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.

Note on Percussion: 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. Songs marked "Cave Story Percussion" are the songs as they sound in Cave Story, and songs marked "Internal Percussion" sound the way they do outside of Cave Story.

Track Listing (Cave Story):

Access 150bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gestation (Cave Story Percussion) 93bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gestation (Internal Percussion) 93bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Mimiga Town 107bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Plant 107bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Balrog's Theme 150bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gravity (Cave Story Percussion) 174bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Gravity (Internal Percussion) 174bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cemetery (Cave Story Percussion) 111bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cemetery (Internal Percussion) 111bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Safety 181bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Mischievous Robot 159bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Pulse 125bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
On to Grasstown 166bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Eyes of Flame 187bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Meltdown 2 142bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Tyrant 93bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Run! 166bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Jenka 1 156bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Jenka 2 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Labyrinth Fight 187bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Geothermal 107bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Oppression 156bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Living Waterway (Cave Story Percussion) 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Living Waterway (Internal Percussion) 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Quiet 75bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Scorching Back 159bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Moonsong 125bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Hero's End 107bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Cave Story (Theme Song) 108bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Last Cave 129bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Balcony 93bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Charge 150bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Zombie 150bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Last Battle 189bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Break Down 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Running Hell 166bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Seal Chamber 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
The Way Back Home (Cave Story Percussion) 142bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
The Way Back Home (Internal Percussion) 142bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Got Item! (Cave Story Percussion) 174bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Got Item! (Internal Percussion) 174bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Get Heart Tank! 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Victory! 150bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Game Over 78bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Toroko's Theme 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
White (Cave Story Percussion) 100bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
White (Internal Percussion) 100bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
XXXX 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

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

Wind Fortress 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Halloween 2 117bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac

Unreleased Tracks:

Pier Walk 100bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Untitled (Rockorg) 156bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
Meltdown 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
People of the Root (Cave Story Percussion) 136bpm
org xm mp3 ogg ptcop flac
People of the Root (Internal Percussion) 136bpm
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.

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 v3.0.9