I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Rayman for PS1, Toys VS Nightmares for PC flash, Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, and Crisis Beat all utilize some sound effect files from The Cartoon Trax 1. And right now, I’m trying to locate the source of Crisis Beat’s “anime-style” sound effects (the kind we heard in Alvin Earthworm’s Super Mario Bros Z). Thanks to this, I’m getting better at expanding my vocabulary knowledge in terms of sound effect names (E.G, the sound that cues when an object appears in Rayman is a cartoon xylophone and Rayman’s running sound is a cartoon horse galloping in Cartoon Trax 1.) Now I can better visualize how these sound effects got their names when they were first created.
So now I know where to begin my search for the sound effects from my past to today! But there’s a glitch: some of these albums don’t appear on Source Audio. I searched all over Source Audio (https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/albums), but no luck. So I need help to acquire any discontinued or archived sound effect libraries like this if possible. Here’s the links to the Hollywood Edge and Sound Idea’s wiki pages to show the list of libraries they made; some of them don’t appear on Source Audio, so I need help finding an archive of some of their discontinued libraries somewhere: https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Sound_Ideas_Canada_Ltd. https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hollywood_Edge
It’s imperative I get it in their original unedited sound file form and in MP3 as .wav is too big and .ogg could crash certain programs like Vegas Pro.
Here are the sound libraries I’ve been logging since I first began digging through my favorite TV shows, movies, cartoons, and video games that also don’t appear on Source Audio: DePatie, DFE, Disney, Elektra Records, Famous Studios, FOX, Star Trek: Original TV Series, Joel Valentine, Hacienda, Hanna Barbera, Horta, Horta Hacienda, Alex Fresno, BBC, Bob Clampett, Harry Bluestone, Nickelodeon, Nelvana, New Warner Bros, NTWK, OMI, Pro Sound Effects, PSEL, Rocky and Bullwinkle, 20th Century Fox, Audio Effects Co., Rich Harrison, Mark Mangini, Richard L. Anderson, Skywalker, Warner Bros, Turner Entertainment, Unknown Sound Effects Library, and Valentino.
Please help find the libraries in the above paragraph if you can. And also, I need the SFX libraries used by Alvin Earthworm in his Super Mario Bros Z series (machine gun, chaos emerald glows, Koopa Bros power up with the chaos emerald for their special formation attack, dashing, explosions, punches, kicks, land/fall/hit on a hard surface, death ray, rocket blast offs, special attacks, Koopa Bros thumbs up, Axem Black and Green join to make a axe attack etc.).
Remember the Skywalker sound library I listed? I have yet to find the library for online download.
https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Sound_Ideas,_Machine_Gun_Multiple_-_Long_Long_take_of_multiple_machine_guns_firing_at_once And sound effects like this are from a now discontinued library. I couldn’t find it on Source Audio. BTW, this sound file is heard in Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger) where Richter’s goons open fire in the escalator scene.
And these sound effects are heard and used literally everywhere (cartoons, movies, TV, and especially video games). Therefore, no one should bother to care who’s using them, should they? Looking for one law breaker who’s using something very commonly heard is like looking for a needle hidden in a haystack. So I’m certain the head of the copyrighted material wouldn’t waste their time and money hunting down one individual with the “illegally” acquired item - let alone millions of them on this planet. Alot of people have used them for their “crappy” stop motion films and they never had problems.
I’m not able to help, but good luck with your search.