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Final Fantasy Music on iTunes

Posted by Zonk on from the japanese-love dept.

Final Fantasy Online Warcry has the news that iTunes is now carrying Final Fantasy scores and music from the Black Mages. Square Enix has a listing of all of their iTunes offerings, which includes music from FFI - FFXI, a live concert offering, and two albums by the Black Mages (Nobuo Uematsu's rock band).

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  1. cool by rritterson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) still rates as my favorite game of all time. No game before or since has actually caused me to dream about the characters.

    Even hearing the 30-second previews on iTunes brings back memories of that bastard kefka, that fucking octopus who always screwed things up and spending hours hoping I could keep general leo alive.

    My only complaint is that the versions for download are direct releases from the SNES cart. Why couldn't they orchestrate them instead of using the 8-bit sound system?

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  2. Rediculous pricing by inio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a great move, but the pricing scheme is ridiculous. For most of the games, you'd end up paying half of the game's original retail price just to get the soundtrack. That's unacceptable when you take into account that most of the music was written for and preformed by a Z80.

    1. Re:Rediculous pricing by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Doesn't that imply that the music is worth approximately half the game's retail price?

      Perhaps to you the music is worth less than that, but to me (and others who have purchased game music) the soundtrack is worth MORE than the game, once you've played the game.

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    2. Re:Rediculous pricing by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://www.ocremix.org/index.php

      Just go to Overclock Remix site's, there are plenty of outstanding FREE mp3s to download. Not only for final fantasy, but a ton of other games too. I have downloaded so much, I am amazed my cable company haven't killed my connection yet.

  3. VI is still the best... by solios · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Six is the Empire Strikes Back of the FF series, in my opinion - its' easily the best of the series- deepest (again, imo) character development, most compelling characters, most fluid combat system, one of the better magic systems... I spent hundreds of hours with it as a teenager and got so deep into it that I eventually hand corrected innacuracies in the strategy guide I'd purchased (when it had become apparent I'd missed a few things).

    Then VII came along, completely and utterly failed to be better than VI in any way (in fact, amping up to a high level pretty much every shortcoming of the series), and my high hopes for the future of RPGs were rapidly deflated.

    I spent somewhere around 250 hours with FF VI - multiple runthroughs and couching with friends who were playing the game. I couldn't stomach VII or VIII for any more than 40-50, and never replayed either - they'd lost the magic that made VI so compelling for me.

  4. Re:Ocremix.org legal? by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nothing you read on Slashdot is legal advice.

    There are no lyrics, so no worry of copyright infringement there. And to the best of my knowledge, the actual melodies of the music cannot be copyrighted

    Sorry, but the best of your knowledge is incorrect. Please read these cases and this analysis.