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NES-MDB (Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database)
The Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database (NES-MDB) is a dataset intended for building automatic music composition systems for the NES audio synthesizer. It consists of 5278 songs from the soundtracks of 397 NES games. The dataset represents 296 unique composers, and the songs contain more than two million notes combined. It has file format options for MIDI, score and NLM (NES Language Modeling).
Source: https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb Image Source: https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb Audio Source: https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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Papers archive 2025-07-28
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Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
- NES-MDB
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