| Searching for SIDs in HVSC? Not having much luck locating the long-lost tune in amongst the 35,000+ SIDs in the collection? Well this page should hopefully help you. There's search pages which you can use online (and utilities for offline use) which may help you. |
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Online Searches
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| Exotica's High Voltage SID Collection Search | Buzz/Exotica created the most feature rich and comprehensive SID search engine out there on the interwebs. Kudos! |
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The search engine with the best visual design. The user is presented with only one data field to enter data, but several prefer this format due to its simplicity. Also now displays STIL entries and remixes from Remix.Kwed.Org ! |
 Adam Lorentzon's HVSC Search
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The first SID search engine on the web. A simple, intuitive interface with the option of performing more advanced searches. This search engine is often updated the quickest after new Updates. |
| The BIG SID Hunt | This is the only link on this page specifically designed for finding SIDs currently not available in HVSC. You basically send in requests of what long lost tunes you'd like to see ripped. Rippers will occasionally visit the page and attempt to rip tunes on the list. The request list usually shrinks by at least 15% per Update provided that no new entries are added. |
| The Demo Dungeon | What if you know the SID tune was from a demo, but you don't know which one it might be? Well, Stephan Schmid's excellent site is here to help. Simply locate the demo by the group who released the demo, and for each demo, there's a list of tunes what appeared in the demo (in order of appearance). You can also search the page for the demo name, too. |
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Tools For Offline Searching
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| SidTool | Madman's great SidTool is not only a search tool, but functions also as a player frontend for Sidplay2, WinVice, TinySid and Hoxs64. Definitely to be recommended! |
| SIDBace | Vincent Voois' excellent search tool. Simply download it, generate the database file with your version of HVSC in, and you can now use it to search the HVSC while off-line, including search of STIL information. |
| SIDBrowser | A nice offline search engine for HVSC, which also displays pictures of the composers (courtesy of composers.c64.org) as well as being able to search quite quickly. |