FINAL FANTASY XII

Revised Version
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All tracks should now have titles and proper ID3 entries, with the exception of the Unknowns.
For untimed tracks, track times were adjusted according to the running times given in the 
original soundtrack, and given a fadeout where missing and needed ('The Tomb of Raithwall').
Composer credits should all be correct, acknowledging the contributions of Nobuo Uematsu,
Masaharu Iwata, and Hayato Matsuo to the OST. 

File names were adjusted so the entire thing can be sorted by file name and play in the same
order it would be in the OST. 

Missing Tracks
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Compared to the original soundtrack release, the PSF rips come up 11 tracks short. Most of the
missing pieces are streamed off the PS2 DVD. According to the OST notes, 114, 118, 120, 212, 
and 421 did not make it into the game. The missing tracks are:

101 - Loop Demo
103 - Opening Movie (Theme of Final Fantasy XII)
114 - Level Up!
118 - Mission Start
120 - Mission Failure
204 - Abyss
212 - Chocobo Arrange FFXII Ver. I
418 - Ending Movie
419 - Kiss Me Good-Bye (Featured in Final Fantasy XII) 
420 - Symphonic Poem "Hope" ~ Final Fantasy XII PV Ver. ~
421 - Theme of Final Fantasy XII (Presentation Version)

Translation Notes
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Translations are based on the tracklistings posted at gmronline.com. Alternate translations
have appeared elsewhere, most notably ncsx.com, but GMR's versions seem to be the most 
accurate. For comparison purposes:

	NCSX			GMR
        --------------------------------------------
	Little Villain		Little Rascal
	Neighborhood of Water	Near the Water
	Sign			An Omen
	Riot			Rebellion
	Symptoms of Change	Signs of Change
	Peaceful Determination	Quiet Determination
	A Threat Draws Near	An Imminent Threat
	Ground of Recollection	A Land of Memories
	Fight to the Death	Desperate Fight

The only NCSX translation favored was for 115 -- GMR has this listed as 'Naivety'. 

Some track titles appear to be based on fan translation. 'Esper' and 'Esper Battle' are 
particularly problematic, as this is a fan take on a word -- 'genjuu' (phantom beast) -- 
that doesn't have a official and reliable translation yet. Similarly, some of the place 
names may also be changing -- 'Ozmone Plains' were translated as 'Ozmonfeld' in Tactics 
Advance, which leaves the possibility open that the US version of XII may be following suit. 

Extra Tracks
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A number of the tracks ripped from the game DVD are duplicated, thought some are fragments of longer 
tracks. Anything that isn't a straight-up dupe has appropriate parenthetical signifiers; the others
are labelled as 'Extra.' No time adjustments were made here.

The most notable of these 'Extra' tracks is the partial loop of 'Theme of the Empire', which was 
heavily used in promoting FFXII, ending up as background music on the official website as well as 
one of the promo trailers. 

Unknown Tracks
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Two tracks didn't correspond to any of the OST material even after repeated listens; these have been
relabelled Unknown 1 and 2. It may be that these are fragments of existing tracks, but it wasn't 
possible to verify this. Unknown 1 seems to be self-contained; Unknown 2 is a variation of 'Theme 
of the Empire'. It's more likely that these two are music composed for the game that didn't make the 
final cut.

Problematic Tracks
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For some reason, the rip for 403 ('The Port of Balfonheim') actually mixes the OST track with the 
flute parts from 'Secret Training'. The 'true' track does not contain the first 29 seconds, and
just repeats the string sections and harp arpeggios heard afterwards.

'You Really are a Child...' seems slightly shorter than the OST version.

Original Credits
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Thanks to tz for ripping the chunk of data I needed to put together this set.

Thanks to Neill for his work on the FFX driver that once again makes an appearance. :)

Thanks to "that VGMTrans guy" for his wonderful time-saving program.

Thanks to davironica for being a great friend, and for all of her wonderful contributions 
to the world of PSF.

~oddigy
http://oddigy.com

[Revised notes by M R Sachs]
