Oddworld Music Rips
 

I've recorded the music from the first two games. The completion of these rips is questionable, because recording Oddworld games isn't easy at all - some of you who have tried probably know what I'm talking about. I'm also working on some more Oddworld games and hopefully I'll be able to share those upcoming rips too. Download links are found at the bottom of this post.

I've also noticed that some of you don't know how to open the files. The following is a short tutorial on how to open the files and play the music;
1) The file you download is a .rar file. It's an archive and it contains all the songs.
2) In order to open the archive and view/extract the contents, you will need WinRAR. Download it here.
3) Install WinRAR.
4) Open the archive.
5) Select the folder within the archive and press the Extract button. Extract the folder onto your local harddrive.
6) You no longer need to access the archive in order to play the songs. Dispose of it if you need to.
7) In order to play the songs, you will need an .mp3 player of some kind. Usually, Windows Media Player works, but if it isn't configured properly, you might as well go with WinAmp.
8) WinAmp is the .mp3 player everyone should have. Download it here.
9) Having installed WinRAR and WinAmp, you should now be able to play the songs
10) Still don't get it? Then my life's a joke. Go ahead. Contact me or something.

Here is some information about each rip:
Side-note: Monochrome is my former alias.



Enjoy!

OH....MY.....GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

DOWNLOADING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Edit* DAMN IT! IT'S NOT WORKING!!!! *Dies*

I believe you need to wait approximately 50 seconds before a download link appears near the right corner. If a pop-up window is blocking that link, just click the X button of that pop-up window and then download the file. It's all there, just be patient.

It's giving me the 'Your Page Has Expired' crap :fuzmad:

Hmm, that's weird, I can download the files without any difficulties...

EDIT: Works fine for me, you need to reaccess the link and wait again. I think you might have timed out while you posted in the forums, that's why the link expired temporarily. It's still there though. Patience..

Argh! This megaupload thing is a toughie. It's full of framesets and animations that don't appear very nicely to me. It also refuses to download anything onto my IP address. The Oddworld music is once again so close, yet so far…

Keep trying, Killy. Right now this is pretty much the holy grail of the fandom's desire. Except the film and more games, maybe perhaps. ;) If the worst comes to the worst, I have space you can host your work on.

I was kind of hoping you would say that. I usually run an FTP but with my new computer and firewall nothing is coming in or out through port 21 on this computer...

Cool thos rips are perffect Good Work!!!

Links have been updated, the rips are now hosted on Max's webspace. Max, thanks again for helping me out.

EDIT: My bad, the first rip is still uploading, give it another 20 minutes and it should be available for download.

Hey!!! Music downloads!!! :fuzgrin: :fuzcool:
I always wanted to have some. Cool!
I use the oddworld inhabitants logo music for my windows opening sound immediatley :D That's nice!

Oooooo nice rips... Downloading now :D.

I got it downloading but I don't have the right program to play it on pfff just my luck....

It's in .mp3... all you need is WinAmp... :/

Don't have WinAmp :banghead:

Then get it.
www.winamp.com

I'm listening to them right now and they sound awesome :)

Before I download them; how are these different from the last three times I've downloaded rips from these games?

I don't know, download and see. Or rather, hear. Concerning the Oddysee rip - it's incomplete when compared to the original soundtrack, however I believe the Exoddus rip is closer to completion, because I had collected far more samples than for the Oddysee rip.

If you take a look at the dates these rips were released, you'll see there's well over a year between the releases - meaning there's a huge difference in experience behind the production of these rips.

I haven't listened to any other rips before, I had little luck finding any earlier, but my rips are from the PSX version, which means the music is not from the ported versions and should thus be pure compared to any PC recordings.

you must have alot of time on your hands to do all this

I beg to differ.

Great job. :) These had to have taken a lot of work and patience. It's great to even have a semi-complete soundtrack for these games. I made a complete soundtrack for Stranger's Wrath once, and it took quite a while to finish. I know that the first two games would've had to have been a great deal more difficult...

odd-dammit! i got WinAmp, installed it, an i still can't play them!!! im gonna go berserk!!it says that there's 0 play time!!! AARRGGHH!!!!!

I really hope you've extracted the files onto your harddrive first. Opening the .rar file and double-clicking a file will only place it in a temporary folder. Hit extract and select a folder.

don't have that option. i may need a whole new computer.

No... I wouldn't go that far. OK, let's start over. You download the file linked in my first post. That file is a .rar file. It's an archive and all the music files are included in that archive. In order to open the archive and extract the contents, you will need WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe). Download the WinRAR installation file and install the program. After that, open the .rar file you downloaded, select the folder within the archive and then click the Extract button. Then select a path on your local harddrive and click OK. Done.

I've released a new rip, nothing overproductive like last time though, this is a very small one. It's a rip of Munch's Oddysee for the Game Boy Advance. Please note that, I don't want people asking for a rip of the Xbox version, at least not yet. However, I do plan on ripping it as well, but for now, this will hopefully keep most of you satisfied. There are some really nice tunes in this one.

I do hope you enjoy this one.

I haven't been able to get in touch with Max yet about uploading this one to the server, I need to reconfigure my settings. So for now, I've uploaded the rip to several free online-hosting servers. These links are only temporary, but I'll update them when needed.

Here are the links:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qz4g7x
http://rapidshare.de/files/25877044/...dysee.rar.html
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...7513874F2713BD

When they are all downloaded they'll be going straight onto my mp3 player, I've been waiting for good music rips for ages!

thank you for this :D
I always like your rips :)

I've listened to them all, they are fantastic! How do you rip music from games? I've always wondered how you did.

Is there also a way to rip the music of SW? :confused: I just wonder...

Xavier: Thanks for the nice feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed them! :)

Some games can be ripped by using format specific software on the computer. You scan the disc, extract the music, edit and then release it. But the Oddworld games are far more complicated than that. They require a line-in setup. This means that you connect the stereo cables of the console to the line-in port of your soundcard and record while playing the game. It's a very simple setup, but it's a far more tedious and demanding task because you actually have to play the game and record all the music. It's fun though, for a while, then you get bored and mentally deteriorated.

The Game Boy Advance rip is somewhat easier, you can emulate it on the computer and the just log the sound as .wav files. Simple, but questionable, since there's no way to confirm if the ROM dump was correct or not.

I'm quite sure Stranger's Wrath is rippable using a line-in setup, but it takes more than that to finish a rip and make it sound good. It requires some technical experience in the sound departement and you need to be able to work in a studio, editing, copying, pasting, sampling, mixing and whatnot. I've heard of a few SW rips here and there, but nothing that confirms a complete rip.

Oh... okay.

Okay? Well, I guess I'm making this sound a whole lot complicated, but I'm planning on ripping SW so you can wait for that or go ahead and do your own recording :) I'd be glad to help, so feel free to ask any more questions. I have some illustrations that might help you understand how to connect cables and stuff like that.

Ripping seems really complicated, I've gotta try it some day, some 365 days.

Actually, I'd recommend you never get into it in the first place.
There's not much to it, believe me. You'll end up missing out on alot in your life. I know I have. I'm qutting as soon as I finish this batch of projects.

Oh. My. Odd. Those are awesome. Great work!

Eh, none of the links seem to be working any longer, but I look forward greatly to hearing your latest efforts, Killy.

I have ripped the MO main menu screen music.

Are you planning on posting it anywhere here?

I haven't seen Killy on MSN to discuss hosting his latest rip. I doubt there's enough room on my server remaining.

New rip released:

This is a short one too, but it's an Oddworld game, nevertheless. There's some nice tunes in it, although it's not the kind of instrumentation you'd normally hear in an Oddworld game. Keep in mind that it's for the GameBoy Color, so don't expect the Budapest Symphonic Orchestra. I like these songs; Paramite Vault, Cobwebs, Possession and Ending ~ It's Not Fair!.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Forgot to post the download link:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4e55x6

EDIT2: Good news, I got the FTP running and those of you who know how to use a properly configured FTP client without messing up my computer are free to download my rips using the following information:

Address: killy.dnsdojo.com
Port: 21
Username:
Password: psychoskitzo
Make sure you disable Passive Mode, only Active Mode works.

And when I say 'enter your username from the forums', that's the one you should use, otherwise I have no way of verifying who you are. Unauthorized users will be banned. Keep this information here and don't go posting it around the internet. I have a home computer, not a business server with support for 2000 simultaneous downloads.