FFFB-0001~6: Finest FANTASY For ADVANCE: FINAL FANTASY IV V VI Original...

[Kadai]

At the next website I have found what does appear to be the tracklist for this release in japanese: http://mythos.jp/~nyackts/cd/ff_finest.html

I'll add the tracklisting once I got a little of time today, or tomorrow... if no one complains with this information.

[seanne]

It looks correct. You can see the printed tracklist on the scans labeled 'insert' in the gallery.

[Kadai]

Originally Posted by seanne

It looks correct. You can see the printed tracklist on the scans labeled 'insert' in the gallery.

Added.

But i just only asked if someone saw around a typo or something that did not looked correct and that I was not aware of

[Nisto]

Is the name on this entry really accurate? The front of the box reads "Finest Box: Finest Fantasy for Advance", but nothing about it being related to Final Fantasy, so maybe we should name it after the front insert: Finest FANTASY For ADVANCE: Final Fantasy IV V VI Original Soundtrack?

[Phonograph]

I didn't watch all the scans (only inserts) but is there any reason not to use the "official" ff iv osv tracklist?
(note that there are some typos -mysidia, parom/polom, calcobrena)

[Zhane Masaki]

I read some of the credits of this album. Uematsu is listed as "Music Supervisor", when we all know he wrote the music for the original versions of FFIV-VI.

But when I read deeper into the credits for FFIV and FFV Advance, I found the following composers listed as "Composers":

FFIV Advance:
Hiroshi Nakajima
Ryoue Takagi
Noriko Yokoyama
Mitsutoshi Kodama
Eri Yasuda


FFV Advance:
Noriko Ishida
Shingo Kataoka
Hiroshi Nakajima
Ryoue Takagi
Eri Yasuda

[Zhane Masaki]

From MobyGames, UPDATE!:

FFIV Advance:
Hiroshi Nakajima
Ryoue Takagi
Noriko Yokoyama
Mitsutoshi Kodama
Eri Yasuda


FFV Advance:
Noriko Ishida
Shingo Kataoka
Hiroshi Nakajima
Ryoue Takagi
Eri Yasuda

FFVI Advance
Hiroshi Nakajima
Ryoue Takagi
Shingo Kataoka
Eri Yasuda
Noriko Ishida
Kazuhiro Kotani

[Foxhack]

All three games were ported / remade by Tose Co., Ltd., so they're all arrangers / reprogrammers rather than composers.

[strugglepoo]

The new synthy staccato strings in Grand Finale sounds like someone constantly hiccuping.

[Foxhack]

Yeah, I had a lot of problems with the audio on all three games. The music's not bad, it's just... so not... Square-ish.

[CHz]

I find the Japanese names of the TOSE audio staffers to be suspect. Ryoue Takagi's name is wrong. I can't find Hiroshi Nakajima's name in combination with TOSE or any of the other sound guys. Three of them appear to be hiragana in lieu of available kanji. (Shingo Kataoka's and Eri Yasuda's names actually appear in one or two credits transcriptions on the internet, so those might be correct, but I haven't verified them.)

I also feel like dumping every single one of those people as arrangers is perhaps questionable.

[Foxhack]

If you're having doubts about the credits from MobyGames, you shouldn't.

Someone took the time to screenshot the credits, type them in, and someone else double checked the list before approving them. I used to work there, and that's how things are done. If there are any mistakes or misspellings, it's probably in the game itself. (That doesn't mean there haven't been any incorrect credits on the site, but usually, these are because the credits in the game are wrong.)

If someone has access to the Japanese releases of the games then they should double check their credits if possible.

[CHz]

Originally Posted by Foxhack

(That doesn't mean there haven't been any incorrect credits on the site, but usually, these are because the credits in the game are wrong.)

This is sort of more what I'm saying, not that the Moby transcription is incorrect. The only sound credit in the three games is for "composers," so I don't really think we should be claiming they're all arrangers when there are other sound roles they could have had (programming, SFX conversion, etc.).

Originally Posted by Foxhack

If someone has access to the Japanese releases of the games then they should double check their credits if possible.

The credits in the Japanese versions are in English. EDIT: They're the same credits too, if that's what you meant. Not any more specific about roles.

[Foxhack]

Point #1: Very true. My mistake.

Point #2: Really? I thought they'd be in Japanese too. That sucks. :|

[realnabarl]

It's weird why only Final Fantasy IV was shown in 'products represented' in album page? Actually there're 3 games entered.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by realnabarl

It's weird why only Final Fantasy IV was shown in 'products represented' in album page? Actually there're 3 games entered.

I think there may have been a question about whether these games are just ports to the GBA, or whether they should be given new product entries.

[Cedille]

I think we should add 3 product entries of those GBA ports to link this album.

[Phonograph]

shouldn't those products be FFIV/V/VI Advance?

[Cedille]

Ah, didn't know about the suffix. thanks.

[SimonJXZ]

So what is the picture we have as the default right now? I can't find a single other image of whatever it is anywhere. A search on YJA is currently giving me 7 results, and 6 of them have pretty detailed photos of the entire thing with its multiple parts. None of them include any sort of brown box. In fact, they all show a slipcase for the case of discs. This slipcase's front is what we're currently calling Case Inside 3, which is very confusing because it doesn't appear to be the inside of anything, it appears to be the cover of the slipcase. There's also scans we're missing of the slipcase's top, side and bottom. In a few of the listings at YJA right now, I can see that the bottom has some kind of content printed on it, though I can't tell what.

I think we should call "Case Inside 3" Slipcase Front instead, and make it the default image. If anyone has any information as to what the image we currently have up belongs to, that would be much appreciated.

[dancey]

That was the box it got shipped/wrapped in, it's really not part of the set.

[_if]

Case Inside 3? Jesus, that thing is kinda hard to read even at full size.

[SimonJXZ]

Agreed, it's very hard to read. However, it is the front of the album. I guess we could go with the front of the CD case instead if we wanted readability? I'm in favor of just adding whatever the actual front is, even if it's hard to read, but others might vote for something more identifiable.

dancey, thanks a lot for the info, and it makes sense.

[_if]

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done or anything, it just is really hard to read, haha.

So then was the box supposed to be thrown away or something?

[dancey]

Pretty sure it was supposed to be thrown away, I threw mine out. Some anal collectors might have kept it the same way that some anal collectors keep the plastic wrapper that comes with the advertising sticker but it really was in no way part of the set.

[Zhane Masaki]

I added the Classical composers whose works were arranged from FFV. I also believe that Noriko Yokoyama and Noriko Ishida may be the same person, only with a post-marriage name of Ishida.

[Zhane Masaki]

After listening and re-listening to the Dancing Girl from FFIV, its definitely the "Sabre Dance" by Aram Khachaturian. So credit for that added.

[The Gambler]

Oh my... I imagine these should be added on ALL the FFIV related releases.

[Aifread]

This may be the only album I ever rate a 0.5.

This is the worst recording quality I've ever heard from an official album. I guess no one else noticed because they weren't expecting much from the GBA, but you should all expect better than this. Even GBA doesn't sound this bad and other GBA albums and gamerips don't have the issues this album has. Where you'd normally hear some background hiss (which, while annoying, can be ignored) you instead get this garbled muddy mess of noise. It sounds like it was recorded by holding up a flip phone to the GBA speaker while on a busy subway platform before uploading the files to the internet on a slow DSL connection. What a pile of trash.

[TerraEpon]

It's worse than the Castlevania GBA discs? Those are pretty horrific.