By popular request, I have posted the soundtrack in MP3 format: www.dropbox.com/s/nqx4qoh6oas6gge/Sims2%20DS%20OST.zip?dl=0 (thanks for being patient, due to a hard drive crash I had to pull these from my iPhone)
Thank you for this! Your work on these games has been a major influence in pushing me to learn more about music, especially The Urbz. I've only just found your channel today and getting to hear these source mixes alongside some unreleased/early versions has been wonderful. Thank you.
This game always gave me a weird existential dread as a kid, but in the best way. The atmosphere is so heavy and weird to explain, you just kinda have to experience it, and this music is a huge part of that. You did an incredible job, thank you for such fond memories.
I had a dream as a kid that my copy of the game and my DS got infected with a demon and it was a really creepy version of the hotel with like a castle aesthetic with candles.
I genuinely thought that noone out there still cared about this game, It's been nearly 15 years since I played it but I still remember it so vividly. I remember the soundtrack more than anything, I spent many summer-nights as a kid playing and listening to this. It's genuinely still a good game and I do still play it every now and then. I recently played it again out of nostalgia in a bit of a depressive spell and honestly it helps so much, I sometimes come back here to listen when I'm feeling down and it always manages to put a smile on my face. It brings back so many memories, and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to preserve, remaster and share your work. You're awesome and I wish I could like more than once.
This game really had an impact on me, I often think about it from time to time and that's why I always come back to the soundtrack. I love the weird nostalgia it gives me.
1:11:33 makes me sad. to know that there will never be another game like this with these strange, yet amazing characters, the atmosphere and soundtrack that accompanies it. there will never be another handheld sims game that can achieve all this.
@@IanStocker More than you think man, I always turned down the volume completely when there were aliens around because the theme legitimately scared me way too much
Wait a sec... YOU'RE THE COMPOSER?! This soundtrack has lived rent free (ironically considering it's a hotel simulator) in my head for years and I just want to say well done, you are a legend.
@@IanStocker no problem. You absolutely nailed the vibe that the game was going for with just the right amount of uncanny valley yet made each and every one of them a banger (save for the ones that were going for a different effect; 'Aliens' still makes me feel genuine fear 10 years after I first heard it)
WAIT! You composed all these songs?? You are an absolute legend!! Many of the tracks you made scared me shitless but I remember vibing on most of them as a kid. Thank you so much, with this amazing soundtrack you really made the game a hundred times better, it created such an atmosphere! You're the best
I'm gonna be real with you, the soundtrack is one of the things that defines the sims 2 DS, engraved in my head (besides the fact that the entire game felt like a fever dream), so AMAZING job! Thanks for posting this!
1:09:11 i remember playing this on the music mixer for HOURS while pressing random keys in the keyboard feeling like i was actually doing something lol
wait. you're the guy who made the sims 2 ds music? holy crap. i love this game and have always wanted to have full hd versions of the music. thanks for posting.
The Sims 2 handhelds had the best feeling out of any Sims game ever. Wacky stories, aliens, desert town. I really miss Strangetown... and come on those Dusty Hogg Blues are just iconic. Every time I think of the Sims, it's exactly this game, Sims 2. The music is engraved in my brain and it's what I wish was carried forward into modern games.
Oh man, the memories- So many of these tracks would creep up in my mind for years after I finished playing this game. I actually had Robots and that Spore game too, and I vividly remember how especially the Robots' soundtrack impacted my imagination as a child. All these years later I find out that those ost's were made by the same person, and it just makes so much sense, it's like a knot being sprung wide open. I salute you for getting so experimental and just plain outlandish at parts, because these soundtracks hugely influenced my taste in music. Now that I'm an adult I want to thank you sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, for these great tunes. I wish you nothing but the absolute best
i still have a desire to visit a little dustbowl town in the middle nowhere because of this game. i had a sad childhood, and my memories of playing this make me recall those times more fondly. thanks for making the music so good for a sims console game even though you didn't have to, lol
Sorry to hear you had a rough time growing up, and I hope things have gotten better for you. To know that this music was some small help in healing is very heartwarming.
This game was a blueprint of my life. One of those games you'd tell your friends on the playground about and no one would believe you. My ds spent hours playing this soundtrack while I sat in my room daydreaming. So many good memories from this game, and it really seems you played this game as a kid and have a massive connection to it or you never played it at all, there's no inbetween. I loved the sims 2 for pc so when I saw there was a ds game in blockbusters I just had to beg my dad to buy it, little did I know what I was getting into. I'm so glad I saw that on the shelve that day, it's probably the ds game I played the most of (along with The World Ends With You and Wild World). Whenever I get my ds out its a must that I play this game for at least 5 minutes
I'm working on recording individual MP3 files to download, and want to make sure I have track titles correct (it's been a while). Let me know if there are any changes I should make or if I mislabeled anything.
Ian Stocker "Credits" is the credits theme in the GBA version, and can only be heard/ doesn't loop when played by Mama Hogg. it already seems like a lot to ask of you, but is there possibility of getting FLAC versions of the tracks, too? If not that's perfectly fine but either way I absolutely love this and you forever! Keep on being an amazing person! :3
That sounds awesome, and I second the request for FLAC versions, too. As someone that played the DS game for a good 40 or so hours as a kid, all your titles sound about right to me.
This looks solid, thanks for taking the time to put this together. I only have a couple adjustments but this is a good way to organize the songs and bonus tracks.
Even throughout all these years I can still remember the riff to Dusty Hogg Blues. I had to listen to it again for nostalgia reasons. It's so simple and yet so memorable. E major, A major.
Omg this unlocks so many memories for me! The countless times I heard Strange Day and Strange Night while wandering around, and making sick jams with Phoenix Star. Coco Wah unlocked a memory I long forgot even existed!?
Thanks dude 😢 Edit: wait I didn't know you composed the tracks... Oh my god dude you are an absolute legend, you made suck a good and iconic soundtrack, wow!!! Best of luck to whatever you do next!!! 😢🙏💪❤️🔥
I love The Sims 2 for the GBA! I still play it from time to time. The soundtrack really brings the world in the game to life. Thank you so much for the magic you created in my childhood and continue to do in my adulthood with this beautiful remaster. 😊❤
It's incredible to be able to thank the person who made this soundtrack directly. This game was such a huge part of my childhood and the soundtrack is one of the main reasons why. thank you for your work on this game, you did a great job! (especially in the Aliens music which terrified me as a child!)
How nostalgic! Thank you for those great songs! They fit very well in the unique atmosphere this game has. I used to walk around the town looking for something to do and admiring those amazing "early 3D" graphics. Greetings from Brazil!
This was my first 3D game so I remember wandering around in the pre-alpha build a lot looking for stuff that needed sounds :-) Greetings from California
This music is what made The Sims 2 so iconic, it randomly came to my mind years later and I still remember most of them, my DS broke like 4 years ago and I haven't played this game like from 6 years ago, so you really made an excellent job making this soundtrack so sticky.
this game was actually super tight (and the music too.) totally different from the mainline Sims games, and yet somehow just a completely gripping mystery with this uncanny atmosphere? obviously much thanks to the music. going out into the desert was so nerve-racking. as im typing this its honestly all coming back to me how completely crazy this game was. great work.
i really wish that these ost could be in streaming services like the ones from the first chapter of the sims, id be listening to them all day long, my younger self would be screaming lmaoo
im so used to hearing it on an emulator that runs this game pretty slowly and the audio quality is so bad i thought it was just because of the DS's limitations because i remember it sounding similar to what i hear today except for this video. Its so crisp its amazing.
The DS sound hardware has a signature hiss and distortion, so rendering these at CD quality definitely gets rid of that. I always wished they had sprung for better sound quality on the hardware, but it was probably a battery life issue or a cost per unit issue or something
@@IanStocker in any case, thank you for this music. It's so good it's been stuck in my head ever since I first played this game. And the music has a special place in my memory. It's part of my childhood that I thank you for.
A great soundtrack, really added to the isolated feel of the game and this gives me alot of nostalgia. I only really play the PC version of The Sims now, so I hope you get to work on some music for The Sims 5 and upcoming expansion packs for 4.
I never contributed to a PC or console version of the Sims, but it was one of my favorite franchises to work on, so if anyone from EA is reading... ;-)
oh you're the actual composer? thank you so much for uploading this, the soundtrack for this game was always one of the strongest elements and having it in its full uncompressed glory feels almost too good to be true
@@IanStockerOh no! I'd love to have the individual tracks, but what a shame to lose these versions. Were these completely remade with new sounds or just upscaled versions of the original tracks?
Never did I ever think I'd get a chance to listen to an HD rendition of Speed Metal, but now I have, and I loved every second of it. Thank you for sharing these!
The Sims 2 on the Nintendo DS was how i got introduced to The Sims as a whole. The soundtrack you composed for it is one i still fondly remember and also (in my opinion) one of the best sounding soundtracks on the DS, alongside Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure. (I don't count games that just use bit crushed versions of the same tracks from other versions of games, like The Sims 2 Pets on DS did. Or something like Guitar Hero On Tour) Which makes me wonder, did you make those tracks with the sound capabilities of the Nintendo DS or the Game Boy Advance in mind? (Since they both mostly use the same soundtrack) I still listen to your soundtrack from time to time. Both because of nostalgia and because it's genuinely really good! So, thanks for uploading "remastered" versions of it.
Holy hell mate, you made my childhood - and inspired me to write music. Thank you so much for repluoading these in high quality. It's so pleasing to hear!
thank you! great to hear you have fond memories of it
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You are legend! Ages ago I though I was the only one obsessed with this soundtrack. I remember downloading a very bad quality MP3 rip off Strange Day/Night and Manager's Suite (which I believe it's actually called Sweetness?) and playing them on repeat all the time because for some weird reason it would remind me of my house and my hometown and summer... I remember forgetting about them at some point of my life and eventually remembering again and listening to them only to bring back memories and then realising that there was a lot of people feeling like me! Can't believe you actually remastered them and uploaded them and even better, gave us an proper MP3 version to download for free!
I've been listening to this soundtrack so much since I rediscovered it a month ago. I have even made strage day my Alarm tone so I wake up to 11:12 every morning
unlike a lot of the commenters here, i dont have childhood memories of this game because me and my friends played through this game for the first time last year after hearing about it. i am honestly so glad we did because it is the exact type of weird game i like, and the soundtrack is really amazing, i love the work you did. i was wondering though, would you have the audio files for the voice lines from the game? once again thank you for creating and archiving this ost ^_^
I cant belive you made this. This is awesome. I have to admit tho that I cried a bit when I heard the "Strange Day" Soundtrack. Thank you so much for doing this!
This was the OST to my childhood ! I remember playing producer in the lounge for hours to blitzkrieg disco and phoenix star ! Thank you so much you're an absolute legend !
Oh man, this soundtrack is pure nostalgia! I'm so glad I found this - thanks so much for producing these tracks Ian. My wife and I used to play this game when we were dating. Listening to these tracks sends us back to those amazing days.
You are the man who made the soundtracks of my childhood! I played the three gba ports (bustin' out, urbz and the Sims 2) I am actually playing the ds version. I can't thank you enough for giving my ears an incredible joy when I played these games as a kid. Sorry my English sucks lol.
Thank you so much for uploading this soundtrack, but more importantly, for SCORING IT! YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! This game was a huge part of my childhood and the music has never stopped slapping since.
Man. I wish you knew how much i love you for making my childhood that great. I remember playing sims 2 gba on my windowsill as soon as i came home from school. I was obsessed with the music because it really affected the gameplay. It set the mood right depending on the situation. The mysterious songs gave me chills, the techno one is catching and got me hyped. Ugh, i can tell a story to all of these songs. I don't know how long it took to make a song. But it doesn't matter if you created one in 5 Min or an hour, you did something there. Something really special that makes me grin when i look back at those days. Thank you!
I remember putting the most time into the Strangetown theme, Strange Day/Night, and Create-A-Sim. I think they took a few days each to write. I tend to sketch out small segments and come back after a day to hear whether it's worth developing further.
@@IanStocker The effort is so appreciated and i think by now you heard it a dozen times. :D What about Urbz DS/GBA... Which songs were the easiest to create and vice versa?
@@majahning I spent ages on Urbania Day. I changed that one multiple times over several months until I was happy with it. Soul Music took a while because it needed the minigame data encoded into the song to make sure it synced properly. Sim Quarter Night went through a lot of iterations too. Sim Tower/King Tower didn't take long at all, it practically wrote itself. Same with Cracked Out Monkey, it just came from a place of pure Sims joy
@@IanStocker Thank you for giving me the insight! Cannonball Coleman's Saxophone sounds were often timed perfectly when Urbania Day played and remembering that makes me giggle. Im happy that i found your Channel today. I will definetly take a look at the tracks you made for other titles that i never got to play. It would be awesome to have you telling us what songs were the most fun to create or what your personal favorites are! Greetings from Germany! ^^
Man hearing this soundtrack uncompressed is amazing. The two songs that jump out at me are Move Mode and the classic horror song "Aliens". The former caused me to spend hours of my life trying to find a way to "move" out of the hotel (which of course didn't exist). The Aliens song for some reason scared my younger brother so much that if he heard it, he'd run out of the room screaming. It still comes up whenever the game gets brought up between us. As this game was one of my earliest gaming memories, thank you very much for composing such a great soundtrack! It fits so many moods, Strange Day still hits hard with me.
Wait I can’t believe you’re the person who composed this… thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t tell you how much it affected my taste in music honestly. Chill Factory is kind of a revelation lol
I remember getting sent to prison for my Sim peeing in their own Manager's Suite a lot... Or passing out from being too bad at a friendly conversation and waking up with Bigbucks gobbing off over it. My Sims loved to fail a lot at the most basic things.
wow! crazy seeing you upload this not that long ago, i played this game back before i could even read, lol. just wanted to say thank you for going all out on the score! since i was so young when i played this game, i couldn't really tell what was happening, so your music alone defined the spooky atmosphere :]
Thanks for the soundtrack. As others have said ,this music comes and goes rent free in my head. I really enjoyed the game back in the day and it's wicked cool the composer put the music here. Thank you for your work
I still remember the first time I played this game as a kid, and because I was born in Europe I was still trying to figure out what the heck an AM or PM was. Or the lowkey PTSD I got from my DS bugging out with the time, and the game doing the alien invasion thing with the creepy music from 54:17 because the game thought I was cheating lol
Years and years later, this still brings back so many memories and a massive smile to my face. I love how there's many unheard of tracks that weren't available on the DS (Bigfoot Loves Chicken's is my favourite!!)
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Thank you! I love The Sims 2, mainly the GBA version. According to The Cutting Room Floor, there was a lot of cut content from that game. Some of them were episodes like "More Birds!", which was where penguins attack Strangetown in a nod to Hitchcock. I wish the game was finished. It felt too short compared to the other two handheld titles. Oh well. At least I was introduced to Burple and Emperor Xizzle, my two favorite characters from this game.
It's been a long time, so I don't remember all the twists and turns with production, but that sounds likely. The team was incredibly creative and you only have so much time to build the game, so not every idea can make it in, no matter how great.
Yeah. That's true. They were creative, without a doubt. If I ever knew how to make games, I'd make my own version of The Sims GBA/DS trilogy but have me as the main character. I have an idea where we actually get to see the Strangetown unicorn (According to the Yeti's profile in the GBA menu). I called him Oono. Another idea would be the introduction of Emperor Xizzle's wife, Queen Xena and they kidnap Uncle Hayseed. I loved the trilogy as a child. I still love it today. I even make pictures/collages of ideas that I have and I post them on DeviantART. Heck, the other day, I posted a picture of what the "More Birds!" episode could've been: Explosive penguins attacking Strangetown.
In posting these OST's I have used varying levels of mastering effects on them. The Bustin Out OST is a bit more "authentic" to the original. When I do Urbz I'll probably do it more in this style.
Stages of what I remember of myself playing this at 12: -Oh it's a Sims 2 game, I must love it just like I love the PC version -WTF is this?!!! I am a sim now? And I run a hotel? Why? -Actually, running the hotel is nice -WTF WHY AM I RATMAN NOW??? THIS GAME IS NOTHING ABOUT RUNNING A HOTEL!!! I LOVE IT!!
WOW! IMPRESSIVE! I'm a young Spanish guy who has played this game since it was released and finding nowadays the complete OST is a fantastic gift. Thank you very much for posting this piece of art. Congrats!
You conveyed such an otherworldly, eerie atmosphere to this game. I remembered its soundtracks so vividly for years, but couldn't recall the game very well, it's ironic in a way that the game itself is a bit less memorable that its own music. I recently bought it again (never thinking that one day I would find the composer's YT channel haha) and got so nostalgic playing it again. Truly a stunning sound work !
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By popular request, I have posted the soundtrack in MP3 format:
www.dropbox.com/s/nqx4qoh6oas6gge/Sims2%20DS%20OST.zip?dl=0
(thanks for being patient, due to a hard drive crash I had to pull these from my iPhone)
Thank you for this! Your work on these games has been a major influence in pushing me to learn more about music, especially The Urbz. I've only just found your channel today and getting to hear these source mixes alongside some unreleased/early versions has been wonderful. Thank you.
@@snerck_ Peace friend! Thank you
Thanks. They sound sooooooo good (And perfect quality).
we need a remake of bustin out and urbz soundtrack too :( and also the midis if you have them! you are amazing I love all your work!
I fucking love you, thanks a lot!
This game was so weird, but I loved it.
Me too
Same here
Yeah Your Right I play it right now on my Hacked NDSI XL 😂
Yes but I hated when I peed my pants and get collected by the sand wizard
This game always gave me a weird existential dread as a kid, but in the best way. The atmosphere is so heavy and weird to explain, you just kinda have to experience it, and this music is a huge part of that. You did an incredible job, thank you for such fond memories.
I always wanted to score a survival horror game, maybe this was as close as I got
I know exactly what you mean it's so hard to put into words haha
I had a dream as a kid that my copy of the game and my DS got infected with a demon and it was a really creepy version of the hotel with like a castle aesthetic with candles.
L.I.T.E.R.A.L.L.Y.
It was made by a different developer than the console games. Perhaps that's why it feels so different
I genuinely thought that noone out there still cared about this game, It's been nearly 15 years since I played it but I still remember it so vividly. I remember the soundtrack more than anything, I spent many summer-nights as a kid playing and listening to this. It's genuinely still a good game and I do still play it every now and then. I recently played it again out of nostalgia in a bit of a depressive spell and honestly it helps so much, I sometimes come back here to listen when I'm feeling down and it always manages to put a smile on my face. It brings back so many memories, and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to preserve, remaster and share your work. You're awesome and I wish I could like more than once.
Thank you-- it's so great to hear that listening to this helps you out when you are struggling. Best wishes moving forward
I love this game a lot, it crossed my mind just now haha :) glad they posted this video
This game really had an impact on me, I often think about it from time to time and that's why I always come back to the soundtrack. I love the weird nostalgia it gives me.
Honey I just bought the game to replay
I do, I love the soundtrack!
this soundtrack has lived in my brain rent free ever since I was like 6 years old
Never knew at the time it would leave such an impression on players
@@IanStocker you have no idea
1:11:33 makes me sad. to know that there will never be another game like this with these strange, yet amazing characters, the atmosphere and soundtrack that accompanies it. there will never be another handheld sims game that can achieve all this.
You are amazing. First, you composed this. Then, you mixed this. And now, you upload it on your own TH-cam channel. Unbelievable.
He's deserve more views and likes
Great channel bud, thanks for the rips
So you’re the one who composed the alien music that freaked me out back then!!
I have to wonder how much anxiety I caused in the youth from this song
@@IanStocker it caused me a lot! But thanks!! I loved it 😁😁
@@IanStocker 😂😂😂😂 darling you have NO IDEA😂😂😂😂 this still brings so much memories
@@IanStocker More than you think man, I always turned down the volume completely when there were aliens around because the theme legitimately scared me way too much
@@lovis9306 same
Wait a sec... YOU'RE THE COMPOSER?! This soundtrack has lived rent free (ironically considering it's a hotel simulator) in my head for years and I just want to say well done, you are a legend.
I am, and though 7 months later, thank you for your comment!
@@IanStocker no problem. You absolutely nailed the vibe that the game was going for with just the right amount of uncanny valley yet made each and every one of them a banger (save for the ones that were going for a different effect; 'Aliens' still makes me feel genuine fear 10 years after I first heard it)
@@IanStocker You're a legend dude
WAIT! You composed all these songs?? You are an absolute legend!! Many of the tracks you made scared me shitless but I remember vibing on most of them as a kid. Thank you so much, with this amazing soundtrack you really made the game a hundred times better, it created such an atmosphere! You're the best
My pleasure, thank you for writing in!
I'm gonna be real with you, the soundtrack is one of the things that defines the sims 2 DS, engraved in my head (besides the fact that the entire game felt like a fever dream), so AMAZING job! Thanks for posting this!
You're very welcome, glad you are still enjoying it
It did feel like a fever dream. Shits wild
@@IanStocker Props to you for doin the soundtrack & sharing it here!
@@saintnick6156 I used to get nightmares about wandering in the desert & finding the pyramid relic, LMAO
@@FLUFFCHIRP i hated the mole king and bigfoot
The strange day theme feels kinda empty without all the teera mar's and ooba deeshna's
and Horus's Hani-napoots
(The Mummy)
eehay👋
And the eehay mmm's
and the oh eshay tunarr's
1:09:11 i remember playing this on the music mixer for HOURS while pressing random keys in the keyboard feeling like i was actually doing something lol
The music mixer was the result of a collaboration between the sound team, designers, and programming team, and it was definitely worth the effort.
Same omg
wait. you're the guy who made the sims 2 ds music? holy crap. i love this game and have always wanted to have full hd versions of the music. thanks for posting.
It's weird hearing this without the insane compression, it's like a completely different soundtrack!
The Sims 2 handhelds had the best feeling out of any Sims game ever. Wacky stories, aliens, desert town. I really miss Strangetown... and come on those Dusty Hogg Blues are just iconic. Every time I think of the Sims, it's exactly this game, Sims 2. The music is engraved in my brain and it's what I wish was carried forward into modern games.
You must have been hungry as fuck when you composed these tracks bc they ATE
this game is a masterpiece and this OST is genius, I wish the people behind the game knew how loved it is.
It's impressive how you have always made something like the Sims worthwhile listening too.
The Sims PC games always had fanastic music, so it's been great to be entrusted with scoring the handheld games.
Oh man, the memories- So many of these tracks would creep up in my mind for years after I finished playing this game. I actually had Robots and that Spore game too, and I vividly remember how especially the Robots' soundtrack impacted my imagination as a child. All these years later I find out that those ost's were made by the same person, and it just makes so much sense, it's like a knot being sprung wide open. I salute you for getting so experimental and just plain outlandish at parts, because these soundtracks hugely influenced my taste in music. Now that I'm an adult I want to thank you sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, for these great tunes. I wish you nothing but the absolute best
I had Spore too ! (:
This right here is 60% of my childhood!
damn dude...mine too...how old are you?
its crazy i played this game for the last time over 10 years ago and i still remember every note like it was yesterday. great tunes!
Glad to hear it stuck with you all this time!
the transition to sweetness to calmness is GOD
i still have a desire to visit a little dustbowl town in the middle nowhere because of this game. i had a sad childhood, and my memories of playing this make me recall those times more fondly. thanks for making the music so good for a sims console game even though you didn't have to, lol
Sorry to hear you had a rough time growing up, and I hope things have gotten better for you. To know that this music was some small help in healing is very heartwarming.
This game was a blueprint of my life. One of those games you'd tell your friends on the playground about and no one would believe you. My ds spent hours playing this soundtrack while I sat in my room daydreaming. So many good memories from this game, and it really seems you played this game as a kid and have a massive connection to it or you never played it at all, there's no inbetween.
I loved the sims 2 for pc so when I saw there was a ds game in blockbusters I just had to beg my dad to buy it, little did I know what I was getting into. I'm so glad I saw that on the shelve that day, it's probably the ds game I played the most of (along with The World Ends With You and Wild World). Whenever I get my ds out its a must that I play this game for at least 5 minutes
The Goons music used to scare me so bad, more so than the aliens, there was something so unnerving about it
Great to hear! Best wishes
I'm working on recording individual MP3 files to download, and want to make sure I have track titles correct (it's been a while). Let me know if there are any changes I should make or if I mislabeled anything.
Ian Stocker
"Credits" is the credits theme in the GBA version, and can only be heard/ doesn't loop when played by Mama Hogg.
it already seems like a lot to ask of you, but is there possibility of getting FLAC versions of the tracks, too? If not that's perfectly fine but either way I absolutely love this and you forever! Keep on being an amazing person! :3
That sounds awesome, and I second the request for FLAC versions, too.
As someone that played the DS game for a good 40 or so hours as a kid, all your titles sound about right to me.
Not sure if I can get to FLAC versions but we'll see. The MP3's are already 256K so I challenge you to tell the difference... :-)
If you're looking for a good track order for tagging purposes, here's something I put together. hastebin.com/raw/xuxirucusa
This looks solid, thanks for taking the time to put this together. I only have a couple adjustments but this is a good way to organize the songs and bonus tracks.
Even throughout all these years I can still remember the riff to Dusty Hogg Blues. I had to listen to it again for nostalgia reasons. It's so simple and yet so memorable. E major, A major.
Kyle did such a great job with the live guitar for this game.
@@IanStocker❤
Omg this unlocks so many memories for me! The countless times I heard Strange Day and Strange Night while wandering around, and making sick jams with Phoenix Star. Coco Wah unlocked a memory I long forgot even existed!?
Same thing happened to me when I remastered it, I had totally forgotten about that track.
Thanks dude 😢
Edit: wait I didn't know you composed the tracks... Oh my god dude you are an absolute legend, you made suck a good and iconic soundtrack, wow!!! Best of luck to whatever you do next!!! 😢🙏💪❤️🔥
I love The Sims 2 for the GBA! I still play it from time to time. The soundtrack really brings the world in the game to life. Thank you so much for the magic you created in my childhood and continue to do in my adulthood with this beautiful remaster. 😊❤
Thank you!
It's incredible to be able to thank the person who made this soundtrack directly. This game was such a huge part of my childhood and the soundtrack is one of the main reasons why. thank you for your work on this game, you did a great job! (especially in the Aliens music which terrified me as a child!)
How nostalgic! Thank you for those great songs! They fit very well in the unique atmosphere this game has. I used to walk around the town looking for something to do and admiring those amazing "early 3D" graphics. Greetings from Brazil!
This was my first 3D game so I remember wandering around in the pre-alpha build a lot looking for stuff that needed sounds :-) Greetings from California
i would kill for a cd of this ost. seriously
totally!! I might even make one myself.
This music is what made The Sims 2 so iconic, it randomly came to my mind years later and I still remember most of them, my DS broke like 4 years ago and I haven't played this game like from 6 years ago, so you really made an excellent job making this soundtrack so sticky.
thanks! glad you are still enjoying, sorry about your DS
this game was actually super tight (and the music too.) totally different from the mainline Sims games, and yet somehow just a completely gripping mystery with this uncanny atmosphere? obviously much thanks to the music. going out into the desert was so nerve-racking. as im typing this its honestly all coming back to me how completely crazy this game was. great work.
i really wish that these ost could be in streaming services like the ones from the first chapter of the sims, id be listening to them all day long, my younger self would be screaming lmaoo
im so used to hearing it on an emulator that runs this game pretty slowly and the audio quality is so bad i thought it was just because of the DS's limitations because i remember it sounding similar to what i hear today except for this video. Its so crisp its amazing.
The DS sound hardware has a signature hiss and distortion, so rendering these at CD quality definitely gets rid of that. I always wished they had sprung for better sound quality on the hardware, but it was probably a battery life issue or a cost per unit issue or something
@@IanStocker in any case, thank you for this music. It's so good it's been stuck in my head ever since I first played this game. And the music has a special place in my memory. It's part of my childhood that I thank you for.
I loved this game so much and the music was amazing. Great part of my childhood
The music for this game was so awesome. Still come back every now and then to refresh my memory. Such a good job Ian
Thank you!
Walk the plank is just...
*Chef's kiss*
Who needs 1800's sea shanties when you can have 2005 sea shanties
A great soundtrack, really added to the isolated feel of the game and this gives me alot of nostalgia. I only really play the PC version of The Sims now, so I hope you get to work on some music for The Sims 5 and upcoming expansion packs for 4.
I never contributed to a PC or console version of the Sims, but it was one of my favorite franchises to work on, so if anyone from EA is reading... ;-)
Thank you for having perfectly transcribed the atmosphere of the game in this OST.
13:15 I mostly love this one.. it’s so chilled and brings nostalgia from my childhood.
oh you're the actual composer? thank you so much for uploading this, the soundtrack for this game was always one of the strongest elements and having it in its full uncompressed glory feels almost too good to be true
I can't believe you made one of the most memorable soundtracks of my childhood and just... posted it here, in HQ, free to download. 💯
Hoping to get proper individual tracks at some point, though it means another remaster project (lost this one in a hard disk crash)
@@IanStockerOh no! I'd love to have the individual tracks, but what a shame to lose these versions. Were these completely remade with new sounds or just upscaled versions of the original tracks?
This gave me back my fever dream emotions thank you
Any time friend
Never did I ever think I'd get a chance to listen to an HD rendition of Speed Metal, but now I have, and I loved every second of it.
Thank you for sharing these!
You're very welcome. That one was a favorite among some of the devs as well
honestly this is probably one of the best modern game OSTs no joke
The Sims 2 on the Nintendo DS was how i got introduced to The Sims as a whole.
The soundtrack you composed for it is one i still fondly remember and also (in my opinion) one of the best sounding soundtracks on the DS, alongside Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure.
(I don't count games that just use bit crushed versions of the same tracks from other versions of games, like The Sims 2 Pets on DS did. Or something like Guitar Hero On Tour)
Which makes me wonder, did you make those tracks with the sound capabilities of the Nintendo DS or the Game Boy Advance in mind?
(Since they both mostly use the same soundtrack)
I still listen to your soundtrack from time to time.
Both because of nostalgia and because it's genuinely really good!
So, thanks for uploading "remastered" versions of it.
Everything was composed with the hardware in mind. I used Impulse Tracker which very closely approximated what things would sound like in the game.
26:40 E HAY!
LABADA SHOO SHOO ARGHHH!
that heavy metal track still gives me a near heart attack 15 years later but I LOVE it
I need you to come back and team up with Jerry Martin and Mark to make the whole soundtrack of the future Sims 5 please and thank you ❤
Holy hell mate, you made my childhood - and inspired me to write music. Thank you so much for repluoading these in high quality. It's so pleasing to hear!
You're very welcome, best wishes, and it's great to hear someone got into composing through videogame music!
He composed this? You created a portion of my childhood, this game was amazing ❤
thank you! great to hear you have fond memories of it
You are legend!
Ages ago I though I was the only one obsessed with this soundtrack. I remember downloading a very bad quality MP3 rip off Strange Day/Night and Manager's Suite (which I believe it's actually called Sweetness?) and playing them on repeat all the time because for some weird reason it would remind me of my house and my hometown and summer...
I remember forgetting about them at some point of my life and eventually remembering again and listening to them only to bring back memories and then realising that there was a lot of people feeling like me!
Can't believe you actually remastered them and uploaded them and even better, gave us an proper MP3 version to download for free!
this game has something special, don't know what, but it has
I hear this sentiment a lot
YOU COMPOSED THESE SONGS? DUDE YOURE A LEGEND, AN IDOL
thank you!
God this game was my childhood. Still own it. I used to have a crush on Sancho Paco Panza (dude in top right of cover pic) lol
ian stocker, you absolute legend. disco bliezkrieg has no business slapping this hard (and that bassline!!!!!!!!! soooo cool!!)
still holds up! thank you!!
I've been listening to this soundtrack so much since I rediscovered it a month ago. I have even made strage day my Alarm tone so I wake up to 11:12 every morning
It's an honor
Almost 20 years since I last played, title and strange day make me cry omg
unlike a lot of the commenters here, i dont have childhood memories of this game because me and my friends played through this game for the first time last year after hearing about it. i am honestly so glad we did because it is the exact type of weird game i like, and the soundtrack is really amazing, i love the work you did. i was wondering though, would you have the audio files for the voice lines from the game? once again thank you for creating and archiving this ost ^_^
I cant belive you made this.
This is awesome.
I have to admit tho that I cried a bit when I heard the "Strange Day" Soundtrack. Thank you so much for doing this!
This was the OST to my childhood ! I remember playing producer in the lounge for hours to blitzkrieg disco and phoenix star ! Thank you so much you're an absolute legend !
Tbh this game was the perfect way to explain my childhood
I remember when I was younger I wanted to find the person who composed the DS soundtrack and tell them it was awesome…guess I found him 😅
Hello
This game looks like a fever dream...
It gave me a sensation that i've never felt in my life.
That's probably the most bizzare sims game ever
Oh man, this soundtrack is pure nostalgia! I'm so glad I found this - thanks so much for producing these tracks Ian. My wife and I used to play this game when we were dating. Listening to these tracks sends us back to those amazing days.
It's great to hear a story like this :-) best wishes to both of you!
@@IanStocker Thank you!
You are the man who made the soundtracks of my childhood! I played the three gba ports (bustin' out, urbz and the Sims 2) I am actually playing the ds version. I can't thank you enough for giving my ears an incredible joy when I played these games as a kid.
Sorry my English sucks lol.
Would plug headphones into the DS and just stand/do nothing in different areas/game modes to listen to the music
I did that a lot as a kid, always happy to hear this sort of thing
Thank you so much for uploading this soundtrack, but more importantly, for SCORING IT! YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! This game was a huge part of my childhood and the music has never stopped slapping since.
It's always good to come back to listen to one of the games that got me into music composition and sound design.
This is so nostalgic thank you so much for making these
You are very welcome
Man. I wish you knew how much i love you for making my childhood that great. I remember playing sims 2 gba on my windowsill as soon as i came home from school. I was obsessed with the music because it really affected the gameplay. It set the mood right depending on the situation. The mysterious songs gave me chills, the techno one is catching and got me hyped. Ugh, i can tell a story to all of these songs. I don't know how long it took to make a song. But it doesn't matter if you created one in 5 Min or an hour, you did something there. Something really special that makes me grin when i look back at those days. Thank you!
I remember putting the most time into the Strangetown theme, Strange Day/Night, and Create-A-Sim. I think they took a few days each to write. I tend to sketch out small segments and come back after a day to hear whether it's worth developing further.
@@IanStocker The effort is so appreciated and i think by now you heard it a dozen times. :D What about Urbz DS/GBA... Which songs were the easiest to create and vice versa?
@@majahning I spent ages on Urbania Day. I changed that one multiple times over several months until I was happy with it. Soul Music took a while because it needed the minigame data encoded into the song to make sure it synced properly. Sim Quarter Night went through a lot of iterations too.
Sim Tower/King Tower didn't take long at all, it practically wrote itself. Same with Cracked Out Monkey, it just came from a place of pure Sims joy
@@IanStocker Thank you for giving me the insight! Cannonball Coleman's Saxophone sounds were often timed perfectly when Urbania Day played and remembering that makes me giggle. Im happy that i found your Channel today. I will definetly take a look at the tracks you made for other titles that i never got to play. It would be awesome to have you telling us what songs were the most fun to create or what your personal favorites are! Greetings from Germany! ^^
Man hearing this soundtrack uncompressed is amazing. The two songs that jump out at me are Move Mode and the classic horror song "Aliens". The former caused me to spend hours of my life trying to find a way to "move" out of the hotel (which of course didn't exist). The Aliens song for some reason scared my younger brother so much that if he heard it, he'd run out of the room screaming. It still comes up whenever the game gets brought up between us. As this game was one of my earliest gaming memories, thank you very much for composing such a great soundtrack! It fits so many moods, Strange Day still hits hard with me.
You've composed most of our childhoods, thank you for these unforgettable and strange soundtracks
Wait I can’t believe you’re the person who composed this… thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t tell you how much it affected my taste in music honestly. Chill Factory is kind of a revelation lol
very cool to hear! best wishes!
I remember Desperation well. My sim loved to die. Thanks for these!
I remember getting sent to prison for my Sim peeing in their own Manager's Suite a lot... Or passing out from being too bad at a friendly conversation and waking up with Bigbucks gobbing off over it. My Sims loved to fail a lot at the most basic things.
I am crying. I've wanted this for so long. I've been looking for the "Moogoo Monkey" song" for such a long time... Thank you thank you thank youuu
Happy I could improve your day!
27:48 was always my favorite shout out to mayor honest Jackson
I played this when I was 6 I’m 18 it’s such an amazing game and you did so good on the music 😊
The only way I'm getting through my degree (and the only way I got through high school) was through listening to this soundtrack - thank you SO much!
I love you
Very good soundtrack. It brings back memories!
(Sweetness is so good)
the soundtrack of my childhood. i used to turn on the game for the music when i was doing homework or cleaning. thank you for the fond memories 💖
wow! crazy seeing you upload this not that long ago, i played this game back before i could even read, lol. just wanted to say thank you for going all out on the score! since i was so young when i played this game, i couldn't really tell what was happening, so your music alone defined the spooky atmosphere :]
Still playing it
Thanks for the soundtrack. As others have said ,this music comes and goes rent free in my head. I really enjoyed the game back in the day and it's wicked cool the composer put the music here. Thank you for your work
I still remember the first time I played this game as a kid, and because I was born in Europe I was still trying to figure out what the heck an AM or PM was. Or the lowkey PTSD I got from my DS bugging out with the time, and the game doing the alien invasion thing with the creepy music from 54:17 because the game thought I was cheating lol
I'm realizing I may need to start a support group for the trauma I created with that aliens track :-)
Years and years later, this still brings back so many memories and a massive smile to my face. I love how there's many unheard of tracks that weren't available on the DS (Bigfoot Loves Chicken's is my favourite!!)
Exactly what I've been waiting for. Thank you!
I love The Sims 2, mainly the GBA version. According to The Cutting Room Floor, there was a lot of cut content from that game. Some of them were episodes like "More Birds!", which was where penguins attack Strangetown in a nod to Hitchcock.
I wish the game was finished. It felt too short compared to the other two handheld titles. Oh well. At least I was introduced to Burple and Emperor Xizzle, my two favorite characters from this game.
It's been a long time, so I don't remember all the twists and turns with production, but that sounds likely. The team was incredibly creative and you only have so much time to build the game, so not every idea can make it in, no matter how great.
Yeah. That's true. They were creative, without a doubt. If I ever knew how to make games, I'd make my own version of The Sims GBA/DS trilogy but have me as the main character. I have an idea where we actually get to see the Strangetown unicorn (According to the Yeti's profile in the GBA menu). I called him Oono.
Another idea would be the introduction of Emperor Xizzle's wife, Queen Xena and they kidnap Uncle Hayseed.
I loved the trilogy as a child. I still love it today. I even make pictures/collages of ideas that I have and I post them on DeviantART. Heck, the other day, I posted a picture of what the "More Birds!" episode could've been: Explosive penguins attacking Strangetown.
Holy ggOD thank you for this great soundtrack, I loved this game as a kid and remembered the music especially so vividly.
Great to hear it, enjoy :-)
Thank you so much, you made the childhood of so many of us! Without your music, the game wouldn't have been so good, you gained 1 sub btw :)
my pleasure, thanks for the sub!
This OST is so good. Probably what keeps me coming back to this game from time to time.
Oh man this is super dope. Are you planning to remaster Bustin' Out and the Urbz on GBA?
Bustin' Out is already live: th-cam.com/video/vv114p0YjC8/w-d-xo.html
Urbz is planned for the future
Ah, the audio was still kinda "blurry" in that one so I assumed it wasn't remastered like in this video :D my bad
In posting these OST's I have used varying levels of mastering effects on them. The Bustin Out OST is a bit more "authentic" to the original. When I do Urbz I'll probably do it more in this style.
Ian Stocker when you release the urbz soundtrack, could you I clude a flac option? I like having the highest quality.
Stages of what I remember of myself playing this at 12:
-Oh it's a Sims 2 game, I must love it just like I love the PC version
-WTF is this?!!! I am a sim now? And I run a hotel? Why?
-Actually, running the hotel is nice
-WTF WHY AM I RATMAN NOW??? THIS GAME IS NOTHING ABOUT RUNNING A HOTEL!!! I LOVE IT!!
WOW! IMPRESSIVE! I'm a young Spanish guy who has played this game since it was released and finding nowadays the complete OST is a fantastic gift. Thank you very much for posting this piece of art. Congrats!
You're welcome and glad you enjoy it! Greetings from California
I may be late but that doesn’t make you any less of a legend. I wish someone would remaster the entire game.
You conveyed such an otherworldly, eerie atmosphere to this game. I remembered its soundtracks so vividly for years, but couldn't recall the game very well, it's ironic in a way that the game itself is a bit less memorable that its own music. I recently bought it again (never thinking that one day I would find the composer's YT channel haha) and got so nostalgic playing it again. Truly a stunning sound work !
So many damn memories, thank you for composing (and reposting) these!!
My pleasure, glad you enjoy them