There's...a rearrangement...of Zora's Domain?!?

...I've GOTTA hear that...one of my favorites!!!

Now that we know for sure what "Midna's Theme" is...  It's interesting that it's used in the opening theme just after the Twilight Princess logo appears on the screen...

Also, I might be hearing things... and making something outta nothin'... but does that "Kakariko Village" piece contain an excerpt from ALttP's "Dark Overworld"?  Listen closely about :30 secs before it loops...

I thought the exact same thing.  I don't know if it was intentional, but it certainly makes the song better.

Anyway, I almost forgot to share my ripped tracks with you guys.  There are some location spoilers in the track titles.  The notes files is slightly more spoiler-heavy, but nothing major.

I have a few other tracks ripped that I still need to edit, and then I will add those as well.  You can probably expect them tomorrow or Wednesday.

Nice!  I love 'Agatha's Castle' and the Zora Queen song ("Serenade of Water").  Keep 'em comin'.

I don't know about you guys, but I want to learn more about the nightlife in Amsterdam.

Nightlife is about the same as the daylife, except with lots more neon. Amsterdam's pretty liberal, after all.

It's nice to know that SOMEONE is making a soundtrack.  I'm beginning to lose hope that one will EVER come out at all.

-Jon T.

I haven't lost all hope, especially since the game only came out in Japan last week.  I'll be pretty annoyed if there isn't one...

That's what I'm worried about.  See, Nintendo's games haven't gotten decent, full-fledged soundtracks since Scitron produced the OSTs to METROID PRIME, ZELDA WW, and F-ZERO GX/AX, respectively.  There hasn't even been a SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE!  All that we've been getting are lame 5-track CDs as bonuses in Japanese magazines for titles like STAR FOX ASSAULT and FIRE EMBLEM PATH OF RADIANCE--both of which deserved better treatment than that.  I'm accounting that part of the reason is because neither of those games were particularly huge sellers.  I can only hope that ZELDA TP will sell enough to warrant the release of one, if not on GC than on Wii.  Even though the first day of sales placed TP surprisingly at 3rd place, at least it's only the first day of sales, and way too soon to consider it a failure.  Let's wait and see.

Either way, this wait is VERY, VERY agonizing.

-Jon T.

Well, if the supply of Wiis matched demand, they'd have sold a heck of a lot more copies of Twilight Princess.  My friend bought TP without the console just to make sure he could have it, but won't buy it until I can get my hands on the console to go with it.  Since this game is being regarded as the best Zelda to date, I don't doubt it will be popular enough for a soundtrack release.

Yeah, it's Zelda, so it'll get a soundtrack.  Majora's Mask sold only about 600,000+ in Japan (which isn't great for a Zelda title) and it got a 2-disc OST and arranged album (albeit the latter in limited quantities). 

Also, if I'm not mistaken, didn't Wind Waker's soundtrack come out like 3 months AFTER the game was released in Japan?

Yeah it did.  I just hope it doesn't take that long for a TP OST to be released.  If it does, well, there's nothin' I can do about it.

-Jon T.

EDIT:  Two weeks, and I STILL haven't heard anything.  HELLO!!!  What's up with Nintendo?!  Is ZELDA TP really that unpopular in Japan that they've decided to forego a CD soundtrack release?!  I want an answer, dammit!

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A couple of weeks is still too short-term to get all worked up about this... 
If you haven't heard anything by two Years, THEN feel free to go call up Happinet Corp and complain.

I wish the Hidden Village music was on this soundtrack or someone can get a rip of that song.  Has anyone else heard it yet and do you like it or not?

Hidden Village!?  WTF?  There's a hidden village?

Calm down, it has to do with a minigame later in the game.

LOL
Where the heck did that one come from?

Compared to other big cities in the world, Amsterdam has extremely little neon, I've always thought.
Plenty of liberalism though

Were you being silly or did you miss the post above his with the link to Amsterdam's nightlife?

I had my doubts but I've only been positively surprised.

Hyrule Field Main Theme is amazing, though it sounds a little different from the game version, and I love the new Kakariko Village theme. But the biggest surprise was the Twilight Hyrule music, it sounded like something straight from Silent Hill.. then put your sense-ability on and you have the perfect SH atmosphere.

The OST is definitely on my want list. Hope it gets a *proper* release soon.

Nah, it's exactly the same.  It's the 'Epona version'.  When Link's on foot, the melody is on woodwinds, when he's on Epona, the melody is on brass.  TP's overworld theme totally demolishes OoT's in terms of interactivity.

It follows the exact pattern from OoT:  an 'adventurous' iteration when you're trekking, a 'battle' version when you're fighting, and a 'serene' version when you're standing still and taking in the surroundings.  Now multiply each one of those by 2, one for Link on foot and the other for Link on Epona.

Also, TP's overworld theme has a nighttime arrangement, which OoT didn't have at all...

Oh yeah, hadn't noticed that. I think the woodwinds version is better, though.
But what I did notice is that the Castle Town music changes as well.

Well it's week 3 in Japan and ZELDA is not in the Top 30.  I'm beginning to think we'll never see a soundtrack to this game at all.

But wait a minute.  Some games in Japan haven't exactly earned the highest sales numbers and they still got soundtrack album releases.  Case in point:  METROID PRIME and F-ZERO GX were not successful in Japan.  At all.  And yet they still received soundtrack album treatments.  So maybe perhaps the same will happen to ZELDA TP?

Or better yet, will ZELDA TP become a best-seller for the Wii when and if the system gets more and more popular in Japan?  I hope so, it certainly deserves to be successful.

And while people say that ZELDA is not popular anymore in Japan, then why is the newest title, PHANTOM HOURGLASS on the Top 20 Most Wanted in Famitsu?

Maybe I'm fretting over nothing.  Nintendo has already announced that the next ZELDA is in development, it's proven to be a bonafide hit worldwide thus far, and at least in Japan it's still the third best-selling Wii game.

Sorry, wanted to blow off steam.

-Jon T.

I don't understand why people aren't pickin' up TP on the Wii in Japan.  I guess they all ordered the Cube version???  I was shocked to see Wii Sports and Wii Play outselling Zelda.  But "niche" games are mainstream over there.  Also, I'd think that as the system becomes more available, TP will sell more copies on the Wii.  Releasing such a big game across two systems (current and next gen) doesn't bode well for sales tracking.

Well when I checked again it was on the Top 50 (#33), so while that's not exactly stellar, it's at least not as abysmal as we may think.  It still has a 1/4 attachment rate to the owners, so I think it will probably continue to sell as more consoles become available.  ZELDA may not be as huge in Japan as it is elsewhere in the world, but it still sells in the land of the Rising Sun; otherwise Nintendo wouldn't keep making new entries to the franchise.

I only hope that there really IS a TP soundtrack album in Japan, and that it's a full-fledged OST, and not just a half-assed 6-track promo.  As I've said previously, games that weren't as successful still received OST albums, so maybe TP will get one.

-Jon T.