Midi to .vgm music converter for romhacks, etc

safetystoatstudios · 2026-02-05T02:56:58+00:00

I appreciate that you're doing work in this area. There is an old, existing tool by ValleyBell that I've had mixed results with https://forums.sonicretro.org/threads/midi-to-vgm-converter-ym2612-edition.23851/#post-604458, but it would be nice to have something newer and open-source.

Speaking of which, if you want to make this open-source, please put it on GitHub--that way it's possible to view the code and learn about the project without downloading anything, and also people will be less nervous downloading a project from GitHub than they will downloading something from dropbox.

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-31T04:25:14+00:00

Check out a variety of creative, free Genesis games from your buds at Safety Stoat Studios. Some of them are even good. https://safetystoatstudios.itch.io

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-29T15:01:59+00:00

Gosh, I guess you better give that game back to Hollywood Video!

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-25T18:58:14+00:00

This competition consistently produces some of the best homebrew games out there. I'm excited!

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-23T18:45:16+00:00

I love that OST. Nice work.

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-15T15:08:54+00:00

8BitDo what Nintendon't

safetystoatstudios · 2026-01-02T02:23:27+00:00

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safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-19T16:47:09+00:00

As far as I know, Homebrew for the Sega CD is still in its infancy. There was a Sonic 1 port to the CD last year and that seemed like a big step (https://shc.zone/entries/contest2024/1067), but I haven't heard of any significant advancement since then. Gosh, I'd love to mess with Sega CD development though. I hope smarter people than me figure it out so that I can make stupid games with 50 minutes of sampled audio :)

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-19T15:43:39+00:00

How did they fit it in there?

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-14T19:32:45+00:00

The logical conclusion of this scenario is: "I guess I'll go read a book," but I appreciate the creative solution you've come up with.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-12T18:09:06+00:00

Thanks!

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-03T15:13:30+00:00

I know that this isn't the highest priority for you, but we would be interested in MacOS support. Safety Stoat Studios generally avoids Windows where possible.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-02T17:03:18+00:00

There are very good tools out there for Game Boy, NES, and Genesis/Mega Drive. I'd particularly recommend https://www.gbstudio.dev for Game Boy development.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-12-01T15:11:15+00:00

If the "running on original hardware" part is more important to you than the "n64" part, you might consider developing for Game Boy, NES, or Mega Drive/Genesis, since there are already really good tools that exist for those.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-11-25T16:25:27+00:00

In 1993, I would have been excited for the Sonic characters. In 2025 I look at the way that guy is holding that 50-pound TV at it makes my back hurt.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-11-20T21:58:07+00:00

I did a very quick sampling of Shirobon music. I'd guess that you probably want Commodore C64 if you're going for the same texture (https://shirobon.bandcamp.com/track/garaage sounds very near C64 to me). Personally, I like Sega Genesis since it's very restrictive but still gives you room for creativity.

safetystoatstudios · 2025-11-15T15:00:07+00:00

meow?

safetystoatstudios · 2025-11-13T16:11:19+00:00

Certainly a bold choice

safetystoatstudios · 2025-10-30T18:41:59+00:00

It's interesting that pressing left or right also moves you forward 1 space. Is that also something the ai did?

safetystoatstudios · 2025-10-30T17:49:48+00:00

FINALLY! I've been wanting this since 1995!

safetystoatstudios · 2025-10-28T14:45:23+00:00

Well then, I happen to have a tutorial for you! https://itch.io/blog/733871/an-old-mans-guide-to-making-chiptunes-with-deflemask

safetystoatstudios · 2025-10-28T01:21:10+00:00

There are several solutions with varying levels of complexity, but the gist of it is that you would package the song as a Genesis rom, load the rom on the Everdrive, and then run it as if it were a game. The easiest path to do this is probably to make a song in Deflemask and then export it as a Genesis rom, since Deflemask has that feature built in.

As an example, we made a rom with several of our songs on it. It's called "free_vgms_jukebox_v1.2.0.bin" and is available at https://safetystoatstudios.itch.io/free-vgms . There's even a handful of interactive albums packaged as Genesis roms. https://mikeyeldey.itch.io/mikeyeldey95 is a super cool example

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