Sonic (music) Archive

This would be something I'd love to help with.

I think it'd be wise to keep all the music totally lossless; the older music in GYM/VGM, and the newer ones in the native formats with .FLAC and .mp3 alternatives.

It might be wise to compile a list now of what is needed (and maybe chose a preferred emulator for GYM files). I'd be happy to get to work extracting music from games I have and converting/tagging them to other formats.

 

Not using in_vgx, I see? Well, I guess the balance is a bit off on that one. :/ Not really sure why you'd need to archive the deprecated format when the VGM format does everything and more and doesn't require much more in terms of processing power or memory use.

 

Another nice thing to have would be some guides for the music format and using them, considering it's generally hard for a new user to know how to use VGMs, ADXs and such.

 

I have a few questionable sets/musics I'm not sure if you want it or not:

Sega Superstars Tennis - Since only a couple pieces of music are for Sonic's court, and those are all from Sonic Adventure 2 & Sonic Heroes.

Mario & Sonic

Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary - There are 2 pieces of music that are remixes of songs that are in Mean Bean Machine.

Smash Bros Brawl - Angel Island Remix, Right There Right On, that piece of music from Sonic 06.


Also, is someone willing to check Sonic 06 for PS3 to see what music format that is?

 

I would love this idea in it's entirety, if it were a complete lossless archive of Sonic soundtracks (flac :v. And not just rare hard to find soundtracks, but I would like to hear lossless recordings of the Genesis music, preferably Knuckles Chaotix, from an actual Sega Genesis. Kinda like the soundtracks of Sonic 1-3D you can get from gh.ffshrine.org, but way better since it's lossless. If you're looking for the space to support all of that, I can try and help in some way.

I can help you with some soundtracks if you want, but mind you I'm currently requesting and searching myself. :P

Also, I know Project Fidelity existed, but that's been dead for a while ever since the tracker disappeared the first time. I would love to see this torrent be brought back from the dead, but I don't think many people are interested. I had everything downloaded from that torrent, but unfortunately that disappeared from a hard drive wipe.

 

In the mean time, you could host any lossless soundtracks you have on megaupload.com, since you can actually upload quite an amount with decent speeds - unlike rapidshare. I'm currently talking to some people who might be able to help.

Or hell, we could try DropBox. I have a lot of invites to this, plus I've personally used it many times and it has never let me down. Plus, you can even hotlink! Even if you were to quickly lose space in your DropBox account, you can always find someone else to upload it for you to their DropBox as well. From being a beta tester granted me 2GB of space that I can use, so I have plenty I suppose.

But hell, there are probably better alternatives out there as well. I'm sure we can work things out somehow.

If you're interested in DropBox, drop me a PM. I think you can sign up now, but I think if I were to personally invite you, it would give you more space. I'm not sure how it works now.

 

Lossless Genesis recordings? You'll want the VGMs and if you've got a flash cart you can easily play them on hardware with this:
http://www.spritesmind.net/_GenDev//forum/...topic.php?t=442


Also works fine in Fusion.

 

Wow, sounds neat. I'll give this a go when I get my flash cart from Hong Kong or wherever the hell it is arrives.

 

Yes, they're significantly smaller than FLAC -- the only real issue with them is that they are tracks that require emulation -- if the sound core isn't up to snuff, they won't sound right.

 

Not sure what you mean by "players" (portable, programs?), but you can always convert the FLAC files to Apple Lossless and they'll play on your iPhone/iPod (Touch/Classic/Whatever). Most programs out there even come with the plugins needed to play most codecs, such as Winamp.

I don't really trust emulators, because you can play any game in any emulator and it can sound different. As far as I know, even 32X sound emulation still has some work to be done (well, maybe not Fusion :*). In my mind, I think of accuracy over quality. However, from what I've heard, even different Genesis models can produce different sound. So I don't know, I think I might be losing my own argument. :P

 

Sonic Jam: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X5ERZCF0

Sonic The HEdgehog Remix: http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=KW3XW86M

Sonic X OST (japan and I put the french, US and UK openings) http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=8P8FO56C

SatAM: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OD916V0X

Sonic 10th Anniversary: http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=N9KX1BBL

It takes time to do so I'll do the others later :v:

 

Dude, no need to get on my case