Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI

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 transferred from another location).

[1] http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/n64/

Sucks that I can’t seem to listen to these on mobile. Does iOS Safari not ship with a midi player?

VGMusic.com is fan-made midi files that try to recreate the music of the games.

If you are looking for something that's real and actually from the games, you want music rips. These include NSF files (NES), GBS files (Game Boy and Game Boy Color), VGM files (Master System and Genesis), GSF files (Game Boy Advance), USF files (Nintendo 64), PSF files (Playstation), and several others.

I contributed a few midis to that site back in the day. Chrono Cross band arrangement of Scar of Time, a FFX battle theme, a Secret of Mana “into the thick of it”, and an organ piece from one the Ys games.

This site is one of the pillars grounding me to the reality that once was the internet.

It's been months since I started looking for the file for the Chirp1 ringtone in Cisco phones, to no avail.

It turns out that the ringtone is procedurly generated by the phone in realtime, and no such a file exists.

It sad to learn that not everything we make can be stored for high fidelity reproducibility later on.