C64 SID tunes nostalgia
Music plays a huge part of my recollection of childhood gaming memories. Since chip tunes are hip again (?) it might be socially acceptable to say that I’m in category of not listening to that much more new music. One thing that vexed me a bit was how to find anything that I can play on my actual iPhone / modern mp3 player?
Current thinking: how can I get a .mp3 file of the title music in the c64 version of Elite?
It’s been a long pandemic.
— Jim Tilander August 20, 2021
So here are some notes for future me, in case I need to start listening to some tunes for nostalgia emergency:
Go to High Voltage SID and do a search for any song that you do remember. Things to look out for are:
- Full path into the collection.
- If you remember the original release date, pick the correct one. There seems to be a bunch of remixes and clones.
After that go to one of the mirrors that have pre-rendered everything into .mp3 and download the appropriate one from Stone Oakwalley’s, e.g. one of their mirrors: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/Oakvalley/soasc/hvsc
Here are a sample of the greatest hits from my childhood:
- Elite Title Music
- Bubble Bobble
- Rock’n Roll
- Defender of the Crown
- Flimbo’s Quest
- Flimbo’s Quest
- The Last Ninja
- Head over Heels
- Ocean Loader
- Wizball
- Wonderboy
- Wonderboy in Monsterland
- Bomb Jack
- Elite Loader
- Great Giana Sisters
- IK+
- Commando
In closing
These are some of the tunes that makes me recall simpler times, with way too many hours spent in-front of a 24” CRT TV. How would your list look like?