YM2413-MDB: A Multi-Instrumental FM Video Game Music Dataset with Emotion Annotations

YM2413-MDB is an 80s FM video game music dataset with multi-label emotion annotations. It includes 669 audio and MIDI files of music from Sega and MSX PC games in the 80s using YM2413, a programmable sound generator based on FM. The collected game music is arranged with a subset of 15 monophonic instruments and one drum instrument. They were converted from binary commands of the YM2413 sound chip. Each song was labeled with 19 emotion tags by two annotators and validated by three verifiers to obtain refined tags

For more detailed information about the dataset, please refer to our paper: YM2413-MDB: A Multi-Instrumental FM Video Game Music Dataset with Emotion Annotations.

File Description

1) Pure data

- original_vgms: crawled vgm files from SMS POWER and VGMRIPs

- wav: rendered vgm files using VGMPlay

2) MIDI data

- midi/vgmplay_log_to_midi: converted midi files

- midi/adjust_tempo: add postprocessing(metrically aligned using wav_downbeat files) after midi conversion

- midi/adjust_tempo_remove_delayed_inst: add postprocessing(metrically aligned using wav_downbeat files, remove delayed instrument) after midi conversion

3) Metadata

- emotion_annotation/verified_annotation.csv: contains emotion annotation for each songs

- tags_kor_eng.txt: Korean <-> English tag dictionary

4) Useful middle-time step data

- wav_downbeat: extracted downbeat values using DBNBeatTracker of madmom

- vgm_txts: disassembled vgm files as txt using vgm2txt

- ydr: YM2413 Disassembly Raw(YDR). command list of vgm files. generated by reading vgm_txts