Hidechan Music and Idea Spy 2.5 CD release

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Hidechan Music and Idea Spy 2.5 CD release

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http://www.blog.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog/ ... 02138.html

It was announced on Beast UK, Kojima and Suda's new mini-radio show where they talk about music (first episode was January 1st), that the music used in Hidechan (mostly Policenauts and MGS3 music) as well as the full Idea Spy 2.5 radio drama will be released on a double-disc CD in Japan.

http://www.konamistyle.jp/ecitem/item36788.html
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Post by 87th »

A CD drama version of Ideaspy 2.5 was really the last thing I'd ever expect Kojima to do. Especially since it's been 7 years since Ghost Babel was released.
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Post by Marc »

It's actually been a streaming "radio" drama on the website for the last few months (only available for listen in the evening), and this is compiling them all on CD.
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MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Premium Pack (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear AC!D2 (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
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Oh, right. I hadn't heard anything about that.
...It's still an odd choice for a comeback, though.

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This is like one of my weirdest ever dreams come true.
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Post by Marc »

That's not all, guess who plays 2.5 in it? That's right, Hideo Kojima himself. :shock:

It also isn't quite the same as the Ghost Babel iteration. Changes in characters and script.
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MetalGear AC!D2 (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - Promo copy (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [European]
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Post by 87th »

Bizarre.
Kojima seems to be doing the oddest of things to please his hardcore fans, at the moment
...well... only me.
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87th wrote:Oh, right. I hadn't heard anything about that.
...It's still an odd choice for a comeback, though.

EDIT-
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This is like one of my weirdest ever dreams come true.
Kojima is well built! I thought he would have been a skinny, office worker sort of guy. I'm proved wrong. :lol:

And yeah, Kojima seems to be doing a lot for his fans as of late. Good news (if you speak Japanese of course :x ).
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Snake's Revenge (NES) [European]
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MetalGear: Ghost Babel (Gameboy Color) [European]
MetalGear: Ghost Babel (Gameboy Color) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance + The Document of MGS2 (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (Xbox) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (PC) [European]
MetalGear AC!D (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Premium Pack (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear AC!D2 (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - Promo copy (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid: Portable Ops (PSP) [American]
MetalGear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Limited Edition (+ Bonus Disc, Soundtrack and 6" Old Snake Action Figure) [European]

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Policenauts (3DO) [Japanese]
Policenauts (PlayStation) [Japanese]
Policenauts (Saturn) [Japanese]
Policenauts (Saturn) [Japanese]

ZONE OF THE ENDERS SERIES
Zone Of the Enders (PlayStation 2) [European]
Zone Of the Enders: The Second Runner - Special Edition (PlayStation 2) [European]

BOKTAI SERIES
boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand! (Gameboy Advance) [European]
boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (Gameboy Advance) [European]

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Henry Spencer wrote: Kojima is well built! I thought he would have been a skinny, office worker sort of guy. I'm proved wrong. :lol:
Must be all the combat training he has to do before every MetalGear game.
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He was pretty skinny before. He's started going to the gym regularly in recent years.
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Post by Marc »

Oh man, this thing is just great. Check this out. They made a special site for all of Junker Expensive of America's cheap warez... http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/twohan/jea/ The URL is included on the box. It's hilarious.

The first CD is all the music used in Hidechan plus 2 original vocal songs, while the second disc is all the episodes of 2.5, which is quite different from the Ghost Babel iteration. http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/twohan/ I'll try and get some pics and more info up later. By the way, Junker Expensive Corporation is now Junker Expensive of America. And like Hidechan, 2.5 is filled with Policenauts music, ha.

01. TEST SUBJECTS DUALITY
METAL GEAR AC!D & AC!D2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK(ACID2)

02. JUMPIN' JOHNNY
METAL GEAR SOLID 3 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

03. GIRLS
POLICENAUTS

04. SEA BREEZE
METAL GEAR SOLID 3 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

05. ANA'S THEME
POLICENAUTS

06. ROCK ME BABY "RADIO MIX"

07. BCP H.Q.
POLICENAUTS

08. RAILROAD

09. MONKEYS! ON THE STAGE

10. L'AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE
POLICENAUTS

11. PILLOW TALK"RADIO MIX"

12. SALTY CATFISH"RADIO MIX"

13. JEHUTY-VIVID TRANSPARENCY"RADIO EDIT"
ANUBIS ZONE OF THE ENDERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

14. LAVENDER "RADIO EDIT"
POLICENAUTS

15. BACKYARD BLUES

16. NO,NO,NO!
POLICENAUTS

17. SWEET HOME
POLICENAUTS

18. LEO! LEO!
ANUBIS ZONE OF THE ENDERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

19. SURFING GUITAR "RADIO MIX"

20. SAILOR"RADIO MIX"

21. RESURRECTION
METAL GEAR AC!D & AC!D2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK(ACID2)

22. THEME FROM "NEWS ORDER"
POLICENAUTS

23. GOOD DAY

24. PAST YEAR AT SUNSET BEACH
POLICENAUTS

25. DEAR MY FRIEND
POLICENAUTS

26. END OF THE DARK
POLICENAUTS

27. THE ESSENCE OF VINCE
METAL GEAR AC!D & AC!D2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK(ACID2)

28. LIVING THE 2.5 LIFE

29. SONG OF PRAYER


Cast:

Idea Spy 2.5
Hideo Kojima

Call Now
Yumi Kikuchi

Nice Price 714
Sotaro Tojima

JEA Exec A
Shuyo Murata

JEA Exec B
Kikuko Inoue

JEA Exec C
Jun Fukuyama

ZeroPaymentDown
Akio Otsuka

Bogus 2.5
Hideo Kojima

D-People-E-O
Ryan Payton

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Hideyuki Tanaka
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Just got it myself, I'll upload the scans by this friday.

I also re-uploaded the track names to itunes, with the complete information.
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I ordered a CD for one of the members here, and now I'm getting mail about further Hidechan products. Frankly, I have no interest in them, so I couldn't tell you one from the other. But I will post what I get. Hope this isn't the same information.

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Post by Marc »

It looks like they're promoting a launch event for the same product. Is there no way to unsubscribe from the newsletter?
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So it does. Says right there... event. HA.
Osiris wrote:It looks like they're promoting a launch event for the same product.
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Post by Snake Plissken »

Thought I'd share a silly little tid bit about this release. I was listening carefully to the tracks from Policenauts (the 1994 Soundtrack release), compared to the Hidechan -and I totally noticed that they re-mastered these mofoos!!!

The frequency levels/quality of the songs are higher (of the compressed wave decibels), and padded with deeper/wider stereo channeling!!!!

(Top wave table = Left Stereo Channel, bottom = Right Stereo Channel)

Here is the 1994 transfer for "End of Dark" Policenauts FLAC
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Here is the 2007 Hidechan transfer "End of Dark" Policenauts FLAC
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Look at all of those broken up wave bits in the frequency-noise for the 94' release, compared to the smooth compression of the 2007!!!! ISN'T THIS FUCKING AWESOME!?
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For now I had only listened to them at the office... I am now playing them in ALAC at home on my Paradigm Studio 60 speakers and you are totally right! They sound great!

I have to check out the old versions to make an A/B compare...


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Look at what you've done.. I've been up till 2 am comparing End of Dark... Listened to it at elast 10 times total. I used the original Policenauts OST and this new Hidechan release. Both direct from the CD in order to eliminate ripping and lossless compression problems, and used a PS3 and an Oppo player, both via HDMI to an Onkyo 604. I alternated between both mid-track and also listened to each one without interruption.

Man, what a difference. I also believe that they redid the stereo mix.. or the transfer is so much better from the original masters. It sounds way better now.

Great find man! I wouñdn't have compared them at all, it never crossed my mind. Thanks =)
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Man, what a difference. I also believe that they redid the stereo mix.. or the transfer is so much better from the original masters. It sounds way better now.
You noticed that too!! That is so awesome, glad to know there's another audiophile around here. ^_^ It's almost as if they broadened the stereo channel (and redid the mix as you said above) a bit, but without degrading (but increasing) the bass output, or expanding the treble (which would've made for noise garbage -like that inner-sound enhancing feature on iTunes for instance.)

I've noticed that even if you rip it to like a loss-less format like let's say MP3-320 CBR/VBR you can still feel that damn "kick." This is just impressive, and I thought that this CD would just be like a generic filling -as if it was one of those Konami Konami Kukeiha Club type of compilations. (Not that any of those are bad hahaha.)
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Snake Plissken wrote:That is so awesome, glad to know there's another audiophile around here. ^_^
Hey, I like doing that kinda thing too.
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Snake Plissken wrote:That is so awesome, glad to know there's another audiophile around here. ^_^
Hey, I like doing that kinda thing too.
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Yes I also thought it would be a generic filler as you describe it.

I didn't know you were that much into audio man, I've been digging deeper this last year. Changing speakers and doing changes to create a smooth bass response. I just bought a BFD 1124p ( http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/bfd-rew-forum/ ) and am dying for it to arrive in order to fix some peaks I have around 40 hz in my room, I did some equalization last week using the ECM8000 omni-directional Mic and REW (the software described in the link above). Difference was so big after changing the crossover values and minimizing some peaks I could change with the built in EQ on the Onkyo 604, that I ended up buying the BFD.

Investment to get that kind of upgrade is not that big when compared to some nice speakers and amplifier, so I greatly recommend it to anyone interested in getting the most out of their audio systems.

If any of you is interested in this or has gone this path before, I'd love to talk about it and share some knowledge you might have.
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Alex, I remember a couple years ago when we talked about how the 3DO version of SSF2T has the best music quality even though it came out years before the 32- and 64-bit versions. You always did have a sharp ear for sound.
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Osiris wrote:Alex, I remember a couple years ago when we talked about how the 3DO version of SSF2T has the best music quality even though it came out years before the 32- and 64-bit versions. You always did have a sharp ear for sound.
I thought my local group of friends were the only that thought so. I still keep a copy of it here. I remember that back in college one of my friends, Paco Puente, had a 3DO.. and he carried a tape with the music from it on his car. Man, we loved those tracks. All we could usually do was listen to them on the Genesis or Super NES sound test, but they were so much better on the Super SFII Turbo version.

Know i have that copy we all played back then, along with my friend's 3do in my collection. I'll play it tomorrow, I also liked how the 3do version of the Policenauts music sounds, I'll play some of it as well.
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Snatcher wrote:.. and he carried a tape with the music from it on his car. Man, we loved those tracks. All we could usually do was listen to them on the Genesis or Super NES sound test, but they were so much better on the Super SFII Turbo version.
And here I thought me an' my sis were the only ones. I brought a yak-bak to school with me once with the first 10 seconds of the CPS1 version of Ryu's theme recorded on it. My friends musta' thought we were awefully dorky.
So lemme get this straight, it's ok to listen to OSTs? :lol:
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Osiris wrote:Alex, I remember a couple years ago when we talked about how the 3DO version of SSF2T has the best music quality even though it came out years before the 32- and 64-bit versions. You always did have a sharp ear for sound.
I thought my local group of friends were the only that thought so. I still keep a copy of it here. I remember that back in college one of my friends, Paco Puente, had a 3DO.. and he carried a tape with the music from it on his car. Man, we loved those tracks. All we could usually do was listen to them on the Genesis or Super NES sound test, but they were so much better on the Super SFII Turbo version.

Know i have that copy we all played back then, along with my friend's 3do in my collection. I'll play it tomorrow, I also liked how the 3do version of the Policenauts music sounds, I'll play some of it as well.
That's awesome. :) The only real thing that prevents it from being arcade perfect is the backgrounds are missing all their parallax scrolling for some reason (I really miss it).
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Osiris wrote:That's awesome. :) The only real thing that prevents it from being arcade perfect is the backgrounds are missing all their parallax scrolling for some reason (I really miss it).
I even bought the SNES adapter from him, no way you played with the actual 3do pad! And since a friend of mine made some custom arcade sticks for the SNES (Which he donated for the collection)...
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