Undo the spoiler below for a link to the preview of the booklet (The "Front" and "Front-In" in the original archives are the cover of the booklet)


This release underwent several revisions. Ensure you have the latest version. Part of my original source material was upsampled by the uploader for some reason, so I had to re-do many files. And added a recreated version of the original of the Fire Temple theme.

Album: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track (Extended Edition)
Album Artist: Koji Kondo, Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Kenta Nagata, Asuka Ohta, Hajime Wakai, Kosuke Yamashita, Chad Seiter, Orchestra Nova San Diego
Catalog Number: N/A
Publisher: Nintendo
Format: CD
Codec: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Year: 1998
Genre: Game Soundtrack
Sample Size: 16-bit
Sample Rate: 44100 Hz
Channels: Stereo
Total Size: 1.27 GB
Total Length: 03:44:26
Total Tracks: 85

Tracklist:
1-01 - Title Theme
1-02 - Enter Ganondorf
1-03 - Deku Tree
1-04 - Fairy Flying
1-05 - House
1-06 - Kokiri Forest
1-07 - Open Treasure Box
1-08 - Item Catch
1-09 - Small Item Catch
1-10 - Shop
1-11 - Battle
1-12 - Inside the Deku Tree
1-13 - Boss Battle
1-14 - Boss Clear
1-15 - Heart Container Get
1-16 - Legend of Hyrule
1-17 - Spiritual Stone Get
1-18 - Fairy Ocarina Get
1-19 - Hyrule Field Main Theme
1-20 - Kepora Gebora's Theme
1-21 - Market
1-22 - Shooting Gallery
1-23 - Hyrule Castle Courtyard
1-24 - Enter Zelda
1-25 - Ocarina 'Zelda's Lullaby'
1-26 - Zelda's Theme
1-27 - Ocarina 'Epona's Song'
1-28 - Lon Lon Ranch
1-29 - Mini Game
1-30 - Kakariko Village
1-31 - Ocarina 'Sun's Song'
1-32 - Hyrule Field Morning Theme
1-33 - Goron City
1-34 - Ocarina 'Saria's Song'
1-35 - Lost Woods

2-01 - Dodongo's Cavern
2-02 - Middle Boss Battle
2-03 - Dinosaur Boss Battle
2-04 - Zora's Domain
2-05 - Great Fairy's Fountain
2-06 - Potion Shop
2-07 - Inside Jabu–Jabu's Belly
2-08 - Ocarina 'Song of Time'
2-09 - Temple of Time
2-10 - Open Door of Temple of Time
2-11 - Master Sword
2-12 - Ganondorf's Theme
2-13 - Chamber of the Sages
2-14 - Medal Get Fanfare
2-15 - Sheik's Theme
2-16 - Horse Race
2-17 - Horse Race Goal
2-18 - Ingo's Theme
2-19 - Escape from Lon Lon Ranch
2-20 - Kakariko Village Orchestra Version
2-21 - Ocarina 'Song of Storms'
2-22 - Windmill Hut
2-23 - Ocarina 'Minuet of Forest'
2-24 - Forest Temple
2-25 - Ocarina 'Bolero of Fire'
2-26 - Fire Temple (Original Version)
2-27 - Fire Temple
2-28 - Ice Cavern
2-29 - Ocarina 'Serenade of Water'

3-01 - Water Temple
3-02 - Ocarina 'Nocturne of Shadow'
3-03 - Ocarina 'Prelude of Light'
3-04 - Shadow Temple
3-05 - Gerudo Valley
3-06 - Spirit Temple
3-07 - Ocarina 'Requiem of Spirit'
3-08 - Kotake & Koume's Theme
3-09 - Meet Again Zelda
3-10 - Game Over
3-11 - Ganon's Castle Bridge
3-12 - Ganon's Castle Under Ground
3-13 - Inside Ganon's Castle
3-14 - Ganondorf Battle
3-15 - Escape from Ganon's Castle
3-16 - Last Battle
3-17 - Seal of Six Sages
3-18 - Ocarina of Time
3-19 - End Credits
3-20 - End Credits 2 (Orchestra)
3-21 - The Legend of Zelda Main Theme Medley

Be advised, obviously I cannot cater to every person's preferences. This is intended to be an extended edition. If the original release sounds satisfactory to you then by all means I do not dissuade you from listening to that at all, and this version is more than likely not for you.

I have been procrastinating to do this project for a very long time. It seemed such a daunting task to commit myself to—and I was right. This was a lot more work than I had hoped it would be, but I now that I have I am glad I took the time to do it.

This would not have been possible if it weren't for the original uploaders. Unfortunately I cannot remember whom I exactly downloaded these from as it was such a long time ago, but I take no credit for that.

This is the complete The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track {PCCG-00475} with all its tracks included, but with all the tracks extended. It was a major flaw of Nintendo to publish the complete original soundtrack while cramming it on a single CD resulting in tracks that were too short (and double the sin for repeating this *ahem-* “mistake” for the 3D version). The single-disc Japanese version was however the most complete edition, and provided the best flow. Fortunately there were other releases with slightly longer tracks, but playing those would subtract from the narrative listening experience of the original Pony Canyon version. I just wanted to have a definitive edition to listen to without having to worry about anything else, because if there is one game which deserves that it would be this one. Ergo the solution was to incorporate tracks from other releases, yet they were still a tad short so I ended up looping practically everything save for the short sound jingles.

I used the original Japanese version as a reference for the track list (and the front cover) so everything is arranged in order of appearance, and with the extended lengths I find it proves to be a more atmospheric overall listen that the game did so well to establish. Looped tracks have been used from the following four albums:

PCCG-00475 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/293)
NTDO-17233 | THE LEGEND OF ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME 3D ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/26628)
94040 | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/1888)
3590940 | The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time Vol. II: The Lost... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/6374)

I primarily opted for the best sounding version to extract parts from to create a seamless playback experience (and which version I preferred in terms of sound, like preferring the original warmer-sounding “Zora's Domain” cue to the newer 3DS one). I was actually rather lucky I still had those other two European editions in my library because some songs on the original could not be looped having a fade out too early on at the end, and every song that could not be looped happened to be on those editions. The original Japanese version clocks in at just over 78 minutes for the 82 tracks it provides. My extended edition tallies just shy of three-and-a-half hours for equal the amount of tracks. This may sound like excessive, but spread out over all those tracks it is not gratuitous (at least in my opinion). If some are too long for your taste it is just a matter of cutting away the unwanted material and throwing in a simple fade out. For deciding the final lengths I kept the gameplay experience in mind for each respective cue. Consequently, songs such as the dungeon themes, general areas, and Hyrule Field overture are longer as you spend more time in there in-game (for example, the “House” theme's length is 2:45, while “Kakariko Village Orchestra Version” is 4:52). I can't imagine anyone actually being severely displeased with the final figures.

On SoundCloud by the user named "SMASH ADAMS" I found the original Fire Temple isolated chant in lossless WAV quality, which I used to recreate a genuine lossless version of the original Fire Temple theme.

The second to last track is the final orchestrated bonus track from “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Original Soundtrack”, and the final track is from “The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Special Orchestra CD”. I don't know why I appended those but I felt the urge to include them (once more thanks to the original uploaders).

Everything was accomplished with Audacity (Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)) working losslessly and without altering the music and integrity of files itself (barring obligatory fades).

No Mp3 requests please.

Links & Password:


*** The Complete Files ***
The Complete Archive (Links Are Interchangeable): https://safelinking.net/p/68566ba69a

*** Passwords ***
Safelink Password: FLACIT!
Archive Password: FORFLAC'SSAKE!

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Original Soundtrack (Extended Edition): Thread 184269

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Original Sound Tracks (Extended Edition): Thread 184113

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Sound Selection (Extended Edition): Thread 186632

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Original Soundtrack (Extended Edition): http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=208833/

Alice: Madness Returns Original Videogame Soundtrack (Extended Edition): Thread 184362

For those interested, I have another OoT thread here: Thread 183924

Enjoy listening!

Regards,
Fj

I've added a link with additional art (back cover and discs).

EDIT: This is no longer of any relevance.

Regards.

Thanks for this. Sounds great.

Is there a chance you'll do this for Majora's Mask as well?

I was just about to decide which version I would keep and I found the 82 track version more complete but the length of the tracks instantly annoyed me. My ears are caught by surprise if a catchy tune ends after 1m20s.
Thank you very much for this, all that work is met with appreciation.

:)

Have a great day!

Thank you share!

This is magnificent. I've wanted an OoT upgrade for a while now, and you've done a great job.

Thanks for this. Sounds great.

Is there a chance you'll do this for Majora's Mask as well?

Heh, figured that question would arise if there were any replies. No harsh feelings.

I have actually just rounded up a version for The Wind Waker... which was a huge undertaking (uploading as we speak, which will take a very long time). I apologize, but I do not know if I will ever get around to doing Majora's Mask. I have never really taken a liking to that game, but its rubbing off on me a bit. The music is nothing short of stellar though. So I indeed would like to do a Majora's Mask version, but not before long. There is also to consider that I don't know how my personal situation will continue from this point onward; I do not want to make false promises.

Regards.

Thanks a lot!

Album: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track (Extended Edition)
Album Artist: Koji Kondo, Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Kenta Nagata, Asuka Ohta, Hajime Wakai, Kosuke Yamashita, Chad Seiter, Orchestra Nova San Diego
Catalog Number: N/A
Publisher: Nintendo
Format: CD
Codec: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Year: 1998
Genre: Game Soundtrack
Sample Size: 16-bit
Sample Rate: 44100 Hz
Channels: Stereo
Total Size: 1.12 GB
Total Length: 03:36:16
Total Tracks: 84

I really do like wwhat you did. This is a reat Rip of the Game Music from a Game I love, but some of these Tags are wrong.

Publisher: Nintendo -> Yes, both the Original CD Soundtrack and the Game were published by Nintendo, but THIS rip isn't. You made it, you uploaded it.
Format: CD -> No, Digital, unless you offer it as CDs :/

I really do like wwhat you did. This is a reat Rip of the Game Music from a Game I love, but some of these Tags are wrong.

Publisher: Nintendo -> Yes, both the Original CD Soundtrack and the Game were published by Nintendo, but THIS rip isn't. You made it, you uploaded it.
Format: CD -> No, Digital, unless you offer it as CDs :/

Well, for unofficial releases I always use the original source's publisher in the tags, and for "Format" I always use what source the original files stem from. Hope that explains it.

Regards.

Format should apply to the format the files are distributed on, not the source, usually.

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Most of these are looped 3-4 times, right?

Also the Hyrule Field Main Theme has edited? It has different patterns in a different order.

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Oh and, while some tracks are longer than necessary IMO, that's not really a problem. And while the next point isn't a problem, it just seems unnecessary. Did you really need to actually repeat the Ocarina songs? I don't mind longer songs if it's a continuous track, but literally having a jingle stop playing, then repeat 4 times, just doesn't make sense. I am of course referring to not the tunes after you play the tune on the Ocarina, e.g. "Ocarina 'Minuet of Forest'" only needed to be 13 seconds, not 56 seconds.

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Oh and.. just to sound pedantic... Mahito Yokota had nothing to do with the soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, other than the orchestra arrangement on the 3D soundtrack.

Format should apply to the format the files are distributed on, not the source, usually.[COLOR="Silver"]

Isn't that what I did though?


Most of these are looped 3-4 times, right?

Correct.

And yes the Hyrule Field Main Theme required some additional work, but the integrity is intact.


Oh and, while some tracks are longer than necessary IMO, that's not really a problem. And while the next point isn't a problem, it just seems unnecessary. Did you really need to actually repeat the Ocarina songs? I don't mind longer songs if it's a continuous track, but literally having a jingle stop playing, then repeat 4 times, just doesn't make sense. I am of course referring to not the tunes after you play the tune on the Ocarina, e.g. "Ocarina 'Minuet of Forest'" only needed to be 13 seconds, not 56 seconds.

The Ocarina tunes are repeated twice, not four. I figured it wouldn't be a problem with them being brief and all, and you do get to play them multiple times in-game. Not to mention the game teaches you these tunes also resulting in multiple playbacks.

With all the other tracks extended, it just felt out of place not to repeat the ocarina songs. In my opinion two repeats is really not that exorbitant if you compare it to the gaming experience.


Oh and.. just to sound pedantic... Mahito Yokota had nothing to do with the soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, other than the orchestra arrangement on the 3D soundtrack.

Quite a few songs are from the 3D version of the soundtrack, hence why I included him in the tags.

I have listened to it all and compared to the Original Sound Track Japanese version as well.
Good job.

Some tracks seemed too long for me at first but while listening through it did not annoy me.
Adding things I am picky about: I would have liked the extended version to only have tracks with the original sound, not taking some of the 3D release. I am so familiar with the tracks that I notice the difference on many and then it feels like a mixed soundtrack to me. Number two: The fade outs that only take 1 second are too short and come by surprise.

That does not mean that I do not enjoy this a lot. Thank you very much. Nintendo should have considered longer version in the first place. Have a nice week!
:)

I have listened to it all and compared to the Original Sound Track Japanese version as well.
Good job.

Some tracks seemed too long for me at first but while listening through it did not annoy me.

Number two: The fade outs that only take 1 second are too short and come by surprise.

That does not mean that I do not enjoy this a lot. Thank you very much. Nintendo should have considered longer version in the first place. Have a nice week!
:)

You know--you are completely correct. I commend you for having had the dedication to listening to the entire thing this soon.

I thank you for this constructive criticism and took your second point to heart. I admit I felt utterly awful after reading it and taking a peek myself. I tried to suppress the horrible feeling for a couple of hours--while trying to rationalize matter--but eventually caved in.

After scrutinizing the album again I made points which tracks needed a new fade out. I felt I was very strict in this regard and ended up re-doing a lot of tracks for this reason (do not worry I did not lazily alter the final .flac files I released by overlapping another layer of fade out sacrificing fidelity in the process). Luckily for me I saved some of the raw edited files for some tracks, which saved some time, but some songs needed a complete revamp not having the original Audacity data files backed up. It took a long time, but now this album has proper fade out.

As I am typing this I am re-uploading the entire thing. And for those who have already downloaded the old version I will include a separate download link that has only the altered tracks (with of course altered back cover art, .html file, .txt, and .m3u8 playlist file). The upload is going to take a while, but I will set my alarm in intervals to wake up and ensure the uploads will be completed as fast as possible. I regrettably must divulge there will be a slight difference between the completely new link archived version and the old one once updated with the separate replacement archive when it comes to the tags (I mistakenly added Mahito Yokota to the non-3D tracks, which I corrected). So if you want the updated "Artist" tags you are going to have to do this manually by importing the tags from the included "The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track (Extended Edition).txt" file with Mp3tag (using the following string format with the "Import tags from .txt file" funtionality: "%Discnumber% | %Track% | %Album% | %Title% | %Artist% | %Album Artist% | %Genre% | %Year% | %Bit Rate% | %Channels% | %Codec% | %Format% | %Catalog Number% | %Length% | %Publisher% | %Sample Rate% | %Sample Size% | %Size% | %Total Tracks% | %Comment%" -- without quotation marks of course) or download the complete new version if you don't know what I just talked about.

I sincerely apologize to everyone for not having proper fade outs in the original release. I wanted to do too much work too fast because I was afraid of running out of time with my personal situation. Not to mention the wasted bandwidth for the people who have to pay for these matters.

It goes without saying The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will follow the same treatment. I will not go to bed before rounding that one up.

Regards.

All the files for the Ocarina of Time version have finished uploading and the OP has been updated.

Enjoy!

Regards.

Isn't that what I did though?
No, you didn't. You claim the format is CDs. Please provide us with the proof that you actually have these burnt to a CD, and are actually distributing them on CD? No. Downloading from the internet is NOT the same a a CD. A CD is a "circular thing that you pit in a CD player that spins", not a file from the internet.


Quite a few songs are from the 3D version of the soundtrack, hence why I included him in the tags.
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Hey Fjnanfag,

it is great to know that the criticism is handled this way. I am not sorry I caused you so much more work because I am sure you are more proud of it now!
I am downloading the new things and will listen to everything again. I am looking forward, thank you for your dedication.

Do not listen to people who randomly talk trash to you about this because of minor errors. You did great work and even more people appreciate this than the number of people who will say thanks here.
Did you make the fades a constant length now or did you only make them longer until it sounded right on the current track?

:)

Ocarina of Time 3D Soundtrack description:

This CD has 51 tracks from Ocarina of Time 3D including the one orchestrated track that appears in the game. They’re the same songs composed by Koji Kondo in 1998, remastered for the 3DS by Mahito Yokota.

Hey Fjnanfag,

it is great to know that the criticism is handled this way. I am not sorry I caused you so much more work because I am sure you are more proud of it now!
I am downloading the new things and will listen to everything again. I am looking forward, thank you for your dedication.

Fair criticism is always appreciated, and makes for better results. And yes you are right, I am now glad I revised the tracks one more time.


Do not listen to people who randomly talk trash to you about this because of minor errors. You did great work and even more people appreciate this than the number of people who will say thanks here.

Yeah, I must admit it is difficult to swallow after putting so much work into something and providing it for free.


Did you make the fades a constant length now or did you only make them longer until it sounded right on the current track?

All the new fades are exactly ten seconds in length.


Ocarina of Time 3D Soundtrack description:

Yeah, I know. The back cover only has Koji Kondo as the composer for a reason.


No, you didn't. You claim the format is CDs. Please provide us with the proof that you actually have these burnt to a CD, and are actually distributing them on CD? No. Downloading from the internet is NOT the same a a CD. A CD is a "circular thing that you pit in a CD player that spins", not a file from the internet.

I am not quite sure why you seem to have a bone to pick with me, and I have no earthly clue what you are getting at here. The "Format" the source files are from which I used stem from the original CDs.



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I am sorry, but if you cannot notice the difference between the original and the 3D release that is not my problem. If you actually read up on matters you'd know the 3D soundtrack is actually a remaster, by Mahito Yokota.

And even if I was wrong, since when are we lashing out to people for incorrect tags?

No one is making you listen to this release, and you did not have to pay a single dime for it. Take it or leave it.

Regards.

Format should apply to the format the files are distributed on, not the source, usually.


Isn't that what I did though?



No, you didn't. You claim the format is CDs. Please provide us with the proof that you actually have these burnt to a CD, and are actually distributing them on CD? No. Downloading from the internet is NOT the same a a CD. A CD is a "circular thing that you pit in a CD player that spins", not a file from the internet.



I am not quite sure why you seem to have a bone to pick with me, and I have no earthly clue what you are getting at here. The "Format" the source files are from which I used stem from the original CDs.


I repeat. The format should be the how the files are distributed. NOT... I repeat NOT where you got them from. They may be FROM a CD. But the files in this topic are NOT on a CD. There are no CDs containing "The Ocarina of Time Extended Soundtrack".

Also, since you told me to look into it... I did:
According to VGMdb, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D was composer SOLELY by Koji Kondo.
Mahito Yokota is not mentioned for any composition. The ONLY, I repeat ONLY track he was involved in was the orchestrated medley known as "End Credits 2" on the English tracklist.

Unless I'm missing something, where does it say he remastered the original music?

I am listening through the new version right now. I like to know the music I have so I listen to everything before I keep it.

The fades are 10 seconds long? Probably some weird fade-shape then and not linear. In the beginning of the album the track sometimes ends before the fade ends so the volume lowered but then abruptly ends shortly before it's completely silent. To sum up, they do not seem consistent but it is not noticable while listening through anymore. I often had to go back a couple of tracks and re-check the fades because they are not as obvious now anymore. Pleasant for the ears, good job.

Your track "32 - Koji Kondo - Hyrule Field Morning Theme.flac" has a skip shortly before the end, at around 30 seconds. I replaced that with the same version of the track that I have from the original soundtrack's Japan Edition. That is probably the version you used as well and somehow it now contained a skip. Fixed it for myself.
Ow, I still have over two hours to listen to. Well, I will let you know if I find other things. And I bet I do not as it was great before already.


Ultimate Koopa is right about the format. You provide this release which is a release only you made, no matter how you made it and what tracks you used and you are making it available as a download, therefor the format is WEB.
But I would never listen to anybody who behaves like that when trying to make a point either.
Google a bit and you find that Yokota remastered all the tracks. Or ask your ears – to somebody who played the original on N64 a lot or listened to the soundtrack the difference is obvious in many tracks.
Of course Koji Kondo is the only composer because Yokota did not compose anything. I left him out of the artist tag as well because of that.

I am listening through the new version right now. I like to know the music I have so I listen to everything before I keep it.

The fades are 10 seconds long? Probably some weird fade-shape then and not linear. In the beginning of the album the track sometimes ends before the fade ends so the volume lowered but then abruptly ends shortly before it's completely silent. To sum up, they do not seem consistent but it is not noticable while listening through anymore. I often had to go back a couple of tracks and re-check the fades because they are not as obvious now anymore. Pleasant for the ears, good job.

The fade outs are all linear. It is due to the nature of the tracks itself that they appear different. Believe me, they are all ten seconds on the dot.


Your track "32 - Koji Kondo - Hyrule Field Morning Theme.flac" has a skip shortly before the end, at around 30 seconds. I replaced that with the same version of the track that I have from the original soundtrack's Japan Edition. That is probably the version you used as well and somehow it now contained a skip. Fixed it for myself.

You are right, I notice the skip as well. I just checked and the clip is also present in the original Japanese version I have, which is the cause because I left the Hyrule Field Morning Theme untouched. What a royal pain. This will need replacing again... sigh.

Replacement archive file for the single track has been uploaded. The new full archive version is uploading right now. Added colour coding and bolding in the password and link section for a better overview.

Thanks once more for your insight.

EDIT: Complete archive files updated, plus alternate artwork.

Regards.

I am now keeping four versions of this soundtrack.

Japan Edition
US Edition
3D's Soundtrack
Fjnanfag's Extended Edition

All good with the rest! Thank you.

I am now keeping four versions of this soundtrack.

Japan Edition
US Edition
3D's Soundtrack
Fjnanfag's Extended Edition

All good with the rest! Thank you.

I am now keeping four versions of this soundtrack.

Japan Edition
US Edition
3D's Soundtrack
Fjnanfag's Extended Edition

All good with the rest! Thank you.

* Sigh of relief *. I was honestly expecting you to find another thing I had overlooked.

I hope some people can appreciate the improved disc art and additional front-in and back-in art I have added (Archive D), which actually took a surprising amount of time. It will soon also be added in the complete version (Archive A).

EDIT: Done

And also, it is looking a little more positive for my personal situation in regards to how much time I have. There is still no certainty, but it at least has bought me enough time up until now to do all the artwork for Majora's Mask... so yes, there is a little more hope an extended version for Majora's Mask will see the light of day.

Regards.

Thanks for all your work :)

Thanks for all your work :)

Nope, nothing else to find for me. Cannot be too picky, else we would never come to a finish with anything.

This has inpsired me a lot and I am since yesterday beginning to download USF and NSF files from NES and N64 games to have older soundtracks in my collection. I am so impressed! Soundtracks as old as 1989 and older, in perfect quality! Available for so many games, better than having remastered in-line tv rips.
Anyway, I have a question for you here because you did timing in this project and I am not finding anything on this:

Tagging and timing seems to be a big part of the process. How do I time things for those infinitely looping tracks? I read that things should be playing twice in a row and then a 10 second fade-out. Is that the standard?
Why do tracks have to be playing 2 times, I do not understand who assigned that number. And it confuses me now because it changes track times too much sometimes. I have tracks that play for 3 minutes which is really enjoyable but some tracks only play for 19 seconds.

Please enlighten me on this with your experience, thank you in advance :)

Anyway, I have a question for you here because you did timing in this project and I am not finding anything on this:

Tagging and timing seems to be a big part of the process. How do I time things for those infinitely looping tracks? I read that things should be playing twice in a row and then a 10 second fade-out. Is that the standard?
Why do tracks have to be playing 2 times, I do not understand who assigned that number. And it confuses me now because it changes track times too much sometimes. I have tracks that play for 3 minutes which is really enjoyable but some tracks only play for 19 seconds.

Please enlighten me on this with your experience, thank you in advance :)

I will answer your question over PM as not to go off topic.

I updated the final archives and gave an option to choose between two front arts. I also gave a time limit for the old archives to be downloaded to clean up the first post.

Regards.

I made a booklet to complement this Extended Edition. Undo the spoiler below to see a preview and see the original post for the download link to the full resolution versions in a separate archive. The original full archived version with all the songs and other art will be updated as well, but will take a while.

The "Front" and "Front-In" in the original archives are the cover of the booklet.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Sound Track (Extended Edition):


Enjoy!

Regards.

Thanks for your hard work!

Amazing, thanks for all your work!!! :)

Thank you so much for sharing it!

It so happened to be one particular source I used had been upsampled. The Japanese official release to be precise. It goes without saying resampled files are utterly unacceptable in a release that claims to have adhered to a lossless work process with the file integrity of paramount importance.

I do not have a single clue why the source files were upsampled by whoever uploaded it in the first place. It was my honest intention to check the files prior to the first upload, but in lieu of that I just egregiously failed to do so while daftly never catching on to that at a later stage. For some reason this particular release does not seem to want to cut me a break.

Incontestably steps to mitigate all the discordant files undeterred was a requisite. Most of the the 48000 Hz files were untouched ones--i.e. �Master Sword�, �Open Treasure Box�--which were a cinch to replace, but a certain allotment had been looped and then resampled back to 44100 because I thought they were genuine 44100 already (Audacity does for whatever reason not warn about these things). Those had to be redone from scratch with new source files.

A great amount of tracks did have the European releases or the 3DS version as a source, which were proper rips from the get-go so required no superseding measures. The art has been changed accordingly (final two pages of the booklet and the back cover).

I genuinely wish this doesn't require any further impromptu supplant files for whatever other unforeseen discrepancies. I myself am getting tired of it; I can only imagine some of you do too. At first there was the fact that I suddenly had more time on my hands so figured it no-problem to make additions to the file with the art, which would have been fine if it had not been juxtaposed with the additional mandatory replacements. Yet there are no excuses for the positively haphazard treatment this particular release has had to endure--first ever custom release or not. I do not know of anything to say that would set this right.

Very nice.

Any chance of the original version of the Fire Temple getting this treatment too?

Any chance of the original version of the Fire Temple getting this treatment too?

Ahhh that brings back memories playing the game as a kid. I don't think I ever made it past either the Water Temple or Fire Temple at that age though... and the Nintendo help line was expensive so my parents only allowed me to call on very few occasions.

I don't think that rendition of the Fire Temple ever got an official lossless release though. Hence why it is not included.

Regards.

Ahhh that brings back memories playing the game as a kid. I don't think I ever made it past either the Water Temple or Fire Temple at that age though... and the Nintendo help line was expensive so my parents only allowed me to call on very few occasions.

I don't think that rendition of the Fire Temple ever got an official lossless release though. Hence why it is not included.

Regards.

Is it weird I never knew a thing like the Nintendo help line existed?
My brother, cousins and I all took shifts to try to get through the water temple. I can't remember who actually managed to make the final bit of headway to the boss room, but if you walked through the house on that day, around 6pm in the afternoon, you'd find 5 boys huddled in front of a small TV... and it might as well have been a world cup victory when we heard that boss go down!

So I look back on it fondly now. Though the water temple drove us into a fit of frustration, the payoff was incredible!

I do not know if it was called "Nintendo Help Line" exactly, but it was a number you could call and ask questions about anything related to the Nintendo games for at least the N64 (at least in my country). It was such a great help if you got stuck somewhere and had no idea how to advance. Perhaps Nintendo was afraid they mistakenly made their games too difficult. I am not sure, it was so long ago.

Ocarina of Time I probably cherish the most of any game nostalgia wise. I remember being at my grandparents and my dad suddenly leaving, only to come back half an hour later with the game. At the time the title did not mean anything to me, but that quickly changed. It was a bit too difficult for kids of such a young age though. It is hard to make the connections an adult sees as obvious. Also, those ReDeads were eerie to a fault. Always ran through the town market as fast as possible bashing the A button.

Nonetheless it was an amazing experience. Every advancement in the game felt as a huge achievement. Nowadays with ubiquitous internet things have changed.

Regards.

Also, those ReDeads were eerie to a fault. Always ran through the town market as fast as possible bashing the A button.
Regards.

Omg, same deal with the lot of us. When one would grab Link, we'd all start shouting at each other! Don't even get me started on what the Resident Evil games did to our little group...

Ironically though, I thought the forest temple was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. Still probably my favorite dungeon.

As for the help line, I think they pushed strategy guides more where I'm from, as your the first person to ever mention it to me.

Omg, same deal with the lot of us. When one would grab Link, we'd all start shouting at each other! Don't even get me started on what the Resident Evil games did to our little group...

Ironically though, I thought the forest temple was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. Still probably my favorite dungeon.

As for the help line, I think they pushed strategy guides more where I'm from, as your the first person to ever mention it to me.

Nintendo gets away with a lot of horror elements in games rated suitable for children like that. The music in most dungeons alone could fit right into the best of the horror genre. And if you really look into things like Bongo Bongo for example (probably a severed head with sheaths of skin hanging and severed hands... the torture devices, Dead Hand and its room of skulls). I have not played Skyward Sword but it does seem they have toned things down a bit since the N64 era. Wind Waker in particular seems devoid of real macabre visuals.

Okay people, I made something some of you might like. The post by “TRIFORCE89” got me thinking.

On SoundCloud by the user named "SMASH ADAMS" I found the original Fire Temple isolated chant in lossless WAV quality. The first thing I did was checked the spectral analysis in Adobe Audition if this was indeed lossless, and to my surprise it was.

So the daring question was if I could recreate a genuine lossless version the original Fire Temple theme using this isolated chant along with my Extended Edition of the Fire Temple? After lots of trial and error the answer to me was yes (but I'd like others to be the judge).

This was by far the most intricate thing I have ever attempted in Audacity. The chant I found was not the same as the original version so needed editing (audio fidelity as always preserved; re-ordering and manual crossfades were necessary as well as splitting the stereo channel to envelope each channel properly and de-amplification). The other challenge was removing the "new" chant section from my Extended Edition version, which was also possible with some re-arranging with crossfades--so in this regard the fidelity was similarly fully preserved and no filtering was necessary (the bells are in there too).


Fire Temple (Original): https://mega.co.nz/#!gxRhkaYQ!ATxU9bLHjWf_xMx8iU5DLlVAsGd8zN8whf3-ThM5eQE
Password: FLACIT!

So should I also include this track in this Extended Edition? I have it in mine now.

EDIT: Added a dedicated link to the recreated original Fire Temple theme in the original Extended Edition posts for those who want it and included it in the full archive (artwork also updated). Now has in my opinion slightly better timing for the chant.

Enjoy!

Regards.

Another great collection, many thanks!

Edit: Wrong Soundtrack!

Thanks.

Thank you for that.

Can I request a reupload? I was searching for something like this and I appreciate the work you've put into it.

For those who requested it: It's been re-upped.

Regards.

Thank you. I've wanted an extended version of Sheik's Theme for a long time now, which I consider to be the second best track in the game behind Zelda's Lullaby.

No problem.

And I guess you're in luck if that's the case. In fact Sheik's Them is one of two songs I had to revise before uploading this.

Regards,

Link is not working for me.

Would like the 1st Fire Temple music thing.

Yeah, I'm seconding that. The website just keeps telling me to complete the capatcha challenge, which I have done. Multiple times. I'm entering the password too!

Same problem here. Website won't let me through. Tried on both Chromium and Firefox.

I hate to come in with complaints, but I'm afraid none of the safelink links you provided work for me, for ANY of the soundtracks. No matter how many times I put in the password and captcha, it asks me to PLEASE ENTER THE CAPTCHA CHALLENGE, so I cannot download them.

Next step is trying them on a different computer/connection.

same problem here

honk honk beep beep

Cool!

That thing is not going to let me through.
Waiting so long, need MEGA links now!

Yeah, I'm seconding that. The website just keeps telling me to complete the capatcha challenge, which I have done. Multiple times. I'm entering the password too!

Had this problem too! Turns out the safelink password isn't the password the use, use the ARCHIVE password instead! Hope that helped.

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That thing is not going to let me through.
Waiting so long, need MEGA links now!

Use the archive pass rather than the safelink pass. Lemme know if that worked for ya.

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I hate to come in with complaints, but I'm afraid none of the safelink links you provided work for me, for ANY of the soundtracks. No matter how many times I put in the password and captcha, it asks me to PLEASE ENTER THE CAPTCHA CHALLENGE, so I cannot download them.

Next step is trying them on a different computer/connection.

Try using the archive pass rather than the safelink pass. Worked for me!

Try using the archive pass rather than the safelink pass. Worked for me!


Well, it gets me to a page of download links, but then I can't find a mirror on the first part of the archive. Jeez, can someone who has it just please upload the parts to mega.co.nz? This is ridiculous.

Thanks :)

Well, it gets me to a page of download links, but then I can't find a mirror on the first part of the archive. Jeez, can someone who has it just please upload the parts to mega.co.nz? This is ridiculous.

https://mega.co.nz/#!348mjATB!1Ffn4v-ckAJ8Cr4F4lahYbuJT-M4T0Ja5io3fllLGRE

https://mega.co.nz/#!348mjATB!1Ffn4v-ckAJ8Cr4F4lahYbuJT-M4T0Ja5io3fllLGRE

Thank you so much! This is perfect!

I'll use this for my friend's OOT3D TF2 map! Thanks!

Thank you so much! This is perfect!

I'll use this for my friend's OOT3D TF2 map! Thanks!

No prob, my upload speed is kinda poopy so it took some time to upload it. Hope it works well!

Re: Problems people were having above: I can't be bothered to look through every topic by !!!!!, but what is !!!!!'s legitimate reason for using the unnecessarily complicated method of sharing files, by encrypting the links, then encrypting the encryption with a gigantic safe that's deep inside an underwater volcano lair in space?

Speakin' about video games OST rebuild... It's one one the best thing i ever listen... Got no words to describe your work.
High respect of CD quality, extended versions for a real contemplation of what this amazin' OST is made of... I'm always lookin for the original japanese version but as a fan of music and of OoT your work has completly fulfill me. You just made the work Nintendo should have done a lot of years ago, but anyway it sounds like it was Nintendo that made it xD. Thank you.

Just askin one question: may i upload your fantastic work to share it with masses? And if you agree what name of remix artist i have to write on it? Arranged by Fjnanfag? And what year for this release? 2014? 2015?
Anyway TY so much again. Awesome work really.
Best regards and apologize my english.

Thanks

Heyo.
I have uploaded the amazin' work of Fjnanfag in a "N64 Fan Pack" on the biggest french torrent site.
As Fjnanfag asked me i post the link of the thread here for people who got problems with outdated classic links.
You just have to create an account for free and you must obviously have a torrent client.

http://www.t411.in/torrents/ost-zelda-n64-fan-pack-flac-16-bits

Heyo.
I have uploaded the amazin' work of Fjnanfag in a "N64 Fan Pack" on the biggest french torrent site.
As Fjnanfag asked me i post the link of the thread here for people who got problems with outdated classic links.
You just have to create an account for free and you must obviously have a torrent client.

http://www.t411.in/torrents/ost-zelda-n64-fan-pack-flac-16-bits

Thanks for providing an alternative way.

I read your description and I thank you for the praise. There's just a small error though: I did no resample anything from 48 to 44.1 kHz. It was just that the very first Extended Edition I released accidentally contained 48 kHz files because the songs from the official Japanese release I used were wrongly ripped and upsampled to 48 kHz. When someone here notified me of this I had to go back and find a properly ripped lossless non-resampled 44.1 kHz version of the official Japanese release and redo all those songs that stemmed from that old faulty rip I used to own. Nothing in my releases are resampled.

Hope that clarifies matters.

Anyway thanks again.

Oops ok my bad, it was just an lil' error you made on rip... Things corrected.

Glad to share this beautiful work, and there are already some hard fans who are not affraid of this 3.7 Go pack xD.

I really wanna try this out.

So, I was worried the amount of loops on some of these tracks (e.g. Sheik's Theme) would feel excessive for my taste, but after listening to a few songs, it isn't bothering me as much as I expected, and it's certainly better than the non-looped versions I've been using up until now. The recreation of the original Fire Temple theme is also a great bonus.

Thanks so much for sharing this. I never would have thought to look for a homemade extended version in lossless quality. I'm sure that took a lot of tedious work. I think I'll try using this as the only Ocarina of Time listing in my library (replacing a remastered version of... PCCG-00475, I think?), and I'll take a look at your Wind Waker extension while I'm at it.

Also, thanks to BrandflakesTM for sharing a single download file, for convenience.

thank you for the effort

Thanks.

Awesome work! I'm actually downloading it again, I lost the files like two years ago...
Be well my friend ;D ;D ;D

thank you

Are there any backups of this anywhere? All the links are broken and I can't find the torrent from here:


Heyo.
I have uploaded the amazin' work of Fjnanfag in a "N64 Fan Pack" on the biggest french torrent site.
As Fjnanfag asked me i post the link of the thread here for people who got problems with outdated classic links.
You just have to create an account for free and you must obviously have a torrent client.

http://www.t411.in/torrents/ost-zelda-n64-fan-pack-flac-16-bits

I keep getting 'corrupt file or wrong password' .....

This is AMAZING! This is so great and I can tell so much work went into this. These are the kinds of uploads I love to see here, so thanks so much. Amazing work!

Quite possibly the worst process of ever downloading a file I've ever seen on Final Fantasy Shrine forums.

Give this a pass unless you want to waste your time sifting through a million loopholes just to download a 200mb file 7 times.

Quite possibly the worst process of ever downloading a file I've ever seen on Final Fantasy Shrine forums.

Give this a pass unless you want to waste your time sifting through a million loopholes just to download a 200mb file 7 times.

Yo there's a MEGA link a page or so back... Just FYI

Thank you for this!

https://mega.co.nz/#!348mjATB!1Ffn4v-ckAJ8Cr4F4lahYbuJT-M4T0Ja5io3fllLGRE

Thanks for this link coz going thru safeliking is being shitty for me!

Thanks for this link coz going thru safeliking is being shitty for me!
safelink is SHITTY for EVERYBODY ! It's a hell.

Yes I agree its a headache

I really appreciate the effort of this, but the songs sourced from the 3D version of the soundtrack are horribly mixed IMO (inherent to the original disc). The instrument volumes and tonalities are WAY off, oh well. I guess they didn't do such a great job recreating the original OST with the original samples too well for the 3DS release...

I leave this here, Happy New Year :)

https://mega.nz/#!K3ggmIwY!zAckwTdeW8U932Q9DZjdPrAUp8Q_9cGRGF2ik8Y2hA4