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.spc File Collection

 

11. September, 2023
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This Collection is a bit special 'cause of the fact that the tracks here are encoded in a different file format called SPC. From my limited research, this audio format was specifically made to be used for the SNES. And although you might think this collection is then just a collection of soundtracks from SNES games, you'd be wrong. The romhacking community on SMWCentral has an entire section of .spc music files that other people can use for their romhacks, since there apparently are programs with which you can compose .spc files yourself!

The history of this collection in my music album began a few years ago when I watched Vincent van Vinny play a Super Mario World romhack called "Mario's Mystery Meat", a meme- and reference-filled experience handcrafted to make people laugh. During that playthrough, some tracks that played in the background (mainly Cursed Cathedral from RednGreen) stood out to me, so after a while, I began searching for the Mario's Mystery Meat soundtrack on YouTube. The description of a video I found also had a link to a completely downloadable version of the soundtrack, with two notable features. The first is that it was uploaded to the Internet Archive (which I wouldn't expect from some download link in a random youtube video description). The second that it was in the aforementioned and mystical .spc format. After I warily downloaded it, I found a way to listen to this exotic file format after a while (I found a way using Audacious where I think I had to download a package to add support for .spc files).

One benefit of .spc files is that they can be looped seamlessly

Disc 1 - Main
 These are tracks I downloaded manually (instead of them being some part of a bundle) by browsing through the SMW Music section on SMWCentral. The tracks here are listed like "Artist or Game - Ported By - Title" if it's a cover of something or just "Artist - Title" if it's an original track.