In the last few days, I helped Ziming a bit with identifying some tracks for his soundtrack uploads, and the tag lists I've compiled came in quite handy. Thus, I'm now posting them publicly. Since they don't cover every DSF file yet, they may now also serve as a central point for the identification (and naming) of the remaining tracks. Some of those are probably so obscure that the only way to identify them is to replay the games and closely monitor every music change... something I don't have time for right now.
>>> Shenmue 1/2 DSF track identification and tagging lists <<<
These should at least cover all BGM tracks that are posted on Ziming's channel now (minus a few I might have overlooked). I opened that document for free editing, so if you want to help me with identifying, please don't hesitate.
DSF downloads
Since there seems to be no "100% complete" DSF release and Ziming sent me quite a few new files, I've uploaded everything I have to my server. Please tell me if I'm still missing anything! For example, I haven't found the firewood searching track yet.
Some notes about these lists:
- All of these were manually timed (and yes, this really has been a lot of busywork). Since the Shenmue DSFs use the DPTK driver, I haven't found any "easy" solution to time those automatically - and I guess if there was any, the rippers would have just timed the files themselves. Still, if this may be possible after all and some of the modders here could explain or give me a hint on how to facilitate automatic timing, I'd be very grateful. (I can program, but I don't understand ARM7 assembly...yet)
- For the most part, the track names follow those on Ziming's channel. Lately, I've begun to note down variations in the comment field.
- Composer information is applied where available.
- OST titles always take precedence over Ziming's titles.
- If two tracks are slightly different but essentially the same composition, they share the same title - I myself don't care about subtle differences or variations. Those are pointed out in the comment field.
Future plans:
- This project didn't start out that serious (I just wanted to have a few tracks tagged and then it just became more and more...). Thus, the timing on some tracks, especially from Shenmue I, is fairly inconsistent. Will fix this in the future.
- A lot of tracks are glitched with the current foobar2000 foo_input_aodsf plugin (missing instruments or reverb effects or sounding very distorted). Since many (but not all) play flawlessly through the final version of Audio Overload (which seems to be the most up-to-date DSF player), I'll eventually port that one to foobar2000 in the course of this project.
- The streamed .adx and .genh files will be added once I developed a way to tag them. Probably something involving writing Vorbis comments to an external file in the same directory.
- A sheet for What's Shenmue.