Ryu Umemoto – Groundseed (PC-9801, 1996) [MP3 – 128 kbps]

Hi all,

I’ve been lurking here for years, but this is actually one of my first posts beyond a simple "Re-upload please!"

Ryu Umemoto is pretty much my favorite video game composer and I’ve got almost all his Rare Tracks and a few other of his soundtracks. There was always one, though, that I couldn’t find: the soundtrack for Groundseed, a random little Japan-only RPG. The only place you could ever hear the music from this game was on his Attack Rate CD, which was what actually got me into his music.

If you know about his Rare Tracks series, you’ll know this was a special soundtrack released in extremely-limited quantities, and for months I’ve been trying to track it down to no avail. I can’t find any rips or other soundtracks of the music, either, so I decided to do it myself after I found it in its original format after a quick Google search.

This is my first time ripping anything, so I apologize if the quality sucks or if the bitrate’s too low. I used the VGMdb entry (http://vgmdb.net/album/12576) for the Rare Tracks CD for the song order and approximate lengths.

Tell me what you think!

Cover Art:

Tracklist:
01 Logo
02 Opening
03 Morning
04 Street
05 Kanami
06 Memories
07 Tension
08 Five Spiritual Guides
09 Maze of Spirits
10 Spirit
11 Milly
12 Anger
13 Forest
14 Battle 1
15 Win
16 Village
17 Forest 2
18 Comfort
19 Town 2
20 Thieves’ Hideout
21 Filia
22 Woodland Path
23 Mid-Boss
24 Myrtle
25 Town 1
26 Akira
27 Sadness
28 Road of Trials
29 Cave
30 W.Soul
31 Legend
32 Kleis
33 Five Knights
34 Castle Basement
35 Castle
36 Hades
37 Betrayal
38 Great Boss
39 Ending
40 Staff Roll
41 Town 3
42 Opening [Demo Version]

Download (No Password): Groundseed.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/download/d8k4a3a38q63138/Groundseed.zip)

EDIT (12/3/13): As per Ryusennin’s comment, I’ve added a missing track, "Opening [Demo Version]" or "Shop Demo" to the soundtrack. Thanks again! It’s a great track; can’t believe I’ve gone without it for so long.

Nice soundtrack 🙂

Wow, I’ve been looking for this ever since I found out about Umemoto back in 2010. This is a real gem, I’m so glad you ripped and uploaded this. <3

Just a technical note: Dont use STEREO setting, but instead Join-STEREO. Also, use variable bitrate, not constant 🙂

Thank You for the soundtrack!

Thank you very much for this. I can never get enough music from Ruy Umemoto who, sadly, died, way too young :(.

Just a technical note: Dont use STEREO setting, but instead Join-STEREO. Also, use variable bitrate, not constant 🙂

Thanks for the tip! I’ll keep that in mind for next time.

Thanks for this. I’ve been looking for some kind of rip with the proper tracknames for years. I’ve been using hoot but everything is garbled test.

Thanks for the soundtrack. Mr.Umemoto will be missed.

Thanks!

Nice rip. Which player/library did you use?

Most of Grounseed’s OST is actually the work of Ryū Takami (best known for his Yūgiri soundtrack). Umemoto essentially contributed to the shop demo (http://kaminarimon.free.fr/tmp/Grounseed_20.mp3), which is unfortunately missing in your archive. Incredibly enough, this brilliant preview theme is absent in the game itself.

Wow, I forgot to check on this thread for a while. Glad to see people have been enjoying the rip!

Nice rip. Which player/library did you use?

Most of Grounseed’s OST is actually the work of Ryū Takami (best known for his Yūgiri soundtrack). Umemoto essentially contributed to the shop demo (http://kaminarimon.free.fr/tmp/Grounseed_20.mp3), which is unfortunately missing in your archive. Incredibly enough, this brilliant preview theme is absent in the game itself.

I ended up using a combination of the Hoot Player, Virtual Audio Cable, and Audacity. I found the actual soundtrack here (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/?system=PC-98&page=18), and followed their tutorial for setting up the Hoot Player. It was pretty simple from there, really.

I actually had no idea this was mostly Ryu Takami. Makes sense, considering how often they worked together in their previous soundtracks, but it’s still surprising. I always considered Groundseed to be my favorite of Umemoto’s music; how surprising that it mostly isn’t even his!

Thanks a lot for the other track. I did notice it was missing from my soundtrack, but like you said, it wasn’t in the rip I got from the Hoot Archive. I’ve gone and added it to my archive, but I have to ask, where did you find it?

Ryū Takami (best known for his Yūgiri soundtrack).

What is Yūgiri?

Just happened to randomly find out about this. So sad that I missed out on it for so long and to hear the news about the composer. Thanks!

This is a great soundtrack. Love it. Umemoto and Takami are, [or in the case of Umemoto, was 🙁 ] brilliant. Thanks.

Thanks a lots 🙂