

Video Game Music Mixes 213
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."
VG Mixes (Score:2)
Re:VG Mixes (Score:2, Interesting)
I never cared for the SMB music after I watched the SMB television show and they ruined the music for me.
Megaman had some good music IIRC. When I was a kid, I would hook the VCR up to my games so that I could record the endings of them. I still have 3 VHS tapes somewhere with videogame endings on them. I was devestated when I had to tape over the cartoon Ducktales in order to get Megaman 2. I would also make cassettes of the video game music. I listened to rap and video game music.
Those were the days.
Re:VG Mixes (Score:1)
Jeez...anyone remember looking for game music on napster and finding dozens of people with nothing but final fantasy music? God...how boring and repetetive.
IMO, nothing tops Darius Gaiden and G-Darius. I recorded a clip from G-darius as my cell phone ring tone, which someone described as "scary." Wonder if anyone will ever redo some of that?
Re:VG Mixes (Score:1)
Umm... what on earth are you talking about? Mega Man X had some good songs (although awesome some boring ones). The original Mega Man series' music wasn't at all awe-inspiring in my opinion. However, I'll leave the Mega Man music criticism to those better acquainted with the series than I.
But your comments about Final Fantasy's music are just flat out false. While which is better among Final Fantasy or Mega Man as far as music is a matter at least somewhat open to debate, the Final Fantasy series' music involves more variety than just about any other game series I have had the pleasure to experience. Here is a brief listing of some of the tracks which, should you wish to have that variety amply demonstrated to you, you should have no difficulty finding on Gnutella:
I think music criticism in words is more or less a lost cause, so I really do encourage you to download these songs and try them out. But, to give you some idea, these range from piano to techno to classical (think Orff) to traditional video game music. Really, few artists in any genre deal with this much variety and pull it off this convincingly. And then of course there are the classic trademarks - the Chocobo song, the Prelude, and my single favorite song of all time, the Final Fantasy theme. Nobuo Uematsu's work is truly first-class, and it pains me to see him unthinkingly trashed like this. Give it a try - you might like it.
Re:VG Mixes (Score:1)
Regarding originality, all the games had one or two really good pieces...out of what....40?
Megaman X, IMO has better sound quality (of COURSE), but the music itself isn't as interesting. Check out some of the megaman 1 and 2 remixes. (3 is inexplicably less popular...IMO it's better than 1, almost as good as 2).
If you like music that mostly sound like every other final fantasy game, and resembles 90+ percent of other RPGs (but admittedly is better than most other RPGs)
If you want more than a handful of distinctive tracks per game, there are better places to find it, and Megaman (including X) is one of the best places to find it.
But IMO, the last 2 Darius games beat all comers. Bwaahaha.
Overclocked Remix (Score:4, Informative)
http://remix.overclocked.org
Re:Overclocked Remix (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Overclocked Remix (Score:1)
If you have played Lemmings, I don't think you can NOT enjoy that track.
Big launch (Score:2, Troll)
I wish I could get Slashdot to launch all of my web sites.
Re:Big launch (Score:1)
Remix.overclocked.org has been doing this for a while. Almost all of it is listenable, some of it is phenomenally good. (Check out anything by DJpretzel, Jaxx, or McVaffe)
Not really the same thing (Score:1)
Re:Big launch (Score:2, Insightful)
VGmusic.com present MIDI data of song mixes, most of them trying to mimic the originals as much as possible.
VGmix.com, on the other hand, presents MP3 remixes of songs. Decent ones, too.
I dunno, I'd rather hear an MP3 of someone playing actual music than listen to some dinky MIDI data running through a cheap wavetable chip or soundfont any day.
MIDI doesn't suck; replace the soundfont (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:Big launch (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.personalcopy.com/ has some great ones, my personal favorite being a 56 MB soundfont which together with either timidity or an appropriate soundcard sounds fantastic. Still not possible to accurately reproduce exactly what the creator heard when he put the piece together (unless you are sure you use the same soundfont), but it still sounds great.
Re:Big launch (Score:2)
Still not possible to accurately reproduce exactly what the creator heard when he put the piece together (unless you are sure you use the same soundfont), but it still sounds great.
Not only do you need the same soundfont, you need the same hardware (speakers, headphones) and maybe even software (not all sequencers are equal).
Re:Big launch (Score:2)
I loved vgmusic.com so much I burned myself a custom CD of Castlevania, Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, and (my favorite NES game) Shingen the Ruler! (Yeah, I know Shingen was crap. But it's the only NES game I still own because I love it so much.) The CD makes great music to work by (as a programmer, at least).
My favorite system is still the good old 2600, but for great game music, make mine NES!
Other video game music sites (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Other video game music sites (Score:1)
Remix64 community site (Score:2)
Re: www.chiptunes.com (Score:1)
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!
Covers/Remixes (Score:1)
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...
different formats.... (Score:2, Funny)
Beep-boop-beep-be-beep
Veramocor
Re:different formats.... (Score:1)
Re:different formats.... (Score:2)
Try Inertia Player (Score:3, Interesting)
If you need to play MOD files on a PC with only the internal speaker, try Inertia Player [iaehv.nl] 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.
huh? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
finally some news for nerds! (Score:1)
Awesome Tetris cover song (Score:3, Insightful)
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 [mp3s.com]
Ozma's Website [ozmaonline.com]
go on winmx for tetris remix MP3s (Score:2, Informative)
Or just go to Russia2000 [mp3.com] and get 'Korobeyniki' (which incidentally mixes perfectly from "Barbie Girl" by Aqua).
Re:Awesome Tetris cover song (Score:2)
Dance remixes of this song have been around since 1993 or so. Buddies of mine used to use it in their mixes along with other gimmicky dance tracks like British white-label Pac-Man covers, Speed Racer, that Sesame Street theme remix, and Bombscare by 2 bad Mice back in high school. ^_^
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Hehe ... (Score:4, Funny)
Vgmix.com: say hello to the Slashdotting!
Re:Hehe ... (Score:1)
Accompanying that particular post by the editor is a timestamp showing "Posted by mellogear 02/24/2002 | 07:27 AM".
The 24th was Sunday, so he posted that yesterday morning, many hours this story was added to Slashdot's front page.
:-D
Re:Hehe ... (Score:2, Informative)
And of course, because I said that, the entire data center will be struck by lightning and incinerated while I'm asleep.
-j
What do you mean, YOUTH? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:What do you mean, UNUSED? (Score:2, Funny)
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."
Re:What do you mean, UNUSED? (Score:2)
Nothing beats Tetris, Zelda, and Super Mario Kart.
nice TF3 remix (Score:3, Informative)
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 [overclocked.org], though.
Overclocked Remix (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Why do they track their visitors ? (Score:1, Offtopic)
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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 ?
Re:Why do they track their visitors ? (Score:3, Informative)
One of the interesting side effects is that it can be a way to find out who is linking to your pages since it also shows the referrer info...
Knowing which browser you use can help in making sure that their pages work in all availible browsers that their potential audiance uses.
{before you say anything... yes... the pages should be optimised for ALL browsers... but then who said we lived in a utopian world...})
Re:Why do they track their visitors ? (Score:1)
So do I : vi /var/log/apache/access.log
That gives me an idea of how many people come to my site, and an idea of where people visit my site from (tld).
And for virtual hosting? (Score:2, Informative)
It's also unavailable unless you're paying a premium for dedicated hosting. What do you suggest for virtual-hosted users?
Re:Why do they track their visitors ? (Score:3, Insightful)
The same business any web server that logs user agents types has.
Sierra Music (Score:2, Informative)
More remixes.. (Score:2, Informative)
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 [kwed.org]
http://www.c64audio.com [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 [2y.net]. Here's [2y.net] the direct link to the MP3 file at their site, and here's [mp3s.com] another for a mirror at MP3.com. Enjoy! (And may the Gaia forgive me for starting a
The Minibosses...check em out (Score:1)
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.
Re:The Minibosses...check em out (Score:1)
It used to be on MP3.com, but it's gone now. Probably lawyers didn't like it.
You can find it at Overclocked [overclocked.org].
The NES is a great sound machine. (Score:1)
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?
Re:The NES is a great sound machine. (Score:1)
VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LONG) (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LO (Score:1)
i know its more fun to mod as offtopic or redundant, but, cmon.
Re:VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LO (Score:2)
So, did your Christmas presents have license agreements inside the wrapping? Was there litigation filed over dinner?
LV
Re:VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LO (Score:3, Informative)
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
Re:VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LO (Score:2, Informative)
Re:VGMix.com: The long and the short (okay, the LO (Score:2)
The original music... (Score:2, Informative)
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:
When you get sick of remixes, check out the originals and remember your childhood
Re:Not *exactly* (Score:1)
But others...
Ever since Genecyst first came out, I've been using Thunderforce 3 to check how the sound emulation has progressed. No emulator has gotten that perfect yet. (Some can play the opening music right, and a few of the simpler pieces, but nothing has the G-lobster music down yet.)
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-perfec
Sega Genesis sound capability (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:The original music... (Score:2)
Best. Soundtrack. Ever. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Best. Soundtrack. Ever. (Score:2)
My vote (Score:2)
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.
Battlesquadron! (Score:2)
cool stuff (Score:2)
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 [mono211.com], they have some cool original chip tunes [mono211.com] and some Mario remixes (here's one [mono211.com]). 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 [sidstation.com] that uses the sound chip from the C64 (that's Commodore 64, kids) with MIDI support.
Also check out the Minibosses [minibosses.com].
Lots of this stuff around! I never played video games much but that stuff all managed to get stuck in my head anyway..
Streaming Video Game Music (Score:2)
BTW, Have you heard Giana Sisters [uni-frankfurt.de] lately?
Old skewl test - mod.gianasisters or gianas.sid
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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
we did this at work (Score:3, Interesting)
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 =)
days of youth? (Score:2)
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!
Re:days of youth? (Score:2)
In addition, you can pop a TurboDuo CD in a normal CD player and go through all the music tracks....so long as you skip track #1.
Or, more specifically, you can pop a Turbo Duo CD in your computer, rip the tracks, and make a dedicated music CD from your games. :) I can't believe that I'd never played a Turbo Duo until now. My life is now complete. :)
megaman (Score:1)
if you care to listen, download it here: Megamanic - 1.6 MB mp3 download [sneezingfish.org]
like that's going to last (Score:2)
Re:like that's going to last (Score:2, Insightful)
You have a very valid point in theory, but in practice it's just not panning out like that. American people as a whole don't seem to appreciate game music in the same way that Japanese people do, and while I'd like to kid myself into thinking that a few talented American composers can change that, it's just not happening yet. Game music is a cultural thing in Japan. Here, it's just seen as background noise by most people. There are the few for whom that's NOT true, and for them, there are many good import houses and then sites like this that can help satisfy their cravings.
OverClocked ReMix has been around for two years and - unless I'm mistaken - has remained unmolested by legal professionals because it really ISN'T a money-generating market here in the US and so no copyright sparring has taken place.
So.... Yes, it is going to last. Maybe not into the next decade, but for at least long enough to be remembered, absolutely.
-j
Outrun and 720 (Score:1)
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.
best remix site I've seen is... (Score:1)
They have some non-traditional
remixes, too. Check out
"Zelda, Music of My Groin".
"Samba de Agua" is pretty awesome
too.
mario brothers theme (Score:1)
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...
hmmmmmm (Score:1)
Nifty! (Score:1)
Super Mario Bros. (Score:1)
it's illegal (Score:1)
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
Re:it's illegal (Score:2, Informative)
Perhaps I have not made myself clear.
THESE. ARE. NOT. REMIXES.
In fact, the only reason we called it "VGMix" is because "VGArrange" sounds awkward. Arrangements are something else ENTIRELY. They are a completely different type of interpretation. The only case in which copyright could pose a problem is if audio samples from the original song are used. Remember the whole MP3.com fiasco about using sampled material in songs? That was that.
These songs that we have on our site do NOT use the original audio (there are exceptions, of course, but only in tiny snippets, samples. These are completely original, 100% from-scratch pieces of music that are only inspired or loosely melodically / chordally / rhythmically based on the original song. This is a hobby that must often be explained in-depth, but what it really is, down at the core, is composition practice. This is one of the reasons that midi-sequence repositories like vgmix.com come in handy - we're doing it all by ear!
I'm sure I will have to repeat this over and over again over the course of this article's visible lifespan, but vgmix.com does NOT deal in remixes. It's about derivative/inspired works that are created completely by us. We just don't really have a great term for it, so some people call them "remixes" because it's catchy, even though it's completely inaccurate. I just go with "arrangements."
-j
[OT] Vetayase's Hi-Fi Gaming Page (Score:2)
The now defunct Hi-Fi Gaming Page, once located at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vetayase/ [usc.edu], 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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All Video Game Music Radio Show :: KSPC (Score:1)
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
The Minibosses (Score:2)
www.minibosses.com [minibosses.com]
videogame music... (Score:2)
Super Mario Brothers? HA! By the time that came out they lost the ability to make infectious music.
Generic, Minibosses do Instrumental NES Renditions (Score:2, Informative)
Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generic/sound.htm [2xtreme.net]
The Minibosses:
http://www.minibosses.com/ [minibosses.com]
Guitar Tabs courtesy of Generic:
http://www.2xtreme.net/zero-g/generictabs/ [2xtreme.net]
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.
Sinclair Spectrum Music (Score:2)
Mmmmmm, Bubble Bobble.... doo doo doo doo dooooo, doo doo doo doooo...
;)
I can't believe noone has pulled out this quote... (Score:4, Interesting)
-- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 (supposedly, see here [erowid.org] for details)
C64 music, too... (Score:2, Interesting)
NEW 8-bit sounds... (Score:4, Interesting)
There's also a community of people who make NEW songs in the style of the 8-bit NES. I don't mean dancetechno unh unh unh unh remix stuff, I mean square waves and sawtooth waves and noise-shaped drums. (Some call this "chiptunes".) For instance, you could check out my project, "Tom 7 Entertainment System":
http://mp3.com/tom7/ [mp3.com]
There's also a small radio station there called "8 bits 4-ever" that has tunes from other MP3 artists who do similar stuff. =)
I'm not seeing them here, (Score:2)
Everyone [dyndns.org] - a vg music tribute band.
Evil Adam [mp3.com] - Check out "Zerg Must Die" & "Evil de Chocobo"
Anyone interested in the music for Karateka? (Score:2)
Email me if you want it.
Theme Music (Score:2)
Stratosphere - Cover Band (Score:2)
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.
Even if they are mixes? (Score:1)
Re:Even if they are mixes? (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Even if they are mixes? (Score:1)
No. I don't agree with this. What you're doing is taking a scientific example and applying it to an aesthetic situation.
Source code (and programming in general) may well be considered an art form, but I don't think it's comparable to composing or remixing music (which is the focus of Overclocked Remixes). Taking your example, I could wrongly say that virtually every representation of art up to this point has been illegal because it has been inspired (or more explicitly - "copied") from something that came before it.
Re:not legal (Score:1, Troll)
Re:not legal (Score:1)
Re:not legal (Score:1)
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
Re:not legal (Score:1)
Re:Is it me or do they all sound like 80's rave (Score:1)
Just the same, I too feel that often the original cannot be improved upon - with the limitations of the original machine adding a unique character to the mix. That's why the arrangements are interesting, I think, because many of them eschew any attempt to improve upon the original and instead just meander off in another direction or bring the original melody in to a whole new genre. If you search those arrangements out, I don't think you'll be disappointed.