Just realized you can right-click any old Geocities page to view the source and grab those embedded MIDI files easily

I spent hours trying to download a specific .mid from a fan site about Sonic 2 last night before I remembered the view source trick and now I have a little library of 90s game tunes saved on my desktop.

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pat36017d ago

Pro tip for anyone hunting old MIDIs: check the page's image links too. Some people would embed the MIDI in a fake .gif or .jpg file back then. Also, Wayback Machine is your best friend for this stuff. I've found so many lost MIDI files from old Zelda fan pages that way. Just add a slash and "midi" to the end of a dead Geocities URL sometimes.

allen.amy17d ago

Whoa wait nobody even mentioned the file extension trick! If you find a dead Geocities page and the MIDIs are just showing as broken links, try saving the page source and renaming any .mid files as .txt then opening them in Notepad. Sometimes the data is still there but the server mime types got messed up over time. I recovered a whole stash of obscure RPG Maker MIDIs from a dead Angelfire page that way just last month.