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Pokémon Yellow (1998)

Duration: 1:13:48

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00:00 - 01. Game Freak
00:02 - 02. Opening Movie
00:23 - 03. Pikachu!
00:25 - 04. Title Screen
02:10 - 05. Pallet Town
03:30 - 06. Professor Oak
04:17 - 07. Professor Oak's Laboratory
05:00 - 08. A Rival Appears
05:44 - 09. Battle! (Trainer)
09:00 - 10. Victory! (Trainer)
09:35 - 11. Road To Viridian City: Leaving Pallet Town
10:36 - 12. Battle! (Wild Pokémon)
12:07 - 13. Victory! (Wild Pokémon)
12:42 - 14. Pewter City
14:52 - 15. Pokémon Center
16:03 - 16. Viridian Forest
19:40 - 17. A Trainer Appears (Boy Version)
20:06 - 18. Guide
20:35 - 19. Pokémon Gym
21:47 - 20. Battle! (Gym Leader)
23:45 - 21. Victory! (Gym Leader)
25:05 - 22. Road To Cerulean City: Leaving Mt. Moon
26:10 - 23. A Trainer Appears (Girl Version)
26:36 - 24. Caves Of Mt. Moon
29:38 - 25. Theme Of Jessie And James
30:25 - 26. Cerulean City
31:41 - 27. To Bill: Leaving Cerulean City
32:34 - 28. Evolution
33:04 - 29. Vermilion City
34:07 - 30. The S.S. Anne
35:29 - 31. Cycling
36:55 - 32. Road To Lavender Town: Leaving Vermilion City
38:13 - 33. Lavender Town
41:16 - 34. Pokémon Tower
43:35 - 35. Celadon City
44:49 - 36. Rocket Game Corner
46:22 - 37. Rocket Hideout
48:58 - 38. A Trainer Appears (Bad Guy Version)
49:23 - 39. Pikachu's Beach
50:36 - 40. Silph Co.
52:51 - 41. The Sea
53:53 - 42. Cinnabar Island
54:50 - 43. Pokémon Mansion
59:03 - 44. The Final Road
1:00:16 - 45. Final Battle! (Rival)
1:02:50 - 46. Hall Of Fame
1:03:58 - 47. Ending Theme
1:05:36 - 48. Opening Movie (Red / Blue Version)
1:05:48 - 49. Theme Of Giovanni (Unused)
1:06:51 - 50. Diglett's Cave (Unused)
1:09:22 - 51. Field Route (Unused)
1:10:14 - 52. Victory! (Unused)
1:10:49 - 53. Tension (Unused)
1:11:30 - 54. Trade (Unused)
1:12:42 - 55. Ending Theme (Unused)


This is a special project of mine. In the past 2 months I researched Game Boy music and hardware and tried to make a high quality release of the Gen 1 Pokémon soundtrack with way less noise and clipping problems, which are normal problems of the Game Boy. Some years ago a user named Shugo Takahashi released original DMG recordings from this soundtrack and I absolutely loved the sound of them since to me they sounded vastly supperior to emulated versions, which you almost only find online. And the official reverb soundtrack is also really not my cup of tea since it sounds not good to me. Back in 2019 they also released the Pokémon Yellow soundtrack with Lets Go but this was just the low quality emulated OST.

While I did listen to Shugo Takahashi's rip over the past years and really liked it, it was also way more noisy and clippy than other releases but this is normal for the Game Boy. But I was thinking whether I could do a remastered version with way less noise and clipping while retaining the original warm Game Boy sound. After many tests both with DMG recordings but also BGB emulated versions, I came to the conclusion that the BGB sound is basically the same and sounds original, it is just a bit less noisy than original DMG recordings. Since I found no automated way to fix the clipping and transition problems, I fixed and mastered all the audio channel streams by hand. This took weeks and many many many hours since this is really a fine and tedious handywork which needs a lot of patience.

Ultimately this here is the result of my undertaking. Since the audio sources are basically analog, it is impossible to fix all the problems 100% but I would say that I heavily reduced them to a point that they are almost inaudible. You will most likely hear a big difference to other soundtrack releases. But in the end this was a learn by doing experience and also experimental. Maybe some people prefer the noisy and clippy sound of original DMG recordings but this here is my attempt at the soundtrack. The release comes with both mono and stereo mixes of the music. I heavily recommend the mono versions since they sound more genuine and also cleaner. Red, Blue and Green didn't even have stereo mode to begin with and only Yellow added it but even then its only for headphones and it basically just seperates the channels on left and right audio channel which might sound a bit odd to some. As a special bonus I also included prototype unused bonus tracks. Thanks to Zumil for making the prototype music rom and also fixing all the tracks up so that they sound correct since the original source code tracks still had some issues in them like incorrect octaves. The music is btw in 96khz 24Bit.

The soundtrack is now also available both in Mono and Stereo on YouTube so listen to whatever you prefer.


UPDATE:
Reuploaded to provide improvements from my updated masters that should sound notably better and less flat and dull.


Old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9zwegJp3Y

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