Having grown up with the Sega Genesis versions of Batman The Movie and Batman Returns, I developed quite a liking to the music in these games, especially the Mega Drive score composed by Naoki Kodaka. Decades later, I've also discovered Kodaka-San's music to the NES, PCE, GB et al. versions of this game and its "sequel", Return of the Joker. Long story short, I put together these compilations in an effort to catch up on all I've been missing: a couple of neck aches and "damns" later, I'm rather proud of my work, which I now share with you guys. However, before we get started, lemme get these points across:

1. As I said before, none of the game rips were made by me: they're all versions I've found throughout the Internet during all these years, and I'll give credit where it's due.

2. Since these are musics I've found instead of made/ripped myself, some tracks (especially for the lesser known/liked games) will inevitably be missing: I've made it my point to pick up the very best versions of each track, but I've got my limits.

3. I'll try to follow a chronological order when I compile the collections, but for the sake of meeting my own particular standards (as well as my own caprices), I'll make minute alterations in placement here and there.

4. If you got any idea on how to improve the collections (if you can volunteer some music, share your ideas, constructive criticism, etc.), don't be afraid to speak up: it may take me more or less time to get back to you, but I'll answer, more sooner than later, God willing.

5. At the moment, I intend to carry on the collections all the way to Batman The Animated Series: since the Batman Forever and Batman and Robin games suck both music and gameplay wise, I won't even give them a second look, and I don't know/care enough to take a gander at more recent releases like Vengeance, Revenge of Sin Tzu, Dark Tomorrow, etc., etc. Of course, if anybody out there shows me something that catches my attention, I'm willing to be flexible.

6. I'll make the pertinent updates whenever/however I can: keep in mind I've got my own life and problems to deal with as well.

With that in mind, enjoy!

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music

1) Disc 1: #1-2: Bonus Tracks; #3-13: Batman The Video Game (Sunsoft, 1989, NES); #14-26: Batman The Video Game (Sunsoft, 1990, Mega Drive); #27-31: Batman The Movie (Ocean, 1989, C64); #32-39: Bonus Tracks.

2) Disc 2: #1-11: Batman The Movie (Sunsoft, PCE, 1990); #12-23: BTM (Sunsoft, Game Boy, 1989); #24-28: ); #29-38: Return of the Joker (Sunsoft, NES, 1991). #39-50: RotJ (Sunsoft, Game Boy, 1991); #51-53: Bonus Tracks.

3) Disc 3: #1-31: Batman Returns (Konami, SNES, 1993); #32-44: BR (Aspect, SMS, 1992); #45-62: BR (Konami, NES, 1992).

4) Disc 4: #1-20: Batman Returns (Acme/Malibu, SCD, 1992); #21-29: Batman Returns (GEN, 1992; ripped by Jessie; edited by cooljacker).

5) Disc 5: #1-27: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Konami, SNES, 1994); #28-44: Batman: The Animated Series (Konami, GB, 1993); #45-47: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Clockwork Tortoise, Genesis/Mega Drive, 1995).

http://www.mediafire.com/?5d53l1yp4azop

Bonus:

Batman Returns Sega Genesis/Mega Drive OST [Paul Gadbois et al.]: Originally uploaded by Jessie; edited by cooljacker.

The Adventures of Batman & Robin Sega Genesis/Mega Drive OST [Jesper Kyd]: Well, I really don't like this soundtrack all that much (plus, it runs a little too long for my taste and most people's).

http://www.mediafire.com/?5152yn59293z0

excellent idea. I loved the Batman returns game on he sega as well, even if it was really difficult for me at the time :P

I know, pal! For instance, I hardly ever made it past Shreck's Dept. Store (damn Penguin and his one-hit kill metal ball!), but that doesn't count, since I generally suck at videogames; plus, the Red Triangle Circus stages have an amazing ability to whittle down your lives and continues.

Now, there's very few people that like the Mega Drive version of Batman Returns, but the boss theme from that game when you fight the two statues or the Strongman is very memorable. This thread is a great idea, there have been so many Batman games, Konami's two games for Super NES are still very good, and most of the rest weren't so bad if the "Acclaim" logo was nowhere to be seen. The two Sunsoft games for Mega Drive/NES and Naoki Kodaka's tracks for them still rock!

This blog in the link below has complete OSTs for Batman the Movie for Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Spectrum, in a quality better than the tracks found on youtube. If you need to get only one version of the music, get the Commodore 64, it's the best by far. Sadly, he hasn't the Amiga one.




Megaupload links:

http://chiptunemonkey.blogspot.com/search/label/Matthew%20Cannon



EDIT: You don't mention Atari's arcade game. It had a pretty nice chiptune version of Elfman's score, not as good as Returns for SNES, but still good.

EDIT: You don't mention Atari's arcade game. It had a pretty nice chiptune version of Elfman's score, not as good as Returns for SNES, but still good.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, silenig: I do like most of the Batman VGM's, but I've never claimed being an expert on the matter. BTW, thanks for the link: I'm sure it'll come in handy.

Edit: Most of this music was already pretty difficult to find: the arcade game you speak of completely slipped my mind, plus, the music didn't impress me that much. Like you said, it's a chiptuned version of Danny Elfman's movie score, but so is the soundtrack (to a certain extent, at least) of Batman Returns for the SNES: it'd be quite arbitrary of me to include one without even taking a look at the other.

Truth is, I don't know where to even begin to look: YouTube searches only turn up playthroughs, and I don't know the first thing about making game rips. If you or anybody else out there has or knows about a complete, good quality rip of the arcade music, please share with us. Thanks for your feedback and support.

Meoww a good choice in Batman Game music for a best of, Thanks bro ^^

@ Chronos X
Fair enough. I think the only notable music missing from this collection is the music from the two 16-bit "Adventures of Batman & Robin" games, the techno soundtrack by Jesper Kyd for Genesis/Mega Drive (can be found at gh) and the Super NES by Konami (the Game Boy version, also by Konami, isn't bad either). You can add in the future a "bonus" disc with the Arcade and some others. A few interesting (IMO) retro Batman tracks are:
Batman Returns for Amiga (incredibly awful game, but the title screen theme is nice)
Batman Returns for PC (it has about 5-6 different tracks if I remember right)
Batman Caped Crusader Amiga and Commodore 64 - This was the first Bat-game by Ocean, the music is inspired by the 60s TV series

I might be able to contribute some of these, but I don't have at the moment access to my DVD-Rs with those files.

@ silenig:

I intend to continue the collections all the way to The Animated Series (and maybe, just maybe, Batman Beyond, if I decide its musics're worth the time and effort). On other matters, today I picked up the soundtrack to the Arcade Atari game and bundled it with the ZXS, AST and C64 versions, with three "bonus tracks" from the AMG. I had to rearrange all the soundtracks I already have, but it was worth the effort. As for the rest of your contributions, feel free to volunteer whatever you have: I need all the help I can get, and none of us can stay on the computer twenty four seven.

Having grown up with the Sega Genesis versions of Batman The Movie and Batman Returns, I developed quite a liking to the music in these games, especially the Mega Drive score composed by Naoki Kodaka. Decades later, I've also discovered Kodaka-San's music to the NES, PCE, GB et al. versions of this game and its "sequel", Return of the Joker. Long story short, I put together these compilations in an effort to catch up on all I've been missing: a couple of neck aches and "damns" later, I'm rather proud of my work, which I now share with you guys. However, before we get started, lemme get these points across:

1. As I said before, none of the game rips were made by me: they're all versions I've found throughout the Internet during all these years, and I'll give credit where it's due.

2. Since these are musics I've found instead of made/ripped myself, some tracks (especially for the lesser known/liked games) will inevitably be missing: I've made it my point to pick up the very best versions of each track, but I've got my limits.

3. I'll try to follow a chronological order when I compile the collections, but for the sake of meeting my own particular standards (as well as my own caprices), I'll make minute alterations in placement here and there.

4. If you got any idea on how to improve the collections (if you can volunteer some music, share your ideas, constructive criticism, etc.), don't be afraid to speak up: it may take me more or less time to get back to you, but I'll answer, more sooner than later, God willing.

5. At the moment, I intend to carry on the collections all the way to Batman The Animated Series: since the Batman Forever and Batman and Robin games suck both music and gameplay wise, I won't even give them a second look, and I don't know/care enough to take a gander at more recent releases like Vengeance, Revenge of Sin Tzu, Dark Tomorrow, etc., etc. Of course, if anybody out there shows me something that catches my attention, I'm willing to be flexible.

6. I'll make the pertinent updates whenever/however I can: keep in mind I've got my own life and problems to deal with as well.

With that in mind, enjoy!

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music

1) Disc 1: Contains the whole soundtrack to the rare 1990 Arcade game by Atari, followed by the scores for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amiga versions composed by Matthew Cannon and Jonathan Dunn. Special thanks to silenig for reminding me about the Arcade ver. (picked up at the KH Insider) and giving me the link where I grabbed the other ones.

http://download779.mediafire.com/8cm1u545dayg/sww98upi485ydae/Best+of+the+Caped+Crusader%3A+Batman+The+Music+%28 Disc+1%29.zip

Update: Mp3's changed: First disc is much shorter now.

2) Disc 2: Contains the whole soundtracks to the NES, GB, PCE and GEN versions of Batman The Movie, all scored by the legendary Naoki Kodaka and Nobuyuki Hara. The NES and GB vers. come from YouTube, the PCE comes from sigma62's files, and the GEN (save for a handful of tracks I took from YouTube) I picked up at the KH Insider, if memory serves me right.

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music (Disc 2).zip (http://download1339.mediafire.com/8wu91wxugzsg/z428ws1ydp949sc/Best+of+the+Caped+Crusader+-+Batman+The+Music+%28Disc+2%29.zip)

3) Disc 3: Contains the score to all four versions (NES, GB, Mega Drive and SNES) of Return/Revenge of the Joker. I might've made some mistakes with this one, so if you spot any, let me know. The Genesis version comes from sigma62's files, and the rest come from Galbadia Hotel, YouTube and SNESmusic.org.

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music (Disc 3).zip (http://download136.mediafire.com/7b9jfc5rzqjg/v4c7fbmbdr71oul/Best+of+the+Caped+Crusader+-+Batman+The+Music+%28Disc+3%29.zip)

4) Disc 4: Contains the first half of the music to Batman Returns (NES, SNES and Sega Master System): the NES and SMS versions hail from YouTube, and the SNES score comes as originally provided by GoronMoron.

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music (Disc 4).zip (http://download776.mediafire.com/far9sndnnh4g/490slvgaldigtdj/Best+of+the+Caped+Crusader+-+Batman+The+Music+%28Disc+4%29.zip)

5) Disc 5: As promised, it contains the second and last part of the Batman Returns video game music scores. The Genesis score comes from GoronMoron's archives, and the Sega CD version comes as given to me by NucleaRaptor. Let me know if the link becomes troublesome.

Best of the Caped Crusader: Batman The Music (Disc 5).zip (http://download779.mediafire.com/dii68eqfmhwg/furwdoa5751sscr/Best+of+the+Caped+Crusader+-+Batman+The+Music+%28Disc+5%29.zip)

Disc 1 link is invalid T_T

Disc 1 link is invalid T_T

What do you mean "invalid"? Does it refuse to download, or does the file refuse to open once you do so? I'm downloading it myself at this moment: try the same when you get the chance, and if you still have problems, let me know so I can replace the troublesome file.

Update: Just managed to download the ZIP file and fully extract it: I also tried a couple of songs, and everything seems to be OK. If you still have problems, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

I have two main complaints/suggestions:

Much of this sounds pretty awful. Like, holding a tape recorder up to a speaker awful. ;) What's with all the youtube stuff? I would replace those tracks. There's a considerable amount of unnecessary quality degradation.

Audio uploaded to youtube gets converted to 64~128kbps AAC. And those original files being uploaded are probably already lossy (usually MP3). Maybe even that file was obtained from a pretty rotted source, like if someone downloaded your 128kbps MP3 tracks here, and THEN AGAIN put them through youtube's AAC transcoding, and THEN AGAIN someone comes along and transcodes that youtube audio back to 128kbps MP3. And you're taking this who-knows-how-rotted audio and transcoding it to 128kbps MP3 for your releases? :( Or did you first convert them to 320kpbs MP3, and THEN to 128kbps? Because that would be even worse. Each time you do a lossy transcode you lose more and more quality.

Also, you seem to be making up your own names for many of the tracks, or using names made up by others. I really hate this.

@ KGN:

Sorry you're so disappointed: I assure you, I'm pretty dissatisfied myself with most of this endeavor. However, here're some factors you should reconsider

1. "Much if this sounds AWFUL": I agree with you a hundred percent, but read my introduction on top of the thread: I did not record any of these rips, since I don't own any software that would allow me to make my own (and even if I did, chances are I'd $%#D 'em up as well, since I tend to be rather mediocre when it comes to technology). Since I had to look for and convert files made by other people, the fact that quality will suffer one way or another is a matter of course. Sorry I can't help you there.

2. "Audio uploaded to youtube gets converted...": The reason I've relied so much on YouTube is precisely because tracks are usually of better quality than any mp3's I may find elsewhere, and more importantly, because music fished from there tends to meet one very particular demand of mine: the tracks only loop twice, then end, sometimes without a fadeout, yes, but that's what I got to work with. Y'see, I've got this aversion to overly lengthy music (save for a few exceptions, like classical): tends to erode my attention span and tire me out mentally. Yes, maybe this is a pretty damn stupid motive, but it is one, nonetheless, and as far as it concerns me, listening to any music whatsoever should be meditation, entertainment, spirit lifting, nostalgic, anything but the chore it becomes when the melodies overstay their welcome. You might say: "Then why don't you just skip the file or leave it out altogether?" Call it many things: perfectionism, obsession, mania, completionism... it's not "rational", but that's the way I roll.

3. "You seem to be making up your own names...": Yeah, I do that a lot of the time. It just bores me so much to have one track after another named "Stage This or That", "Battle with Whoever Ever", "Bonus Stage", etc., etc. I like to keep it interesting, but I miss the mark a lot of the time. To be fair, there're plenty of instances throughout the collection where I just left the mp3 with its original name for whatever reason, (therefore I don't do this ALL of the time). Again, I'm sorry that you dislike so much of what I've done and the way I do it, but like I said, I only work with what I have. For better or worse, my days of spamming contributions from YouTube are over, and I'll be relying henceforth on whatever rips I can find, provided they pass quality control. Cheers, mate, and thanks for showing interest in my work.

What do you mean "invalid"? Does it refuse to download, or does the file refuse to open once you do so? I'm downloading it myself at this moment: try the same when you get the chance, and if you still have problems, let me know so I can replace the troublesome file.

Update: Just managed to download the ZIP file and fully extract it: I also tried a couple of songs, and everything seems to be OK. If you still have problems, let me know, and I'll see what I can do.

Yeay!!!! Thank you! I can d/l it now hihihihi :)

---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 PM ----------


I have two main complaints/suggestions:

Much of this sounds pretty awful. Like, holding a tape recorder up to a speaker awful. ;) What's with all the youtube stuff? I would replace those tracks. There's a considerable amount of unnecessary quality degradation.

Audio uploaded to youtube gets converted to 64~128kbps AAC. And those original files being uploaded are probably already lossy (usually MP3). Maybe even that file was obtained from a pretty rotted source, like if someone downloaded your 128kbps MP3 tracks here, and THEN AGAIN put them through youtube's AAC transcoding, and THEN AGAIN someone comes along and transcodes that youtube audio back to 128kbps MP3. And you're taking this who-knows-how-rotted audio and transcoding it to 128kbps MP3 for your releases? :( Or did you first convert them to 320kpbs MP3, and THEN to 128kbps? Because that would be even worse. Each time you do a lossy transcode you lose more and more quality.

Also, you seem to be making up your own names for many of the tracks, or using names made up by others. I really hate this.

Can you just give Chronos X some credits after the hard work to compile everything together? Jeez! I can say this, if you don't like it, then don't try to download it. At least please be grateful that someone took the time to put his passion in work.

Better than what you find elsewhere? :/ From what I've seen, two or three loops with a fadeout is what most people do anyway, so I don't know what you're talking about. Most of the VGM tracks I see on youtube are the ones that are over extended and what not.

Anyway, you can make perfect "lossless" transcodes yourself. It's easy. Once someone has done the actual programming work of ripping such game soundtracks (making the nsf / gbs / usf/ spc, e.t.c. file), taking that rip and converting it is simple. It's just a matter of finding a proper rip, downloading the right player/plugin, opening up the rip in the player and converting the tracks to WAV, opening up the WAVs in an audio editor, cutting the tracks to two loops and a fade out, normalizing the volume, then saving it as FLAC, MP3, AAC, or whatever you want.

From how you organized your post, can I assume you are making standard audio cds with these tracks? It's a pretty bad waste making redbook audio CDs with such low quality stuff. Why don't you make an MP3 CD with them? You could probably fit all five of these "discs" on one MP3 CD. Aren't most devices today compatible with MP3 CDs?

There's nothing perfect, complete, or obsessive about this. :P I urge you to recompile this selection using more acceptable sources.

To start, here are "lossless" FLAC transcodes of the NES versions of "Batman / Batman: Return of the Joker / Batman Returns". Transcoded from nsf rips using the latest NEZplug++: BTMNNESFL.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?4pe5rduz47kkbo5) . They are two loops (three for the too short awesome stuff) with five second fades.

Or if you want to stick with the middle/low quality MP3s (which is understandable, especially with simple old chiptunes) here are LAME V5 MP3 transcodes. The size should be comparable to 128kbps CBR MP3: BTMNNESV5.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?t9yce2pkz99xbd6)

Or if you want to make your own transcodes, get the nsf files here: Index of /b (http://nsf.joshw.info/b/) , then use Winamp with the NEZplug++ plugin (http://offgao.no-ip.org/program/nezplug++.html). Or get foobar2000 and the foo_gep plugin (http://kode54.foobar2000.org/). Both plugins are capable of playing and converting a lot of different kind of VGM rips. I would advise using NEZplug++ for most nsf (NES) music, and foo_gep for most gbs (Game Boy / Color) and spc (SNES) music.



Can you just give Chronos X some credits after the hard work to compile everything together? Jeez! I can say this, if you don't like it, then don't try to download it. At least please be grateful that someone took the time to put his passion in work.

I am just trying to help him, so he can make his collection better for himself and others. I'm not your enemy.

Better than what you find elsewhere? :/ From what I've seen, two or three loops with a fadeout is what most people do anyway, so I don't know what you're talking about. Most of the VGM tracks I see on youtube are the ones that are over extended and what not.

Anyway, you can make perfect "lossless" transcodes yourself. It's easy. Once someone has done the actual programming work of ripping such game soundtracks (making the nsf / gbs / usf/ spc, e.t.c. file), taking that rip and converting it is simple. It's just a matter of finding a proper rip, downloading the right player/plugin, opening up the rip in the player and converting the tracks to WAV, opening up the WAVs in an audio editor, cutting the tracks to two loops and a fade out, normalizing the volume, then saving it as FLAC, MP3, AAC, or whatever you want.

From how you organized your post, can I assume you are making standard audio cds with these tracks? It's a pretty bad waste making redbook audio CDs with such low quality stuff. Why don't you make an MP3 CD with them? You could probably fit all five of these "discs" on one MP3 CD. Aren't most devices today compatible with MP3 CDs?

There's nothing perfect, complete, or obsessive about this. :P I urge you to recompile this selection using more acceptable sources.

To start, here are "lossless" FLAC transcodes of the NES versions of "Batman / Batman: Return of the Joker / Batman Returns". Transcoded from nsf rips using the latest NEZplug++: BTMNNESFL.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?4pe5rduz47kkbo5) . They are two loops (three for the too short awesome stuff) with five second fades.

Or if you want to stick with the middle/low quality MP3s (which is understandable, especially with simple old chiptunes) here are LAME V5 MP3 transcodes. The size should be comparable to 128kbps CBR MP3: BTMNNESV5.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?t9yce2pkz99xbd6)

Or if you want to make your own transcodes, get the nsf files here: Index of /b (http://nsf.joshw.info/b/) , then use Winamp with the NEZplug++ plugin (http://offgao.no-ip.org/program/nezplug++.html). Or get foobar2000 and the foo_gep plugin (http://kode54.foobar2000.org/). Both plugins are capable of playing and converting a lot of different kind of VGM rips. I would advise using NEZplug++ for most nsf (NES) music, and foo_gep for most gbs (Game Boy / Color) and spc (SNES) music.



Herp-derpa-duhrrr! I am just trying to help him, so he can make his collection better for himself and others. I'm not your enemy.

I know and I'm sorry if I'm being too harsh. But just let him / her progress gradually. He / her will improvise from time to time :)

And here's a lossless (FLAC) encode of the Genesis/Mega Drive version of Batman: BTMNSGMGDRVRFL.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?sj3jc55s8r9j9sb)

And the LAME V5 MP3 encode: BTMNSGMGDRVRV5.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?fw5pp3gbd93sgsg)

This was ripped with the most accurate means of Genesis sound emulation available (logging to WAV with the in-game sound test using the Kega Fusion emulator).

Thanks for all your assists, KGN: at the moment I'm quite busy/distracted by life, duties and the like, but I'll put your contributions to good use. By the way, what program was it that you last recommended to me: winRAR? Sorry to make you repeat yourself, but I'm a bit of a scatterbrain... some of the time. Still, I'm gonna perfect these works and see this project through to the very end.

Thanks for all your assists, KGN: at the moment I'm quite busy/distracted by life, duties and the like, but I'll put your contributions to good use. By the way, what program was it that you last recommended to me: winRAR? Sorry to make you repeat yourself, but I'm a bit of a scatterbrain... some of the time. Still, I'm gonna perfect these works and see this project through to the very end.

You may be thinking of someone else? I did recommend some stuff if you want to do your own transcoding of game music rips. That stuff would be Winamp with the NEZplug++ plugin, and Foobar2000 with the foo_gep plugin, for starters. And some sort of audio editing program. Personally I use Sony Vegas 9.0c, but I assume something simple and free like Audacity would do just as well for this.

Here's a better rip of Batman: The Movie for Amiga (http://www.fileserve.com/file/HVPARcq).

I hope this thread and project are still alive. I think there could be an additional "disc" with fanmade arrangements of Naoki Kodaka's music from the B89 games. Some of them are really outstanding (like "Streets of Desolation" by Megadriver and a whole set of NES tracks by Thell, or some Mega Drive by Badliz - all found on youtube) and I think their authors won't have a problem as long as they are properly credited in the tags. Just a suggestion, these are worth a listen for fans of the originals.


by Thell - YouTube - ‪Batman Metal Theme Nes‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzFBwfrIRnQ)
by Megadriver - YouTube - ‪Batman-Streets Of Desolation (Metal Version By MegaDriver)‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDF97LqCx_I)
by badliz - YouTube - ‪Sega Genesis Batman - Stage 4-2 - Gotham City Streets 3‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNIErQOtLis) ,
YouTube - ‪Sega Genesis Batman - Stage 1 - Gotham City Streets‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQomnBmBlgU)
and YouTube - ‪Sega Genesis Batman - Stage 2 - Axis Chemical Factory‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrLZoypHuic)

@ silenig:

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep it in mind, but right now I'm focusing on improving the quality of the mp3's I've already uploaded and, on a side note, I still need music to make what I believe will be the final disc, devoted to the Batman Beyond games. Good rips are hard to come by, so this'll take quite a bit of time, and even then, things will be far from perfect. Thanks for your advice and interest.

The Game Boy versions of "Batman" and "Batman: Return of the Joker", transcoded from gbs rips using foo_gep:

FLAC: http://www.mediafire.com/?zw3i021u93p1bm3

LAME MP3 (V5): http://www.mediafire.com/?n6r88k8n23jr5sz

This site doesn't have rips of those games? I'm sure they do. I'm sure people would enjoy this more if the quality was better, Youtube cannot hold a candle to gamerip quality.

This thread is missing some Batman games - Vegenance, Begins, Rise Of Sin Tzu (or however you spell whatever his name is lol) and most notably. Arkham Asylum which the best Batman game to date. Firebolt did one hell of a gamerip for it. Ask him first before putting his rip here if you decide to do so.

I do appreciate endeavors and this was a great one, Chronos!!!!

@ phenomangel:

I keep working on improving what I already have: like I told KGN, my days of relying on YouTube for the bulk of my music are over. Now I don't mean to be rude, but I also wrote that I wouldn't tackle games like Vengeance and Dark Tomorrow, give or take a few reasons, the chief being that I originally made this thread to share the scores for more or less known Batman games from the last two decades, which are the only ones I know at all that're worthy of being called "Best of the Caped Crusader." That's not to say I'm never gonna change my mind about Vengeance and other newer games, but they're not a priority right now. I do wish I could progress better and faster, but that's what I have for now.

You can also check out the FLAC rips of these. I think the links are still alive.


http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/478.html#post1651548

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/479.html#post1652690

You can also check out the FLAC rips of these. I think the links are still alive.


http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/478.html#post1651548

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/479.html#post1652690

I already posted the Genesis / Mega Drive ones in this thread some posts up (post #16). The uploads I linked in this thread are better, for I had "fixed" a few cases where they started to fade out in what I consider to be awkward places. There's still two complete loops, but you know, often tracks have a 5~10 second lead-in / build-up type thing, and it's just awkward to start the fade there (especially when your fades are short 5 second ones, which is how I prefer them). Maybe most people don't care, but it was getting on my nerves. I'm much more careful about it now. Anyway, I now replaced the links in the Lossless thread with the links I have here.

As for my Batman Returns SNES transcode you linked to, there's also a couple tracks that fade out in what I find to be rather awkward places. I haven't bothered to fix that, for I really don't care much for that soundtrack at all. Though I may still get around to it eventually.

Thanks for the music, man!

Here's a FLAC version of Atari's arcade, uploaded by Majestro


Thread 91853

and old rips from some tracks from Batman Returns/PC (160kbps using dosbox) and Amiga (192kbps using WinUAE)


https://rapidshare.com/files/3046077963/br_pc_a.rar

Anybody know any good music from the Batman Beyond games? Months ago, I picked up a rip of Return of the Joker for PS1 at these very forums, but the tracks just come with numbers and no indication of where and when they're actually used. If anyone out there has a reliable track list, please post it here. Also, I think I also have a rip of the Game Boy game of the same name, but it's lost somewhere in my files. Any help you guys can give me will be hugely appreciated and properly thanked.

Made some drastic changes to Disc 2: now it has a medley of the PCE Batman game and the mostly complete soundtracks to the NES, Amiga and Game Boy versions of Batman and Return of the Joker.

I'm having a lot of trouble downloading Discs 1 and 4 (as in I can't even get to the download). Would you mind reuploading them or checking the links perhaps? Sorry to be a bother. :)

I'm having a lot of trouble downloading Discs 1 and 4 (as in I can't even get to the download). Would you mind reuploading them or checking the links perhaps? Sorry to be a bother. :)

Just fixed it; I should warn you, though, that sooner or later I intend to do a complete revamp of Disc 3 and all the rest, all to improve music quality and cut out quite a bit of useless fat. What I have now should keep you afloat for awhile, but check back often, since the end result will be much, much better. Thanks for your time and interest.

EDIT: And no, people like you are no bother at all. Why would I go through all the trouble of starting a thread if I didn't intend to maintain it?

Cool beans. Thanks man. :)

Disc 3 changed. Now features the NES, SNES and SMS/Game Gear versions of Batman Returns.

Disc 4 reuploaded; details on first page.

Alternate Disc 1 uploaded, features bonus tracks. If anybody still wants the original, it's still up for grabs.

Disc 5 reuploaded; please refer to the top of the thread for further details.

Disc 2 reuploaded with the complete soundtrack to the PCE version, much better quality than the first one. Thanks again, cooljacker!

Discs 5 & 6 reuploaded in their final versions (I hope). Well, guys, it's time to call it quits on this one: aside from what I've already shared, I can find no other Batman VGM worth all the time, effort and neck pains it took me to compile and edit each disc like a billion times. I hope most of you will be pleased with this final result: project concluded.

Now, here's a final thank you to all of you out there who contributed to getting this project to the form you see today. They're many, including, but by no means limited to:

cooljacker

KGN-004

silenig

Jessie

And all who have downloaded at least one of the discs one or more times (why can't I just leave well enough alone, damn it!?). To each and every one of you, my sincere thanks. Be seeing you.

All discs reuploaded to their final forms (I hope); Mega Drive soundtrack to Batman Returns uploaded as well.

Does your upgrade have the music to the pc version of batman returns?

Does your upgrade have the music to the pc version of batman returns?

'Fraid not: I don't know where to find it, and I don't have the software to rip it. If you can help me with that, I'll see what I can do.

'Fraid not: I don't know where to find it, and I don't have the software to rip it. If you can help me with that, I'll see what I can do.

silenig uploaded it on rapidshare but it's been deleted so I left him a message about reuploading it.