Available large video game music libraries

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-04-05, 17:10:00

I've moved this info in the wiki: Libraries

Just making a list of online sites or downloads that contain large amounts of game music. Reply with more websites and I'll integrate them into this table.

#	Name	Format	Packs	Description
1	vgmrips	VGM	1120	The best! Contains music ripped from many consoles and chips
2	smspower	VGM	256	Contains music ripped from SMS games
3	project2612	VGM	627	Contains music ripped from Sega Genesis and Mega Drive
4	Project AY	AY		ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC music
5	snesmusic	SPC, RSN	1516	Focuses on Super Nintendo and Super Famicom
6	Zophar's SPC collection	SPC, RAR	~900	Old-school web-page with RAR downloads
7	MDXWin	MDX		A MDX player with an online "drive" containing a large collection of MDX files.
8	MDX collection	MDX		A big collection of MDX files
9	Another MDX collection	MDX		Another collection
10	High Voltage SID Collection	SID		Focuses on Commodore 64 SID music
11	Mirsoft			Contains links to other collections
12	OverClocked Remix			Contains remixes as well as chiptune files
13	vgmusic	midi		Has separate (non-packed) MIDI files for many consoles and games.
14	vgmdb	?		Mostly informative, good database, only links to downloads.
15	game theme songs	mp3	Many	Obviously geared towards search engines, heavily sponsored and advertised.
16	youtube	Video		Lots of game music
17	Kaminarimon	HES		PC Engine music.
18	Portable Music History	GBS		Game Boy and other portables. Strange webpage IMO.
19	JoshW 2sf	mini2sf		Nintendo DS
20	JoshW 3do	3do		3DO
21	JoshW dsf	dsf		Dreamcast
22	JoshW fmtowns	mp3		FM Towns
23	JoshW gbs	gbs		Game Boy/Color
24	JoshW gcn	gcn		Gamecube
25	JoshW gsf	gsf		Game Boy Advance
26	JoshW hes	hes		PC Engine/PC Engine CD
27	JoshW hoot	hoot		Hoot
28	JoshW kss	kss		MSX/Master System/Game Gear
29	JoshW ncd	mp3		Neo Geo CD
30	JoshW nsf	nsf		NES
31	JoshW pc	mp3		PC games
32	JoshW psf	psf		PlayStation
33	JoshW psf2	psf2		PlayStation 2
34	JoshW psf3	psf3		PlayStation 3
35	JoshW psp	psp		PlayStation Portable
36	JoshW s98	s98		S98 logs, mostly from PC88/PC98 ganes
37	JoshW smd	smd		Mega Drive/Mega CD
38	JoshW spc	spc		SNES
39	JoshW ssf	ssf		Saturn
40	JoshW usf	usf		Nintendo 64
41	JoshW wii	wii		Nintendo WII
42	JoshW wsr	wsr		WonderSwan/Color
43	JoshW x360	x360		Xbox 360
44	JoshW xbox	xbox		Xbox (original one)
45	modland ftp	many		large file archive, no database
46	hoot	Many	Many	Sound hardware emulator with music collection.
47	GBS Penultimate Archive	GBS		A big table with downloads. Also homebrew.
48	Lawrence Lin's PSF archive	minipsf		Decent size PSF collection
49	ASMA	sap	5016	Atari SAP Music Archive
50	SNDH	sndh		Atari ST YM2149 Archive
51	SC68	sc68		Atari ST and Amiga musics

Kaminari · Post by **Kaminari** » 2014-04-06, 4:03:24

Stairway to Hell has a VGM archive for BBC Micro music.

My own site Kaminarimon is a HES repository for PC Engine music.

Knurek · Post by **Knurek** » 2014-04-06, 22:34:03

Portable Music History should eventually have all available music from handheld consoles. Site is up to 2002.12 as of now.

Loads of music archives are being hosted by JoshW:

Nintendo DS
3DO
Dreamcast
FM Towns
Game Boy/Color
Gamecube
Game Boy Advance
PC Engine/PC Engine CD
Hoot
MSX/Master System/Game Gear
Neo Geo CD
NES
PC games
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PlayStation Portable
S98 logs, mostly from PC88/PC98 ganes
Mega Drive/Mega CD
SNES
Saturn
Nintendo 64
Nintendo WII
WonderSwan/Color
Xbox 360
Xbox (original one)

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-04-07, 1:35:10

Kaminari wrote:Stairway to Hell has a VGM archive for BBC Micro music.

My own site Kaminarimon is a HES repository for PC Engine music.

I cannot access stairwaytohell (DNS lookup fails - expired domain? do you know the IP?). I have added Kaminarimon to the list. Thanks! What is the number of downloads you have?

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-04-07, 1:45:31

Knurek wrote:Portable Music History should eventually have all available music from handheld consoles. Site is up to 2002.12 as of now.

Loads of music archives are being hosted by JoshW:

Nintendo DS
3DO
Dreamcast
FM Towns
Game Boy/Color
Gamecube
Game Boy Advance
PC Engine/PC Engine CD
Hoot
MSX/Master System/Game Gear
Neo Geo CD
NES
PC games
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 3
PlayStation Portable
S98 logs, mostly from PC88/PC98 ganes
Mega Drive/Mega CD
SNES
Saturn
Nintendo 64
Nintendo WII
WonderSwan/Color
Xbox 360
Xbox (original one)

Thanks! That's a lot of links! Luckily I could edit the BBCode with Sublime Text and multiple cursors! Added all links to table.

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-04-07, 3:18:01

To inspect: ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub and hcs64

Knurek · Post by **Knurek** » 2014-04-07, 8:37:37

vampirefrog wrote:To inspect: ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub and hcs64

hcs had to stop hosting things after his ISP suspended his account, all data from there is on JoshW archives I listed earlier.

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-05-07, 14:37:19

Added hoot! So obvious!

blitzlunar · Post by **blitzlunar** » 2014-05-11, 11:05:49

GBS Penultimate Archive
http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/

Less selection than other resources for GBS, but more presentable/searchable/etc. There was also the Manly 2SF page (or pages) but I believe they are gone since they took too much effort to curate.

Oh yeah, and Lawrence Lin's PSF archive. It has a lot of sets and periodically gets updated. Again joshw likely trumps it for selection, but it's another nice place to check for updates

http://www.tzone.org/~llin/psf/

If only all these sites had such a wonderful frontend as mdscene

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-05-11, 15:27:27

Thanks, added.

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-05-11, 15:35:38

blitzlunar wrote:If only all these sites had such a wonderful frontend as mdscene

That's kind of my plan. Importing all those files into a centralized database.

dissident93 · Post by **dissident93** » 2014-05-11, 22:45:00

as long as it is easily corrected, then I'd be glad to help (new composer info seems to pop up all the time

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Sonic of 8! · Post by **Sonic of 8!** » 2014-05-11, 23:45:25

Some Atari music sites:

* ASMA (no pun with Asthma, please) hosts a large archive of SAP files, which plays music composed in Atari 400/800 and his variants;
* SNDH hosts a large archive of Atari ST music in .sndh format;
* sc68 hosts a large (and very outdated) archive of Atari ST / Amiga music in sc68 format.

Knurek · Post by **Knurek** » 2014-05-12, 9:19:43

blitzlunar wrote:GBS Penultimate Archive
http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/

Less selection than other resources for GBS, but more presentable/searchable/etc. There was also the Manly 2SF page (or pages) but I believe they are gone since they took too much effort to curate.

Long superseeded by Portable Music History: http://snesmusic.org/pmh/

Post by **vampirefrog** » 2014-05-12, 11:48:11

dissident93 wrote:as long as it is easily corrected, then I'd be glad to help (new composer info seems to pop up all the time )

It will be a complex system. Not sure exactly how it will work, but think of it this way - all the listed archives are data sources, and we can just add our own data source, which takes priority, and contains the corrections. So they all get centralized and the final product is correct and very big indeed.