Super Smash Bros Brawl missing tracks? by TheUltimateKoopa at 4:41 PM EDT on April 9, 2010
No, I'm not talking about the ones that everyone here's probably aware of. I (too) am aware of the missing tracks such as the Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Boss Battle theme, Beware the Forest's Mushrooms etc. But there are still numbers missing, as you know. Has anyone found what A18, A19, Y06, Y12, Z09, Z12-Z15, Z19, Z20, Z24, Z26-Z34, Z36-Z45, Z48, or Z49 are?
Um, the part I quoted in small text. Please read thoroughly before getting pissy, yourself.
To clarify: No, I don't know anything about what the A##, Z## are supposed to be. But I do know that people spreading information like "'BEWARE THE FOREST'S MUSHROOMS' WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE GAME" is bullshit.
I'm pretty sure he meant that the song you listed as "missing" is BS, in that there's no way to verify that that particular song was intended to be in the game in the first place, and is therefore not necessarily missing (how can it be missing, if it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place?).
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't calling your post as a whole BS. And as far as I know, no one has been able to identify with certainty what those various "missing" numbers were originally supposed to be. [EDIT]
I removed a huge chunk of my post, because I found this forum post (though, the real discussion starts here) which announces the release of the collection I was attempting to remember. Unfortunately, as you will no doubt notice, EditorArtist's web page no longer exists. However, if you continue on to the next page, there's a link to the FFShrine forums (I doubt the links in that FFshrine post work as well), and there you might find some interesting information regarding how they decided on the songs they chose to include in their compilation.
Last, if you want to actually download their collection, I did a Google search for "editorartist super smash bros. brawl lost tracks" and got numerous results, though I don't know how reliable any of them are. Worst case scenario, I most likely still have the "WIP" set he made on my PC somewhere (but don't hold your breath on me finding it), and I could upload it. However, it appears that, right now, this torrent has a seed. It's only 56.7-ish MB, so I hopped on it to see what happens.
[EDIT(4?)] I checked the HTML in the torrent, and it does indeed contain the source information for the songs that EditorArtist used for for his "lost" tracks, and his reasoning for using them. You might find it interesting.
Honestly, in my opinion, this "lost tracks" thing is probably as close as you're going to get to filling in those "missing" numbers. While this "lost tracks" collection is, essentially, one person's opinion on the matter, I just don't think you'll ever find official information on this. The only people who even might know work at Nintendo, and I doubt they even know, since it's entirely possible those empty numbers were simply place holders.
Anyway, hopefully you find this remotely useful. Mouser X over and out.
Well by "missing" I meant "was rumored to have originally been planned to be in the game but taken out". It just seems weird how in the ISO, there's certain seemingly missing tracks, i.e. how it goes from A17 to A20.
Those numbers could have been used for alternate mixes or takes of the same song. We'll never know.
@ Mouser X: Thanks for doing that research. I couldn't remember the name of that kid, but I do remember he had some totally baseless claims for what he thought those songs might be. Totally worthless hyperactive Nintendo fancruft crap. It didn't help that he started spamming it on every active Nintendo forum he could find.
I think the point was that in the brsar they had names for the missing tracks, which all pointed to the silent dummy track. From those names you could easily guess what the tracks were supposed to be.
Yeah. There was names for some of the missing tracks (though some were more ambiguous than others), which is why people thought they may have been hidden in the game data somewhere. They weren't, however. And there's no way of knowing at what point the names may have been put in the file to know whether the arrangements for those songs were ever even started. But if these tracks don't even have any names attached to them, there's basically no way of knowing what they may have been if they ever even existed. Most of them are just from the fanfare section of the files, anyway.
Seeing as there isn't a recent Brawl topic, I'll ask here. Is there a good-ish quality MP3 converted full rip of Super Smash Bros Brawl (before you say "OMG you idiot", read the rest) -- that has TWO loops? I did find one, but rapidshit.... well it pretty much explains it. I don't really feel like downloading 26 parts to a RAR file at 200 MB each, which including waiting time could take about 20-30 minutes each. And 5 GB for just under 400 songs is stupid, but then, they are FLAC files that I strated downloading, but I can't be bothered. So, yeah, is there? Preferably named correctly. I'm not that bothered about the Artist being added, but if that's done, that's OK. Also, for the sake of ordering, I'd also prefer it if the track number and disc numbers had been correctly .... well you know, put in there. Like all the As would be Disc 1, Bs, Disc 2. E.g. G04 would be the Track 4 of Disc 7.... there's the thing at videogamescrapbook, but that guy has an obssession with 1 loops + stupidly long 20-30 second delayed fade outs which last 10 seconds. I'd rather have 3:44 of King Dedede's Theme or whatever it is than less than 2 minutes. I have got the streams, but I can't find the track names and I can't be bothered to put in the track number data (i.e. Track 5 of 7, or whatever) for all 300+ tracks, especially if it's been done before.
THe reason for this, as with the Super Paper Mario request (i.e. a properly tagged set) is that my sister has the Brawl and SPM soundtrack (not official soundtracks but simply converted rips), however, the Brawl tunes are too short (1 loop) and the SPM tunes are untagged as I've said before.