PSF Release List

[Kirby]

Originally posted by F-3582
This was also the intention of the ROMsite webmasters: Nobody could blame the abuse of their "Test Files" on these people...

hmmm...true. The intent is there, but they trust the people (bad idea)

[zukeft]

This smells very gray to me in the end...

[F-3582]

zukeft, I guess that there has already been a discussion between the mods about that issue. If they had decided that publishing PSF music was illegal they would have already closed every thread about it. If I were you, I wouldn't be concerned about that issue

BTW: There are lots of game music sites around there and none of them has ever been closed due to copyright violations.

[Archlyn]

Does any one know if there are any plans to do the MMX4-6 PSFs?

I'm not asking if they'tr done yet, I just want to know if they will be

[Squaresoft74]

I don't have those games but if their musics are Xa/Xas streamed there won't be any way to make psf for them.

[Archlyn]

Hrmm... I forgot about that, the music doesn't run at all unless you use the original disc or run an ISO with Deamon's tools or the like. Sorry 'bout the dumb question

[Yeloazndevil]

Narvick at www.zophar.net has made some PSF tweaks:

I have begun to fix some of the PSF soundtracks we have in accordance with notes by Neill Corlett and other sources. Mainly these fixes include proper soundtrack-like file names, track length, ID tags, duplicate tracks, and renaming 'unknown' tracks.

[Squaresoft74]

SaGa Frontier PSF rip available @ Zophar

[Badaro]

Thanks a lot, main list updated.

[]s Badaro

[DarkAurora]

If PSF's were illegal, Zophar definetly would not be hosting them.

[Archlyn]

Technically they AREN'T illegal, They're just a part of a legal grey area that isn't neccasarilly legal or illegal, it's just that no descision has been reached.

[Squaresoft74]

CaitSith2 released Chocobo Racing PSF rip
Get full soundtrack Here

Info:
------- Soundtrack Info ----------

Original Music: Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by: Kenji Ito
Sound design: Hidenori Iwasaki, Minoru Akao

All in game sound test names, are in the comments, along
with the game the music came from, if applicable.


------- Missing ----------

01 - Dash de Chocobo (probably streamed)
30 - Treasure Chest of The Heart (probably streamed)

------- Credits ----------

Neill Corlett - For saying he would eat his words if I ripped
just ONE game, using the ORIGINAL driver.
Audigy - Provider of game, and inspiration to rip this game.

[zero0w]

Originally posted by DarkAurora
If PSF's were illegal, Zophar definetly would not be hosting them.

Well, game music is different from game ISOs. The game music market is very small and probably not worth it to pursue, but it does not equal to legal and freely distribution of it - as it is a part of the game data.

What happens is if there's no game music soundtrack in sale for a particular game, does that mean the game music should be free for personal use, since no financial damge will result to the company (even better, it may do as an advertising of the game to potential customers)? Nobody knows for sure, if the company did not clarify it. Capcom US did say it's ok to allow hosting MP3s for their game music online (not as a license, in other words, this means 'ok for now until we say otherwise'). But no other company took the stand to say anything about it.

If, however, there is a game music soundtrack available for sale, as many of the SquareSoft games does, the argument that it's okay to distribute it will subject to challenge. It's one thing that you own the game and rip the game music format yourself, another to distribute it on the web. I suspect Sony may not be against this as this probably won't hurt her business, but SquareSoft and other VGM publishers may think otherwise. This is always a grey area here about this copyright matter. Unless this is a free download gift for fans (or in computing case open source software/freeware), you mostly should have paid what you owns.

[kraken]

One point about the legality is that easily availible soundtracks can actually help game sales. While I can't say I have bought a game based solely on music, the soundtrack has helped to solidify the decision before. As for gaming music cds, until they are available at chain stores, no real market exists for them.

Long live PSF!!!

[zero0w]

Well, it's possibly less of an incentive to buy the soundtrack of PSFs once you have those PSFs, considering the quality are pretty good. So, if you don't even own the game nor soundtrack CD at all, the prospect of legality is more or less to the nay side, fairly speaking. Except for Squaresoft game soundtracks the market would be so small that few or no company will bother.

[Archlyn]

Originally posted by zero0w
Well, it's possibly less of an incentive to buy the soundtrack of PSFs once you have those PSFs, considering the quality are pretty good. So, if you don't even own the game nor soundtrack CD at all, the prospect of legality is more or less to the nay side, fairly speaking. Except for Squaresoft game soundtracks the market would be so small that few or no company will bother.

My point exactly

[Audigy]

CaitSith2 optimized Neill's FF8 PSF set...
you may download it from my site.

http://audigy.ath.cx:81/psf/

It's 3MB smaller than the original RAR. No big deal, but to those on dialup, it means about 12 minutes gained. :P

[Yeloazndevil]

cool, thxs for the news Audigy

[Badaro]

Originally posted by Audigy
CaitSith2 optimized Neill's FF8 PSF set...
you may download it from my site.

http://audigy.ath.cx:81/psf/

It's 3MB smaller than the original RAR. No big deal, but to those on dialup, it means about 12 minutes gained. :P

Thanks a lot, I added a note to my post about this.

[]s Badaro

[Audigy]

New PSF set!

http://audigy.ath.cx:81/psf/

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