Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In 2016, I published a Born From a Wish OST Project, where I edited out the cutscene dialogue from the BFaW cutscenes. I've been holding onto this other video since 2016, where I then took those new tracks and inserted them into the HD Collection's cutscenes, from which they were absent. Read more below!
Born From a WIsh OST Project (with dialogue removed)
youtube.com/watch?v=PuvOMcP5aOA
Original BFaW cutscenes with dialogue and music
youtube.com/watch?v=_F22zalsUFk
HD Collection with New Voices (and No Music)
youtube.com/watch?v=oebz8RRh_1c
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"So What's The Deal With This?"
Well, the audio files for the original version of Born From a Wish are a bit different from the rest of Silent Hill 2, in that the dialogue and background music are baked together in the same file. Unlike in the main scenario, where the music can be isolated, the music in BFaW can not.
In 2016 I recreated the music from the BFaW cutscenes by editing out the dialogue and piecing the tracks back together with the left over pieces, to the best of my ability, based on how much of each track was available to me after removing the dialogue.
When the HD Collection released, if you played the BFaW scenario with "new voices", you will have discovered that the music is not even there. This is simply because as explained up there, the original files had the original voices baked into the music. It wasn't possible to use the original music with the new voices. So they opted to have silence in the background.
And even though the recreated tracks are not 100% true to the original forms, they are pretty close.
So now you know what Original Music + New Voices looks and sounds like!
In 2016, I published a Born From a Wish OST Project, where I edited out the cutscene dialogue from the BFaW cutscenes. I've been holding onto this other video since 2016, where I then took those new tracks and inserted them into the HD Collection's cutscenes, from which they were absent. Read more below!
Born From a WIsh OST Project (with dialogue removed)
youtube.com/watch?v=PuvOMcP5aOA
Original BFaW cutscenes with dialogue and music
youtube.com/watch?v=_F22zalsUFk
HD Collection with New Voices (and No Music)
youtube.com/watch?v=oebz8RRh_1c
----------
"So What's The Deal With This?"
Well, the audio files for the original version of Born From a Wish are a bit different from the rest of Silent Hill 2, in that the dialogue and background music are baked together in the same file. Unlike in the main scenario, where the music can be isolated, the music in BFaW can not.
In 2016 I recreated the music from the BFaW cutscenes by editing out the dialogue and piecing the tracks back together with the left over pieces, to the best of my ability, based on how much of each track was available to me after removing the dialogue.
When the HD Collection released, if you played the BFaW scenario with "new voices", you will have discovered that the music is not even there. This is simply because as explained up there, the original files had the original voices baked into the music. It wasn't possible to use the original music with the new voices. So they opted to have silence in the background.
And even though the recreated tracks are not 100% true to the original forms, they are pretty close.
So now you know what Original Music + New Voices looks and sounds like!
