Yoshihisa Hirano - Hajime no Ippo New Challenger OST
Sequel to Fighting Spirit as it is called in English
|MP3|VBR V-2|93MB|
|Orchestral|Piano|Rock Guitar|

http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/312291620/Hajime_no_Ippo_New_Challenger.rar
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?mztt5ozvqnt
PSW: smile
Just grabbed this off a torrent, because it is a scene release it is V-2. Don't ask for anything better, this is all I have.

Some said Track 27 is corrupt so here it is.
Track 27 - http://www.mediafire.com/?3dwmzd4ym02

Woo! I love Fighting Spirit!

This is a great rip for a great soundtrack, thanks!

I'm not sure what V-2 means, but I guess the quality will be alright. Did I ever mention that your uploads ALWAYS rock? :)

Fabulous! Thanks Sirus once again. I'm only about half way through and it's completely captivating. The classical sensibility is still there (Twilight, Friends Stay With Me - gorgeous!), but it's a real potpourri of styles: rock, jazz, klezmer (The Stupid Three).. even, dare I say it, Zimmer?! I know, I know, I'm stretching it a bit, but To Be a Winner has that kind of weighting and insistence - if it was badly orchestrated it could be in POTC ;)

I'm not sure what V-2 means, but I guess the quality will be alright.
Basically, a file encoded with a V2 VBR has a target bitrate of 190kbps, which assures transparency on 99% of the music, and takes up even less space than V0 (the last one on some files is still overkill when it comes to size). If you want more info:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lame

The V2 encode sounds very good indeed.

Thanks, this sounds wonderful. :)

Yeah V2 is what they use on the "scenes" so they are always small files and sound great.

Wow, a new Hirano? Wonderful!

track 27 seems to corrupt... could you re-upload it again please?

Track 27 - http://www.mediafire.com/?3dwmzd4ym02
I think mediafire is not so good afterall :(

track 27 seems to corrupt... could you re-upload it again please?

People should DL again before stating there's corruption. No it's not corrupt, it's your download which failed.

mediafire is a good host.

Thanks arthierr, I will suggest that next time. I wasn't very familiar with these mediafire problems.

Thanks a lot, Sirusjr for the OST, but I think your files are corrupt or something. I downloaded the OST from both Rapidshare and Mediafire and neither of the OSTs pass the .sfv check. And yes, for the Mediafire version of the OST, track 27 is corrupt. Do you think you could possibly run the .sfv file on your end and see if any of the tracks pass? All mine say CRC Mismatch.

EDIT: If you could send the actual .torrent that would be great too. I can't seem to find it on google.

First off, the torrent is not likely alive anymore and anyway its from a private tracker. Second, i don't really know much about sfv checks or care. All the tracks are here so just enjoy the music. I put a separate link for track 27 specifically because it showed up as corrupt. If you notice nobody else has run a sfv check or had any problems with this upload besides you.

Oh, somehow I missed this one back when it was posted originally. Thanks, sirus!

Sankyuu!

First off, the torrent is not likely alive anymore and anyway its from a private tracker. Second, i don't really know much about sfv checks or care. All the tracks are here so just enjoy the music. I put a separate link for track 27 specifically because it showed up as corrupt. If you notice nobody else has run a sfv check or had any problems with this upload besides you.

Wow. Everyone is so bitter in this forum. Did I come off as ungrateful or something?

Anyway, just because nobody checked their files with QuickSFV doesn't mean I'm the only one with the problem. The majority of the people here have absolutely no idea about what the .sfv file is for. If they did, they'd use it. Just because "all the tracks are here" doesn't mean you can simply "enjoy the music". Especially if they're corrupted. Just because the tracks still play doesn't mean they aren't damaged. I just wanted to know if you could check your files so I could see if it was actually you who was spreading around the bad files or if it was the original creator who was. But obvoiusly that was too much to ask.

Wow. Everyone is so bitter in this forum. Did I come off as ungrateful or something?

Anyway, just because nobody checked their files with QuickSFV doesn't mean I'm the only one with the problem. The majority of the people here have absolutely no idea about what the .sfv file is for. If they did, they'd use it. Just because "all the tracks are here" doesn't mean you can simply "enjoy the music". Especially if they're corrupted. Just because the tracks still play doesn't mean they aren't damaged. I just wanted to know if you could check your files so I could see if it was actually you who was spreading around the bad files or if it was the original creator who was. But obvoiusly that was too much to ask.

I just listened to the entire album, and my ears didn't detect any errors. I downloaded the separate track 27 upload that was causing the crc error, and the other archive (when omitting track 27) is error-free upon extraction.

All the tracks are there, in moderately high quality, and you CAN simply "enjoy the music." I would take issue with someone saying I was "spreading around bad files" when they are perfectly fine, as well. The links are active, the quality is good, and there are no noticeable errors in any of the files.

I would take issue with someone saying I was "spreading around bad files" when they are perfectly fine, as well.

...It's not like I said that in my first post... I was thankful and I just wanted to see if I was the only one who was having problems with the files. Just because they extract properly from the .rar/.zip files don't mean anything. I could damage a mp3, flac, etc., put it in a .rar/.zip and it would still extract fine.

All I wanted to know is if he had crc mismatches when running the .sfv file. That's it. If he has the same problem as me, then I know his source was no good. But if all his crc matches, then it's either something I did, or he did something wrong while making the .rar file, or something happened while he was uploading the file to rapidshare and mediafire. But since rapidshare AND mediafire both reveal different crc numbers I can only assume it's their fault. Anyway, it's all good. I found a checked and good version for myself. I'm glad it worked out for everyone else.

To be honest, I see both points of this argument.

Yes, you can sit back and enjoy - but at the same time, it's not disrespectful to say "I think there may be a problem here" if you think there is. A failed SFV check is grounds to suspect a problem - and although it sounds anal and silly... we're in a forum where we argue about which codec to use, which bitrate is best, and where we learn how to make the best possible rips we can. If we make the best rip in the world, and encode it with the greatest encoder at the most appropriate bitrate...

...and then the file gets pissed up in transit... then it was in vain. Most people can't tell the difference between lossless and lossy - but we still make our spectral analyses and query FLAC posts that appear to be sourced from lossy. Yes, you can sit back and enjoy the music - but there's a still a problem.

At the same time, I can see Sirusjr's point. He uploads something in good faith, which to all intents and purposes sounds perfectly excellent... and finds somebody complaining about his post on the grounds of a comparitively insignificant technicality.

The thing is... the CRCs don't match. Something happened to those files. Maybe Sirusjr retagged them, or they got retagged automatically; that would ruin the CRC. But perhaps this points to a bigger problem; perhaps next time whatever happened here will happen again, but on that occasion it won't sound fine - it'll sound terrible. Corruption in audio files is a tough nut to crack. Sometimes you can't hear it. Sometimes it completely stuffs up everything to the extent where you literally can't hear anything at all - or in a worst case scenario, can't even extract the archive.

This could point to a whole slew of problems... maybe your files are getting wrecked on the way to the file host. Maybe your torrent didn't download correctly. Maybe your hard disk is dying. Maybe the guy who made the torrent messed something up - maybe he retagegd the files prior to making the torrent, or maybe his upload got corrupted and was then spread around as such by an errant peer.

I think NinjaZeroEight was trying to help you - and the other people who see your uploads as a great source of quality - as much as he was himself.

If you check the SFV at your end, you'd be able to find out what was going on, or at least eliminate a few of the possibilities.

Your name is a brand which to most people suggests great care has been taken and that the end product will be excellent.

The last time I said "I don't care" about CRC errors, I lost 1.5tb of data. ;)

Peace, folks - and to repeat - thank you for this weird and wonderful score. Yoshihisa Hirano does hard rock... and ultra modernist classical music... all at the same time. Great, great stuff. :)

Well, I don't recall specifically what I did with this individual album but most likely, I retagged the files to some extent. Because I didn't even know what the hell a SFV was until a couple of weeks ago, I generally leave the one that comes with the files when I download them in the folder when I upload things. At minimum I downloaded what I thought was a suitable cover and tagged it into the files and most likely changed the genre tag from Soundtrack to Anime among other things. Most groups out there don't tag their mp3s the same way I like to so there is inevitably going to be re-tagging. I certainly didn't mean to imply that your pointing out of a possible problem is unwelcome and I apologize if I came off as negative. I do get a little suspicious, however, when someone mentions a problem that it appears nobody else has noticed or encountered.

As far as CRC issues, I believe the only issue mentioned was on a file uploaded to mediafire that is known to corrupt rar files.

Well, I don't recall specifically what I did with this individual album but most likely, I retagged the files to some extent. Because I didn't even know what the hell a SFV was until a couple of weeks ago, I generally leave the one that comes with the files when I download them in the folder when I upload things. At minimum I downloaded what I thought was a suitable cover and tagged it into the files and most likely changed the genre tag from Soundtrack to Anime among other things. Most groups out there don't tag their mp3s the same way I like to so there is inevitably going to be re-tagging. I certainly didn't mean to imply that your pointing out of a possible problem is unwelcome and I apologize if I came off as negative. I do get a little suspicious, however, when someone mentions a problem that it appears nobody else has noticed or encountered.

As far as CRC issues, I believe the only issue mentioned was on a file uploaded to mediafire that is known to corrupt rar files.

Well there we go. It's the re-tagging. Problem solved. Changing something within the file (not file names of course) will completely change the CRC.

I'm just so surprised that with a community as big as this one not everyone is familiar with CRC checking. I guess I'm just used to it because I've been downloading not just music but everything over the past 10 years and THE best way to check to make sure your files are accurate to the original creator's is to do a CRC check.

I think making SFV's for each release of music is something people should really be getting into the habit of doing. There's a reason why anime fansub groups and/or movie release groups do it. I just don't know why music release groups don't do it. Batching all the tracks in one .zip or .rar is a good start but it's not good enough.

CRC checking is just my little security blanket that I like to have, but unfortunately, like I said before, not even the biggest music release groups have gotten into the habit of releasing SVF files; Which is something I just completely fail to understand. How can these groups be such huge audiophiles and care so much about every little bit rate but not understand and/or care about how things get sent over the internet. One little jitter in your connection could change the file. You can even have corruption problems just from sending stuff from an internal HDD to an external HDD.

Anyway, I'm glad I found out what the whole CRC mismatch thing was about. Thanks for letting me know.

Well, I don't recall specifically what I did with this individual album but most likely, I retagged the files to some extent. Because I didn't even know what the hell a SFV was until a couple of weeks ago, I generally leave the one that comes with the files when I download them in the folder when I upload things. At minimum I downloaded what I thought was a suitable cover and tagged it into the files and most likely changed the genre tag from Soundtrack to Anime among other things. Most groups out there don't tag their mp3s the same way I like to so there is inevitably going to be re-tagging. I certainly didn't mean to imply that your pointing out of a possible problem is unwelcome and I apologize if I came off as negative. I do get a little suspicious, however, when someone mentions a problem that it appears nobody else has noticed or encountered.

As far as CRC issues, I believe the only issue mentioned was on a file uploaded to mediafire that is known to corrupt rar files.


I didn't know what an sfv was for until about five minutes ago, but now I have quicksfv and checked the files. They do all indeed fail the CRC check (mismatch) but I can verify that the audio quality is not degraded. This is an interesting soundtrack...

Also, I reacted a little strongly earlier. ;) I think tango hit the nail on the head, though. Sirus' uploads tend to be of very high quality and we expect it ( I do, anyway).

Jakob - I downloaded that software you found, seems like a nice light freeware way to make a SFV. I'll try to remember to put an SFV in my next upload that I can make after I do any tagging.

I didn't know what an sfv was for until about five minutes ago, but now I have quicksfv and checked the files. They do all indeed fail the CRC check (mismatch) but I can verify that the audio quality is not degraded. This is an interesting soundtrack...

Also, I reacted a little strongly earlier. ;) I think tango hit the nail on the head, though. Sirus' uploads tend to be of very high quality and we expect it ( I do, anyway).

That's good to know. I expect everyone's releases whether that's their own or uploading another groups to be exceptional. And I've only gotten exceptional since I've registered and started downloading tons (and TONS) of music.

And yes, the soundtrack is completely fine. I downloaded another copy again since the copy I found wasn't as good as the one in this thread. Usually I like to keep the .sfv file for when I burn them onto a DVD so then in the future when I transfer the files back onto my HDD I can re-check the files. You never know, right? I've been going through some of my old, old music files on my DVDs and found errors after copying them to my HDD. Good thing where I got the music the community is good and there's always seeds for EVERY torrent.

Anyway, so I don't get a sfv with this OST. Not a big deal. Not the first time either. I've got plenty of OSTs that don't have sfvs. In this case I'll just pretend like the OST never had it. I'm just glad I could introduce a few people to the benefits of CRC checking.

thanks a lot for this soundtrack! i've been looking for this for some time now. really great ost to a great anime ^^

is it possible to find this ost in flac format ?
Thanks

is it possible to find this ost in flac format ?
Thanks

I don't have it in any other format. Sorry :(

thanks maybe one day

ohoh~~ Thank you so much.
very very

Thanks !

Akashi San's just shared it in 320kbps here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/478.html#post2324290) :'D


I suspect this score may have made a lot of Hajime No Ippo fans really, really mad. Scoring a homo-erotic show about boxing, with a set musical pedigree (hard rock) Hirano appeared with a really, really weird - and wonderful - score. This stuff is NOT easy going! "The First Step to Glory" begins with a typical Hirano introduction - fully orchestral, and in comes a more-or-less traditional electric guitar theme with rock percussion. Hirano gradually mixes in the orchestra until about the halfway point when all hell breaks loose; we end up with a COMPLETELY BATSHIT INSANE piece for full orchestra, superhuman drum kit, crazily fast guitar runs... 1:21 to 1:51 may be the weirdest thirty seconds in the history of anime scores; particularly from 1:38 where the violins come in threatening a soaring, romantic theme with roaring brass and some showy, traditionalist chord progressions - but all at two hundred miles an hour with electric bass and hammering percussion vying for attention all the way. It's completely crackers. I love it. You love it. It's great.