As you know, back in 2006 or '07, in preparation for the release of the OutRun 20th Anniversary Edition soundtrack, WAVE MASTER's Shigeharu Isoda noticed that the drum samples from the original arcade game were very noisy and found that one of the ROMs had bit6 always "ON", so Hiro Kawaguchi, the game's original composer, went to fix this glaring issue. Years later, M2 would include this fix for the Nintendo 3DS version of OutRun, but not before djyt would implement this fix to both Cannonball and OutRun: Enhanced Edition years earlier.
Yet, I had not seen anyone do the same for the Sega Saturn release, so late last month I remembered this fact and decided to take a crack at it. Luckily, I found that Valley Bell from vgmrips had already ripped the soundtrack, so all it took was for me to convert the .vgz files to .flac and import them to Audacity and loop them exactly like how the original recordings were in the Sega Saturn release. Then I finally exported them as a .wav file and rename the extension file to .bin. So now FINALLY Sega Saturn players can listen to the game's soundtrack exactly like how it was intended. Justice has been served!
All you need is a Redump rip of Sega Ages: OutRun (Version 1.102) (as I am legally not allowed to provide a copy for anyone), and replace tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5, and that's it.
Credits:
Valley Bell from VGMRips for ripping the audio straight from the original arcade game, as well as fixing the noisy drum sounds.
Yet, I had not seen anyone do the same for the Sega Saturn release, so late last month I remembered this fact and decided to take a crack at it. Luckily, I found that Valley Bell from vgmrips had already ripped the soundtrack, so all it took was for me to convert the .vgz files to .flac and import them to Audacity and loop them exactly like how the original recordings were in the Sega Saturn release. Then I finally exported them as a .wav file and rename the extension file to .bin. So now FINALLY Sega Saturn players can listen to the game's soundtrack exactly like how it was intended. Justice has been served!
All you need is a Redump rip of Sega Ages: OutRun (Version 1.102) (as I am legally not allowed to provide a copy for anyone), and replace tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5, and that's it.
Credits:
Valley Bell from VGMRips for ripping the audio straight from the original arcade game, as well as fixing the noisy drum sounds.
