XENOSAGA FANS (including myself ^_^)!!! Now I am aware that there are SHITTY quality .zips and/or .rars (GOOGLE IT ~ they're still around >_<) for Xenosaga III's unreleased tracks out on the internet (you might've downloaded it in the past, and/or possibly it's on your hard drive somewhere, and BOY! does the music sound HORRIBLE!!), full of heavy frequency losses and tracks that are poorly ripped (e.g. "Title Screen", "Mobius Hotel 1 + 2", etc., just to name a few obvious). I took the time and effort to professionally rip the tracks out myself and you can download your copy right now below. It's been years for me to find a high quality set until I had to do it all by myself since no one stepped up and I would highly appreciate you to reply with much love & thanks as I took several days to get these tracks ripped and labeled for you to enjoy. A must have in your Xenosaga collection! Full tracklist is also included!



TRACKLIST
[UPDATED & FINALIZED 08-21-2013 (106 Tracks)]
- Fixed & updated track 50 - Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility - Under Attack (2:48) *Thank you segaist (http://forums.ffshrine.org/members/segaist-618571) for pointing out the error!*
- 5 bonus tracks added that were untitled are identified with their correct names.
- Extended/Alternate versions are tracks that are ripped directly from the game & were not included in the original sound best tracks.
- Finalized tracks to a complete total of 106 altogether (there were 105). I went in and got it together you guys! YAY!
1 Title Screen 3:09
2 The Body of the Saint 2:46
3 S-Line Division Infiltration 2:50
4 rolling down the U.M.N. #2 3:29
5 rolling down the U.M.N. #3 1:17
6 Discovered! 2:10
7 Minor Boss Battle 2:23
8 battleland #2 4:11
9 Beach 5:10
10 Shion's Flashback 2:26
11 Floating Landmass Appears 0:09
12 fatal fight #3 ~ Battle vs. E.S. Levi - Over The Floating Landmass 4:33
13 Yuriev & Sellers 4:15
14 Fifth Jerusalem 3:15
15 Mobius Hotel 2:10
16 Shion's Reunion 4:37
17 Jingle 0:11
18 Mobius Hotel #2 2:10
19 CAT Facility 1:50
20 T-elos (variation) 2:23
21 T-elos (variation) [alternate ver.] 2:23
22 Juli's Briefing 2:10
23 chaos & Nephilim 1:04
24 Cardinal Heinlein 3:28
25 I love you, sincerely (piano ver.) ~ Shion & chaos 5:00
26 I love you, sincerely (piano ver.) #2 ~ Shion & Allen 5:00
27 Start of CAT Infiltration 3:01
28 Start of CAT Infiltration #2 1:35
29 a new world (remix) 3:13
30 hepatica #4 3:52
31 hepatica #4 (another ver.) 3:52
32 T-elos #2 (variation) 3:44
33 T-elos #2 (variation) [guitar ver.] 3:44
34 Ancient Temple 3:10
35 Ancient Temple #2 3:11
36 T-elos's Challenge 3:55
37 T-elos's Challenge #2 1:52
38 a new world (piano ver.) 3:53
39 Old Miltia Forest 1:26
40 Old Miltia Forest #2 1:26
41 Rescue of Virgil 4:15
42 Sneaking Around in Miltia 4:11
43 Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility 3:10
44 Suou & Shion 2:06
45 Joachim 4:15
46 creeping into #2 2:22
47 creeping into #2 (drums ver.) 2:22
48 assault #2 3:15
49 Labyrinthos - Search for Shion 2:31
50 Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility - Under Attack 2:48
51 Joachim's Decision 2:09
52 Song of Nephilim (Xenosaga III ver.) 2:36
53 Virgil's Lament 2:27
54 testament (instrumental) 6:54
55 testament (extendend ver.) 6:54
56 Jin 2:25
57 a dark omen #2 ~ Merkabah 2:49
58 survive #2 ~ Invasion of the Durandal 2:21
59 survive #3 ~ Durandal Rescue 2:21
60 Omega 3:34
61 Omega (instrumental) 3:34
62 Margulis & Pellegri 3:06
63 chaos & Canaan 3:07
64 Abel's Ark 2:54
65 Battle vs. Yuriev 4:10
66 godsibb (instrumental) 5:18
67 godsibb (another ver.) 5:06
68 Destruction of the Star System 2:39
69 Destruction of the Star System (short ver.) 1:00
70 Richard & Hermann's Appearance 3:17
71 Voyager 3:36
72 fatal fight #4 ~ vs. E.S. Levi - Michtam Underground Lab 2:27
73 T-elos's Final Appearance 3:28
74 the harsh truth (piano ver.) 2:03
75 the harsh truth (piano + strings ver.) ~ Battle vs. Shion & Kevin 2:06
76 Wilhelm 2:47
77 promised pain (instrumental) ~ Zarathustra Out of Control 3:47
78 Nephilim & Abel 3:56
79 maybe tomorrow (piano ver.) 2:35
80 Battle vs. Erde Kaiser Sigma 3:07
81 HaKox Theme 1 2:23
82 HaKox Theme 2 3:16
83 fallout #2 2:58
84 in a limestone cave (extendend ver.) 4:04
85 forgotten sanctuary (extended ver.) 4:51
86 Febronia (extended ver.) 5:47
87 a memory of a tragedy (extended ver.) 3:10
88 mother, I miss you (extended ver.) 4:46
89 hepatica (KOS-MOS) [another ver.] 5:48
90 on our ways (extended ver.) 3:52
91 she's coming back #2 0:32
92 she's coming back #2 (another ver.) 0:31
93 she's coming back #3 0:14
94 she's coming back #4 0:07
95 a dark omen #3 4:13
96 HaKox Theme 3 0:46
97 survive (extended ver.) 5:43
98 to the last place (extended ver.) 3:25
99 promised pain #4 (short ver.) 1:45
100 promised pain #4 (another ver.) 2:33
101 promised pain #4 3:20
102 promised pain (extended ver.) 5:13
103 crisis coming (extended ver.) ~ Bonus 3:18
104 a new world #2 (extended ver.) ~ Bonus 3:18
105 battleland (alternate ver.) ~ Bonus 3:30
106 when the grief lets you go (extended ver.) ~ Bonus 3:31

MEGA DOWNLOAD LINK
[UPDATED LINK 08-21-2013]
- Added a FLAC download link for those that want lossless audio.
Xenosaga III Unreleased Tracks [GAMERIP]
[MP3 + VBR (https://mega.co.nz/#!YQZk1DTT!JSsINQJEuYvj1MOIkVBlGzhpYJo1aYTF-SaF7dKdVXc)] \\ [FLAC (https://mega.co.nz/#!EMImFBJZ!F-E6GjZTqVuAKRAikEhf_l4HaDQcxARy3xC3aNlVv1Y)]
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PS - PLEASE CREDIT ME IF YOU ARE GOING TO SHARE THIS THREAD ELSEWHERE!!!!

I was actually working on a gamerip (a lossless rip) of Episode 3 myself, you beat me to it. What program did you use to extract the audio? I'm using "PSound" at the moment, but I'm new to making game rips so if you know better programs, I'm happy to hear about it.

EDIT: I just downloaded this and the first thing I did was listen to both "Mobius Hotel" 1 & 2. WOW, this is incredible. I never thought it was possible to get a clear recording of those 2 tracks (short of actually reproducing the tracks on piano yourself), even with my own Episode 3 gamerip project that I'm working on; the "Mobius Hotel" tracks that I extracted with "Psound" sounded identical to the heavily muffled, clipped and crummy versions of the gamerips previously available. Now I HAVE TO KNOW how you made this gamerip, it always made me sick to my stomach that Episode 3 never got a quality gamerip while some obscure games got gamerips (lossless in some instances), so I started my project in order to kill 2 birds with one stone (1. provide a gamerip of Episode 3 at the highest quality possible, rendering all prior gamerips obsolete & to preserve the unreleased tracks in their original quality [lossless]).

How were you able to extract such clear audio? It is impeccable...

Oh. My. God. I just can't thank you enough. I too am a Xenosaga fan and I wasn't satisfied with that shitty gamerip. I tried to do it myself some time ago, but my brains were not enough, apparently, and so I gave up.

You've made a huge difference!

But, am I hearing things, or you used something like dynamic volume levels or whatever? It's like volume level changes during each track, and I don't remember these volume swings in the previous gamerip or official soundtrack (comparing no-vocal versions with the originals). For example, the track "77 promised pain (instrumental) ~ Zarathustra Out of Control" from 0:40 to 0:45. Anyway, this is a minor detail, I don't think this is entirely bad.


AND...

"50 Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility - Under Attack" is a short voice clip, not the actual track.

TKVM for this, you're Awesome ! :D

Cheers~

Thank You so very much :)

Thank you

Wow, thank you so very much for this! I absolutely love the Xenosaga series and especially Xenosaga Episode III, so this is a real treat :) Thanks again for the awesome effort!

Oh. My. God. I just can't thank you enough. I too am a Xenosaga fan and I wasn't satisfied with that shitty gamerip. I tried to do it myself some time ago, but my brains were not enough, apparently, and so I gave up.

You've made a huge difference!

But, am I hearing things, or you used something like dynamic volume levels or whatever? It's like volume level changes during each track, and I don't remember these volume swings in the previous gamerip or official soundtrack (comparing no-vocal versions with the originals). For example, the track "77 promised pain (instrumental) ~ Zarathustra Out of Control" from 0:40 to 0:45. Anyway, this is a minor detail, I don't think this is entirely bad.


AND...

"50 Acute Neurosis Treatment Facility - Under Attack" is a short voice clip, not the actual track.

I heard the track "77 promised pain (instrumental) ~ Zarathustra Out of Control" from 0:40 to 0:45 and no you're not hearing things but all the tracks are normalized & mastered. There were no volume swings used if I'm not mistaken. No frequencies were lost and all the tracks are at 48,000 hz and keep in mind Xenosaga III comes in DVD format and it's gameripped LOL so the sounds are way different since Yuki didn't put all of these for official use on the soundtrack. Now if she did, then it would be a whole different story.


TKVM for this, you're Awesome ! :D


Cheers~


Thank You so very much :)


Thank you


Wow, thank you so very much for this! I absolutely love the Xenosaga series and especially Xenosaga Episode III, so this is a real treat :) Thanks again for the awesome effort!

I've recently updated & fixed the tracklist, again, thanks to segaist for pointing out the error for track 50 as I gave you recognition. If you guys previously downloaded the tracks, please redownload and replace your current one as this one has all the complete tracks.

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I was actually working on a gamerip (a lossless rip) of Episode 3 myself, you beat me to it. What program did you use to extract the audio? I'm using "PSound" at the moment, but I'm new to making game rips so if you know better programs, I'm happy to hear about it.

EDIT: I just downloaded this and the first thing I did was listen to both "Mobius Hotel" 1 & 2. WOW, this is incredible. I never thought it was possible to get a clear recording of those 2 tracks (short of actually reproducing the tracks on piano yourself), even with my own Episode 3 gamerip project that I'm working on; the "Mobius Hotel" tracks that I extracted with "Psound" sounded identical to the heavily muffled, clipped and crummy versions of the gamerips previously available. Now I HAVE TO KNOW how you made this gamerip, it always made me sick to my stomach that Episode 3 never got a quality gamerip while some obscure games got gamerips (lossless in some instances), so I started my project in order to kill 2 birds with one stone (1. provide a gamerip of Episode 3 at the highest quality possible, rendering all prior gamerips obsolete & to preserve the unreleased tracks in their original quality [lossless]).

How were you able to extract such clear audio? It is impeccable...

Well personally I'm an experienced audio mixing engineer so I'm very anal when it comes to audio quality. LOL and recalling to PSound, I do have that program BUT, I prefer using Cube Media Player 2 and I used it along with foobar2000.

Thanks for this.
I completed the first game when it was released but have yet to play the rest series. Is it worth restarting the series again from the beginning? I vaguely remember some stuff from it, but it is hazy at best. I also hear nothing but bad things from Xenosaga 2 which is not encouraging.

Well personally I'm an experienced audio mixing engineer so I'm very anal when it comes to audio quality. LOL and recalling to PSound, I do have that program BUT, I prefer using Cube Media Player 2 and I used it along with foobar2000.

That's great to hear, funny enough I looked into your previous forum posts and found that you were asking about a proper rip of Ep. 3 all the way back in 2007. You mentioned that you knew of "Psound" and "Cube Media Player" but the programs were (at the time) too complex for you, I'm glad to see that you understand the programs. :D

After seeing that 2007 post, I gave "Cube Media Player" a shot, and I now see that "Cube" rips the audio better because it extracts the original audio format from the disc. So I imagine that the rip process you did for this goes something like this: Scan disc with "Cube", "Convert to..." option with "export audio" only (thus extracting the original audio format, which is "CRI ADX" or ADX for short), fire up foobar2000 with "kode's ADPCM decoders" component installed, decode the ADX tracks with foobar2000, and from there you can do all the normalization and other mastering processes to the audio and convert it to any format you want. feel free to correct me if this is wrong in its details.

Thank you for not only creating this rip but for also inadvertently leading me to a MUCH MORE SUPERIOR WAY to make PS2 gamerips.

Lastly, since you beat me to the punch in getting a proper Ep. 3 rip made, I'm compelled to ask if you can make a lossless version of this gamerip. If you can grace us with such a thing, I will literally worship the ground you walk on (or the threads you post on)... :D

can anyone do mirrors please i cant download from mega please can anyone help

That's great to hear, funny enough I looked into your previous forum posts and found that you were asking about a proper rip of Ep. 3 all the way back in 2007. You mentioned that you knew of "Psound" and "Cube Media Player" but the programs were (at the time) too complex for you, I'm glad to see that you understand the programs. :D

After seeing that 2007 post, I gave "Cube Media Player" a shot, and I now see that "Cube" rips the audio better because it extracts the original audio format from the disc. So I imagine that the rip process you did for this goes something like this: Scan disc with "Cube", "Convert to..." option with "export audio" only (thus extracting the original audio format, which is "CRI ADX" or ADX for short), fire up foobar2000 with "kode's ADPCM decoders" component installed, decode the ADX tracks with foobar2000, and from there you can do all the normalization and other mastering processes to the audio and convert it to any format you want. feel free to correct me if this is wrong in its details.

Thank you for not only creating this rip but for also inadvertently leading me to a MUCH MORE SUPERIOR WAY to make PS2 gamerips.

Lastly, since you beat me to the punch in getting a proper Ep. 3 rip made, I'm compelled to ask if you can make a lossless version of this gamerip. If you can grace us with such a thing, I will literally worship the ground you walk on (or the threads you post on)... :D

I've added an FLAC format. Enjoy!

I've added an FLAC format. Enjoy!

I BOW TO YOU!!!

Thank you.

Any plans for an Ep. 2 gamerip?

thanks

Any plans for an Ep. 2 gamerip?

A gamerip from episode 2 already exists so there's no need for me to do one and the tracks sound great. You didn't know? There's an in-game soundtrack to episode 2.

Yea, I know about it (I have it). I just figured that since it was made around the same time as that god-awful Ep. 3 gamerip, it probably wasn't made in the best quality possible. Also, you were able to recover more tracks with your Ep. 3 gamerip than the previous one (106 vs 85), so I figured that maybe you could possibly look into rendering that old Ep. 2 gamerip obsolete. That, and the fact that there's no lossless Ep. 2 gamerip. You should consider it.

EDIT: I just checked the Ep. 2 gamerip, its a "V1" VBR gamerip (not at the best quality possible). You can easily render this gamerip obsolete.

Yea, I know about it (I have it). I just figured that since it was made around the same time as that god-awful Ep. 3 gamerip, it probably wasn't made in the best quality possible. Also, you were able to recover more tracks with your Ep. 3 gamerip than the previous one (106 vs 85), so I figured that maybe you could possibly look into rendering that old Ep. 2 gamerip obsolete. That, and the fact that there's no lossless Ep. 2 gamerip. You should consider it.

Not a bad idea. Let me see if I can whip something up from it.

Thank you, Xeraph. Much appreciated.

You are a god among men good sir

Just started listening, and what a difference. Just wanted to say thank you, since a like alone is not enough.

Dude, you're awesome.

But, I have one request I hope somebody can answer. There's another piano version of Maybe Tomorrow that plays during the first cutscene of chapter two, where Shion is flying the E.S. Dinah to Fifth Jerusalem, all the while narrating the events of the Missing Year. That piano version isn't on this gamerip or the soundtrack selection. Can anyone help me find a way to get that specific version? This is the cutscene, in case you need a reference: Xenosaga III 016 - Chapter 2 - To Fifth Jerusalem - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8cTaP8PL0)

If anyone can get THAT version of Maybe Tomorrow, I'd really appreciate it.

Seconding the request for a mirror. I'd like to check this out but I don't do Mega.

Seconding the request for a mirror. I'd like to check this out but I don't do Mega.

How so? It's just a click away, what's the worst that can happen?

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Dude, you're awesome.

But, I have one request I hope somebody can answer. There's another piano version of Maybe Tomorrow that plays during the first cutscene of chapter two, where Shion is flying the E.S. Dinah to Fifth Jerusalem, all the while narrating the events of the Missing Year. That piano version isn't on this gamerip or the soundtrack selection. Can anyone help me find a way to get that specific version? This is the cutscene, in case you need a reference: Xenosaga III 016 - Chapter 2 - To Fifth Jerusalem - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8cTaP8PL0)

If anyone can get THAT version of Maybe Tomorrow, I'd really appreciate it.

Sadly, the tracks used by all the cutscenes in Episode 3 (including the one you requested above) only exist with vocals on them. There is only one piano version. :-(

Sadly, the tracks used by all the cutscenes in Episode 3 (including the one you requested above) only exist with vocals on them. There is only one piano version. :-(

Well, fudge. Why do game companies encode their cutscenes like that? And why did Ep. 3 never get a full OST release? I seriously want to know what Namco was thinking doing that!! (It bothers me because I still play the Xenosaga games today, yes, even Ep. II.)

Ah, well. At least I can say I tried. Either way, fantastic job with the rip!!

Thanks for this! I've been waiting to hear these songs in their high definition glory for years.

I am just getting a chance to listen to this, and it sounds great. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.

I would so like to listen to this but i can't download. Tried with firefox and IE. Not sure what the problem is cause MEGA used to work with IE in the past. Now there's a note telling that IE10 has a bug and it won't let me continue to download.

Use Chrome.

Holy crap... thank you so much!

Yeah, this is awesome. Thx!

Thanks for this! I've been waiting to hear these songs in their high definition glory for years.


I am just getting a chance to listen to this, and it sounds great. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.


Holy crap... thank you so much!


Yeah, this is awesome. Thx!

You're welcome guys. Enjoy!

Thank you so much for your time and effort putting this together.

It's all love for you guys!

Do you have the rip off music from Episode II as well?

I finally got around to giving this a listen last week and want to thank you for the high quality rip. It was an easy decision to replace my old Ep. III rip with this superior one.

Do you have the rip off music from Episode II as well?

Doing my best to get my hands on it.

PS - PLEASE CREDIT ME IF YOU ARE GOING TO SHARE THIS THREAD ELSEWHERE!!!!
But if we share this thread, arent you already credited by yourself?

You'd be surprised how many people on this forum only read the headlines and the links. Just give the man credit to play it safe, preferably in a manner akin to this:

Xeraph's Xenosaga Episode 3: Unreleased Tracks
(the link to the thread/upload would be placed right here)

Absolutely excellent work! Is it possible...because Iv been looking EVERYWHERE for them that you can do all the trailer music? There has been some really good music e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsNvpoDXwk

the entire U-DO YURIEV Song is really good but the vocals get in the way.

Thank you, just can't thank you enough!!!

I'm playing through Xenosaga III again and I just realized that the OST by Yuki Kajiura was only a selection of tracks. Thank you so much for ripping this. I look forward to listening to it when I'm done with the game!

My thanks Xeraph, very few people care for others what you have accomplished, truly awesome job !

you are a god ty for this.

You're a gem. Thanks so much! Never thought I'd see the day :p