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Play it Again, Samus

Posted by Zonk on from the moments-from-my-childhood-in-midi-form dept.

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.

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  1. You mentioned them in the post... by Relic+of+the+Future · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...but didn't give them the linkage? The minibosses homepage.

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  2. OC Remix! by Schezar · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

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    1. Re:OC Remix! by david.given · · Score: 2, Informative
      How can you forget to mention OC Remixes?

      ...which, of course, goes hand-in-hand with Ormgas streaming radio: all remixes, all the time, and most of it is damned good. (I recently put together a FF remix album for a friend, with four McVaffe piano tracks on it: live recordings. The guy is seriously talented.)

      Ormgas is ogg powered, too. Which is nice.

      I'll warn you, however, that there are about, say, infinity remixes of that song from Mega Man II. You know the one...

      I was surprised to find that there are only eight Wizards & Warriors remixes.

  3. Don't forgot the actual music by Eric+S+Raymond · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://www.zophar.net/music.html


    http://www.2a03.org/


    Software you'll need

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  4. Speaking of Samus... by JoeFaust · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you guys checked out Metroid Metal yet? It's a great interpretation of the Metroid soundtrack. --JoeFaust

  5. GamingFM by n0wak · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:No offense to the VGmusic people, but... by thrash242 · · Score: 3, Informative
    You obviously don't know what MIDI is for. It's not for replicating video game music on generic sound cards, no. But with some work, time, and a sampler, I could make a MIDI sound like video game music or anything else.

    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.