Interesting digital preservation problem: I was able to recover the playback software and some songs for an obscure music format... but not the sample data. This format stores samples outside the modules, so you can reuse it between songs. The site that had the sample data hasn't been archived, and my personal copy is long gone.
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in reply to @dog's post:
Making me think of the "remastered" SNES soundtrack projects you see on YouTube… people take the instruction data from SNES soundtracks, attempt to figure out what synth presets the original lo-fi samples were from, record new high-bitrate samples, run them through the original instructions (or something based on them).
Not to say it's the best use of your time, but this is actually a doable, potentially interesting preservation challenge…! I guess it might look like performing interviews with people who had experienced the original and trying to come up with plausible proxies. Alternately, if you just posted (possibly a conversion to a more tractable format of) the sample-less instructions and charged people with supplying the best samples, that would— well, it wouldn't actually get you closer to the truth, but it's definitely the kind of silly crowdsourcing project the Internet loves to go all in on.
I really find those soundtrack reproductions fascinating! Something similar was going on in the Japanese MIDI web back in the late 90s, when people realized a bunch of soundtracks on SNES and PS1 used a specific Roland synth and they could recreate those soundtracks as MIDIs that sounded like high-def versions of the originals.
As far as interviewing people... I actually found the person who authored the sample set! However, he seems uninterested in reuploading his old files to his current website, which is fair enough.
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