[ninjin]

Oh my, this really sends me down memory lane. It must have been around 1996 when I spent a substantial amount of time downloading and listening to VGMusic. Back then I was on dial up and would continue to be for another five years or so. Thus, MP3s were expensive to get and it would take a good portion of an hour to download a single one anyway. With Midi I could get entire tracks in a few seconds, plug them into Winamp, and be on my merry way.

[iamjackg]

I had a similar experience with tool-assisted speedruns! Videos were huge and had terrible quality, but I could just download a small "movie" file for an emulator and watch the game play itself with superhuman skills.