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DEMON212
19th April 2008, 06:10 PM
Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?
Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?
Shortay
19th April 2008, 06:50 PM
Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?
Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?
I was actually wondering this too. I'd love to download (legally, of course) the Ocarina, retro Mario etc. tracks, but I don't know where to get them.
Jogurt the Yogurt
19th April 2008, 06:59 PM
For the more popular series like Zelda, you should be able to find official soundtracks in almost any online CD store with a big selection (here is Ocarina from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Ocarina-Time/dp/B000058ABH)). Lesser known stuff will of course be more difficult (if not impossible) to find through legal means.
SegaFan
19th April 2008, 07:15 PM
A lot of soundtrack CDs are unavailable outside of Japan and importing is the only option.
I buy soundtrack CDs from http://www.yesasia.com and http://www.play-asia.com but there isn't a huge range of retro game soundtracks. Sometimes though, companies release compilations of retro game music which are almost exclusively Japan-only but usually available from those sites. Beyond that there's always ebay.
DEMON212
20th April 2008, 10:41 PM
A lot of soundtrack CDs are unavailable outside of Japan and importing is the only option.
I buy soundtrack CDs from http://www.yesasia.com and http://www.play-asia.com but there isn't a huge range of retro game soundtracks. Sometimes though, companies release compilations of retro game music which are almost exclusively Japan-only but usually available from those sites. Beyond that there's always ebay.
Thanks, I'll take a look :)
theUndead_feature
23rd April 2008, 04:28 AM
I think this is legal...I'm not sure. You can take it off if you want, just don't slap me with a piracy warning.
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php
There's anime, too. Most old games can be found in the MIDI section.
Juice_Lee
28th April 2008, 12:55 PM
http://vgmusic.com/
A pretty big compendium of video game MIDIs. I can't really help you on official mp3s, but there is a lot of great music there.
ocremix.org
Always a wonderful place with tons of great remixes and a very professional community. All free. There is great stuff to be found here.
Pocketim
29th April 2008, 06:55 AM
This isn't much help but once I saw a Harvest Moon CD on www.trademe.com, its a NZ site though and there isn't much overseas shipping :(
kelvingreen
29th April 2008, 04:48 PM
Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?
Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?
Well, there's OverClocked Remix (http://www.ocremix.org/), which, as the name suggests, is more into remixes than original tracks from the games. I also recently discovered Galbadia Hotel (http://Galbadia%20Hotel), which seems to have a lot of original game rip mp3s for download. It's a bit of a slow interface though; in order to download a whole album rather than each individual track, you have to register.
DEMON212
2nd May 2008, 06:12 PM
Well, there's OverClocked Remix (http://www.ocremix.org/), which, as the name suggests, is more into remixes than original tracks from the games. I also recently discovered Galbadia Hotel (http://gh.ffshrine.org/), which seems to have a lot of original game rip mp3s for download. It's a bit of a slow interface though; in order to download a whole album rather than each individual track, you have to register.
As you're a big C64 fan, you might be interested in c64audio.com :)
They've got some brill tracks :D
Thanks guys :D
vissita
9th September 2008, 06:53 AM
I have bought retro music from play asia once.
http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-ci7i.html
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