I’ve finally done it. No, I haven’t extracted new tracks – I don’t play the game anymore and have NO way of identifying what songs are where, and now that I’m on a Mac have no way of extracting the tracks. However, I have sorted a HUGE chunk of the existing unknown tracks into their appropriate albums. Finally.

Most likely there will not be another soundtrack update. Seriously, I never touch the game anymore. I’ll always provide it here, though, and hopefully Wizet will never release enough new music to make the soundtrack feel awfully obsolete.

If I get enough petitions and emails and such to extract tracks and seriously update the soundtrack, I’ll do it. Otherwise, I’ve got too much other work to do to continue working on this project. You can find the updated soundtrack by visiting the Projects Page on this site. For a full list of changes made to the soundtrack, please keep reading!

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A long, long time ago I created a bunch of MIDI’s that were, in fact, transcriptions of the music from Kirby’s Dream Land, the very first Kirby game ever released. While they were made purely out of nostalgia, they did serve as my starting point as a trasncriber and semi-songwriter, teaching me how to use the program that I would use for the next several years to create and transcribe music.

However, now that I’m on a Mac, I can no longer use that program. It seems only fitting that I should take one of those MIDI’s and rearrange it in Logic Pro, my new composition software, and see what I come out with. In addition, I should write a new ending to the MIDI to set it apart from it’s older brother, and to give it the panache and style that I think it should have, being sent from a shiny new Mac. The result is something that sounds two hundred times better than the old version, due to the more precise control I have over the audio in Logic Pro, and a song that actually has a cadence as well.

So, I present the new version of Float Islands from Kirby’s Dream Land – Floatin’ Paradise.

Listen to it now,

and then compare it to the old version.

(Hint: It’s a song called Erev Shel Shoshanim! I loved it so much, I made my own synthesized version.)

Listen to it now!

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.