Koichi Sugiyama- 4.6 Billion Year Story: The Theory of Evolution PC-98 Rip [FLAC/MP3]

This is a Hoot (http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/) rip of 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron for the NEC PC-98. It’s a nice little half-hour soundtrack that, although I’m not a big enthusiast of music from early computers, is amongst the best PC-98 soundtrack I’ve heard yet. Sugiyama fans might have heard the Symphonic Synth Suite "4.6 Billion Year Story" -The Theory of Evolution- album arranged by Motoaki Takenouchi; this is the original material. I let all tracks loop that are supposed to and made customized fades and spaces between tracks.

FLAC (http://www.mediafire.com/?h9sz8dynnq364m0) – 116 MB
MP3 (LAME 3.99 V1) (http://www.mediafire.com/?w8dw3nni6xu6jlv) – 22.6 MB

A few notes that most people can comfortably skip over.

The MP3s are in mono. Actually, all the music is in mono, but Hoot always records to WAV in two channels, whether they’re used or not. They’re not here. They were encoded to mono to save on size (even using joint stereo, MP3s that are actually mono still turn out larger than if you just encode them that way). I promise you’re not missing out on anything, but in case you want it exactly intact, I’ve kept both channels in the FLACs, and retained the original sampling rate of 55,466 Hz. The MP3s are resampled to 44.1 kHz using foobar2000’s resampler in "Ultra Mode".

A handful of the songs when recorded straight in Hoot result in clipping from being too loud. I worked around this by muting some of the channels and recording, then recording separately those muted ones and combining the two and adjusting the volume. There is now not a single clip in this whole collection.

I named and ordered the tracks according to the arranged album and the recently re-released Koichi Sugiyama Game Music Works Collection: Melodies of Game Music album (keeping the paranthetical parts of the titles from that album. They’re evidently meant to be that way since none of the other tracks from other games on the collection do that).

The soundtrack to the sequel to this game can be found in SPC format at snesmusic.org (http://snesmusic.org/v2/profile.php?profile=set&selected=778) (especially recommended if you use Winamp or foobar2000; go to this page (http://snesmusic.org/v2/players.php) to find info on how to play these) or MP3 in jakob’s Motoaki Takenouchi Collection thread (Thread 71739), as well as the arranged albums for both games in MP3 there too. They can also be found in FLAC in the Lossless Video Game Soundtrack Thread, here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/149.html#post1402838) for the first and here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/107.html#post1377807) for the second, posted by AcidBeast.

If you have any questions, comments or there are any problems, I will gladly listen, including re-uploads if need be. I’ve tried to make this as high quality as I could for myself and anyone else who appreciates that, even in the smallest or most obscure soundtracks.

Thanks for the hard work! This sounds AMAZING. 😀 It’s fun to hear the origins of the E.V.O. soundtrack.

I missed this when it was posted, but thanks!

Oh my GOD! Someone actually got the music of this!!!?!! I’ve been looking for this for AGES! You, you are the best guy ever nothingtosay, I would buy you a pint if you were ever in my area, you are the best. Thank you so much!

Wow! so many thanks, man you’re so great!

Wow, Jesus. You’re welcome, dudes. I’m away two days and suddenly I’m the greatest ever and I didn’t even know it!

Can you reup? I’m interested in hearing the original material. :3

Awesome. It’s cool to hear the tracks that aren’t on the SNES sequel.

Can you reup? I’m interested in hearing the original material. :3
Somehow I missed it when you bumped the thread, so sorry for the delay. MegaUpload links are still alive for both FLAC and MP3. I could refresh the links though if you really want it from a different site though.

Can you please reup, maybe on mediafire???
Thanks for the awesome work!!!

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Can you please reup, maybe on mediafire???
Thanks for the awesome work!!!

Please reup

It’d be awesome to reup this 🙂

Yea, I agree. We need more PC-98 soundtracks posted here.

But strange how you say they’re in mono. The YM2608 chip was perfectly capable of doing stereo, so it had to be choice of Motoaki Takenouchi.

Please Reup, all I’m getting is that damn Hollywood v. Internet link instead of multiupload.

Can anyone reupload this?

bump

I’d also like to see a re-up.

Yes Ive been looking all over for this as well, would like it to be reuploaded

Click the links now.

Ah, thanks for the re-upload! I lost my version, and was hoping to see this again.

yeah wow thank you so much, I have EVERY google link for the prequel to evo left purple and this is definitely one of the best finds from this game. thanks so much

Registered just for this thank you! :]

Great upload as always. Thanks again my friend. Lets keep supporting Lossless music and make it a standard.

I remember playing E.V.O. as a kid and it was the only game I had to mute due to it’s irritating music, something I wouldn’t have to do till that Hideyuki Fukasawa clown appeared.

Thank you very much! How do you rip from hoot?