Thought On Starting A Gaming Music Blog?

[racketboy]

I've been toying with the ideas for months now, but wanted to let it sit in my head for a bit before bringing it up. I realize that I haven't updated my "Game Rooms" section in a while, but I would like to start a new section about gaming music (particularly of a retro theme).

This could include official soundtracks, remixes, gaming bands, and maybe even music videos.

The first person that came to mind was Mozgus as I know he is into this stuff.
If he or anybody else experienced in the area would like to post occasionally, that would be awesome.

I will probably aim for having one post a week just to keep a regular flow without getting burned out. If we have more than one contributer, we can write posts at our own pace and I can publish them at the once-a-week timeframe.

I also want to try to have a standardized post layout where we possibly have some sample tracks and such that can be playable on an embedded MP3 player, but also available for download. I still have to work out the details on that part.

Much like the retro gaming section, I would like this to be a balanced mix of looking back at the essentials for newbies starting a collection with some new, cutting edge stuff thrown in for the veterans.

So what do you think?

[Mozgus]

I wouldn't be able to contribute much. Also I completely fail at describing music. My musical vocabulary sucks and I am terrible at identifying instruments and other stuff. I'm just not educated on the subject. This guy often does what I could never do:

http://www.klondikeaudio.com/

I really like how he highlights individual songs and convinces you to give them a listen even when you've never heard of the game.

[racketboy]

His work is impressive, but I think like most things, the skill comes with practice.
I know just from my writing on this site, the more you do it, the better you get.
I'm almost embarrassed to look back at my early work.

Anyway, I don't think it's a prerequisite to come up with inspiring dialog for everything.
I think just getting the information out there is a great start.

[Space Paranoids]

I think that would be really cool, actually. I like game music a lot, but I only know of the soundtracks from the games I've played and just a few cover bands (some of which I got from a thread here on the forums). So yeah, I'd read it.

[marurun]

Check out the PC Engine City podcast at http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_det ... od_id=9994 for some more illustration of classic VG podcast material.

I recommend using Winamp 5/2 with plugins to convert chip music to MP3. Zophar's domain isn't updated any longer but it still has huge NSF, SPC, and HES (PCE chip audio format) archives, among other things.

[Mozgus]

I recommend using Winamp 5/2 with plugins to convert chip music to MP3. Zophar's domain isn't updated any longer but it still has huge NSF, SPC, and HES (PCE chip audio format) archives, among other things.

http://www.caitsith2.net/gsf/index.php?sortby=updatedd
http://www.hcs64.com/usf/
http://www.tzone.org/~llin/psf/
http://slickproductions.org/nsfe.php
http://snesmusic.org/v2/

Music for GBA, N64 PS1/2, NES, and SNES

[Yackom]

I listen to http://gamingfm.com pretty often. Anyone else?

[Mozgus]

I listen to http://gamingfm.com pretty often. Anyone else?

I used to but then they died for a year.

[marurun]

Zophar's domain also has a GYM (Genesis) archive.

[Mozgus]

Zophar's domain also has a GYM (Genesis) archive.

GYMs often sound terrible compared to the actual songs. We've yet to have a true genesis sound logging format. GYMs main issue are the instruments are rarely the right pitch and tone. Just something to know before hand.