Hi everyone!

I was wondering if anyone could reccomend me some arragned videogame albums. I recently discovered the megaman X, chrono trigger: brink of time, and F-zero jazz albums and was wondering if anyone had any gems like that they would like to share. It's pretty hard to find this stuff so I'd appreciate any thing you could think of. Tanks!

Personally, I usually find arrange albums a mixed lot. For example, the Rockman X Arrange you mentioned is a very good disc yet there are things about it that made me question it's longevity. I'm all for breaking down conventual norms - something this disc does beautifully - but with the rock aspect so ingrained within the series' musical identity returning to the original in-game audio is more likely in my case.

Anyway, as for recommendations, the one that usually pops into my mind is the 2006 Wild Arms: Music the Best -rocking heart-. The name is a bit of a misnomer as there are all sorts of influences at work in it - rock (duh!), jazz, techno, etc. Some of the best tracks fuse such styles together - the rarely mentioned rock/techno combo in "Ruins: Type 2" proving this quite nicely. Still, the album falls prey to what happens with most arranges I get into, namely a few tracks stick out, those get the most play get to remain and the rest fade away. The Rockman X disc didn't really have this problem however, only "Spark and Shadow ~Power Plant Stage~" falling out of circulation before the whole album did. So, in that sense its feels a lot more consistent than a lot of others.

Since you enjoyed Brink of Time, you should definitely check out CREID Yasunori Mitsuda & Millennial Fair which is an arranged album for Xenogears. A lot of the same musicians from Brink of Time worked on CREID and obviously both games were composed by Mitsuda.

Some others..

Tobal No.1 Remixes Electrical Indian
V'BALL
near death experience, SHADOW HEARTS Arrangetracks
Gyakuten Saiban Jazz Album ~Gyakuten Meets Jazz Soul~
Policenauts F/N
All the game tracks on various Kukeiha Club CDs

You might want to tell us what you're interested in genre-wise or specify some criteria to narrow down the field a bit.  Arranged albums cover such a wide span of styles and the difference between them and original soundtracks is somewhat less pronounced than it was back on the day anyway.

Here are most if not all of the arranged albums that made it on the Top VGM Releases of All Time thread from a while back.

6. Xenogears CREID (361 points)
14. Dracula Battle Perfect Selection (254 points)
20. Final Fantasy VIII Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec (191 points)
23. Super Metroid Sound in Action (175 points) (only partially arranged)
T-44. Dracula Battle II Perfect Selection (104 points)
T-46. Perfect Collection Ys (102 points)
52. Actraiser Symphonic Suite (92 points)
53. Guilty Gear X: Heavy Rock Tracks (90 points)
T-55. Final Fantasy X-2 Piano Collections (87 points)
T-61. Street Fighter II Alpha-Lyra with Yuuji Toriyama (81 points)
T-61. The Black Mages 1 (81 points)
T-63. drammatica - the very best of Yoko Shimomura (80 points)
T-66. Final Fantasy X Piano Collections (79 points)
69. Ys IV Perfect Collection Vol. 1 (73 points)
T-70. F-ZERO X Guitar Arrange Edition (72 points)
T-70. Seiken Densetsu Sound Collections (72 points)
T-73. Secret of Mana + (71 points)
T-73. Zwei!! Super Arrange Version (71 points)
T-79. SaGa Frontier II Piano / Rhapsody on a Theme (68 points)
T-83. King of Fighters '96 Arrange Trax (65 points)
T-87. Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy (63 points)
T-92. Motoi Sakuraba Live Concert Star Ocean & Valkyrie Profile (60 points)
T-98. Chrono Trigger: The Brink of Time (58 points)

I heartily recommend the Rockman 9 Arrange album. I know it gets a bad rep for whatever reason, but they masterfully arranged the tunes from the game into many, many different musical styles, making for an eclectic listen.

I would echo V'Ball, and really any O'Bits album.

Yeah, I love this one as well.

Still haven't heard this one despite how much debate it sparked.

Here are the arranged albums that are still on my shelf. These are all discs I spin end-to-end!

CREID (Xenogears)
Final Fantasy IV Celtic Moon
Final Fantasy Vocal Collections I Pray
Final Fantasy Vocal Collections II Love Will Grow
Varia Suite - Metroid Metal
Piano Collections, Final Fantasy X
Piano Pieces "SF2" ~ Rhapsody on a Theme of SaGa Frontier 2
Vielen Dank

CREID is my favorite Mitsuda arranged album and doesn't have a single superfluous track. FFIV Celtic Moon takes all of the things I liked about the FFIV OSV with 100% less filler and 100% more Celtic instrumentation, although it's a very different kind of Celtic disc than CREID. The FF Vocal Collections are total classics and are two super chill albums with beautiful vocals in a variety of different languages to listen to. Varia Suite is amazing melodic rock with arranged tracks from a bunch of different Metroid titles and is my favorite VGM rock CD of all time. The last three albums are three very different Hamauzu piano arranges; FFX is pretty ridiculous, SF2 is a bit more straightforward but still has lots of great tunes and is a perfect compliment to the SFII OST, and Vielen Dank has some original compositions along with some bare-bones arrangements of a bunch of titles Hamauzu worked on. They're all great piano discs in their own right, but some people find Vielen Dank to be a little too mellow and not up to par with his other stuff; I think it's great cooking/relaxing music and find myself passing out to it fairly often.

There are lots of other arrange albums that are really good that I'd still recommend, but I sold them at one point or another. I stand by albums like Brink of Time, Shadow Hearts NDE, Street Fighter II Alph Lyra, and F-Zero X Guitar Arrange, but I sold them off during my travels. If you dug the jazzy stuff you mentioned in your post, some of the Kukeiha Pro Fusion discs might be up your alley!

I personally like Dear Friends best out of all the FF arrange albums.
The Chiptuned Rockman album last year was a mixed bag, but more good than bad.
On the other hand, if you just want something crazy, look up Super Mario Compact Disco for a laugh.

If no one's mentioned it, how about the Persona 3 arranged album?

Very cool that CREID made the top arranged album. I love the crap out of that CD.