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NOURS Magazine – Volume 11 – Spring 1996

November 8th, 2022

特集

Page 3: 遊 '96トレンド予測
アルペンサーファー / プロップサイクル/ソウルエッジ / トーキョーウォーズ / エースドライバー ビクトリーラップ / ゼビウス3D/G / ダンクマニア / ナムコ クラシックコレクション Vol.2 / プライムゴールEX / パックキャップ / ワニワニパニック2 / スウィートランド ミニ / 映画 / 音楽 / ファッション/フード

Page 14: おウチで簡単イタトマ料理
山いもと明太子のドリア

Page 16: 連載 『日本を遊ぶ』
●in UJI ●in KAWANOE ●in SHANGHAI

Page 20: 3 次元立体野球に磨きをかけた
『ファミスタ』 最新最高峰だ!!

Page 21: ナムコ ・ ミュージアム VOL.2

Page 22: 鉄拳2
禁断の隠れワザ大公開

Page 27: 鉄拳グッズ大紹介

Page 28: ELEMECHA FLASH 新製品を狙え!
●パックスロット ●ワニワニパニック2

Page 30: 読者参加企
『読者大いに語る』

Page 32: NOURS INFORMATION

Page 34: 読者 PRESENT

Special Feature

Page 3: AOU Amusement Expo '96 Trend Forecast
Alpine Surfer / Prop Cycle / Soul Edge / Tokyo Wars / Ace Driver Victory Lap / Xevious 3D/G / Dunkmania / Namco Classic Collection Vol.2 / Prime Goal EX / Pac-Cap / Wani Wani Panic 2 / Sweetland Mini / Movie/Music / Fashion/Food

Page 14: Easy Itatoma Cooking at Home
Yamaimo and Mentaiko Doria

Page 16: Series "Playing with Japan"
●in UJI ●in KAWANOE ●in SHANGHAI

Page 20: Refinement of 3D Baseball
"Famista" is the latest and greatest!

Page 21: Namco Museum Vol.2

Page 22: Tekken 2
Forbidden Hidden Techniques Open to the Public

Page 27: Great introduction to Tekken goods

Page 28: ELEMECHA FLASH Aim for new products!
● Pack Slot ● Crocodile Crocodile Panic 2

Page 30: Reader Participating Companies
"Readers speak loudly"

Page 32: NOURS INFORMATION

Page 34: Reader PRESENT

Enjoy it now. PDF compressed with OCR, CBZ and RAW scans:
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ACE DRIVER Series Arcade Soundtrack 005

November 3rd, 2022

Materials Scanned in at 600DPI.

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NOURS Magazine – Volume 6 – Winter 1994

March 22nd, 2022

My first foray into NOURS preservation has yielded some fantastic results. Amazingly, this early issue was released mere days before the PSX launch in Japan. There’s a wonderful selection of full-page spread previews of Namco’s PSX launch lineup, including Ridge Racer, Cybersled, Starblade, and Tekken.

This is somewhat astonishing of a launch lineup from Namco, and I feel that it’s at this point, the graphical lines between arcade games and home ports of those arcade games truly started to blur. In November 1994, Tekken 1 was less than a year old in arcades, and was already receiving a port that was superior in a lot of ways.

Also covered is Ace Driver, meant at this time to be an evolution on Namco’s racing model, but sadly the franchise only lasted a couple games.

There’s a wonderful guide to spending Christmas night at Wonder Eggs with all-new redemption games! There’s a small preview of Gunbullet, known in the west as Point Blank, along with some other games, a handful of console previews, and some other assorted fun!

発売直前 緊急特集

Page 3…        プレイステーションの近未来
●スペシャルインタビュー
●これが充実のナムコットラインナップだ
リッジレーサー/サイバースレッド/スターブレード/鉄拳

Page 12…     -NEW MACHINE-ACE DRIVER 走りの進化
イスアクター -連載 [声優はホモ･ルーデンス]

Page 16…     第5回檜山修之さん 緒方恵美 さん

Page 19…     -MUSIC 界の冒険者たち / 穴井夕子さん

Page 20…     NOURS INFORMATION

Page 22…     読者参加企画 第1弾 『読者大いに語る』

Page 24…     一連載 『日本を遊ぶ」 in SHIN KOBE

Page 26…     X'マスナイトはメダルゲームで

Page 30…     ドラマチック･クリスマス

Page 31…     おウチで簡単イタトマ料理 フリーデコレーションのX'マスチョコレートケーキ

Page 32…     ELEMECHA FLASH 新製品を狙え! ●モスキートアタック ガンバレット

Page 34…     この冬ハマル、この1本
SFC スーパーファミリーサーキット/SFC ミリティア/ SFC ワギャンパラダイス/GB バックパニック/
SFC バックインタイム/GB バックインタイム/ CD-ROM ラスオブザゴッド神々の怒り

Page 38…     読者 PRESENT

Urgent special feature just before release

Page 3… The near future of PlayStation
● Special interview
● This is a fulfilling Namcot lineup
Ridge Racer / Cyber Sled / Starblade / Tekken

Page 12… -NEW MACHINE-ACE DRIVER Evolution of driving
Chair Actor-Serialized [Voice actor is Homo Ludens]

Page 16… The 5th Nobuyuki Hiyama Megumi Ogata

Page 19… -Adventurers in the MUSIC world / Yuko Anai

Page 20… NOURS INFORMATION

Page 22… Reader participation project 1st “Readers talk a lot”

Page 24… Series "Playing Japan" in SHIN KOBE

Page 26… X'Mass Night is a medal game

Page 30… Dramatic Christmas

Page 31… Easy tomato dishes at home X'mas chocolate cake with free decoration

Page 32… ELEMECHA FLASH Aim for new products! ● Mosquito Attack Gun Barrett

Page 34… This winter Hamar, this one
SFC Super Family Circuit / SFC Militia / SFC Wagyan Paradise / GB Back Panic /
SFC Back-in Time / GB Back-in Time / CD-ROM Russ of the God The Wrath of the Gods

Page 38… Reader PRESENT

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Wonder Spirits

January 21st, 2021

Q. What is Wonder Spirits – namco presents i/o?

Coming off a successful 27-volume series of Namco Game Sound Express, Namco set out to further release a set of 18 soundtracks for their arcadereleases at the time (1997-1998). As I worked at a Namco arcade in Boston from 1997-1998, I’m very, very interested in these.

Within Pony Canyon distribution, a famous Japanese record label, lies an imprint/sub-label named Wonder Spirits, the majority of which were these late 90’s Namco arcade game soundtracks (an even small imprint/sub-label, namco presents i/o).

This collection will include just the Namco arcade game soundtracks on this record label. There is an exceedingly strange assortment of other games with soundtrack releases on the rest of the label, which will not be included here as this sub-label clearly dominates the output.

Q. What makes these discs special?
Out of the 18 releases, 5 of them have a special data track, containing interviews, videos, and information about the game. Most of the assets can be accessed from any computer, but the full experience requires a Windows 95 computer with Macromedia Flash and Quicktime 2.1 These so called “Enhanced Discs” are denoted with “EX” in the title, and a “Made with Macromedia” logo on the Obi. Not only are the games fairly rare in some cases, some of them are so small time that it’s amazing a physically-pressed CD collection of soundtracks for them exists.

Q. What are you doing for preservation?
Aside from ripping FLAC, Log 100%, including the best scans I can make at the time, I’m also submitting the discs’ information to Redump.org, which catalogs and preserves physical media.

By dumping these discs, like I have done for Namco Game Sound Express, there is now a group of people who have a bin/cue copy of the album, which is a byte-for-byte dump of the disc. There’s no loss, no compression, just the full disc recordings. If the entire torrent-sphere blew up, with all the copies of the FLAC rips, one could get the disc image from Redump.org, and make your own (Logless) rips, lossy or lossless. The disc is truly preserved.

My goal is to preserve all 18 discs.

No.	Catalog No.	Name	Best Available	My Release
1	WSCAX-10001	TEKKEN 3 arcade soundtrack 001 ex	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
2	WSCAX-10002	TIME CRISIS Arcade Soundtrack 002 EX	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
3	WSCA-00001	XEVIOUS 3D/G+ PlayStation soundtrack 001	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
4	WSCAX-10003	ARMADILLO RACING Arcade Soundtrack 003 EX	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
5	WSCA-00002	ALPINE RACER 2 Arcade Soundtrack 004	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
6	WSCA-00003	ACE DRIVER Series Arcade Soundtrack 005	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
7	WSCAX-10004	PROP CYCLE Arcade Soundtrack 006 EX	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
8	WSCA-00004	FINAL FURLONG Arcade Soundtrack 007	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
9	WSCAX-10005	TOKYO WARS Arcade Soundtrack 008 EX	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
10	WSCA-00005	AQUA JET Arcade Soundtrack 009	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
11	WSCA-00009	NAMCO CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL.1 arcade soundtrack 010	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
12	WSCA-00010	ALPINE SURFER Arcade Soundtrack 011	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
13	WSCA-00012	NAMCO CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL.2 arcade soundtrack 012	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
14	WSCA-00013	DANCING EYES Arcade Soundtrack 013	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
15	WSCA-00015	RAPID RIVER Arcade Soundtrack 014	MP3 VBR V2
16	WSCA-00016	TEKKEN 3 PlayStation Soundtrack 002	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
17	WSCA-00017	DIRT DASH arcade soundtrack 015	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here
18	WSCA-00021	TIME CRISIS II Arcade Soundtrack 016	FLAC (Log 100%)	Here

Only Rapid River remains, if you have an original physical copy, please get in touch!

Tag: ace driver

NOURS Magazine – Volume 11 – Spring 1996

ACE DRIVER Series Arcade Soundtrack 005

NOURS Magazine – Volume 6 – Winter 1994

Wonder Spirits