I'm deeply agree with you.
When I first listen to the music,I'm a little unaccommodate,because I can not here anything with Sakuraba Marks.Till I play the game, I can dig VP2 now.
This time, his music is lmore orchestra,more ambient,more cinematic which fit in game very much, rather than progressive rock.
IMO,It is a special work diffrent from other his works!


BTW,I upload the VP2 rips for you all.Enjoy ,take a new taste for Sakuraba!

Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria Original Game Audio(sorry,Japannese file name) ripped by rpgmm
Part1 227M

Part2 113M

Wow, thanks for these! :D

I've only got the first half so far, but it's pretty good to me. :)

Excellent rip - (notices the -D- tracks are battle themes)
Is it possible to get the english translation of this rip?

Yeah, it's a great rip. A lot of this music is quite lovely and the battle themes are more exciting than usual. I'd call this one of Sakuraba's best. Nice to see the game inspired him.

It sounds like he's going further down the SO3 route in using live instruments. Awesome. ;) I take it this music was streamed?

(Also, a few of the tracks came in with 0 bytes. Is this normal?)

Great rips, shylph!
Thank you very much.

It's not formal track names, and I hear we can't get those in sound test. So, we have to wait for OST vol.1 (Vol.2 is next month...) and someone to translate it. Also, most of those are just 'unknown' or the place names which it's hard to translate.

Some track translations, more to come

A-01 標題画面
Headline Screen (Title Screen?)

A-02 世界地圖
World Map

A-03 不明
Unknown

A-04 宿屋休息
Relaxation at the Inn

B-01 港町ゾルデ
Port Town Zorde

B-02 喪失の森
Woods of Forfeit

B-03 王家の地下道
Royal Family's Subterranean Tunnel

B-04 ディパン城下町
Dipan Castle Town

B-05 不明
Unknown

B-06 ディパン城
Dipan Castle

B-07 キセナ草原
Kisena Plains

B-08 コリアンドル村
Town of Coriandol

B-09 セルドベルグ山岳遺跡
Seltberg Mountain Ruins

B-10 蒼枯の森
Forest of Blue Wither

B-11 ヴィルノア
Vilnoa

B-12 アウドゥーラ水上神殿
High Temple of Audura

B-13 トゥルゲン鉱山
Minbe of Tulgen

B-14 カルスタッド
Kalstadt

B-15 サーマ砂漠
Sarma Desert

B-16 スルス火山洞窟
Suls Volcano Cave

B-17 クレルモンフェラン
Kurelmonferan (?)

B-18 クローサス森林遺跡
Krosas Forest Ruins

B-19 昏き妄執の館
Mansion of Dark Delusion

B-20 竜の墓場
Dragon Graveyard

C-01 奉竜殿
Lord Houryuu

C-02 スカビア渓谷
Scapia Valley

C-03 不明
Unknown

C-04 不明
Unknown

C-05 精霊の森
Spirit Forest

C-06 不明
Unknown

C-07 不明
Unknown

C-08 アスガルド
Asgard

C-09 ユグドラシル
Yggdrasil

C-10 不明
Unknown

C-11 レザード.ヴァレスの塔 其之一
Lezard Vareth Tower 1

C-12 レザード.ヴァレスの塔 其之二
Lezard Vareth Tower 2

C-13 レザード.ヴァレスの塔 其之三
Lezard Vareth Tower 3

C-14 不明
Unknown

C-15 レザード.ヴァレスの塔 其之四
Lezard Vareth Tower 4

C-16 セラフィックゲート
Seraphic Gate

C-17 セラフィックゲート内部
Seraphic Gate Inside

Double Post:
And the rest

D-01 雜魚戰.mp3
Battle

D-02 中boss戰.mp3
Boss Battle

D-03 戰斗勝利.mp3
Victory

D-04 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-05 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-06 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-07 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-08 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-09 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-10 Celestial Troupe.mp3
Celestial Troupe

D-11 不明.mp3
Unknown

D-12 miss
D-13 miss

E-01 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-02 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-03 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-04 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-05 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-06 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-07 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-08 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-09 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-10 不明.mp3
Unknown

E-11 不明.mp3
Unknown

F-01 OP 1.mp3

F-02 OP 2 ~ 永らえたる地へ.mp3
To a Long-Lived World

F-03.miss
F-04.miss
F-05.miss
F-06.miss

(x-posted from STC, but figured I'd throw my two cents in here, too)

Rahaha.
After closer inspection, this was absolutely not digitally extracted, though it sounds awesome for a recording. I tried a bit of BabelFish on rpgmm's blogpost, but didn't come to any conclusions one way or the other. Anyway, here are points that lead me to believe this was recorded:

1. The files 44.1 khz. Most PS2 streamed bgm is natively 48khz. Downsampling from 48/44.1 solely using an MP3 encoder, at least in my experience, seriously screws with the audio. This sounds like it was natively 44.1kHz to begin with.

2. There are a few footsteps at the beginning of most of the files. This again, is a sign that the music was recorded.

3. The music loops and fades out. Were it extracted using MFAudio or something like CubeMediaPlayer, it would cut off abruptly, unless it were looped manually, and I know to do it perfectly takes... a long ass time.

4. VP2: Silmeria uses the same filesystem and compression that Star Ocean 3 and Radiata Stories do. The music is streamed, but it's not in any format that any ripping program can currently extract.

The recordings are great, though. Thanks for the link, and sorry to crap up the thread. :)

I believe the final boss themes are D12 and D13. I've watched videos of those battles and the music is missing from the rip.

Well those tracks can wait until the soundtracks release - I love the new battle theme (even though it may not be as memorable as the VP Lenneth battle theme)

I bet the vast majority of battle themes will be on Vol.2 >< later release

Hello,
Just a quick question how come it is when I try to burn the music files onto cd it will not let me though the files have a mp3 extention. Just curious, and to see if there is a way to fix it the music is awsome. Thanks.
Teresa.

Hey tlrunions and everyone! I have the same problem. When I tried to burn out track B17 (which was wonderful) the entire program stopped. It might be the tracknames that's wrong, like too long or something.

No, it's because the tracknames are in japanese (and not romanji Japanese). Unicode is not liked by cd burners.

Hello,
So can we fix them just by changing the name of the tracks?.
Teresa.

Double Post:
Hello,
Sorry to repost but I answered my own question yes if you change the track names they will work in burners hope that helps everyone out.
Teresa.

Also, some tracks are written in Chinese(impoted here from a certain Chinese website). One of my pc installed windows 2000 couldn't read fully.

Thanks for your translation:)
But I think some tracks name are not properly,and I correct for you:)

OST is awesome!! But what about rest of the tracks? They have english names?

Vol.2 is actually this month, and not next. Next month is the arrange and voice mix albums.

I'm in love with the music in VP2. ^_^ It's almost nothing like the Sakuraba I've heard before (except some battle music and usual chord progression of course), and that's probably why I love it.