Posted July 03, 2014
Oh come on, now they're doing it on purpose.
HiPhish
New User
Registered: Oct 2010
From Germany
gamefood
The flamin beer will burp you down!
Registered: Apr 2009
From Germany
Posted July 04, 2014
Oh well, a Dragonsphere update, what's been updated this time? ... ;)P
SatoriEnd
New User
Registered: Jun 2014
From United States
Posted July 08, 2014
Any chance we can get the straight MIDI versions of this? The recorded version seems to be using either the FM or GMWave MIDI setups, and I'd really like to be able to pipe it through a Roland.
ssokolow
Linux Geek
Registered: Feb 2011
From Canada
Posted July 09, 2014
Yeah. An easy way to experiment with different synths would be something I'd be interested in too.
TheWhombler
New User
Registered: Aug 2012
From United States
Posted July 21, 2014
Cool to see this finally added to the bonus content, I hope you guys enjoy it. Here's a little background information:
This took a few hours to put together because I had to play through the game until I triggered a new track, save, mute sound effects/voices, and then reload the save to retrigger the track. Then I would just stand there and wait until the song either looped or ended. But in doing this I found that some of the songs didn't have normal loop points. In fact—I can't remember which ones off the top of my head—but there were a few that never looped the same way twice, songs that you probably wouldn't hear for more than a minute or so during normal play. So I would be sitting there, five or six minutes into it, waiting for a recognizable loop point. Eventually I figured nobody would sit through these songs for that long so I would stop recording and add a long fade out for the ending. This was the case for basically any song over three minutes in the soundtrack.
Encoded as flac because I was saving it in a lossless format to burn to a disc for myself. I like to collect the soundtracks for all the games I play, either through official releases or self-made recordings like this, and lossless formats are the most versatile as far as sharing goes. You can always down-encode if the quality isn't that important to you but you can never up-encode a lossless format.
I've only played a few of the games in my account, which I'm guessing is the case for a lot of people here, but I'm definitely interested in doing this again for another game that doesn't have a soundtrack already. As long as it's possible to do, that is.
This took a few hours to put together because I had to play through the game until I triggered a new track, save, mute sound effects/voices, and then reload the save to retrigger the track. Then I would just stand there and wait until the song either looped or ended. But in doing this I found that some of the songs didn't have normal loop points. In fact—I can't remember which ones off the top of my head—but there were a few that never looped the same way twice, songs that you probably wouldn't hear for more than a minute or so during normal play. So I would be sitting there, five or six minutes into it, waiting for a recognizable loop point. Eventually I figured nobody would sit through these songs for that long so I would stop recording and add a long fade out for the ending. This was the case for basically any song over three minutes in the soundtrack.
Encoded as flac because I was saving it in a lossless format to burn to a disc for myself. I like to collect the soundtracks for all the games I play, either through official releases or self-made recordings like this, and lossless formats are the most versatile as far as sharing goes. You can always down-encode if the quality isn't that important to you but you can never up-encode a lossless format.
I've only played a few of the games in my account, which I'm guessing is the case for a lot of people here, but I'm definitely interested in doing this again for another game that doesn't have a soundtrack already. As long as it's possible to do, that is.