KusanagiShiro's Game Rip Archive - Thanks to ruiner9! [Archive]

KusanagiShiro

11-25-2018, 01:14 AM

KusanagiShiro

11-25-2018, 02:28 AM

KusanagiShiro

11-25-2018, 05:43 AM

KusanagiShiro

11-25-2018, 09:42 AM

KusanagiShiro

11-27-2018, 05:57 PM

OK the thread is set up for all. Now once I get my computer back we can start adding links. In the meantime, ruiner feel free to post away!

KojimaMetalGearfan

12-03-2018, 12:43 AM

I've been out of the loop with what's been going on with ruiner9's gaming soundtrack collection and am very happy that somebody is taking over for his massive video game soundtrack collection that he uploaded.

jaykhunter

12-08-2018, 04:49 PM

Rock on, thanks for continuing and keeping Ruiner9's work alive! :)

Unknown Ninja

12-08-2018, 11:01 PM

Thanks for the gamerips and the effort and work that went into this!

franzito

12-08-2018, 11:58 PM

Amazing work! Keep going!

KusanagiShiro

12-27-2018, 11:24 PM

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been downed with a very sore back lately and had to rest a lot, plus the holidays. Look forward to more links!

yakopu

01-03-2019, 09:22 AM

grateful thanks to ruiner9 and you my friend!!!

Sharrif001

01-20-2019, 11:06 PM

Thanks a lot for keeping Ruiner9's work for us.

KusanagiShiro

01-21-2019, 07:55 AM

I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a while. Real life has kept me busy.

ruiner9

02-10-2019, 06:20 PM

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk here, but I'm a little disappointed with how the collection has been handled. It's been almost 3 months with little to no work done at all. :(

If you need any help or assistance from me, please reach out! I'd like to get all my hard work presented in a way that's searchable and easily accessible!

Shad

02-16-2019, 10:00 AM

Thanks so much for keeping this alive!

KusanagiShiro

02-16-2019, 09:02 PM

Finally got at least part of the update out. It's taken me three months and I intend to keep this thread open in my tab so I can update further.

An explaination I feel is in order: Where I live we had a series of strong storms that knocked my power out each time the winds blew; we have a rather old transformer that has a habit of going out during storms. That explains the Jan-Feb drought since my last post. The Holidays kept me busy in December as we are all prone to having happen, And I work five days a week, with my video game addiction distraction not helping.

KusanagiShiro

02-16-2019, 10:54 PM

Sorry for the wait! After some help from Ruiner, ALL The links are up and functioning!

Unknown Ninja

02-17-2019, 12:10 AM

Awesome! Thank you very much for all your hard work and effort. Thanks to Ruiner as well for helping out.

franzito

02-17-2019, 01:03 AM

Is everything back? That's great!

KusanagiShiro

02-21-2019, 11:22 PM

So I'd like to take a vote. Would you like to see more rips? or is Ruiner's collection enough here? Let me know!

Warrior123

02-22-2019, 02:30 AM

YES PLEASE!!!!!! This is already good enough! The more the merrier!

Unknown Ninja

02-22-2019, 05:46 AM

More is always good, of course. But please, don't make it too hard on yourself.

Warrior123

02-23-2019, 05:18 AM

Yeah i agree just not to hard on yourself. Add what you feel is missing or games that are not featured yet.

Shad

03-11-2019, 06:02 AM

Never get tired of looting and pillaging from this. :D Thanks for getting the direct links back up.

Cyquest

04-01-2019, 05:02 PM

Yes! Great to see the collection was not lost for anyone to go & grab something they missed. There was a TON of work that went into making this collection. So glad someone stepped up & got it posted again.

As for more music - yes, of course! We should definitely look into getting other soundtracks posted that may be missing, etc. Let us know when you or someone is ready to begin making more soundtrack collections. We'll try to contribute however we can, give feedback or suggestions, information, etc.

Thanks again!

kirbyhammer7

04-06-2019, 09:35 PM

So I'd like to take a vote. Would you like to see more rips? or is Ruiner's collection enough here? Let me know!

I am always up for more rips from anyone, but I do think if you were going to add any you should specify which ones are yours (maybe link to a separate thread?) so that things don't get too messy. Posting all these links and essentially reviving his thread is quite a feat to begin with, however, and I am super happy you did this so that nothing is lost. Nice work!

---------- Post added at 03:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:35 PM ----------

So I'd like to take a vote. Would you like to see more rips? or is Ruiner's collection enough here? Let me know!

I am always up for more rips from anyone, but I do think if you were going to add any you should specify which ones are yours (maybe link to a separate thread?) so that things don't get too messy. Posting all these links and essentially reviving his thread is quite a feat to begin with, however, and I am super happy you did this so that nothing is lost. Nice work!

radorn

04-08-2019, 08:17 AM

A couple of corrections:

Vay (SCD - ruiner9).7z 60.3 MB
mega.nz/#!xkBFHIiI!07Rz8T1tjazen4LPPcK1i1_lsUKjJKKNv3OCtKi lZM4\ --- A backslash at the trips Jdownloader a bit.
mega.nz/#!xkBFHIiI!07Rz8T1tjazen4LPPcK1i1_lsUKjJKKNv3OCtKi lZM4 --- corrected URL

War Gods (PSX - ruiner9).7z 37.7 MB
mega.nz/#!thAh1Y5Q!LOxWUd1CIIGwZjhLOZvlNmqfilYrXPJP8MB DHxqAsS0 --- An accidental space in the middle of the decryption key prevents the link from working properly.
mega.nz/#!thAh1Y5Q!LOxWUd1CIIGwZjhLOZvlNmqfilYrXPJP8MBDHxq AsS0 --- corrected URL

EDIT: For some reason the board is inserting spaces in my corrected URLs too, so I had to put them in [url] tags myself. That's probably what happened to the war gods one... the backlash in vay was probably a typo, I guess.

CartridgeCulture

05-26-2019, 08:09 AM

Just found this thread, excellent to hear the collection's still intact. I know this is old, but on what you guys were saying earlier in the thread about the direction this would all go... honestly I think the next step should be less of a focus on new soundtracks and more on ensuring the availability and accuracy of the soundtracks we already have. That raises a few questions though, the foremost being where this collection would sit in the greater scheme of things. Websites like Zophar have begun automatically creating pages of .mp3s from vgm files that are respectably clean and able to be downloaded whole. But that's where I think this collection serves its biggest purpose.

The Ruiner collection is cleaner than those rips, it's more accurate, it's tagged and thorough and looked over with a human hand. One that's experienced. For me, this collection was and still is where I go first for the cleanest rip of something. It's always been pretty much Ruiner or VGMRips for clean rips, and VGMRips has since disabled their .mp3 download ability (they're still used in playback but can't be directly downloaded by the average user). Kingdom Farts Insider is hit and miss on quality, and while I'm happy to see another mirror of such a huge archive still online, it's a pain to use and tracks have to be downloaded individually. Also I can't believe that name's banned here christ

My scope on the game soundtrack download community is admittedly limited but I'm really not aware of anything on this scale, this accurate, and this available. And it doesn't need to change now, but I think the future would be moving the collection out of the forums... maybe getting a cheap GoDaddy domain and throwing together a basic list there. That leaves only the question of awareness, and I think that's solved by Ruiner9's online presence. Just name it "The Ruiner Collection" or "Ruiner Rips" or something. Get the name associated with clean, curated VGM downloads. Maybe then people'll stop ripping YouTube tracks for their shitty game reviews.

Anyway just my dumb brainstorming, I'm pretty much cool with wherever this goes, happy to see it's still online :)

ruiner9

05-26-2019, 12:42 PM

Thanks so much for the high praise, CartridgeCulture! Truthfully, when my MEGA account expired last year, I wanted to do exactly what you're talking about. I have no experience in web-dev at all, so I asked around to see if anyone would like to help me build a site that could share the music in an appropriate way. Sadly, no one was up to the task. On top of that, web hosting with enough space to accommodate this huge collection (around 200gb) was extremely expensive, way more than the $100/yr it costs to host on a simple storage solution like MEGA. But hey! If anyone is out there that has a cool solution and would like to help, I'm all ears! :)

CartridgeCulture

05-27-2019, 06:19 AM

ruiner9

05-27-2019, 12:18 PM

We don't have to move the files from MEGA, just have the website give links to the existing MEGA files, no hosting needed. Honestly the website will be cake to set up, and the biggest hurdle we'll have to face there will be the website design and making it easy to navigate. What will likely take more effort is ensuring the accuracy of the collection; like I mentioned things look excellent now, but with just a little more work the collection could be like preservation-grade. A lot of the process would just be doing things I'm sure you've already done, like verifying vgm player channel levels with original hardware channel levels etc, but I think going down that checklist and starting fresh with a few other changes would be healthy. Perhaps if you/we/any people end up springing for the website we could use that opportunity to do a quick accuracy double-check of the entire pipeline.

And maybe this is where I almost get requesty, but... also in the name of honest preservation... I would really really love to see mono NES rips. While stereo NES music can sound interesting, it's not the original music, and when the stereo mixing begins dropping entire notes and effects altogether I think it just misrepresents the original work. And I mean nothing personal by that, I swear. But it's also the only flaw I've ever seen in this collection: it has no real NES rips, and I've always had to look elsewhere. I'd like to see that change. The historian in me wants to see mono because it's what the music actually sounds like, but the selfish requesty part of me wants this so I don't have to download my NES rips from Zophar ;)

Would take a lot of work, but I think this is a zit that's just gotta get popped. ew im gross. Anyway thanks again for always being so open minded dude, really stoked to see things are going strong.

Ohhh, I see what you mean now. When you mentioned THAT OTHER SITE (lol), I interpreted that as having the new site operate in a similar capacity, with individual songs available for download.

And I'm not sure if you understand that request, but it would take literally hundreds of man-hours to redo the NES rips in mono. I fully admit, it was a "trendy" thing when I started the thread, and in actuality the whole threaded started BECAUSE people were requesting stereo NES music and I knew how to do it, but looking back at what the collection became, it sticks out like a sore thumb. I've got a full time job, a family, two podcasts that take a lot of time and effort to produce, and some semblance of a social life, and I simply don't have the time in my day to accomplish any more heavy work on this collection... it's the reason I stopped in the first place.

Responding to the channel levels comment, anything here that's FM has been converted using the tools from VGMrips, and I fully trust that Valleybell and the other guys on that site know what they're doing when it comes to accurate sound. Other plugins I've chosen have also been for their reputed accuracy and not because of ease-of-use. I'm not saying I'm refuting your idea fully here, I'm just saying I'm pretty darn confident that stuff sounds good. If anyone has any comments to the contrary, I'm open to them! I would not be past attempting a re-rip of a few soundtracks that may sound "off," but if I'm told (for instance) that "all of the samples in the TG-16 collection are too loud," that's gonna be too big of a job to fix right now.

If a big job needs to be done, I'm willing to guide the right individual through the process of doing it, but they'd need to make a commitment to making sure the whole job gets done. And I'm certainly willing to discuss the possibility of a dedicated website further as well. So let's keep these ideas and the dialogue going!

franzito

05-27-2019, 12:19 PM

Are you taking requests? PSP ones?

ruiner9

05-27-2019, 01:40 PM

Are you taking requests? PSP ones?

No, sorry.

CartridgeCulture

05-28-2019, 04:48 AM

If a big job needs to be done, I'm willing to guide the right individual through the process of doing it, but they'd need to make a commitment to making sure the whole job gets done. And I'm certainly willing to discuss the possibility of a dedicated website further as well. So let's keep these ideas and the dialogue going!

That sounds awesome. And I definitely agree: I'd hope any large-scale re-recording projects wouldn't have to be done by you alone... perhaps it can be a community effort? Something where this thread would be where certain approved users could start uploading any rips that'd be on the replacement backlog. And it doesn't have to happen fast, but I think if the process is somewhat crowdsourced (and verified for accuracy in the same way) it wouldn't be too unreasonable an undertaking. Would still take a while but again could be like a fun backlog goal. That's coming from someone outside the process so I hope it doesn't come off as taking anything for granted; I totally understand this takes a lot of time and effort, and everything you've accomplished so far is absolutely incredible regardless. Thanks again man ;)

KusanagiShiro

06-09-2019, 11:01 PM

I have this so I am putting it to a vote. Who wants me to upload my rips of LUNAR and LUNAR 2 for Sega CD and PSX?

jairisongs

06-09-2019, 11:26 PM

Great collection.

Sharrif001

08-31-2019, 05:08 PM

ruiner9

08-31-2019, 08:22 PM

Excellent collection! I was wondering if maybe if you know something about ripping .SPC files? Because there is one game that I am trying to get the soundtrack for, since it is one of the games that JAM (Japan Art Media) did for the Super Famicom. The game is Haou Taikei Ryu Knight, and they developed the game for Bandai in 1994. Not much is known about the game, and no one I know has ripped the soundtrack because the game is in Japanese only. Is there a way to get the soundtrack with all of the tracks intact instead of just ripping each track individually on an emulator, by looking at the game's ROM/coding itself?

I’ll assume this question was directed more towards me since KusanagiShiro is hosting my rips. What you describe is technically possible, in a roundabout way. For games like this, someone would determine which address in the code tells the game to play a song on the title screen, then they’d modify that address to make it play a different song each time and capture the SPC in an emulator. Unfortunately, I don’t really know how to go about doing this. If there’s a forum associated with the SnesMusic.org site, that would be the place to ask for that kind of thing.

Sharrif001

09-01-2019, 12:09 AM

ruiner9

09-01-2019, 04:38 AM

That still sounds like doing each SPC song file one at a time... And as for SNESMusic.org, well- it is not very well maintained, and there have been no new updates in over 5 or 6 years now since Datschge and KungFuFurby don't maintain it as much as they should. (sighs) I guess I am on my own on this one.

I’m not sure you understand what an SPC file is. It’s literally a RAM dump of the memory addresses being sent to the SNES audio processor. It isn’t actual code from the game being interpreted like an NSF file. Because of this, using an emulator to log the files individually is the only way to do it.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=SPC

Sharrif001

09-01-2019, 04:55 PM

ruiner9

09-02-2019, 01:02 AM

Ah, I see. Thanks for that tidbit of info. Anyway, what kind of tools did you use to rip music from PlayStation games? Because there is one I am looking for from Nichibutsu that has a good soundtrack, but not very good gameplay,
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6mTLqcfrqk

Streaming audio is pretty easy to rip but that game uses sequenced audio. That’s a very different beast. Neil Corbett wrote a tutorial for doing that but it seems you need to learn assembly programming language to do it. Good luck!

http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/someone42/psfrip.txt

Sharrif001

09-02-2019, 07:20 PM

Damn, that sounds very difficult. Oh well. Guess I'll never get it.

Marigio300

09-03-2019, 05:20 PM

The Nintendo DS files are apparently missing.

ruiner9

09-03-2019, 06:05 PM

The Nintendo DS files are apparently missing.

Actually it seems all the files are down. Either KusanagiShiro changed something on the back end, or they've been taken down for copyright reasons.

KusanagiShiro

09-03-2019, 07:48 PM

Bad news all. My whole drive got nuked by MEGA.

ruiner9

09-03-2019, 07:53 PM

So yeah, it looks like the collection is down. If anyone has any ideas about where to move 200gb of lovingly-created VGM, please let us know!

KusanagiShiro

09-03-2019, 08:05 PM

So here’s the deal folks. I want this ride to keep going on. For now the links will be up to allow easy updating even though it’s all dead. The question is, do you all want to see this archive stay alive? Ruiner still has the originals intact so they aren’t gone for good. But moving forward Mega is not an option. I want your opinion on what to do here.

Sharrif001

09-04-2019, 06:01 PM

I don't know what to do. MEGA is starting to crack down on copyright, and I do not like that. Every other site has temporary links that can't last long.

KusanagiShiro

09-05-2019, 01:08 AM

OK I got things restored but we are looking for a new home people. MEGA ain't safe no more.

hanzouq

09-07-2019, 09:24 AM

I've sent a private message to KusanagiShiro, just waiting for his answer.

Sharrif001

09-07-2019, 11:05 PM

I agree with you. They are too damn strict against copyright.

Cyquest

09-08-2019, 06:11 AM

Cy here. Glad to see you've been trying to preserve the database. Not being able to use Mega.nz is a huge letdown. Sucks they're having BS policies towards this stuff. I would offer to host, but I have no way of doing it myself.

We basically need to find another service that is reliable, similar to Mega that is setup in another country and won't cause issues with us having our content available to us & everyone. The question is: What else is out there & has anyone tried them?

Keep it going guys - we'll figure out a way. Thanks everyone!

KojimaMetalGearfan

09-13-2019, 09:19 PM

It absolutely sucks that Mega is getting more stricter with copyright. Even ore so that there isn't a reliable service out there similar to Mega. The only option that I can think of for now is an FTP server.

hanzouq

09-15-2019, 09:45 AM

I think I have a solution, since I have an unlimited GDrive account, but I'm still waiting for KusanagiShiro's answer.

Fabiobad

09-17-2019, 09:29 AM

argh, too bad about Mega, really wanted that Outtrigger OST :(

Hope you will find a solution, thanks <3!

franzito

09-29-2019, 01:58 AM

Oh my...
MEGA links down...

framgena

10-02-2019, 10:28 PM

Great archive you have!

ketsumania

10-07-2019, 12:18 PM

Last Armageddon (PC-Engine 1990)

Anyone re-upload??

KusanagiShiro

10-16-2019, 05:07 AM

Its gone again guys. I think that someone is mass reporting us. I will reach out to Ruiner and see if we can get a mass upload to Google Drive or Dropbox or somewhere.

hanzouq

10-16-2019, 09:25 AM

Its gone again guys. I think that someone is mass reporting us. I will reach out to Ruiner and see if we can get a mass upload to Google Drive or Dropbox or somewhere.

Well, I did tried to reach you with a solution, since I have an unlimited (of sorts) GD account, but I was solemnly ignored, so... :-(

blood_falcon

10-16-2019, 09:42 AM

To the people who are reporting these fine men, may you burn to ashes.

CartridgeCulture

10-16-2019, 11:27 AM

Well, I did tried to reach you with a solution, since I have an unlimited (of sorts) GD account, but I was solemnly ignored, so... :-(

Or he's just busy. Let's not guilt the hand that's fed us.

KusanagiShiro

10-18-2019, 06:18 PM

hanzouq, your google drive offer is a great idea. MEssage me so we can work it out

paperfan

10-22-2019, 08:19 AM

Dang huge collections getting nuked. This is terrible. ><
The google drive thing should work and it's good download speeds too.

michael2021

11-04-2019, 04:39 AM

Ah... this sucks...

I just got through with Stories of Ihatovo and now I really would like the gamerip to that game...

CartridgeCulture

11-04-2019, 08:56 AM

Ah... this sucks...

I just got through with Stories of Ihatovo and now I really would like the gamerip to that game...

You can find both the gamerip and published soundtrack on KH Insider. The rip is the one with 23 tracks, and the soundtrack is the one with 15 tracks :)

michael2021

11-05-2019, 07:08 PM

You can find both the gamerip and published soundtrack on KH Insider. The rip is the one with 23 tracks, and the soundtrack is the one with 15 tracks :)

Ahhh.. thank you very much.