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Wednesday, March 31
new-files Index Change
To cut down on server usage, the new-files index will only be updated every two
hours. As a side effect, the sort buttons have been removed from the new-files page.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, March 21
IRC Channel Change
Our IRC channel has moved to irc.esper.net #vgmusic now. Point your IRC client to the new server,
or use the new Java Applet.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, March 20
Small Sister Site Update
RPGStuff has moved to a new address.
In other news, I am asking for input about our IRC channel. The network our channel is currently on is very unstable,
and we are considering moving it to Esper Net, which seems to be faster and be more stable.
(Powerlord)
Tuesday, March 16
Sister Site Update
I've finally added all the new graphics for the various sites. Two sites were added to the
sister site ring yesterday evening: RPGCentral and
SSTrax.
(Powerlord)
Monday, March 15
Final Fantasy 8 Soundtrack is Out!
The official Final Fantasy 8 Soundtrack is now out!
It is a 4 CD set.
For information about the soundtrack, including its track lists, click here.
The soundtrack is available for sale at Gamecave.com
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, March 9
More Choice at the VGMusic Store
VGMusic.com has now also become the affiliate of Gamecave.com
Gamecave has not only all the videogames you ever wanted, including some good Japanese imports,
but it also has tons of videogame soundtracks, Anime, Art Books, posters, DVDs, and my favorite: videogame
character action figures!!!
Various Gamecave products will be listed, in addition to the Amazon products, on
the VGMusic Store page.
(Mike Newman)
Monday, March 8
Makers of "The 7th Guest" out of business
Trilobyte software, known for the games "The 7th Guest" and "The 11th Hour" is now out of business.
Apparently, Trilobyte's troubles began earlier this year, when iD Software hired away Trilobyte's lead designer, Graeme Devine.
This brings up another question: What effect will Graeme Devine have on iD Software? He is known for making puzzle games
that use Full Motion Video (although the implementation in "The 7th Guest" was not that good. :/). Only time will tell.
In Game Music news, it seems that Megadeth is doing the theme music for Duke Nukem Forever.
(I found these articles when browsing The Adrenalin Vault earlier today.)
(Powerlord)
Saturday, March 6
Gargantuan Update
Dear VGMusic Fans:
Today, I have added a record-breaking amount of MIDIs to the archive: 317! Also, because of this,
our total amount of MIDIs is now over 7,000! Isn't that great?
Please let me know if there are any broken links
or other such problems. Thanks! `^_~-
Yours truly - -
Princess Toadstool (Peach)
Cleanup of Sistersite links
I commented out the two buttons for the sites that are down right now. The buttons will
be restored when (if?) the sites come back online. Currently the sistersite ring is at
8 active members, down from 11 a few months back.
(Powerlord)
Monday, March 1
Andy's New Site
In case you haven't noticed, Andy's Website (Bahamut's Domain) has been down
for some time. Well, Andy and Firehawk (From tiamat.net) have opened a new site, named
OmniGear. Same owners, new site, and most importantly,
New Music.
(Powerlord)
Friday, February 26
New Neo-Geo Section and SPC File Archive
Yesterday I added a Neo-Geo section to the archive. Also,
an FTP directory has been set up for our SPC Collection.
(Mike Newman)
U.S. Visitors, please read
The Federal Communications Coalition (FCC) had a vote yesterday that decided that internet access
isn't intrastate commerce, but is interstate commerce. This basically makes it so that all Internet
access is under Federal jurisdiction as opposed to state jurisdiction. There is a provision in this
vote that still makes calls to ISPs local calls, but the FCC can remove that provision at a later date.
In case you've read the article about this on Zophar's Domain, I did a little more research on the FCC's
page, which states:
"But the decision preserves the rule that exempts the Internet and other information services
from interstate access charges. This means that those consumers who continue to access the Internet by dialing a
seven-digit number will not incur long distance charges when they do so. In a notice of proposed rulemaking, the
Commission also asked for comment on proposals governing future carrier-to-carrier compensation for handling
this traffic." (Text quoted from this article)
(Powerlord)
Thursday, February 25
In Focus, banners, and buttons
If any of you visit the Telefragged Homeworld,
you would have noticed that our site is in the new "In Focus" box. They will have an article
on us and interviews with some of the staff later on, as well as a new contest coming sometime soon...
On a related note, a few things have been moved around at the top of the page to make room for
the Telefragged Telenation Internal Banner. This will have logos from various sites on the
Telefragged Telenation (the same sites that are on the leftmost pulldown menu). Hopefully everyone likes
the new look a little better than the old one.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, February 20
Quiz Updated... and related news
Well, Amber decided that she doesn't want to run the quiz anymore, so
I have taken it over (at least for now). You can go play Quiz 5
right now.
(Powerlord)
Friday, February 19
MSX Music Section Added
The MSX Music section of the archive
has been added. Just a reminder that we support all systems,
and we simply add new sections as they become necessary
(i.e. - we get files for them). If the upload script doesn't
have the name of the system you want to upload a file for,
just let us know and we'll add it ASAP.
(Mike Newman)
Thursday, February 11
Sister Site link reorganization
I reorganized the sister site links up top... I put our button on it's own row,
and made the 6 open sites the next two rows, followed by the sites that are
currently down on the last row.
(Powerlord)
Monday, February 8
500,000 hits!
Well, we finally hit a half million visitors on the counter.
Thanks to all the visitors who made this possible.
We plan on being around for another few half million. :)
(VGMusic.com Staff)
Saturday, Febuary 6
Yet Another Update
Dear VGMusic Fans:
I finally finished the next update. This time, all of those arcade MIDIs have
been added. If there are *any* problems with this update at all, please let
me know! Toodles! `^_~-
Yours truly - -
Princess Toadstool (Peach)
Friday, February 5
VGMusic Store
VGMusic has opened up our own
Amazon.com Associate Branch Store
with listings of videogame music, games, hint books
and other products. VGMusic makes a tiny commission
if you turn out to be a first time buyer for Amazon.
(Mike Newman)
Wednesday, February 3
Mega-MIDIs?
Dear VGMusic Fans:
It's that time again! Time to update VGMusic and clear out the new-files
directory! I've noticed that someone uploaded Smash Brothers MIDIs which I
had to delete from the new-files directory for three reasons. Number one,
I've never seen an 8 megabyte MIDI before. I honestly don't think a browser
can handle loading that. In fact, the 1.7 megabyte one crashed my browser
after trying to load it. Number two, Smash Brothers hasn't even been released
in Japan yet, so this leads me to believe that these MIDIs were fake. The
third reason why I deleted these MIDIs is that such unusually large MIDI files
may be potentially damaging to people. Why? Well, have any of *you* seen an
eight-meg MIDI before?
In other news, I'd like people to please inform me if there are any more
problems in the new-files directory in relation to the MIDIs and/or SPCs which
have been uploaded. Gratzi! `^_~-
Yours truly - -
Princess Toadstool (Peach)
VGMusic Staff Changes
It is my sad duty to announce that Cyberkhan has decided
to leave the VGMusic staff. His contributions to the website,
especially the build up of the Commodore 64 section, are very
much appreciated.
Chiba has joined
the VGMusic staff as the new Japanese Collection Editor. Chiba
was suppose to join the staff much earlier, but he had some
computer problems resulting in the purchase of a new computer.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, February 2
Video Game Stamp
The US Post Office is conducting an online vote to pick
stamps to commemorate the 1980s. Be sure to visit their
online voting website at http://stampvote.msn.com/
and vote for the video game stamp under the "Lifestyles" category!!!
What better memory of the 1980s is there?
(Mike Newman)
Friday, January 29
The Java IRC client
As some people had noticed, the Java client hasn't been working for some time...
Well, I finally replaced it with a new one. This one actually *works*.
The last Java IRC client was actually located on www.dal.net, but it seems when they updated
it, it had a flaw in it: It would only run on the Server it originated from: irc.webmaster.com.
The new client also runs from dal.net, but from webzone.dal.net, and since it works the same
as the old one, I'm not complaining.
A word to the wise: Don't scroll up! Everytime I did, It seemed to forget how long the scrollbar
should be, and I couldn't scroll down to where the current text was.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, January 24
As much fun as Lavos is....
...we don't want to leave that page on there forever. The page is now located
here, if you want to see what it looks like. :-) Oh,
you might want to visit RPGamer... Their page is still "Toasted" after meeting Lavos.
That reminds me, I forgot to mention that quiz 2 was up on Friday. From now on,
quizzes will be put up on Fridays.
Oh, one last thing: Since the links page has not been updated in so long, I'm going to do
some major cleaning on it. If you would like us to put a link to your page, please fill out
this form.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, January 23
DAY OF LAVOS
If you couldn't tell, today is the Day of Lavos, according to the game Chrono Trigger.
Lavos came out of the Earth and destroyed the world. I don't think it's going to happen, but I
decided to have a little fun with it. :-)
(Powerlord)
Friday, January 22
Massive Update
Dear VGMusic Fans:
Today, I have added 251 MIDIs to the archive for your listening pleasure.
Please let me know if there are any broken links
or other such problems. Thanks! `^_~-
Yours truly - -
Princess Toadstool (Peach)
Thursday, January 21
The Day There Was No Lyrics
The NY Times recently came out with the following article:
Lyrics Site in Copyright Dispute Is Closed. Bad news indeed.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, January 19 / Wednesday, January 20
New File Types
As of 12:20AM CST (server time), the new-files directory and
the upload script now process SPC and GYM files correctly.
We are now accepting uploads of these two filetypes.
The look of new-files has changed slightly. There is a new column that lists the filetype
(MIDI, SPC, GYM, MIDI ZIP, SPC ZIP, or GYM ZIP). It is the 2nd column from the left.
Finally, we do not have a player page up for either SPC or GYM files, so I suggest
visiting Zophar's Domain to get players. I know the SPC
player are on this page, but check out the rest of the site, too!
In other site new, Mike and I set up a little voting booth just for fun. :)
(Powerlord)
Monday, January 18
Pseudo MIDIs?
Dear VGMusic Fans:
Lately, people have been writing in telling us that there are false MIDIs in the
New-Files Directory. Sometimes
it is hard for us to keep up with these fake uploads. But I am doing yet another
update for VGMusic and I ask that people please inform me
of any current pseudo MIDIs in the New-Files Directory,
so that I can avoid adding a lot of 'junk' to the archive. Thanks for your
cooperation! `^_~-
Yours truly - -
Princess Toadstool (Peach)
Saturday, January 16
Massive Wishlist Blowout!
For some reason, many of our VideoGame Music Archive
fans have been posting a lot of Zelda 64 requests. Well, as a result, another
Zelda 64 MIDI Voting Booth
has been placed in the Wishlist Message Board,
as well as the General Message Board
so you can vote for what you think the next Zelda 64 MIDI should be.
Please read the rules carefully. Do enjoy yourselves! `^_~-
(Princess Peach Toadstool)
Friday, January 15
As part of the current message board ban system I'm working on,
the 45 day ban on X-Warth's ISP on the message board is now gone.
To be more coherant, all bans created by me because of something on the
message board are removed after 45 days to be fair.
(Powerlord)
I was doing some random surfing and come across a great site of hilarious, zany and badly translated
Videogame Quotes. I suggest you drop by the site, called
Zany Videogame Quotes and have a good laugh.
Oh and the rest of the site looks nicer then the main page :)
(WildKard)
Thursday, January 14
I accidently altered some of the percussion instruments in the file I uploaded yesterday.
Another new version of it is up. FF7 Awe zip file
and single file.
(Powerlord)
Wednesday, January 13
That lb2_choir.mid has been updated (by me, since I "modified" it to add the choir) and added to the
FF7 Awe zip file by myself, and the updated single of it is available
in my directory. You need an AWE32/64 or SBLive to
use it, as well as the LB2 soundfont for the voices
(instead of the other FF7 soundfonts).
In other news, the game music quiz is expected to reappear sometime tonight...
(Powerlord)
Monday, January 11
VGMusic's host, Telefragged.com,
now has a search engine
which covers the hundreds of pages they host (including VGMusic). Give it a try!
I've really been big into Java applets lately. I found one
recently streams decent audio over the web. While I don't plan
to use it on VGMusic, I thought I'd share it with you:
WebSynth Streams Player Demo. Try the "Java Jingle" track.
Its hillarious. I hope some midi java applets will be available
someday.
(Mike Newman)
Sunday, January 10
We must be taking Turlis's advice seriously, the news
has been updated every single day.
If you want a comprehensive list and review of game music sites,
I suggest you visit Palace Nu,
run by Noi Gren.
Get your sheet music! After heading over to the home of the Game Music Ring
(of which we are a part of), I noticed that There is sheet music at
Rabite Man's site.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, January 9
VGMusic needs a 125x125 banner. If you would like
to submit one, please send it in by email to
me.
(Mike Newman)
Friday, January 8
The news just keeps coming. I suppose I should take the time
to announce that we have a new person taking over the quiz:
Amber Ritchie, also known as MissSchala, who also has her
own website. There will be a new quiz up either this week or next week.
(Powerlord)
Thursday, January 7
Project
Majestic Mix Update - Stephen Kennedy reports that
the Majestic Mix CD is projected to be done by December 1999
by the latest (definitely sometime this millenium...).
There will initially be
only a limited number of 1000 copies sold. Each copy will be hand
signed and contain a written number on the inside, which will correspond
to its genealogy in production. Each CD will feature a foil cover which
will have the words 'Limited Edition' written at the bottom and a
'making of' booklet as well as other special items^_^
(Also, the first 100 CDs will contain 'additional' items not included in
the others.) Not only will the CD contain over 70 min. of music, but will be
sold at $15 even. (This includes shipping and handling.)
Everyone on the Project Majestic Mix mailing
list will be the first to hear news regarding the project, as well as be
the first and 'only' people to be able to preorder the CD before
release. To learn more about the project, and to get onto the mailing
list,
Click Here. Project Majestic Mix is a LEGAL CD-Audio compilation
of remastered Squaresoft music.
(Mike Newman)
Wednesday, January 6
Big things are brewing at our hosted site, SSTrax...
They just unveiled a RPG Module archive on their site, and are working on
a new project codenamed digis.VGM Terra X (changed 01/08).
The plan behind digis.VGM Terra X (changed 01/08) is to
have all the members of SSTrax work on a single OSV to complete the whole
thing in record time. Visit SSTrax for more details.
In other news: I'm probably going to be getting a new HD this Friday, as my old one
decided to quit on me... I'm also going to retire my 420MB system drive, as I'm having problems
with one of my power cables.
(Powerlord)
Monday, January 4
Bill Machrone, from PC Magazine, wrote another computer music related
article. This own entitled:
Do You Sing to Your PC?
(Mike Newman)
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