Prisoner416

So here's his reply. I sent him a follow-up asking about the missing Streets track masters, and who I might need to contact for those if he didn't work on them. Hi Joseph, Thanks for your email. Sorry for the ridiculous delay in getting back to you. I'm so glad you like the music and I appreciate your letting me know. I have all of my music mastered in storage now since I’m in the process of re-locating. The problem with the SImCopter music is that even the master mixes are pretty weird. I was trying really hard to make them sound good as 8 bit, 11k, XA compressed. (at the time I didn’t realize that they would never sound good like that) Anyway, when I get my stuff out of storage I’ll find them. If you'd like, please join my BoomBamBoom list to get a free download of the "Build Mode" piano music from the Sims. (highest quality MP3s and music transcriptions) I’ll also be sending updates on my more current work etc. and misc. freebies. I plan to use BoomBamBoom as a boutique music shop eventually and even team up with John R. again for some more music like the Sims Build mode. http://www.boombamboom.com And although I don't use it much, if you'd like, please friend me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jerry.martin.56481 Also, keep me updated if you change your email address. Thanks again for your email, Jerry PS: (Music Factoid) The Beatles made so much money that EMI (the parent co.) didn’t know what to do with it. With the Beatles money they were able to invest in R&D and invent the medical imaging device known as the CT-Scan machine. (CAT-scan)

I e-mailed Jerry Martin asking if the masters still existed and if a release might someday be possible, we'll see if I get a response.

It's also a good bet that the masters for Simcopter exist. As proof, I will point out the obvious connection between track tkno2mx2 in Simcopter and the resampled "Put It Down (Rave 1)" from The Sims: House Party Original Game Soundtrack. "Simtricity (Rave 2)" is a remix of "Piston in My Pocket" from Streets. I have no idea whose ear we'd have to bend to get them to release the masters though.

https://mega.nz/#!Sx1x3DSb!3VUki3neh9DIuqK_x9ac_tE-EArbImBcW7ruAd9cOIA Also, I can upload Flac versions for SImcopter and Streets if anyone is interested. I also ripped the menu music from Simcopter.

If you ever update this, for the files in-game, I would be most grateful if you could share Flac files for anything sourced from wav. I either keep all my music in flac or Ogg Vorbis, so it would be easy to take .wav files from a game like Simcopter and compress them into flac rather then lose anything via mp3 compression. I know they weren't the best quality to start with, but lossy is lossy. I'm comparing my flac versions straight from Streets to the versions you have... there's some remastering differences. comparing Middle Finger in the rock station tells me the high ends and symbols are much more pronounced and cleaner in the remaster. A lot of bass was lost in the game version of Greased Monkey. However, the remasters seem to suffer from audio clipping, looks like they artificially inflated the volume. Shame, really. The remasters are superior in every other aspect Really wish we had higher quality for Simcopter though... always loved the techno station. Also, there's actually a mixing error in the remasters! In The Garage Again has the left and right audio channels switched from the game version for some odd reason. I've made a corrected file if you want it.