Posted June 01, 2012
In the folder Guilty Gear is installed to, such as C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Guilty Gear X2 Reload, there is a "music" folder that contains the in game music in 22Khz and 44khz in .ogg format. There are 42 music files in both the game and the downloadable soundtrack and they all seem to be the same songs in the same order. The in-game 44 khz files are encoded at ~96 kbps VBR while the downloadable soundtrack is encoded at 160 kbps CBR.
Do you think that that GOG just encoded the in-game .ogg files as .mp3 files for the downloadable soundtrack? If this is the case the .ogg files would be higher quality than the downloadable soundtrack and at a smaller file size. I would guess that this is the case because otherwise GOG would have to get the rights to distribute mp3 files they encoded from the separate retail CD soundtrack.
Do you think that that GOG just encoded the in-game .ogg files as .mp3 files for the downloadable soundtrack? If this is the case the .ogg files would be higher quality than the downloadable soundtrack and at a smaller file size. I would guess that this is the case because otherwise GOG would have to get the rights to distribute mp3 files they encoded from the separate retail CD soundtrack.