Produced by: Jun Senoue
Composed by: Jun Senoue, Masato Nakamura, Naofumi Hataya, & Sonic 3 Sound Team
Original rips by: Yoshi15 @ Sonic Retro
Special Thanks to: Guess Who @ Sonic Retro & goku262002 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/members/goku262002-128203)
Tracklist:
101 – Sonic 4 – Episode 2 ~Main Titles~
102 – Main Menu
103 – Cutscene – Prologue
104 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 1
105 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 1 ~Speed Shoes~
106 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 2
107 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 2 ~Speed Shoes~
108 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 3
109 – Sylvania Castle Zone – Act 3 ~Speed Shoes~
110 – Boss Battle 1 – vs. Eggman
111 – World Map
112 – White Park Zone – Act 1
113 – White Park Zone – Act 2
114 – White Park Zone – Act 3
115 – Drowning
116 – Special Stage
117 – Emerald Get
118 – Boss Battle 2 – vs. Metal Sonic
119 – Oil Desert Zone – Act 1
120 – Oil Desert Zone – Act 1 ~Speed Shoes~
121 – Oil Desert Zone – Act 2
122 – Oil Desert Zone – Act 2 ~Speed Shoes~
123 – Oil Desert Zone – Act 3
124 – Invincible
125 – Cutscene – To the Sky Fortress
126 – Sky Fortress Zone – Act 1
127 – Sky Fortress Zone – Act 2
128 – Sky Fortress Zone – Act 2 ~Speed Shoes~
129 – Sky Fortress Zone – Act 3
130 – Cutscene – Arriving on the Death Egg mk.II
131 – Death Egg mk.II Zone – Act 1
132 – Death Egg mk.II Zone – Act 1 ~Speed Shoes~
133 – Boss Battle 3 – vs. Metal Sonic Final ~Stardust Speedway ‘B’ JP Mix~
134 – Death Egg mk.II Zone – Act 2 ~Final Boss~
135 – Act Clear
136 – New Record
137 – Cutscene – Escape
138 – Sonic 4 – Episode 2 ~Staff Roll~
139 – Cutscene – To Be Continued?
140 – Cutscene – Episode Metal Prologue
141 – Cutscene – Metal Sonic Repaired
142 – Mad Gear Zone – Episode Metal
143 – Mad Gear Zone – Episode Metal ~Speed Up~
144 – Lost Labyrinth Zone – Episode Metal
145 – Lost Labyrinth Zone – Episode Metal ~Speed Up~.
146 – Cutscene – The Altar’s Hidden Treasure
147 – Casino Street Zone – Episode Metal
148 – Casino Street Zone – Episode Metal ~Speed Up~
149 – Splash Hill Zone – Episode Metal
150 – Splash Hill Zone – Episode Metal ~Speed Up~
151 – Cutscene – Metal Sonic’s Pursuit
152 – Super Sonic
153 – Game Over
154 – 1up
Total Time: 59:09
EDIT: No changed have been made in the final.
Unfortunately, the same route has been taken here along with Episode 1. Instead of creating generic tunes Jun Senoue has created irritating sounding ones. (Start with Track 121) Pick your poison all with the same forgettable qualities of before if not worse. :p It’s a shame considering the current Sonic Team Audio Production Team can make some good music (With Jun in last place…) even in the worst of games. Depending on your tolerance of ear-ripping Mega Drive soundfonts on very uncatchy melodies, you may like some of the tracks or detest them. If you want the music then here it is.
If you were just looking for some good Sonic-like music then I would rather recommend Sonicesque (Thread 90727) or the recent Sonic 2 HD Demo Soundtrack (Thread 112115).
MP3:
S4E2OSV -MP3-.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2e25fof67smu93z)
FLAC:
S4E2OSV -FLAC-.part1.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wubhu2tfuw71l72)
S4E2OSV -FLAC-.part2.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3o03ch3noa562qd)
S4E2OSV -FLAC-.part3.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d6bbum8mhfb2cuc)
Enjoy, and if you found anything you wanted here,please give thanks to keep this thread relevant, like, and rep up! And spread the music! 😉
Oh well, music is still music. There’s a few stand-out tracks, like Sky Fortress or the Metal Sonic fight, but overall the poor instrumentation and composition quality keeps this one down. Better then Ep. 1’s music? Maybe, but still not anything to rave about if you ask me. 😛
Edit: I modified the "Boxart" to be square-shaped. Makes them look better on an iPod then the elongated images.
Oh well, music is still music. There’s a few stand-out tracks, like Sky Fortress or the Metal Sonic fight, but overall the poor instrumentation and composition quality keeps this one down. Better then Ep. 1’s music? Maybe, but still not anything to rave about if you ask me. 😛
Lol, i would have uploaded much earlier if Mediafire wasn’t acting up. Oh i’m not complimenting the music, being better then crap doesn’t make your music good. I detest this, it is an insult to a series that had good music 20+ years ago.
These still don’t seem good enough to justify the 4 on it’s title. You know there’s something wrong when some of the best parts of your song are remixed versions of songs from other games.
It’s strange that, compared to Colors and Generations, Sonic 4 gives easily one of the worst Sonic OSTs in a while (but no one can top the disaster that was Sonic Chronicles lol!)
Again, thanks for the upload 😉
The soundtrack is a bit meh really, except for the 1st Metal Sonic fight. Thanks for the upload!
The soundtrack is a bit meh really, except for the 1st Metal Sonic fight. Thanks for the upload!
Its because when SEGA put the game up on steam for pre-order, they left an option to download a full & complete beta version thats why theres -BETA 8- in the title.
Please forgive a potentially stupid question, but were certain "Speed Shoes" tracks missing from the BETA rip or do they not exist in some Zones and Acts?
Either way, I’m glad to see this released so quickly!
Please forgive a potentially stupid question, but were certain "Speed Shoes" tracks missing from the BETA rip or do they not exist in some Zones and Acts?
Either way, I’m glad to see this released so quickly!
I believe in some stages, Speed Shoes are absent in some stages unlike Sonic 4 Episode 1. The game itself essentially already completed though things may change with the final release.
Have to agree with your assessment. The songs aren’t terrible in my opinion, but none are very memorable for me personally. I thought Episode I had a pretty good soundtrack, but this does not stand out much.
Yeah this is from a leaked pre-release beta version of the game. Sonic 4 Episode 2 officially releases in May.
Thanks for the upload though.
This bias against cheap synth sounds reminds me of the "Genesis’ified downgraded" versions of EP1 music that people tried to make. And they ended up sounding terrible.
Do I think S4E1 could’ve probably benefited from being done entirely on the Yamaha YM2612? Absolutely, but making it using the way they originally did probably would’ve been very difficult and more time consuming compared to how user friendly modern computer composing can be with MIDI.(which itself isn’t exactly new. It’s been around for 30 years, and has been used in gaming for a very long time. From the Sharp X68k, to IBM PC’s,etc) And shit, for all we know, the drums could’ve been entirely been programmed with the actual patches they used on the original games. Or they could’ve created samples from the actual old patches and incorporated them into a modern sampler that allows creation of your own patches. Or many other methods.
Honestly i’m sick of the soundfont argument too. None of you are probably even aware that there are MANY software and hardware synthesizers based on various Yamaha FM Soundchips that many people , myself included, still use. There is even the Recent FM synth workstation app for the iPad iYM2151(which is a synthesizer/sequencer based on the YM2151 Chip AKA the OPM ;yes the same one that VOPM is designed around too and the same chip used in the X68k and in games like Marble Madness) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSgZfarJtQ
Also: Before you try to bill me as an outsider, been playing sonic since I was a toddler. I was born a month before it came out.
On the contrary, it’s not that the Sonic fans are craving some nonexistent title that blows everything out of proportion, it’s that for a decade and more, Sonic Games have declined in quality from a gameplay standpoint and have only just reached potential decency. Sega or Sonic Team have been splitting the fanbase for more then a decade, making games not of Sonic in his former glory but in name only. So if all Sonic fans are narrow-minded then what? We’re just to accept the bad to average games with no improvements over a technically superior platformer made 20 years ago? Denial? That in secret all Sonic games are good? That’s a good one. 😉
It’s a shame, that you would blame all Sonic fans that don’t abide by your standard of not being "narrow-minded" in a series that the developers themselves show little respect or care about. I’m impressed by the tenacity of the fanbase to hold something so dear through the shame it has been in. It shows they actually care and hope to see it reach it’s stride again. Naive maybe but narrow-minded I think not.
I really liked EP1’s music, it had a unique sound(And please the cheap keyboard argument doesn’t work. I own cheap keyboards. And none of them sound anywhere near this good. Especially if you try to line-out them)and some good themes. And i’m sure Ep2 will be no different.
Good you liked EP1 and enjoy EP2 but cheap keyboard or not, the music sounds worse then a song made on a keyboard 20+ years ago. And this is coming from a series that has at the very least, decent music in most of their games. Even the worst ones. This is unacceptable.
This bias against cheap synth sounds reminds me of the "Genesis’ified downgraded" versions of EP1 music that people tried to make. And they ended up sounding terrible.
Well apparently you haven’t heard this remix yet. 🙂
Sonic 4 – Splash Hill Zone (Classic Arrangement) – YouTube (http://youtu.be/MCtXDkMX9Ss)
Do I think S4E1 could’ve probably benefited from being done entirely on the Yamaha YM2612? Absolutely, but making it using the way they originally did probably would’ve been very difficult and more time consuming compared to how user friendly modern computer composing can be with MIDI.(which itself isn’t exactly new. It’s been around for 30 years, and has been used in gaming for a very long time. From the Sharp X68k, to IBM PC’s,etc) And shit, for all we know, the drums could’ve been entirely been programmed with the actual patches they used on the original games. Or they could’ve created samples from the actual old patches and incorporated them into a modern sampler that allows creation of your own patches. Or many other methods.
It would take a too much typing to debunk that but let’s say for sake of argument that your right here. Here’s an idea. Don’t emulate Genesis if it’s more difficult when you know you can make better music easier instead. Have they not learned from EP1’s criticism?
Honestly i’m sick of the soundfont argument too. None of you are probably even aware that there are MANY software and hardware synthesizers based on various Yamaha FM Soundchips that many people , myself included, still use. There is even the Recent FM synth workstation app for the iPad iYM2151(which is a synthesizer/sequencer based on the YM2151 Chip AKA the OPM ;yes the same one that VOPM is designed around too and the same chip used in the X68k and in games like Marble Madness) Shinji Hosoe – Digital jump out (iYM2151 for iPad Demo song) – YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSgZfarJtQ)
Well I guess they’re not doing a good enough job if the answer is right in front of them. In fact this goes against your previous statement. Sonicesque (Thread 90727) was made in VOPM and it sounds more like Sonic on the Genesis.
Again, it’s good you like the music but you liking the music doesn’t make it objectively wondrous that only a "Narrow-minded" would dislike. If anything, I think the "narrow-minded" one would be the one who can’t accept the criticism aimed to Sonic 4’s music.
Still, thanks so much for this! You’re awesome.
Still, thanks so much for this! You’re awesome.
It’s Track 152. I must have missed that cutscene.
On the subject of music, I’m quite happy with the music in episode 1 and 2, and while I do appreciate the wonderful things the composers have done in the past with the more-than-16-bit-ish music, I think what both of these episodes have fits them well. I didn’t expect something like Planet Wisp, but I also didn’t expect something like Green Hill Zone. It may not jive with everyone, but I like it at least.
Also, I’ve been playing Sonic since the good ol’ Genesis days, so I’ve been paying attention to the music since then. :3
Even it does, I’ll be waiting for someone here to do an iTunes rip when the soundtrack gets released there.
Who said this will get a OST release? I must have missed something, if this is true.
Look here. (http://www.tssznews.com/2012/05/14/sonic-4-soundtracks-coming-to-itunes/)
It was just announced recently. They are coming to iTunes!
Well crap, that’s totally lame on Sega’s part, ‘specially since that one cutscene in Episode I covering the transition from Mad Gear to E.G.G. Station Zones had them seperate. Hopefully the iTunes OST will do them right, but I doubt it.
That’s good news. Has the tracklist for the OST been confirmed yet?
Edit : Just reupload the added tracks not the entire gamerip.
It says suspended user…:P