KWCD-1006: DEAD OR ALIVE 3 ORIGINAL SOUND TRAX

[Hellacia]

A few things that have yet to be solved / discussed:

1: Sound Inn.一ロ坂Studio. No idea what 一ロ坂 is (Ichisaka? Ichihan?). It's left like that in the notes field and whoever can figure it out can change it. Oh by the way, I actually don't even know if that's the exact right kanji for 坂, but it took me forever just to find it to paste somewhere so that's what I have. Someone knowledgeable can refer to the scans I've uploaded to double-check it.

2: How to get the notes field to look nice. I don't know the difference in spacing between the edit page and the entry page. Is it just trial and error? I'm hungry and tired now but I could try to clean it up later if no one wants to.

3: Whether or not RANN is an actual composer. There is a composer credit for every song and RANN does not ever get one: RANN gets songwriter credit instead. Don't know if that's the same as composer (I know sometimes a different word can mean the same thing, for example when Shiro Hamaguchi does "orchestration" I believe he's credited as arranger, which makes sense).

4: Whether or not anyone wants to add the in-game info about each song to the titles. For example,
X-ray Reflecting Mirror ［アドバタイズデモ］
is track 1. アドバタイズデモ is "Advertisement Demo". Dunno if someone wants to add those. I don't. I just see them as info, little notes.

[Secret Squirrel]

I only have answers for a couple:

2: It looks like the notes came from some text file with fixed-width font, so the formatting is all messed up. The only way to fix it is to manually left-justify the lines.

3: This is an area that has confused me, too. In the West, it seems like Songwriter implies both composition and lyrics, but in Japan they are almost always credited separately. Since they give both Composer and Songwriter in the general notes, I would suspect that he just wrote the lyrics.

[Cedille]

Originally Posted by Hellacia

A few things that have yet to be solved / discussed:

1: Sound Inn.一ロ坂Studio. No idea what 一ロ坂 is (Ichisaka? Ichihan?).

Hitokuchi-Zaka Studio, it is.

4: Whether or not anyone wants to add the in-game info about each song to the titles. For example,
X-ray Reflecting Mirror ［アドバタイズデモ］
is track 1. アドバタイズデモ is "Advertisement Demo". Dunno if someone wants to add those. I don't. I just see them as info, little notes.

For many Cave soundtracks, we tend to add them, while I'm still not sure we should. Something I'm not a big fan of, but for the consistency's sake.

[Hellacia]

I've fixed the notes section up. It doesn't look exactly like the booklet, but that's not important. Thanks for the studio's name, Cedille, don't think I would have found that out.

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Since they give both Composer and Songwriter in the general notes, I would suspect that he just wrote the lyrics.

I considered this as well. There's definitely something funky going on with the way the booklet gives the credits. It seems like it groups songs up into teams that did them, even though not every person on the team necessarily contributed their part on every song in the group. For example, for the ones on which Dennis Gunn is credited for vocals, there are only vocals on a couple of those tracks. RANN could be credited for lyrics, because a couple of those songs at least seem to be some kind of vocals, but he's not thrown in with the vocal credits... *sigh*

Originally Posted by Cedille

For many Cave soundtracks, we tend to add them, while I'm still not sure we should. Something I'm not a big fan of, but for the consistency's sake.

Maybe we should break the trend...

[Nisto]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

2: It looks like the notes came from some text file with fixed-width font, so the formatting is all messed up. The only way to fix it is to manually left-justify the lines.

I wonder if you guys couldn't change the font-style of the notes section to monospace. I don't really see a reason why this could be bad.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Nisto

I wonder if you guys couldn't change the font-style of the notes section to monospace. I don't really see a reason why this could be bad.

The monospace fonts that I know about are just too ugly for readable text.

[Nisto]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

The monospace fonts that I know about are just too ugly for readable text.

That's blasphemy. Monospace fonts are awesome.

Maybe you could have the ability to show it in monospace at least?