Castlevania Symphony of the Night OST : Lost Painting [HQ]

[TimelordR]

I've always wanted to hear an extended video of that haunting melody. Thank You very much.

[traumao31]

brings back so many good memories =)

[Kirbyluver2]

My favorite song in the inverse castle, always loved going into a new area and hearing this instead of that dark sounding crap.

[Bregalad01]

oh and by the way I forgot to mention, but as the game uses streamed songs, there is no way to know HOW Konami made the streams.

Here it's very possible they used a MIDI synthetizer (that doesn't have the Playstation's hardware limiatations) to record the songs. They could also have hired a true orchestra but this would be very expensive (and quite limited in the terms of instrumentation) so not many game did this, and Castlevania definitely used a high quality synthesizer instead.

[Korban3]

I'm curious. When you rip a tune from this game, what format is it? Did the Playstation use the midi format or something else?

[Bregalad01]

@Korban3 The Playstation can play both sequenced songs (which are similar to MIDI, although games using this uses their own format) or streamed songs (that are similar to an audio CD playing).

Castlevnia uses streamed music, and it is in XA format, which is a variant of ADPCM lossy compression.

To rip it you need a program able to rip XA sound off a playstation disc, such as PSound (that I used).

[Korban3]

@Bregalad01 Cool. I learned stuff today :P

[Slayervein]

yay extended is alsways good thank u