Final Fantasy III (DS) soundtrack info
 

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/cd/cd_top/

61 tracks apparently. Arranged by Tsuyoshi Sekito and Keiji Kawamori.

And here's the OST site:

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/ff3/

There's one song that plays in the background so far. More content supposedly coming soon.

-Credit for the heads-up goes to Grievinger and king zell of the Neo GAF forum.

They've had this info on GMR for at least a week or two. Also, if you checked the Square Enix Music composers page, you would have known the composer info beforehand.

Here's some other info for upcoming Square Enix music while we're at it.

Seiken Densetsu 4 will be composed by Kenji Ito (coming from past info), Tsuyoshi Sekito, and Masayoshi Soken. It will be arranged by those composers, as well as Junya Nakano.

Project Sylpheed is being composed by Junya Nakano, Kenichiro Fukui, and Kumi Tanioka.

http://host.kg13.com/img/the_more_you_know.jpg

Double Post:
Also, Junya Nakano is going to be synth progammer (!) on something called Front Mission o-ru-ta-na-ti-vu. Someone needs to whip that last bit into some sense.

Correction Kaleb,

Nakano *was* synth programmer for Front Mission Alternative, composed by Riow Arai :)

It's just a reprint of the PS1 game.

Forgive me, but Final Fantasy III III, or Final Fantasy VI III (the American SNES version of VI was III)?

This is a remake for the DS of FF3j.

Awww, I thought it might be something old, but I didn't make the "Alternative" connection. :doh:

Courtesy of GMROnline, the full track listings for those who are interested:

01 Memory of the Wind ~Legend of the Eternal Wind~
02 Prelude
03 Into the Crystal Cave
04 Battle 1
05 Victory Fanfare
06 Crystal Room
07 Opening Theme
08 Hometown of Uru
09 Eternal Wind
10 Jinn's Curse
11 Dungeon
12 Return of the Warrior
13 The Road to the Mountain Top
14 Tozas
15 Nept Temple
16 The Enterprise Goes into the Sea
17 Living Forest
18 Ancient's Village
19 Chocobo Theme
20 Fat Chocobo Discovered
21 Tower of Owen
22 Veggies of Geasal
23 Castle of Hain
24 Hazardous Short Music 1
25 Hazardous Short Music 2
26 Hazardous Short Music 3
27 Battle 2
28 Requiem
29 The Enterprise Soars in the Sky
30 The Boundless Ocean
31 Elia, the Maiden of Water
32 Town of Alm
33 Piano Practice 1
34 Piano Practice 2
35 Swift Twist
36 Rest at the Inn
37 Added Companion
38 Parting from a Companion
39 Dancer's Dance
40 Item Get
41 Garuda Defeat
42 Four Old Men's Theme
43 Covert Village Falgabard
44 Megalopolis Salonia
45 Submarine Nautilus
46 Underwater Temple
47 Pavilion of Dorga and Une
48 Lute of Noah
49 Une's Excercise
50 Huge Battleship Invincible
51 Forbidden Land Eureka
52 Crystal Tower
53 Dark Crystal
54 Last Battle -1-
55 Last Battle -2-
56 Last Battle -3-
57 Ending Theme -1-
58 Ending Theme -2-
59 Ending Theme -3-
60 Eternal Wind -.333 mix-
61 Last Battle -THE BLACK MAGES Ver.-

All Music Composed by Nobuo Uematsu
Arranged by Tsuyoshi Sekito, Keiji Kawamori, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Nobuo Uematsu (1), Kenichiro Fukui (61)

Includes a DVD featuring:
- Opening Movie (5.1ch, 2ch)
- Promotion Video
- Special Interview ~FINAL FANTASY III Anecdote~ (Hiromichi Tanaka, Nobuo Uematsu, Tsuyoshi Sekito, Keiji Kawamori, Yasuhiro Yamanaka)

Track 60 arranged by Yasuhiro Yamanaka and performed by muZik (techno arrange)
Track 61 arranged by Kenichiro Fukui and performed by The Black Mages

So the DVD comes with the OST?

Yup. That's the so-called second disc. Not so impressive, in my opinion, especially given 61 tracks are crammed into the first disc. I doubt there will be a great deal of scope for arranging.

F*** that shit, 61 tracks on one disc? WTH they are thinking... no way I'm buying this.

yeah, no chance that the tracks will loop twice :( That sucks.

Did they loop in the first one? I need to scrounge it out and listen to it again
But apparently the sound quality is meant to be really good

The original FFIII soundtrack has 44 tracks, but the tracks seem more cut up in this new release. For example the Final Battle and Ending are each 3 tracks, whereas they're 1 in the NES OST.

The tracks DO loop on the original OST, though not all the way in some cases. Keep in mind they're rather short tracks to begin with. The first battle theme is about 40 seconds prior to looping, and also tacks on the victory theme for a grand total of 1'53" for the whole track.

Original OST is 54 mins 32 seconds. This one is probably pushing for the pure maximum of over 70.

Edit:

Wow, check out the samples on the main page: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/s.../ff3/info.html

Pretty damn impressive for the DS. Though I'm assuming the sample quality was reduced for the actual game. This must be pre-compression.

So in other words we don't need to worry about tracks not looping as we previously thought. This OST looks like a worthy purchase to me, good quality versions of the original FF3 music, a DVD with the opening movie with 5.1 surround. ( I love seeing FMVs on the TV then a dingy little screen.)

Screw the track list. I'm gonna buy the OST (if there's any) no matter what.

The Sound Quality is amazing on the site - but I wonder if the sound has been remastered for soundtrack release :/

***Confused***

Either way - It will be amazing (touch wood)

The expression is actually "knock on wood", just so you know.

Actually, touch wood has the same meaning. I believe this way of saying it is mostly used in the UK though.

Been playing the game. The remixes are pretty hit or miss, the best one is definately Forbidden Land Eureka.

I have listened the preview tracks... nice arrangement but not really special. :(

We know as "Touch wood" in the UK :)

EDIT: As seanne beat me to it :P

Interesting. I had never heard of that.

Anyway, back to the music, I think the arrangement will be decent, but I will have to listen to the whole thing before considering any purchase.

Er... The rip was already available a week ago.

Yep, and cheers to the lucky folk at STC who were able to download it before I nuked it. Once my rip links start spreading to other boards, my bandwidth gets hosed and the files go bye-bye. Pre-order the soundtrack today. :P

I really like both the DS and Black Mages rendition of the Final Battle, and of course the beautiful Eternal Wind orchestration... and bump.