Obscure Retro Games With Great Soundtracks by Specter at 2:08 PM EST on January 29, 2014
Hello there, I haven't been here for quite some time. So here's a thing, for the past few days I've been working on a video series featuring the best (at least, in my opinion) retro VGM. I need some help with pinpointing some of the more obscure soundtracks, since I have literally thousands of sets. Can anyone help me out?
Sorry, I should have been precise. I used VGM as short for Video Game Music. I'm interested in music from any system released before 2001, that includes arcades and computers.
but you know, maybe you could do a feature on deceased composers (YU-NO being by Ryu Umemoto)?
I only just the other day stumbled across [ur=http://vgm.mdscene.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=539]Providence[/url], and was excited to hear more stuff by Manabu Saito, only to learn he'd passed over two decades ago...
Akihiko Mori did some truly excellent SNES scores.
Hidehito Aoki did the catchy tunes in Majin Tensei I and II, as well as some work on the original Persona.
I'm sure there's more I've forgotten....
you should also check out the main index of vgmrips, then maybe browse into the arcade section. There's a lot of interesting older stuff from major companies that doesn't get talked about as much, and there's also the wonderful period during the mid-90s when a lot of games had cheesy guitar samples and drums. A few to start you off in both categories: Battlantis Galaxy Fight Gunforce Lethal Thunder Magical Drop III Shock Troopers Thunder Cross II Vapor Trail Zero Wing (actually, the Genesis version might sound better, I can never remember)
I never really thought about including music from Japanese-only computers. I have a few PC98, PC88 and X68000 sets in .vgm format, but that's about it. I know there are quite a few sets from those systems at hoot.joshw.info, but I honestly have no idea how to play them, let alone convert them to .wav.
Thank you all for the contributions, I'll check them out ASAP. I'm mostly looking for good SNES/Mega Drive/Mega CD stuff right now.
When you feel like expanding your search to those systems, you'll want the namesake of that subdirectory, a program called Hoot. Follow the FAQ carefully and you'll be well on your way.
There is, but it's not so much of a dump as it is a real-time recording from within the program. The whole program is a bit different from foobar or Winamp.
If you use it for recording, make sure you pay attention to the sound quality part of the FAQ. You'll have to manually edit an .ini file to get the correct sample rates depending on the sound chip the game uses.
I didn't know hoot archive music data was being updated elsewhere. But as far as I know, the snesmusic site still gives the best info for setting up and fine tuning the program itself.
Is there a one big archive containing all the sets from hoot.joshw.info? That would save me a lot of time.
Thanks, JudgeIto! Right now I have around 50 videos (and counting!) waiting to be uploaded. Currently I'm busy searching for good SNES/MD/PSX/PC-98/X68000 tunes, so my uploading pace may slow down after a month or so.
Gunmetal has a very good soundtrack, too bad I can't figure out the game's files, nor would anyone else have a clue either given how unknown this game is.
And before you say anything I mean Gunmetal by Mad Genius Software. Note there is no space in the name "Gunmetal", this is totally unrelated to the Thexder ripoff "Gun Metal", note the space between "Gun" and "Metal" and note how the two words are capitalized and are indeed two separate words.