The Sonic the Hedgehog OSV Project
From Sonic Retro
The Sonic The Hedgehog OSV Project was started to provide a consistently ripped, timed, and labelled Sonic music library for SClassic. Granted, there are other sites with media libraries already, that's nothing new. However, there are an awful lot of mislabelled Sonic tunes out there (such as Master System Sonic music mislabelled as being Game Gear Sonic music) - this project partly came about in an attempt to rectify that.
The music is, for the most part, emulator-ripped, except for the games that came on CDs. Every effort has been made to ensure the emulated tunes are as close to accurate as possible, however. Also, in addition to all of these soundtracks, Alexbt is working on analog hardware rips of at least the first few Genesis Sonic games.
Sonic Sue was able to do a great deal of the ripping herself. However, some games proved to be problematic, and some awesome folks stepped in to help with those. Therefore, here are the credits for this endeavour;
- Ronchie02, for sparking off this project to begin with, when Sue asked if any music rips were required for the site.
- Luigi Link, for ripping the entire Knuckles' Chaotix soundtrack, for obtaining four tracks from Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Knuckles' Theme, Invincibility, Mid-Boss, and the Game Complete jingle) that Sue was unable to get, and for providing the level select cheats for Sonic The Hedgehog 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
- Overlord, for going to great lengths to try and alter some save-states to make the job easier, for verifying the tracks from Sonic The Hedgehog 3 that are changed in Sonic & Knuckles, and for noting what the sound test number for Sonic & Knuckles' well-hidden credits theme is (DC, if anyone is interested ).
- Gene Fujimori, for providing the tracklists for both the Mega Drive/Genesis and Windows 95 versions of Sonic 3D - Flickies' Island (a.k.a., Sonic 3D Blast), for verifying the tune order in the sound test of the Mega Drive/Genesis version, for giving a reminder of the names of the jingles at the end of the Sonic R disc, and for ripping the entire Sonic 3D (Saturn/Windows) soundtrack due to difficulties with the CD Sue had, and for creating the looped versions of the Sonic CD JPN and PAL Regions Soundtrack.
- PsychoZagal, for ripping the entirety of the Game Gear versions of Sonic 2 and Sonic Chaos, when circumstances wouldn't permit anyone else to do so.
- TailChao, for ripping the SegaSonic the Hedgehog sound version, and Biggestsonicfan for ripping the Sonic Gems Collection sound version.
There are several soundtracks/original sound versions ripped so far, which take up more than ~1GB of HDD space. The selection covers 1991 (Sonic The Hedgehog) to 1998 (Sonic R for Windows 95/98) - e.g., most of the big "classic" Sonic releases. Please note, however, that a few games are missing, as it proved impossible to rip their soundtracks. Use the navigational bar down below to select the OSV's available so far;
