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Beyond Good & Evil soundtrack

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 [comments (27)] [history] [rdf] [raw]

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The music from the Beyond Good & Evil soundtrack, written and performed by Christophe Heral, is incredible. It has haunting ballades, adrenaline-filled anthems, and even some surprisingly good French hip-hop. It was praised unanimously in reviews as one of the best parts of the game.

Unfortunately, you can't buy it anywhere. Due to a flood of fans clamoring for it, though, you can download it. Ubisoft released it on Nintendo Insider as a collection of 31 freely downloadable mp3s. 256kbps bitrate, no less! Very classy move on Ubisoft's part.

Also, if you're a purist, and you own the PC version of the game, you can use Rahly's bfextractor tool to extract the individual music tracks directly from the CD.

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comment bubble OpenID maulik, Mon 27 Dec 2004

the easiest way to get all 31 tracks is prolly using wget recursively:

you could also use any other batch downloader on that same url :-)

...Propaganda!!

comment bubble OpenID Storm, Wed 27 Dec 2006

I've provided an extracted soundtrack (in .rar format) and an additional song on my website. The rar is a large download, but it includes almost every song in the game, except for the one I added below the download. http://www.stormeffect.com/beyond/index.htm

comment bubble OpenID MaLiBuh, Fri 26 Jan 2007

Thank you very very much for that soundtrack. I love that game and the music in it.
Thank you
  byebye
  MaLiBuh

comment bubble OpenID Aya, Wed 11 Apr 2007

Wauuuuuuuu Thank you storm!!!! I love the music!

comment bubble OpenID Xander, Thu 26 Apr 2007

I've been w8in' 4 this 4 a looong time. & it was worth every second of it. 10X very much! Take care!

comment bubble OpenID John, Thu 03 May 2007

Does ANYONE have the original 31 tracks from the side archived somewhere, if only on their computer?  I'm just about ready to pay someone for those suckers...Can't find the complete set ANYWHERE!!

comment bubble OpenID Ryan, Thu 03 May 2007

sure, i can post them for you. ping me and i'll send you a link.

comment bubble OpenID Ryan, Thu 03 May 2007

i noticed that a few other fans have made their own arrangement of the BG&E songs. it's much more than just a quick remix or mashup. it's high quality, has good production values, and includes original vocals and instrumentation! very cool.

comment bubble OpenID Genesis, Sat 05 May 2007

Storm, if I could choose the words that would best describe how wonderful I feel right now I would. But, honestly I can't. I can't possibly tell you how long I've been looking for this. I am in debt to you.

comment bubble OpenID zalomar, Thu 31 May 2007

That stormeffect site dosen't seem to be up and running.. does anyone know another place? I can't figure out that extractor program either

comment bubble OpenID alex, Wed 20 Jun 2007

Does anybody have the 31 downloadable mp3s for beyond good and evil? The Storm Effect one doesn't work on my computer. Thanx.

comment bubble OpenID TNT, Thu 30 Aug 2007

The Nintendo Insider download doesn't exist anymore, but you can get the 31 original MP3s at this URL: http://www.tntvillage.org/index.php?act=showrelease&id=95923
You'll need a BitTorrent client to download'em, but since the MP3s used to be freely distributed it's a legal download.
Enjoy!

comment bubble OpenID Coza, Tue 04 Sep 2007

Thank you!!
I just needed to download this OST and didn“t find it anywhere! You saved my life XD!

;)

comment bubble OpenID Ranger, Wed 03 Oct 2007

Thanks a lot for keeping them online. Just got the game (some years to late) and loved the sound.

comment bubble OpenID Official Soundtrack @ MySpace, Fri 09 Nov 2007

The official free soundtrack is now also avialable for free download at 2 different mirrors which can be accessed at MySpace.com/HyllianMusic since most of the other sites with the original songs aren't online anymore. I hope, that this helps some of you.
Uh... and if you got MySpace, be sure to befriend the soundtrack too. ;)

comment bubble OpenID wdadsasd, Mon 12 Nov 2007

password=MySpace.com/HyllianMusic

comment bubble OpenID Steve, Thu 17 Jan 2008

StormEffect,Thank you so much.

comment bubble OpenID trajan, Fri 22 Feb 2008

hey, someone please tell me how to download this soundtrack from a mac.

comment bubble OpenID Magnus, Sat 15 Mar 2008

I loved that game. The characters were wonderful, rememberable.

comment bubble OpenID VictorP, Wed 26 Mar 2008

comment bubble OpenID Bitebug2003, Fri 13 Jun 2008

Ubisoft should release a proper soundtrack to coincide with the 'BG&E2 Teaser'

comment bubble OpenID Slavka, Tue 02 Sep 2008

The Storm site does something really strange on my computer... If I double-click the tracks in Windows Explorer they'll play fine in Media Player, but if I try and open them from the Player (say I'd made a playlist) they won't play. Is this just Vista messing up again?

comment bubble OpenID Anyone, Tue 09 Sep 2008

Argh! I tried to download the files from the MySpace account, but they're encrypted! Where am I supposed to get the password?!

comment bubble OpenID Occono, Wed 24 Dec 2008

I downloaded the soundtrack from Uploaded.to but can't extract it, it wants a password to extract it and I have no idea what the password is!

comment bubble OpenID Occono, Wed 24 Dec 2008

ah, thanks wdadsasd, I missed that. Where was that mentioned as the password?

comment bubble OpenID Bardai, Tue 24 Mar 2009

Thanx very much people. However my antivirus found a trojan on the file "Tikhaa Tension.wma". Be careful.

comment bubble OpenID Ak, Sun 18 Oct 2009

Omg.. thanks for this little gem...
The music in this game is exquisite

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