Music suggestions for your RetroPie menu Music

backstander

@DorkVonWaterfall
Okay since you posted Cyndi Lauper, I have to post Goonies II for the NES.

Brigane

Amazing soundtrack from the video game "Machinarium".

matchaman

Here's the ultimate playlist for chiptune style tracks:


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And here's something more relaxing:


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Edit: even code block can't help YouTube playlists appearing as videos. Anyway, paste the URL from the bottom part to get the full lists.

BobHarris

I have spent many hours building a playlist for my Pi. It's partially a nostalgia fueled soundtrack and partially music I recently discovered, thanks to SupraDarky (a youtuber). Most of the music is from the 8, 16 and 32 bit eras. RPG's have some of the best music so they are well represented.
I thought I'd make a playlist on Youtube so I can share my efforts with you all:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxvWYoavN9PqE1HMHGi0gkfSs09kLrExC

There should be something new and awesome to discover for everyone. :-)

Slimy

I had an idea that each system could have it's own music. I never tried doing this, but here's some songs think sound good with each system. My rules were that it has to sound like it could be laid back menu music, and that it can't be too repetitive, (no map music.)

Arcade: Namco Museum Game Select Menu Theme (Gamecube)

Gameboy: Super Mario Land - Muda Kingdom

Genesis: Ristar - Break Silence

NES: Startropics - dungeon

PSX: Fighter Maker - Fighter Select

Mastersystem: OutRun - Magical Sound Shower

SNES: Super Mario RPG - Let's Do the Fooka-Fooka!

or Donkey Kong Country - Simian Segue

Tim

I just started looking into music and found this thread. FANTASTIC ideas in here and a pile of songs I had completely forgotten about. I have one to add that doesn't really fall into the RetroPie category but it's just too awesome not to mention and I think it's a great fit for most systems.

SUPERSTARDUST HD

Barcrest

This is an all time classic. If i was using it i would use the actual song.

Barcrest

These are great for the menu screen

PittStone

Here is my Playlist of Game Remixes.
I used it for Emulationstation on my Raspberry pi.

Game Remixes for Frontend

Tim

@barcrest said in Music suggestions for your RetroPie menu Music:

These are great for the menu screen

These are great. How do I rip the sound from a YouTube vid?

PittStone

@tim JDownloader! Copy a youtube Url and it will be automaticly insert in JDownloader. You can Choose Resolutions, too. Or Only the Audio.

chipsnblip

Brigane

MajorDangerNine

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - K.K. Slider's Entire Repertoire (Aircheck Versions)

I haven't played an Animal Crossing since Wild World, but I love this music for my BGM. 91 tracks total.

mrnebu

red59

For those who like Synthwave, I have created a playlist that works great for Background music (at least to my taste).
No voice, just some of the best soft music inspired from the 80's (Mitch murder, Morgan Willis, The Midnight...)
Hope this can be useful for some of you!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7AWoDhxl2Ls7LHoUrM3HID?si=OX1SD8QDT2GofTgVCROP_Q

WeirdH

I am still looking for that perfect menu music track. I want something in the vein of the SNES Mini Classic menu music, but not literally that one.

I have tried some Recalbox menu themes, some stuff from Wii Shop, Mii Channel, Wii Play Motion (Nintendo has these jingles down), but none of them sound to my liking or they just get annoying after a while.

I want something that can be background noise when idling in Emulationstation, ideally in a perfect loop, but that turns out to be much harder to find than I had thought.

matchaman

Oh, the struggle with perfect background music... I can do anything with my RetroPie setup but I'm never completely happy with any background music playlist. After some time I'm like "oh not that (otherwise awesome) tune again!"

IanDaemon

Every time I power on the arcade cabinet it plays a random track from about eight (while in EmulationStation).