Salted
04-12-2019, 08:58 AM
After ripping all the files from the game and with a special thanks to SonicAdventure's method for some basic restoration on the tracks with heavy quantization issues, I'm happy to present a proper, chronological and 200% complete score for Halo 2, one of my favourite games and scores of all time.
I created a few rules for myself while putting this together. Halo 2 makes use of ambient looping tracks throughout the game. I used each one only once throughout the set, as this could be considered a "tracked" cue. Therefore, I added it in at its first appearance. (The ambience tracks are called "glue" because they glue different sections of the game together. They are based on a scale from C through G, with some variances such as no highs and no lows).
For other core tracks that begin to layer near the end of the game to create new tracks ("lazy writing"), I created new edits to mimick the game rather than leaving them in once, since they could be considered fundamentally different in that sense.
Stingers, swells and other short cues were labeled as inserts since there was no use having a new slate for a cue that is 2 seconds.
Anything that does not appear in the game (Album mixes and all the anniversary music) is labeled as alternates. However, for album edits that were fundamentally different, (eg. "Ghosts of Reach" which has a long choral intro on the album) I added on the second disk as an extra since it doesn't really have any meaningful place in the main disk for game music. Basically, If a track was too dissimilar to the game version, I made a game version and then added the original as an extra, for posterity)
For tracks which were too heavily distorted to fix and use, I made my own mockups of them using VSTs (eg. the track "Activation", or the string backing for "Remembrance (With Strings)"), and lastly, I made a suite of music for each level, and took some creative liberties for things like cutting ambient music short which kills the suite vibe. (The beginning of "Gravemind" is 5 minutes of ambience).
Cutscene music is pitched down -0.27 semitones (with the exception of The Last Spartan which is closer to 1 whole semitone) with a tempo change of -1.315%, which is how the music appears in the game during these scenes.
I also included the original tracks by Incubus that were on the commercial disk
Custom album art included.
I used slates to keep the thing organized as it was so massive, but you can remove them if you're not into that sort of thing :-)
Most of all, enjoy!
Tracks: 216
Runtime: 10 hours, 50 minutes
Size: 3.72 GB
https://mega.nz/#!altA0QbI!bq6DQQ7L6d9OGZ3fTxRuA_MK8yuU4AClYxI9LMV3Qdk
Tracklist;
001 - 1m00 Bungie Logo
002 - 1m01 The Heretic
003 - 1m02 Cold Blue Light
004 - 1m03 The Armoury
005 - 1m04p1 Cairo Station (Part 1)
006 - 1m04p2 Cairo Station (Part 2)
007 - 1m05 Lost Muse
008 - 1m5alt Lost Muse (Alternate)
009 - 1m06 Wage (End Perc.)
010 - 1m07 Jewelled Hull
011 - 1m07alt Jewelled Hull (Alternate)
012 - 1m07ins Athens Explosion (Insert)
013 - 1m08 Commons Area B51
014 - 1m09 Chill Exposure
015 - 1m09alt Chill Exposure (Alternate)
016 - 1m09ins Drones (Insert)
017 - 1m10 Impend v1
018 - 1m11p1 The Last Spartan (Part 1)
019 - 1m11p2 The Last Spartan (Part 2)
020 - 1m11alt The Last Spartan (Alternate)
021 - 1m11alt2 The Last Spartan (Alternate 2)
022 - 2m12 Outskirts
023 - 2m12alt Outskirts (Alt. End)
024 - 2m12alt2 Outskirts (Alt. End 2)
025 - 2m13 The Courtyard
026 - 2m14p1 Broken Gates v1 (Part 1)
027 - 2m14p2 Broken Gates v1 (Part 2)
028 - 2m15 Zanzibar Hotel
029 - 2m16 Ghosts of Reach (Part 1)
030 - 2m17 The Beach
031 - 2m18 Ghosts of Reach (Part 2)
032 - 2m19 Tunnels
033 - 2m19ins Scarab Attack (Insert)
034 - 2m20 Encounter
035 - 2m20alt Encounter (Alternate)
036 - 3m21 Metropolis
037 - 3m21alt Metropolis (Extended)
038 - 3m21alt2 Metropolis (Alternate)
039 - 3m22 Bridge Assault
040 - 3m23 Interconnected
041 - 3m24 Earth City v1
042 - 3m25 Scarab Assault
043 - 3m26 Into Slipspace
044 - 3m26alt Into Slipspace (Alternate)
045 - 4m27 The Arbiter
046 - 4m28 Ancient Machine
047 - 4m28alt Anceint Machine (Alternate)
048 - 4m29 Flawed Legacy
049 - 4m29alt Flawed Legacy (Alternate)
050 - 4m30 Hallways and Corridors
051 - 4m31s Odyssey (Mvt. 1) (Source)
052 - 4m31sAlt Odyssey (Mvt. 1) (Source) (Alternate)
053 - 5m32 Oracle
054 - 5m33 Juggernaut
055 - 5m33alt Juggernaut (Alternate)
056 - 5m33ins Flood (Insert)
057 - 5m34 Falling Up v1
058 - 5m35Ap1 Ascent (Part 1)
059 - 5m35Ap2 Ascent (Part 2)
060 - 5m35Ap2ins Stinger (Insert)
061 - 5m35B The Final Cable
062 - 5m35Bins Cable Cut (Insert)
063 - 5m36 Infected v1
064 - 5m36alt Infected (Alternate)
065 - 5m37 Tartarus Appears
066 - 5m38 Guilty Spark Taken
067 - 6m39 Delta Halo
068 - 6m40 Peril v1
069 - 6m40alt Peril v1 (Alternate)
070 - 6m41 In Amber Clad v1
071 - 6m42 Helium Queen
072 - 6m43 Heretic, Hero v1
073 - 6m43alt Heretic, Hero v1 (Alternate)
074 - 6m44 In Amber Clad v2
075 - 6m44alt In Amber Clad v2 (Alternate)
076 - 6m45 Wage (String Intro)
077 - 7m46 Regret (Wage Perc. Intro)
078 - 7m47 Impend v2
079 - 7m47alt Impend v2 (Alternate)
080 - 7m48 Ruins
081 - 7m48ins Boarding (Insert)
082 - 7m49 Leonidas v1
083 - 7m50 Remembrance v1
084 - 7m51 Underwater (Part 1)
085 - 7m52 Underwater (Part 2)
086 - 7m53 Remembrance v2 (With Strings)
087 - 7m53alt Remembrance v2 (With Strings) (Alternate)
088 - 7m54 Delta Towers
089 - 7m55 Leonidas v2
090 - 7m55alt Leonidas v2 (Alternate)
091 - 7m56 Heavy Price Paid (Short)
092 - 7m56alt Heavy Price Paid (Long)
093 - 7m57p1 Sacred Icon (Part 1)
094 - 7m57p2 Sacred Icon (Part 2)
095 - 7m57alt Sacred Icon (P1&2 Extended Mix)
096 - 7m58 Falling (Part 1)
097 - 7m58p1ins Falling (Insert)
098 - 7m59 Ionizer
099 - 7m60 Orbit of Glass
100 - 7m60alt Orbit of Glass (Alternate)
101 - 7m61 Belly of the Beast
102 - 7m62 Falling (Part 2)
103 - 7m63 Dropship Approaching
104 - 8m64 Quarantine Zone
105 - 8m64alt Quarantine Zone (Alternate)
106 - 8m65 Reclaimer
107 - 8m65alt Reclaimer (Alternate)
108 - 8m66 Menace
109 - 8m66 Menace (Alternate)
110 - 8m67 100,000-Year War
111 - 8m68 Rue and Woe
112 - 8m69 Trying Winds
113 - 8m70ins Respite (Insert)
114 - 8m70ins2 Heretic, Hero v2 (Insert)
115 - 8m71 The Library
116 - 8m72 The Index
117 - 9m73p1 Gravemind (Part 1)
118 - 9m73p2 Gravemind (Part 2)
119 - 9m74 Broken Gates v2
120 - 9m74alt Broken Gates v2 (Alternate)
121 - 9m75 Peril v2
122 - 9m76 Civil War
123 - 9m77 Destroyer's Invocation
124 - 9m77alt Destroyer's Invocation (Alternate)
125 - 9m78 Antediluvia
126 - 9m78alt Antediluvia (Alternate)
127 - 9m79s Blow Me Away (Source)
128 - 9m79sAlt Blow Me Away (Source) (Alternate)
129 - 9m80 Mercy Killing
130 - 9m81 Uprising (Heavy Price Paid Loop)
131 - 9m82 Wage (Slow Perc.)
132 - 9m83 Unyielding
133 - 9m83alt Unyielding (Alternate)
134 - 9m84 Convergeance
135 - 10m85 High Charity
136 - 10m86 Persuit of Truth
137 - 10m86alt Persuit of Truth (Alt. Intro)
138 - 10m86alt2 Persuit of Truth (Alt. Intro) (Alternate)
139 - 10m87 Subsume
140 - 10m87ins Spook (Insert)
141 - 10m87ins2 Depths of Hell (Insert)
142 - 10m87ins3 Falling Up v2 (Insert)
143 - 10m87ins4 Gong Details (Insert)
144 - 10m88 Don't Make a Girl a Promise
145 - 11m89 The Great Journey
146 - 11m89alt The Great Journey (Alternate)
147 - 11m90 Heretic, Hero v3
148 - 11m91 Caves
149 - 11m91ins Exit Caves (Insert)
150 - 11m92 Impend v1 (Short)
151 - 11m92alt Impend v1 (Short) (Alt. Mix)
152 - 11m93 Earth City v2
153 - 11m93end-ins Earth City v2 (New End Insert)
154 - 11m93alt Earth City v2 (Alt. End)
155 - 11m93alt2 Earth City v2 (Alternate)
156 - 11m93alt3 Earth City v2 (Alternate) (Alt. End)
157 - 11m94 Knock knock!
158 - 11m95 Infected v2
159 - 11m96 Heroes Also Fall
160 - 11m96alt Heroes Also Fall (Alternate)
161 - 11m97 Activation
162 - 11m98 Tartarus
163 - 11m98alt - Tartarus (Alt. Choir)
164 - 11m99 Finale
165 - 12m100 Beholden
166 - 12m101 Halo Theme (Mjolnir Mix)
167 - 12m101alt Halo Theme (Gungnir Mix)
168 - 12m102 Road to Voi
169 - 12m102alt Road to Voi (Alternate Short Ver.)
170 - 13m103 Legend
171 - 13m103alt Legend (Short)
172 - Halo Theme (Choir)
173 - The Last Spartan (Pickup)
174 - Heavy Price Paid (Full Mix)
175 - Heavy Price Paid (Alt. Full Mix)
176 - Unforgotten
177 - Unforgotten (Alternate)
178 - Not a Number
179 - Cold Blue Light (Extended Mix)
180 - Waking Spartan
181 - Ghosts of Reach (Album Mix)
182 - Wage (Full Mix)
183 - Wage (Full Mix) (Alternate)
184 - Follow in Flight
185 - Breaking the Covenant
186 - Siege of Madrigal
187 - Never Surrender
188 - Connected
189 - Odyssey (Mvt. 2)
190 - Odyssey (Mvt. 3)
191 - Odyssey (Mvt. 4)
192 - Menu Suite
193 - Prologue Suite
194 - Cairo Suite v1
195 - Outskirts Suite
196 - Metropolis Suite
197 - Arbiter Suite
198 - Oracle Suite
199 - Delta Halo Suite
200 - Regret Suite
201 - Sacred Icon Suite
202 - Quantine Zone Suite
203 - Gravemind Suite
204 - Uprising Suite
205 - High Charity Suite
206 - Great Journey Suite
207 - Credits Suite
208 - Rising Suite
209 - Cairo Suite v2
210 - Mombasa Suite
211 - Mausoleum Suite
212 - Halo Suite
213 - Library Suite
214 - Truth Suite
215 - Ambience Suite
216 - Odyssey Suite