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Rayman DSI and GBA Soundtrack

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So i hear a LOT of peapole complaining that these 2 versions dont have the full soundtrack but...i honestly dont get why they think these 2 could ever have the full ost

For dsi its a bit less obvious but, its a downloadable game, the full soundtrack whould be way too much to fit on the dsi ware store
I mean,i bet the whole ost on the ps1 disc is at least 1 GB
I BET if the game game out on cardrige, the whoule soundtrack would be on there


On gba its very obvious, its a damn gba
How else would they fit a soundtrack like this on just 1 GBA cardrige?
Simply, they couldnt

Also on the reason why its 8 bit... Idk maby because they couldnt do it otherwise?




Also i belive that 5 tracks from the ps1 couldnt even fit on the cardrige
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Re: Rayman DSI and GBA Soundtrack

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Alright, well you're misunderstanding a few things about how audio formats and compression work. :mrgreen:
StelzenBomber wrote:Also i belive that 5 tracks from the ps1 couldnt even fit on the cardrige
That depends how compressed they are. The PS1 tracks are uncompressed because they had the space for that.
StelzenBomber wrote:For dsi its a bit less obvious but, its a downloadable game, the full soundtrack whould be way too much to fit on the dsi ware store
I mean,i bet the whole ost on the ps1 disc is at least 1 GB
I BET if the game game out on cardrige, the whoule soundtrack would be on there
This probably is the reason, but take note of how compressed the tracks are. Each track on the PS1 takes up around 10-20 MB, whereas compressed how they are on the DSI, they'd likely only take up about 2-3.
StelzenBomber wrote:On gba its very obvious, its a damn gba
How else would they fit a soundtrack like this on just 1 GBA cardrige?
Simply, they couldnt

Also on the reason why its 8 bit... Idk maby because they couldnt do it otherwise?
Let's re-arrange this a little bit~

Also on the reason why its 8 bit... its a damn gba

They could easily fit the entire soundtrack on the GBA, because it's MIDI. A single track only takes up a few kilobytes, if that. They didn't include all 50 tracks because they probably didn't feel like remaking 50 tracks for the port.
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Re: Rayman DSI and GBA Soundtrack

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Adsolution wrote:Alright, well you're misunderstanding a few things about how audio formats and compression work. :mrgreen:
StelzenBomber wrote:Also i belive that 5 tracks from the ps1 couldnt even fit on the cardrige
That depends how compressed they are. The PS1 tracks are uncompressed because they had the space for that.
StelzenBomber wrote:For dsi its a bit less obvious but, its a downloadable game, the full soundtrack whould be way too much to fit on the dsi ware store
I mean,i bet the whole ost on the ps1 disc is at least 1 GB
I BET if the game game out on cardrige, the whoule soundtrack would be on there
This probably is the reason, but take note of how compressed the tracks are. Each track on the PS1 takes up around 10-20 MB, whereas compressed how they are on the DSI, they'd likely only take up about 2-3.
StelzenBomber wrote:On gba its very obvious, its a damn gba
How else would they fit a soundtrack like this on just 1 GBA cardrige?
Simply, they couldnt

Also on the reason why its 8 bit... Idk maby because they couldnt do it otherwise?
Let's re-arrange this a little bit~

Also on the reason why its 8 bit... its a damn gba

They could easily fit the entire soundtrack on the GBA, because it's MIDI. A single track only takes up a few kilobytes, if that. They didn't include all 50 tracks because they probably didn't feel like remaking 50 tracks for the port.

Ok

1: The tracks are cormpressed on dsi?
It sounds the same too me just with worse speekers than a TV

2:The rayman soundtrack is MIDI????????

3: Also could the gba speaker even handle one track?
I once heared if the DKC3 soundtrack would be ported to gba the speaker would go off in flames
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StelzenBomber wrote:1: The tracks are cormpressed on dsi?
It sounds the same too me just with worse speekers than a TV
Try it with headphones.
StelzenBomber wrote:2:The rayman soundtrack is MIDI????????
I meant Rayman Advance. GBA music is MIDI.
StelzenBomber wrote:3: Also could the gba speaker even handle one track?
I once heared if the DKC3 soundtrack would be ported to gba the speaker would go off in flames
It's not the speaker, it's the cartridge capacity and RAM. If a GBA cartridge had the space to store high-quality audio and enough RAM to load it, you could play it back through the speaker just fine.
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Adsolution wrote:
StelzenBomber wrote:1: The tracks are cormpressed on dsi?
It sounds the same too me just with worse speekers than a TV
Try it with headphones.
StelzenBomber wrote:2:The rayman soundtrack is MIDI????????
I meant Rayman Advance. GBA music is MIDI.
StelzenBomber wrote:3: Also could the gba speaker even handle one track?
I once heared if the DKC3 soundtrack would be ported to gba the speaker would go off in flames
It's not the speaker, it's the cartridge capacity and RAM. If a GBA cartridge had the space to store high-quality audio and enough RAM to load it, you could play it back through the speaker just fine.
thanks but 1 thing...


Is it me or does it still sound the same with headvones as on a cd player?

they sound the same to me...
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Just compare listening to the game on the DSI to the PS1 soundtrack, both with headphones.
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Adsolution wrote:Just compare listening to the game on the DSI to the PS1 soundtrack, both with headphones.
Still sounds the same...

Is it because mr sax hubbalu?
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StelzenBomber wrote:Is it because mr sax hubbalu?
I don't follow.
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Adsolution wrote:
StelzenBomber wrote:Is it because mr sax hubbalu?
I don't follow.
i mean, is it because i used this track for comperason?
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Isn't the DSi technologicaly more advanced than the PS1? they could fit the entire ost of the PS1 original because DSi ware was mostly digital downloads.
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Re: Rayman DSI and GBA Soundtrack

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Digital downloads take up storage space: the DSi came with 256 mb so if each music track is 2-3 mb it adds up pretty quickly. It would've been possible but not very practical.
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Yeah what Keane says makes sense. On PS1 there was 700mb on the CD which is just under 3 times as much space which was plenty. Then the speaker is fine as Adsolution says but it's a hardware limitation on GBA. If you take the speaker out and touch the 2 contacts off an RCA cable or something it will play music. The GBA is like the SNES (apart from being 32-bit vs 16-bit) and can only play 8 sound channels as far as I remember and it's mostly MIDI. 1 song on PS1 version probably takes up more space than the entire GBA Rayman game.
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Steo wrote:Yeah what Keane says makes sense. On PS1 there was 700mb on the CD which is just under 3 times as much space which was plenty. Then the speaker is fine as Adsolution says but it's a hardware limitation on GBA. If you take the speaker out and touch the 2 contacts off an RCA cable or something it will play music. The GBA is like the SNES (apart from being 32-bit vs 16-bit) and can only play 8 sound channels as far as I remember and it's mostly MIDI. 1 song on PS1 version probably takes up more space than the entire GBA Rayman game.
great expplination
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