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Video game music remixes - N-Man - 26th July 2005
I recently stumbled upon vgmix.com, a community similar to Overclocked where one finds remixes/rearrangements of video game music. I was pretty impressed by some of the songs, and I know some of you are fans of game music, therefore I submit to you http://www.vgmix.com. Some of the most amazing tunes IMO are:
Light in the Fortress, a medley of songs from Mega Man X.
Scourge of 1691, Castlevania.
Ninjascape out of Ninja Gaiden II.
Red Cap Assault which is a remix of the battle theme from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.
BTW, most of my selections are done with a heavy metal flavour, and in fact that seems to be the bent of the whole site. There's also some orchestration (as is traditional with video game remixes) and electronic music influences.
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 26th July 2005
I've nabbed a few remixs from that site before, most notably "That Long Train Ride from Half-Life 2". I suggest anyone who hasn't heard it yet do so as quickly as possible.
Video game music remixes - geoboy - 29th July 2005
I've gotten music from there since its late 1.0 days. Unfortunately, the site was shut down for about a year or two, so all the MP3's from those days are gone. I didn't get to download many because I literally discovered that site in its last week.
Today, VGMix 2.0 is mainly a place where OC ReMix n00bs go to host their WIPs, and as webspace to host their remix for when they submit it to the OCR judge's panel. So you'll find mixes on VGMix that get rejected from OCR or you'll get them 6 months or so before they're posted on OCR. Anyways, here's my winamp generated playlist of all the VGMixes I currently have.
139 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:27
Playlist length: 10 hours 19 minutes 38 seconds
Right-click here to save this HTML file.
Playlist files:
1. abg - Children of Time (9:58)
2. abg - Lavos vs. Jenova (GTA3 Apocalypse) (6:25)
3. Ailsean - Aria (3:51)
4. Ailsean - Dragon Dreams (2:51)
5. Ailsean - Flying Hachi-Roku (3:47)
6. Ailsean, Mustin - Uematsu-san Just Wanna Have Fun (2:52)
7. Anonymous DoD Contestant - Scourge of 1691 (12:55)
8. Arkimedes - Dreaming While I Wake (3:40)
9. Ashane - Zealous Entropy (10:29)
10. billysk8r - 600AD Trance Mix (3:36)
11. Bladiator - A Dangerless Road (2:41)
12. bLiNd - Aerofunknamics (3:26)
13. BliziHiZaKe - Set Sail (4:12)
14. Borix - Super Mario Bros. Mixed (3:42)
15. BrainCells - Against the Rest (2:38)
16. BrainCells - CutMetal (3:27)
17. CarboHydroM - Secret 1000cc Mode (1:42)
18. CarboHydroM - See You Tomorrow (2:13)
19. CarboHydroM - The Mushroom Kingdom Skate Park (1:54)
20. CarboHydroM - Vanishing Blocks (1:43)
21. chadseiter - Final Fantasia (13:05)
22. Chaoz - Protect Your Island (3:31)
23. Chrono Trigger & FF9 - Ailsean - The Knights Come Marching Home... Again (2:32)
24. Chrono Trigger - funkymuskrat - Memories of Green (4:15)
25. Chrono Trigger - mellogear - Friendly Happy Robot (3:38)
26. Chrono Trigger - Spekkosaurus - The Trial in Concert (7:48)
27. Chrono Trigger - zerofx - People Who Threw Away the Will to Live (5:27)
28. chthonic - Agahnim's Curse (3:01)
29. chthonic - Anthem of a Misguided Youth (3:42)
30. chthonic - Linear Groove (3:56)
31. Corran - Trance Forest Maze (4:26)
32. Darangen - From Within (3:33)
33. Darangen - Omen of the Prophet (2:35)
34. Darangen - The Depths of Isolation (4:58)
35. DarkeSword - Pearl Diver (3:17)
36. DarkeSword - The Beautiful Traveller (Starlight Mix) (4:33)
37. DarkKoji - Wind Chime (1:33)
38. Dhsu - Hero (4:12)
39. Disco Dan - 05 - Swizzle Swamp (6:05)
40. Disposer - The End Of Loneliness (3:38)
41. DistantJ - Deep (5:26)
42. DistantJ - Twilight (5:34)
43. Dj PaRTiCLe - Earth, Wind, and Fire (Trance Mix) (5:10)
44. Doragon - Cavernous Muzak (4:06)
45. Double A Ron - Destiny of the Reploid Race (17:30)
46. Dr Fruitcake - Monkey in an Elevator (2:08)
47. Dr Fruitcake - Ridley's Revenge (4:17)
48. DZComposer - The Story of Zoness (11:30)
49. DZComposer - Yet another Corneria arrangement (3:24)
50. Ellywu2 - Trancin' through the wildernes (3:53)
51. Emperor - The Spring of Day (3:27)
52. Fatty Acid - Matoya no Fuuketsu (3:34)
53. Flik - Wanderer of Ages (3:50)
54. Floaf, Dimmignatt - Heavy Mario Land (1:24)
55. GaMeBoX - CrashBreakBoomBox (6:11)
56. GeckoYamori - Flash C64 (3:07)
57. GeckoYamori - Industroscout (3:13)
58. GeckoYamori - Infectious Oldskool (3:24)
59. goat - Purple Heart (5:25)
60. goat - Stained Glass Filth (4:43)
61. GrayLightning - Armageddon (3:56)
62. Hermit - Hylian Anthem (3:29)
63. housethegrate - Brinstar Minibossa (3:25)
64. housethegrate - Seized With Fury (6:00)
65. Iggy Koopa - Ballad of Time (4:09)
66. Jared Hudson - The Frontier (5:16)
67. JAXX - All In One Day (2:24)
68. JAXX - Green Beginnings (1:29)
69. JAXX - Johnny Suck Pavement (2:10)
70. JD Harding - Daughter of Zeal (5:45)
71. JD Harding - To Far Away Times (revisited) (6:59)
72. JigginJonT - West Coast DK Island (4:17)
73. joecam, po, mp, Roggah, DirectorFlik, A Rival, Shael Riley - River City Rap (5:44)
74. Kadmium - O Corneria (5:08)
75. Kaijin - Timeless Heart (good night) (2:56)
76. Kevin Stephens - Homes of Hyrule - Movement 1 - Kokiri Village (3:13)
77. kLuTz - Simple Joys (4:28)
78. Level 99 - Chrono's Destruction of Venice (4:18)
79. Level 99 - Summer Action Hero Megaman (2:18)
80. LordMaestro - Paradise Left Behind (4:19)
81. M Schneider - Dreaming Hero (5:18)
82. Maarten - 3 Views on Mario (5:15)
83. Majeliss - Joy of Windfall (2:46)
84. Michael 'Darangen' Boyd - Deadly Promises (4:42)
85. Midiman - Flying Donuts (1:53)
86. motmotwarrior - Megaman III intro (1:23)
87. mv - A Foray Into The Eastern Horizons (6:25)
88. mv - Darkest Omen (3:45)
89. mv - La Ballade de Cayenne (4:20)
90. mv - You suck at Super Mario Bros 4! (6:21)
91. Mythril Nazgul - The 6th Omen (3:48)
92. Nex - Miyamoto Dance (3:35)
93. Nick Tam - El Fondo de la Noche (3:45)
94. Nick Tam - Sleeping Dragon (4:26)
95. Nigel Simmons - Return to Elysian Lands (4:57)
96. Nixdorux - Goodbye Kakariko... (3:05)
97. Nixdorux - Zelda is in Love (4:19)
98. pancakechef - Sea Breeze Strings (4:00)
99. Pillory Grind - Kraid's Destruction (3:20)
100. Prievert - Morphland (6:17)
101. Protricity - Autumn in Yesteryear Guardia (7:46)
102. prozax - Wily's Ambition (3:26)
103. Quinn Fox - Edit Automation (4:29)
104. Quinn Fox - Oxygen Flare (4:05)
105. Rebach - Game Over (5:14)
106. RoeTaKa - A Warmer Farewell (3:42)
107. Roetaka - Run Away With Me (5:28)
108. RushJet1 - Nocturnal Wishes (3:08)
109. RushJet1 - Unwilling Antagonist (3:06)
110. RushJet1, kwix - The Rush Dance Adaptor (4:09)
111. Ryan8bit - Sweep Up the Broken Pieces (8:28)
112. samic - Dark Christmas Night (3:18)
113. Samump - Hoppin' Thru the Town (2:36)
114. Second Chance - The Golden Land (7:12)
115. Shariq Ansari - Chrono Trigger - Through the Dark (3:14)
116. Sharkma - All You Need is Love (3:34)
117. spacepony - Green Chill Zone (3:34)
118. spacepony - Marble Cake (3:11)
119. Standing Man - Game Over (Underground) (2:17)
120. StarBLaSt - Fei Longer (3:21)
121. StarBLaSt - Tickle My Wily (5:25)
122. Techie Jessie - Heartache (4:26)
123. Tepid - Joyful, Happy Docks (6:44)
124. The Standing Man - Prologue (5:02)
125. Theophany - Time's End (5:45)
126. Tom Voros [PhantomSnake] - Ice Flow (4:11)
127. Trance Canada - Ice Age (2:33)
128. trickwaters - Final Fantasy Prelude for Two Pianos (3:26)
129. Undersky - Mexican Valley (3:41)
130. Unknown - Artifact of Power, mvmt 3 - Traveling the Woods (4:16)
131. virt - Blood of Ganon (6:29)
132. virt - Rocket Lounger (3:46)
133. virt, Ailsean - Dancing Mad Once Again (4:37)
134. XenoCross - Ravine Cleft of Dimension (Piano Solo) (4:12)
135. XPA - Pipe Dreams (5:25)
136. XPA - To Save a Friend (4:23)
137. zyko - marblez in your mouf (5:51)
138. zyko - Mysticism 2000 (4:11)
139. zyko - the anti-ignorance (5:31)
I have more of virt's stuff in a different folder somewhere... good stuff.
Video game music remixes - EdenMaster - 1st August 2005
If I want a video game song, I head on over to vgmusic.com and look for a MIDI. They've got a pretty big and varied collection and you can find most anything you're looking for.
Video game music remixes - N-Man - 1st August 2005
Sure, sure, but this isn't just video game music. Just listen to this version of the theme from Double Dragon (the good stuff starts about 1/3 of the way through - the rest is a protracted intro that lures you into thinking it's a calm song). It totally kicks my ass.
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 2nd August 2005
OCRemix has some pretty amazing songs in their own rights.
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 2nd August 2005
I enjoy a good remix, but I kinda got sick of even sampling them when I realized that more than half the remixes I hear are techno, and I am currently completely fed up with techno in ALL it's forms. The system, is down...
Video game music remixes - Weltall - 2nd August 2005
I downloaded all of the OC torrents, so I have almost all of their remixes.
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 2nd August 2005
Quote:I enjoy a good remix, but I kinda got sick of even sampling them when I realized that more than half the remixes I hear are techno, and I am currently completely fed up with techno in ALL it's forms. The system, is down...
Yes, a lot of them are, not that that's a bad thing as some of them are quite good techno. Still, there are some good ones that aren't techno:
Super Mario 64 - Sunken Suite
Guardian Legend - Naju Overture
Tetris - Slavic Roots
Zelda 64 - Aquescent Symphony
Rygar - On Rhodopa Mountain
Metroid - Bluebase Incidental
Nights - Soft Musuem Jam
Ice Climbers - Snow Cone Heaven
Final Fantasy 9 - Melodies of Life
Final Fantasy 7 - Philharonic Suite: Part 1 and Finale
Final Fantasy 7 - Beyond Midgar
Final Fantasy 5 - Curse Pirates of the Sea
F-Zero - Silent Progression
Chrono Trigger - Jethro and Vash at the Fair
Chrono Trigger - Another Fair
Chrono Trigger - Spekkio the Brave
Chrono Trigger - Town Life in Piano
Beyond Good and Evil - Frame of Mind
And
Marble Madness - Sphercular Kinetics [It's techno, but it's one of the best songs on OCRemix]
Half-Life 2 - That Long Train Ride [Sort of techno-ish, but mostly just plain amazing. It's at VGmix.com]
Video game music remixes - geoboy - 2nd August 2005
DJ must be listening to remixes from 1999...
And EdenMaster, I <i>used</i> to love vgmusic.com until I discovered <a href="http://www.zophar.net/music.html">this</a>. Video game music in its original unadulterated goodness.
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 2nd August 2005
Well I don't know anything about where they come from. I just know that when you have friends showing off all their cool video game songs constantly and it's ALL techno, at a certain point you just have to say "please I am getting sick of that SAME beat...". Now I'm not saying techno should be BURNED wherever it is, but it's place is in MILD doses. I'm thinking I can enjoy it just fine if I only hear one song every year.
By the way, that's a great site there, that last one, but I'm afraid it has all these alien formats I've never even heard of. What's an SPC for example? (First thing I went to was the Earthbound section...)
It's as though standardization is considered "evil"...
Oh by the way, after checking out some more of those songs on vgmix (I must have had some bad luck with the first few goes, and also library wasn't working so I was going with the random servings on the right side of the page, took a while to find the right link on top to get to the music), I must say I'm impressed. Good stuff. A lot of rock, but so far it's not an overabundance of it. I like A Rose For Zelda.
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 3rd August 2005
Quote: at a certain point you just have to say "please I am getting sick of that SAME beat...".
Not ALL techno is the same few beats repeated over and over in slightly different patterns.
You should check out the Earthbound remixs from OCRemix, especially "Dreaming on Distant Shores", "Starmann" and "Battle".
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 3rd August 2005
If it's techno, I should tell you I already heard my single techno song for this year. I'll check one of them out next year.
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 3rd August 2005
Suit yourself.
And I wouldn't exactly call them techno, they're more like crazy...space-age...something. Anyway, it would take you about five minutes to download the file and listen to it.
Video game music remixes - geoboy - 3rd August 2005
Dark Jaguar Wrote:By the way, that's a great site there, that last one, but I'm afraid it has all these alien formats I've never even heard of. What's an SPC for example? (First thing I went to was the Earthbound section...)
It's as though standardization is considered "evil"...
These formats ARE standards in the emulation community. They're not an officially-licensed-by-Nintendo kind of standard, but they're in formats most everyone in the emulation community has agreed to.
NSF is a Nintendo (NES) sound file. SPC is Super Nintendo music (named after the Yamaha SPC-700 music chip in the SNES). USF is Nintendo 64 sound, and so on. These files are the actual sound data captured from a game's ROM and emulated for playback. As a result, the files are very small and deliver completely true to the original sound. Well, as true to emulation takes it (which is pretty dang close). No Lossy compression, no artifacts, and consistent sound (which is not true for general MIDI).
There are a number of players of these formats as well as Winamp plug-ins. I'll find links to some later as I am in a bit of a hurry at the moment. But those music archive pages on Zophar usually have a link to players for those files. Also, some emulators like Nestopia and FCEUltra will play .nsf files too.
As for the legality of this, I've never heard of Nintendo or any other companies cracking down or shunning the distribution of the original game sound tracks in these emulated formats (and video game remixes for that matter). If they did, Zophar would not host these archives, since they don't host any full blown ROMs of commercial games for obvious legal reasons.
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 3rd August 2005
Well I wasn't really talking about any of that. I just had never seen those sound formats before. What purpose they have in sub cultures is fairly irrelevent to me.
The thing is, it's just annoying to deal with so many formats like that. If the issue is compression, there are plenty of lossless compression formats out there. They take up a lot more space than an MP3, but they are there are it's better than wave. A format can easily be lossless. Think zip files. Write as complicated a text file as you please, zip it, which compresses it, and then unzip it. Since it uses a standard compression of just replacing common repeting bits with a number telling how often the bit repeats (instead of "dog dog dog cat cat dog dog dog dog dog", just state "Dx3 Cx2 Dx5" and you have conveyed the same info using less data, though the solution does need to be on there, some sort of zip program :D), there is zero data loss. This can be checked with simple bit comparison. Anyway, they can do that with sound and video just like any other data format because it's all stored the same way. Data is data.
So anyway, yeah I can say I would prefer MP3 or something lossless (and really the loss from MP3s isn't noticable to me) to needing to download an unending stream of players or plugins. It's nice and all, but hey if I'm playing a directly ripped sound captured from my sound card it's even better than if it's emulated, right?
Video game music remixes - Great Rumbler - 3rd August 2005
Sweet! I got some Super Mario 64 USF files working in Winamp. Sounds just like the real game.
Video game music remixes - geoboy - 6th August 2005
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Well I wasn't really talking about any of that. I just had never seen those sound formats before. What purpose they have in sub cultures is fairly irrelevent to me.
The thing is, it's just annoying to deal with so many formats like that. If the issue is compression, there are plenty of lossless compression formats out there. They take up a lot more space than an MP3, but they are there are it's better than wave. A format can easily be lossless. Think zip files. Write as complicated a text file as you please, zip it, which compresses it, and then unzip it. Since it uses a standard compression of just replacing common repeting bits with a number telling how often the bit repeats (instead of "dog dog dog cat cat dog dog dog dog dog", just state "Dx3 Cx2 Dx5" and you have conveyed the same info using less data, though the solution does need to be on there, some sort of zip program :D), there is zero data loss. This can be checked with simple bit comparison. Anyway, they can do that with sound and video just like any other data format because it's all stored the same way. Data is data.
So anyway, yeah I can say I would prefer MP3 or something lossless (and really the loss from MP3s isn't noticable to me) to needing to download an unending stream of players or plugins. It's nice and all, but hey if I'm playing a directly ripped sound captured from my sound card it's even better than if it's emulated, right?
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Are you ranting just for the sake of ranting? An .mp3 and an .nsf file are so fundamentally different. The only real thing they have in common is that, in the end, they produce sound. It's like talking about food and comparing an orange to a steak and saying "why must oranges exist when I can always eat steak for sustenance instead!" They're both food, but they're totally different.
Another example I can give you -- this time in the data world -- is images. Do you know the difference between a rasterized image and a vector image? A rasterized image is basically a map of pixels, and vector images (like those drawn in Macromedia Flash) are composed of mathematical expressions that represent lines and curves. They both produce images, but the way they do it is so fundamentally different.
MP3s are like rasterized images, and an .nsf file (for example) is like a vector image. NSF files have dynamic properties to them (similar to MIDI files). For example, they can loop forever seamlessly like they would in game. You can also change their tempo and pitch . You can do that with MP3's, but you get considerable distortion. The same thing happens when you blow up a rasterized image. It'll get all pixelly, but a vector image won't because it is represented by equations that can take dynamic parameters.
So you see, there is room for other file formats, especially when they work on completely different underlying technologies and have distinctly different properties and abilities.
Video game music remixes - geoboy - 6th August 2005
Oops. There's a VERY important feature I forgot to mention that files like NSF and SPC have over MP3. And funny enough, it brings us full circle back to video game remixes!
You have the ability to turn the instrument channels on and off! MP3's typically have only two channels: left speaker and right speaker. Whoopty fricken doo. An NSF, however, has 5 channels to play with! 2 are the square wave, 1 triangle wave, the noise channel (typically used for percussion) and the DPCM (which are heavily distorted wav samples. think of the "kowabunga!" voice in the TMNT games). Remixers use this feature so they can isolate the melody or bass or mute the noise channel or what have you. It's also just interesting to listen to old Nintendo music with only the melody or vice versa. This is just something that an MP3 cannot do because it is so fundamentally different. It's like trying to connect to the internet using an old timey radio. They're just two completely different technologies even though both essentially can deliver music and news.
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 7th August 2005
Well I was going only on the features you originally described, so my criticism was valid. Thanks for expanding on what these can do. No need to get all upset about my comparison there, or defend it further. All you needed to do was expand on the features. No need for countless analogies...
That said, okay then, they have unique features that make them worthwhile due to the nature of how the files are encoded and decoded. I was not aware of this at all, because you hadn't said as much. If I was interested in really messing around with said sound to get it to sound many different ways, this would indeed be the best format to go with. I'm not really interested in that right now, but it is something to consider.
Video game music remixes - A Black Falcon - 7th August 2005
http://www.queststudios.com/quest/Sierra1.html
... appropriate thread to link the Sierra midis site to again in, right? :)
Video game music remixes - Dark Jaguar - 7th August 2005
Yes, yes it would.
ABF: Is
DJ: Is. Media player already plays those types of files too, so no extra downloads. Anyway, good stuff. You will download the Lord of the Dead song right this now! If not that, get Dance of the Bones. Um, okay it's actually Dem Bones, but it's all good. KQ6 had some good music.
Video game music remixes - A Black Falcon - 8th August 2005
I'm partial to Quest for Glory of course (though III isn't as good as I, II, or IV), but yeah, KQ's isn't bad...