Rez - Gamer's Guide to... (2002) Soundtrack Issues

[Ritual Magick Lad]

Looks like the iconic original soundtrack has been replaced by this version, causing all of the faults we're hearing about in the threads. I hope an update is coming!

[Crisis]

If not, I suppose we can start figuring out how to mod the old music in since I don't want to play the new version with the castrated music.

But I don't think it was replaced by that version, rather it was remastered poorly.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

What are all you guys listening to this with, pair of Beats headphones?

[Plantman Knows Where Plants Grow]

I played tons of Dreamcast and PS2 Rez and don't notice a difference but I'm also not playing in VR which I have heard has audio sync problems. Is the audio sync problem in VR what you are talking about?

[BlueIsTrue]

While there is no difference in game, I would like more info on "ripping" any game data (either from the snd .bnk's or from the game data .dat archives), mainly from Rez, not Area X

[Ritual Magick Lad]

Originally posted by BlueIsTrue:

While there is no difference in game, I would like more info on "ripping" any game data (either from the snd .bnk's or from the game data .dat archives), mainly from Rez, not Area X

I don't think that's necessary BlueIsTrue, the Rez soundtrack is easily available without having to rip it yourself.

[strider_sp]

Originally posted by Ritual Magick Lad:

Originally posted by BlueIsTrue:

While there is no difference in game, I would like more info on "ripping" any game data (either from the snd .bnk's or from the game data .dat archives), mainly from Rez, not Area X

I don't think that's necessary BlueIsTrue, the Rez soundtrack is easily available without having to rip it yourself.

Speaking of that... what is the name of the credits tune? From original Rez?

[Epikas Jones]

Originally posted by strider_sp:

Originally posted by Ritual Magick Lad:

I don't think that's necessary BlueIsTrue, the Rez soundtrack is easily available without having to rip it yourself.

Speaking of that... what is the name of the credits tune? From original Rez?

it's in the games credits jus beat area 5, however score attack area 5 does not do credits so wouldent try to look for it there

[ThumpieBunnyEve]

I own Original REZ™ OST from japan.

the albem is called:" Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... "
has 10 tracks:

Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 01 Keiichi Sugiyama - Buggie Running Beeps 01 (Area01)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 02 Mist - Protocol Rain (Area02)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 03 Ken Ishii - Creation The State Of Art (Full Option) (Area03)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 04 Joujouka - Rock Is Sponge (Area04)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 05 Adam Freeland - Fear (Rez Edit) (Area05)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 06 Coldcut Tim Bran (Additional production, Danny Briottet) - Boss Attacks (Remix)(Eden-Last Boss)

Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 07 Edz - F6 G5 (Lost Area)
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 08 Oval - Octaeder 0 1
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 09 Ken Ishii - Creative State
Rez™ Gamer's Guide to... - 10 Oval - P-Project (Trancemission)

There are sites here and there you can still buy it from. Its not uncommon. the audio is in CD quality 360kbpm or something like that. so its -better- then what was on the game disks, wider dynamic range.
Fear ~ Is the mind Killer, had a few remixes on it as i recal.
Or maybe i got the remixes from OC-Remix http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00694

I've saved many of the songs as .ogg files from that OST with an average bitrate of 256kbps. as .ogg vorbis files are like VBR mp3's with less lossy waveforme compression.

(one way to look at it, vbr-mp3;s are like a jpg fuzzy around sharp transitions. .ogg is like a .png clean but mathmaticly compressed to the edges of those tranisitions.)

I don't really have anything to loop the tracks based on the players play time though. furthermore, the game changed aspects of the tracks layers, based on your progress, which really is what the synastasia of the game is about. without that audio immersion its literally not the same game. so axeing the music and just playing sound effects while you run the old rez OST just doesn't work.

If it's the nostalgia fix your hunting, ps2 emulators exist and work i use them on backups I've made of my ageing ps2 disks. Don't trust ps3 emulators though thoues seem to be pretty fake-y, and loaded with trojan nastyness! its too hard for even top line pc's to 'emulate' the pc-level hardware in ps3 and so on, at its current state.

Theres also dreamcast emulators. which is where original REZ came from.
xbox360 has Rez HD in the live-arcade or whatever its called.
I've played the paste outa that one. it uses the original sound track and has a lot of nice new graphic detail over the Dreamcast and PS2 versions. as well as game modes.

Don't forget, the other game in this series, " Child of Eden " its part of the Rez story timeline. And a beautiful Rez-like game too!