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Donkey Kong Country: The Restored Tracks |OT| High Fidelity Jamz

mcjmetroid

Member
Absolutely godlike. I dream of the day all 16-bit games get the same treatment.
I would absolutely cream myself if Thunderforce IV got this treatment. I know there is heavy metal versions and covers etc but not like this.

I hope he moves onto something like Mario 64 or something at the very least.
 

ShadowFX

Member
I would absolutely cream myself if Thunderforce IV got this treatment. I know there is heavy metal versions and covers etc but not like this.

I hope he moves onto something like Mario 64 or something at the very least.
Though it's never really certain, Sam has mentioned he has no interest in restoring soundtracks other than DKC1/2/3.
 

mcjmetroid

Member
Though it's never really certain, Sam has mentioned he has no interest in restoring soundtracks other than DKC1/2/3.
Well he might but he seems to have a good thing going here.

I would move onto something else but if this is his passion - who am i to judge.
 

GymWolf

Member
is there a link where i can listen the restored songs sequentially? (like the ost compilation on yt)?
thanks.
 

Drell

Member
I would absolutely cream myself if Thunderforce IV got this treatment. I know there is heavy metal versions and covers etc but not like this.

I hope he moves onto something like Mario 64 or something at the very least.

Well Thunderforce IV is a MegaDrive game and therefore uses FM synthesis for the whole soundtrack. As opposed to SNES soundtrack which needed samples to be heavily compressed/altered from their original source to fit in the tiny cartridge space and the 64kb of audio ram of the SNES audio chip.
Thunderforce IV ost can't "sound better" because there is litteraly no compression or alteration of samples because there is no samples. The FM chip is generating the sound itself so no restoration is needed.
 
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I'm curious, has David Wise seen this project, or has anyone been in contact with him about these restorations? I would love to hear his response.

Big thank you from this gamer to everyone who worked or is working on this. DKC 1-3 are my favorite games of all time and I could not be more grateful! You people are awesome!
 

ShadowFX

Member
A new live restoration was posted of 'Jungle Jitter' (DKC3) 🌴🌳🌰 :



On-hold due to lack of a sound/instrument for now.
 
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ShadowFX

Member
Updating the live restorations post of the finalization of the DKC2 soundtrack. Continuing on with the Lost Life- and Win jingles.
 

zolstarym

Neophyte
Would it be possible to tag or rename the music files with their respective track numbers? There is a chart showing that the songs have tracks but that data is absent in the download files.
 

ShadowFX

Member
Would it be possible to tag or rename the music files with their respective track numbers? There is a chart showing that the songs have tracks but that data is absent in the download files.
At the moment, you need to do this yourself (by using Mp3tag, Tag&Rename etc.). The audio files are not always consistently tagged when exported.
I recommend using the chart I created in the first post to match the original soundtrack list.
 
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ShadowFX

Member
Completed restoration of track 'Brothers Bear' (DKC3) 🐻:



Update: last part of the live restoration of 'Wrinkly's Save Cave' was uploaded by Sam (also updated previous post)!
 
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