KTGS-73533CD: Sangokushi Series Soundtrack

[Teioh]

Possible catalog number and tracklist can be found here:

http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/026859130

(similar to the big Nobunaga's Ambition 12 disc set)

[garbage]

I've been working on an attempted translation for disc 6,7,8,9, and 12 (all the other discs have tracklists that have already been translated to English in other albums listed on this site.)

I have zero experience with the Chinese and Japanese languages. I am cross referencing several sources and online tools to come up with titles that sound good and plausible based on the meaning of the words, but I could be getting into trouble with cultural/game-specific references and proper names.

For names of places, people, and events, I don't consider any translation or Romanization official until I can find the exact same Chinese characters cited in an English Wikipedia article (or something equivalent) that relates to the three kingdoms novel, games, or historical period. When I do find such a cross-reference, I insert a link to it.


If anyone familiar with these languages and/or the story of these games has suggested improvements, please share

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DISC 6
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1. Dawn
2. The Rise and Fall of Generations
3. Li Ru
4. Wandering
5. Prosperous Country
6. Rival Warlords
7. Ascension of Northern China
8. Calm River
9. Land of Fertility
10. A Visiting Messenger
11. Court Council
12. Peach Banquet
13. Loneliness
14. Unanimous Decision
15. Fierce Fighting
16. Storming the Castle
17. Raging Fire, Thunder, Wind
18. Naval Invasion
19. Disadvantage
20. Fortress Strategy
21. Sacred War
22. Victory
23. Scattered Retreat
24. Rejuvenation
25. Castle Ruins
26. Shooting Star

NOTES:

Track 08: 大河悠々
大河 = "large river" [jisho.org]
悠々 = "calm." [jisho.org]

https://vgmdb.net/album/39940 (chinese release of the ost), calls this track 洞庭湖畔, which translates to "Dongting Lakeside." Dongting Lake is a well-referenced landmark in China, which raises the question, is this track supposed to refer to a river or a lake?

Track 16: 覇城攻略

攻略 = strategy, strategic capture, take by storm [Jisho.org]
城 = castle [Jisho.org]
覇 =the name of a prefecture in the Han dynasty. Google Japanese>English translates 覇 to "Hajo," or "Hakuryo" but this can't be right, as those are Japanese names. According to Google translate. in Chinese 覇 is pronounced "Ba" and means "overlord/dominate." Since the meaning of 覇 in unclear, "storming the castle" seems sufficient for now

Track 17: 烈火雷風

This is a literal translation, not sure if it could also be the name of a character (雷風 "Lei Feng" means raging fire, but it's also the name of a guy in Tekken, so IDK)

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DISC 7
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1. Heaven and Earth
2. Historical Record
3. Strategy ・Spring Evening
4. Strategy ・Green Leaves
5. Strategy ・Rustling Wind
6. Strategy ・Dark Depths
7. Mission
8. Lament
9. War Council
10. Battlefield ・Cao Wei
11. Battlefield ・Dong Wu
12. Battlefield ・Shu Han
13. Battlefield ・Wenhou
14. Battlefield ・New Star
15. Battlefield ・The Northern Expedition
16. Battlefield ・Southern Campaign
17. Fighting Rivals
18. An Unimpregnable Fortress
19. Copper Wall and Iron Wall
20. Good Omen
21. Bad Omen
22. The Feast
23. Farewell Dinner
24. Opportune Strike
25. Glory
26. Unification

NOTES:

Track 13: 温侯, this one is a really wild guess
温 = Surname Wen [mdbg.net]
侯 = Surname Hou [mdbg.net]

So it could be translated as Wenhou, perhaps a reference to Li Wenhou. Wikipedia writes his name as 文侯 instead of 温侯, but according to this 文 and 温 mean basically the same thing.

侯 also means "Marquis" [mdbg.net], so it could be translated as "Marquis Wen," which was another name for this guy https://dynasty-warriors-fanon.fando...iki/Zhang_Zhao (also spelled as "文侯"). So it's pretty much a toss-up between "Wenhou" and "Marquis Wen" without having more knowledge of the game.



Track 14: 野戦・新星
"Nova" is the only translation I could find for 新星. It doesn't sound right in English, too science-sounding for a story set in ancient China. 新 = new and 星 = star, so that's what I'm calling this track.

Track 18:金城湯池
"金城湯池 = an impregnable fortress; an unassailable territory" (jisho.org). "unassailable" and "impregnable" are the exact opposite. I'm guessing that jisho.org really meant to say "unimpregnable."

Track 24: 折戟
Taking some poetic license here. 折 = opportunity 戟 = a type of Chinese spear/halberd [jisho.org].

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DISC 8
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1. Opening Theme
2. Introduction to Romance of the Three Kingdoms
3. Theme of Northern China
4. Theme of Central China
5. Theme of Southern China
6. Theme of Western China
7. Theme of the Barbarians
8. Diplomacy
9. Nomad Military Ranking
10. Ordinary Military Ranking
11. Great Military Ranking
12. War Council
13. Northern Battle
14. Central Battle
15. Southern Battle
16. Western Battle
17. Barbarian Battle
18. A Fierce Struggle
19. Duel
20. Turmoil
21. Wang Ping
22. Falling in Love
23. Friendship
24. Courage
25. Strategy
26. Tragedy
27. Mortality
28. Unification
29. Ending Theme

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NOTES:

Track 09, 10, and 11: Some guesswork here. "Ranking" could have been "evaluation," or "grade." "military" could have also been "soldiers," "army," or "forces."

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DISC 9

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1. Opening
2. Introduction
3. Prologue
4. Spring ・Small Forces
5. Summer ・Small Forces
6. Autumn ・Small Forces
7. Winter ・Small Forces
8. Spring ・Large Forces
9. Summer ・Large Forces
10. Autumn ・Large Forces
11. Winter ・Large Forces
12. Engagement ・Small Forces
13. Engagement ・Large Forces
14. Marching ・Small Forces
15. Marching ・Large Forces
16. Internal Politics
17. Conspiracy
18. Incident
19. Friendship
20. Promotion
21. Diplomacy
22. Assault
23. Surrender
24. Downfall
25. Unification
26. Epilogue
27. Ending

NOTES:

Tracks 02 and 03 are basically random guesses for me

Track 02: [from jisho.org]

初期設定
Noun
1. default settings; initial settings; initial configuration​
Noun, Suru verb
2. initialization; initialisation

Track 03: [from google translate japanese > english]

シナリオオープニング
Shinarioōpuningu (scenario opening)

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DISC 12
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1. Go Forth
2. Beginnings
3. Theme of Wei
4. Theme of Shu Han
5. Theme of Wu
6. Theme of Lu Bu
7. Theme of the Warlords
8. Theme of Hebei
9. Theme of the Central Plains
10. Theme of the Northwest
11. Theme of Wuyue
12. Theme of Jingchu
13. Theme of Ba-Shu
14. The Art of Persuasion
15. A Moment of Silence
16. Battle of Hebei
17. Battle of the Central Plains
18. Battle of the Northwest
19. Battle of Wuyue
20. Battle of Jingchu
21. Battle of Ba-Shu
22. Opportunity Has Arrived
23. Crisis
24. Confrontation
25. At the End of the Battle
26. Arrogance
27. Best Friend
28. Growing Unrest
29. Fleeting People
30. A Gust of Wind
31. Stratagem
32. The Sun Filtered Through the Trees
33. A Ray of Light
34. Through the Passage of Many Months and Years
35. Heaven's End

NOTES:

Track 02: 萌芽
萌芽 = "sprout, germination, bud" [jisho.org.]. https://vgmdb.net/album/7684translates 萌芽 as "prologue." I chose to call it "beginnings" because I feel like that term applies to both sprouts and prologues.

Track 07: 群雄

群雄 = rival chiefs, a rivalry of warlords (jisho.org)
群雄 = heroes, warlords vying for supremacy (mdbg.net/)


Tracks 11 & 19: 吳越 (Wu Yue, or Wuyue).

"吳越" appears in a wikipedia entry about the Wuyue kingdom, which existed in the ten kingdoms period. My best guess is that the story of Sangokushi 12 covers more than just the three kingdoms period. We know this track is referring to the wuyue kingdom and not the wuyue mountains, which use a different set of characters (五嶽).

Track 28: 風雲急を告げる
[from Jisho.org]
風雲急を告げる
Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Ichidan verb
1. to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

Track 29: 泡沫人

this was another guess...

泡沫 = ephemeral, transient [Jisho.org]
人 = person, man, people, someone [Jisho.org]

[Robin]

Disc 1 seems to just be the Sangokushi side of Nobunaga no Yabou: Zenkokuban / Sangokushi in the same fashion that the first 5 tracks of that same release are also the ones present on NOBUNAGA's ambition 30th Anniversary CD-BOX. I wouldn't be surrpised if the rest of this compilation has a bunch of other arrange albums in there instead of soundtracks, like it is for the Nobunaga collection.

EDIT: Yeah, same thing for Sangokushi III being Disc 3 on this release.

I've applied the necessary edit for disc 1 & 3, but not the rest since i couldn't get ahold of the other original releases. I barely know anything about the series, so if anyone knows their stuff it'd be appreciated.