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created OCT 1999  |  updated AUG 2005



his page is my tribute to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), with a focus on its music. In some cases my interest in NES music is probably inseparable from my nostalgia for the games themselves, but I think that a lot of the music can stand on its own. Among analog synthesizers, I often find that those with the simplest sound can be the most appealing. And the distant, dreamlike sound of the NES at its best is one of my favorites.

I was happy to discover that I could listen to songs extracted from emulated NES games conveniently on my computer. If you use Winamp, you can try Disch's excellent NSF plugin NotSo Fatso.

    NotSo_Fatso.exe  v0.851


he NSF format was created by Kevin Horton, and you can download his NSF collection, which is sorted by country and by publisher, and get more information about working with the NES and its music from his Web site. For tons more, try the NSF Archive at Zophar's Domain.

I also have some of my favorites available on this page.


nd now for some of my favorite NSF files and a few arrangements in other formats. These are ZIP files containing either an NSF file or some variety of MOD file. The files require a player like the one mentioned above.

For the files, use a player like Winamp. And for best results get the Oldskool winamp plugin.

    in_sk00l.zip  Oldskool v0.88

    
NAME		 COMPOSER or ARRANGER DETAILS or
FAVORITE TRACKS
Alloy Run Mix PhD by Jeroen Tel
Blaster Master Naoki Kodaka and Marumo tracks 2-6
Castlevania Kinuyo Yamashita, S. Terishima tracks 2 and 4
Castlevania Kent Hansen stage 3 theme
Castlevania 2 S. Terishima, Kenichi Matsubara tracks 2 and 4
Castlevania 2 unknown Bloody Tears
Castlevania 3 H. Maezawa, Yukie Morimoto, Jun Funahashi tracks 1, 11, and 13
Crystalis Yoko.O track 22
Destiny of an Emperor Perorins Tonomura track 33
Dragon Warrior Koichi Sugiyama none
Dragon Warrior 2 Koichi Sugiyama tracks 2, 4, and 10
Dragon Warrior 2 Michael Burke Only the Lonely Boy
Dragon Warrior 3 Koichi Sugiyama tracks 5, 7, 14, and 16
Dragon Warrior 4 Koichi Sugiyama tracks 5-7, 13, 14, 19, 26, and 30
Faxanadu unknown tracks 1, 6, 10, and 12
Faxanadu Axis world trunk theme
Final Fantasy Nobuo Uematsu tracks 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, and 14
Final Fantasy 2 Nobuo Uematsu none
Final Fantasy 3 Nobuo Uematsu none
Final Fantasy 7 Battle William Bubel (inmate2993) by Nobuo Uematsu
Giana Sisters PhD by Chris Hülsbeck
Gradius Miki_Chang tracks 2, 3, and 6
Gradius 2 H. Maezawa and Y. Morimoto none
Ironsword unknown tracks 8, 13, and 15
Kirby's Adventure unknown track 33
Kirby's Adventure Timo Vehmaa hyper theme
The Legend of Zelda Konchano none
Life Force unknown tracks 1-7 and 10
Little Nemo the Dream Master Gonzou none
Metroid Hiro Tanaka tracks 1, 3, and 5
Ninja Gaiden More Yamasan and B. Hasake tracks 9 and 21
Ninja Gaiden 2 S. Kajiya, Mayu, and Miya none
Ninja Gaiden 3 unknown none
Robowarrior Uhei, Inoh, and Kinoko track 2
Shadowgate unknown tracks 1, 6, 8, and 11
Shadowgate Kent Hansen main theme
Smurfs Alberto Gonzales tracks 1 and 6
Ys Yuzo Koshiro none
Ys 2 Yuzo Koshiro none
Ys 3 unknown none
Zelda Ajaxlemon none
Zelda 2 unknown none

If you want more excellent MOD files, you can find many more in another area of this site, cell7.


nd finally, here are a few more links to NES stuff elsewhere on the Internet, music-related and otherwise:

OverClocked Remix
MP3 arrangements of music from games on many platforms by many different artists. You can find some very high quality music on this site.

The Mario Systems
Bonnie and Dennis Lincoln play piano arrangements of music from lots of classic NES games. You can download their songs in MP3 format.

Chiptune
This is easily one of my favorite things on the Internet. Tons of small music files in various formats, including NSF.

Videogame Music Archive
If you're looking for game music MID files, this would be the place to go. Their collection is enormous.

NesDev
A repository of all kinds of technical NES documentation, utilities, and many other things. A very good resource if you're looking for that sort of thing.

tsr's NES archive
A site that is no longer updated, but doesn't need to be. A vast resource with many unique features and fun things to read.


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