Will we ever have the original DBZ soundtrack on a DBZ game?

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Will we ever have the original DBZ soundtrack on a DBZ game?

Post by dbboxkaifan » Wed Mar 27, 2013 2:55 pm

Featured in western copies, that is.

I really loved the synthesised DBZ BGM tracks of Raging Blast 1 & 2 but sadly they were not included in the Europe/US copies, only Japanese, I think.

If I remember correctly AB Groupe is holding the rights to use Kikuchi's music on DBZ games? Why don't they permit to use on the games? Wouldn't they profit from it?
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Post by snaku » Wed Mar 27, 2013 3:18 pm

This is always the most glaring flaw in DBZ vidya games for me. It's like not having Ifukube in Godzilla games.
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Post by Ryuman » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:14 pm

I also have a problem with this. I once tried to ask about this on the Dragon Ball games Facebook page but, as expected, I got no answer. I had the idea of having selectable scores, like what Sega did with the Sonic CD remake. Sonic CD had a different score in America from what it did in Japan, so the remake let you choose between them.
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Post by Super Sayian Prime » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:32 pm

Namco Bandai likely doesn't want to pay Kikuchi a lot of money. Simple as that I'd imagine.
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Post by TheMightyOzaru » Wed Mar 27, 2013 7:42 pm

The sparking and raging blast series has a bit of Kikuchi. It's the Americanization team for the games that doesn't want to pay to use Kikuchi.
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Post by KingofWisdom » Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:20 pm

I'm guessing it's more expensive than NB is willing to pay. Perhaps they might also figure that DBZ fans who only watched the series on TV with the English replacement scores wouldn't appreciate the Kikuchi tracks. It really sucks to not know.
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Re: Will we ever have the original DBZ soundtrack on a DBZ g

Post by MCDaveG » Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:31 pm

KingofWisdom wrote:I'm guessing it's more expensive than NB is willing to pay. Perhaps they might also figure that DBZ fans who only watched the series on TV with the English replacement scores wouldn't appreciate the Kikuchi tracks. It really sucks to not know.
Yeah, maybe, but I don't see the logic in Europe, where everyone saw the series, myself as well (People in UK probably not), with Kikuchi score.
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:58 pm

Namco Bandai seems to have a Japan convention in France every year for Dragon Ball games and whatnot, so the French audience must be important to them, so they'd also appreciate the original DBZ music in DBZ games.
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