I understand there is a Neo Contra PSF2 set floating around somewhere, but I didn't see it at Zophar at least. Does the PSF2 set contain the tracks that are missing from the sound test? There are a lot of great background tracks playing quietly in plot scenes, especially in the scene with Master Contra.

This is the first I've heard of it! Yeah, the cutscene bgm rocks. I love the music in the scenes with Lucia. Please, if someone has the scoop on this fill us in!

really?
Where'd you hear about that?
I figure if a new PSF2 set is out, unless someone ripped it and is hosting it independently, at least one of the tons of PSF release announcement places I run/frequent would've heard about it.  That, and I'd be mirroring it on my site.

Do tell us more.

There was a note about it in the Neo Contra music rip I downloaded... something about "Get the PSF2 set, it'll sound loads better". Don't have it handy here, so I could remember wrong.

Methinks the enclosed note expressed thoughts of wishful thinking, especially since it's in the future tense.  If it said "it sounds loads better" then I'd be suspicious.

Anyway, if you're really entranced by the music, I'll scare up a copy of the game and see what it'll take to rip it... someday.

If there isn't a PSF rip of Shin Contra, maybe you could do it too? Pretty please
Especially when few of the tracks in the ost are little bit shorter than the game versions, like Battle Train.

All of the Neo Contra and Shin Contra main tracks are streamed.  In other words, no PSF formats.  I have personally ripped the Neo Contra and Shin Contra tracks (with some songs even longer than the ones on CD).

The Pheromone Contra (Lucia) entrance song in Neo Contra can be found on the Rumble Roses CD soundtrack.

Ah, good.  Thanks for savin' me some time.

You CAN make PSF2s out of streamed ADPCM, but they're a pain in the ass to loop correctly, and for the size of the things, you're better off grabbing MP3s of them anyway.

Oh, damn. Are the MP3s of the said Neo Contra tracks anywhere, then?

You can get MP3s of them at Contra HQ.

I have a rip that I made from the unlockable Music Box on cd-r in APE format. It's probably not as good as the rips others here have but it's decent. Just e-mail me and I'll send it no charge. Or I could e-mail you the game save so you can rip it yourself. I think you'd need a PSP to transfer the game save to a memory card, though. That's how I'd be getting the save from the memory card.

I got those probably before you got them But PSF rip would have been perfect for looping Battle Train, but as it seems that both of the Contra's can't be easily ripped to PSF my dreams fade away, probably have to make some wav-editing to the soundtrack version so I can make it loop better. Or something,

Thanks for the offer, though I already have the Music Box tracks. The tracks I'm referring to are the ones playing in plot scenes, which can't be found in the Music Box. Maybe they're impossible to rip properly, because there's speech all over them.

PSPs connect to PS2 memory cards? That's interesting.

The soundtrack version is incomplete, so it's missing the loop point. Not sure about the extended version. Did you check it?

Haven't listened it for a while, gotta check it today, especially now that new Winamp has gapless mp3-playback which should be little bit with the looping. Also the soundtrack version of Battle Train is missing the best part of the track anyways, which sucks, so probably the extended version is better one to be looped.

Still, Konami seems to like screw me again. First no Suikoden III in Europe and no Neo Contra ost, and now it's damn hard to make PSF2 rips of both PS2 Contras. What next Konami?

Edit: haha, no need to even edit the soundtrack version, been looping it for few hours at work now.

Well, how it works is I have this Max Media Manager software that allows me to interface my PSP with my PS2 via usb to transfer game saves between the PSP and Memory card. You'd have to have the same software so I guess it wouldn't work out anyway.

Yea, I have my own save though so don't worry!