I loved this game so much as a kid, and was disappointed when i couldn't find a decent soundtrack up for download anywhere. So i decided to do it myself :)
I transcoded these straight from the game's GBS files, so they have excellent quality.
Most tracks play twice, have an eight second fadeout and two seconds of silence.
Includes Music and SFX GBS files.

Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Title
03. Player Select
04. Player Select ZELDA
05. Player Select MOYSE (German)
06. Marin's House
07. Koholint Island
08. The Owl
09. You Found Your Sword!
10. Overworld
11. Mabe Village
12. House
13. Telephone Booth
14. Shop
15. Trendy Game
16. Mysterious Forest
17. Piece Of Power ~ Guardian Acorn
18. Cave
19. Level 1 - Tail Cave
20. Sidescrolling
21. Mini Boss Battle
22. Boss Battle
23. Boss Defeated
24. Instrument Of The Sirens
25. The Full Moon Cello
26. BowWow Dognapped
27. Mr Write's House
28. Level 2 - Bottle Grotto
29. The Conch Horn
30. Richard's Villa
31. Kiki's Bridge
32. Kanalet Castle
33. Level 3 - Key Cavern
34. The Sea Lily's Bell
35. Dream Shrine Entrance
36. Falling Asleep
37. Dream Shrine
38. Link And Marin's Ballad Of The Wind Fish
39. Bees!
40. Animal Village
41. Christine's House
42. Marin's Beach
43. On The Beach With Marin
44. Marin's Ballad Of The Wind Fish
45. Angler's Tunnel Revealed
46. Tal Tal Mountain Range
47. Level 4 - Angler's Tunnel
48. The Surf Harp
49. Manbo's Mambo
50. Ghost's Cry
51. House By The Bay
52. Fishing Under The Bridge
53. Level 5 - Catfish's Maw
54. Boss' Warning
55. The Wind Marimba
56. The Frog's Song Of Soul
57. Raft Ride
58. Southern Face Shrine
59. Level 6 - Face Shrine
60. Coral Triangle
61. The Rooster
62. Level 2 Sword
63. Cucco House
64. Level 7 - Eagle's Tower
65. Boss Intro
66. Boss Battle
67. Organ Of Evening Calm
68. Turtle Head
69. Level 8 - Turtle Rock
70. Thunder Drum
71. Color Dungeon
72. Great Fairy Fountain
73. The Ballad Of The Wind Fish
74. Wind Fish's Egg
75. We Were Born Of Nightmares...
76. Nightmare Battle
77. Nightmare Defeated
78. The Windfish
79. The Windfish's Call
80. Waking Up
81. Credits
82. Game Over

EXTRAS:
01. Title (No Intro)
02. Overworld (Alt)
03. Piece Of Power ~ Guardian Acorn (Alt)
04. Boss Defeated (Alt)
05. BowWow Dognapped (Alt)
06. Kanalet Castle (Alt)
07. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn)
08. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn, Bell)
09. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn, Bell, Harp)
10. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn, Bell, Harp, Marimba)
11. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn, Bell, Harp, Marimba, Triangle)
12. Ballad Of The Wind Fish (Cello, Horn, Bell, Harp, Marimba, Triangle, Organ)
13. Found Item (Unused)
14. Heart Piece
15. Totaka's Song (Unused)
16. Unused Jingle

It's worth noting that there's only about 30MB difference between the FLAC and MP3 (320kbps) versions.


Links:

DropBox:
MP3 (https://goo.gl/eEZuN7)
FLAC (https://goo.gl/1QJxwS)

Thank you sooo much. One of the first games I got for my GameBoy Color :)

Thank you sooo much. One of the first games I got for my GameBoy Color :)
Same here :D Thanks for creating and sharing this, aberge!

This is an amazing rip, I was stuck with a pretty crap rip for a while! You should definitely do one for the Oracle games as well.

First game I ever played!

This is an amazing rip, I was stuck with a pretty crap rip for a while! You should definitely do one for the Oracle games as well.
I've never really played those ones. But i'll look into it, because i enjoyed doing this project and was looking for other possible titles to rip.

Glad everyone likes it :)

Oh, hello childhood.

Thank you for the rip..! It's amazing..!

Awesome! Link's Awakening is my favorite of the classic top-down Zelda's and I've been searching for a good soundtrack for a while. Thanks!

By far the best rip from this game I've ever heard. Very, very well done.

Small request, though it's up to you: any chance of doing the Oracle games?

Any chance of doing the Oracle games?
I think so, yeah. It's harder because they're games i've never played before. If the information available on the soundtrack is anything like Link's Awakening (I.E. None), i'd have to use a walkthrough to make sure i find all the music and can give the tracks decent names.

So don't expect it within a couple weeks, but it's definitely something i'd like to do.

Incredible! Thanks so much for your work!!!!

Well just to clarify, it would be more appropriate to say that you "transcoded" the tracks from the GBS rip. Saying you "ripped it" implies you did the work of extracting the sound programming from the game ROM (that is, made the GBS rip). You just did a transcode of the rip. Not to say it's not appreciated, it is indeed time consuming and a pain to get the track timing, tags, and order correct, especially for formats that don't allow that information to be tagged within the rip itself (like GBS). It is indeed valuable and convenient to have them transcoded to MP3 and other more compatible formats. That's all I do too, is make FLAC/MP3 transcodes of rips someone else did. :) Maybe someday I'll get off my lazy ass and learn some programming as to help those over at HCS and elsewhere do some actual ripping and the like.

I think I was the one who helped you over at HCS about how to go about making these transcodes. :P

Ah! True. I guess that would be the more accurate term, wouldn't it?
Fixed. And thank you.

EDIT: Though, in the thread title, GBS rip would still be accurate, because that's the source.

Well you could say "GBS Rip Transcode". :P

Yeah it's okay to use the terms interchangeably I guess. Usually I just put (GAME RIP) next to the title of the transcodes I do. I don't even know why I brought it up. I guess I was thinking about if I had spend a lot of time making rips, but seeing the guy who just did the MP3 transcode get all the praise... That would be kind of annoying. :P Now that I bring it up, I'll try to find out and credit the ripper whenever I can.

I wondered about that. I couldn't find anyone to credit the actual GBS file to. I thank the site i got it from in the info file, but there's not much to do after that.
Especially when one site got it from another site that got it from the site the ripper posted it to, which contains a dead link now and there's no way to know if maybe someone else ripped it, too, and the whole credit situation is all messed up.

It would be simpler if i could just figure out how to rip the files myself, which would also help when GBS files are missing certain songs.

It would be simpler if i could just figure out how to rip the files myself, which would also help when GBS files are missing certain songs.

Yeah I'm sure there's still quite few games that need to be ripped, and incomplete rips, and rips that were done incorrectly and sound messed up which need to be fixed.

There's tutorials and stuff to get you started on learning to do it. The only thing stopping you is you. :P

I've been trying to get into programming and such myself. Got the sixth edition of Deitel's "C++ How to Program". Great book, pretty easy to understand so far. But that has nothing to do with your topic here. :P Anyway, thanks for timed and tagged GBS transcode. ;)

Hey, this track listing looks pretty good! I have two other versions of this soundtrack: one that has mostly every song (minus a couple) but it has the high-pitched tone associated with Gameboy games (and SFX), and then the other version is incomplete and several of the songs don't even loop through once.

I don't comment under the VGM threads much, but I look forward to taking a listen to your hard work. Thanks a lot!

Ballad of the Wind fish, man I remember reloading the bit where link plays all the instruments in front of the Wind Fish's egg over and over... So good.

I loved this game so much as a kid, and was disappointed when i couldn't find a decent soundtrack up for download anywhere. So i decided to do it myself :)
I transcoded these straight from the game's GBS files, so they have excellent quality.
Most tracks play twice, have an eight second fadeout and two seconds of silence.
Includes Music and SFX GBS files.

You do realize transcoding is taking one lossy format and converting it into another lossy format right? XD

You do realize transcoding is taking one lossy format and converting it into another lossy format right? XD

No, not necessarily. "Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another... transcoding can be lossless if the input is losslessly compressed and the output is losslessly compressed or uncompressed."

I guess going from nsf/gbs/etc to wav isn't technically lossless? But for simplicity we'll say it is.

"Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another. This is usually done in cases where a target device does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size, or to convert incompatible or obsolete data to a better-supported or modern format. Transcoding is commonly a lossy process, introducing generation loss; however, transcoding can be lossless if the input is losslessly compressed and the output is losslessly compressed or uncompressed. The process of lossy to lossy conversion introduces varying degrees of generation loss. In other cases, the transcoding of lossy to lossless or uncompressed is technically a lossless conversion because no information is lost, however the process is irreversible and is more suitably known as destructive." -Wikipedia

Ah, yes, keyword, COMMONLY... >.<
Sorry....

I guess going from nsf/gbs/etc to wav isn't technically lossless? But for simplicity we'll say it is.
I think it is, but there's a possibility it's not truly lossless. The game boy uses a sample rate other than 44.1KHz.
Though, since the audio is rendered as you play (the best way i can describe it, may not be totally accurate), foo_gep must render it at 44.1, but i don't know the inner workings of the software and can't say for sure.

Yah, I don't think it's compressed, it's more like a midi; it uses synthesized sounds from memory (most of which are square and 25% pulse waves, which, when programmed into memory, don't take up much room at all)
So, technically it is a lossless transfer.
=)
Plus, they had no compressed audio back then that was decent haha... i.e. .mp3

I love you for sharing this in flac. It remembers me on my childhood.

Sweet memories here...

Yah, I don't think it's compressed, it's more like a midi; it uses synthesized sounds from memory (most of which are square and 25% pulse waves, which, when programmed into memory, don't take up much room at all)
So, technically it is a lossless transfer.
=)
Plus, they had no compressed audio back then that was decent haha... i.e. .mp3
Yeah, that's right. What i meant, though (and i should have phrased it better), was that the original Game Boy used a different sample rate. I'm not sure if it would be required to use that same sample rate to be able to emulate the machine and play the files, and then resample the files to 44.1.

I'm pretty sure they would find a way around something that important, though, since all tracks would be rendered and played inaccurately.


I love you for sharing this in flac. It remembers me on my childhood.
I love flac, and find it's a shame that so few people give the option as a download.
Plus chiptunes are really well compressed. In fact, 26 songs in this soundtrack manage a lower bitrate than the 320kbps mp3 files (as low as 42kbps).
Glad you like it :)

Thanks. It sounds great.

Thanks a lot for the uploading.

Great work. Thank you very much :D

thx

Sorry, but I don't think this is working any more or something... I can't get the Links to work.

Sorry, but I don't think this is working any more or something... I can't get the Links to work.

Worked for me...

Sorry, but I don't think this is working any more or something... I can't get the Links to work.

Odd, it seems fine from here. Please try again.
If it still doesn't work in a couple days, let me know. I'll upload it to another site.

Excellent! Great work!

Thank you so much. I love this soundtrack.

Thanks a bunch!

Thanks!

I got it to work!
Thank you though

This is wonderful, thank you very much! So many great memories playing this as a kid...

thanks for that pal, an awesome game with an awesome soundtrack,

as for myself i got the flac, hoho

You sir have produced some high quality awesome sauce, haha.
Thanks for the sharing this wonderful soundtrack!

Thanks

Awesome, thanks for this.

3 years later I want to thank you again. You are the reason I learned how to collect and convert old synthesized music from their source format (.gbs, .spc, ...) to lossless high quality FLAC. It's really impressive how small the original files are. I have a really big collection now :-)

3 years later I want to thank you again. You are the reason I learned how to collect and convert old synthesized music from their source format (.gbs, .spc, ...) to lossless high quality FLAC. It's really impressive how small the original files are. I have a really big collection now :-)
Hey thanks! I've been going through a rough bit lately, it makes me really really happy to hear that :)

many greatful thanks GreatWhite!!!

man, this really is some of the best music ever put on the GB.

Thanks for the download

thanks so much!

Thanks a lot.

Thanks :)

Another year has passed and I have found a complete orchestral arrangement of Link's Awakening that has been published recently. Maybe others like it also. The quality and effort that has gone into this is quite amazing.
-> Youtube-Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Hf45p7lRU&list=PLQ58HYTDzLvL92US1q6csKkVmQN-4SeT-)

Thanks have been looking for the DX version in decent quality


Another year has passed and I have found a complete orchestral arrangement of Link's Awakening that has been published recently. Maybe others like it also. The quality and effort that has gone into this is quite amazing.
-> Youtube-Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Hf45p7lRU&list=PLQ58HYTDzLvL92US1q6csKkVmQN-4SeT-)

Wow!! Absolutely incredible, thanks for sharing! This is the kind of stuff Nintendo should be doing, remake a classic game with modern 3D graphics (still keep the original 2d gameplay style though) and full orchestral soundtracks like this.

Just thanks =)

It's missing two tracks from the original game:
1) LOLO from the French version
2) MOYSE from the German version

Thank you!

This is perfect. Thank you!

Thanks !

The Dropbox links appear to be deader than a doornail.

The Dropbox links appear to be deader than a doornail.


yep, dead and never to be downloaded again :( can't get the FLAC rips.

Oh no, links are broken. :(
Could someone please reupload all the music somewhere? (In fact, I have the MP3 versions of the files, but came back here to get the FLACs too. So I can upload if some are interested, but only in MP3.)

Links updated. Sorry it took so long, i had email notifications disabled.
Let me know if they go down again.

Thank you so DAMN MUCH !!!

Thank you for keeping this up!

YAY! Alive again TKS!