An introduction, previous uploads
Hey friends! Welcome to Explod.
I’m creating this blog to share and talk about classic video game music. There’s a lot of music out there impossible to find in any format other than emulated rips from game roms, as the vast majority of games ever released have been left without complete, salable OSTs.
As handy as those exotic formats are (like .nsf, .vgm, etc.), you’ll need standalone players or plugins to support those file-types, and most portable devices won’t support them at all. I’ll be ripping these emulated soundtracks to mp3, so you’ll be able to get them on your ipod or listen to them in your media player with all the work cut out.
About the soundtrack selection:
Every other week I’ll be sharing four soundtracks. There won’t be any rhyme or reason to my selections— whether they’re nostalgic tunes or new discoveries I’ll be picking whatever I like at the moment.
I’ll be focusing on “classic” vgm, mostly 8-bit and 16-bit stuff along the lines of NES, SNES, SMS, MSX, AMIGA, C64, Sega Genesis/Megadrive music, and the like. I’ll try to balance obligatory classics with totally obscure selections.
About the mp3 tagging:
I came up with a system to keep things neat. Hopefully it’ll work nicely for you if you’re as anal about this kind of thing as myself.
Artist - will always be “VG Music”
Album - will start with the system, then game’s name (like “NES - Mega Man”, or “C64 - Turrican”)
When you start gathering more and more of these soundtracks, it can become tedious to scroll through your collection if you have to browse through dozens of different composers and companies under the artist tag. Simply put, the lack of a uniform tagging method can make your library quite messy. This groups everything in one place.
I’ll also be using this blog to talk about things of related interest, like chiptunes, concerts, and anything cool involving video game stuff.
Stay tuned! My first contribution will be up later tonight. And I’ll be editing this post to link all of my uploads in one place.
-bucky
—-list of current uploads—-
Amiga
- █ Labyrinth of Time (CD 32)
- █ Pinball Dreams
- █ Rambo III
- █ Savage
- █ Space Hulk
- █ Super Frog
- █ Compilation
C64
GameBoy
MSX
- █ Andorogynus
- █ Final Fantasy
- █ Laydock II
- █ Metal Gear
- █ Metal Gear II - Solid Snake (SCC)
- █ Rune Worth
- █ WEC Le Mans
NES/ Famicom
- █ Abadox
- █ Akumajou Densetsu (VRC6)
- █ Alien III
- █ Almana no Kiseki (FDS)
- █ Astyanax
- █ Batman - Return of the Joker
- █ Bubble Bobble
- █ Castlevania
- █ Castlevania II
- █ Castlevania III
- █ Contra
- █ Crisis Force
- █ Deja Vu
- █ Double Dragon
- █ Double Dragon 2
- █ Dr. Mario
- █ Dracula II (FDS)
- █ DuckTales
- █ Falsion (FDS)
- █ Fire ‘N Ice
- █ Friday the 13th
- █ Gimmick! (FME-07)
- █ Gremlins II
- █ Hero Quest
- █ Maniac Mansion
- █ Metal Gear
- █ Metal Gear II - Snake’s Revenge
- █ Mitsume ga Tooru
- █ Mighty Final Fight
- █ A Nightmare on Elm St
- █ Ninja Gaiden II
- █ RodLand
- █ Shadowgate
- █ Shatterhand
- █ Silver Surfer
- █ Skate or Die
- █ Skate or Die II
- █ Solstice
- █ Sweet Home
- █ Treasure Master
- █ Uninvited
- █ Werewolf: The Last Warrior
- █ Wolverine
- █ Zelda no Densetsu (FDS)
PC
Sega 32X
Sega Game Gear
Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive
- █ Alisia Dragoon
- █ Atomic Runner
- █ Castlevania Bloodlines
- █ Ecco The Dolphin
- █ Ecco: The Tides of Time
- █ Jewel Master
- █ Mega Turrican
- █ Splatterhouse III
- █ Verytex
- █ Warsong
- █ Ys III: Wanderers from Ys
Sega Master System
SNES/ Super Famicom
TurboGrafx16/ PC Engine
Guest Picks
Akumu
- █ River City Ransom (DNM) Complete Collection (Multiple Systems)
- █ Last Action Hero Complete Collection (Multiple Systems)
- █ Power Blade (NES)
MegaMatt
- █ VG Compilation 1 (Multiple Systems)
- █ VG Compilation 2 (Multiple Systems)
