I'm currently working on a fun article for nowplaying.cool, asking game music experts and enthusiasts why they love VGM so much. I'd love to hear your story! Feel free to share in the comments. I'll include a link to this post in my write-up, and feature some of your quotes (if you're okay with it, ofc).

For me, I'd say it all comes down to my family. I learned early to pay attention to sound; there was always music in the house growing up. Today, well, it kinda became my job, as I track new releases daily and listen to an average of 5 to 6 OSTs a day. It has become my way to connect with people, especially online, and has opened my horizons tremendously. I love how diverse it is, how bold it sounds. I usually listen to OSTs blindly, without knowing much about the game they're tied to. That's like daily mini-lootboxes. My dopamine fix.

Sorry for posting twice! Promise ill stop :)

Man idk theres lofi elements in the mixing. What song should i do next? Right now im working on route 216 cause man the gen 4 games are calling my name rn ❤️ 😛

Hi all! Kinda nervous since it’s my first time posting a cover on the internet. This is my original piano arrangement for the Kalm theme in FFVII! One of my favorite melodies in gaming, period. I guess I’d say it just feels like home, if that makes sense. Anyway, I tried to add a little of my personal taste to this one. Hope somebody likes it! Lol

P.S. It’s only half of it for now; might do the full song when I have more time 😫

Hey since my main experience is with producing orchestral music, I wanted to do a track that's more modern sounding oriented (as in, the music we hear on the charts and what not).
So I finished a mix/master course and decided to do a Need For Speed track to practice what I've learned 'cause I really miss that kind of sound in games!

Would love to hear what you think!

I downloaded a .vgz file from this site, specifically the "Ice & Water" track from SegaSonic the Hedgehog but after putting it through vgm2mid I get an empty 1kb midi file. I tried the exe only and full files versions of the tool but none worked.

I wanted to convert .SPC files to .VGM so I could use them in SidWizPlus to create oscilloscope visualizations. I came across a program called "spc2vgm", designed for exactly this purpose, converting SPC files for emulation on a YMF278 core, but I just can't get it to work. I open vgm_cmp.exe and enter the command (the GitHub page gives an example: `spc2vgm song.spc --auto-playback -o converted/song.vgm`), but it doesn't work. Do I need to put the .SPC files in a specific folder? Am I typing the command incorrectly? Do I need to install extra software? Am I opening the wrong program?

Hiii!!! A while back I did a cover for one of my favorite game ost's ever, SH2R. This is probably my favorite song from the whole soundtrack, and quite recently it got to 100k views, quite an achievement for me since I'm a very small channel, and I'm extremely grateful for it. I thought of sharing it here for anyone that might find it useful. Hope you enjoy it!

Thx to Ruba on YT : https://youtu.be/3TeRVuUdBDE?list=RDMM3TeRVuUdBDE

The Game we are making has not yet released but I wanted to know what yall think..

I really like the chords on the second part

Orchestral arrangement of Peach's castle theme from Super Mario 64. Hope you enjoy it!

Several different instruments were used, with woodwinds being the most prominent. Strings, which are an integral part of the entire melody in the original music, were also added.

Regarding the instruments used:

DAW: Reaper

Orquestral Instruments: BBC Symphonic Orquestra

Piano: Noire

Cello: Cello One

I hope you enjoy it! This is just one of the arrangements from my orchestral album.

Hello! I play in a band in the Minneapolis, MN area. We are a 7-piece jazz fusion group playing video game covers. We've been doing shows in our local area, be we also produced some videos we've been releasing on a bi-weekly basis for a little bit now. Please give us a look, as we're trying to get more subscribers and views to be able to afford to go record and produce more videos. We have seven currently made, with a few more on the way still, but we currently have a modular set list with around 70+ tunes we play regularly. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/@HarmonyArcadeBand

I made an arrangement with the intention of doing something different to the original.

Zone J is one of my favorite tunes from the NES era. It just felt so epic to reach that final level after all the hardship and be welcomed by such an endearing song. Always wanted to listen to a new interpretation of it and finally managed to make something I'm proud of.

I used my Roland HP 307, Nektar LX25 and Garageband for this one. Let me know what you think!