Game Music...

RopeDrink

(Pointless Musical Thread Ahoy)

Im a hardcore fanatic of Computer / Game music (Anyone who has witnessed my mIRC music script can vouch for that) and im dissapointed at the difficulty of obtaining Computer related collections...

The likes of CastleVania SOTN and the Resident Evil collections are great, but to obtain them you have to find someone who can order them from abroad, and these days Zhivago's dont do that any more...

Are there any Game Music fans out there?
If you want any recommendations, drop me a line... Got a couple'o'hundred mp3's in my collection...

Other than that, my favourite band are "The Crystal Method" and I bet hardly any of ye know who they are...

I have to send away for their albums also...

Karl Hungus

The music in American Mc'Gees Alice was fantastic!

Download some of that Rope, you'll love it.

amp

Wipeout. Nice.

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_CreeD_

I've collected the full HardSID collection (99.9% of all 64 originals),~120 redone mixes and 7/8 remastered CD's of 64 stuff.
Yes great for annoying your friends with...

Check out http://remix.kwed.org for MP3 remixes (I recommend DJ-Lizard, Wobbler for Dancey mixes - THC,o2,MistahDistah for ambient - Puffy64 for Rock)
http://www.C64Audio.com for remastered CD's

These 2 were my soundtrack for the Euro TFC championships.....
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/545/MistaDistah%20-%20Last%20Ninja%203%20%28Old%20School%20Sonny%20Chiba%20Remix%29.mp3
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/295/DjLizard%20-%20International%20Karate%20%28remix%29.mp3

Mikill

Ne1 remember Cannon Fodder on the AMIGA 600.
The song in the Intro was so fu**in' class.
"War Has Never Been So Much Fun".
hehe
CLass Song.

RopeDrink

Cannon Fodder music was amazing - The tune for a completed mission was great, and the one where they list all the slain soldiers...

Wonder if you can get it off Nappy - Some of the Wipeout music was good, I have some of that myself...

I have almost all the Final Fantasy VII tunes, with a rake of FFVIII also...

...I have so many mp3's, yet im still not content... Anyone know some nice depressing music or orchestral that I could get my grubby nippers on!?

RopeDrink

Oh, and thanks for the URL's CreeD, much appreciated

Shinji

All the Final Fantasy stuff is well worthwhile, as is Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears and anything else by Yasunori Mitsuda. Grab the orchestral FF7 Reunion album if you can, it's a stunner.

Metal Gear Solid has top music as well.

Sliotar

and lets not forget the original command & conquer and red alert, class...

Bard

Aw c'mon... Quake/Quake II sountracks folks!!!

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Bard

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"We do know it was we who scorched the sky..."

StarScream

anyone remember xenon 2 on the atari ST? it had the coolest music by bomb the base

Xithus

Any of the final fantasy games or Secret of mana on the Snes, great boss music

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RopeDrink

Here is a list of Games that I have music from...

Alien Trilogy
Bloody Roar
Breath Of Fire III
Bubble Bobble
Bust A Groove
CastleVania NES
CastleVania SNES
CastleVania SOTN
Diablo
FinalFantasy VII / VIII
Grand Theft Auto
KingPin
Kirby NES / N64 (lol)
Megaman
Quake II / III
Resident Evil I / II
Rival Schools
Silent Hill
Starcraft
Street Fighter II / EX+A
Mario
Tekken 2
Tenchu
Tetris
Tomb Raider
Tribes II
Wild Arms
Wipeout
Half Life
And a collection of C64 tunes / medleys...

Im more into the depressing / orchestral music, and CastleVania SOTN has an absolutely adorable soundtrack...

There are other games out there that I haven't played yet, so Im sure there's some good tunes out there I should grab...

I'll give Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears a browse (Thanks Shinji)

Shinji

Xenogears is the best place to start for Mitsuda-san's work, the intro track in particular is magnificent and Small of Two Pieces is probably the best vocal track I've ever heard in a game. Chrono Trigger is magnificent of course, but it is SNES music so it's a bit dodgy in terms of sample quality; Cross reprises some of the themes and is great.

I'm reliably informed that Grandia has fantastic music although I haven't heard that much of it. And if you find the Elemental Gearbolt soundtrack anywhere, let me know - it's great but really hard to find!

Karl Hungus

Like I said...

American McGee's Alice has some of the most fantastic music there is.
Check it out Rope...

RopeDrink

Again, cheers Shinji for the feedback!
Angel, I heard the music from my times up at your house playing the game - I have to get some of those tracks!

Good atmospheric haunting tunes... Lubberly Jubberly!

zeemoud

can anyone tell me the name of the song at the end of metal gear solid the classic one i think its a violin witch goes "hi lo hi lo ..."

ohh and the music from
america mc gees - alice
is made by your guy fron Nine Inch Nails

_CreeD_

Can you guys post links to any sites that deal with game music/downloads?

Oh, nearly forgot, the Version of Adaggio For Strings in Homeworld has to be the most amazing piece of computer music ever written....mainly because it dinnae have any strings and still works.... . Finally got the MP3 of it.

mrblue

If you can find it anywhere (short of a decaying C64 somewhere) I recomend the music from Creatures 2 for all those true game music lovers. Those guys were the Chemical Brothers ahead of their time.

*I have killed a man, a man who looked like me*

--Kaiser--

The music for Doom and Doom 2 (don't laugh).

Very good music for music that is basically done in MIDI, and some of the tracks are versions of metal songs, eg

Them bones - Alice in chains
Behind the crooked cross - Slayer
This Love - Pantera
Master of puppets - Metallica

Also Quake(nine inch nails), and Quake 2(sonic mayhem)

The orchestral music for Warcraft 2 was excellent also, and most of the music in Diablo is class

_CreeD_

So many coming to mind.

Total Annihilation - pure class. Symphony of a CD.

Starlancer - very atmospheric, not great on their own though.

Unreal - Yes I actually liked the single player, and the soundtrack suited it perfectly.

MotorHead

Parallax main tune, Last Ninja 1+2, Delta, Cybernoid on the 64.

--Kaiser--

Speaking of C64 music, does anyone remember that extremely cool loading screen music for Renegade and some other games?

Dagon

F-Zero X on N64 = best music in a computer game EVER!! It's incredible!!

Sounds just like Gamma Ray, Iron Maiden and Steve Vai Perfect for me, at least the japs have some decent taste in music, not like those stupid british people who put dance **** into Wipeout!!

black_wizardd

Guilty Gear -> great soundtrack, sounds like Iron Maiden riffing, great stuff.

Quake 1/2 -> Excellent, really adds to the atmosphere.

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Greenbean

Good music;

Shadow of Beast 2 (especially when you are reborn)
Xenon 2

Atmosphere Indy 4: Fate of Atlantis
Monkey Island 1
Actually any of your lucasarts man's stuff

Intro to Zelda 64
Music for Aliens3 on amiga
No-one lives forever, spot on.

Btw theres plenty of sites that do mod files; music files for the amiga and winamp will play them - so just look around.

RopeDrink

I'd love to get some of the Amiga Music - Especially the Cannon Fodder / Aliens Music...

There's a tune also, the load up theme for Pinball Dreams / Fantasies (Cant remember which of the two) but it was an amazing theme...

There was also a tune from SuperFrog that I really liked, and "The Chaos Engine" had some lovely tracks also...

Alien Breed 2 Main Title Page music was freaky and amazing...

Anyone have any ide on how to obtain some of these!? Napster is a no no with 40% of game music... Emulators dont seem to work well for me either

zeemoud

most of the good music isn't made for games its just adapted pieces

_CreeD_

Rope, the best way to get Amiga music is to hunt down the original Mods (modules). Most of the good ones have been converted to the PC. I dont have links handy but they're not hard to find. (You could try www.overclocked.org for remixes of mainly amiga stuff)
You can use FastTracker to edit/play, or better still just go to Winamp.com and download the TFX (Chris Huelsbeck format, Turrican 1/2/3 etc.), MOD and MED plugins.

If you really want these on MP3/CD send me the links. I converted a lot of my own Amiga stuff (Yes, I used to 'compose' on it, badly...) across a while ago and found that Cooledit has some good filters for adding false-stereo/removing buzz etc., they sound a LOT better afterwards.


KAISER - That'd be one of the Ocean-Loader themes. If I remember rightly there were 3 (For ~90% of their games). 2 by Martin Galway, 1 by Johnathan Dunn. Go to www.c64audio.com and you'll find loads of mixes of it (Michael Briel's are very good). It's also on some of the Back In Time cds available there. Great tune.

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Slydice

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by --Kaiser--:

Also Quake(nine inch nails), and Quake 2(sonic mayhem)
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Didnt "White Zombie" do most of Quake 2's soundtrack

Shiminay

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Slydice:
Didnt "White Zombie" do most of Quake 2's soundtrack</font>

I'm pretty sure it was Sonic Mayhem that did both Quake 2 and Quake 3 Arena.

The first song on the original Quake CD was unreal! I really love that whole CD.

The best tune from a game HAS to be Red Alert's Hell March - that rules!

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Dav
@B^)
So I turned around to Jack Charlton and said: "Well of course it's not a football Jack, it's an '86 Chardonay!!!"
[honey i] violated [the kids]
Tribes 2 Goodness
The Dawn of the Beefy King approaches...

--Kaiser--

the first song on quake 1? yeah that Nine Inch Nails song kicks ass, pity the rest are just atmospheric (still quite good though)

Most Red alert music is all right, but 'hell march' is an exception!

RopeDrink

Cheers CreeD, and all the rest of you, for the help - Sonic Mayhem didn't do the music for Quake II I dont think - Im sure it was White Zombie... The Warehouse Tune from Quake II is amazing - Download Quake II - Track 9.mp3...

Amazing...

Sliotar

im 100% asolutely sure that sonic mayhem did the q2 soundtrack (on the ps anyway) and they did q3 aswell, but that was utter sh|te (music not game )

the rare bits of half life music were'nt bad actually, cept for the bit near the start, it was soo out of place it was funny...

RopeDrink

If you still have the Half-Life CD you can listen to the tracks...

Some of the Half-Life music was good alright, but there was so little music that you would barely notice it half the time

Shiminay

I thought the very first song in the Half-Life game was perfect for that big long train journey. Gave me a real feeling of being in a HUGE place (Black Mesa) and letting you know "there might just be something strange going on here..."

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All the best!
Dav
@B^)
So I turned around to Jack Charlton and said: "Well of course it's not a football Jack, it's an '86 Chardonay!!!"
[honey i] violated [the kids]
Tribes 2 Goodness
The Dawn of the Beefy King approaches...

Fidelis

Wipeout
Interstate '76

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black_wizardd

RopeDrink, did you get most of your stuff from Napster ?.

I would definatley recommend the Guilty Gear/Guilty Gear X soundtrack, its excellent, especially "Be just or be dead".

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But oh, no tears please, fear and pain may acompany death, but it is desire that sheperds its certainty, as we shall see...

RopeDrink

You got it right there - Would spend yonks waiting for 5-10 minute long Game music to load from napster, only for 25% of the muppets cancelling the download half-way through...

Oh well, thanks for the suggestions!

darthmise

Me thinks back to the days when I used to play MYTH on the C64, can still remember the tune, naaa... na naa na naaa, nana naa naa na na na na na naa na naa...

sweet dreams are made of these.

RopeDrink

OH MY GOD!
MYTH!

I absolutely LOVED That game... Well, the Amiga Version... Never played the C64 one...

Belisarius

Well off the top of my head

Of the older games Warcraft 2 and C&C95 are the best, Of course who could forget "hellmarch" from RA , also if i remember Dark reign 1 had some brilliant scores , err....Mechwarrior 2 . More recent times of course they have an excuse for bad music in games , its "Atmospheric" ...more like a big pile of pants . but of course a few gems shine through ,the music for Metal Gear solid was amazing , and absolutely Perfect for the game . Dark Reign 2 *much ignored good game * had a few good uns as did Deus Ex *the first one especially* Unreal was Ok but UT had this one track that went perfectly with a blazing chaingun , and of course There was that one track from Mechwarrior 3 , and Hidden and Dangerous and those little loading screen scores from Rogue spear , hell i could go on but I ....wont ..

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RopeDrink

...no, please do...

Klay

What Game are you on about there Rope? I have an old game for the amiga called Myth, but its a horrible text adventure which had no music whatsoever...was there another Myth?

RopeDrink

There was indeed...

Platformer involving a half-naked, blue haired hero who would travel through different points in time battling out in scenario's that involved "MYTH"'s, for example it started off in Hell itself, and you riot through levels, one involving all of Greece's mythological (Is that a word?) beasts, along with various other locations...

Was brilliant!

Karl Hungus

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Slydice:
Didnt "White Zombie" do most of Quake 2's soundtrack</font>

No, but ROB Zombie did some of it.

azezil

Wipeout 1, 2 and to a lesser extent 3 have the greatest sound tracks i'v ever heard on a game!

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Klay

Lemmings 2 on the amiga!

I just lubbed the music to the outdoor levels

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--Kaiser--

Lemmings of course! Brilliant music that you kept humming 3 hours after you finished playing the game!

RopeDrink

Rofl - Lemmings - One of the Amiga's finest fames...

There were so many versions, it was unreal - And the Christmas One really took the biscuit with it's funny levels and cheap Xmas music - Class...

I tell you, Alien Breed 2's Intro screen music really kicked quite a bunch of buttock...

I NEED a way to get that tune, and the Cannon fodder ones, yet I dont seem to have time to scout the Internet for them

If anyone happens to have the tunes, please please (and please again) let me know...

Keeks

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by --Kaiser--:
Speaking of C64 music, does anyone remember that extremely cool loading screen music for Renegade and some other games?</font>

That would have been the Ocean Loader song written by a chap called Martin Galway who was one of the best C64 musicans ever.

I used to have loads of links of Amiga and C64 music somewhere, both in their original formats/modules and some in mp3, and loads of sites with software to convert between boat. Winamp is good with the plugins. There is also deliplayer (any1 who had an amiga will remeber that 1) for the PC now and it will play almost any piece of music ever writen. I haven't tried it out yet but the amiga version was the biz. U can check it out at http://www.deliplayer.com



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RopeDrink

Lovely stuff - cheers for that...

Checking the Link out, now

Out of curiosity - Anyone still have their amiga?

I still have my NES, C64, Spectrum 64k and 128k, Amiga 500, PSX and (obviously) my PC...

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