apparently this music starts immediately after you defeat the body of the Many

What do you mean "apparently"? Does it or doesn't it?

And what do you mean by "white noise loop"? White noise is a steady hiss sound. Are you saying that's what you heard?

interesting, because if a resource file is missing from a mod, then the default/vanilla resource should just load. will need an investigation.

The SCP SHODAN fight music is a new track, so there is no vanilla resource. Since this mod only replaces vanilla resources, it's impossible for it to have interfered with SCP's SHODAN fight music.

Another Lazarus post...

Just finished the game with SCP beta5 (which has in the patch notes "SHODAN final boss fight now has appropriate final boss fight music (if music is enabled)") and apparently this music starts immediately after you defeat the body of the Many and load into the final level after the water slide. When this level loaded (with SS2 Vaxquis Vintage Song Remake active) there was just a white noise loop over and over again. I had to deactivate the mod to get the proper music to play. I assume since this is new music that the mod does not have a file to play hence the white noise loop. Hope this helps someone.

I just downloaded it at ~4MB/s in a minute. But who knows what path the tubes take to your end. So here goes a temporary alternative: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9wmewLFyoFVZU9HWlRTU1l6MTQ/view?usp=sharing

That's good to know. It did take a very, very long time to download (hours?) however.

My ISP bandwidth should allow me to download it in less than a minute.

I found this via the newbie guide (https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4447.0).

Looks like the main link is broken, so the only way to download is via the forum, which is slow and probably rough on the site's bandwidth usage.

Thanks chris26, it worked.

edit:
I put the snd folder into a folder called sound mod and it seems to be ok now.

Since I got about 600 plays since I posted the link to the demo version of my Eng1 remix as a "bonus" to SS2 VSR v1.0, I reckon I owe all the listeners to tell them this: it's finished now! - after about 5 years from its inception I finally got the spare evening to tie all the loose ends in it. https://soundcloud.com/sparm-ove/engineering-1-robotkid-vs-poponuro , enjoy!

My apologies. I tried redownloading it again, and on my third attempt, it worked. Previous downloads were in the low 230 MBs, so I guess the problem must have been on my end. Thanks for the help, and again, sorry for the mixup.

Yep 9.20, and I tried it again with WinRar, which I also freshly downloaded. Could somebody else download the archive from the site and give it a try and see if it works for them?

Hi, I just downloaded the mod file and I get an error from both 7zip and Winrar saying that the archive is corrupt. I double checked and downloaded it again just to be sure, and, yep, still corrupt. Is it just me or are other people having the same problem?

I wanted to avoid making this mod a chatroom but I just could not resist the hospitability and conforming I've always felt here, thanks to you Kolya and all the others from the past. 
So yes, I've been away for years and life was treating me badly, actually that's why I left in the first place, I did not have enough energy to sustian. But since then all that was bad turned to good and I am back stronger than ever... maybe. So let us hope I will get a grip of the assembly line that has changed a lot, I feel like a newcomer. Maybe that's good as I may point out a few details that are hard to get from a newcomer perspective.

I did it! I did it! Thanks for letting me Kolya... nice to see you again after those years

I forgot how to tag this as sound.

@Schatten, I got this from FearOfDark a couple of days ago:

[...]good job on the remix - sounds great so far. Much better than the original (it's a very old module file released in my "Early days" as a module musician) [...]Kind regards,Steve (aka FoD)

- he's alive and kicking, he set up a SoundCloud a while ago, and is still "in the business".

Is there a high quality version of the Intro music (military, science, consumer)?
Because in the SS2-E3 trailer (http://www.sshock2.com/ss2mmdb/movies.htm), there is no background music for the advertising speaker, which means that a higher sound quality for Muzman's Cutscene could be made.

If you or anybody else wants to redo/update SHMUP, by all means, go ahead. I don't see myself coming back to it anytime soon, too many RL and other distractions to count.

In other news, I'd never thought I'd stumble upon FearOfDark outside of the chipmusic scene. Heh.

I would like to hear some opinions from people who used this mod.

*Standing ovation*

Loved it 

What is it a remix of?

I repacked the linked archive from deposit files to adhere to our mod format (archive root = game root) and attached it to the first post. The comparative examples are in the second post.
I also added you (Vaxquis) to the contributor group to make handling of attachments a bit easier. In case you would like to update this mod, note that attachments size is limited to 100MB (for contributors) for technical reasons. So for updating I suggest you proceed as before, ie link to an external download and I'll put up. It's quite cumbersome for me as well, so for minor changes I suggest to upload a smaller addon archive that can be merged into the main download after a while.

Thank you for your work.

Ah Rap, the female jungle DJ.

... and softcore porn model in her early days, too. Then she started mixing and done her jungle/DnB episode. And then, she switched to doing vocals, pop and dubstep.

(NSFW) http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t6877-charissa-clarissa-dawkins-saverio-aka-dj-rap.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgD_6jFV1dU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDb0LmV_i_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXtMGvb00Ow

"evolution of music"... It's kind of ironic when I think of it.

Also - I'm not a fan of dubstep myself, mind me, I mostly hate it myself, because of what became of the genre when it went mainstream (it was the same with punk, heavy metal, rap, liquid d'n'b - as it usually is) - but it's kind of funny how easy you can mix it with everything - rap, heavy metal, drum'n'bass & ambient included...

Very interesting. Judging from your examples, SHMUP is missing some of the music cues? I didn't know that.

He (Schatten) states that explicitly in the readme.txt in the mod zip, covering every single track compatibility with original bits.

AFAIR, the "0th version" was the master tracks Robotkid provided; they were made very early. EB compilation soundtrack was the "1st version" made by JR and EB collectively before the game was actually made - later it was cut & edited to fit the game content, mainly by Eric, so some things were removed/unused, while some new cuts appeared (let's call it "2nd version"). Thus, I think that an actual CD-quality recreation of game music should take that fact into account and try to match "2nd version" more than "1st version", whenever possible - and that's exactly what I did.

@Join usss!

those tunes are some random odds-and-ends I've had as WIP for some time. I've already changed E2E a bit, although I'm obviously too lazy to re-record it and reupload it... And yeah, it got a bit more rapid progression and steeper drops, since I found it too lazily going too.

RA was a 2-minute demo of a 10-minute megamix of DJ Rap's Spiritual Aura (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uLmF_RARs). Later, it got cut in a drastic way, and now it goes in completely different direction, being instead a mix of Rihanna's Rude Boy (sic!).

As for Eng2 - about the dubstep-y part:

"I really like the slowed-down part - that rules."

is a direct quote about it from Josh Randal (it's not about the 9:00 downtempo, since it wasn't ready yet when I asked for his opinion) *chuckle chuckle* de gustibus, and all that...

I haven't actually made a lot of tunes for the last couple of years, for those so-called "real-life reasons" (playing live instruments and creating analog synthesizers from scratch being some of them, alongside with divorce, Masters degree in Physics etc); still, I'm very glad for your feedback.

Very interesting. Judging from your examples, SHMUP is missing some of the music cues? I didn't know that.

°sound°SS2

SS2 Vintage Song Remake v1.0

SS2 Songs as they were meant to be - HQ CD-quality tracks sticking as close to the original SS2 soundtrack as possible.

* SS2 VSR v1.0 - why another Music Update Mod?

After listening to SHMUP, I got really disappointed... not only did Shatten forget about dynamics matching, resulting in much louder soundtrack with unequalized volume between songs, and with much dynamic lost due to acoustic compression with too high gain ratio on some songs (well, that one thing is not exactly his fault, as it's just how the EB tracks used by him as the source were produced); the main problem is that ADPCM 4-bit compression with 22kHz sampling gave most of the upbeat tracks a distinct, crispy EQ, which the "studio" soundtrack doesn't have (many oldschool DnB DJs downsample songs just to make them feel more vinyl-y). Also, changes made to some songs (Eng1, Command 1) seem just bad to me. Still, all ambient tracks gained much with hiss removal and, usually, no clipping occurring (there was mild clipping in original songs).

I remade those ambients (namely 02-07 & Eng2), fixing the gain factors, for everybody to have a playing experience most consistent with original one - and with developer's intentions too - as far as my e-mail correspondence with Robotkid and analysis of the samples in the tracks goes.

* who should use this?
a) vanilla players, expecting in-game soundtrack matching the original one perfectly, albeit with less noise and higher fidelity,
b) veteran players, ditto.

* who shouldn't use this?
people who can't hear any difference between original SS2 songs and SHMUP.

* what changes can I expect here?
All tracks are raw 44.100 kHz, 16-bit PCM WAVE data.

Basically:
tracks 02-07 & Eng2 are based on EB soundtrack, with RMS volume level matched vs original tracks. Basically the same as Schatten's, but about 4dB less louder.
tracks 08-13 & Eng1 are based on SS2 soundtrack, with lo-fi digital resampling from 22.050 kHz/4-bit ADPCM, resulting in lo-fi equalization similar to the original soundtrack, albeit with a little more "air" than original samples. As to the "feel", it's slightly "clearer" than original, but still with much lower high-frequency content & distortive resonance than EB soundtrack. Also, they are *exactly* the same cuts as in the original game, so they're quite different from Schatten's. Biggest differences are for Eng1 & Command 1, obviously. e1beet1 was also resampled by analog, not digital, means, to preserve the most of the "groove" - namely bass, hats & extreme low/high-frequency content. See samples in the 7z to check *how* the versions differ (vanilla vs VSR vs Schatten's).

* credits

RobotKid & Eric Brosius - for the original soundtrack
Schatten - for the idea
Vaxquis Poponuro ( vaxquis at gmail dot com ) - the author (yup, that's me)

* as a bonus, a link to the WIP remix of the Eng1 song I've made some years ago, with the usual "maybe one day I'll finish it" disclaimer. recently finished, after about 5 years of being WIP - yay!

https://soundcloud.com/sparm-ove/engineering-1-robotkid-vs-poponuro

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side note: since this is the first release, I would kindly ask everybody interested in testing the soundtrack, both out-of-game and in-game, for possible bugs & omissions.