VGMRIPS

Welcome to VGMRips, The biggest and most active site for retro Video Game Music rips! We have accurate game music rips, from dozens of game consoles and arcade systems. Music is organized into packs, and packs can be searched by composer, developer, sound chip, system and so on. You can listen to the packs on our pages, or you can download zip files with VGM files in them, and listen in your favorite player with VGM support.

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About VGM files

VGM (Video Game Music) is a sample-accurate sound logging format for many machines and sound chips. It logs the commands sent to the sound chips, so the resulting files are much smaller than mp3s.

The normal extension is .vgm but file can also be gzip compressed into .vgz files.

The format has a long history, it started as a way to log Sega Master System music, and later more and more chips were added to its list, and today it supports dozens of chips and has features such as compression and tagging.

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VGM Players

System	Player
Command-line	VGMPlay
Winamp	in_vgm
Foobar2000	foo_input_vgm
Cross-platform	Audio Overload
Android	Droidsound

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Statistics

Packs:	2162
Songs:	35706
Composers:	1551
Systems:	182
Chips:	67
Rippers:	55

Top rated packs

	The Scheme PC-8801 • YM2608
	Dragon Saber: After Story of Dragon Spirit Arcade • YM2151, C140
	Out Run Arcade • YM2151, SegaPCM
	Battle Garegga Arcade • YM2151, M6295, NMK112
	Journey to Silius (U, E, A) / Raf World (J) NES, Famicom • NES APU
	Daytona USA Arcade • MultiPCM
	Akumajo Dracula X68000 • YM2151, M6258
	Grounseed PC-9801 • YM2608
	Dragon Spirit X68000 • YM2151, M6258
	Galaxy Force II Arcade • YM2151, SegaPCM

Latest high rated

	Fighter & Attacker (U) / F/A (J) Arcade • C219
	Exvania Arcade • C219
	Dunk Dream '95 (J) / Data East's Hoops (EA) / Data East's Hoops Version '96 (EA) Arcade • YMZ280B
	Dunk Dream '95 (J) / Data East's Hoops (EA) / Data East's Hoops Version '96 (EA) Arcade • YMZ280B
	Vigilante Irem M75 • YM2151
	Dunk Dream '95 (J) / Data East's Hoops (EA) / Data East's Hoops Version '96 (EA) Arcade • YMZ280B
	Neural Gear X68000 • YM2151, M6258
	Geograph Seal X68000 • YM2151, M6258
	Naious X68000 • YM2151, M6258
	Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter Arcade • QSound

Latest additions

	Dunk Dream '95 (J) / Data East's Hoops (EA) / Data East's Hoops Version '96 (EA) Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YMZ280B
	Gridiron Fight Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YM2149
	Magical Crystals Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • M6295, YM2149
	Vigilante Updated 2019-02-18 Irem M75 • YM2151
	Pepsiman Updated 2019-02-18 Sigma B-98 • YMZ280B
	Exvania Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • C219
	Blazing Tornado Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YM2610
	From TV Animation Slam Dunk: Super Slams Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YM2610
	Megablast Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YM2610
	Dead Connection Updated 2019-02-18 Arcade • YM2610

Updates

Pack	User	Date	Info
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter	Valley Bell	2019-02-13	Fixed tags/file names, stripped silence from the beginning, reoptimized with fixed vgm_cmp.
Dunk Dream '95 (J) / Data East's Hoops (EA) / Data East's Hoops Version '96 (EA)	Valley Bell	2019-02-12	Improved tags and file names and tags.
Mega Man II (U, E) / Rockman World 2 (J)	Valley Bell	2019-02-10	Fixed tags, fixed release date.
Dead Connection	Valley Bell	2019-02-10	Changed VGM header to use YM2610 (non-B) instead of YM2610B.
Mega Man III (U, E) / Rockman World 3 (J)	Valley Bell	2019-02-10	Fixed tags.
Laplace no Ma	Valley Bell	2019-02-09	Redid opt_oki optimization (fixed parameters).
From TV Animation Slam Dunk: Super Slams	GTheGuardian	2019-01-01	Initial release.
Blazing Tornado	GTheGuardian	2018-12-24	Initial release.
Mega Man III (U, E) / Rockman World 3 (J)	MelonadeM	2018-12-20	Initial release.
Mega Man II (U, E) / Rockman World 2 (J)	MelonadeM	2018-12-17	Initial release.

Latest forum threads

Topic	User
Trying to rip segmented .mib music from game	RandomName
Couple of questions about VGM tools. (mainly Genesis chips)	DeltaRazero
Recent Additions and Updates	ValleyBell
Fatal Fury	dameron
How would I VGM log an auto-scrolling shooter using MAME?	ctr
Pixelated Audio - VGM Podcast	bmos
QuattroPlay	ctr
VGM Synth/Sample Muting Possible?	ctr
Super Cobra on co12294 and other sound chips	nitrofurano
chat box thread	vampirefrog

Links

VGM file sites: SMS Power • Project 2612

Other game music sites: SNES Music • ASMA Atari Music • Project AY (ZX Spectrum and CPC music) • Kaminarimon HES archive • Portable Music History (Game Boy) • Slick NSFE

Chiptune Podcasts: Pixelated Audio

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