Retro Music as Ring Tones

TechnoFreek

So everyone knows that retro music is totally awesome and often lends itself perfectly as a nerdy ringtone.

And it's easier than ever to get on to phone
1) locate fave music on youtube
2) copy youtube url into www.snipmp3.com
3) download resulting mp3
4) copy to phone
5) trim (if necessary)
6) set as ringtone

here's my nomination and current tone, gonna be tough to beat!
cast your vote now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJzWXXupeE

Optimus Prime

Ive have street fighter 2 as my ringtone on the phone about a month now! not sure where i got it from, think i just googled it.

o1s1n

The Sonic ring collect sound has been my sms alert tone for as long as i remember!

Relikk

I've had the Streets Of Rage 2 Stage Clear jingle as my message tone for quite a while (before that it was the jingle from the start of the stages in Bomb Jack) and recently added Qui Qui from Puzzle Bobble 2 as my ringtone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVK-z4Wy8LQ

James Howlett

I used to have the double-dragon theme as my ring tone.

This is not retro but is game related; in lollipop chainsaw the main character can leap-frog over zombies and lets a out a cheerful "yeah!" everytime she does. I have that cheerful noise for my message alert tone... pity no body texts me.

OwaynOTT

I've an iPhone so I'm ****ed!

ironictoaster

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I've an iPhone so I'm ****ed!

Use www.audiko.net. Upload and edit it on their site and it will convert it to iphone format.

This is my text message tone. Nice and simple.

Relikk

There's another way of making iPhone ringtones, also. Maximum 30 second sound clip, convert to m4a then rename the m4a extension to m4r. Sync it to your phone.

Mr.Saturn

That Game Boy start-up ding that's used as a text alert always spins me dizzy searching for a Game Boy in the crowd. You hear a ton of them on the Northern Line to Camden, I've noticed.

KeRbDoG

Yoshi's Island Music - Map Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZUISErsxg

Had this tune as a ringtone on a Nokia 6310, pre-polyphonic days. Worked well

CiDeRmAn

I had this one on my... not sure, some Symbian device... as a ringtone, brilliant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XdYlrnH3ao

TechnoFreek

Good suggestions here lads. I'm surprised someone hasn't mentioned Final Fantasy 7 yet.
The battle win music would be good as message received.

P S I have an android phone, HTC One X.
Very easy to set mp3s as ring tones

Optimus Prime

If you using Android, check out "AirDroid" great for transfering files between laptop and phone.

LoGiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSsq7HCNHw

Lotus II's theme has been my ringtone for the last year or so having swithced from Bubble bobble. Next time I hear a game ringtone on the dart I'm just going to presume they post on A&R!

CathalDublin

iPhone users, one word unlimtones
all the ringtones you could ever need in a simple to use app

Steve X2

http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/

iPhone area:
http://www.zedge.net/ringtones/?updPhone=5233

im invisible

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

at the moment I've the Earthbound item noise as my text tone
and my ringtone at the moment is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhaS5al0vTU

but it used to be the Steel Samurai ringtone from Phoenix Wright but it wouldn't play all the same loudness so I'll go back to it later

OwaynOTT

Currently have Big Blue as ringtone now and the Mario death bit as notification sound and its all thanks to the good helpful folks in this thread.

eddhorse

I have the Zelda Open Chest sound as my message tone, Its very satisfying !
Mail sound is now the mario coin tone, thanks for that.

TechnoFreek

LoGiE wrote: »

Lotus II's theme has been my ringtone for the last year or so having swithced from Bubble bobble. Next time I hear a game ringtone on the dart I'm just going to presume they post on A&R!

Lotus 2. Awesome. Put many an hour away on the Amiga with that game.

o1s1n

I put the Konami boot up jingle as my ringtone back when this thread was posted. Puts a smile on my face every time a message comes in

Fysh

I have The Plasmas' cover of the TMNT arcade theme as my ringtone, and Daniel Tidwell's version of the Green Hill Zone theme as my SMS tone.

Not as retro-credit-worthy as using the original versions, but the heavier bass makes it easier to hear in noisy places. Also less likely that someone else is using the same version.

Varied

I have the mario theme as my ringtone and the mushroom/fire sound as my sms tone.

Myrddin

When your all playing games, do you have to keep checking your phones?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

EnterNow wrote: »

When your all playing games, do you have to keep checking your phones?

+1

CathalDublin

I've a speccy game loading as my ringtone and ba-ding as my message tone

Relikk

Relikk wrote: »

There's another way of making iPhone ringtones, also. Maximum 30 second sound clip, convert to m4a then rename the m4a extension to m4r. Sync it to your phone.

That's how i made all my iphone tones. Am fecked if i'm paying for them.

Some of my fave ringtones:

Ryu's theme from street fighter alpha 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6WgNe5HZ8

Grass Land theme from Super Mario 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_mwl3QcYA

Fire field, the last level from the original F-Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWy7Tr48wI

World 1-1 from the original super mario bros on the nes, just because EVERYBODY starts bopping their head when they hear it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PsC0zIhWNww#t=5s

Dark World theme from Zelda a link to the past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sslj06K-Nlw#t=7s

Also, for a message tone, i like the decepticon's transform sound from the 80's cartoon (not the one from the sh1tty michael bay movies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=povwJE0PwF0#t=3s

o1s1n

You can't just select an MP3 with an iphone and use it as your ringtone? Really?

Jesus, another reason to stay a mile away from Apple products.

Relikk

o1s1n wrote: »

You can't just select an MP3 with an iphone and use it as your ringtone? Really?

If it's jailbroken you can, it's a matter of placing it in the correct folder. If not then, converting to m4a/r is the universal way to do it, jailbroken or not jailbroken.

o1s1n

Relikk wrote: »

If it's jailbroken you can, it's a matter of placing it in the correct folder. If not then, converting to m4a/r is the universal way to do it, jailbroken or not jailbroken.

Ah right, my complaint was more to do with Apple than the device itself. I'm sure once they're jailbroken they're great - but it really is taking the piss not allowing consumers to set their own ringtone on a factory default unit.

Feck sake, I could do that on all phones I've ever had which had the ability to play music - it reminds me of pointless DLC. 'Want something extra which the item SHOULD be able to do? well we want you to pay for it!'

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

my complaint was more to do with Apple than the device itself. I'm sure once they're jailbroken they're great - but it really is taking the piss not allowing consumers to set their own ringtone on a factory default unit.

Yup, that's apple, pretty much. Their target market is basic or average users with plenty of cash who don't want the hassle of messing with file extensions etc. the iPhone is great, but it's a pretty brainless thing. It's pretty and it works well, but you've a lot of hassle with it if you want to do anything more advanced or don't want to give apple a lot of money for ringtones and services.

I had a Nokia 5110 over a decade ago that I could do more with in terms of customising ringtones.

Myrddin

I miss when phones were phones, these laptops people hold to their ears nowadays that have to be charged twice a day do my head in.

Texts & calls, anything else well thats what real computers are for

Pyongyang

Depends entirely what you want from a phone though ImmediateEntrance. On the one side of the coin, I couldn't do without a smartphone. On the other, my other smartphone keeps me chained to my employer and sometimes you just need to switch off from work and you can't.

Spots six of one and half a dozen of the other really. Personally id rather have a brain implant that triggers some sort of cloaking GUI to your retinas.

One can dream...

Myrddin

Pyongyang wrote: »

Depends entirely what you want from a phone though ImmediateEntrance.

Calls & texts

On the one side of the coin, I couldn't do without a smartphone. On the other, my other smartphone keeps me chained to my employer and sometimes you just need to switch off from work and you can't.

Spots six of one and half a dozen of the other really. Personally id rather have a brain implant that triggers some sort of cloaking GUI to your retinas.

One can dream...

Ah of course, I'm definitely in the minority here as I can see how people are heavily dependant on smartphones nowadays for all kinds of things. But when your looking to buy a basic phone these days, it's an absolute nightmare.

I don't want a touchscreen
I want buttons
I don't want a battery that lasts for less than a day.
I don't want bells & whistles...just give me a phone damn you

Steve X2

EnterNow wrote: »

Calls & texts





Ah of course, I'm definitely in the minority here as I can see how people are heavily dependant on smartphones nowadays for all kinds of things. But when your looking to buy a basic phone these days, it's an absolute nightmare.

I don't want a touchscreen
I want buttons
I don't want a battery that lasts for less than a day.
I don't want bells & whistles...just give me a phone damn you

This is my "don't care if it falls down a cliff" backup backup backup phone.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluechip-Free-Mini-Mobile-Phone/dp/B003OQUD2C

Cheap, sim free and works pretty well.

Myrddin

The golden age of when phones were phones was probably the 6310i



It all went downhill after that for the polyphonic brigade

Enough of your new fangled modern technology gizmos. The motorola 4500x. Now THAT was a phone. 30 mins maximum talktime per charge kept your conversation efficient and to the point, and the 8 hours standby time was perfect, it meant that doing unpaid overtime calls was impossible. Your boss paid for 8 hours and that's what he got. Easy to charge, just hook it up to a car battery, and it was light and compact too, could be carried around by one average sized man with a backpack or a small car.



That was a simpler time.....;)

Pyongyang

PFFT! Sissys! It's all about the Zack Morris phone.

o1s1n

I tell you one thing a smart phone is brilliant for, browsing boards while commuting to work! Takes me an hour (sometimes more to get in and home) so I pass that time by reading this place.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

I tell you one thing a smart phone is brilliant for, browsing boards while commuting to work! Takes me an hour (sometimes more to get in and home) so I pass that time by reading this place.

Charge your phone much

Maybe its just what happens when you get older & hit your 30's, but the net doesn't 'feel' like the net on a phone to me. It belongs solely on pc's & laptops

Still, it could be worse. Ciderman was recently saying he's converting all the lights in his house to oil lanterns because apparently the light from incandescent bulbs & even more modern CFL ones just isn't a match for traditional flame.

Pyongyang

EnterNow wrote: »

Maybe its just what happens when you get older & hit your 30's, but the net doesn't 'feel' like the net on a phone to me.

Shoe goes on! Shoe goes off!

Myrddin

Ooh a shoehorn

OwaynOTT

Finally got an android phone and decided to pay homage to one of my favourite gaming sounds and that is the gamecube start up. The gamecube also is the source of one of my most hated sounds and that's the failure to read your game disc sound!

eddhorse

Nice,

I like the variants of that too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYQ08gxkqA

I'm rocking Super Mario One's main theme as my ringtone and a coin sound as a message.

More here : http://vip.aersia.net/vip.swf

CiDeRmAn

I had Magical Sound Shower on my phone for ages a couple of years ago.
Problem is that musical ringtones tend to blend into the background, where music is often on.
So there you are, listening to something on the radio when you think.... "Oh, there's someone playing Outrun" and by the time the weak minded fool has realised his phone ringing he's missed the call!
For a long while I used the old phone ringer, you know, to remind me of the old days, when things rang on steam....

Now I have the ring tone from the Adam Sandler Disney film,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q66OtNUu1I

Never miss a call!

I'm going to get the music from Carnival!