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Excuse me, please? What's the name of the track which is played when Kiryu was ambushed by the residents of Kamurocho at the bar?

Thank you so much for compiling this album! Shame that SEGA never bothered to do a proper soundtrack release.

** Yakuza Kiwami 2 Unofficial Soundtrack **
(Compiled by MiracleJohnsonVEVO)

- What's this?
This is an unofficial album compiling music tracks from the Yakua Kiwami 2
videogame published by SEGA and developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios. It contains
3 volumes with 117 tracks and a total playtime of 4 hours and 8 minutes.
Volume 1 and 2 focus on the fights and cutscenes from the main story, while the
third one includes the game's side content.

- What motivated this?
Several years after the release of Yakuza Kiwami 2, SEGA showed no intentions
of relesing an official soundtrack to the game, all we got is a limited edition
soundtrack that included a handful of tracks from Kiwami 1 and 2. The community
did their part by releasing separate tracks to platforms like Youtube, mostly
music from fights (random encounters, bosses, long battles...) and minigames
(Clan Creator, Cabaret Club Grand Prix...). What I really wanted was an album
of tagged and sorted tracks much in the style of the official soundtracks of
the other games in the series, even with its own cover art. So I set out to do
it myself and this is the result.

- What can I find here?
This soundtrack covers several aspects from the game, such as the licensed
tracks by SiM, music that plays during fights in both the main story and
minigames, the main story cutscenes, Majima Saga, Clan Creator, Cabaret Club
Grand Prix, substories, minigames and karaoke.

- What are the sources?
Most of the music here comes from the game itself by converting the game files,
while other songs were taken from official releases:
* Yakuza Kiwami 2 Limited Edition Soundtrack
* Yakuza: Like a Dragon Original Soundtrack
* A/The Sound Of Breath
* Kiryu Best -Ryu ga Gotoku Kazuma Kiryu KARAOKE ALL TIME BEST COLLECTION-
* Majima Best -Ryu ga Gotoku Goro Majima KARAOKE ALL TIME BEST COLLECTION-

- What's the work put into it?
The breakdown of it is retrieving the tracks from the sources mentioned above,
identifying when they are heard in the game, filtering out the ones that are
reused from previous games and released on their respective soundtracks, adding
the MP3 tags with the info available (when a composer is unknown it will be
left as "SEGA Sound Team"), and sorting them in a way that made sense.
There was also some editing involved, such as in fight music tracks. This game
had a feature by which when finishing a fight, the music would finish by
playing an "outro" seamlessly. So I took these outros and "stitched" them to
end of the corresponding tracks so they have a proper ending instead of just a
fade out. Some other tracks are also a combination of two or more tracks, such
as "Roar of the Twin Dragons [ver. Kiwami 2]" which combines the title screen
theme with the menu theme, or "Kamuro Hills" which combines the music that
plays in the construction yard and the "Man in Black" miniboss in the last
long battle.
The naming convention for the tracks that don't have an official name, I chose
to keep most of the names given by the community, while for cutscenes and
substories I would pick the name of a cutscene or substory where they played,
or what they were about.
The last touch was making some nice cover art by using official artwork, with
back covers displaying the track lists.

I hope you enjoy this soundtrack as I did compiling it.