I like video games
Ah, I love nostalgia. I am currently listening to SPC's from Chrono Trigger. How those time were truly great, not a care in the world. I mentioned them yesterday and I might as well explain what SPC is.
An .SPC file is the format the Super Nintendo used for it's music files. With a lovely add-on, or stand alone program, I can listen to these files as if they were an music file. The advantage is they are very small, 65KB to be exact, as apposed to an MP3 of the very same song being a hundred times larger. Plus it's an exact copy of the music from the game, no distortion, no static, no slight changes, a freakin carbon copy. Each system has it's own sound format, the PS1 uses .PSF files. Surprisingly they are even smaller, "One Winged Angel" from FFVII is only 3.86KB! This is a 7 minute 19 second song with lyrics, the entire FFVIII soundtrack is smaller than a single MP3 and it has the EXACT quality as when you first heard it. That, my friends, is awesome.
Now mind you, we live in a age where there are devices that hold 160 gigs of music in less space than a pack of playing cards. Terra byte hard drives are consumer available and half of Best Buy's machines have them. File sizes matters not, especially since I know of no way to play them in your standard MP3 player. What I love about using these formats is that I get to listen to the soundtrack of my childhood. Now, not that many games are worth listening to, very few had the quality to be enjoyed outside the game itself. But show me a gamer that doesn't perk up if you played the original Zelda theme in all it's 8 bit glory. It's so very nostalgia.
Yes, I could actually go play these games, I own all my favorites (not roms, the actual cartages and cds), but sometimes it's best to remember. Many things do not age well, just watch some of the cartoons that came out in the 80's. Even the ones that will continue to be played, they take time. Many favorites usually take around 20 to 60 to complete (Front Mission 3 boast 150, but I to do it in 80, I've actually invest over 400 hours into that classic). I suppose I have the time to revisit these classics now, but there is one last thing preventing me. The fact that I have played the hell out of them. I've spoke with every NPC, fought every battle, found all the secrets (and I do check every so often that new one haven't been found on 15 year old games). I can start playing them but often I'll start playing a different game before I complete it. One can only go through the same dialog so many times before you start thinking you could play something you haven't touch before. But I'll always have the music.
Arrow, signing out.
An .SPC file is the format the Super Nintendo used for it's music files. With a lovely add-on, or stand alone program, I can listen to these files as if they were an music file. The advantage is they are very small, 65KB to be exact, as apposed to an MP3 of the very same song being a hundred times larger. Plus it's an exact copy of the music from the game, no distortion, no static, no slight changes, a freakin carbon copy. Each system has it's own sound format, the PS1 uses .PSF files. Surprisingly they are even smaller, "One Winged Angel" from FFVII is only 3.86KB! This is a 7 minute 19 second song with lyrics, the entire FFVIII soundtrack is smaller than a single MP3 and it has the EXACT quality as when you first heard it. That, my friends, is awesome.
Now mind you, we live in a age where there are devices that hold 160 gigs of music in less space than a pack of playing cards. Terra byte hard drives are consumer available and half of Best Buy's machines have them. File sizes matters not, especially since I know of no way to play them in your standard MP3 player. What I love about using these formats is that I get to listen to the soundtrack of my childhood. Now, not that many games are worth listening to, very few had the quality to be enjoyed outside the game itself. But show me a gamer that doesn't perk up if you played the original Zelda theme in all it's 8 bit glory. It's so very nostalgia.
Yes, I could actually go play these games, I own all my favorites (not roms, the actual cartages and cds), but sometimes it's best to remember. Many things do not age well, just watch some of the cartoons that came out in the 80's. Even the ones that will continue to be played, they take time. Many favorites usually take around 20 to 60 to complete (Front Mission 3 boast 150, but I to do it in 80, I've actually invest over 400 hours into that classic). I suppose I have the time to revisit these classics now, but there is one last thing preventing me. The fact that I have played the hell out of them. I've spoke with every NPC, fought every battle, found all the secrets (and I do check every so often that new one haven't been found on 15 year old games). I can start playing them but often I'll start playing a different game before I complete it. One can only go through the same dialog so many times before you start thinking you could play something you haven't touch before. But I'll always have the music.
Arrow, signing out.