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Comment by: Kaleb.G on Jun 4, 2005 - 10:06 PM

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Information Format:
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[*][b]Artist(s):[/b]
[*][b]Composer(s):[/b]
[*][b]Album/Game Title:[/b]
[*][b]Track Title:[/b]
[*][b]Disc Number:[/b]
[*][b]Track Number:[/b]
[*][b]Catalog Number:[/b]
[*][b]Year:[/b]
[*][b]Additional Information:[/b]
[*][b]Source(s):[/b]
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Comment by: Kaleb.G on Aug 1, 2005 - 6:39 PM

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura <Susan Williams, Vincent Comer, Leonid Keylin, Kathy Stern> - [1.01] Arcanum
Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Sound Tracks <Yasuhisa "Yack." Watanabe> - [06] Nazo no Murasame Jo
Ghost In The Shell : Stand Alone Complex Music Archive Sound Files <Nobuyoshi Sano> - [03] stacompos2.DnB sanodg mix
Makaruna Makendo <Takahiro Wakuta> - Level 5 -The Commute-
Metal Slug 5 Original Sound Track <Toshikazu Tanaka> - [10] Speeder
Mystic Ark Soundtrack - [1.02] - A Composer's Day Off Always Passes Calmly
The Journeyman Project - Finale
Wolf Fang ~ Tumble Pop <Gamadelic> - [1.01] Rohga

I already have Famicom mostly covered. I will do a little extra research to make sure #gamemp3s is correct about the info here, but they're seldom ever wrong.

I'll try to grab a couple extra to do tomorrow.

Comment by: TCK on Aug 6, 2005 - 7:18 AM

I'm not too familiar with any of these soundtracks, so I'll wait until tomorrow and pick up the leftovers.

Comment by: CHz on Aug 7, 2005 - 1:48 AM

I'll take Makaruna Makendo (figuring out which transliteration to use should be fun) and The Journeyman Project (played TJP3... good game).

EDIT:

Artist: Takahiro Wakuta
Album/Game Title: Makeruna! Makendou (Game Rip)
Track Title: Level 5 -The Commute-
Disc Number: none
Track Number: 13
Catalog Number: none
Year: 1993
Additional Information: Had a fun time whacking out the Japanese name. According to my friend the third-year Japanese major, it should be "Makendô" or "Makendou," and not just plain "Makendo." Also contentious is the inclusion of the exclamation point. The logo has a bamboo sword in lieu of the exclamation point, which might be why most sites for the game omit it. However, pretty much everyone across the board uses the exclamation point when dealing with the PSX sequel, so I figure it should be applicable here.
Source(s): http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/data/570899.html, http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/data/588418.html, http://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/kendo-rage/credits, http://www.snesmusic.org/v2/profile...t&selected=1375, http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/s...273#post1447273

Artist(s): Geno Andrews
Album/Game Title: The Journeyman Project (Game Rip)
Track Title: Finale
Disc Number: none
Track Number: none
Catalog Number: none
Year: 1992
Additional Information: The Journeyman Project was re-released in 1993 as "The Journeyman Project Turbo!" with some bug fixes, and this is the version most places have information about. However, the game was originally released in 1992. The track name comes from orion_mk3's post.
Source(s): http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/s...711#post1428711, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project, http://genoandrews.com/resume.pdf

EDIT²: I assume that, since the Japanese version of Makeruna! Makendou came out first, you'd like that name and not that of the English translation, Kendo Rage. Both came out in '93.

Comment by: _DH_ on Aug 7, 2005 - 6:45 PM

I'll chip in with info on my own nomination:

Artist: Gamadelic
Composer: Hiroaki "Maro" Yoshida
Album/Game Title: Wolf Fang ~ Tumble Pop
Track Title: Rohga
Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 1
Catalog Number: PCCB-00084
Year: 1992
Additional Information:
- This is an arrangement from the arcade shooter/platformer Wolf Fang which is related to Skull Fang. The original is track #4 from the same album. This arrangement also appears as track #8 from Gamadelic's "Delicious Selection" compilation album.
- The title of this album has been listed as "Wolf Fang/Tumble Pop" as well as "Wolf Fang & Tumble Pop". Since I'm unsure what the separator should be, I stuck with using a "~" to be Windows filename safe.
- The original composer is the same guy who composed the Skull Fang tracks. The arrangement, however, is by Data East's Sound Team named Gamadelic.
Source(s):

Comment by: CHz on Aug 8, 2005 - 1:44 AM

I'll also pull down the Arcanum and Ghost in the Shell stuffz.

EDIT:

Artist(s): Leonid Keylin, Kathy Stern, Vincent Comer, Susan Williams
Composer(s): Ben Houge
Album/Game Title: Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura Soundtrack
Track Title: Arcanum
Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 1
Catalog Number: none
Year: 2001
Additional Information: That Sierra site is freakin' awesome, by the way. Not only does it break down the members of the string quartet that performed the track (and the composer), but it ALSO has sheet music so that the string quartet you're a part of can perform it too.
Source(s): http://arcanum.sierra.com/us/media/...soundtrack.html, http://www.mobygames.com/game/windo...obscura/credits

Artist(s): Nobuyoshi Sano
Album/Game Title: Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex ~Music Archive Sound Files~
Track Title: stacomps2.DnB sanodg mix
Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 3
Catalog Number: CFCL-1
Year: 2004
Additional Information: CC listed four composers for this CD, but as "Nobuyoshi Sano, Junichi Fujisaku (4), CMJK (1), Yoshiki Sugioka (2)." I think the parentheses means that they only did those specific tracks (none of which is the nominated track).
Source(s): http://www.chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/cfcl1.html

Comment by: Kaleb.G on Aug 8, 2005 - 3:04 AM

CHz, if you put the URLs for the sources on new lines without commas, it will automatically parse them as links.

Metal Slug 5 and Mystic Ark are the only ones left. I'll have to wait to knock those out tomorrow, unfortunately. I don't have enough time to research and fully prepare tracks for voting right now.

Comment by: CHz on Aug 8, 2005 - 3:29 AM

Actually, it doesn't parse them as links because I edit the post instead of making an additional one and am too lazy to bother encapsulating the URLs in [url] tags.

I can do it in the future if you want.

And, since I'm such a nice guy, I've linked everything up in my previous two comments free of charge.

But I'm not nice enough to snag those last two tracks.

Sleep beckons. They're both at Chudah (I checked), so it shouldn't be THAT hard. I hope...

Comment by: Kaleb.G on Aug 16, 2005 - 8:46 PM

I'm past due on this research. Time to get cracking.

Additional Comment:

Artist(s): Yasuhisa "Yack." Watanabe
Composer(s): Koji Kondo
Album/Game Title: Famicom 20th Anniversary Arrange Sound Tracks
Track Title: Nazo no Murasame Shiro
Track Number: 06 (1 disc)
Catalog Number: SCDC-00320
Year: 2004
Additional Information: The track title, 謎の村雨城, is named after the game from which the music originated. However, this needs to be written in the Latin alphabet, and in addition to the different romanized Japanese spellings I've seen ("Nazo no Murasame Shiro", "Nazo no Murasame Jo", and "Nazo no Murasamejo"), there are also multiple English translations (which are generally variations of "The Riddle of Murasame Castle"). I decided to aim for a romanized Japanese title, as it is well suited to the style of the game and the music. I used Jim Breen's WWWJDIC to translate the Japanese and came back with hiragana that I romanized as "Nazo no Murasame Shiro". Furthermore, "Nazo no Murasame Shiro" resulted in more Google results than any other Romaji or English variation I entered, so it wins.
Source(s): #gamemp3s,
http://www.chudahs-corner.com/sound.../scdc00320.html,
http://famicom20th.webcity.jp/SCDC-00320.html (official album site),
various other websites via Google

Additional Comment:

Artist(s): Toshikazu Tanaka
Album/Game Title: Metal Slug 5 Original Sound Track
Track Title: Speeder
Track Number: 10 (1 disc)
Catalog Number: none
Year: 2004
Additional Information: Conflicting info on the Cat#: Chudah lists "N/A" whereas GMR lists "NF0003". A search on [NF0003 noise factory] shows little to back it up, and I don't see this number on either of the scans at Chudah, so I'm just going to omit it.
Source(s): http://www.chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/ms5.html
http://www.gmronline.com/info.asp?CatNumber=NF0003

Additional Comment:

Artist(s): Akihiko Mori
Album/Game Title: Mystic Ark Soundtrack
Track Title: A Composer's Day Off Always Passes Calmly
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: 02
Catalog Number: KTCR-1326~7
Year: 1995
Additional Information: "Mystic Ark Soundtrack" is spelled in Katakana at the top of the album cover; I checked.

Onward, the track title has a couple different translations, including "A Composer's Day Off Always Passes Calmly" and "Composers are Always Too Quiet on their Days Off". Any translation efforts on my part would likely be unsatisfactory in determining a proper title, and Google shows very little support for either title. Furthermore, between Chudah and GMR, it's not outright obvious which tracklist has the better translation. I'm going to have to choose something, so I'm keeping the title lolman nominated it with; I feel it sounds better.

One more thing, the track that was nominated is Disc 1, Track 02, which is the arrange version. Disc 1, Track 21 has the same title, but is the original sound version instead.
Source(s): http://www.chudahs-corner.com/soundtracks/ktcr1326.html
http://www.gmronline.com/info.asp?CatNumber=KTCR-1326~7

Additional Comment:
About the parsing of the links. It will auto-parse upon adding a new comment or additional comment, but not when editing a comment. So there you go.

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