[EDIT] I encountered some issues with the upload and also learned how to correctly rip some tracks from BW without SFX, so I decided to change some things. Since the changes aren’t major and my upload speed isn’t very good, I won’t be uploading a V2 torrent for the time being. However, I implemented the changes on a Mega and GDrive Mirror, so I recommend downloading from there if you want the revised version.
Pastebin with all the changes
MEGA Mirror
This is not a simple compilation of official soundtracks. My goal was to make a complete collection of Pokémon music, including unused tracks and songs not present on the official soundtrack releases. I tried to include as many tracks as possible, but there are so many I’m sure I missed at least one, so please let me know if I did.
Every track from Gen 1 up to Gen 5 was ripped and tagged by myself. I also tagged many tracks on Gen 6 – Gen 8 games.
For the rips, I wanted something that sounded like the original games but with better quality. That means there’s no interpolation applied to any of the DS entries. The only exception to this rule are the Gen 1 and 2 games. Those tracks have a very low gain (most probably due to the decoder), so I used Replay Gain Album + Advanced Limiter to increase the volume a little bit. I still have the source files, so if you want a raw version, let me know.
For the tags, I used the official release of each game for reference, but I also made many changes to maintain consistency across the games.
You may ask, why would someone change the official track themes?
The answer is simple: On the official releases, there’s a big inconsistency between arrangements of the same composition. For example, the Hall of Fame theme has four different names, but they are essentially the same song. The same problem is present on the cycling theme, PokéDex evaluations and many others. I know many people don’t care about this, but I hate inconsistency, especially when it doesn’t make sense.
Sources
I used GameRips for USUM and SwSh because there hasn’t been an official release for these two soundtracks. I plan on replacing them if Game Freak decides to release them.
Comments - 16
Satoscio
Since when are game rips lossless? I’m calling bs
Cifer037 (uploader)
Don’t know if you’re trolling, but I’ll still answer your question. Gen 1-5 all use sampled music. You can run the code on a sound decoder and essentially get a bit by bit copy of the track. In the case of SwSh, it uses standard cd quality pcm tracks. USUM is the only game in which I can agree with you, but it’s still better than crappy mp3s you can find on google.
That’s essentially what every company does when they release a soundtrack of a game that uses psg. GBS, GSF and 2SF files are basically game code with everything stripped out except the music.
ScreenRant
Hidden tracks?
Cifer037 (uploader)
Unused tracks. Some were used for testing the sound hardware of the console (eg. RSE), and others were left in the cutting room floor (Giovanni’s theme on Pokémon Yellow and some others.)
Basically, I used that name because they are “hidden” in the game’s files
ScreenRant
More like hidden gems, then!
Thank you, sir.
Satoscio
Huh, that’s new for me, I thought game devs wouldn’t want to increase game size with lossless bgm (Pokémon Sw/Sh)
Cifer037 (uploader)
Sound compression isn’t that big of a deal anymore. Sure, there are still cases on the switch like Dark Souls Remastered and Assassins’ Creed, but not that many games use compressed audio.
Phantom132
*appreciation
thomas35
i know this is completly off topic but can someone please make a pokemon torrent with all the pokemon japanese opening and ending animations and can someone please make a pokemon torrent with all the pokemon japanese opening and endind songs full and also all the pokemon japanese movie exclusive songs you know because ive looked everywhere for these a lot of times some of them are on youtube but a lot of times they always get taken down do to copyright so if anybody ever gets a chance and can do this please and thank you sorry thought id ask here because theres a lot of comments plus this is a recent torrent so.
thomas35
ive been looking everywhere for all the japanese openings and endings as well as the movies songs not the openings from the movies but the movies songs you know because you know that there not always on youtube and everywhere else because of all the freaking copyright.and all i can ever find is the games complete music i mean come on theres never a complete generation series torrent you know one with all the current openings and endings man id like to just find one because you know sometimes i want to just listen to a certain song and i have to go all over the place just to find it so if someone could please help me out that would be much appreciated thanks.
huupoke12
Thank you for your work. Can you consider adding Mystery Dungeon series in the next release please, they have great music.
Cifer037 (uploader)
I might do a spin-off music collection once I fix my pc
DMG
Wow, now this is some tremendous work! Alot of the early gens have no decent rips but you went ahead and did it ALL. Kudos.
Cifer037 (uploader)
I’m working on a spin-off collection similar to this one, but it’s a PITA. Many rips aren’t timed correctly and tracks don’t have recognizable names. This means tagging takes a lot of time.
Cifer037 (uploader)
Right now, I have Snap, Ranger, Pinball and Puzzle series soundtracks ready, but I’m waiting until I at least have Stadium, Colosseum, XD and Mystery Dungeon to release it.
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“[2014] Pokémon Omega Ruby & Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” Disc 4 is missing 5 tracks between “35 - Battle! (Battle Chatelaine).flac (26.5 MiB)” and “36 - Trick Master (Remix) [Bonus Track].flac (15.7 MiB)”.
missing are:
36 Happy Birthday from the Pokémon Center! 2:06
37 Victory! (World Champion) 3:05
38 Battle! (Deoxys) 2:42
39 Battle! (Frontier Brain) 3:11
40 Carnival Ludicolo Musical! 1:18
There should be 42 tracks on Disc 4 total. It’s faked/poorly dumped but I can verify that Discs 1-3 are legit.
proof: https://vgmdb.net/album/48057