You're in an advantageous location, Chris. ;-)
I've found some great soundtracks that I didn't even existed, listed on Y!
Auctions Japan at:
http://auctions.yahoo.co.jp
I don't know if this specific CD is there, but... start looking.
Here's a couple of interesting ones right now:
http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d44503394
http://page9.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/k6178945
http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b48877637
(Don't pay attention to the prices - this is just an indication of some
neat products)
Oh, and the English-language search mechanism, like most Japanese sites
such as amazon.co.jp, works only about 5% of the time, so give up on using
English.
Two major location to search would be:
Auction->ongaku(music)->CD->Game Ongaku->Game 1 <something in kanji> (the
biggest sub-category)
or:
Auction->Omocha,Game->Game->Telebi-Game->NEC->PC Engine
(and subcategories)
But don't limit yourself to those categories, because people are constantly
mis-categorizing things as well.
Sadly, I've had to resort to buying Y! Auctions via the Rinkya service -
which is fine, but just very expensive due to the extra charges.
I've also seen some older stuff re-released on Taiwanese labels like SM. I
usually prefer the original Japanese release, but if it's all you can
get.... I recently got a Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 2-CD set (one from anime,
one from PC Engine game) in this format on the SM label.
At 09:40 AM 22/08/2004 -0400, Chris Covell wrote:
>About a decade ago, I bought a Japanese anime magazine and it had an ad
>for a new videogame music CD containing tracks from the two PC-Engine
>pinball games, Devil Crash and Alien Crush. Ever since then, I had always
>wanted to get ahold of that CD since I loved the music from Devil's Crush.
> But, I've never seen it anywhere in my searches.
- Dave