High Voltage SID Collection: Update #84
Date: December 25, 2025

Resulting Version: 84
 Previous Version: 83

After this update, the collection should contain 60,572 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     688 new SIDs
      15 fixed/better rips
       2 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     288 SID credit fixes
      35 SID model/clock infos
       4 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       4 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      19 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
       4 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories

We have finally reached and surpassed 60,000 SIDs in this update!
Another great milestone thanks to the contributions of many musicians keeping
the spirit alive!

We are always looking for others to help make HVSC a better collection.
If you find any errors or have new rips to add, please email:

 iAN CooG  <hvsc.crew (sid) gmail.com>

Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the collection that it
is today, without your help it would be a much tougher task.


SID RELATED NEWS:


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# Commodore 64 Ultimate #
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Commodore has just released the all-new Commodore 64 Ultimate! Experience the
classic C64 like never before with authentic SID sound, modern HDMI output and
cutting-edge FPGA enhancements.

Audio features:

- Real hardware SID support (6581/8580) with auto detection
- High-quality FPGA SID emulation (UltiSID)
- Full audio output via digital (HDMI and S/PDIF) and analog interfaces
- Sophisticated software control (volume, panning, mapping, multi-SID support)
- Built-in SID player
  - Seek bar with song lengths display via SSL files
  - Supports 2SID and 3SID tunes
  - Plays PAL/NTSC SIDs at correct speed
  - Fast-forward capability
  - Sub-tune selection
  - Automatic SID socket configuration for correct SID model playback
  - ARMSID / FPGASID support with SID model configuration
- Built-in MUS player
  - Play Compute's Gazette Sidplayer songs with PETSCII display

For more information and to explore all the new models, visit:

https://www.commodore.net/


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# cRSID 1.56 #
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cRSID is an open-source cycle based sidplayer made by Mihaly Horvath (Hermit).
This is an integer-only rewrite of cSID and cSID-light. The new sidplayer is
able to play most RSID tunes and of course PSID tunes. It includes a
pre-compiled executable for Windows and Linux.

Changes since version 1.4:

- Fixed broken OSC3/ENV3 readout caused by the 1.55 code overhaul
- Integrated direct ALSA audio backend into libcRSID
- Added new crsid_cli command-line-only version
- Embedded a heavily stripped-down SDL 1.2 version into the application
- Reworked CLI keyboard handling
- Major audio quality upgrade
  - Higher-quality resampling of oversampled SID emulation output
  - Further optimized for performance and power efficiency
- Major internal refactor and optimization pass
- Significant performance improvements, especially on low-power hardware
- Improved RSID compatibility
- Added file browser with GUI-based playlist support
- Support for loadable ROM files
- Source code refactoring and cleanup
- Enhanced filter distortion control
- Dropped support for non-Linux platforms
- Documentation update
- Bug fixes and stability improvements

For more details go to:

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257992


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# CGSC v1.47 #
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The Compute Sidplayer Collection has been updated and contains now 16601 MUS
files, 4383 STR files and 5593 WDS files.

Get the collection here: http://www.c64music.co.uk/


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# Ultimate64 SID Player #
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Ultimate64 SID Player is an AmigaOS SID music player that streams C64 music
from Ultimate64/Ultimate-II devices over the network, offering playlists,
subsong control, a MUI interface and HVSC song lengths database integration.

Check it out:

https://aminet.net/package/mus/play/u64SidPlayer


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# Public Domain SID #
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The Public Domain SID (PDsid) is a low-cost, plug-and-play Commodore 64 SID
replica that supports both 6581 and 8580 modes, switchable instantly and
saved permanently. It delivers accurate SID sound, supports paddles and is
released as Public Domain, with full designs to be published in 2026.

Get it from here:

https://uni64.com/shop/index.php?system=4&m=70&item_id=7536


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# sidplaywx v0.17.1 #
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Sidplaywx is a modern PC GUI player for Commodore 64 SID music, offering
high-quality emulation and useful features like seeking, drag-and-drop
and DPI awareness.

Changes since V0.16.2:

- New: Added Virtual stereo output mode for a wider headphone sound
- Improved: Seeking is faster due to updated libsidplayfp
- Improved: Playlists can now be sorted by title, duration, author, copyright
- Improved: Playlist icons now show tooltips
- Improved: Virtual stereo default settings were refined for better balance
- Fixed: Playback speed now reapplies correctly after toggling Instant seeking
- Fixed: Removed the redundant 'Always on Top' option on Linux
- Fixed: Leave Running repeat mode is disabled when Instant seeking is enabled

Get it from here:

https://github.com/bytespiller/sidplaywx


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# SID2TXT v1.0 #
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Stello Doussis released a new online tool called 'SID2TXT' for converting SID
tunes into a clean and customisable text log.
SID2TXT emulates a C64 and plays SID files silently, generating a frame-by-frame
text log of SID register activity ($D400-$D418). It supports PSID and RSID
files and is useful for studying drivers, analyzing music techniques or
debugging code.

Check it out:

https://www.doussis.com/sid2txt/


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# Sidplay/MAC 5.1.0_123 #
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Sidplay/MAC 5.x is a fork of Sidplay/MAC 4.2 done by Alexander Coers.

It has the following improvements since 5.0.1_111:

- Fixed crash on File
- Enable media key navigation and Control Center integration
- Modernize NSURLConnection to NSURLSession in SPCollectionUtilities
- Removed all collection sharing source
- updated libsidplayfp to version 2.15.0

Check it out:

https://github.com/Alexco500/sidplay5


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# rePlayer 0.21.4 #
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rePlayer is a new multi-format music player for Windows that brings old-school
music to life, offering seamless support for classic formats like SID and MUS
files. It even enhances the experience by playing SID tunes in immersive
surround sound.

Changes since 0.19.3:

- Updated libsidplay to 2.15.2
- Bug fixes

For more info:

https://github.com/arnaud-neny/rePlayer


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# JSidDevice v4.13 #
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A new version of JSidDevice has been released. JSidDevice is a network SID
device which can be controlled by SID players like ACID64 Player. JSidDevice
requires Java 8 or higher.

Check out: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257312


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# JSIDPlay2 v4.13 #
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A new version of JSidplay2 has been released. JSidplay2 is an open-source C64
emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music
collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of
the GameBase64 project as well. The emulator is written in Java and runs on any
environment that runs Java 8 or higher and it can run in a browser with
JavaScript or Web Assembly support.

Changelog:

UI Version:
- Adding tunes to the favorites list has been fixed
- USBSID-Pico hardware support has been added (Credits go to "LouD")

C64Jukebox Offline Version:
- SFX Sound Expander (FM-YAM) support added
- Experimental SID support added (v4e), play on up to 10 SIDs at once
- Fullscreen support in Chrome browser, just flip your mobile
- Oscilloscope view added for up to 3 SIDs
- SID Player Infos (SID ID) added
- SidTune Information List (STIL) added
- Composer Photo added
- New Folders Tab with access to CSDB, HVSC and more
- Virtual keyboard added
- Filter Curve visualization added
- High performance improvements made
- VUE client modularized
- WASM_GC_SAB version added
- SharedArrayBuffer to enable zero copying approach of samples and frames
- C-Version added, that is able to create WAV recordings (cmake based)

C64Jukebox Online Version:
- Player Infos added to status bar.

Get it from: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257311


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# Sidplayfp 2.16.0 #
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Libsidplayfp (and its console frontend sidplayfp) is a fork of sidplay2 born
with the aim to improve the quality of emulating the 6581, 8580 chips and the
surrounding C64 system in order to play SID music better.

Changes since 2.14.0 release:

- Add USBSID support
- Display the actual used SID model(s)
- Fix invalid filter range error
- Add --version option
- Replace non-ASCII characters with ASCII when iconv is not enabled
- Correctly restore ANSI console
- Correctly display play errors
- Handle negative fade out values in an useful way
- Init driver output before parsing config
- Build windows binaries with dynamic SIMD dispatch
- Implement fadeout
- Adjust song length when forcing C64 model
- Fix crash when using -b
- Fix opening STIL on MacOS
- Expose the SID models actually used
- residfp: implemented runtime SIMD dispatch for resampler
- Improve interrupt handling in kernal stub
- Fixed crash in SidDatabase parser
- resid/residfp: remove accidental DC offset
- residfp: clock voice 3 even if muted
- resid: fix silenced tunes
- fixed load performance regression
- Extended the new play API

Get the new version here: https://github.com/libsidplayfp/sidplayfp


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# AIMP Sidplay V2.0 Plugin for AIMP (x64, x86) #
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Zbigniew Ross (Zbych) released a new version of his AIMP plugin for playing
SID files in AIMP.

The plugin is based on libsidplayfp/ReSidfp library.

The following has been changed:

- Updated libdisplay to 2.16
- Implemented pseudo stero feature
- Improved sound mixing algorithm

Get the plugin from here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257876


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# in_sidplay2 3.0.0 plugin for WinAmp #
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Zbigniew Ross (Zbych) released a new version of his WinAmp plugin for playing
SID files in WinAmp.

The plugin is based on libsidplayfp/ReSidfp library. The plugin now supports the
new song length database (md5 extension).

Changes:

- Updated libdisplay to 2.16
- Implemented pseudo stero feature
- Improved sound mixing algorithm

Get it here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=257877


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# SIDevo v4.9.1 #
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SIDevo is a SID input plugin for XMPlay audio player written by Nathan Hindley.
It's a partial rewrite of the SIDex plugin and it uses the most recent
libsidplayfp library.

Changes since v4.7:

- libsidplayfp library updated to 2.15.0
- sidid.cfg updated to version from 7 July 2025

Get the new version from:

https://github.com/KelticDanor/xmp-SIDevo


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# DeepSID #
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DeepSID is an online SID player made by JCH of Vibrants. It emulates music
created for the Commodore 64 home computer. It supports nice features like:

- Toggling between JSidplay2/WebSID/Hermit's jsSID/ASID(MIDI) for SID playback
- SID player and year display for each song
- Create and play playlists
- Rating folders and SID files
- Comment / Discuss SID files
- Profile / CSDb / GB64 / Player / STIL / Piano / Graph view
- Search through HVSC / STIL
- and much more

DeepSID now supports the JSIDPlay2 emulator for playing SID tunes in the
browser.

DeepSID is continuously updated. See the Changes tab for the full change log.

Check it out: https://deepsid.chordian.net/


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# SID Known v1.30 #
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Wilfred Bos has released a new version of SID Known. This version supports now
HVSC #84. SID Known is a command line tool which you can use to identify SID
tunes from SID and PRG files.

This tool can be used if e.g., you want to know which SID tune is used in a
specific C64 demo or C64 game, or you have a SID tune found or ripped and you
want to know if it is already in your SID collection.

SID Known can be used to identify music but it also helps to find out which
tunes are not in the High Voltage SID Collection. If you find music not found
by SID Known, it would be appreciated if you report this to the HVSC crew
(https://hvsc.de) or post it in one of the CSDb forums (https://csdb.dk) like
"SIDs that aren't in HVSC yet".

Get the tool here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=258064
