The NES Video-Music Database

Departamento de Informática
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Viçosa, MG, Brazil

The NES Video-Music Database (NES-MVDB) is a dataset of 98,940 short (15 seconds) gameplay videos from 386 NES games, each paired with its original music piece in symbolic format (MIDI). NES-MVDB is built upon the Nintendo Entertainment System Music Database (NES-MDB).

Examples


MegaMan


Dataset structure


The dataset is organized into 4 directories:

Citing this work


If you use the NES-vmDB dataset in your work, please cite the paper where it was introduced:

@article{cardoso2024nes,
  title={The NES Video-Music Database: A Dataset of Symbolic Video Game Music Paired with Gameplay Videos},
  author={Cardoso, Igor and Moraes, Rubens O and Ferreira, Lucas N},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04420},
  year={2024}
}