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 Member 13178 Level 13.35 Sep 2006 
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Without wishing to become too technical or petty, I'll say it's more than that.
Quite well-known gamerippers at these forums have done what I'd call just stupid things, not an "improper" game rip, but rather, just an ill-informed one. More commonly, it's just little things as seanne said, like using the latest MP3 encoder, not some defunct one. But I'll give you a more extreme example of what people can do when they simply don't know what they're doing. For example. The Sonic Adventure PC soundtrack plays WMA files off the CD for music. Someone recorded the Sonic Adventure soundtrack, as it was playing (in WAV format) with their sound card. They then converted that to MP3 after editing and so forth. It doesn't take a genius to see why that's a bad idea. The reason it annoys me is primarily because it was done by a popular gameripper, and was probably downloaded and accepted as a 'gamerip'. While it wouldn't sound like white noise, or total rubbish, the simple fact is that it could have been done in a smarter way, for the same/a similar level of effort. A more common example would be emulators for chiptune 'rips'. If a console soundtrack is a gamerip, is it from the console, or is it from SNES9X or Nesticle or another emu? While I'm not particularly bothered (I'm too young to have played many older games on their original consoles), it's something someone could consider a problem if they're all called 'gamerip'. I personally think there should be an unofficial GFF guideline for gamerips. Obviously, you can't dictate what programs people use, and that's largely irrelevant anyway (any WAV recorders and editers can be used to achieve the same result). But you can say things like- for MP3 encoding, only use LAME 3.98, only encode at this VBR setting or above, etc. - Spike Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 13178 Level 13.35 Sep 2006
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Nice comment Slogra.
Also, LAME 3.98b3 is now out, and there's even a "LAMEDrop" version, which is very nice for a OggDrop user like me (works the same as OggDrop). It came out 6th June. So all you MP3 users (myself included) should grab it! - Spike There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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