SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest - Soundtrack

[bilstarken]

Track 4...best song in the game...I play it in piano class when I'm tired of playing required pieces.

[cpabrandon]

Amazing music for a game released in 1995. SO atmospheric and awesome.

[Vorashsokar]

Track 4 was always my favorite. TY for uploading this :)

[NewEonOrchestra]

This was always kind of a strange game for me (probably because I played it when I was quite young), and this music kind of matches it.  It's not at all the usually bouncy-happy-jazzy kind of tunes that went with other Sims games, but, at least to me, a darker, more mysterious, industrial feel. I enjoyed it quite a lot, though. Just not really much of a... dunno, Tropical feel to it.

[randomdog12]

A form of "Background music" has been playing occasionally in my head since I was little. I've always tried to find where it came from, and in another part of my mind that was convinced it doesn't exist and I made it up, I always wanted to find music like it.

Thanks to you, JiengSo, and you, Harry Holmwood, I have found it.

[Indefatigable]

FAVORITED SO HARD.

Thanks JisengSo for uploading this and thanks Mr. Holmwood for writing these.

[bub777]

Track 3 was my favorite song to listen to. I thought it was a bit witty that track 5 is a play on the mission failed jingle.

The use of motifs in this game was really nice. It was soothing to hear a smooth reprise of Track 3 from (Track 07,15).

I think something was wrong with my copy or something but I remember Track 08 used to play for a few seconds as the game loaded up a mission, and then play a random track for the mission (nother one of my faves, when it's played in FULL of course!)

[Holavoir]

You are officially the coolest person on Youtube. This was the first Sim game we ever owned at my house -- it came with our first family computer. But nobody had uploaded the music here until now! It's FANTASTIC music. And it makes it even cooler that the composer himself finally got to hear his own music again for the first time since he created it. Because of you! =)

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I hope he does name the tracks : )

[hhhhollywood]

Hello - I'm afraid those tracks don't exist anywhere in higher quality than that (I wrote them). They were recorded as proper 16-bit tracks on DAT but I left that job before the game launched and, for reasons I never quite understood, the developer used 8 bit versions (which were put together to stream from RAM) on the CD as CD-audio.

Also - I don't think there were ever names for them.

Thanks for uploading though - I don't think I've heard these since about 1993!

Harry

[JisengSo]

@hhhhollywood

Mr.Holmwood, thank you for writing this music. I loved it as a little kid and it still retains a certain nostalgic charm today. It's a shame that the CD quality versions are lost in time; it would have been nice to have heard them.

Perhaps you might do us the honour of naming them though it may have been nearly two decades since you wrote them. I can make the changes in mid-August, since I will be away starting the 6th of June.

[SchoolSarge]

@hhhhollywood you're the best dude, both for making and uploading these songs. I can remember hearing them as a kid back in ~2001/2ish at least. I actually tried recording the music directly off my sound card, but obviously this was far from perfect, so I gave up after one track. As for direct ripping, the .RES file threw me :)

Thanks for uploading. I didn't think I'd ever get to hear this music outside of the game, which would've been a shame 'cos it's one of my favs for the music alone :)

[SchoolSarge]

@SchoolSarge er, I mean @JisengSo is the best for uploading* too. Cheers!

[Deutschebahn]

@hhhhollywood Dear Mr Holmwood, I heartily concur with @JisengSo, these were lovely tracks that carried a great deal of both my and my brother's imaginations. For some weird reason, having not heard the soundtrack in years I'd assumed "track 14" was actually from sc 2000 and named the remake that I did back in 2004 "Over the City". I suppose Track 14 could be called "Over the City"... though the original is very still, calm, like the wilderness.

[Surrealaser]

@hhhhollywood Could you please remaster these? Loved them. Still do.

[CPCGamer]

How would I go about getting this soundtrack? I've been looking for it for years (and trying to extract it from my CD with zero luck) and it'll make me a very happy person to finally get it.

[JisengSo]

@CPCGamer

If the CD has the audio tracks as I think it does, you could use one of those CD audio rippers. I hear that Exact Audio Copy is a good one for Windows. If you happen to be on Linux, I used to use Grip. I think k3b also does the job.

If not, my best suggestion is to do as I did, which was to open RES/R1.RES at 22050Khz 8-bit mono in an audio editor, such as Audacity, and edit out the noise.

[CPCGamer]

@JisengSo I've been looking for a way to get this music since I first picked up the game in ~1997. You've made me a very happy person in showing me how to get this file.

I was even happier when I found they put Spaceballs quotes in the audio file.

[JisengSo]

@CPCGamer

You are very welcome. I'm happy to share my methods of extracting/recording music from games.

[fisk0]

Thanks a lot! My original disc broke years ago, and when I've been looking around I've never found a rip of the fantastic soundtrack.

The manual claimed the music was redbook, and would be playable on any CD player, I never managed to get it to play though.

[JisengSo]

@fisk0

The CD did have the music in Redbook form, but I think it was played back from the resource files and then recorded as CD audio. The difference in audio quality, as far as I could remember, was nil. It's a pity, though, since I quite like the music.

[fisk0]

@JisengSo Yeah, I can't remember hearing it any other way than this noisy 8 bit sound. Possibly in stereo, but certainly not in 16 bit. As I couldn't play it on the CD player I had at the time I couldn't rule out that it was because of the old Soundblaster clone soundcard I had though.

[Ascyltos]

I liked this game much. Take control of a virginal untouched tropical island inhabited by grass skirted natives and exploit the shit out of it. Paradise Developed.

[AirJordan337]

this was an awesome game

[oneAXLinamillion]

@AirJordan337 right! Remember spending so much time with this game! A great work from MAXIS!

[randomdog12]

How did you extract the file?

[JisengSo]

@randomdog12

I imported the file as raw data with Audacity with the given settings. There's a lot of data other than the audio, so a lot of it sounds like noise. There are a lot of games that do the same thing, like The Lost Mind of Dr Brain or Ascendancy.