I've been meaning to write this post for over a year, so I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I figured it best to just get something down instead of putting it off any longer.
About a year and a half ago, I picked up a DAFM kit from Kasser Synths. It's a really great kit and an awesome FM synth based on the legendary YM2612 chip, and it supports the ability to load up to 6 custom OPL instruments in DMP format (used by the DefleMask Tracker software).
I wanted to use the instruments from Mega Drive / Genesis games, which required getting the games' music in VGM format and then using the vgm2pre software to convert them to DMP format. There are no pre-compiled linux binaries of that software, and it doesn't like to compile on modern systems without a few tweaks to the Makefile (someone else apparently ran into the same problem and put in a PR to fix it, so be sure to check that out if you run into it, as well), but once that was taken care of it, the program was easily scriptable to hit the entire set all at once. Of course, if you don't want to fool with it, you can just download my full set of instruments here.
Not all songs have instruments embedded, apparently (hence, some folders are empty; maybe those are using the PSG chip instead? Sonic CD doesn't have any because it's using CD audio, of course). Furthermore, many of the resulting instruments are very similar/redundant, possibly a result of widespread use of the GEMS software for development.
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