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Available large video game music libraries

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Available large video game music libraries

Post by vampirefrog »

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.

#NameFormatPacksDescription
1vgmripsVGM1120The best! Contains music ripped from many consoles and chips
2smspowerVGM256Contains music ripped from SMS games
3project2612VGM627Contains music ripped from Sega Genesis and Mega Drive
4Project AYAYZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC music
5snesmusicSPC, RSN1516Focuses on Super Nintendo and Super Famicom
6Zophar's SPC collectionSPC, RAR~900Old-school web-page with RAR downloads
7MDXWinMDXA MDX player with an online "drive" containing a large collection of MDX files.
8MDX collectionMDXA big collection of MDX files
9Another MDX collectionMDXAnother collection
10High Voltage SID CollectionSIDFocuses on Commodore 64 SID music
11MirsoftContains links to other collections
12OverClocked RemixContains remixes as well as chiptune files
13vgmusicmidiHas separate (non-packed) MIDI files for many consoles and games.
14vgmdb?Mostly informative, good database, only links to downloads.
15game theme songsmp3ManyObviously geared towards search engines, heavily sponsored and advertised.
16youtubeVideoLots of game music
17KaminarimonHESPC Engine music.
18Portable Music HistoryGBSGame Boy and other portables. Strange webpage IMO.
19JoshW 2sfmini2sfNintendo DS
20JoshW 3do3do3DO
21JoshW dsfdsfDreamcast
22JoshW fmtownsmp3FM Towns
23JoshW gbsgbsGame Boy/Color
24JoshW gcngcnGamecube
25JoshW gsfgsfGame Boy Advance
26JoshW heshesPC Engine/PC Engine CD
27JoshW hoothootHoot
28JoshW ksskssMSX/Master System/Game Gear
29JoshW ncdmp3Neo Geo CD
30JoshW nsfnsfNES
31JoshW pcmp3PC games
32JoshW psfpsfPlayStation
33JoshW psf2psf2PlayStation 2
34JoshW psf3psf3PlayStation 3
35JoshW psppspPlayStation Portable
36JoshW s98s98S98 logs, mostly from PC88/PC98 ganes
37JoshW smdsmdMega Drive/Mega CD
38JoshW spcspcSNES
39JoshW ssfssfSaturn
40JoshW usfusfNintendo 64
41JoshW wiiwiiNintendo WII
42JoshW wsrwsrWonderSwan/Color
43JoshW x360x360Xbox 360
44JoshW xboxxboxXbox (original one)
45modland ftpmanylarge file archive, no database
46hootManyManySound hardware emulator with music collection.
47GBS Penultimate ArchiveGBSA big table with downloads. Also homebrew.
48Lawrence Lin's PSF archiveminipsfDecent size PSF collection
49ASMAsap5016Atari SAP Music Archive
50SNDHsndhAtari ST YM2149 Archive
51SC68sc68Atari ST and Amiga musics

Post by Kaminari »

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

My own site Kaminarimon is a HES repository for PC Engine music.
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Post by vampirefrog »

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 »

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

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

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Added hoot! So obvious!
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Post by blitzlunar »

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 :P
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Post by vampirefrog »

Thanks, added.

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blitzlunar wrote:If only all these sites had such a wonderful frontend as mdscene :P
That's kind of my plan. Importing all those files into a centralized database.
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as long as it is easily corrected, then I'd be glad to help (new composer info seems to pop up all the time :P)

Post by Sonic of 8! »

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.
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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/

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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 :P)
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.
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