Wednesday, December 30
Just a reminder, for all your gaming news, give
Gaming Intelligence Agency (GIA) a try.
(Powerlord)
Monday, December 28
Bad news I'm afraid... 2 of our sister sites are now down on a semi-permanent basis.
Tiamat.net had their Simplenet account closed because of multiple violations, Andy's Web Site (Bahamut's
Domain) closed his site because of Simplenet continuously shutting down his site. On the
other hand, Heaven's Cloud switched servers and hasn't completed redesigning the site yet.
In other sister site news, RPGStuff has a new look.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, December 27
VGMusic now has over 6,000 songs online! Also, special thanks
to Peach for doing the largest update ever!
(Mike Newman)
Saturday, December 19
Today is the second anniversary of the Videogame Music Archive!
Too bad Clinton had to be impeached today. Otherwise, we
would have been the top story of every news organization.
Oh well. (Just kidding.) Special thanks to the VGMusic staff
for all their help in continuing to make the site better
than I ever imagined it could ever be back in December 1996.
Also, special thanks to all VGMusic patrons for making this
such a popular site. And lastly, thank you to
Telefragged.com
for hosting our site.
I also changed the PC Music page today
so it would be much easier to update. I then went through
and put up almost all the PC music files that were sitting
around in the new-files directory.
I neglected to mention the specific files in the Recent Updates
below though.
Also, try out our whiteboard
to draw and chat with other people. I'm testing it out right
now as I write this sentence...
(Mike Newman)
Thursday, December 17
Donald Griffin contacted me today to let me know that
the song "onejump.mid" does not appear in the game Aladdin
(for Genesis).
I deleted it ASAP. Why did I rush? Because Donald made 5 original compositions
and 5 arrangements for the game! Check out his
website for
more of his credits and also to learn about his computer music
consulting business.
You might have noticed that a lot of PC music is piling up in the
new-files directory. If you are interested
in handling the PC music section and files, please let
me know. We
definitely need the help. A prerequisite is that you have a good
knowledge of PC games (something of which I do not have).
I'm also interested in finding someone to handle the Japanese
collection midis (which are also piling up).
(Mike Newman)
Wednesday, December 16
Hmmm... Looks like none of us decided to post any news recently.
The Game Music Quiz has been shut down. We are still deciding
what to do with it.
Tis the season to be busy.... School projects and exams have
been taking up most of our time recently, leaving us little time
to do updates. Hopefully things will return to normal after the 1st of the year.
Don't forget to check new-files for files that have recently come in. Zelda 64 midis have
been showing up there recently.
(Powerlord)
Monday, November 30
Quiz #6 is up, go play it now! Game Music Quiz
(Necrosaro)
Saturday, November 28
MILESTONE: We hit 400,000 hits on the counter today! We're now entering the
final stretch to one-half million visitors! I just happened to wake up at 3am EST and
check the counter.
(Powerlord)
Tuesday, November 17
Stephen Kennedy,
of KFSS Studios, has been working on making
three CDs of Squaresoft music: one Symphonic, one Rock/Techno,
and one relaxation or meditative CD. The music will be
in regular CD audio format, so your regular old CD-player
can play it. Square is currently reviewing the project
for licensing and copyrighting (I hope everything works out!).
To learn more about the project, visit
ZodiacBrave. Also, contact Stephen Kennedy
if you wish to be put on the mailing list for the news
about this project.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, November 10
SSTrax is finally opening it's doors on vgmusic.com. SSTrax is our ONLY hosted site,
a module tracking group based on IRC. This is the premiere Squaresoft tracking group on
the web, with members such as TSSF (he has a lot of works on RPGamer).
(Powerlord)
Thursday, November 5
I got a rather serious silly message over ICQ the other day:
Its confirmed, Mirabilis is going to charge $469 for every time you use your microwave.
If you want to see your dog again, click FORWARD and send this to everyone on your list.
We know if you have done this, because we can telepathically watch you all the time and
we even know when you take a cr*p. If the number of people you forward this to equals the
number of Ectasy addicts in Bulgaria, You will not have to pay for using your microwave.
(Powerlord)
Wildkard (Adrian Myer) is now the new official Encyclopedia Page Editor.
He will be replacing Powerlord, who has changed to the new position of
CGI Editor and Security Expert. Check out the Encyclopedia page
which has been finally updated after months of inactivity.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, November 3
People have been asking "What happened to Peach?" a lot lately.
Peach had a computer crash earlier this week. She will be back as
soon as possible.
In other news, Andrew Vestal (Of square.net fame), has launched another website.
Nicknamed G.I.A., it stands for
Gaming Intelligence Agency. There isn't much there now, as this site is brand new,
and the layout is not even finished.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, November 1
Quiz #2 is up, go play it now! Game Music Quiz
(Necrosaro)
GET access was given back to 12.5.246.* and 12.5.247.* last night.
Users from this address can not post to the message boards at this point, but can read
any document/play an midi on the site.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, October 31
Thanks to Pong64's sharp eyes, I found out that Elimanator's ISP has more than
one block of addresses. 12.5.246.* and 12.5.247.* are now banned. Oh, I also misreported
the number of messages. The number of messages was 30+, not 50+.
(Powerlord)
Wednesday, October 28
I had to ban my first block of IPs today. Someone by the name of Elimanator
harrassed Peach, then spammed the message board with upwards of 50 messages.
We do not tolerate this kind of behaviour here at vgmusic.com. Some of you may
know Elimanator from our chatroom. He is now banned from there, as well.
(Powerlord)
Monday, October 26
The Videogame Music Archive now has over 5,000 songs
online! Special thanks to the VGMusic staff for doing
numerous updates and thanks to everyone for making
and sending in midis!!
(Mike Newman)
Friday, October 23
The Heretic 2 Demo has been released. I have been working in conjunction
with the Raven Archives, another Telefragged
site, to bring the largest download mirror list so far in the world. You can get the demo via
the Web/Directory list or the Direct
Download list.
(Powerlord)
I will be starting the first real quiz this Sunday in the afternoon,
now that the quiz page has been tested and the score boards
work. The quiz will be updated every Sunday after that.
See the Game Music Quiz page for more details.
(Necrosaro)
Monday, October 19
According to the Associated Press: "A federal judge temporarily
banned production of a hand-held device that can download
and play pirated computer music files." This device
is a portable MP3 player, which is an awesome idea.
Its unfair how they assume that all MP3 files are illegal!
Click here to see the article on CNN's website.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, October 13
We are now hiring for a new person to keep up the Videogame Encyclopedia.
If you are interested, please send a message to
Mike Newman. A short description is available.
After a few bad starts, I finally got all the score files for the Game
Music Quiz up and running properly. This time, the score files erasure
was purely accidental (Somehow I managed to write a blank file when the script sorted entries).
Good thing this happened this week, before the real 1st round starts.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, October 11
I officially announce VGMusic's Java-Applets-for-Midis
Initiative. There is a big opportunity now to
design Java applets, so why not make java applets related
to midis? If you are interested in making such
applets, please contact me.
I eventually hope to put up a webpage on VGMusic with
java applets related to midis. It would be great to
have java applets that can edit midis, or convert midi
files into musical staffs (that was my hope when I
started working on the CGI program "midi-ditti").
Side note: VGMusic will still keep its policy of
no-java-applets on most pages, since the load time for
such applets slows down the pages' loading times. I
support have java-applets on pages by themselves though.
(Mike Newman)
Saturday, October 10
The Game Music Quiz script is now complete. Week 0 is currently being
used to make sure we have everything setup correctly. The index in the
quiz directory is not yet set up the way we want it, but we will work
on that in a bit.
(Powerlord)
Wednesday, October 7
The location of the Chat applet on dal.net had changed.... I've updated the
chat page to correct this (in other words, it works again).
(Powerlord)
Tuesday, October 6
It seems that I was wrong about King Melvyl's site closing down
permanently.... It was only down temporarily. It's back up now.
(Powerlord)
Monday, October 5
There have been a lot of changes in the sister site links up top.
There is a new sister site, and RPGStuff and King Melvyl's Castle have
both gone down, perhaps permanently, perhaps not.
(Powerlord)