This thread is an excuse for me to talk at length about awesome videogame remixes. You have been warned.
It’s been too long since this place was lauded. Here’re some of my favorites. Excuse my terminology (it sucks).
Ninja Edit: All the download links are direct, BTW.
Chrono Trigger - ‘Calamitous Judgment’ by zircon
Probably the best CT remix on the site. It starts off slow and builds to, well I don’t know what the technical term is, but it really kicks off about 30 seconds in, and you can hear the tones of the original coming through, which rocks. Very concerty, very tinkly, very awesome. Also apparently (and when you listen to them both quite plainly) a somewhat-homage to the below.
10/10 - Catchy as all Hell. Genius.
Zelda 3 - Triforce Majeure by Disco Dan
This one takes it’s time to get going, and then takes off. It took me about a minute to figure out exactly what the hell this was a remix of; Hyrule Castle, but when the main bars came on about two minutes in it was epiphanic. Very similar in execution to the above, and near-perfectly done. At several points it takes on some almost techno-like beats, but when it gets to the core’’ part of the theme we all remember when descending into the basement, by God it delivers. Listen for the lead up to and the violins at the main part of the song. It’s never leaving my playlist. Ever. Listen to it loud. The only fault I can see is that once you’ve heard the main part of the tune, the bits before and after just don’t compare. A small victim of it’s own awesomness.
9/10 - Epic, but you’ll find yourself skipping the opening bars to listen to the main symphony of Awesome.
Super Metroid - All the World in One Girl by The Wingless
As I listened to this I could honest not be able to tell that such a bright and airy tune came about as a result of Super Metriod, one of the grimmest and darkest games on the SNES I’d ever played. It’s very warm, kind of like the piano pieces that tend to grace shoujo anime ending episodes a lot. Not much to say about this one really.
8/10 - Cheerful, but will become slightly repetitive with repeated listening.
Super Mario Bros 2 - Super Buck Jazz (Main Theme remix) by Estradasphere.
If you think it starts good? Wait until it gets 37 seconds in. This is simply amazing. And the final few seconds are worthy of 60’s Big Bands. Listen to it loud.
10/10 - Astounding
Mega Man 2 - Metalman Goes Clubbing by Disco Dan
It is extremely hard to screw up Metalman’s theme, and this does not do it. It keeps the original NES-style bars and then immediately goes on to add an excellent drum-'n-bass line, and then a faster rhythm behind the true-to-the-game main tune. My complaint with this track however is that it goes on too long, and after the first minute or so nothing is added except some faurly standard repeating-over-itself shenanigans as it fades out. It could have been a lot shorter (maybe as much as half) without losing any of what makes it’s opening so great.
7/10 - Initially excellent but becomes repetitive
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Juice by Jivemaster
Personally I don’t usually like Sonic remixes, because I never particularly liked (or paid attention to) the original sounds. This one seems to be an exception, based on the Chemical Plant Zone, and has a decent techno-base behind it. Again though I find it becomes repetitive after the first minute or so passes and the track settles into looping the same few sounds over again. Pretty much like any decent techno track played in any club, it’ll get boring after only a couple of playbacks. Much better than it was in the game.
6/10 - Much like something you’d hear on Saturday-night radio, or in a nu-techno nightclub, which is it’s undoing.
Mega Man 2 - Metalman StainlessSteel by AE
After repeated playbacks I’ve decided I like this far better than MetalMan Goes Clubbing. It’s far shorter and doesn’t suffer from being too long on too unvaried a track. It starts, naturally, with a very bare opening, and then builds up some techno around that, eventually introducing some goos electric guitar-ness. Where MGC went on past two rounds of the MetalMan theme and then some, this one goes on just long enough to cover maybe one and a half, and alters it so you’re not lisenting to the same track, using a very effective lone set of beats to keep your interest until the end.
8/10 - Like I said, MetalMan is extremely hard to do wrong, but easy to get bored of. This avoids that well, which is why I prefer it to Disco Dan’s effort.
Doom 2 - Blood Bath by Mazedude
This starts off totally unlike anything you would expect from a Doom track, and slowly, ever so slowly, builds up the layers around the original tinkly-beat until you have something that is far, far more like Doom than anything that was ever in the game, and then finally you can just recognise the game music in there, and it’s good. The fact that it takes so long to build up to something you know is in this case a plus, and then ends as quietly as it started. The jarring notes however are several riffs near the start that aren’t quite in tune and don’t quite fit in that no matter how hard you try just don’t sound right. Apart from that though it’s an instant hit for the genre.
8/10 - Gets better as you listen, but spoiled by several parts that just don’t fit.
Seiken Densetsu 3 - Angels on the Shore by Ailsean
Probably my absolute favorite of the SD3 remixes. I totally forget what track this is based off (if someone else knows, TEEELLL MEEEE), but it doesn’t really matter, since this is so awesome. It’s very easy to see it being in the game. It has the traditional-seeming soaring-chorus-twinky-verse style that much of of the Seiken Densetsu series has. Begins and ends on a very simple and effective note, and the full range of appropriate wind instruments in between. Excellent.
9/10 - Extremely effective for relaxing but WHAT’S THE ORIGINAL ARRRRHAHSDBLARG.
Super Mario RPG - Booster Tarantino by djpretzel
It’s Super Mario RPG as composed by Quentin himself. What more do you want?
Say what one more time!!/What? - BLAM
Super Mario Bros - Dirty Mix (Main Theme remix) by A Scholar & A Physician
There is no way to explain this theme. You have to see it for yourself. Richard D James would be proud.
Macaroni/Cheese - Antelope
Next is- whoa, look at that. Well I’ve talked enough. Download these. Now. Then you can thank me. Does anyone else have anything I’ve missed? I know there are other remix sites out there, but Google leads me a merry chase.
EDIT: Links fixed.
What an awesome site… gonna have to go a-raiding later! 
