Where to find more BGM

[Uranus633]

First off let me just say that I love what you people are doing! The quality on these remixes are incredible, my favs are Mega Man

My question is where can I find some more basic game music, it's been so long since I have heard some of these songs and the midi rips and emulators are always just a bit off. So is there a place that has this? I have been able to find a couple games here, am I just not looking in the right places?

Thanks for any help,

Chris

[The Coop]

http://project2612.org/ - Genesis music

http://snesmusic.org/v2/ - SNES music

http://www.zophar.net/music/nsf.html - NES music

Be sure to grab WinAmp and ChipAmp (a WinAmp plug in set available here on OCR) so you can listen to these tunes.

[Meteo Xavier]

"Galbadia Hotel" has a huge number of soundtracks, popular and rare stuff, but they're always down and some of their links don't work. Just Google Galbadia Hotel.

"Blue Laguna" doesn't have as much stuff, but they have a great collection of more modern RPG music and I've never had any problem with them. [Link removed by moderator - no links to illegal content]

More and more, people are using Youtube to upload and collect BGM into playlists. This is a great alternative to collecting MP3s which takes up memory and may be virused.

And of course, some fan sites post whole collections of music like Secret of Mana and Mega Man. I don't know of any specifics off the top of my head, mostly because they usually get shut down quickly, but they do exist.

[Sinewav]

Pretty much what those two said. I'd use WinAmp/ChipAmp if you're going to listen on your computer, but sites like Galbadia Hotel have "normal" file types like mp3s and wavs, just in case you wanted to listen on your iPod or something.

[Sam Ascher-Weiss]

Coop, nobody should be going to zophar's domain for nes music:

http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/

waayyyyyy more complete and accurate, basically every soundtrack for every nes game EVER!

[Strike911]

http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/

Didn't know about that site. Cool.

[Vilecat]

Akumu's NSF site is very complete, I too recommend it over Zophar's (go to Zophar for handheld imo if anything).

If Winamp is giving you trouble for whatever reason with the plugins (although they shouldn't), there's always Audio Overload compatible with Windows, OS X and even Linux.

[The Coop]

That's the name of that place. Akumu. I knew there was somewhere else that had NSF files, but I couldn't find it. Thanks for linking to it Sam Ascher-Weiss.

Edit: Some more sites...

http://gsf.caitsith2.net/ = GBA music

http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/ = GB/GBC music

http://snesmusic.org/hoot/v2/update.php = personal computer music (X68000 sharp, IBM, etc.)

[Uranus633]

Thanks guys!

[Brycepops]

Coop, nobody should be going to zophar's domain for nes music:

http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/

waayyyyyy more complete and accurate, basically every soundtrack for every nes game EVER!

Yay, he included Dr. Chaos :3

[Strike911]

Oh man. I love this thread. So many resources I missed! lol!

[Vilecat]

Additionnal note: http://project2612.org/ contains a different file format than zophar. That file format is of better quality than the latter site's too and has no problems with some games (Ecco the Dolphin is a good example, go see/listen to the game songs from both sites).

Edit: for Sega Master System and Game Gear there's SMS Power. It's a small library but one nevertheless.