After forever and a half, you can now download THE ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK, plus extra tracks! I’m incredibly happy to see it done. Took a few hours to finalize everything, but it’s over – they’re all downloadable right now on the Golden Sun Soundtrack page.All files are, as usual, encoded in 80kbps MP3. I’ve listened to them, and they sound great – way better than what I had previously. So, I hope you’ll like them as well.

There are some people, however, I should thank for introducing me to this quick, high quality method of getting the soundtrack. The first is holyice7, who taught me how to take CaitSith2’s game audio rips and make them into lossless WAV format, making the entire “recording” part of the recording moot. I, of course, must thank CaitSith2 and give him credit for ripping the files initially. The soundtrack wouldn’t have been done for MONTHS if not for his rips and holy’s tips. Thanks to both of you, truly. I do believe thanking Cindy from Golden Sun Realm goes without saying – she made the original soundtrack, and since then we’ve become good friends, even if her track naming isn’t spot on. ;)

And yes, holy, I can’t wait to see what you do with your own soundtrack that you’re making ;)…

So, now not only will they be linked to on Golden Sun Realm as originally planned, but as not originally planned may be used for a jukebox project by Max of Golden Sun Syndicate. GSS is the other Golden Sun authority on the ‘net, and I hear frequent talk of collaborations between GSR and GSS, even a possible merge, though I can’t speak for the webmasters at all. However, it seems like the soundtrack will be put to good use!

And don’t worry about my bandwidth – I’ve got so much I don’t know what to do with it, and unless I suddenly become one of the internet’s top Web 2.0 sites, I won’t be running out anytime soon. Download as much as you want (but don’t KILL me). Oh, and if you really don’t want to waste your time downloading each track one by one, go get yourself a healthy serving of Firefox with some DownThemAll on the side.

UPDATE: Now you can download it via BitTorrent! Go to the Soundtrack’s page and download it either from Demonoid.com or from The Jason Effect – both are the same. PLEASE SEED THE TORRENT!

And lastly, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy…

~ Jason.

I’m not going waste words: I’m re-redoing the soundtrack. Sound bad? Actually, it’s good. I realized that I’d recorded all of my previous 53 tracks WRONGLY… in short, they’re not the quality they should be. That’s always bad. I had forgot to change the sound setting on VisualBoy Advance from 22Hz to 44Hz, basically halfing the quality that I wanted. I’d been wondering why they sounded just like Cindy’s old tracks… and now I know.

So, the soundtrack is going in a different direction. I will not be re-recording every single track. Instead, thanks to a user who I will credit once I’m done in a nice “I give thanks to these kickass people” speech, I’ll be using the actual game audio files! I had originally intended to make the soundtrack this way, but couldn’t figure out how to convert them into any real audio format. Now I can convert them to WAV, which is very nice. And they sound great. So, I sacraficed complete pride in myself for quality, because that’s what I care about most – it doesn’t matter if it was recorded by me (well, yes to a point), but it does matter if the end user gets something that’s of great quality, and in order to do that, I’m using the game rips, even if it makes my job a helluva lot easier.

It also means that the soundtrack will be done… today! So, be patient as I wrap things up in the next few hours!

~ Jase