VERTIPHON 2017 REMASTER ~ WINDS & LORDS OF THUNDER by T’s Music (PCE + Sega CD)

Winds Of Thunder PC Engine / Lords Of Thunder Sega Mega CD Original Soundtrack Collections

Composed by T’s Music (Red Company / Hudson – NEC PC Engine 1993 & Sega Mega CD 1995)
Vertiphon 2017 Remaster
16-bit 44.1 kHz lossless FLAC audio format and 320kbit/s MP3.

WHAT IS THIS?

So I’m trying to think of an adequate way to describe these soundtracks. Let me put it this way:
Do you like rock and metal? Do you like game rock & metal?
If yes, then you need these soundtracks in your life. Simple.

If T’s Music are going to go down in history for anything, it’ll be for these incredible pieces of heavy hitting but highly melodic rock tunes. Two different versions of the same music arguably makes them twice as awesome? There are clear production differences between the PC Engine and Sega Mega CD versions but they’re both fantastic, really. And now of course they sound far, far better.

My goal is to present to the community well-mastered Original Sound Version / OST music of the greatest soundtracks video gaming has to offer, with an emphasis on early/mid-90s obscurities and classics. Whereas the Sega CD version wasn’t too bad, the PC Engine version was very poorly mastered. Quiet, middy, lacking any bass. It’s now hugely improved.

TECHNICAL NOTES

I forgot to mention in the readme that all copies of "Auzal" from the Sega Mega CD soundtrack that I could find were full of glitches. Two hours of painstaking audio surgery later (I’m not kidding), the track now should have no "gaps" in it. It’s a peculiar problem: either all copies out there on the net really have originated from the same ripped CD and the ripping failed or the original disc has these clicks! Considering the prices the game goes for on eBay, I don’t think any of us are in a hurry to find out!

The audio for these soundtracks were taken from CD images of the game. I have rearranged the tracklist to make for a better listen as an "album", but you could of course re-arrange them and put them back into a CD image if you wished.

Enjoy!

ADDENDUM

According to these websites, and the album they refer to, this music was actually specifically composed by Satoshi Miyashita:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/9d5c81d6-00f9-4dcd-939a-4ee5bc7236e4
http://vgmdb.net/album/6154

He was a member of T’s Music so it is still technically correct to use them in the artist field of the music tags, but the more particular of you may wish to change them.

TRACKLIST

Winds Of Thunder – PC Engine

01 Winds Of Thunder Intro 1
02 Winds Of Thunder Intro 2
03 Winds Of Thunder Title Theme
04 Map Of Mistral
05 Armor Selection
06 Shop Theme
07 Dezant (Level 1)
08 Aqual (Level 2)
09 Lavadara (Level 3)
10 Wildon (Level 4)
11 Freezel (Level 5)
12 Ciodant (Level 6)
13 Mistral Clear
14 The Dark Tower
15 Boss
16 Pharina
17 Final Boss Zaggart Part 1
18 Final Boss Zaggart Part 2
19 Ending Theme
20 Game Over

Lords Of Thunder – Sega Mega CD

01 Lords Of Thunder Sega CD Intro 1
02 Lords Of Thunder Sega CD Intro 2
03 Lords Of Thunder Sega CD Title
04 Map Of Mistral
05 Armor Selection
06 Shop Theme
07 Dezant (Stage 1)
08 Auzal (Stage 2)
09 Lamarada (Stage 3)
10 Bosque (Stage 4)
11 Helado (Stage 5)
12 Cielom (Stage 6)
13 Mistral Clear
14 The Dark Tower (Stage 7)
15 Boss
16 The Goddess Luxina
17 Final Boss Part 1 (High Priest Sornbul)
18 Final Boss Part 2 (The Evil God Deoric)
19 Ending
20 Game Over

DOWNLOADS

Winds Of Thunder – PC Engine OST

MEGA FLAC: https://mega.nz/#!MOAwADzY!eJDUSYl4YJw9AJdKJmy4jBwLv4fAqouHRYp5ZOAslsA
Zippyshare FLAC: http://www102.zippyshare.com/v/jRwA6Wvy/file.html
Zippyshare MP3: http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/cSfsw5as/file.html

Sample track: http://www67.zippyshare.com/v/eNc2P8yM/file.html

Lords Of Thunder – Sega Mega CD OST

MEGA FLAC: https://mega.nz/#!sDAU3biL!FMKbOg8UMDwaK8T6r5WZmJ0fwlpn1-KKJXUZSn9bHpM
Zippyshare FLAC: http://www103.zippyshare.com/v/JXlbsRFH/file.html
Zippyshare MP3: http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/OXB0oyWY/file.html

Sample track: http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/017gNLA1/file.html

Thank you very much !!!

Appreciate your efforts man, good stuff. Do you take request?

thanks !
🙂

Thanks a lot for your efforts – and making these rare gems available.

Some small nitpicks, though:
There’s something that irked me on the fade-outs on Lord of Thunder – in many cases, they only Fade-out half the way and then the track ends. Maybe it’s just me, but I found it annoying enough to edit the files to add a proper fade-out to them. Thanksfully you made the files available in FLAC so that was easily possible without loosing quality.
Another thing, which is related: two tracks of Lord of Thunder end with stopping the music only to restart the song during the last second of the track while the fade-out is in effect (Track 8 and 11) – this also happens on Track 8 on Winds of Thunder. That’s also a thing I found very annoying personally, so I removed these "last second restarts while doing a fadeout on the track"-appearances by removing a second or so from the end – so the track stops when the music stops.

I’m not sure if issues like these are things you want to look out for in future projects or not but I thought it couldn’t hurt to point it out? 🙂

Another thing, which is related: two tracks of Lord of Thunder end with stopping the music only to restart the song during the last second of the track while the fade-out is in effect (Track 8 and 11) – this also happens on Track 8 on Winds of Thunder.

It’s kind of an artistic decision, really. With these two songs, yes, they might be better without fadeouts. I might go back and change those and update the archives. I have done this with a few tracks in some of the remasters where there are "hard stops", because it felt right, so if you try my other remasters you may notice that. Thanks for the ideas though, I do keep these things in mind. I’ve done so many edits and fades it’s easy to miss things occasionally.

thank you