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A place for your favorite video game songs, OSTs, and remixes for games of all eras. Also, deep dives into their creation and composition.

Would appreciate composer names in either the title or the post, for recognition of their hard work.

Looking for a name, a game, or an album? Check out the Video Game Music Database over at VGMDb, or the Video Game Music Preservation Foundation at VGMPF.com!

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Figured out how to rip music from XM (steamcommunity.com)

submitted 9 months ago by TwistedPear to c/vgmusic

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Blair Zuppicich did a great job with 7th Legion (say what you will about the game), and though Steam just gives you the soundtrack in mp3 format, I was confused that several themes were missing. This is a problem that perplexed me for many years, especially since my favorite theme was not among these files.

Then, I tripped over a user on YouTube one day, Nameless One, who had managed to rip some of these 'missing' tunes and uploaded them. Reinvigorated, I went digging.

Through the use of a hex editor, opening one of the bgm.xm files shows a line at the top: "FastTracker 2.0". Of course, it's a program that no longer exists in its native form, BUT a user 8bitbubsy created a clone and uploaded it as a portable app on his site 16-bit.org.

Using the tracker, I was able to rip the theme I was after, located in BGM12.XM. In my excitement to shout it from the rooftops, I made a quick guide in Steam linked here.

Tangentially, Blair seems to have remade this track into a more conventional trance song in 2013, available on Bandcamp and calls it "Vision".

You can check that out here: (https://plexusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/voyager)

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