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Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by iamjackg » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

ninjin wrote: post #29

Oh my, this really sends me down memory lane. It must have been around 1996 when I spent a substantial amount of time downloading and listening to VGMusic. Back then I was on dial up and would continue to be for another five years or so. Thus, MP3s were expensive to get and it would take a good portion of an hour to download a single one anyway. With Midi I could get entire tracks in a few seconds, plug them into Win…

I had a similar experience with tool-assisted speedruns! Videos were huge and had terrible quality, but I could just download a small "movie" file for an emulator and watch the game play itself with superhuman skills.

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by nness » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 1:16 PM UTC

For a similar blast-from-the-past — https://ocremix.org/

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by ahuhz » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 1:30 PM UTC

nness wrote: post #32

For a similar blast-from-the-past — https://ocremix.org/

Absolutely loved OC ReMix when I was younger. Their collection of remixes were some of the best. Still go back to listen to some of the old stuff from there sometimes.

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by CalRobert » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

Those enjoying this might also like https://c64audio.com/ . If only I could find the archives of the KDVS chiptunes show from the mid-90's....

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by mrWiz » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 2:16 PM UTC

jader201 wrote: post #2

Oh dang. I uploaded a version of Mario Kart 64’s Rainbow Road — the one that’s listed as “(Extended Version) (v2.0)”. [1] This was probably from 1996/97. Not only do they still have it, but the site hasn’t changed at all since then! What a kick of nostalgia! Edit: actually I checked the comments which shows the upload time, and either I’m remembering about 6 years off, or the timestamp was updated somehow (if it was…

Mario Kart 64 was released between Dec '96 and June '97 (depending on region) so either you were very quick to create the MIDI version or the dates you remember are off.

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by thesuitonym » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 2:46 PM UTC

vishnuharidas wrote: post #24

They should embed a MIDI player like this: https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/

Why not just a simple and let the browser handle it? Or do modern browsers not handle MIDI anymore?

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by thesuitonym » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

For those interested in this sort of thing, you can download chiptunes from ocremix.org that can run in a musical emulator like ChipAmp.

Unfortunately I know of no such emulators for Mac or Linux.

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by keyneus » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 3:28 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #37

For those interested in this sort of thing, you can download chiptunes from ocremix.org that can run in a musical emulator like ChipAmp. Unfortunately I know of no such emulators for Mac or Linux.

At least Audacious (in its audacious-plugins package) as well as Qmmp support chiptunes via the Game_Music_Emu library. I'd imagine many other plugin-based players for Linux/Unix have support as well.

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by _flux » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 3:28 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #36

vishnuharidas wrote: post #24

They should embed a MIDI player like this: https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/

Why not just a simple and let the browser handle it? Or do modern browsers not handle MIDI anymore?

I wouldn't expect browsers to come with a General MIDI patch set..

Re: Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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Post by nness » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #36

vishnuharidas wrote: post #24

They should embed a MIDI player like this: https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/

Why not just a simple and let the browser handle it? Or do modern browsers not handle MIDI anymore?

No support — seems neither nor can play the midi format.