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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 24/09/2026

This week on Rainwave, check out new takes on familiar favourites in Double Dragon Gaiden and Sonic Gems Collection, bullet hell shredding from Aka to Blue, or enjoy an extravaganza of indie soundtracks from DRIFT.IO, Super Antonio, and KOKORONULL.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 05/09/2026

Denshattack! is now on Rainwave! Enjoy 24 choice cuts from Sean Bialo, Tee Lopes, Andrew One, and their many incredible guests. Hear it in a Power Hour Monday at 11 a.m. PST, Tuesday at 10 a.m. London time, or argue about the omissions in our Discord server at any time.

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 31/08/2026

🖥️ GET! A 10-track tribute to indie PC roguelikes & roguelites! 🎶 Fall & Rise! fallandrise.ocremix.org 🔥 100% FREE! GAMES • Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles • Deep Sky Derelict • Dome Keeper • Dungeon of the Endless • FTL: Faster Than Light • Hades • Inkbound • Monster Train • Nowhere Prophet • Wildfrost

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 29/08/2026

Rainwave Chill channel additions this week: - Cat Mail Co. - Everblue - Minecraft Legends - Minecraft Earth - Minecraft Messenger - Minecraft 365 - Minecraft with Copilot - Minecraft Navigator - Minecraft Drive - Moss - Moss II - Town to City - Dome Keeper - Subnautica

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 24/08/2026

New music on the Covers channel this week includes The Blueshift Big Band, ViRiX Dreamcore, and ThronoCrigger, plus arrangements of Ys I&II, Virtua Racing, and OutRunners! Please pretend the rest of this message is engagement bait, I can't think of any.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 17/08/2026

New this week on Rainwave's Chill channel: - Esoteric Ebb! - Wingspan! - More John Oeth guitar covers! And that's not all! Turn the dial to Game and enjoy new additions from Perfect Tides: Station to Station and Smushi Come Home! This bleat has seven exclamation marks!!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 17/08/2026

We could probably use an update on the Granblue album, huh. That was added way back in 2015 before gachamania hit. Thanks for listening!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 09/08/2026

This heatwave is murder, figuratively AND literally, but you can stay cool with the new Chill channel additions on Rainwave! Enjoy relaxing picks from Klonoa, Super Mario Sunshine, Amazing Bomberman, Stonefly, Papetura, PMD: Explorers of Sky, and the recently released Once Upon a Katamari!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 02/08/2026

Remember that weird Front Mission survival shooter? Or Cygames' pinball gacha? What about the chibi BlazBlue game, or virt's VR rock opera? Enjoy them all and more in this week's oddball Rainwave update! You can find a lengthy writeup/rant about them in the Discord news post. We're normal.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 24/07/2026

oh shit there are new Covers albums too Bra★Bra Final Fantasy VII Brass de Bravo and The Sound of the Mysterious Dream ~Atelier Sophie 2 Special Arrange CD~ big day for RPG nerds

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 19/07/2026

This week on Rainwave: enjoy a who's-who of the 2010s with Rokko Chan; celebrate the 40th anniversary of Fantasy Zone with vintage Hiro chiptunes; bask in Namco's history via pxtunes' GAME SOUND COLLAGE; or kick it to the sounds of Harpy Gaiden, inarguably the best harpy-based gaiden game available.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 22/06/2026

As is tradition, we celebrate Pride Month by adding music to Rainwave from queer games and artists. Selections from Dungeon Gals, Little Goody Two Shoes, Chickie Catchers, Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, and Detamine! -Feel Our Determination!- are now streaming. Give them some love. 💜

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 08/06/2026

Our Chill channel has been bolstered with albums from GENTLE LOVE, the Norihiko Hibino + Ayaki Saito collaboration. If you like pianos and soft saxophones and music that makes you feel like you're looking out a rainy window, grateful for your warm cocoa and comfy home, you can hear it *right now*.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 04/06/2026

Even more new music, as the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Orchestral Arrangement Album hits our Covers channel. Plus: the 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Remix & Arrange Album is here! Great news for Basiscape fans.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 31/05/2026

Jake Kaufman's soundtrack to the brand new indie game Mina the Hollower is now in the Rainwave library! Please enjoy this alongside other new additions like The Legend of Legacy and Gunlord, plus recent Chill albums including Pokemon D/P/P and Kaze no Notam!

Album cover for the Mina the Hollower Original Soundtrack, with Mina (a white anthropomorphic mouse with brown ears) striking a Castlevania-esque pose with a hand outstretched towards the camera clutching a deep red whip with a spike ball on the end of it which twirls around her as her blue cloak flutters. Behind her is a stone backdrop with two layers of ornate gold carved frames.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 18/05/2026

A new week brings new music, as our Chill channel is bolstered with selections from games like Earthbound, flOw, Blinx, Chocobo's Dungeon, APICO, A-Train 6, and more! You could tune in *right now* and hear those songs, if you had the guts. Do it. Click the link. You won't.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 11/05/2026

Bonus update this week courtesy of Tom! The long-awaited Mario Kart World soundtrack will go live on Rainwave this Wednesday! We've got 52 songs coming in from it, it's ridiculous how vastly it covers the legacy of Mario music. This took quite a while to prepare, so please enjoy!

Promotional image from Mario Kart World, showing the game's large cast of characters driving karts, bikes, and gliders across a desert, with a vast concave curving landscape behind them showing various biomes and landmarks throughout the game world.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 11/05/2026

I'll see what I can do! Feel free to jump into the Discord and poke us with more detail about the soundtrack if you like, I'm not familiar with it yet.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 09/05/2026

I can assure you we don't like to. :P If the stream is ever giving you trouble, don't hesitate to poke us on Discord. I haven't been aware of any downtime recently but there can be hiccups sometimes depending on your setup.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 09/05/2026

New music! Please listen to Machine Child, it's literally Shibuya-kei NieR. We've also got Jamphibious' funky little soundtrack for Little Frog Game, selections from Hakita's Ultrakill OSTs, a set of period pieces from Circuit Superstars, and Guardian's Crusade for some reason.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 03/05/2026

I believe Frazier has always(?) used marbled paper: "He swung by a local art supply store, purchased some marbled paper to act as each picture's background, and went to work," followed by a brief description of gluing and painting over materials on that paper. magicuntapped.com/index.php/fe...

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Magic's Moxes: Artist Dan Frazier talks about his most famous MTG cards

There are a number of well-known Magic: The Gathering cards, but few are better regarded than the game's five original moxes.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 03/05/2026

New chiptunes on Rainwave! Featuring: 8BIT MUSIC POWER, Verytex, Bonanza Bros., Toho Chiptune Jigoku, Action Fighter, The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, and Gianluca "Giacashi" Sciacca's Golden FamiSun. There are like ten different sound chips represented here, so surely you'll like one of them.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 26/04/2026

There's a ton of new music this week on our recently introduced Chill channel, including Miitopia, Baba Is You, Blue Prince, Pokemon Black/White, Octodad, Sonic Mega Collection, Hollow Knight, A Little to the Left, Endless Space, Mouthwashing, Tekken 7, and even more I can't fit within the post limi

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 13/04/2026

New Covers channel music on Rainwave this week! Enjoy the Final Fantasy XII Piano Collections, some really '80s Rockman arrangements, a Touhou jazz album, and selections from United Tribute Arrange Force's SpeedSTARS -a Ridge Racer tribute album-. Tune in 10 minutes from now to hear it all featured!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 07/04/2026

Woof, I can't imagine what that costs these days. Hope it's worth it.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 01/04/2026

Tune in to Rainwave on April 1st for a fun game of Spot the Difference! Can you identify the @highquality.rip songs hidden in the event playlist? Check it out at 11:00 London time (that's six hours from now) or at 11:00 Pacific time (fourteen hours from now), and jump into our Discord to play along!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 25/03/2026

henlo Seriously though, there are actually quite a few sites that do this. Rainwave is one of them so I'm obviously gonna recommend you check us out (it's free with no ads!), but Kohina and 8Beats and a bunch of them are still going strong too. It's a cool little scene and the music deserves love.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 23/03/2026

New this week on the Game channel on Rainwave: the absolutely stunning digital fusion soundtrack to Chiki's Chase, the funky collectathon throwback New Super Lucky's Tale, tense piano from Stella of The End, bitcrushed hard rock from Rakugakids, and that weird Magic Knight Rayearth Saturn OST.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 18/03/2026

We've been busy expanding Rainwave's new Chill channel with a lot of music additions over the last two weeks. Games like Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, Kirby Air Riders, Little Kitty, Big City, Rain World, and many more, plus the Zelda Classics and Zelda & Sleep albums. Turn on; tune in; nod off.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 02/03/2026

NEW MUSIC O RLY? YA RLY Beautiful Katamari Senko no Ronde Eternal Poison Kirby's Blowout Blast Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 25/02/2026

Glad to be of service!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 23/02/2026

New additions to Rainwave for a (lunar) new year! Astral Ascension, Astral Ascent, Mars First Logistics, Star Gagnant, Star Ixiom, and Astro's Playroom are now in stable orbit!

Album cover for the Astro's Playroom soundtrack, showing the titular character, Astro Bot, a white and blue robot with stubby limbs and a black LCD face with blue eyes, running to the right against a gradient blue background with his scarf flowing behind him.

Album cover for the Astral Ascent Original Game Soundtrack, featuring a painting of a brightly-lit fantasy setting with a large, complex building in the middle of a cliff and surrounded by trees, greenery, clouds, and mountains in the distance. Warm accent lighting streaks down from the blindingly bright overcast sky.

Album cover for the Mars First Logistics Original Soundtrack, with a peach-coloured background and an abstract symmetrical teal and white design in the center. I don't know what it is but it's kind of like a nine-pointed star.

Album cover for the Astral Ascension soundtrack, wherein a pink-haired anime-styled girl is shown from the waist up occupying the majority of the frame and looking towards the viewer with purple eyes. The braid in her hair stands out against the muted colours of her outfit, while in the background a futuristic cityscape of bright lights and glass skyscrapers is visible with a heavy bloom effect.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/02/2026

Additionally, the server maintenance is concluded, and all streams should now be back in sync and free of delays or interruptions. If you experience any trouble, please let us know.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/02/2026

Very excited to announce that Rainwave now has a Chill station! Our first new stream in 15 years, it's a curated collection of relaxed/lo-fi/chill songs to vibe to, with all of Rainwave's normal features underneath. See our Discord for the full announcement and check out the new section of the site!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 12/02/2026

Yeah, sorry about that. The server updates broke a piece of our streaming software so we're having to make a new one from scratch. We'll be running tests over the next two days so we can deploy a fix soon.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 08/02/2026

You may be noticing some instability on Rainwave as we endure ten years worth of software updates at once. The site may be slightly out of sync with what you hear - just pretend you're Nic Cage in the movie Next. If any streams go offline entirely or other bugs occur, please let us know on Discord.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 17/01/2026

If you want to hear all the new music in a concentrated block, tune in on Monday the 19th at 11:00 a.m. Pacific, or if you're an insomniac or a European, try the 20th at 2:00 a.m. Pacific.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 17/01/2026

The wait is over: Goddess of Victory: Nikke is breasting boobily onto Rainwave with 43 songs selected from its infinitely vast soundtrack. From chipper rock music with ultra clean guitars to dramatic orchestras, heavy metal, and chiptunes, it's quite a spread.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/01/2026

I cannot fathom why you'd put yourself through this, but I hope the music is able to ease the journey.

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Argick @argick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Day 5 of Baby Park-A-Thon! More karting, OC Remix tunes & a NEW EMOTE inspired from my AGDQ run. 899 / 1825 races completed 926 races left 30:21:55 total time Enabling the Twitch 35% sub gift discount today, tomorrow & Sunday as they're getting refreshed in February.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 12/01/2026

New this week on Rainwave: - Selected Persona and Shin Megami Tensei songs covered by Bi Score - Danceable electronic Final Fantasy remixes from VISION◆SQUARE - Diverse shmup arrangements from the Kiku ga Yoi. doujin album - The World of Ruin EP from VGM cover forerunners Year 200X

Album cover for the Year 200X EP World of Ruin, a piece drawn entirely in black, white, and red, showing a crimson winged demonic figure lit from behind in a dull white that fades to black, with red flames licking up from the bottom of the frame.

Album cover for the Vision Square album by salvation by faith records, which depicts the album title in the same visual style as the Final Fantasy logos, set on a plain white background.

Album cover for Bi Score's "Is This Persona?" album, a redrawn version of the "Is this a pigeon?" meme. A feminine person with dark tousled hair raises a hand towards a fairy, looking up at it with an open-mouthed smile, in front of a dull salmon-coloured wall with a white-framed window.

Album cover for Bi Score's "This Is Persona." EP, also based on the "Is this a pigeon?" meme, redrawing it in a mirrored arrangement relative to the other cover. A girl with red hair, red eyes, and a school uniform is visible from the shoulders up, extending a hand towards a fairy floating in front of her.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 03/01/2026

If you're confused and disoriented by the new year, consider fast-forwarding it by listening to Blinx: The Time Sweeper, or one of the other new soundtracks added to Rainwave this week which include Grinsia, To a T, Quiz Magic Academy V, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf.* *Pending FDA approval

Album cover for the Quiz Magic Academy V Original Soundtrack, depicting four women performing as a band. A redhead wearing a small, frilly pink sleeveless top acts as the DJ in the foreground with headphones and a turntable, while a guitarist, upright bassist, and melodica player stand back to the left in front of a yellow/orange abstract background.

Album cover for the To a T Original Soundtrack, which is a yellow background with a lot of various simple cartoon people T-posing amid stars, shirts, and other assorted objects.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 30/12/2025

oh god, it's mutating

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/12/2025

No problem! I appreciate you tuning in. Quotes for exact search terms + cross-referencing database results for member and release listings got some pretty decent leads, but for such an old project it's tough finding anything active when all the socials are dead.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/12/2025

I'm not sure why they cut down the tracklist for Bandcamp. Maybe licensing issues, maybe they felt differently about some of their old material when they were putting it up for reissue. Your best bet would be to ask Shawn Phase directly, probably: www.patreon.com/shawnphase 2/2

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Get more from Shawn Phase on Patreon

creating sonic sensory overloads like only he can!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 16/12/2025

Sorry for not seeing this sooner! I checked VGMdb and they list way more than 13 songs on the original release (vgmdb.net/album/11406), and that tracks with this archive of an old storefront page (web.archive.org/web/20120414...). It's also visible in the CD pics on the Bandcamp page. 1/2

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AFX 180 | Now You're Playing With Powar 8: This is Where I Usually Die - VGMdb

Doujin/Indie (CD) published by Temp Sound Solutions on Dec 24, 2008 containing arrangement from Portal, Mega Man 9, Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Anticipation, Crystalis, Double Dragon, Gimmick!, K...

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 08/12/2025

Quench your ears with the new soundtracks on Rainwave this week! Amazing arrangements from Mario Kart 8 mod CTGP Deluxe have arrived, as well as Touhou 12.5, Generation Xth, Hanakisou, and tohomoko's great digital fusion soundtrack for indie game Shadow Trick. Hear them all Monday at 11 a.m. PST!

Cover art for Touhou 12.5: Double Spoiler. A blue and white astral silhouette of a woman in a dress stands to the right, superimposed against a large strip of negative film in the background cutting an orange swath into the dark murky dark blue. Some unreadable reversed text spans the center of the image.

Album cover for the Hanakisou PS2+PD Soundtrack. A man in a long blue-grey coat sits in a hazy, bloomy snow drift. Hair of a blue/grey/white colour covers most of his face, which is turned towards another man with his arms around him. The second figure is in white with red hair and red eyes, embracing the first man and looking towards the viewer with a solemn expression. Snowflakes and other abstract shapes frame them and the hilt of a sword is visible to the left going out of view.

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 05/12/2025

Thanks for the kind words! I wish we had some sort of Rainwave Wrapped for folks. Instead, please enjoy this sweet bootleg trading card I got at a convention. Thanks for tuning in!

Uh, how do you even describe this. It's a bootleg doujin trading card styled after a Game Boy handheld game console, green with pictures of buttons along the bottom and a central image which acts as the console's display screen. The "screen" is transparent and blue-tinged, and printed on it is fan artwork of the video game character Mario, an Italian plumber who traditionally wears a red shirt and cap and blue overalls. He's running from left to right and he's covered in trippy abstract and psychedelic patterns that overlap his clothing and hair. In the lower right corner of the card, it says "HELLo MARIO," and in the lower left corner it says "Fight Mary Brothers."

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 02/12/2025

The kind words are much appreciated. 💜 Thanks to everybody for tuning in!

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Rainwave @rainwave.cc · 23/11/2025

New chiptunes on the radio this week! The classic Sega arcade title Quartet, excellent authentic work from the fan game Mega Man: Super Fighting Robot, Soyo Oka's OST for VS. Excitebike, and a pair of fun PC-88/98 soundtracks in Elm Knight and POWER DoLLS. Check them out!

Box art for the Famicom Disk System game VS. Excitebike, showing motorcyclists clad in red and blue drawn in a superdeformed chibi style with large heads driving through a dusty race course in front of a large crowd.

Box art for the PC-98 game POWER DoLLS, showing a silver robotic humanoid mech exchanging gunfire in an impressionistic forest scene. It holds a submachine gun in its right hand, muzzle flash point off screen, while a shot glances off its shield on its left arm.

Promotional flier for the Sega arcade game Quartet, with a teal background and a drawing in the center showing four figures armed with futuristic guns marching towards the viewer: an ambiguously-gendered person in the front with poofy brown hair and light armour, a man to the right in a blue tank top with mid-length hair and a caterpillar mustache, a small woman on the left in a revealing pink-red uniform, and a broad, bald dark-skinned man in the back with a rocket launcher on his back.

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