Computer Game Music

I have been extracting the music from so many games now that I finally thought others should benefit from this as well, so here they are. Note that these are generally not the versions as they are stored in the game itself, as that tends to be a proprietary format unique to the game, which is why they sometimes sound a bit different from the in-game music (I didn't say worse!). So far I have found three major file types (and their variations) that I know how to deal with:

SMF files are generally compatible to the Windows MID files, although sometimes slight differences make it necessary to make a few changes to make them usable
XMI files are used by the Miles Sound System drivers. I converted those using my XmiKonv program.

HMI and HMP files are different versions of files for the Human Machine Interfaces driver suite. I had to make the conversion utility myself, so they results may not be as good as possible. If you'd like to have a go yourself, you can download HMI2MID.EXE (9KB)

Filename	Size	Description/Game and Company name
List.txt	12 KB	file list for all the files in the various zip files
Various.zip	40 KB	holds the files for a few games for which I either don't have all the music files or they don't have more than one piece
BI2.zip	4 KB	Battle Isle II by Blue Byte. This is quite broken at the moment and only contains one song
Descent.zip	91 KB	Descent by Interplay
Dott.zip	305 KB	Day of the Tentacle by Lucasarts
DF.zip	600 KB	Dark Forces by Lucasarts. Some people claim that these aren't GM compatible, but I haven't been able to resolve that yet.
DFall.zip	469 KB	All songs from Daggerfall by Bethesda Softworks
Duke3D.zip	186 KB	Duke Nukem 3D by Apogee/3D Realms
HOF.zip	54 KB	Legend of Kyrandia II - The Hand of Fate by Westwood Studios
Kyrandia.zip	60 KB	Legend of Kyrandia I by Westwood Studios
Sierra.zip	208 KB	A few Sierra games
Settler2.zip	60 KB	The Settlers II by Blue Byte
Tie.zip	155 KB	Tie Fighter by Lucasarts
WC.zip	129 KB	Wing Commander by Origin

Disk space considerations (aka "quota exceeded") have led me to the decision not to include the music to the Ultima series in this site. However, there is an excellent site if you are interested, namely Telavar Dragon's Mysterious Sosaria where you will find the music for each and every one of the Ultima games, including the Ultima Underworlds and the Worlds of Ultima.
There is only one problem with these files, and that is that they are optimized for the AWE32/64. The files I actually use are slightly modified in that I removed the bank change code to make them work with my sound card. If you are interested in getting those modified versions, please feel free to ask.

The copyrights for the individual songs lie with their authors. No copyright infringements intended. If you think a file should not be available here for copyright or any other reasons, please tell me. All trademarks are owned by the respective companies.

Last changed on Feb 25 2001 19:03 EST by Josef Drexler