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About this mod
The soundtrack of the two original games, taken directly from the original Redbook CDs! Basically Classic Fallout Ambient Music but better.
Available either to replace the vanilla ambient music or to complement it, and in both lossless and lossy format. The lossy format is still higher quality than Classic Fallout Ambient Music!
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
New California Flashbacks
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"I'm sorry. You're a hero... and you have to leave."
- The Vault 13 Overseer, Fallout (1997)
"You're not a hero, you're just a walking corpse."
- Frank Horrigan, Fallout 2 (1998)
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Oh boy...
Classic Fallout Ambient Music is a decent mod to do something as basic as bringing back the compositions made by Mark Morgan, but there's a serious problem...
THE SOURCE USED FOR THE TRACKS IS A VERY POOR QUALITY BOOTLEG.
I'm an audiophile, and in my curiosity to find out if Vault Archives was really an official release, I discovered that it was actually a bootleg that simply grabbed gamerip recordings, tried to create a fake high quality effect and added crossfade effects between the tracks.
In short, the guy behind Vault Archives ended up mutilating the soundtrack and because it has been the most accessible way to listen to the original Fallout 1 & 2 soundtracks over the internet, it has ended up being falsely believed to be an official release and for some strange reason, it is also believed to be in the public domain now. Mark Morgan himself has clarified in the past that Bethesda owns absolutely everything related to Fallout, including his musical compositions.
WHAT DOES MY MOD OFFER COMPARED TO CLASSIC FALLOUT AMBIENT MUSIC?
New California Flashbacks offers the following:
The lossy version are xwm files with a bitrate of 192 kBit. Under my personal listening of the xwm files in Audacity, I can say that they lose almost no quality compared to the uncompressed raw files.
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"I'm sorry. You're a hero... and you have to leave."
- The Vault 13 Overseer, Fallout (1997)
"You're not a hero, you're just a walking corpse."
- Frank Horrigan, Fallout 2 (1998)
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Oh boy...
Classic Fallout Ambient Music is a decent mod to do something as basic as bringing back the compositions made by Mark Morgan, but there's a serious problem...
THE SOURCE USED FOR THE TRACKS IS A VERY POOR QUALITY BOOTLEG.
I'm an audiophile, and in my curiosity to find out if Vault Archives was really an official release, I discovered that it was actually a bootleg that simply grabbed gamerip recordings, tried to create a fake high quality effect and added crossfade effects between the tracks.
In short, the guy behind Vault Archives ended up mutilating the soundtrack and because it has been the most accessible way to listen to the original Fallout 1 & 2 soundtracks over the internet, it has ended up being falsely believed to be an official release and for some strange reason, it is also believed to be in the public domain now. Mark Morgan himself has clarified in the past that Bethesda owns absolutely everything related to Fallout, including his musical compositions.
WHAT DOES MY MOD OFFER COMPARED TO CLASSIC FALLOUT AMBIENT MUSIC?
New California Flashbacks offers the following:
- The songs with their full length and totally free of crossfade.
- Crystal clear quality thanks to its direct source being the official Fallout 1 & 2 CDs released by Interplay in 1997 and 1998 respectively.
- An optional download to download the soundtrack directly in lossless quality in case you are an audiophile too. ;) [Coming soon. I have a very bad internet connection, so probably only the lossy version will be available at the time the mod is released]
- Direct compatibility with Classic Fallout Ambient Music and Music Mods Merged. It has the same names and folders, so if you feel like it, you can simply replace the CFAM files with the NCF files and you're done.
- A version of mine of the “Prydwen Flyover with Metallic Monks” mod. That mod also uses the bootleg Vault Archives as a source and ironically doesn't use crossfade effects in the track itself so everything flows organically. It lasts 7 seconds longer, but has a smoother ending and not as abrupt as in the original mod.
The lossy version are xwm files with a bitrate of 192 kBit. Under my personal listening of the xwm files in Audacity, I can say that they lose almost no quality compared to the uncompressed raw files.