Author Topic: What 'browse' music do you use in your FE? (Read 3918 times)

ras2a · « **on:** December 30, 2004, 07:31:14 am »

Just curious to know what sort of music you guys have playing whilst browsing your games through your Front End. I use Mamewah with Led Zepppelin's 'No Quarter' running in the background

...although I also have Lost Tribe's 'Gamemaster' in there along with a couple of other pertinent tracks.

Of course I know the Zep track has an entirely different meaning, just thought it would be cool! And a few mates picked up on it.

Share your thoughts...

Craig

Gunstar Hero · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2004, 11:40:54 am »

I use a couple of those "Arcade Ambiance" MP3s and a image of an arcade aisle from "Arcade '84" as the background with Atari looking text. It's a real nice effect.

somunny · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2004, 11:48:33 am »

Quote from: Gunstar Hero on December 30, 2004, 11:40:54 am

I use a couple of those "Arcade Ambiance" MP3s...

Same here.

ras2a · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2004, 12:05:42 pm »

Wow! This is superb, thanks a lot guys!

lucindrea · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:12:51 pm »

i've got NIN closer to god cd on mine , but i do need to change it as my nefues are visiting from fl next month and a fully uncencored cd is probely not the best thing for 5 and 8 yr olds.

bittorrent tracker is down for the Arcade Ambiance

Goz · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2004, 04:50:18 pm »

There's a copy of Arcade Ambience ---> here as well.

-Goz

lucindrea · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2004, 05:27:43 pm »

i got the little ( ok out of the 3 79M is little ) one allready .. heh if you play it from the begining , you can hear galaxian , the game starts , ship gets captured , ship gets reclaimed

Goz · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2004, 05:38:49 pm »

On one of my machines I have the aphextwin-powerpillpacman.mp3 in use. This one has a semi decent techno sound and beat to it with the classics in the background.

-Goz

somunny · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2004, 07:39:53 pm »

Here's a link to more tunes along the line of what Goz is referring to. The Tony Fox stuff is pretty catchy.

http://digitalpress.5u.com/dpsoundz/mp3.htm

thrash242 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2004, 12:41:16 am »

Arcade ambience here as well. I would tend to think actual music would be distracting.

If I did use music, however, it'd be something video gamey sounding.

spongebue · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2004, 12:52:18 am »

I used the music from Kymaera, though my FE is Gamelauncher. The full length song with modern synthsizer sounds made out of a 15-second clip from an older game that sounds amazing and I think it is ideal for my cab

I just hope PacManFan isn't mad at me

ras2a · « **Reply #11 on:** December 31, 2004, 05:35:19 am »

Surprised no one has mentioned tunes from http://www.ocremix.org/ etc. I just tried the arcade ambience stuff and while it does sound cool (ahh memories), I still prefer listening to music. I wonder if there is a way to listen to different music types depending on which emulator you are running? that would be cool, for example using WinUAE, you could have Apidya, Turrican II, Shadow Of The Beat etc, playing.

EDIT: Ahh, didn't realise that you there is already the option for specifying music path per emulator in the individual ini files - WooHoo!
Craig

Rocky · « **Reply #12 on:** December 31, 2004, 12:43:33 pm »

I keep switching around. I like the arcade ambience stuff, but I also like music.

I have a CD made from the original LP of Pacman Fever by Buckner and Garcia.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #13 on:** December 31, 2004, 07:49:01 pm »

Quote from: thrash242 on December 31, 2004, 12:41:16 am

Arcade ambience here as well.

ras2a · « **Reply #14 on:** December 31, 2004, 08:38:01 pm »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 31, 2004, 07:49:01 pm

Something of note though. Unless your fe skin is a generic arcade skin (and if it is shame on you, it should be custom and themed to match your cabinet.)

It certainly is 'themed' to match my cab. I run Ste's excellent FE, Mamewah (as I'm certain many of you do). I tend to use skin's of a really low res though (368x240). Here's my mame skin (have a few other versions too):

The above is not 'actually' 368x240, I just scaled it up a little so you could see it a bit better. I don't find the music too distracting, but sometimes have to be careful not to get caught up in the tune and forget that I'm in the middle of choosing a game (as if

). Agree about the volume though, it's there to provide ambience and that's it!

Craig

Gunstar Hero · « **Reply #15 on:** December 31, 2004, 09:29:45 pm »

Since the "theme" of my cab is "used to be a Pole Position," I'm pretty happy with the Arcade '84 background w/Arcade Ambiance, and feel no shame. Neener neener!!

ras2a · « **Reply #16 on:** December 31, 2004, 09:44:50 pm »

nothing wrong with that, Gunstar

thrash242 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2005, 02:07:06 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on December 31, 2004, 07:49:01 pm

Agreed. Something of note though. Unless your fe skin is a generic arcade skin (and if it is shame on you, it should be custom and themed to match your cabinet.) generic arcade ambiance sounds aren't neccessarialy a good choice either as they detract from the skin.

Well, I guess you could say my MAMEWAH skin is custom, since I did make it myself, but it's not anything slick so far. It's all blue and black with pizelated fonts. I will probably have different ones for different games lists and emulators at some point.

I do write music as another interest, and I, of course, like videogamey sounding stuff. I even have a SIDStation, which is a standalone synth that has the actual chip from a Commodore 64...but with full MIDI support.

I might right some music for my frontend or just make some ambience myself. *shrug*

maraxle · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2005, 10:36:32 am »

Quote from: Rocky on December 31, 2004, 12:43:33 pm

I keep switching around. I like the arcade ambience stuff, but I also like music.

As a compromise, if you have a sound editing program of some sort (like SoundForge, or even the editor that used to come with Nero), you could overlay music on the arcade ambience track. I might have to try that myself...

Minwah · « **Reply #19 on:** January 01, 2005, 12:59:33 pm »

I like having game tunes playing (usually ripped using M1), my skin has a generic feel so any retrogame music works great.

I made a Galaga '88 Medley recently: http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=15880&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=1103090746

ras2a · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2005, 04:31:02 pm »

Great stuff, will check it out ste. Now to get Deluxe Galaga and Megaball AGA with WinUAE working via Mamewah!

Khenemet Heru · « **Reply #21 on:** January 10, 2005, 03:50:43 pm »

Currently I'm running music from http://remix.kwed.org/ as my browse music for MAMEWAH, tracks that are remixed C64 tunes from games like Ocean Loader 4.5, Skate or Die, Commando, Delta, Sanxion, MULE, etc.

I may change this once the cab itself is completed (perhaps Arcade Ambiance with some other stuff mixed in (vintage 80s music), but with the guts spewed all over a table, it's good enough for me...

liquid8 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 18, 2005, 03:28:53 am »

OC Remix is the best... my favorite music to play though is The Minibosses... damn they have some good remade nintendo songs, google for Wizards and Warriors

LiQuiD8

Tritoch84 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 18, 2005, 02:26:22 pm »

I've got to find some good JPop or techno (I hate techno, but in this setting....).

Right now it just cycles the theme from Final Fantasy 8 (the one in the opening FMV)

LeedsFan · « **Reply #24 on:** January 20, 2005, 04:56:50 am »

That Arcade Ambience is brilliant! I've just downloaded it and put it on my cab. Excellent stuff!

However, I can only get this to run while browsing the Mamewah menu. Is there a way to get it running while playing a game as well? Just as background ambient music of course..... the game your playing should be louder just as it would be in a real arcade.

mlcampbe · « **Reply #25 on:** January 20, 2005, 09:37:53 am »

I've found some music at http://hem.passagen.se/bfscout/mods/ that I use for my FE browsing. The files are not in mp3 format so you have to convert them but that can be done using the QCD music player or probably other ways as well.

If you are familiar with the pysol game then it uses some of this same music.

If you need help playing/convering the files let me know.

Minwah · « **Reply #26 on:** January 20, 2005, 11:00:22 am »

Quote from: LeedsFan on January 20, 2005, 04:56:50 am

That Arcade Ambience is brilliant! I've just downloaded it and put it on my cab. Excellent stuff!

However, I can only get this to run while browsing the Mamewah menu. Is there a way to get it running while playing a game as well? Just as background ambient music of course..... the game your playing should be louder just as it would be in a real arcade.

Depends what version of MAMEWAH you're running. At some point I added a 'music_during_emulation' (or something like that) option to emuname.ini, but in the latest version you just need to add the {music} flag to the end of commandline_format. You might have to adjust the volume in mamewah.ini.

LeedsFan · « **Reply #27 on:** January 20, 2005, 12:35:14 pm »

I'm running Mamewah version 1.52.

romperwomb · « **Reply #28 on:** January 20, 2005, 10:58:06 pm »

Quote from: liquid8 on January 18, 2005, 03:28:53 am

OC Remix is the best... my favorite music to play though is The Minibosses... damn they have some good remade nintendo songs, google for Wizards and Warriors

LiQuiD8

Agreed, the Minibosses versions of the Castlevania songs are just awww man....great.

I have a few clips from: http://www.coinopvideogames.com/sounds.html running. This guy and his friends would take a tape recorder with them to the arcade from 1982 and eventually stopped in 1988. It's totally awesome to hear the slang of the time, prepubescent swearing at the Tron machine, the first time they played Star Wars. Just furthers that nostalgia thing, for me at least.

ras2a · « **Reply #29 on:** January 21, 2005, 04:41:08 am »

I've decided to come around to your ways of thinking. I'm dumping Led Zeppelin (although that sounds harsh) etc, in favour of some ripped in-game coin-op themes.

Craig

Minwah · « **Reply #30 on:** January 21, 2005, 05:44:46 am »

Quote from: LeedsFan on January 20, 2005, 12:35:14 pm

Is my version new enough? And if so, which file do I amend? (Is it mame.ini in my Mame folder, or my Mamewah folder?)

Nope, you'll need the latest version I think (use {music} flag)...I must've added (and ditched) that option in one of the recent betas.

jlfreund · « **Reply #31 on:** December 02, 2006, 12:34:10 pm »

I'm a huge Oingo Boingo found, and I think I found the perfect background music for my front end:

From the album "The Forbidden Zone", there is a short, zany, and very catchy instrumental called "Cell 63".

Danny Elfman is the guy who often works with Tim Burton on movie soundtracks (think motif of Beetlejuice, Nightmare before Christmas, etc)

Jason

Kook · « **Reply #32 on:** December 05, 2006, 08:50:29 pm »

No music. Occassionally my body will make sounds. I can't figure out why nobody will play with me.

Havok · « **Reply #33 on:** December 06, 2006, 01:03:20 am »

Well, I guess I go against the trend - I have trance music playing with a real high energy level that comes on quick - right when AtomicFE fires up. Everybody that has been over to play on my cab loves it...

Turnarcades · « **Reply #34 on:** December 06, 2006, 05:35:05 pm »

I do none of the above.
I use some basic polyphonic versions of game music, which switches depending on the emulator menu currently being run. For MAME I have a fast techno track from Dancing Stage (DDR), then for SNES I use the Mario World music, Megadrive the Sonic music, Game Gear the Shinobi music, Gameboy the Tetris music etc.

Works for me, and the music kicks in quicker cos the file sizes are small!

I always liked the Killer Instinct attract sequence music too, which I sometimes use for MAME. I think lyrics or actual music ruins the arcade experience.

mrclean · « **Reply #35 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:04:40 pm »

got 10gigs of random mp3 files.. if i don't like the track i hit a button and it changes. Sure it takes up space, but its a jukebox too on idle.


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Author Topic: What 'browse' music do you use in your FE? (Read 3918 times)

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