Wow, it's been a long while since I was on here. Unfortunately Real Life sucks, along with trying to put in a dual-core processor. But we're not going to go into it and the heavy fan that snapped off the little brackets on the motherboard that held it and crashed onto my video card that THANKFULLY DIDN'T BREAK.
Anyway, I'd made an Acronis back up (GREAT program, btw, totally worth the buy), but that didn't work, so I ended up reinstalling fresh from the game and redoing ALL the patches. Not on my list of favorite things since I also lost all my save games and have to start over. I'm still messing with the sound, as it's not that great and don't get me started on fixing the video screen.
I did want to mention that I tried wave files and they don't work. I don't use winamp, but foobar2000. I bought the AC soundtrack and love it to death (I can tell you what track name is playing while I watch the movie :p), so I converted one of my flacs (battle music) to wave to test it. I know for a fact that it won't work with flacs without testing it, since the creator told me so herself. Unfortunately, it also does not work with wave files.
I'm also having a bit of a problem with my sound, but I want to uncheck a sound setting for my sound card itself before posting about it here, if I can even describe it.
EDIT: Slowly replacing all my tracks. As for those Shinra Explode tracks where there are apparently 2 missing from the OST, I found them. They were in one file, Disc 4, Track 12, The Mako Cannon is fired. Thank god for Adobe Audition, I listened to the minispf (I downloaded a zip where someone wonderfully put up all the tracks, can't find who at the moment since I'm lazy :p) and compared it to that particular track. I have 320 mp3s of those tracks and can upload them if anyone wants them. Also, I have the fanfare2, and straight bombing mission edited from the mp3s. The only ones I don't have are these:
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