This website features professional soundtracks that can't be found anywhere else, as well as official downloads from videogame companies. 2009-04-29T13:00:00-06:00 Scrappy http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/ http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/?feed=2010-02-14 2010-02-14T18:00:00-06:00 http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/banjo-kazooie_nuts_bolts/?feed=2009-04-29 2009-04-29T13:00:00-06:00

In celebration of Banjo-Tooie's re-release, I went back and overhauled the Nostalgia Soundtrack into a full album.

Here's a list of some songs that first appeared in Banjo-Tooie that make a reappearance:

• Klungo Battle - Klungo's Arcade
• Jinjo Village - Jinjo Challenge, Showdown Town
• Mayahem Temple - Banjoland (Challenge & Day)
• Witchyworld - Nutty Acres (Challenge)
• Hailfire Peaks - The Jiggoseum
• Cloud Cuckooland - Banjoland (Challenge & Day)

You should also grab the Punch-Out!! Wii song from the front page if you haven't already! ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/download/mario_luigi_2_partners_in_time_nintendo_ds.php 2009-04-19T06:00:00-06:00

It feels good to finally be able to do an update! Also be sure to get the Zelda: Spirits Tracks single before I move onto a new one. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/download/yoshis_island_ds.php 2009-02-15T06:00:00-06:00

I've also been uploading the Super Nintendo equivalents in the Song of the Day section. A few more of the better songs of Yoshi's Island DS in lossless.

A bonus image for Kirby fans: word is that Nintendo of America Photoshops most Kirby box art so that he's angry instead of happy like he's in Japan. Well the true story is that the photographer just catches him at different times. Inhaling all of those enemies has simply played too much of a toll on his psyche, making him a bit bipolar. I did a bit of un-Photoshopping to show you what I mean.


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Options, options, options! I ripped Mario Party 8 in three different ways: one loop mp3, two loop mp3, and source files. Hopefully between all those options, you'll be happy. :) Thank you Cthulhu (the tagger) for your patience! I always get way too obsessive compulsive about stuff. Take the album art for example: I spent a few hours morphing a wallpaper with high res box art and lots of touch up, just so I could take out the title and move it. All of that invisible work was simply because of the square ratio of album art compared to tall game box art. A few days later, I spent a couple hours experimenting with how to get "The Soundtrack" text more seamlessly integrated into the overall composition, eventually settling on mimicking the style of the Wii banner. I'm going to try to take a break from art this time around so that I can spend my time on other work. Does somebody out there wants to take a stab at designing the cover for Yoshi's Island DS? Whoever sends me the a professional looking design will get it featured on the site! If it's difficult to decide, maybe I'll create a new page section for user submitted covers! ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/super_smash_bros_brawl_ssbb/?music=4 2009-01-13T05:40:00-06:00

Thought this took forever? Well, so did I! Basically I kept perfecting it until I ran out of ideas on how to make it as good as it could be. This is in contrast to the Donkey Kong set, which could have used more refining before release.

• I listened to the Brawl versions many times in order to make sure I didn't miss any songs.
• I sailed the web getting all of the raw material I would need to create lossless quality rips.
• I researched and found the most up to date audio ripping programs and settings.
• In order to capture the in-game version of Dragon Roost Island (which could not be emulated or recreated using official releases), I spent a few hours finding out a way to get it with the least amount of ambiance possible.
• In order to get around the somewhat random nature of the Hyrule Field songs, I meticulously studied the behavior of the dynamic switching, recorded lots of reference, and recreated the exact order of Brawl's sequences through exact edits. I even made sure to get such details correct as transition themes that have to occur in the original game but are absent from the Brawl versions.
• I did a lot of experimentation to find the right balance of keeping song volumes consistent with the original games and making sure switching from different game systems wouldn't cause a jarring experience.
• I studied a variety of official soundtracks to figure out the right style of fading and padding that would act as a balance between several schools of thought. I strove to have each song to be just satisfying enough without risk of overdoing it, so that you would desire to play the album many times.
• I timed the fades to match the fadeout of the Brawl version whenever possible.
• I confirmed the accuracy of every composer tag.
• I included official OST titles in the comment tag.
• I tagged every source file and created playlists to accommodate people with different plugins.

Multiply however long you think that took me by the number of times you think I scrapped work because of trial and error. Your guess is too low. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/index.php?feed=2009-01-07 2009-01-07T04:00:00-06:00
I'm almost finished with Vol. C of Brawl Originals. Mario Party 8 should follow shortly. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/index.php?feed=2008-12-27 2008-12-27T15:46:00-06:00 http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/banjo-kazooie_nuts_bolts 2008-12-16T13:54:00-06:00



Thanks to Matt J., the Wario Land soundtrack is now fully tagged and in the proper order. I also re-ripped the songs with S-curve fadeouts instead of linear, so it sounds more like an official soundtrack (like the rest of the albums on this site).

I decided to focus on the nostalgic songs for Banjo because it would require a lot of editing time to do them all-- doubling up the songs at a loop point you need to find manually in order to do a proper fadeout. If you know how to use a multi-track audio or video editing program, then contact me if you'd like to help. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/download/disaster_day_crisis.php 2008-11-08T01:15:00-06:00

This game came out in Europe and Japan, but it probably won't be coming to the United States because it didn't sell well. I was looking forward to it too. I guess us Americans we'll have to settle with the soundtrack I created (unless you import of course)!

I'm hoping it won't take me as long to get to the next update, and I'm working on a system that should help me update daily again. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/download/myst_music.php 2008-10-08T01:15:00-06:00





For those of you who didn't notice, I went back and added the emulated songs to the Brawl Originals series. If you don't know what that means, just stick with the mp3 downloads. I also did tons of research on getting the most accurate high quality sound from games, and I redid the Mario pack from scratch a few weeks ago. You can tell if you have the latest by looking at the song count (you should have 23).

The Donkey Kong pack features songs from the original arcade version that I painstakingly created from MAME recordings and piece by piece editing to get rid of the sound effects. Like the Videlectrix songs, the amount of effort probably wasn't worth it unless there are some hardcore fans out there.

I've been tweaking "Myst Saga - Ambient Tour" off and on over several years. I think it's ready to be released now that the ending to the Myst series has essentially been written (though efforts will continue to keep up Uru Online). I really believe that working on something gradually rather than all at once helps give you added perspective, so I'm especially pleased with how this turned out. I hope it will be something that you will want to listen to many times.
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So I finally finished putting this album together. I hope there are some hardcore Homestar Runner fans that come to the site, because this took a lot of work that I think wouldn't be appreciated that much by the average Joe who wouldn't understand the parody. Videlectrix games are free online without advertising, so you should definitely check them out if you haven't already. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/super_smash_bros_brawl_ssbb/?music=2 2008-08-13T17:38:00-06:00

This is the first of the Originals series, perfect both for the nostalgic and the curious. I'm extracting every song myself for ultimate quality, so please be patient on the releases. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/download/spore.php 2008-08-06T06:05:00-06:00

You'll notice that I've been tinkering with the website's style to make it even more 8-bit retro. Anybody recognize the homage to the original Legend of Zelda? In addition to the border style, I created the font using screen grabs from the very first NES games.

Sorry that it took so long to get the Spore downloads page up, I had to rewrite some code before I could post it. The next update should come much sooner. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/mega_man_9 2008-07-12T13:55:00-06:00

This game is the litmus test of your age. You're either excited about it because you grew up with the original NES, or you are scratching your head wondering why they decided to take a step back. Hopefully the budget they save on not having to make fancy schmancy graphics is used to polish the gameplay. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/metal_gear_solid_mgs_quadrilogy/?music=4 2008-07-04T08:52:00-06:00

I also created a torrent for the entire album that uses 320 kbps for the audio bitrate. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/metal_gear_solid_mgs_quadrilogy/?music=3 2008-06-26T00:41:00-06:00

Here's the third part of the album, next week is the Metal Gear Solid 4 music!

Also, I made some tweaks to the music for Metal Gear Solid 3 last Saturday (June 21st) so that it better reflects the spirit of the fast paced nature of the rest of the compilation album. You have the old version if the first song is six and a half minutes long. There are also shorter gaps between the tracks so that they better flow from one to another, and I did some small volume adjustments to the quiet parts so that you won't have to keep adjusting the volume as much. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/metal_gear_solid_mgs_quadrilogy/?music=2 2008-06-18T12:25:00-06:00

I'm going to have to shift to a weekly schedule for about a month due to life busy-ness. Then I should go back to daily updates. You'll still be getting music albums you can't find anywhere else and are of better quality than most other efforts where they don't put in nearly the same amount of work.

In-between the weekly updates, I'll also be continuing to upload some of the older albums. But seriously, I'm in a position this month where I don't have much time to work on the site. It won't be like that forever thankfully. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/metal_gear_solid_mgs_quadrilogy/ 2008-06-11T04:05:00-06:00

I'm releasing a Metal Gear Solid compilation album in parts, and this one is for Metal Gear Solid 3.

Also, during the previous week I re-uploaded more of the previous soundtracks. Lots of stuff going on right now in my life, so the site may have slower updates for awhile. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/metal_gear_solid_mgs4/ 2008-06-04T04:30:00-06:00

If you've downloaded this before, I'd say pass. But if you're dying to have a slight improvement in quality to the "Brawl Meets Suicidal Snake Mix" I made, or if you must have the "cutscene music" with the correct artist tags and official titles, go right ahead! You could also look at the song list on the page for that info.

That's actually a pretty powerful feature I finally finished coding, which allows me to pick and choose showing tags of the music, and have the option of providing individual song links. Unfortunately that's part of what caused the site to go down in the first place, since there are music player sites that specialize in crawling the web and leaching off of any mp3 it can find.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is almost upon us! In celebration, I was working on a Metal Gear series compilation album. Right now however, I'm just a bit distracted rebuilding the foundation of the site. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/mario_kart_wii/?music=7 2008-06-03T06:55:00-06:00 ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/?date=2008-06-02 2008-06-02T06:11:00-06:00
THE REMAINING SONGS:

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Rockstar updated their website with the rest of the radio station montages, so here you go. I decided the best way to handle updated releases is to split them up into parts, so you won't have to re-download any of the songs you already have. If you have the first 6 songs, all you need is Part 2. If not, download Parts 1 and 2. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/game.php?id=dr_mario_online 2008-05-27T04:15:00-06:00

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I was already overworking with the weekly delivery, so I've just committed myself to never having free time. Oh well, fun is overrated. Just kidding, this is pretty fun to me!



This is the first time this song has ever been released without any SFX. I accomplished this by using 4 different source clips.

I also put up links to wallpapers from the official site and Rareware.com. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/album.php?id=wii_fit 2008-05-10T03:15:00-06:00

From the main composer of one of the most epic games of all time, Twilight Princess, comes...
A fitness soundtrack??

Like the Nintendo Channel, I think this music will probably be under-appreciated since it does
it's job of not being too obtrusive. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/album.php?id=nintendo_channel 2008-05-10T03:11:00-06:00

I'm back! Hopefully those two weeks will be one of the longest periods of inactivity.
Last week I was busy setting up things so that I'll be able to make daily download
posts instead of weekly ones. Will you be able to handle it?

So I posted the Nintendo Channel soundtrack I made. One of my favorite parts about
the release of a new Wii channel is hearing the new music. Each song is simple, but fits
each channel really well. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/video.php?id=super_mario_kart 2008-04-26T05:00:00-06:00

In celebration of Mario Kart Wii's release, here's a video blasting every inch of the original Super Mario Kart in 3 minutes total...can you handle it?
]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/album.php?id=mario_kart_wii 2008-04-19T18:45:00-06:00 Like with the Brawl soundtrack, I obsessed a little bit too much over the little details. Enjoy! You can also listen to any of the songs at the website beforehand to see what you're getting. Individual direct song downloads and torrent file are included. Zip packs coming in a couple of days.

• Includes all of the music cues, including the alternate versions heard on different parts of each track.
  
• The titles follow previous official Mario Kart soundtracks.
  
• The composers, artists, and years for every song have been tagged.
  
• The song order is based off of what would be likely on an official soundtrack. If you want the final lap versions to alternate with the regular songs, just change their disc number to 1.
  
• Soundtrack style fades.
  

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"This is dangerous. It's a little risky. To have so many of these individuals providing music for a single work may very well be an historic event in the history of video-game music!"
-Sakurai, May 22, 2007

Even with these words and that long list of composers, I doubt many people realized how epic the soundtrack really would be. It's simply massive. I've spent a great deal many fortnights cataloging this beast, and experimenting with ways to present it in the best manner possible. Ultimately I discovered that the only right way to do it was to offer several options. This is simply the first.

On the horizon:
-two loops version
-mp4 format for iPods
-lossless version
-OST equivalents with endings instead of loops (especially needed for vocal songs)

And the most ambitious project of all: the non-arranged originals of every track to suit your nostalgic/curious fancy.

I will be releasing them to the website and via torrent. Not sure how much traffic I can take, so I really appreciate whoever uses the torrent option, especially whoever seeds!
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These songs are in professional quality, with manual fadeouts, unique album art for each track, and extremely detailed tags.
I'm mostly finished with the rest of the soundtrack, just need to finish polishing each one on a day to day basis.
Probably a couple weeks more of work. This is by no means a lazy rip. Enjoy! ]]> http://www.smashbroscomics.com/index.php?feed=2008-04-08 2008-04-07T00:15:00-06:00

So besides obsessing a little too much over the quality of game soundtrack releases, I'm also working on a webcomic that will explore all of the Nintendo universes and what happens when they collide outside the context of Subspace Shenanigans. The third entry gives away that it's going to be a "multimedia webcomic", something that stays true to comic aesthetics but injecting a bit of "bells and whistles". Which is like heroin, only less stealthy. Thankfully the mute button is there to save the day for those who don't want to receive aural pleasure (or simply can't because it is deemed 'inappropriate' for the workplace).

Next on the agenda: the complete Brawl soundtrack, the first rip on the web (as far as I know) that won't have tiny pops on a few of the track's loop points, and that has professional fades, tags, and artwork.

On the horizon: the non-music files ripped off of the Brawl disc, rare video game music, play through videos that summarize games in a few minutes of non-stop action, and the sun, which promises to burn us all in one all encompassing glorious inferno of blazing passion. ]]> http://www.videogamescrapbook.com/index.php?feed=2008-04-07 2008-04-07T00:11:00-06:00 into one website dedicated to delivering exclusive game albums, nostalgia
videos summarizing entire games in just a few minutes, and a multimedia webcomic
dedicated to the Smash Bros. universe. ]]>