{"url":"/dataset/nes-mdb","name":"NES-MDB","full_name":"Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database","description_markdown":"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).\r\n\r\nSource: [https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb](https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb)\r\nImage Source: [https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb](https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb)\r\nAudio Source: [https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb](https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb","introduced_date":"2018-01-01","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/the-nes-music-database-a-multi-instrumental","title":"The NES Music Database: A multi-instrumental dataset with expressive performance attributes","first_author":"Chris Donahue","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Audio","url":"/datasets/modality/audio"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Audio Generation","url":"/task/audio-generation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/audio-generation"},{"name":"Music Generation","url":"/task/music-generation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/music-generation"}],"languages":[],"variants":["NES-MDB"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb","url":"https://github.com/chrisdonahue/nesmdb","frameworks":[]}],"num_papers_in_archive":7,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}