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Video Game Music Mixes
Matt Pollard writes: "A group of video game music fanatics and musicians have opened up a new website at VGMix.com. If you're like us, sometimes you can't get the snazzy tunes of today's video games out of your head. Also, if you're up for a bit of nostalgia, this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school."
Get some Dance Dance Revolution music. There are tunes on there that I will not get out of my head for another century or so.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
One more step in preserving video games of old. FWIW, they have very good music. My percussion ensemble played super mario bros. and mortal kombat last year!
Overclocked Remix deserves some credit. It's a moderated remix website that's been running for a few years.
http://remix.overclocked.org
I wish I could get Slashdot to launch all of my web sites.
You mean Kyle Herbert??? Check out his website!!!
http://www.firstnetimpressions.com/
Most of the songs on the site appear to be covers or remixes. I guess it's another example of how pervasive gaming technology has become - and it's not surprising that music whose intention was often to attract passers-by to machines, and to get the machine itself firmly hooked inside the head, should find itself appropriated by more general modern pop music.
My favourite description, though, has to be for Little Nemo (arranged by Gux): "A string quartet rendition of the first level tune from Capcom's sleeper hit, Little Nemo. The original had much higher tempo (and it ran in 4/4). This version is slower with a waltz-ish feel to it." It's great to see that musicians can find inspiration in many places, and do interesting things with what they find. Let's just hope the lawyers don't get to them...
Will any of these remixes be availible for my PC speaker?
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First off, I don't believe in sexy developers and second if these music production and archive shops do have sexy developers I'm in the wrong admin role.
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This is great stuff that matters. I know there are other sites like this, but the more the merrier, and this one seems like it has some active movers and shakers behind it. Perhaps they'll surpass the others if they already haven't.
May seem a bit offtopic but Ozma has a great cover song of 'Korobeiniki.' Ozma's just a damn good band and it's my job of an over-obsessed fan to advertise 'em as much as I can...
Ozma Mp3's
Ozma's Website
Vgmix.com: say hello to the Slashdotting!
"this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school"
So I was in my Calculus class about four months ago, hanging around, being relatively bored, so I started singing the "dada Da dada da, da..." and charged into the entire Super Mario Brothers song. My friends sitting next to me start chiming in and joining up. Now this would have been fine and all, If I hadn't then broken into the end bit with the flagpole and the fireworks... and then continued on to level 1-2 (Dada da dada da, da... Dooo! Dooo! Dooo! Dananananana.... Dananananana...). My friend sitting next to me collapsed over in laughter... I think I broke her.
The end.
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Where's the Pong music?!
I have noticed that the best video games often use music very effectively. A well chosen score or theme song enhances the mood of the environment , and really adds to the enjoyment of the game. Thus, a horror game should use something appropriately "creepy", like funeral organ music. A hi-tech sci-fi game should be techno or similarly modern and stimulating.
For instance, Tetris on the Game Boy is improved by having a nice Russian-sounding tune playing in the background. Combined with appropriate sound effects, it makes for a great experience. The music should fit the game like a glove. Another game whose music I enjoyed was Final Fantasy for the Game Boy. An adventure/romance theme, which was perfect for the storyline. Of course, not even Beethoven could salvage a game which has a lousy premise or is just not fun to play. But music is a critical component of any successful game, just as any popular movie will have a rousing theme song.
They also have some remixes. Mostly it's ripped stuff, though.
Also, if you're willing to wade through tons of "inspired by" shit, MP3.com's electronic section has lots of good remixes...many are also on other sites like remix.overclocked.org, though.
Ha! 30 comments and yours is the highest rated. Slashdot has really turned into a large pile of festering SLOP!
Bah. If you'd spent the time reading the site that you had writing this post, you'd realize that all of the tunes on VG Mix are arrangements...not pirate copies of the original soundtracks. The only way that this would violate any copyright laws would be if they were selling the tracks without first acquiring the neccessary mechanical license(s).
There is another site that has been around for a while that deals only with video game remixes as well. Overlocked Remix has listings of numerous MP3 format video game music remixes. The genres range from classical to techno to ambient to rock.
Since you need to create a fairly high quality remix in order to get listed on the site, almost all of the music on that site is worth the listen.
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So my question is : what business does a mere "group of video game music fanatics and musicians" has logging people's browser infos into a SQL database ?
yah right peepz just be using dis site to help demz find their music to get wit morpheus, tell me u never pirated any music mr anonymous
If you want to get Sierra Music, visit Quest Studios. They have music of about all Sierra games, some in MP3 and some in MIDI format.
That's not really the same thing. The above are actual mixes inspired by the games, not a rehashed midi.
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Here's what I find interesting:
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"Should we start getting a 10,000th visitor contest going, or do you think the initial rush will die down soon?
I just had to comment on this, even though its not necessarily important (its impressive). "
And now it has been
These are mixes, not copies of the original artwork (i.e. variations or inspirations from the original piece.) Does that still make it illegal?
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If you like C64 remixes, also check the Remix64 community site out: http://remix64.phatsites.de/. The charts section contains voting charts for the remixes at Remix.Kwed.Org and is a good place to start in order to find out which remixes are worth downloading.
Thank you very much but I did read the site, and you are wrong. On the top right of each post is a "download" link to let you download the video game music in mp3 format and two thirds of the articles contain links within them to download these mp3s. I am not sure if this website is the actual server on which this music is held, but then it would still be nothing different than some video game music warez link site. Things like this on Slashdot give it a bad name. Open source is great, but posting things like this, when the music is not even free as in beer, gives fuel to arguments like when Microsoft says "open source is bad for licenses," even if arguments like that are flawed. It gives negative press and it is just plain illegal to download and listen to the music unless you own the video game, and I am sure most people own no more than a few percent of the total songs (and I really doubt that they would scroll through and say, "hey! I don't own that. I won't download it.")
For more great game choon remixes, although from the world of Commodore 64, check out these two commonly known great sites:
http://Remix.Kwed.Org
http://www.c64audio.com
Also, quite recently I happened to hear probably the best C64 game remix ever. It's from the game "The Great Gianna Sisters", by a band Machinae Supremacy. Here's the direct link to the MP3 file at their site, and here's another for a mirror at MP3.com. Enjoy! (And may the Gaia forgive me for starting a
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I can not believe it. On the front page of slashdot a microsoft advertisement. I think I saw satan asking for a sweater and pigs looking at the head winds. MY GOD! I wonder who's responsible. Maybe anti M$ comments will now be modded down.
Oh and sorry for being off-topic.
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I don't care for most remixes, there really isn't anything that improves upon the original. Give me my buckner & cherry LP for real "music inspired by "
OH YEAH!
The Minibosses are a really cool band that's been doing video game covers for a couple years. They have an awesome CD. (Probably technically illegal, I dunno). Contra, Castlevania, Wizards and Warriors, and the GI Joe theme song, among others, all in sort of an instrumental punk-metal thing.
Also, search for the Rabbit Joint and try and find their "Legend of Zelda" song. You will laugh your ass off. "Link...he come to town...come to save...the princess zelda!"
It used to be on MP3.com, but it's gone now. Probably lawyers didn't like it.
..If you have good games that have sound tests.
My recent favorites are: Solstice, and Journey To Silius. If you like chip music, you should love these two. They both have fairly long and interesting tracks. Check out the arpeggio patterns in Solstice, it's brilliant, and IMO Solstice has the best music of any NES game.
Of course I have my NES plugged into my stereo so I can hear all the great fuzz and other weirdness in hi-fi. Emulators tend to mess up the music.
Does anybody know of any other NES games with great music?
Hi folks, I'm virt, the guy who came up with the idea and helped design and implement the site (and whose wallet will ultimately suffer for the slashdotting ;))
:)
...really fun.
I just wanted to say thanks in advance for the support and the interest, and to get a couple of things cleared up.
First of all, we KNOW we're not the first. Believe me, we know. We're just the first site designed from the ground up for the purpose of multi-platform game arrangements. Most of us are people who are also (or have been) active contributors to remix.overclocked.org - OverClocked ReMix is the site that really started it all with game music arrangements, and it's incredible how a real living, breathing community can form around a single niche interest. However, OverClocked started out as a personal site that gradually featured other people's music until it became MOSTLY about other people's music. VGMix was made, back-end and all, specifically for harbouring a community. Few things are done by hand, because we want people to be able to put their stuff up without us babysitting, and let the moderation and reviewing dictate what's enjoyed without any one person trying to decide for the whole community. We're mostly musicians first, game players second, but the entire spectrum of musicians/gamers is represented here, and we all really love what we do. We DO, however, have a Panel of trusted arrangers who can pick what they consider to be exceptional songs and give them separate, "official" attention - but it in no way supersedes the original purpose of the site because it's a "side project."
I consulted with an attorney (got 5 of them in the family, holidays are JUST LOVELY) a long time before I set this site up, and there's nothing illegal about writing music inspired or derived from another's work. If it were REMIXES -- the original audio with a new beat slapped on, for example -- it would not only be illegal but immoral, too, if we didn't ask first. But what we're doing here is interpreting the original song in a new and very changed form. IANAL, but I don't like being sued so I made sure I talked to people who are. OverClocked ReMix is in the same boat. I'm sure someone could disagree or be misinformed and bring a suit against either site, but before it came to that we'd probably skip the hassle in the first place and zap the song. Not likely, though. Us game composer types (I also freelance commercially) are usually laid-back and flattered by arrangements, as long as there's no money being made from them.
Now, VGMUSIC.COM is another story entirely. They have nothing to do with us, but they are a fantastic resource for people who ARE with us. Vgmusic is a place where people submit General MIDI arrangements of game music, usually done by ear by a talented (or not) sequencer. It's like sheet-music transcriptions, just a database of music MIDI files. How is this a fantastic resource? Not everyone who arranges has the kind of ear that allows them to capture the melodies and harmonies by ear, so having a file that they can examine visually is a good thing for them.
So, to sum up, we are well aware that we're not the first, we're just the first set up this way; we're not doing anything illegal, though we'll have to work hard to ensure that our system is not abused; and there are other sites in the game music community that can help us through cooperation. We're not so arrogant as to think we're movers and shakers, we're just guys who love game music and we're trying to provide place to share it that is unlike the others that already exist.
It's a really tiny niche community but it's
-j
I like this better!
What part of "these songs are NOT from the original soundtracks" do you not understand? There is no law that prevents anyone from offering for free their own *arrangements* of the musical works of others. Feel free to quote any specific legislation that proves me wrong.
If you don't know what it is...use the SPC as the example. SPC is the file format for an SNES sound file...extracted directly from the game. The player emulates the hardware, so it sounds EXACTLY like it does on the SNES.
A few links:
- GBS (Gameboy)
- GYM (Genesis)
- VGM (SMS/GG)
- NSF (NES)
- SPC (SNES)
Links to the players are provided on the individual pages, but the best multi-console music player is Meridian Advance.When you get sick of remixes, check out the originals and remember your childhood
Grand Theft Auto London. Ska, mod pop, and DJ's from the swingin' 60's. Any game soundtrack that features the Upsetters wins, hands down. Sadly, not available at VGMix.com.
My vote for best audio in a C64 game is Frantic Freddy. I just hooked up my old C64 today, and after a little coaxing, I got frantic freddy to load up. That music still sounds just as good today as it ever did.
:).
It's really what got me hooked on classic rock. A 5th of Beethoven, Kodachrome, it's all great stuff. I hope that c64audio.com site has the MIDIs
I'd have to say a close second is some of the audio in Jeff Minter's games. The bach intro to Sheep in Space is excellent.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The theme from Battlesquadron on the amiga is my all time fav. It's even more impressive when you know the composer just typed in hexnumbers in a texteditor :) I hope this site gets that tune up soon :)
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I was having a discussion the other day about this, how people of a certain age have emotional attachments to video game music, and sometimes it's hard to understand.
One of my favorite labels is an online MP3-only label, Monotonik, they have some cool original chip tunes and some Mario remixes (here's one). Actually look around and there's lots of cool stuff for fans of IDM, electronic music, etc.
Also of interest, there's a music machine that uses the sound chip from the C64 (that's Commodore 64, kids) with MIDI support.
Also check out the Minibosses.
Lots of this stuff around! I never played video games much but that stuff all managed to get stuck in my head anyway..
Mod up please. Those are good sites! Thank you for posting them.
Just wanted to point out that emulated formats do not, and never will, sound "exactly" like the originals. Perfect emulation is impossible, and most Genesis emulators in particular sound very poor. Still, emulated formats are a great way to reexperience vintage game music, just so long as you understand that it may not be precise.
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Thank --YOU-- very much, but I can tell you (and I don't think it gets any more authoritative than me as to the content of the site) that NONE of the original game music is linked to. We don't have it on our server, we WON'T have it on our server, and we don't provide links to it anywhere else. That "Download" button is to the ARRANGEMENT that the person made, not the original game audio. We provide links to vgmusic.com, zophar.net, and other places where you CAN get the original music in transcribed or "ripped" form, but we provide no such archive on OUR site and we'll never link to those sites that DO have "mp3 copies" of the original game soundtracks, which - I do agree with you - are illegal and often highly damaging to the original artists who are trying to turn a profit from their sale. Some day one of MY soundtracks will be for sale, and although it's inevitable, I'm not happy about some kid ripping it and posting it on his GaMe MuZiK WaReZ site. If someone arranged it though, spending HOURS composing a song inspired by it, I would be highly flattered. Even if I weren't, though, he has every legal right to do it. Let me use a whole separate paragraph for emphasis: This site hosts inspired/derivative arrangements, NOT THE ORIGINAL MUSIC. ANY original game music found on the site will be instantly deleted and possibly result in the removal of the infringing account! I understand your confusion, and I am actually thankful that you have tripped upon this issue because it will cause me to add a new FAQ item to clear up the confusion before it even starts. Any press is good press, though, I guess ;) So thank you.
Cheers,
-j
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Just to clarify, the above post was in three paragraphs, but as I am Slashdot Inept(TM), it all got lumped together when I forgot to submit it as "plain text."
Where it says "i'll devote a whole paragraph to this" should be a new paragraph, so read accordingly! This is very important! Innocent lives are at stake!
-j
Oh ok, glad that you're keeping it legal. :-) My apologies for misinterpreting your site, I thought this was yet another Slashdot posts copyright infringing article (ie this comment pointing to a warez site that nine different moderators somehow found informative). Things like this would give Slashdot a bad name, but as long as your site keeps things legal, then it's perfectly fine. :-)
If you want to get more video game music, there is streaming mp3 video game music at Scene Music. They have reflectors around the world, so you should be able to listen to a stream near you. If your lucky enough to have a high speed dsl, try the 128K stream.
BTW, Have you heard Giana Sisters lately?
Old skewl test - mod.gianasisters or gianas.sid
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At companies they play radio music while they put you on hold. No different at our place. In fact the way most companies do this is to hook a radio directly into the phone line (they have a connector and all). Sometimes they hide it away in some corner where very few people visit. That is exactly where they hid it at our place (in the server room).
So my buddy brought in his laptop and we hooked it right up to the phone line. For almost that entire day we were pumping out the Super Mario Brothers theme, some nice game remixes (like Speed Racer) and various other goodies. All good stuff that customers would like to listen to.
We got away with it and we plan on doing it again =)
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Also, if you're up for a bit of nostalgia, this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school.
Well, I wouldn't quite say that listening to video game music has anything to do with my youth. Especially not with games like Dance Dance Revolution, Parappa the Rappa, and even Rez where the music is a very integral part of the game itself. I still go around humming the tunes to various video games every day. In fact, lately I've spent so much time in front of our (rather sizeable) collection of game consoles that I've probably heard more video game lately than I have "real" music. A good tune is a good tune, whether it was created for a video game or not.
Although, I am not nearly as hardcore as one of my friends who based part of his decision to purchase a Turbo Duo on the fact that the music on all those games was so damn good. He was right about the quality of the music, though. I was simply amazed at the music compositions from games like Lords of Thunder and Cotton. In fact, in a side by side comparison of Cotton for the Turbo Duo and Cotton for the PSX, the music on the Turbo Duo version was hands down the winner. Video game music kicks ass, dammit!
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speaking of video game music... i think megaman had just about the most rokking synth music of any recent video game... recently, i was inspired to craft a song for a megaman game that (one day will / should have / never did) exist using an analog synth emulator and the Cubase sequencer...
if you care to listen, download it here: Megamanic - 1.6 MB mp3 download
mp3s by me
i know its more fun to mod as offtopic or redundant, but, cmon.
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but it looks to me like these are remixes that haven't been authorized by the copyright holders. I can't imagine that a media behemoth that does both music and video games, like Sony, is going to let this go on. Maybe they like the fact that fans are preparing the market, but once it starts making money, I bet they will send out their lawyers and want the market for themselves.
aren't the moderators paying attention? this post was by the guy in the article
Hmmm... I remember when music in games was a huge thing. For me, the sole reason for wanting to buy a spectrum 128k over my perfectly adequate rubber keyed chum was the presence of the mighty sound chip (which sounds somewhat lacklustre in retrospect). Ahhhh, I still remember humming the tune to Spectrum Tetris for months on end! Arcades were yet another step up... C&VG once gave away a cassette (remember them, kids?) with the musics from Outrun and 720 arcade machines. Man, I must've to that tape till it broke! ("Skate or Dieeee!")
Its not the same anymore... While I can happily hum the tune to Saboteur or Where Time Stood Still (from 15 years ago), I couldnt for the life of me tell you how the score of Medal Of Honour went (from 15 days ago!).
Music is now just one of those things in videogames. Shame really.
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But who normally owns the copyrights to video game music? If the game companies own them, it wouldn't really matter what the composers think. Do you keep the copyrights when you freelance?
http://remix.overclocked.org/
They have some non-traditional
remixes, too. Check out
"Zelda, Music of My Groin".
"Samba de Agua" is pretty awesome
too.
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"....this is certainly the place to go to relive the days of youth when you hummed the Super Mario Bros. theme under your breath during class grade school."
:/
actually, i relive it fairly frequently... the new version of the same situation is hearing a blaring cellphone ringtone rendition of the theme song in the middle of a lecture at university.
nokia butchers a classic...
mp3s by me
I'm thinking of uploading a cool Windows Solitaire remix. Kind of a trance/house type thing.
I wonder if any of the BM Remixes will ever get posted... ( IE a trillion Parnaoia Dirty Mix remixes, a few DJ uNF mixes etc)
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Remember, using Slashdots' patented "it ain't new news, so who cares?" technology, you too can palm off any site you've done in the last 6 years as a newly launched digital nirvana...
So you're saying MIDI doesn't suck; your soundfont sucks. So don't replace the MIDI. Replace the soundfont, or use the MOD family of formats (.mod, .s3m, .xm, .it) that are similar to MIDI but include the soundfont in the file, but because the instrument samples are repeated over and over, it still remains at least an order of magnitude smaller than 128 kbps MP3.
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You also have a very good point, one that deserves some more attention. For anyone reading who does not know what we're talking about:
A big point of contention in the freelancing community is the retention of copyrights. Generally the way it's done among beginners is that you sell your music and your rights for a flat rate, and then they "own" the music. However, once you get more into the business side of things and you start writing and revising your own contracts, or adding items to theirs with legal advice, you can switch it around so that you take a pay cut in exchange for the rights to the music.
This is how Tommy Tallarico (a very popular game composer) has a mansion and several sports cars - and undoubtedly many Fly Bitches. The REAL money comes from licensing, franchising and -- for example -- the use of the same music, all for separate royalties, in a PS2, XBox, and Gamecube game, and then a soundtrack album, a television show, a Best-Hits-Games CD-Rom, a commercial excerpt, etc.
That said, some companies who DO own the copyrights might decide to be a little more stringent about sites like this. However, Stateside, I've never heard of a company going after an amateur arranger who is not posing any financial threat to the company. The market for arrangement albums in the US is so amazingly sparse that it just doesn't make sense to throw money at interpreting copyright law to vilify fans who do this as a hobby. And yes, the law would have to be interpreted, as it's always been vague about derivative works. Based upon everything I've heard (from real, living lawyers) doing something like this for fun and COMPLETELY -not for profit- is totally legal.
So, yeah. They could go after us. But that doesn't mean we've done anything wrong, it means they think we have. That's what the law is for. For now, though, it looks like we will remain unbothered by nasty letters just like other arrangement sites.
-j
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has the music from Level 1-1 in his head as he walks down the street... or the music from Level 1-2 as he walks down a dark ally.
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It has quite a lot of s3m, mods and the like from C64 to console cames music. Top quality. It's better than an MP3 because all the music was tracked at that time, so this makes a lot of sense. They even duplicate artifact effects and the low quality synth generators :)
I recommend it to anyone that's an old school gamer like i was in the happy days of computing...
I specially recommend the COMMANDO (remember?) tune!
unfinished: (adj.)
If you need to play MOD files on a PC with only the internal speaker, try Inertia Player for DOS. Turns out the PC speaker can play 1-bit waveforms using only the internal speaker; toggling that bit fast enough creates a sigma-delta DAC.
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These are mixes, not copies of the original artwork (i.e. variations or inspirations from the original piece.) Does that still make it illegal?
:P
remixes, in the music industry, are not done without authorization. if they -are- done without authorization, they are called "bootlegs". you can be sued for distributing bootleg remixes (that is, remixes without the permission of the original artist). even if you change genres, and add piles of reverb and flange to the main melody, if people still have a good chance of recognizing it and you don't have permission to remix it, you are breaking copyright laws. so yes, it is illegal. music inspired by other music is not illegal, though, i must add.
where it gets blurry is with really tweaked out remixes that are completely different and almost impossible to identify. at that point, if it came down to a court case, the judge would have to make a...well... judgement, and you don't know who it's going to favour. it's a dangerous game. but the ones on that site are blatantly in violation. and a lot of them are really bad too
mp3s by me
The now defunct Hi-Fi Gaming Page, once located at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vetayase/, used to feature huge MP2 downloads and MIDIs back in 1997 or so. This is the site that introduced me to the wonders of MPEG audio. They had some killer remixes of rare games, along with some soundfont downloads, etc. I once got a sweet Super Mario Bros. waltz medley from that site, and I haven't heard it since my HD at the time crashed so many years ago.
Jim Vetayase and the other guys who ran that site moved on to create another site, but I just don't know if that one is still around, and if so, which of the major sites it is. The old Hi-Fi page had a great library of cool stuff, and I'm still looking for that content 5 years later, with no luck. If anybody knows what happened to that site, and where those old downloads can be found nowadays, I'd love a heads-up reply.
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- Tetris
- Korobeiniki
- Korobeyniki
- Korobushka
Good ones includeOr just go to Russia2000 and get 'Korobeyniki' (which incidentally mixes perfectly from "Barbie Girl" by Aqua).
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Seriously, you still play NES games? Do you relise how fucking old that tune is and how long it hasn't been used?
It's been used. There's a remix of the SMB1 main theme plus underground theme: turn on Super Smash Bros. Melee, turn off sound fx, start a 1-player adventure game, and press Pause.
Go buy the best gaming system out there, the XBOX
You misspelled "GameCube."
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It's also unavailable unless you're paying a premium for dedicated hosting. What do you suggest for virtual-hosted users?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Those lucky enough to have heard Knut's Video Game Music Revue on KSPC (www.kspc.org)
As the tag line goes, "The music of video games, from the 8-bit bleeps of yesteryear's classics to the high-tech music scores of today's popular games."
Knut plays a wide range of video game music and doesn't limit himself to just transfers from games. He does play re-mixes, though usually for a request.
Tune in Friday's at 10pm on the web or on your Claremont radio dial: 88.7
I just wanted to mention this Sega Megadrive game for its music, made by Yuzo Koshiro. As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a legend. Couldn't find much on VGmix though..
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Ever since Genecyst first came out,
Bloodlust's emulators (NESticle, Genecyst) are very dated.
Did the Genesis have any analog components that make it impossible to get it perfect (like beyond-the-ability-of-the-ear-to-ever-tell-perfect )?
The Genesis has a 6-channel Yamaha FM chip and a simple 4-channel tone generator similar to the ones in the Game Boy and NES. A typical game (such as Zero Wing or Sonic the Hedgehog) uses FM channels 1-5 for music, 6 for drum hits, tone generator channels 1-3 for simple 8-bit-style sound fx, and 4 for 8-bit hi-hats and explosions.
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"This is one of the reasons that midi-sequence repositories like vgmix.com come in handy"
I really should read through the Preview carefully before hitting submit. I meant to type "vgmusic.com." That's the useful midi-sequence repository. We're the useful, rippling-biceps, incredibly-amazing-in-bed, low-sodium, definitely-not-illegal arrangement site. Thanks!
-j
The Minibosses also had a really cool contra mix that I could get down to. They did it with live instruments in a pop/punk kinda way. Some downloads at their site to check out:
www.minibosses.com
--The space between my ears was intentionally left blank--
GTA 1/London soundtracks may not be available online, but since the game has the music in uncompressed CDDA audio tracks, you can just slap the thing in the CD player and carry on regardless (don't play track 1, as its the data).
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virt? The guy who did the Thong Song cover using a Game Boy sound chip emulator? Oh, hiya! ^_^
Say, YOU wouldn't happen to know what happened to all the content from Jimmy Vetayase's site (the Hi-Fi Gaming Page from 1997 or so), would ya? Thanks.
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It is still the dark of night.
RaddRadio also plays VG music
For those interested in Sierra games music (King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Quest for Glory, etc), there is a site specially dedicated for it at http://www.queststudios.com/quest/sierrap1.html
YES! That is me. If you can't tell yet, I have ..really a twisted sense of humour, and enjoy doing things that nobody would "waste their time" doing. What good is skill if you just use it to do stuff everyone else does?
I have no idea where that site went, either. I do remember seeing/hearing it way back when; I just got a "HEY WAIT" nostalgia buzz. If you find out, -please- fire off an e-mail and let me know. If you want more stuff like that Thong Song cover (I have a whole game boy page up) check http://virt.vgmix.com and get up to date!
-j
Sorry, but even after 22 years I still cannot get that damned Pac-man opening level music out of my head. I also can recreate every sound from defender,stargate, and defender II (The last 2 are different games I've seen all 3 side by side)For some reason they dont get impressed at management meetings with that ability or like to see it on a resume.
Super Mario Brothers? HA! By the time that came out they lost the ability to make infectious music.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Big deal. There's been a C64 Remix site for years. It's not like this is a new idea.
Incidentally, the best game music of recent years was in Legend of Mana on the PSX. Splendid stuff.
Metal Gear Salad is good too. (Typo deliberate.)
Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generic/sound.htm
The Minibosses:
http://www.minibosses.com/
Guitar Tabs courtesy of Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generictabs/
BTW, If you want to hear the rest of the Generic songs ... they're not up because they're looking for webspace. Hint hint, nudge nudge.
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BWA-HAHAHAHA sorry had to laugh, couldn't help it. The big deal is, the fact that vgmix.com isn't limited to C64 arrangemens. The only limit is it has to be from a computer game/video game.
Don't have time to see if this is redundant, but I have to point out RKO as "The Def Guide to C64 remakes" that has been around for a couple years and boasts over 1000 Commodore 64 remixes, and it's constantly growing. There is an excellent community growing around the C64 remix scene, of which I am proud to be a part! ;)
(my mixes are under ruiner, download them many times and vote for me on remix64
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Thank you for mentioning the Super Mario Bros. theme...i'm at work and suddenly I have that tune stuck in my head, and I haven't even heard it in over 7 years. Not only that, but I got that stupid ding in there from bumping the bricks to get the coins...thank you very much...doo do do DODODODoot. doot de doot de doot dedootdedoot...
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
There is a player for the original music from Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC games, called ``aylet'', here. There is an XMMS plugin being developed for this too, here.
Mmmmmm, Bubble Bobble.... doo doo doo doo dooooo, doo doo doo doooo...
;)
I'd like the theme to mule, please, good enough quality so I can drive around town with it cranked up. :)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
-- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 (supposedly, see here for details)
Check out http://www.gamemusic.com Here you can purchase tons of game music CDs from games like Final Fantasy 1, Metal Gear, Castlevania and even the Zeldas.
so I might as well throw in a few links:
Everyone - a vg music tribute band.
Evil Adam - Check out "Zerg Must Die" & "Evil de Chocobo"
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Be sure to also check out Project Majestic Mix, which is a arranged tribute album to Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy fame. It features music from all the Final Fantasy games, plus Chrono Trigger and Front Mission: Gun Hazard. Very cool stuff. Project Majestic Mix
Check out PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. They've released a CD with various C64 covers (Commando, Ghosts'n Goblins, Monty on the Run, etc.), and have a version of Out Run available for download at remix.kwed.org.
This isn't a series of techno-rave-remixes - this is rock music!
Mp3's we can download without fear of prosecution? This has got to be a /. first...
Nah, it's no fun to download music when you can't get a horde of lawyers to try to stop you...
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
I converted the end game music for Karateka into music notation and made a midi file.
Email me if you want it.
Virt? The guy who just adores Trax in Space and that punk melvyl? ;)
Duke Nukem 3D has the best theme music, hands down.
The biggest trick the devil pulled was letting lawyers become politicians so they can write the laws.
You misspelled "Decent Computer."
Forget about Super Smash Bros - my cell phone ringer is the Super Mario Brother tune, surprising enough I have actually met some pretty good looking girls because of that - it's a rare novelty and *everyone* loves SMB. And I do in fact still play the original NES. And SNES.
Nothing beats Tetris, Zelda, and Super Mario Kart.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Great fun, cool look and good music.
No one seems to have it.
The only video game sounds that I had growing up was pong! Blip. Blip. Blip. Wasn't much of a tune. I guess that means I am getting old? lol.
Jake, you're killing me!
There is not a more talented living composer than Yoko Kanno. Yes, Yuzo was good, but he's produced some crap too. SOR3 wasn't any good and he made his own game for the Saturn and no one ever heard the music for that.
Yoko Kanno wrote music for KOEI and now writes for Anime. IMO, she's the Mozart of our time. She's a musical genius and she can do rap to orchestral to music styles she's invented herself. She's even compososed lyrics in languages that don't exist.
http://kanno.simplenet.com. Check it out. And check out Tank! from Cowboy Bebop. Awesome jazz.
Who knows if this is a real quote, but it's hillarious.
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
I've heard of a band called 'stratosphere' or something in SF, CA, that does video game covers. Can anyone tell me about them? I don't think I have the name quite right.
What about that site with the cool transformers techno, they had soundwave talking and it all remixed, now that was coool. And I want my music in OGG!!! Damn it! I guess it's because 1.0 final isn't out yet :(
There's a lot of good music being done out there with custom made Gameboy sequencing programs. Still a big Amiga tracking scene as well.
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... sega, nintendo, sony, atari and numerous smaller video game manufacturers have filed suit to have a court injuncture aainst this new "Napsterization of music." A spokes person says: "Copywrites also protect against performances of the music without payment, and since we don't sell the music explicitly, they haven't bought it."
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What's informative about this exactly? It's no harder to log requests to a virtual host than a dedicated one.
No harder for the hosting service, but yes harder for the customer. Some hosting services charge customers extra to be able to view the logs.
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thanks so much for mentioning my arrangement. that means a lot to me. come find more of my tracks at the link below
these guys do some rockin' covers as well. I especially love their version of the Contra level music.
mmm, Contra.
So, did your Christmas presents have license agreements inside the wrapping? Was there litigation filed over dinner?
LV
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