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A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played:

https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk

More info on the channel:

https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM

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I went to the https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk link and saw video of a video game being played and turned up the volume and heard Jazz, Fiddle, Flamenco Guitar and real music from acoustic instruments and no ripped video game music. What am I missing here?

I went to http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ and see that the hoot... - Sound Hardware Emulator program is documented all in Japanese. I am not interested in going to the effort of translating this page.

I went to the other links from the pastebin page and find this stuff a little too difficult to get into right now. I am not interested in downloading software and content to try this stuff out. I may not be interested, but possibly another reader will see your comment and dive into it.

Thanks for you comment and please enjoy what I posted on my page!

It's possible other types of music are sometimes played, but I've never personally seen it. Usually you can see where the VGM comes from scrolling at the top of the stream.

Also, zoasty explains in the pastebin that he had a lot of help setting hoot up, so I don't think the expectation is for others to be able to easily recreate what he did.

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