A little gem on the Sega Saturn’s Quake Soundtrack

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## A little gem on the Sega Saturn’s Quake Soundtrack

Sometimes Twitter has a use. I’ve been using it to try convincing Sascha Dikiciyan (Sonic Mayhem) to release Methods of Destruction. Well, that did not work but I saw the following conversation:

- @toksin Sega’s Quake has xtra track on it that isn’t on the PC’s. By chance is that yours? Gracenote says it’s NIN’s but I’m skeptical.
  7:22 PM Dec 31st, 2009 from web
- @_Catalyst I think it was one of the left over tracks they used but i’m not sure myself!
  8:28 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck
- @toksin TY 4 the response, was hoping to clarify, “End” sounds more like you, what I’d call a preface to q2 soundtrack imo. Not ambient NIN.
  8:44 PM Jan 1st from web in reply to toksin
- @toksin Sega credits you 4 ‘additional music’ , “B7″ from MOD and original music as Reznor’s. “End” is a track not on PC soundtrack, end=b7?
  8:47 PM Jan 1st from web in reply to toksin
- @_Catalyst b7 is the one. Rest was by nin of course! That track was only on the sega version!
  9:11 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck
- @toksin so the 3 min track entitled as End is indeed b7? Yeah it freaked me out the PC/Sega soundtracks were diff. I felt robbed…lol
  9:15 PM Jan 1st from web in reply to toksin

Quake for the Sega Saturn has an additional CD audio track, namely the track B7 from Sonic Mayhem’s Methods of Destruction. Well, I set out to get it and what I got was ugly. First of all, the track is only on the US release. And then comes something really ugly. They shrunk all the originals tracks. Not only on the US release to make room for the track. But also on the PAL/EU one where it would not be needed. Well, lazy porting after licensing issues I guess.

Take a look at this if you want a glimpse. The first one is always the full PC soundtrack. Long story short, I decided to host a copy of the track until further notice. You could also get a used copy of Quake for the Sega Saturn (the US version!) very cheaply (just wait if there is no decent offer anywhere).

- Quake (USA) (DW0576)-12.flac
- Quake (USA) (DW0576)-12.ogg

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