Produced by: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Yutaka Minobe, Masato Nakamura, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Kenichi Tokoi, Hideaki Kobayashi, Fumie Kumatani, Tomoya Ohtani, Masaru Setsumaru

Tracklist:

Sonic Advance:
01 Opening
02 Title
03 Main Menu
04 Options
05 Player Data
06 Neo Green Hill Zone - Act 1
07 Act Clear
08 Neo Green Hill Zone - Act 2
09 Dr. Eggman Demo
10 Boss
11 Zone Clear
12 Secret Base Zone - Act 1
13 Secret Base Zone - Act 2
14 Casino Paradise Zone - Act 1
15 Casino Paradise Zone - Act 2
16 Ice Mountain Zone - Act 1
17 Ice Mountain Zone - Act 2
18 Angel Island Zone - Act 1
19 Angel Island Zone - Act 2
20 Zone-5 Boss
21 Egg Rocket Zone
22 Cosmic Angel Zone
23 Zone-6 Boss
24 X-Zone
25 X-Zone - Boss 1
26 X-Zone - Boss 2
27 Final Boss
28 X-Zone Clear
29 Ending
30 Moon Zone
31 Moon Zone Clear
32 Extra Ending
33 Staff Roll
34 Time Attack
35 Time Attack Clear (No New Record)
36 Time Attack Clear (New Record)
37 Waiting for Communication
38 Communication Successful
39 Communication Failed
40 VS Menu (Single-Pak)
41 VS Game (Single-Pak)
42 VS Game Clear (Single-Pak)
43 VS Menu (Multi-Pak)
44 VS Game Clear (Multi-Pak)
45 VS Game Results (Lose) (Multi-Pak)
46 VS Game Results (Win) (Multi-Pak)
47 VS Game Results (Draw) (Multi-Pak)
48 VS Retry
49 VS End
50 Invincibility
51 Drowning
52 Game Over
53 1-UP
54 Neo Green Hill Zone (Sonic Pinball Party ver.)
Total Time: 1:15:53

Sonic Advance 2:
01 Opening
02 Title
03 Options
04 Zone Select
05 Leaf Forest Zone - Act 1
06 Leaf Forest Zone - Act 2
07 Boss
08 Boss - Pinch
09 Zone Clear
10 Cream/Tails Demo
11 Unlock 1
12 Hot Crater Zone - Act 1
13 Hot Crater Zone - Act 2
14 Music Plant Zone - Act 1
15 Music Plant Zone - Act 2
16 Ice Paradise Zone - Act 1
17 Ice Paradise Zone - Act 2
18 Sky Canyon Zone - Act 1
19 Sky Canyon Zone - Act 2
20 Zone-5 Boss
21 Knuckles Demo
22 Techno Base Zone - Act 1
23 Techno Base Zone - Act 2
24 Egg Utopia Zone - Act 1
25 Egg Utopia Zone - Act 2
26 Zone-7 Boss
27 Zone-7 Boss - Pinch
28 Zone Select - XX-Zone
29 XX-Zone
30 Final Boss
31 Final Boss - Pinch
32 Ending
33 Message 1
34 Special Stage Start
35 Special Stage
36 Special Stage - Pinch
37 Achievement
38 Special Stage Clear
39 Got a Chaos Emerald
40 Special Stage Results (Successful)
41 Special Stage Results (Failed)
42 Zone Select - True Area 53 Zone
43 Extra Demo
44 True Area 53 Zone
45 Extra Ending
46 Staff Roll
47 Message 2
48 Time Attack
49 Time Attack Clear (No New Record)
50 Time Attack Clear (New Record)
51 VS Menu
52 VS Game (Single-Pak)
53 VS Game Ring Bonus (Single-Pak)
54 VS Game Results
55 VS Retry
56 Invincibility
57 Unlock 2
58 SA2 Trailer
Total Time: 1:22:13

Sonic Battle:
01 Title
02 Main Menu
03 Character Select
04 Emerald Town
05 Emerald Beach
06 Comedy Demo
07 Tails' Lab
08 Holy Summit
09 Chaos Ruins
10 Confrontation Demo
11 Central City
12 Amy's Room
13 Battle Highway
14 History Demo
15 Library
16 Night Babylon
17 Club Rouge
18 Gimme Shelter
19 Metal Depot
20 Emerl Demo
21 Colosseum
22 Staff Roll 1
23 Crater A
24 Crater B
25 Skill Edit
26 Death Egg
27 Dr. Eggman Demo
28 Final Boss
29 Staff Roll 2
30 Character Unlock Demo
31 Character Introduction Demo
32 Challenge Mode Demo
33 Green Hill
34 Challenge Mode Clear
35 Results (Battle & Challenge Mode)
36 Battle Record
37 Card Capture Demo
38 Rare Card Capture Demo
Total Time: 1:32:42

Sonic Advance 3:
01 Opening
02 Title
03 Main Menu
04 Options
05 Character Select
06 Start Demo
07 Route 99 Zone - Map
08 Route 99 Zone - Act 1
09 Act Clear (Gold Medal)
10 Route 99 Zone - Act 2
11 Route 99 Zone - Act 3
12 Boss
13 Boss - Pinch
14 Zone Clear (Silver or Bronze Medal)
15 Zone Clear (Gold Medal)
16 Sunset Hill Zone - Map
17 Sunset Hill Zone - Act 1
18 Sunset Hill Zone - Act 2
19 Sunset Hill Zone - Act 3
20 Sonic Factory
21 Chaos Playground
22 Ocean Base Zone - Map
23 Ocean Base Zone - Act 1
24 Ocean Base Zone - Act 2
25 Ocean Base Zone - Act 3
26 Mini-Game
27 Toy Kingdom Zone - Map
28 Toy Kingdom Zone - Act 1
29 Toy Kingdom Zone - Act 2
30 Toy Kingdom Zone - Act 3
31 Character Demo
32 Twinkle Snow Zone - Map
33 Twinkle Snow Zone - Act 1
34 Twinkle Snow Zone - Act 2
35 Twinkle Snow Zone - Act 3
36 Cyber Track Zone - Map
37 Cyber Track Zone - Act 1
38 Cyber Track Zone - Act 2
39 Cyber Track Zone - Act 3
40 Intact Music 1
41 Chaos Angel Zone - Map
42 Chaos Angel Zone - Act 1
43 Chaos Angel Zone - Act 2
44 Chaos Angel Zone - Act 3
45 Zone-7 Boss
46 Zone-7 Boss - Pinch
47 Altar Emerald Zone
48 Final Boss
49 Final Boss - Pinch
50 Final Boss Clear
51 Intact Music 2
52 Ending
53 Time Attack
54 Time Attack Retry
55 Special Stage
56 Special Stage Clear
57 Special Stage Results (Successful)
58 Special Stage Results (Failed)
59 Extra Demo 1
60 Extra Demo 2
61 Nonaggression Zone
62 Nonaggression Zone - Pinch
63 Nonaggression Zone Clear
64 Extra Ending
65 Staff Roll
66 Waiting for Communication
67 VS Zone Select
68 VS Game
69 VS Game Results
70 VS End
Total Time: 2:20:46

Third time's the charm.

The new version of the Advance/Battle collection is significantly improved from the prior version. Make sure to toss the old rip after you download this one.

Features/Process:
-Instead of editing an entire song as a whole, I've rendered each instrument in each track individually
-Separated all key parts of the drum kit and breakbeats from one another (notice each drum/tom/hi-hat/cymbal are panned rather then mono)
-Songs have custom automation with panning and volumes
-Modulation in some tracks have been removed such as the wobbly Rhodes in Secret Base Act 1 & 2
-No more overbearing bass
-Different reverb/delay effect on each instrument
-Electric guitars have been amped
-Mixed main instruments and drums
-For fun I've remade the Sonic Advance 2 trailer theme (not 100% accurate in the intro)

Here's an little sample from the SA3 Title theme: (the first version is the original GBA, second is my old crappy rip, and third version is the current rip)
saab3sample.mp3 (https://app.box.com/s/z9is3xwm40bvpx631zacxwh06v35k0p4)

Enjoy!

UPDATE 1 (11-28-16)
-"40 VS Menu (Single-Pak)" is now it's actual track
-"43 VS Menu (Multi-Pak)" replaced by its 16-bit duplicate (original duplicate was 24-bit)
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!!!!!'s Nexus of Music Thread 2.0 (Thread 119192)

So you basically reconstructed the music of the games, by using all the instrment assets?

Doesn't sound too bad. It's prolly faithful to how the original would've been without the GBA compression

Sounds good to know that you still working on this...I'll take a listen !

Thanks for the work you put into not just the massive collection, but also seeking the best quality throughout!

So you basically reconstructed the music of the games, by using all the instrment assets?

Doesn't sound too bad. It's prolly faithful to how the original would've been without the GBA compression

Yes and It's not faithful 100% with panning and volumes specifically.


Sound good to know that you still working on this...I'll take a listen !

This isn't the arrangements from the demo reel I posted earlier this year if that's what you mean. If I actually finish those, I would probably release those in a different manner then a typical game rip. This is a redo of my old gamerip I started last month using mixing techniques I've learned over the past couple years.


Thanks for the work you put into not just the massive collection, but also seeking the best quality throughout!

:D

Yes and It's not faithful 100% with panning and volumes specifically.



This isn't the arrangements from the demo reel I posted earlier this year if that's what you mean. If I actually finish those, I would probably release those in a different manner then a typical game rip. This is a redo of my old gamerip I started last month using mixing techniques I've learned over the past couple years.



:D

Hmmm...don't know...but this 3.0 sounds better than the previous one :D

Your work is impressive and it's worth the time and effort you put on it. But my only question is to why you do this with all the games EXCEPT Sonic Pinball Party and Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis

I'm genuinely amazed that you go to such effort and do these massive releases. I have something like 1200 Sonic tracks and I'm positive that they're mostly all from you! Good stuff man.

Time to download a very good Sonic Advance & Sonic Battle soundtrack :D

Your work is impressive and it's worth the time and effort you put on it. But my only question is to why you do this with all the games EXCEPT Sonic Pinball Party and Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis

Do you REALLY want to see Sonic Genesis given this treatment? Like seriously?

No amount of polishing or editing will ever save that disaster of a port nor its music.

EDIT: Anyway, as for this collection, if someone told these were the original masters of the soundtracks I'd believe it because you really outdid yourself with this one !!!!!

Also, I don't think anyone noticed this in the previous versions, but it's about time that you finally fixed Advance 2's Final Boss theme which previously had some instruments missing from the overall melody.

Thanks a lot!

Do you REALLY want to see Sonic Genesis given this treatment? Like seriously?

No amount of polishing or editing will ever save that disaster of a port nor its music.

EDIT: Anyway, as for this collection, if someone told these were the original masters of the soundtracks I'd believe it because you really outdid yourself with this one !!!!!

Also, I don't think anyone noticed this in the previous versions, but it's about time that you fixed Advance 2's Final Boss theme which previously had some instruments missing from the overall melody.

Well... then how about Sonic Pinball Party?

Whoa, this is great!

Hey, I hate to be that guy, but it seems like in Sonic Advance 1, There is a Song Duplicated twice: 40 VS Menu (Single-Pak), and 43 VS Menu (Multi-Pak) are the same song.. I think this was a mistake because the original 1-40 VS Menu (Single-Pak) in the 2.0 is a different song entirely...

Do you REALLY want to see Sonic Genesis given this treatment? Like seriously?

No amount of polishing or editing will ever save that disaster of a port nor its music.

EDIT: Anyway, as for this collection, if someone told these were the original masters of the soundtracks I'd believe it because you really outdid yourself with this one !!!!!

Also, I don't think anyone noticed this in the previous versions, but it's about time that you finally fixed Advance 2's Final Boss theme which previously had some instruments missing from the overall melody.

I'm not sure I would say they sound like original masters since instruments have been horribly compressed on the GBA but I'm glad I could fix this rip to sound somewhat official.

Didn't know about the Advance 2 Final Boss song but I'm not surprised considering the hurdles I've gone through just rendering specific instruments from some tracks. Having to use a completely different program to render one channel of a midi.


Well... then how about Sonic Pinball Party?

I was originally only going to do Sonic Advance 1-3 with this new remaster but then forced myself to do Sonic Battle and the Neo Green Hill Zone remix from Pinball Party. It's extremely tedious to set each instrument in a Midi to mono, render each instrument track one by one, going back to separate drums from the drum kit, properly set all of the rendered tracks in a DAW one by one, using different programs for each process before I can actually edit the track and this is for over 200 tracks. I wasn't willing to squeeze in Sonic Pinball Party after all that maybe I'll include it down the line.

I did think about Sonic Genesis but the game doesn't use the sound engine that SA1-3, SB, Sonic Pinball Party use that would allow me to extensively edit the tracks.


Hey, I hate to be that guy, but it seems like in Sonic Advance 1, There is a Song Duplicated twice: 40 VS Menu (Single-Pak), and 43 VS Menu (Multi-Pak) are the same song.. I think this was a mistake because the original 1-40 VS Menu (Single-Pak) in the 2.0 is a different song entirely...

Thanks for that!

UPDATE 1 (11-28-16)
-"40 VS Menu (Single-Pak)" is now the correct track
-"43 VS Menu (Multi-Pak)" replaced by its 16-bit duplicate (original duplicate was 24-bit)

Thank you!

Thanks ! Always great work :)

My childhood is back! Thanks!

still haven't done the tracks from the Android version I see...

I dont know how i didnt get this sooner but nevertheless excellent rip! :-D

one thing i did notice "knuckles demo" on sonic advance 2 is missing the bouncy "too too" drum sound compared to your original is that intentional?

I can't believe after all these years, no one has managed to rip the music from the Chao Garden. Also, for some reason, the first three notes of the chords when the main melody starts in Neo Green Hill Zone Act 2 seem to be out of tune (around 0:07). In the actual game, it's not, however, looking at the MIDI ripped with GBAMusRiper.... it's complicated. Very complicated. But there's probably a pitch related event that doesn't get reset when it's supposed to be.

I was never hot on the second rip to be honest, but this third rip is amazing. This is a great job youve done from a first listen.

I know its a long shot but do you have any inclination to try and do Pinball Party and the Chao Garden Theme (or any other GBA games) like this?

I don't think it's at all possible, but one game I've always wanted to hear in higher quality and with stereo panning, is DKC3.

still haven't done the tracks from the Android version I see...

And I don't ever plan too. Sonic Advance on android uses midis and a generic soundfont which sounds worse then Sonic 1 GBA imo.


I dont know how i didnt get this sooner but nevertheless excellent rip! :-D

one thing i did notice "knuckles demo" on sonic advance 2 is missing the bouncy "too too" drum sound compared to your original is that intentional?

You're right those instruments are missing that I believe are bongos and a cuica.


I can't believe after all these years, no one has managed to rip the music from the Chao Garden. Also, for some reason, the first three notes of the chords when the main melody starts in Neo Green Hill Zone Act 2 seem to be out of tune (around 0:07). In the actual game, it's not, however, looking at the MIDI ripped with GBAMusRiper.... it's complicated. Very complicated. But there's probably a pitch related event that doesn't get reset when it's supposed to be.

I didn't notice until now it's due to the modulation of the guitar chords in the MIDI. Tiny Chao Garden is unrippable with GBAMusRiper. I thought about re-creating the songs but I needed the low-quality banjo sample that isn't in any of the Sonic Advance games.


I was never hot on the second rip to be honest, but this third rip is amazing. This is a great job youve done from a first listen.

I know its a long shot but do you have any inclination to try and do Pinball Party and the Chao Garden Theme (or any other GBA games) like this?

Maybe in a fourth rip. Don't know about Chao Garden music though.


I don't think it's at all possible, but one game I've always wanted to hear in higher quality and with stereo panning, is DKC3.

Would be great but Rare used a custom audio engine that's unrippable with the current tools. Maybe in 100 years I'll complete these rearrangements (https://app.box.com/s/uamjigxdksx9nlizvx9msw19wy4kr2mj).

Nice work, how did you tag the track composers? Educated guesses, or any confirmed info?

Nice work, how did you tag the track composers? Educated guesses, or any confirmed info?

From here: http://segaretro.org/Category:Musicians

And I don't ever plan too. Sonic Advance on android uses midis and a generic soundfont which sounds worse then Sonic 1 GBA imo.

Which in other words means: YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DO IT

Still waiting for that Android rip since you're being hypocritical about this being "complete" collection.

Bullshit, if this was complete, you would have included the android version. And before you pull this:


And I don't ever plan too. Sonic Advance on android uses midis and a generic soundfont which sounds worse then Sonic 1 GBA imo.


I've fixed that for you.


And I plan too. Sonic Advance on android uses midis and a hard to crack soundfont which sounds better than Sonic 1 GBA.


You are literally comparing apples to shit.

Mysterii, seriously, stop being so entitled. If he doesn't want to do it, then stop badgering him to. I've learned from experience that being berated on a regular basis is enough to make people outright refuse to work on the things you demand from them.

what Mysterii needs is a jolly good smacked bottom

Still waiting for that Android rip since you're being hypocritical about this being "complete" collection.

Bullshit, if this was complete, you would have included the android version. And before you pull this:



I've fixed that for you.



You are literally comparing apples to shit.

With your first post I thought you were being sarcastic but you've clearly lost your mind to call me a hypocrite and demand the phone port's music. The game doesn't have it's own soundfont. I've heard Neo Green Hill Zone's music on 3 different videos and instruments are different. I'm assuming the game runs its midis through the phone OS' generic soundfont to playback from.

what Mysterii needs is a jolly good smacked bottom

I'm just proving a point.


With your first post I thought you were being sarcastic but you've clearly lost your mind to call me a hypocrite and demand the phone port's music. The game doesn't have it's own soundfont. I've heard Neo Green Hill Zone's music on 3 different videos and instruments are different. I'm assuming the game runs its midis through the phone OS' generic soundfont to playback from.

I wasn't being insane or sarcastic. I meant it. You claiming that this is "complete" is a lie. But if you were to include the tracks from the Japanese Google Play release (not the shitty Java or Ngage versions), then you can call it complete.

You claiming that this is "complete" is a lie.
Umm, where did he say that?

I'm just proving a point.The only point you're proving is that you're a dick

Come on, is there really someone complaining about these gems?
:p

Brother !!!!!, just one stupid question from me. Are we going to have version 4.0 of this Sonic Advance Remastered Soundtrack?

That ncrypt link kind of appears "unresolve domain name"-esque...

Kindly fix that please ?

Wow, I hadn't realized you made an update to this! I had your 2.0 since 2014 and always thought it sounded off. I'm glad I decided to download this because it sounds much better!

Only one issue: the percussion sounds way too loud now. The high-pitched hissing percussion is what I'm talking about. It's like all I can focus on and gives me a headache. Is it perhaps unintentional? Unfortunately I'll have to stick with the gamerip once again because of this. Hopefully you're willing to touch it up in the 4.0 in the future.

In the chance that you can make a couple more tweaks to this collection, this will be the definitive sonic advance remaster to date!! If you can fix some of the artifacts as mentioned earlier then that would be awesome, but to me I think this is still the best version of the Advance soundtracks as of now

Amazing. I can't wait to get this. Thanks so much

A huge thanks.

The link keeps forcing me to download an extension, and if I choose not to, the tab closes itself. Hm.