Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal GBSs by agu fungus at 10:35 AM EDT on August 6, 2009
I recently checked out the GBSs for these Pokémon games, and both files are missing the fanfare songs. Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow has their respective fanfares, so why not add the GSC fanfares to their respective files?
The little jingles that play when you level up, obtain items, and such.
I have a GSC MP3 rip that I made by recording from the Crystal GBS (GBS Player ROM), and then playing through the game to record the jingles; I ended up with about 17 additional tracks.
If they're not in the GBS rip, my guess is they were stored differently or something, or pruned from the set for not being 'music.'
There was a discussion about the difference from Gold & Silver from Crystal a bit back, and someone ended up ripping Gold for the different intro theme. Maybe you can ask them to check for the other stuff?
I've seen that happen to other GBS files as well. For example, Link's Awakening doesn't contain "Small Item Get" and the ocarina songs and Donkey Kong misses "Game Start", "Radar BGM" and some other small tracks.
In the case of Link's Awakening, at one point, I made the comment that the current set was missing "the song that plays when you use the Ocarina, but don't know any songs." Ugetab is so awesome that he looked into it, and found it was stored as a sound effect, and not as music (apparently the two things are stored differently). So, he ripped it. I have the Link's Awakening SFX rip on my PC, but I keep forgetting to upload it anywhere. I'm fairly certain that should include anything that the current GBS rip might be missing.
Perhaps the Pokémon game(s) have a similar issue, where the songs in question are stored as sound effects, instead of music, and were therefore not ripped? Mouser X over and out.
I have a GSC MP3 rip that I made by recording from the Crystal GBS (GBS Player ROM), and then playing through the game to record the jingles; I ended up with about 17 additional tracks.