Chocobo's Dungeon - Labyrinth of Time extra tracks

Interesting rip. In a perfect world, some of those tunes would have made it to the official release while "Door Crawl" and Tanioka's tunes would have been left out.

On a somewhat relate note, did anyone do a complete rip of the music in Chocobo no Mahou to Ehon / Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales? I found the iTunes release really underwhelming but maybe this will inspire me to reconsider my views.

As for this rip, my source asked to remain confidential, but I'm glad to see it's passing around.

While listening to the arrangements of many of the new games (Chocobo's Magic Picture Book, Chocobo's Dungeon Labyrinth of Time, the two Itadaki Street Special Games), the arrangements are not all that different from the original game. I wish they would at least change the style, or key, or something unique (like making a battle theme out of Tina's Theme or something, or taking the main theme of "J-E-N-O-V-A" and making it into a town theme).     

Chocobo Racing did something significant with changing the style, etc to make an arrangement that sounded significantly different.  And whenever the Chocobo Theme is arranged for a new game, the arrangement is significantly different.

I think there's not much uniqueness with arrangements lately...



A note on Chocobo Tales...
The itunes release does contain one track that is not present in the game rip.
~Andy

Last edited by lordskylark (Mar 29, 2008)

Samples here: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/ … cobo_ehon/ DS synth unfortunately.

That's not actually for any of the Chocobo Dungeon games, but actually the two chocobo magic picture book games - we got the first here as "Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales". They basically mix minigames and card battles in to what is a surprisingly agreeable formula.

The DS synth of the first game was actually pretty decent (even if the arrangements were generally unimaginative, a problem that seems to dog FF spinoffs). I wouldn'tt say any of it really stands out as good DS music, though. Although it's been linked to in this thread, so I suppose you can judge for yourself.

The synth for the port/remake of Chocobo Dungeon Wii to DS (not released outside Japan yet, and may never be) is actually pretty damn good, and did a very good job at adapting the music to a lower quality format. Some tracks suffer more than others, but most pull through quite well. It seems to have cut and added a few tunes from the Wii version (I can't find "Together Forever", "Guardian of Darkness 1" or "Chain of Sorrows", but the final boss theme from FFIV is in there now, as is Battle 1 from FF3).

Interestingly, in a case or two where effects couldn't be directly replicated, interesting improvisations were made. Compare the Wii version of "Book of Sealings" with this DS version. Granted, the 2sf emulation may not be right, but it's a pretty different way of creating a sinister, unpleasant atmosphere:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/1/1 … ngs%29.mp3

I can't comment on the second magic picture book (the second disc of that set, and what's referenced with "Mahou to Shoujo to 5-nin no Yuusha"), though. I haven't tried it in VGMtrans and a 2sf set hasn't been ripped.


fake edit hours after starting this post: I probably should've posted this sooner so Terra wouldn't look dumb.

fake edit a day after starting this post: oh so that's what was in this firefox tab