Final Fantasy – A Prologue Christmas

Hi. I’m pretty new to these forums, and have mostly been lurking for the last week or two. However, I recently came stumbled across an old track in my music collection that I’d like to present for discussion.

First, here’s the download link:
A Prologue Christmas.mp3 (http://uniextract.c1pher.com/A_Prologue_Christmas.mp3)

It’s a Christmas-oriented remix of the Final Fantasy Prologue, and was officially made available by SquareSoft (pre-Square Enix) a few years ago as a Christmas gift to their fans. It was posted on their website for direct download, I want to say around 1999 or 2000, for just a limited time. I was fortunate enough to have downloaded it at the time, and it’s managed to survive my various computer moves and upgrades through the years. It’s actually a very cool mix, and I highly recommend checking it out. No serious collection should be without it. 😉

Now, here’s the odd part. In all the years since then, I’ve NEVER seen this anywhere else. I’ve never seen posted for download, have never seen it discussed… if I hadn’t downloaded it myself, and still had a copy available, I would’ve thought that I had either imagined it or just inadvertently downloaded a fan-made remix. However, I know for a fact that this was officially announced on and downloaded from SquareSoft’s website.

So, has anyone else heard this before? Does anyone else actually remember seeing/hearing mention of it, or have any details about it? I’m really curious about it’s origins, and why I’ve never seen it publicly discussed.

Any feedback would be much appreciated! Also, even if you haven’t seen it mentioned before… what do you think of the song? 🙂

prelude?

prelude?
Sorry, what? Are you asking if this is Prelude instead of Prologue? If so, it’s not. It’s definitely Prologue. If you mean something else, I don’t follow…

I always thought this tune was titled Final Fantasy/Epilogue.

Gah!! Oh my god! Thanks so much for the upload!
Ever since I switched over to another computer [which was three years ago.], I thought I’ve lost this track forever!

Thank you so much!!

nitro322 i’m not sure what you’re really getting at here but i’m pretty sure this is yet another fan-made remix.

EDIT: after hearing it i still think it’s a fan-made remix but it sounded so cute at the end of it. great arrangement though.

nitro322 i’m not sure what you’re really getting at here but i’m pretty sure this is yet another fan-made remix.

It may very well be a fan-made remix, but it was offered officially, as a free download, by Square Soft at one point. I think that makes it fairly distinguished from other fan remixes. 🙂 I’m just trying to figure out any information on its origins, beyond the fact that I downloaded it from Square Soft’s website. Eg., if it is a fan-made remix, who did it? Where can I download it from today? Have they done anything else? Alternatively, if it’s some official thing, who was responsible?

The big puzzle for me is simply that I downloaded this thing 7 or 8 years ago, and it’s a fantastic little remix, but I’ve never seen it anywhere since. That just strikes me as unusual, and I was hoping one of the other űber-fans on this board may know a little more about it.

It may very well be a fan-made remix, but it was offered officially, as a free download, by Square Soft at one point. I think that makes it fairly distinguished from other fan remixes. 🙂 I’m just trying to figure out any information on its origins, beyond the fact that I downloaded it from Square Soft’s website. Eg., if it is a fan-made remix, who did it? Where can I download it from today? Have they done anything else? Alternatively, if it’s some official thing, who was responsible?

The big puzzle for me is simply that I downloaded this thing 7 or 8 years ago, and it’s a fantastic little remix, but I’ve never seen it anywhere since. That just strikes me as unusual, and I was hoping one of the other űber-fans on this board may know a little more about it.

come to think of it my guess is you could be right. although that number of years ago i didn’t know anything about Square’s music or video game music in general at the time so it’s pretty nice to hear it 7 years later

Thank you for the upload! I’ve been looking for this song for a few years now… after losing it after a reformating
Thanks

I don’t know anything about the origins of the track–I’ve never heard of it before–but thanks for the download!

I believe it is Final Fantasy. I had it back when it first came out, too. It is kinda cute. I have to dig out my CD with it on there again to put it on my iPod Nano for the holidays…

Well, it’s may be a fan made song but it’s still really good! Thanks for uploading.

It indeed was offered by Square on its site, I remember being upset because I had the "Arranged Themes", which also was on that site and didn’t get the Christmas themed one before they removed them. I was searching for that track since at least 2002, so thank you very much, nitro!

Here is by the way the Arranged Themes-track:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/db2b00/

Thanks. I didn’t know they had those… I have the Christmas one, but not the arranged ones. I have most of my FF music on my site. Feel free to check it out. It’s in my signature.

Thank you very much, nitro322!
I was searching for this music long time.

I hear this is arranged by Kenji Ito, who is a composer of Romancing SaGa sereies.

It indeed was offered by Square on its site, I remember being upset because I had the "Arranged Themes", which also was on that site and didn’t get the Christmas themed one before they removed them. I was searching for that track since at least 2002, so thank you very much, nitro!

You’re very welcome. Like Roxas20, though, I wasn’t aware that they offered other arranged tracks on their site. I only remember seeing the Christmas one.

The filefactory link that you posted seems to have expired, and I missed your reply earlier. Is there any chance you could upload it again? Or point me to another copy? I’d love to take a listen.

Thanks.

Yeah, I’ve heard it’s arranged by Kenji Ito. Not much info besides that.

Yes, thank you very much, Nitro322. Unfortunately, I couldn’t add this nice lil’ melody to the Christmas CD this year due to the fact that the site hasn’t allowed me to log back on since late October of last year. Gonna have to put this one in a place where I can remember it for next year. Thanks again (^_^)!

The link doesn’t work, could someone please reupload it?

Yes please re-upload this 😀