This past weekend, somebody at Smash Boards posted a link to a torrent of the entire soundtrack for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, ripped straight from the game. The entire OST is over 300 tracks long. The original torrent doesn’t have correct file naming, however. You’ll get a long list of files named A01, A02, … B01, B02, etc. The lettering groups the tracks according to franchise, like all of the A’s are Mario tracks, B is Donkey Kong, C is Zelda, etc. Another person wrote a DOS batch file which automatically goes through the directory with the music and renames the files for you automatically (according to the titles listed in the Smash Boards thread). This does not, however, modify any of the meta tags of the files (like artist, track, title, etc) which is a problem for me because i’m very obsessive compulsive with my music organization. Since the original posting, I’ve found links to another torrent for the OST, advertising “correctly labeled” and that sort of thing, but I don’t know if the author of that torrent also editted any of the tags. Two of the tracks which are included, 00.mp3 and X24.mp3 are “empty” (as in, there’s no audio) which could have just been an error with the ripping. The torrent (the Smash Boards one) also includes various sound effects (such as unlock chimes, Game Over, etc). These and the two dead files are supposedly not included in the new torrent.

Here are some statistics:
Total files: 314
Tracks: 312 (2 “empty” tracks)
BGM: 285 (312 - 27 Victory and SFX tracks)
Runtime: 16hrs 7min 50sec
Size: 1.10GB

For the Smash Boards thread and the original torrent, go here.
To find other torrents, go here.

Update! - Sorry for the wait, but here’s the .bat file which will rename all the files for you: click here. Extract the file to the same directory as all of the mp3s and double-click it to run. The files MUST have the original names (A01.mp3, etc) for this to work! I actually made a few adjustments to it, correcting a couple tiny mistakes the original author made.

I’m working on trying to improve my vector tracing skills. It’s come to my recent attention that I could be doing a lot better. My main problem is my lines. When I first learned how to do it, the tutorial I used was for Photoshop, and I learned to do all of the outlining with the Pen Tool. But this tends to leave all of the lines at a consistent, static thickness which in the end doesn’t look perfect. I read today that most good vector trace images are done in a program called Inkscape, which is actually a (gasp) vector image program (as opposed to raster). It’s also open source, which is cruise control for win. It lets me get even fancier with the contruction of the image outlines, so maybe (hopefully) my work will improve.

I find vectoring animu images to be pretty fun (despite extremely time consuming). It lets you take an otherwise fuzzy image (such as a screenshot of a show), blow it up nice and big, and make it really crisp and vibrant - which makes an excellent wallpaper. Vector images are also considered “infinitely scalable” meaning (if I understand completely) you can increase and decrease the dimensions of the image without losing quality.

Perhaps you might see something from me in the near future.