High Voltage SID Collection

HVSC is the ultimate SID tune collection featuring more than 46,000 popular and requested SIDs from the Commodore 64. The collection includes SIDs (aka C64 music) from games, demos, intros, etc. HVSC has been in the making for more than 15 years and is the result of many contributors. This page has wiki versions of some of the information files and mirrors for downloading the collection.

Please note that the official site for the High Voltage SID Collection is at http://hvsc.de

Current Version
Release v70 - December 23, 2018

Download
As of HVSC v50, all the old _PSID files that have a RSID equivalent have been removed from the main collection. Those _PSID files were only hacks meant for digitized sounds to be played in Sidplay1, but not on real C64. The _PSID files will be eliminated in every future releases as soon as new RSID versions of the same .sid files are added. For those still needing the _PSID files they are now available in a separate archive:
 * (ZIP Archive)
 * (RAR Archive)
 * individual files from the collection

Documentation
The latest version of this documentation is available in plain text in the main archive. Provided here in a more web browser friendly format. Please feel free to keep up to date with changes in the text versions, but do not add "new" information here. Instead send it to the HVSC maintainers for inclusion with the official releases.
 * High Voltage SID Collection Info
 * High Voltage SID Collection FAQ
 * SID Tune Information List FAQ

Web Interface and Instructions for use
You can find the interface at the Special:HVSC page.

ExoticA provides an interface to the High Voltage SID Collection which allows searching and browsing by filename, author, year and directory. It also allows the searching and displaying of relevant information from the Sid Tune Information List as well as showing remixed tunes available on http://remix.kwed.org.

Browsing
Use the browse section to navigate through the collection by name, author, year or directory location. After choosing the the initial browse criteria, you can filter the results down further by specifying the starting characters of the name. There is a button to switch on the display of the STIL data.

Searching
The quick search box works in the same way, but matches against all the available fields except the STIL field.

The STIL search only supports a boolean search method. The same rules apply as explained above.

Ogg/mp3 Downloads
We provide links on the interface to the SOASC collection that has high bitrate mp3 recordings from original c64 hardware. You may prefer these over the sidplay emulation recordings we provide.

Changelog

 * v1.7: Added SOASC Links
 * v1.6: Added ogg downloads
 * v1.5: Improved fulltext searches to make a boolean "and" for keywords if no operator is specified.
 * v1.4: Added cross linking to http://remix.kwed.org remixes. Thanks to Jan/RKO.
 * v1.3: Added default boolean search mode which is much more flexible.
 * v1.2: Added support for searching by SID Model.
 * v1.1: Various bug fixes with STIL display
 * v1.0: First version

Compiled By

 * Current Members
 * Emiliano Peruch (Ian Coog)  - ITALY
 * Inge Høie Pedersen ("448")  - NORWAY
 * Wilfred Bos  - NETHERLANDS
 * Mariusz Rozwadowski (Ramos/Samar)  - POLAND
 * Mariusz Mlynski - POLAND
 * Sebastian Sprenger (Professor Chaos) - GERMANY
 * Chris Abbott  - ENGLAND
 * Tobias Samuelsson (McLoaf)  - SWEDEN
 * Zack Thompson (Karmic) - CANADA

Retired/Inactive Members
 * The Shark of INC  - USA
 * Michael Schwendt - GERMANY
 * Darren (Bod/Talent) - ENGLAND
 * Jan Krolzig - GERMANY
 * Imre Olajos, Jr. (LaLa) - HUNGARY
 * Warren Pilkington - ENGLAND
 * Gabriele Priarone (G-Knight) - ITALY
 * Michal Hoffmann (Smalltown Boy) - POLAND
 * Kristoffer Johansson - SWEDEN
 * Pawel Ruczko (Murdock/Tropyx) - POLAND
 * Peter Sandén (Yodelking) - SWEDEN
 * Laust Brock-Nannestad - DENMARK
 * Luca di Pasquale - GERMANY
 * Jan Diabelez Arent Harries (rambones aka SIDwave) - DENMARK
 * Adam Lorentzon - SWEDEN
 * Andreas Varga (mr.sid) - AUSTRIA
 * Andrzej Wilk (Motion/GMI) - NEW ZEALAND
 * Oliver VieBrooks (Six/DLoC) - USA
 * Simon White - ENGLAND
 * Stefan Wolff (j0x/WOW) - DENMARK
 * Rafal Szyja (Raf/Vulture Design) - POLAND
 * Stephan Schmid  - GERMANY

Members of the C64 Historical Preservation Society!

Copyright Notice And Disclaimer
All of the tunes available in the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) are copyrighted.

Such copyright may be owned by the original authors/software companies or a third-party publisher or other organisation. The copyright ownership of the tune is not necessarily the same as the attribution in the SID itself, or in any of the STIL documents. It might be owned by the composer, the software house, a publisher, or some other third party organisation.

Use of the SIDs in this collection for any purpose other than private enjoyment is subject to relevant copyright law. While remixing of the tunes for non-commercial audio purposes without the permission of the composer tends to be tolerated or encouraged, this is not a right, and any other use (including YouTube use) requires additional permissions.

Please also note that these tunes are unsuitable to be used within anything released on Creative Commons licences, without a further agreement with the rights holder.

Unauthorised commercial exploitation of any tune in this collection is illegal.

Please note that the creators of this collection do not have (and neither do they claim) the legal authority to grant licences or collect royalties or other contributions to permit any use. Do not offer any such contributions to them, for none will be accepted.

The copyrights to some of the SID files in this collection are now copyright administered by High Technology Publishing Limited and appear in HVSC with their explicit permission on behalf of the composers. All other rights are reserved.

For any usage apart from audio remixing, you should endeavor to contact the original C64 composer to ensure not just permission but also that the composer gets due authorship credit (and any appropriate payment).

As a first point of contact for matters such as these, feel free to contact Chris Abbott .

Further, HVSC accepts no responsibility for the use of any language, whether it be in the SID file names or any speech samples, which you may consider offensive. It is up to you to decide whether to listen to those SIDs or not.