Got mine today, shipped on Sept. 23. That means more than five weeks, not something I would call 'quick', especially considering the 15 $ it cost me.
Blame the postal service for that. Once the item ships, how long it takes to arrive is completely out of our control.
Ive waiting weeks until something got in stock then poof..
Still waiting, its been weeks too
Soundtrack preorders with posters are the last ones to go out - the warehouse ran out of rolled posters and had to take time to roll some more. They've told us that the rest of the preorders will ship by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience!
aww...fate struck again. i will be the last one to receive the season two stuff, because i ordered a poster that has to be rolled....buhuu...i am so sad. can't you like...i don't know...send jake over there with some poster rolls?:D
no, just kiddin...i can wait a few more weeks.
anyways..you're talking about digital tracks on the soundtrack all the time...it's a cd, right? shouldn't all tracks be digital?
just so i understand it correctly: the soundtrack consists of two cds of which one or both have a data track and the data on this track(s) contains some songs that didn't fit onto there as cd audio tracks...like as compressed audio files??
did the first soundtrack have data tracks as well?
anyways..you're talking about digital tracks on the soundtrack all the time...it's a cd, right? shouldn't all tracks be digital?
just so i understand it correctly: the soundtrack consists of two cds of which one or both have a data track and the data on this track(s) contains some songs that didn't fit onto there as cd audio tracks...like as compressed audio files??
did the first soundtrack have data tracks as well?
In this day and age of MP3s and M4V and other file formats that can be easily transfered from one media to another, some retailers are taking advantage of it and supplying digital copies of certain media for those tech-savy consumers who are just going to rip the copy and put it on their iPod anyway.
That's what the digital tracks are on the CD: music tracks in MP3 form stored on a data partition of the CD.
* Disc one has the environment music from episodes 201-203 as regular old audio CD data.
* Disc two has the environment music from episodes 204 and 205 on the audio track, and also has a data track which includes the cutscene suites from each episode, as 256k MP3s, as well as a few extra tracks including some of the custom-scored music from some of the season two trailers, and some season two variants on old season one tracks (eg the street and office music, but with new instrumental solos).
ohh...i am correct. that is quite fortunate. seems like the new soundtrack has more music for the same price..or maybe the same amount of music plus some bonus content. anyway, it's probably even better than the first one.
furthermore, it seems you did a great job restocking those rolled posters, since my order of season two goodies was sent yesterday...or at least i received the shipping notice then. so, i will get it soon..what makes me quite happy. the best thing is, that it's already paid and i don't have to worry about the money.
I love mine! I just got my stuffs in the mail, sadly mine was opened on one side so its not going to be my collectors piece.. ordering another oneeee soooon!
I'm going through my Season 2 swag right now. Just finished listening to the soundtrack and is about to watch the DVD, but something odd happened when I opened it.
A very pungent smell exploded out of the DVD case as soon as I broke the plastic seal and opened it up. It was coming from the Flint Paper insert. Now, this wasn't the smell of freshly printed paint, which I know the smell of oh-so-well. (You kind of get used to it when you're in an art school.)
It took me a while to figure it out, but it smells like whisky. I don't think that's suppose to happen, but I thought I'd report it.
I got Momma Bosco's Time Card. Don't know if I like the idea of going back to the Kennedy era since I do have a great-grandmother on one of my parent's side with the last name of Castro...
You win the whiskey prize! Flint Paper will visit you tonight in your dreams.
So that's why it felt like my soul was leaving my body and I was sore around the neck and face area! I thought it was because I slept on my stomache, which I normally don't do. I wonder if this is because I didn't give out candy last night, and Flint considered that low-life behavior...
so...the flint paper cover for season 2 smells like whiskey...and from jake's comments i assume that this is on purpose. this is so awesome...and also hilarious. i wonder how it was done. either the printshop offers paper in different smells and flavours or....the telltale crew bought a crate of cheap booze at the local liquor store and somehow...
I wish it was on purpose! That would be pretty epic. All I meant to imply was that since he got one which by some freak shipping accident mysteriously smells of whiskey, he wins a prize.
so...the flint paper cover for season 2 smells like whiskey...and from jake's comments i assume that this is on purpose. this is so awesome...and also hilarious. i wonder how it was done. either the printshop offers paper in different smells and flavours or....the telltale crew bought a crate of cheap booze at the local liquor store and somehow...
I wish it was on purpose! That would be pretty epic. All I meant to imply was that since he got one which by some freak shipping accident mysteriously smells of whiskey, he wins a prize.
I figured as much. However, I do know that it is possible to "scent" paper inserts. When I got Tim Burton's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory DVD last Christmas, the whole case smelled of chocolate powder, with the source being the DVD chapter index insert. It still smells of chocolate even now.
yeah...it was to good to be true. i still like the idea though. unfortunately the smell is nothing that will last forever, but still...jake, maybe you wanna keep that in mind for season three...or strong bad goodies.;)
I wish it was on purpose! That would be pretty epic. All I meant to imply was that since he got one which by some freak shipping accident mysteriously smells of whiskey, he wins a prize.
You know, one morning I woke up at work not knowing where I was. There was a bottle of booze on my desk and a box of S2 DVDs next to it...
All of the pieces of that night are slowly coming together.
Yay! Got my stuff in the mail yesterday. Great stuff!
Cool tiny case file cd. I tried to slow it down, play it backwards etc. , but... what the hidden song about?!
Got my CD and case file yesterday as well, it took about 10 days for transatlantic delivery, not bad. I think that so far I actually like the Office rearrangement the best :cool:
Yay! Got my stuff in the mail yesterday. Great stuff!
Cool tiny case file cd. I tried to slow it down, play it backwards etc. , but... what the hidden song about?!
I *still* don't know! I've been messing around with that track for days!
Happy day! Got my Sam & Max: Season 2 package today - some pictures here. Strangely, the stuff came in an envelope rather than in a box. Oh well. As long as I have my Season 2 game disc, soundtrack and the case file, I'm happy.
I also tried playing the demonic message backwards, but it got me nowhere. Haha. What did you guys do to mess this up? And does the punch card contain any information or should I just stop trying to figure out how to decode the damn thing? I tried decoding both the 1D and 2D code, but no luck so far. Has anyone messed around with that?
P.S. - Scratch the punch card question. I see that Pidgeot figured it out already -> CLICK
Ok, I think I have figured out the demon message. The reason why it sounds so weird [effects aside] even if you reverse it, is probably because the words were written down backwards and then read alound and recorded. So it's not simply reversed speech, thus making it sound weird no matter how you listen to it. It's just like the Twin Peaks midget talk, with tons of effects distorting the speech further.
Anyways, the words spoken in the message come from Omen - Ave Satani. Sanguis bibimus, corpus edimus. That's latin for drink blood, eat flesh.
So ... Did I get it right? What do I win? Do I win anything?
Strangely, the stuff came in an envelope rather than in a box.
We've switched to a new fulfillment center, and they tend to pack stuff smartly rather than just throwing it all into a huge box with no padding. Everything I've seen from them has been carefully wrapped with bubble wrap, etc - hopefully that was the case with your envelope! (Also that white customs slip is what you get if you do postage electronically rather than manually. It shouldn't make any difference to customs if the slip is white or green, the info is the same. ) Nice pictures and write-up, by the way!
How many different case file time cards are there?
There are six time cards altogether. The Beginning of Time card is not one of them...
I got it all today!!!!!!!! (In Australia) and it is worth the wait, the musics great, the dvds free and the case file is AWESOME!!!!
THANK YOU TO ALL TELLTALE!!!!!! YOU ROCK!
EDIT: I forgot to mention, in the soundtrack the audio quality is ASTONISHINGLY GOOD!!! Instrument's you never even heard in the free tracks spring into life!
There are six time cards altogether. The Beginning of Time card is not one of them...
...but i suppose that some of these aka. blank ones exist. right? you surely got some unprinted samples. the vast power the telltale office now holds...maybe.
Received the package from Telltale today, and I have to say - this is some great stuff. Loved the case file, and I'm listening to the soundtrack as we speak. Sadly one of those thingies which holds the cd in place within the cover seemed damaged on the soundtrack, which may have been caused by the fact that it didn't seem too protected within the parcel, but luckily the cd doesn't fall out anyhow, so no harm done. Thanks for the awesome stuff, Telltale, it is highly appreciated!
My big box of stuff arrived today. I had to kick a nasty infection out of my pc before it would play the soundtrack, but it seems all is well now. Great stuff, for sure. The box did mention a return address in Sweden if that's still relevant.
My big box of stuff arrived today. I had to kick a nasty infection out of my pc before it would play the soundtrack, but it seems all is well now. Great stuff, for sure. The box did mention a return address in Sweden if that's still relevant.
i had a label from sweden too, and big box isn't at all joking
Pure brilliance! The poster is much larger than I thought it was, and I can't wait to get it up on my wall. Case file is great, especially... well, I started to list my favourites here but I ended up naming all five things; I got the Superball time card, by the way. The soundtrack is top notch quality, although sadly some of the plastic CD holders have already come off like on the first soundtrack. Not to worry, all the tracks are burnt to my PC. I have yet to properly watch any DVD content (just about to!), however I did notice a certain someone at the top of the forum credits. All in all, amazing merchandise as per usual.
P.S. I'm in love with this new new fulfilment centre as I didn't get charged any customs.
I forgot to say, thanks so much for the inclusion of these awesome wallpapers. I've been needing some new hi-res Sam & Max for my screen, and these are perfect. I've got the 'boxing' one set at the moment, but there is plently to cycle through if I get bored of this. Worth it just for these!
hmm i got 3 casefiles and all 2 of the cards were the same! wonder how many id have to buy to insure I get all the cards. Someone wanna guess ? Ill buy em out if I have to..
hmm i got 3 casefiles and all 2 of the cards were the same! wonder how many id have to buy to insure I get all the cards. Someone wanna guess ?
Well, there's a 1 out of 6 chance, but since we do not know how the distribution company packaged the cards (perhaps they are getting rid of, say, all of Bosco's timecards first then Superball's, Max's, etc.), it is hard to say how many casefiles you need to buy before collecting all 6.
I have two Superball cards and willing to trade with anyone for anything different (except for a Max). My "wishlist" is Sam or The Sodapoppers.
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Ive waiting weeks until something got in stock then poof..
Still waiting, its been weeks too :P
Blame the postal service for that. Once the item ships, how long it takes to arrive is completely out of our control.
Soundtrack preorders with posters are the last ones to go out - the warehouse ran out of rolled posters and had to take time to roll some more. They've told us that the rest of the preorders will ship by the end of the week. Thanks for your patience!
no, just kiddin...i can wait a few more weeks.
anyways..you're talking about digital tracks on the soundtrack all the time...it's a cd, right? shouldn't all tracks be digital?
just so i understand it correctly: the soundtrack consists of two cds of which one or both have a data track and the data on this track(s) contains some songs that didn't fit onto there as cd audio tracks...like as compressed audio files??
did the first soundtrack have data tracks as well?
In this day and age of MP3s and M4V and other file formats that can be easily transfered from one media to another, some retailers are taking advantage of it and supplying digital copies of certain media for those tech-savy consumers who are just going to rip the copy and put it on their iPod anyway.
That's what the digital tracks are on the CD: music tracks in MP3 form stored on a data partition of the CD.
* Disc one has the environment music from episodes 201-203 as regular old audio CD data.
* Disc two has the environment music from episodes 204 and 205 on the audio track, and also has a data track which includes the cutscene suites from each episode, as 256k MP3s, as well as a few extra tracks including some of the custom-scored music from some of the season two trailers, and some season two variants on old season one tracks (eg the street and office music, but with new instrumental solos).
furthermore, it seems you did a great job restocking those rolled posters, since my order of season two goodies was sent yesterday...or at least i received the shipping notice then. so, i will get it soon..what makes me quite happy. the best thing is, that it's already paid and i don't have to worry about the money.
Like most of Season Two, even though there were fewer episodes in total, we did a lot more with each episode
A very pungent smell exploded out of the DVD case as soon as I broke the plastic seal and opened it up. It was coming from the Flint Paper insert. Now, this wasn't the smell of freshly printed paint, which I know the smell of oh-so-well. (You kind of get used to it when you're in an art school.)
It took me a while to figure it out, but it smells like whisky. I don't think that's suppose to happen, but I thought I'd report it.
*goes back to enjoying his Season 2 swag*
Currently listening to the Friendly Demon "record". I'll listen to the soundtrack next.
So that's why it felt like my soul was leaving my body and I was sore around the neck and face area! I thought it was because I slept on my stomache, which I normally don't do. I wonder if this is because I didn't give out candy last night, and Flint considered that low-life behavior...
Edit: Sorry, didn't see Jake's post.
I figured as much.
You know, one morning I woke up at work not knowing where I was. There was a bottle of booze on my desk and a box of S2 DVDs next to it...
All of the pieces of that night are slowly coming together.
Cool tiny case file cd.
I also tried playing the demonic message backwards, but it got me nowhere. Haha. What did you guys do to mess this up? And does the punch card contain any information or should I just stop trying to figure out how to decode the damn thing? I tried decoding both the 1D and 2D code, but no luck so far. Has anyone messed around with that?
P.S. - Scratch the punch card question. I see that Pidgeot figured it out already -> CLICK
Anyways, the words spoken in the message come from Omen - Ave Satani. Sanguis bibimus, corpus edimus. That's latin for drink blood, eat flesh.
So ... Did I get it right? What do I win? Do I win anything?
We've switched to a new fulfillment center, and they tend to pack stuff smartly rather than just throwing it all into a huge box with no padding. Everything I've seen from them has been carefully wrapped with bubble wrap, etc - hopefully that was the case with your envelope! (Also that white customs slip is what you get if you do postage electronically rather than manually. It shouldn't make any difference to customs if the slip is white or green, the info is the same.
There are six time cards altogether. The Beginning of Time card is not one of them...
THANK YOU TO ALL TELLTALE!!!!!! YOU ROCK!
EDIT: I forgot to mention, in the soundtrack the audio quality is ASTONISHINGLY GOOD!!! Instrument's you never even heard in the free tracks spring into life!
i had a label from sweden too, and big box isn't at all joking
P.S. I'm in love with this new new fulfilment centre as I didn't get charged any customs.
And if so, anyone know a date?
we don't know neither do telltale/ they haven't been able to announce it yet.
I am also in Australia but still didn't get mine yet.
Sorry to hear that, but a heads up, don't use iTunes to convert the songs to mP3, it just keeps skipping, I'm still trying to fix that
lol
Well, there's a 1 out of 6 chance, but since we do not know how the distribution company packaged the cards (perhaps they are getting rid of, say, all of Bosco's timecards first then Superball's, Max's, etc.), it is hard to say how many casefiles you need to buy before collecting all 6.
I have two Superball cards and willing to trade with anyone for anything different (except for a Max). My "wishlist" is Sam or The Sodapoppers.
id think like 6 cards, 1 in 6 chance every package,
50 packages could still net you 50 of the same card ahhh
doh!
hehe