As always plans were grandeur but only a small portion of them was actually realized. Well, let this portion of data be a sample of what`s to come, this way you can tell me if you don`t like such format and it needs improvement or some drastic change. You see, I`ve only started and my help can be split into a few hundred of similar posts, it`s not late to change many aspects of it yet!
007 - Everything or nothing
3/3 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/b3eym9) � you can say whatever you want but these tracks are included because they sound badass enough to me, that even applies to the 3rd one which may look inappropriate in this selection as it`s included by mistake until you get to the very end of it. It`d be funny if it wasn`t that disastrous that only the 3rd, the least favorite track can be found in HCS rip, I fear to think what would happen if I didn`t check any other rips, Kataah`s one for example, before trying HCS streamed but seemingly incomplete (unless I missed both the 1st & the 2nd tracks which`s very unlikely) rip. I called it disastrous because I wouldn`t have those great tracks #1&2 if I didn`t get Kataah`s version years before I even found out about HCS64 one and that`s just scary.
0 day - Attack on Earth
1/1 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/hj7sot) � quite meh but has its (rare) moments.
2 gonzo chumps, The
3/6 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/euqjfw) � behold Rammstein-style and alternative metal! Never mind, forget about the former, it`s not included but these 3 tracks are great too!
2XL Supercross
3/3 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/9vnyya) � not much to say about this one, not too generic but not too catchy either.
2xtreme
1/1 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/2g1iif)
3xtreme
1/1 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/ymm55e) � this audio track comes from a video but there`s very little of SFX in it and they`re mostly concentrated in the beginning.
4x4 Jam
3/8 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/rf51up) � it was really hard to decide which to post and which aren`t that important as they`re equally good in my eyes (I mean ears). I ended simply uploading the first 3 (in alphabetical order) tracks.
18 wheels of steel - Across America
2/2 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/mcubns)
2029 online
1/1 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/basjp8) � hard to say something definite about this one other than it`s moderately heavy, moderately repetitive, moderately electronically influenced, moderately badassory...
Alpha prime
3/3 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/24pqba) � the 2nd track is moderately boring, the 3rd one is almost completely boring but I included them anyway. The 2nd track was considered (by whom?) to be good enough to be reused in ArmA 2 so maybe it`s just me and you`re going to love it.
American chopper 2 Full throttle1 (see bottom but before spoiler)
3/10 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/540737) � one of the most varied and overall great "rock-and-nothing-else" soundtracks I`ve ever heard. Each of 26 instrumental tracks (there also were not less than 2 songs) differs from another one and surely there`s plenty of hard-rocking tracks you may like, minority of them even has some electronic touches. And I dare say that most remaining compositions, the ones I didn`t include are almost as awesome as above 3 tracks despite the fact that really heavy and even aggressive tracks are quite rare in this soundtrack. But this is just a sample pack, right? Plus I decided to select 3 tracks max per game even if there`re much more suitable tracks remaining. Oh, and considering high quality and great variety of these tracks it`s no surprise that they`re reused at least in 2 later games which have nothing to do with choppers at all.
American chopper
2/2 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/4t047d) � while the 2nd one has only 2 sung tracks there`re only 3 instrumental ones in the 1st one but some of them are not bad nonetheless.
Amped - Freestyle snowboarding
1/1 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/lfjafc) � this single track I uploaded to let you rate it is nothing really special and it can be really repetitive at times but that`s all the game has to offer you, it`s not Amped 2 anyway. The track becomes significantly better towards the end though.
Amped 2
3/10 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/owx944) � 5 instrumentals by Acumen nation (see also Unbound saga), 3 by Iron lung corp. which is a side-project of Acumen nation itself and isn`t much different and a 15-sec stinger by unknown artist. And almost forgot, a track by an artist whose name is so easily forgettable: ASG. However their small contribution is what you should be lesser interested in. As I said previously "Heavens to Murgatroid", my personal favorite as well was used as basis for 3 tracks from the 1st MechAssault. In this preview #1&3 are by Acumen nation and the only remaining track is performed by Iron lung corp. And take in mind that not all AN or ILC songs are as heavy or driving as the tracks represented in above sample pack, so that you won`t be disappointed too much if you begin to expect every of those remaining 5 tracks to be just as good as those 3 best ones (IMO) selected for here and now.
ATV Quadro racing
2/2 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/ltau30)
MechAssault2 (see bottom but before spoiler)
3/10 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/zayl2x) � one of those 10 tracks comes from an attract video and (luckily! unbelievably!) has almost no SFX at all, also they can be noticed only in the very beginning / ending. Also it`d be interesting to compare "Heavens to Murgatroid" from Amped 2 to these 3 tracks.
NeverDead
3/3 (
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/v0z85h) � don`t get too excited with what you find in this exact package, surely there`re many rock tracks remaining (at least 10 more and that`s not counting cutscene audio) but none of them (majority of them at least) is even close to those I`ve already provided. One of tracks I didn`t include even falls into generic Japanese power metal area, to say it straight, and this is definitely not among my most favorite genres. It`s not as hyper-speed and melodic like DragonForce but anyway...
Movies
Death race 2
3/6 (
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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6pmoygh8x5hrz8n) - the best tracks here... are instrumental snippets from Celldweller`s, Korn`s and the likes` super hits (The last firstborn, you name a few). Also people say that most of score was seemingly lifted from the 1st movie scored by Paul Haslinger (but personally I decline that as I`ve listened to both and didn`t notice any identical tracks) but give it a try anyway. WARNING: Some tracks may be SFX-heavy, there`s nothing I can do about that.
1 � in this and all the following cases when you encounter Vorbis files with a weird sample rate of 44000Hz: yes, that`s my fault, I used such ridiculous encoder many years ago and it somehow forced such frequency in all resulting OGG files, no matter what frequency original PCM Wave files used. Sorry for that, all I can do is to rerip all such games at some point and encode them with a help of any other converter, like oggenc2.
And in general if you`re wondering about encoding of tracks don`t hesitate asking me about it, I simply can`t go into such details with every game posted but can answer questions regarding some specific titles.
2 � I know it has a weird and definitely uncommon sample rate, plus it sounds more muffle and even muted compared to tracks on YouTube but at least this one is surely software rip while origin of the aforementioned videos is a mystery, maybe line-in rip. If you don`t like the sound no one restricts you to try ripping the game yourself, maybe it`s ripper who was silly and dealt with tracks like with Raw audio for some reason, maybe you`re much more advanced format recognizer than him and can rip this VGM without it sounding so low-pitched and at so high sample rate. Yes, YT videos sound much better (you can search for them of course, try looking for "MechAssault snow battle 1, 2, 3") but again where they originated from is unknown. Oh, and tracks hosted on YT are a little edited IE extended and with fade-outs (not actually sure about this).
The following titles are listed without any details because you may be familiar with them already, just in case anyone else is following this thread. Why so much is omitted? These are very well-known games/series and tried to concentrate more on stuff you wouldn`t discover that easily. I wanted to bring some more obscure and lesser-known games (and not only them) to the table and avoid sounding like a broken record at the same time (suggesting all those games and series that usually surface in such investigations, you know what I mean). BUT if I omitted way too much feel free to point those games / series out and I will elaborate on them.
PS. I automatically excluded the ones you posted yourself, those were mostly CD-rips, I hope you`re the one who listens to everything he buys / downloads ;) ?
007 - Tomorrow never dies
1080 - Avalanche
Ace combat series
Armored core series (you even attempted ripping most of them, if not all the released games)
Ballistics
BlazBlue series
Bleach series
Bloody roar series
Call of duty series
Castlevania (Akumajo Dracula) series
Command & conquer series
Crackdown series
Daikatana (it was you who even posted a CD rip on these forums)
Dead or alive series
Dead rising series
Dead to rights series
Devil may cry series
Dragon ball series
Dragon ball Z series
Dragon`s dogma
Dynasty warriors series
Final fantasy series
Final fight series
F-Zero series
Gears of war 3
Gran turismo series
Guilty gear series
Gunvalkyrie
Half-life2 Episode 1-2
Halo series
Hard reset
Hellgate � London
House of the dead, The: series
Killer 7
Killzone 3
King of fighters, The: series
Lord of Vermilion series
Lost child series
Metal gear series
Metal gear solid series
Metal slug series
Mission impossible - Operation Surma
Mortal kombat series
Muramasa - The demon blade
Nanobreaker (you asked about ripping procedure for this game in Ill villain`s thread last year so that I assumed that you have at least some version of this VGM)
Ninja gaiden series
Persona (Shin megami tensei) series (you`re the main supplier of their BGM here, including streamed rips which I`m very thankful for, so that`s implied that you have all existing releases of SMT music)
Prince of Persia - Sands of time
Prince of Persia - Warrior within
Quake series
Resident evil series (mostly Chronicles, but 5 & 6 apply to your terms as well, at least partially)
Ridge racer series
Samurai shodown series
Samurai warriors series
Sengoku basara (Devil kings) series
Serious Sam series
Shadows of the damned
Shadow the hedgehog (see Sonic series)
Shatter
Silent hill series
Sonic series (goes without saying, if I started counting them down here it`d take me hours to mention them all. Also don`t want to look as Captain Obvious here ;) )
Spec ops - The line
Splatterhouse (2010)
Street fighter series
Super street fighter series
Tekken series
Thrill kill
Unreal tournament series
Viewtiful Joe series
Virtua fighter series
Warriors orochi series (they have very little of their own music but always feature a great amount of Dynasty / Samurai warriors tracks, the 3rd one even had DOA`s Ayane theme remix)
Yakuza (Ryu ga gotoku) series
You are empty (the same as in Daikatana`s case)
Movies
Resident evil - Afterlife
