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mikey573 writes "Eight years ago yesterday I founded the Videogame Music Archive. In a hostile copyright environment, its nice to see at least one slice of our digital heritage left intact." Hey, it's not the Minibosses, but the Wizards and Warriors theme is still excellent.
...but didn't give them the linkage? The minibosses homepage.
Those who fail to understand communication protocols, are doomed to repeat them over port 80.
YOUR site, and you don't even know about YOUR offsite linking policy?
COME ON!
The people who wrote dreamweaver should know something about web design.
How can you forget to mention OC Remixes?
It's a massive, massive, ever-growing collection of remixes of classic video game music. Most of it is very good.
Even better, they have torrents of the entire library available for you compulsive music collectors out there. (Not entirely for altruistic reasons, it just saves them bandwidth).
I'll warn you, however, that there are about, say, infinity remixes of that song from Mega Man II. You know the one...
GeekNights!
Late Night Radio for Geeks!
VGM was my first high-bandwidth addiction, seeking out the underground sites with mp3 rips from the Japanese OSV soundtracks and such and running up the bill on our school's T1's.
I miss the truly creative experience of the older games; FF2 (US) had some wonderful music for what was essentially an Apple IIGS and a television. FF7 was pretty decent but even it didn't use the full capabilities of the PSX - although Tactics did and it was awesome. I still listen to the soundtracks every so often, but newer games don't really pay much attention to the added benefit a rich score can give a fantasy/RPG game - or, at least, they don't really push the limits of the sound hardware in the newer consoles. Too bad.
http://www.2a03.org/
Software you'll need
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Minibosses are terrible in comparison to HORSE The Band and NESkimos. True Nintendocore.
Have you guys checked out Metroid Metal yet? It's a great interpretation of the Metroid soundtrack. --JoeFaust
Anyone peering in on this topic would be wasting his/her time by going to vgmusic.com - MIDI is a poor representation of the true glory of the videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.
;D) MIDI site.
With the development of digitally ripped (not recorded, we're talking the actual original data ripped directly from the game) soundtracks in the format of NSF, SPC, GSF, USF, PSF, and others, there's absolutely no point to downloading poorly interpreted general MIDI adaptations of these songs.
Download entire soundtracks in original format.
PSX and PS2
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameBoy Advance
Don't subject yourself to the lack of organization at a poorly designed (ahaha powerlord sux at php rofl
It's remixes you're looking for? Look no further.
vgmix.net
Overclocked Remix
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I concur... or at least employ someone who has a slight idea of what to do with database coding. The archives are ass-slow, and there aren't enough search options. Jesus. If you're going to host thousands of files, at least make it easy to search through them.
sometimes midi has its uses. i go to vgmusic.com when i need a new ringer on my cell.
Since everyone else seems to be regurgitating the same old tired links (OCRemix), I figured it would be good to mention one that isn't quite as tired (and enjoyable):
http://gamingfm.com
I am not affiliated with the site, but I am a long-time listener. Yes.
For those that still dont' get it: MIDI has nothing to do with sound quality. It is *note data only*. It is like digital sheet music. You don't complain that a composition sucks when it is performed by a crappy band using the wrong instruments, do you? Sound quality is dependent entirely on what the MIDI is being played on. MIDI does not fill the same role as an MP3, a WAV, a MOD, an NSF, or anything of the sort. MIDI was invented as a standardized way to control synthesizers, samplers, etc, not to play video game music on cheesy consumer soundcards.
MIDI is probably used in most video game sound tracks nowdays, as well as many movie soundtracks and in most electronic music. It's just not played through SoundBlasters. And for your information, I have taken MIDI files from vgmusic.com and made them sound quite cool. I do video game covers for fun, you see.
So please try to understand what you're talking about before talking about it in the future.
Don't forget Hacked Amiga Music
If that's too much typing for you,(without any spaces put there by Slashdot) yields: http://gamingfm.com/
Oh, and for you "Well just right-click on the text and click 'Follow Link'." people, tell me how to open a selected-text link containing extraneous Slashdot spaces in a new tab using Mozilla, or shut up.
Midi files cannot properly represent the original data with note only data. There are effects the songs use which you are going to want to hear represented by the original file being played on an emulator or an original system. And if you really want the midi, you can always convert the nsf to midi easily enough.
For original game audio NSFs go to zophar.net/nsf
For original tracks and covers go to 2a03.org and download the archive.
I know that you can convert them to MIDI, as I often do.
MIDI, however has up to 127 controllers that can simulate anything that can be done in an NSF assuming the synth or sampler is set up properly. I am, in fact, working on a Reaktor synth that emulates the NES synth pretty closely (but not the white noise percussion yet). It can even do the bass drum effects in many MegaMan games (the triangle wave that quickly pitch shifts down).
I'm not arguing that MIDI can practically take the place of direct rips played on emulators, as I have a large archive of NSF, etc, just that MIDI is more than a type of file that plays cheesy sounding music, which is what many people think it is. I use MIDI when composing my own music and doing covers of video game music. If I want to hear original tracks, I'll play them on an emulator.
I'm just sick of comments like the " MIDI is shit. It is the Wonder Bread of music formats." from people who obviously don't understand the concept of MIDI.