I asked him about it, here was his answer:
“Yeah, that’s the problem with running old games on new hardware. Had to use DOSBOX to run the game. It works, but it isn’t perfect. The game had some slight delays and little distortions. I edited out most of the audible distortions but unfortunately, I couldn’t fix them all.”
So that’s it ! This version is pretty much the best it can get, unless someone goes through the trouble of running the game on an old ‘94 PC, or the master tracks are finally released by Psygnosis and Rik Ede, the composer.
Anyway, great music. Techno-ish sci-fi atmospheres, both epic and hypnotic, quite typical of the old European game music scene. Level 4 Stage 1 remains one of my favourites. Really too bad they didn’t choose CD-DA support !
Many thanks again to Bobske, and enjoy the music ~
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!!! edit: Dricks has since then completed a high quality game rip ! Get it >> here <<
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May 18th, 2009 niki
I recorded this tiny rip from a nicovideo.jp sound test video. The music is by Hitoshi Sakimoto, and there are indeed neat melodies here and there. And hey, it’s a Game Gear RPG ! That alone made it deserve a recording …
Enjoy !
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May 17th, 2009 niki
More Wizardry Gaiden ! Ripped recently this time, from Kingshriek’s GBS archives.
Compared to episode 3, the first 2 Wizardry Gaiden games stand less by their beautiful melodies than by their kickass battle themes. It always amazes me to see the power and passion some composers could pull from a couple primitive wave sound channels. I definitely encourage you guys to find the arrange albums for these series. In fact, basically anything Ikuro Fujiwara is worth getting. :3
Enjoy !
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edit: “Actually, the rips were done by anonymous 2CH ripper (and later reripped from GBR to GBS by ugetab). Kingshriek did the GBS from Wizardry 1-3 remakes, not the gaiden ones.“ Thanks Knurek !
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May 17th, 2009 niki
Been a while, heh ? This one is an old rip of mine. I’ll just quote the nfo:
I never played this game, except for the tiny part that became required when ripping the music. The reason I ripped this game is the arrange album based on it: “Wizardry Gaiden III ~ Scripture of the Dark” (COCC-11006) which was arranged by Ikuro Fujiwara himself and is simply wonderful. It was a pleasant surprise to find that the greatness of this album wasn’t due to extra melodies like it’s sometimes the case, but rather to the fact that the original game music it is based on is good to start with.
I searched for a while for a way to rip GBS directly from the ROM and tried the jap utility GBSND that some site describe like GB ROM to GBS utility (they lie or just don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about). After I understood that it’s in fact an utility to convert SND logs extracted with the jap GB emulator DBOY, I gave up on it and decided to record the audio from the game. I fortunately found a code unblocking a Bonus Mode which unlocked a Sound Test and could record the whole thing (enter ” -PIN- ” including spaces in the Training Ground to unlock it).
I then encoded the WAVs to MP3 APS and named the tracks partly after the arrange album.
So yep, that’s it, enjoy the music ~
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September 5th, 2008 niki
This one is relatively famous among VGM P2P adventurers … It used to float around under the name “Dragon Quest 3 Into the Legend”. The first 10 tracks indeed are one of the DQ3 symphonic suites, but the next 14 sure aren’t.
It has been established already that it is probably a fan compilation of both VGM and anime songs. A damn fine one, too. I’ll post it here one more time in hope you people can help identify some of those tunes. :3
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