Music

Note: Click here for Cave Story Remix Project, Cave Story Piano Collection, Cave Story Recomposed, A Sleeping Destiny, etc.

Cave Story has a variety of interesting music (in org format) that was developed by Pixel through a program called OrgMaker. Pixel included a program called OrganyaView which allows you to play any of the tracks of the game. The OrgView program can be found towards the bottom of this page. A translation patch for the OrganyaView program can be found in Cave Story's English patch located in the downloads page. The program, OrgMaker, which was used to create the music of Cave Story is currently being translated into English as well. The translator has given permission to host the files here. Look below for the download links.

To download the songs in .ORG format either click here for the full soundtrack or download the songs individually from the list below.

Also, if you are interested in downloading the full soundtrack of the game in mp3 format, you can find a zip file of the entire soundtrack here. You can also download the full soundtrack in .ogg, .xm, .ptcop, and .flac formats.

There are also two versions of the .xm soundtrack. There is a version compatible with most trackers, of which individual downloads can be found below, or there is the original conversion from org to xm, which may have compatibility issues with some trackers such as Fastracker 2 and is kept for posterity. For the most part you will only need the former unless you have a specific technical application for the latter.

For the names of the org files/resources (like requiem, kodou, vivi, mura, etc.) as opposed to the name of the song this comparison guide should help.

Track Listing (Cave Story):

Access
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gestation
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Mimiga Town
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Plant
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Balrog's Theme
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gravity
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cemetery
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Safety
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Mischievous Robot
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Pulse
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
On to Grasstown
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Eyes of Flame
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Meltdown 2
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Tyrant
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Run!
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Jenka 1
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Jenka 2
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Labyrinth Fight
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Geothermal
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Oppression
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Living Waterway
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Quiet
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Scorching Back
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Moonsong
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Hero's End
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cave Story (Theme Song)
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Last Cave
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Balcony
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Charge
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Zombie
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Last Battle
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Break Down
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Running Hell
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Seal Chamber
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
The Way Back Home
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Got Item!
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Get Heart Tank!
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Victory!
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Game Over
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Toroko's Theme
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
White
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
XXXX
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

Additional Tracks (Cave Story+ and Cave Story WiiWare):

Wind Fortress
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Halloween 2
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

Unreleased Tracks:

Pier Walk
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Untitled (Rockorg)
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Meltdown
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
People of the Root
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

Note 1: The track previously referred to as "Unknown" was confirmed to be a beta of Last Battle.
Note 2: The track previously referred to as "Snoopy Cake" is actually called "Untitled" (with an internal name of ROCKORG), there is no evidence that the song was ever named "Snoopy Cake". Sorry for the confusion.

Internal Percussion Tracks:

This is where things get... complicated...
Cave Story hardcodes all percussion instruments (drums and whatnot) for all .org tracks played through the Cave Story engine. There are a select number of tracks that use a different percussion set to those hardcoded in Cave Story. The percussion information has been corrected in those few songs so that the .org tracks sound the same in both Cave Story and Orgmaker v1.3.4. The tracks listed below are the original .org files that sound different in Orgmaker v1.3.4 as to how they do in Cave Story.

Gestation
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gravity
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cemetery
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Got Item!
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Living Waterway
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
The Way Back Home
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
White
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
People of the Root
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

Doukutsu BGM (OrgView)

These are programs that play the org files from Cave Story. The org files are embedded though.

Doukutsu BGM

Doukutsu BGM Old (Beta Music)

Doukutsu BGM Old Translation Patch by Jackalope

Doukutsu BGM Simplified Chinese Translation

Doukutsu BGM Old Simplified Chinese Translation

OrgMaker

Below are download links to the OrgMaker program, which was used to create the music of Cave Story.

Org Maker v1.3.4

Org Maker v1.3.4 Guide  

Org Maker v1.3.4 Translation Patch by Radical R

Org Maker v2.1.1

Org Maker v2.1.1 Source Code  

Org Maker v2.1.0 Translation by Bavi_H

Org Maker v3.0.7