Play it Again, Samus 31
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.
You mentioned them in the post... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:You mentioned them in the post... (Score:2)
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Well, then, Zonk... you're next!
OC Remix! (Score:5, Informative)
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...
Re:OC Remix! (Score:3, Informative)
...which, of course, goes hand-in-hand with Ormgas streaming radio [ormgas.com]: 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 [ocremix.org] 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
Re:OC Remix! (Score:1)
Oh, man... (Score:2)
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 gam
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FFTactics just had better samples, and a more talented composer.
Don't forgot the actual music (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.2a03.org/ [2a03.org]
Software you'll need [2a03.org]
Re:Don't forgot the actual music (Score:1)
Speaking of Samus... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:No offense to the VGmusic people, but... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:No offense to the VGmusic people, but... (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:No offense to the VGmusic people, but... (Score:1)
For original game audio NSFs go to zophar.net/nsf
For original tracks and covers go to 2a03.org and download the archive.
Re:No offense to the VGmusic people, but... (Score:2)
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
Why bother with VGMusic? Read above and within (Score:1)
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 origin
GamingFM (Score:3, Informative)
http://gamingfm.com
I am not affiliated with the site, but I am a long-time listener. Yes.
Hacked Amiga Music (Score:1)