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While less of a focus than it was when the Somnolescent Archives first launched, some miscellaneous dumps of files and data do still live on this subdomain. These can be browsed at your leisure and downloaded in full. The use of a downloader utility like wget for more convenient local browsing is encouraged, though be nice and set a wait between downloads, please.
(Do be aware that our Web host, DreamHost, has occasionally slow Apache indexes like these file listings use. There's nothing misconfigured on our end.)
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This section is for modded Guitar Hero discs with something noteworthy about them. Advanced hacks, sought-after customs, just being exceptionally well done, or being exceptionally poorly done all qualify. Authors, if known, are in square brackets.
DirectMusic is an ancient component of DirectX that allows for dynamic soundtracks in games and multimedia applications--that is, music that changes in timbre and tempo based on events or locales in a game. DirectMusic Producer is the composer tool for DirectMusic files, and these are the songs it came with as demonstrations in MIDI format.
A YouTube playlist for these songs direct-captured from DirectMusic Producer is also provided for your listening pleasure.
Salvaged promotional wallpapers for 90s and 2000s games. At the moment, we only have ones for Bejeweled 2, with those awesome alien landscape backgrounds, and Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II in crisp 1024x768.
Royalty-free sound effects and music beds that came with iMovie and the iLife suite back in the day for use in videos. These have been losslessly repacked to better supported audio containers for easier use in modern editing tools--these have not been re-encoded, the original lossy audio streams are left as-is.
An explanation page for where to find these on Apple's original install discs and what processing was done to them is available on mari_v3.
A ton of clipart salvaged from a very old program called either WebPage Designer Gold or Internet Design Shop Gold. dotcomboom found it on the free shelf at Free Geek Twin Cities. The clipart has been sorted and converted to GIF so you can actually use them, should you want to.
As neopets.com is still in the middle of a redesign and these old icons are likely to disappear, these were salvaged from their respective downloads pages, sorted, and put onto one lightweight page for ease of browsing.
A bit of an odd duck compilation of various lossy audio files from various places loosely as a sampler of the output of various MP3 encoders. Some were encoded by Fraunhofer (fastenc/l3enc/mp3enc) and programs that used FhG encoders like iTunes or Adobe Audition, some are from ancient versions of Lame, and others still are Xing encodes. (Really, Cammy just puts old weird MP3s in here. "It's a shitshow!" he says enthusiastically.)
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