The OPL Archive is a tribute to music written for the Yamaha OPL series sound chips, primarily the OPL2 and OPL3. Commonly used on early DOS-based PCs via the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, Sound Blaster series, and other compatible sound cards, they made FM synthesis available to the masses. A wide range of music was written to take advantage of these chips. However, that music is spread across dozens of different file formats with varying accessibility and documentation. This project intends to bring all that music together in one place, in one unified file format, to give it the recognition it deserves.

The files on this site are direct logs of playback in the VGM format, allowing preservation of the songs in their original hardware format. The primary way to play them is using VGMPlay or the in_vgm Winamp/XMPlay plugin, both of which are available on VGMRips, here. For a more exhaustive list of players, including software to play them back on your real retro PC with OPL2/OPL3 chip, check out this page.

Thanks to the magic of modern web technology, you can now click on any song to play it right in your browser! If you want to download the VGM file, just click the disk icon.

Note that this isn't a "game music" site, so to speak - you won't find actual DOS game soundtracks here. Ripping soundtracks to VGM is a mission is already being accomplished by the aforementioned VGMRips project. I am working on everything else-- from the demoscene, original compositions in trackers, covers, and the likes.

This archive is a perpetual work in progress. I am welcoming of submissions of any old files I might not have, or your new creations! Let's make the OPL series shine brighter than ever!