Hiall,
usually I mostly rip Rockman stuff, but for my first GH contribution, I picked out something really special:

Mediafire Download (http://www.mediafire.com/?dyh9kk1f4v5ws)


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-Splashman Music Rips-
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Game Info

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Game Title: Sonic & Knuckles Collection
Game Series: Sonic the Hedgehog
Platform: PC
Release date: 1996
Composers: Jun Senoue, Tetsuyuki Maeda, Masaru Setsumaru, Tomonori Sawada, Masayuki Nagao, Sachio Ogawa, Howard Drossin
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Track List

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01 - Title Theme (Sonic The Hedgehog 3)
02 - File Select
03 - Knuckles' Theme (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - PC Version)
04 - Angel Island Zone Act 1
05 - Act 1 Boss
06 - Angel Island Zone Act 2
07 - Act Clear
08 - Hydrocity Zone Act 1
09 - Hydrocity Zone Act 2
10 - Drowning
11 - Marble Garden Zone Act 1
12 - Marble Garden Zone Act 2
13 - Invincible (Sonic the Hedgehog 3)
14 - Carnival Night Zone Act 1 (PC Version)
15 - Carnival Night Zone Act 2 (PC Version)
16 - Bonus Stage - Gumball-Machine
17 - 1-Up (Sonic the Hedgehog 3)
18 - Ice Cap Zone Act 1 (PC Version)
19 - Ice Cap Zone Act 2 (PC Version)
20 - Launch Base Zone Act 1 (PC Version)
21 - Launch Base Zone Act 2 (PC Version)
22 - All Stage Clear (Sonic the Hedgehog 3)
23 - Ending Theme (Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - PC Version)
24 - Special Stage
25 - Chaos Emerald get
26 - Title Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
27 - Mushroom Hill Zone Act 1
28 - Mushroom Hill Zone Act 2
29 - Invincible (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
30 - Flying Battery Zone Act 1
31 - Flying Battery Zone Act 2
32 - Bonus Stage - Pinball-Machine
33 - Sandopolis Zone Act 1
34 - Sandopolis Zone Act 2
35 - Bonus Stage - Slot-Machine
36 - 1-Up (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
37 - Lava Reef Zone Act 1
38 - Lava Reef Zone Act 2
39 - Knuckles' Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
40 - Sky Sanctuary Zone
41 - Death Egg Zone Act 1
42 - Death Egg Zone Act 2
43 - Act 2 Boss
44 - Game Over
45 - Continue Competition Results
46 - Final Boss
47 - The Doomsday Zone
48 - All Stage Clear (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
49 - Ending Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)
50 - Competition Mode
51 - Competition Stage - Azure Lake
52 - Competition Stage - Balloon Park
53 - Competition Stage - Desert Palace
54 - Competition Stage - Chrome Gadget
55 - Competition Stage - Endless Mine
56 - Unused Track (PC Version)

General MIDI Files:
00 - Title Theme (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
01 - Angel Island Zone Act 1.MID
02 - Angel Island Zone Act 2.MID
03 - Hydrocity Zone Act 1.MID
04 - Hydrocity Zone Act 2.MID
05 - Marble Garden Zone Act 1.MID
06 - Marble Garden Zone Act 2.MID
07 - Carnival Night Zone Act 1.MID
08 - Carnival Night Zone Act 2.MID
09 - Flying Battery Zone Act 1.MID
10 - Flying Battery Zone Act 2.MID
11 - Ice Cap Zone Act 1.MID
12 - Ice Cap Zone Act 2.MID
13 - Launch Base Zone Act 1.MID
14 - Launch Base Zone Act 2.MID
15 - Mushroom Hill Zone Act 1.MID
16 - Mushroom Hill Zone Act 2.MID
17 - Sandopolis Zone Act 1.MID
18 - Sandopolis Zone Act 2.MID
19 - Lava Reef Zone Act 1.MID
20 - Lava Reef Zone Act 2.MID
21 - Sky Sanctuary Zone.MID
22 - Death Egg Zone Act 1.MID
23 - Death Egg Zone Act 2.MID
24 - Act 1 Boss.MID
25 - Act 2 Boss.MID
26 - The Doomsday Zone.MID
27 - Bonus Stage - Pinball-Machine.MID
28 - Special Stage.MID
29 - Bonus Stage - Slot-Machine.MID
30 - Bonus Stage - Gumball-Machine.MID
31 - Knuckles' Theme (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
32 - Competition Stage - Azure Lake.MID
33 - Competition Stage - Balloon Park.MID
34 - Competition Stage - Desert Palace.MID
35 - Competition Stage - Chrome Gadget.MID
36 - Competition Stage - Endless Mine.MID
37 - Game Over.MID
38 - Continue.MID
39 - Act Clear.MID
40 - 1-up (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
41 - Chaos Emerald.MID
42 - Invincible (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
43 - Competition Mode.MID
44 - Unknown.MID
45 - File Select.MID
46 - Final Boss.MID
47 - Drowning.MID
48 - All Stage Clear (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
49 - Ending Theme (Sonic the Hedgehog 3).MID
50 - Knuckles' Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID
51 - Title Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID
52 - 1-Up (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID
53 - Invincible (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID
54 - Clear (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID
55 - Ending Theme (Sonic 3 & Knuckles).MID

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Rip infos

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Rip type: General MIDI rip with custom sound font
Rip date: August 2008
MP3 format: LAME MP3 VBR
Ripped by: Splashman
ID3 tags: Splashman
Copyright: Sega Enterprises Ltd.
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Comments

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Finally!
After more than 10 years, I've finally managed to gather the necessary tools to
give this long overseen PC version of Sonic 3 & Knuckles a proper music rip.

Granted, many fans wouldn't even bother giving this version a try, since MIDI is obviously
"pure evil and has been crafted by Satan himself", but someone like me, who grew up with the
PC version of S3K long before hearing the Mega Drive version and it's differences the first time,
has been waiting for a long time to finally have it in MP3 form.
Alone the alternative versions of Carnival Night, Ice Cap and Launch Base Zone are worth it,
which turned out that way since the original Mega Drive music partly came with samples that were not supported by MIDI.

The only actual MIDI files to the game that have been floating on the internet for a while
came from a horribly broken rip with many breaks in between and lacking any loops.
So, I took it upon myself to make the best rip of it to date.

The first step was to properly rip the MIDI files from the game and give them seamless looping points.
The second and more ambitious step was to encode the tracks with custom SF2 sound fonts
found at http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/.
I am not a professional musician for making a full fledged and perfect custom instrument setup for each track,
but I gave it my best to make the rip stand out from your average General MIDI sound.

Tools used:
-Sonic & Knuckles PC CD: To get the tracks directly from the sound test.
-MIDI-OX: For recording the MIDI signals into files.
-XMPlay & MIDI Plug in (v0.6): To turn the MIDI into wave files and equipping them with decent sound fonts.
-Adobe Audition: Minor editing.
-LAME 3.98

Sound fonts used:
-FluidR3 GM /GS
-Twenty Bank
-Creative 2/4MB General MIDI

As a bonus, I also threw in my original General MIDI files with original sound test numbering.

Enjoy, mucho!

-Splashman

very nice soundtrack
though i like some of the MD ones better these are great

Holy Sh-, it's Splashman! Hi <3

And thanks for that collection~

47 - The Doomsday Zone
At 0:13, you kicked major ass for balancing the volume on the instruments. On some occasions when playing the original song through the Mega Drive or a ported version, one of the instruments plays too loudly, and could only be fixed by the normal means of switching to Mono or doing some internal work. Kudos for that.

Kick-ass work on the rest of the collection. =)

47 - The Doomsday Zone
At 0:13, you kicked major ass for balancing the volume on the instruments. On some occasions when playing the original song through the Mega Drive or a ported version, one of the instruments plays too loudly, and could only be fixed by the normal means of switching to Mono or doing some internal work. Kudos for that.

Heh, thank you. But all I really did was assign the instrument banks, most of the praise actually goes to whoever assembled those excellent sound fonts.

If you ask me, this rip even rivals the official Sonic & Knuckles Arragement album in terms of instrument quality. I especially like how well Sandopolis Zone turned out, with all authentic sounding flutes.

Sandopolis Zone got a very Egyptian feel to it now than before, that's for sure. =D

reup!

Thank you very much :)

Thank you for the sound rips and recordings Splashman.

I grew up playing this on Windows 95 and didn't have a Genesis when I was little.

Didn't think I would ever be able to hear these arrangements again.

When I joined this site, this was one of my first downloads. I absolutely loved these arrangements then, and I love them now. If you ask me, I think this is the definitive edition of the Sonic & Knuckles Collection soundtrack. Thank you for your work, Splashman. You did this old game justice.