This soundtrack cd is straight from Aichi, Japan (thanks, Daisuke!). It is the official 'Mother 2' Sony EarthBound soundtrack CD. Here are some pictures of the CD and its inserts:

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update! - 02/02/2006

in the above photographs, we see:

• The master copy of the soundtrack
• Keiichi Suzuki (striped shirt) talking with soundbooth tech guy
• Actual written earthbound music score
• Keiichi Suzuki patiently looking over the soundtack CD insert
• Shigesato Itoi discussing mother 2 music with Hirokaze Tanaka (white shirt), and Keiichi Suzuki (smoking).

It is hard to tell from the pictures, but this CD contains 24 tracks, with music sampled from different towns, sanctuaries, battles, and more.

I have ripped these tracks myself and offer them here as media property of EarthBoundHQ.com. They are all listed here in ZIP'ed *.WMA format. (If you want a different format, simply search for a convertor here or you can email me. Each media file is around ~1-2mb with few exceptions. Enjoy!

TRACK NAME	DESCRIPTION	DOWNLOAD FILE!
Prologue	introduction.. beginning game theme music	get this track
Onett	music from the town of onett	get this track
Twoson	music from the town of twoson	get this track
Saturn Valley	music from the town of saturn valley	get this track
Winters	music from the town of winters	get this track
Threek	music from the town of threek* (threed)	get this track
Doko Doko Desert	music from the doko doko desert* (dusty dunes)	get this track
Fourside	music from the town of fourside	get this track
Moonside	music from the world of moonside	get this track
Ramma	music from the land of ramma* (dalaam)	get this track
Summers	music from the town of summers	get this track
Scarabi	music from scarabi* (scarabia)	get this track
Dungeon Man	music from inside the dungeon man	get this track
Cursed Jungles	music from the cursed jungles* (swamps)	get this track
Gummi Village	music from gummi village* (tenda village)	get this track
The Underworld	music from the underworld	get this track
Magicant	music from the great land of magicant	get this track
The Great Underworld	music from the great underworld (en route to fire spring)	get this track
Final Battle	music from the final battle of the game with giygas	get this track
Love and Peace	trademark earthbound theme music	get this track
Ending	famous music/theme from the ending of the game	get this track
Room Number	a very neat mix made with samplings from the game	get this track
Hula Hoop	a very neat mix made with samplings from the game	get this track
Another 2 (PSI mix) ~ and goes on	a very neat mix made with samplings from game psi sound effects	get this track

* - Some aspects of the game changed during japanese->english translation. Some character names, places, etc were changed to fit a more "western" demographic. Most of these changes were quite subtle -- others inexcuseable. Looks like Tendas were really a tribe of rebellious Gummis in Japan..

/ebhq