Classic RPG Music
Great midi tunes. Click n' play or R-click and DL!
From Ultima 3
 Ultima 3 World Map Theme   Ultima 3 Towne Theme   Castle of Exodus
From Ultima 4
 Castle Theme  Dungeon Theme  Ultima 4 Towne Theme
From Ultima 6
 Forest Music  Main Theme Music  Stones
From Final Fantasy 3
 Combat Theme   Opening Theme  Boss Fight!
From Final Fantasy 7
 The Classic Final Fantasy Intro Theme  Battle Song  Boss Fight!
From Chrono Trigger
 Main Music  Battle Theme
 From Xenogears
  Cathedral Music  The Promise  In the Ygdrassil
From Alternate Reality; The City
 The Armoury Song  Moments  Thorendan
 
 
These midis should be played through a General MIDI hardware wavetable soundcard. If you do not have one, try to grab a software wavetable player like WinGroove or Yamaha XG-MIDI. It sounds FAR better than FM Synth! If I get enough requests, I will post WinGroove.
For me, one of the strongest elements that bring out the suspension of disbelief required to really get into an RPG is the music. All the best RPGs have fantastic atmospheric music. Even games from the early 80s when computers did not have very good sound processors, the best RPG designers made sure they had as atmospheric a musical score as possible, and succeeded greatly with games such as Ultima 3 and 4, and Alternate Reality, City and Dungeon, tunes from all of which can be found dancing in my head at any time. so for fantastic musicians such as Kenneth W. Arnold and Gary Gilbertson, here is my tribute to their talents in .Midi, .Sid and .Mod format.
.Midi files should be playable by on any windoze/mac/linux/etc. PC, but if you need a .mod or .sid player, go to  The Win Amp Page and grab Win Amp, the best .MP3 player around, which also plays almost every music format known. .MOD play is built in, and a plug-in for .SID  files is available, and worth the download. .SID files let you relive (or experience for the first time) the unique sounds of the Commodore 64 SID chip, which a talented musician could make sound like anything they wanted it to. Demo coders in Europe still use the C-64 to create great looking and sounding presentations on a 16 year old 8-bit computer!
I've decided to post  SidPlay , an excellent stand-alone SID player, and a few of the better SID RPG tunes from the C-64
 The Bard's Tale III
 Ultima III: Exodus  Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar   Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
.MOD files allow you to hear Amiga ScreamTracker/NoiseTracker module music, which is still the best sounding computer-generated music to this day. only in the last little while when red book audio took over has the PC sounded better than the Amiga.
One of the few strengths of the console RPGs is the absolutely fantastic music that the better companies put into their games, especially SquareSoft. Music from games like Final Fantasy 3 and Xenogears are rich, epic and add a lot to the linear, limited gameplay of console RPGs. some of the better console tunes have been added, and more will be added later on if time and space allows.
 
Soon: Amiga section