Jaguar Rocks!

[ZylonBane]

Back in the year 2000, having entirely too much free time, I decided I was going to create the definitive, all-encompassing archive of Atari Jaguar game music—the Jaguar Rocks project—to include every song from every Jaguar game ever. So I hooked my Jag up to my PC and for months recorded everything I could lay my hands on. I did noise reduction to get rid of line hiss, made sure short bits of looping music repeated a few times and faded out cleanly, manually edited out pops and clicks in the original music, and cursed the games that didn't have built-in music tests. I tracked down original MODs where I could, and managed to get some from the original authors. Will Davis in particular donated about a dozen unused tracks from various Jag games he worked on.

 

On the down side, I originally had the notion that all this music would fit on a single data CD, so the MP3 bitrates I used were anemic even for back then-- mostly 64kbps for mono tracks and 128kbps for stereo. Fortunately, the synthy nature of most Jag game music meant it compressed very well, so the quality doesn't seem to have been noticeably impacted. This is good, because hard drives were so small back then that I couldn't keep any of the raw captures.

 

Anyway, you may have realized by now that no such project was ever released.

 

I got burned out on it, my primary fandom moved on to PC gaming, and the project went on indefinite hold. The closest it ever came to public release was a "0.8" version given away as a door prize at JagFest 2001. I figured I'd always get back to it eventually, but now that this project is old enough to drink, I'd best accept reality and just put the damn thing out there. No frills.

 

So here you go. Enjoy!

 

http://clayh.net/jagrocks/

 

[PeterG]

Thanks for sharing. I'll take a look later today.

[PeterG]

Just had a look, thanks again Clay there's some really cool stuff in there.

 

@Randy: Now you can play the IS2 Soundtrack with your cart.

[Flojomojo]

Your work is awesome, thanks so much for putting this out there.

 

This is how I want to remember games on the Jaguar. When I hear these tunes in my head, the graphics are high resolution running at 60FPS.

[Flojomojo]

Hey did someone from Bethesda ask you not to post the DOOM music? It's conspicuously absent.

 

Still rocks though!

[ZylonBane]

The Doom music is one of those I never got around to recording. Since it's readily available from so many other sources, with dozens of great remixes, I figure it's no great loss to not have it here. Ditto for Wolfenstein 3D.

[+Saturn]

Thanks for this. DLed it all in case it hits the fan. Especially digging the Battlemorph soundtrack

[82-T/A]

THis is really cool! I see you have the Defender 2000 music too!

[LianneJaguar64]

Sweet, now I can listen to some banging Jag tunes!

[ARETHIUS]

Thanks man that's awesome. It also spare me the time to do it myself.

[masematte]

Think you, its a huge libary , BTW did anybody have an mp3 of Raiden and pinball fantasy ?

[doctor_shred]

Great work. I started something similar to this many years ago but never finished. Now I don't have to bother Excellent!