What are those GM/GS/KAR thingys next to the MIDI links?
GM is General MIDI, the MIDI format you can play on almost any soundcard, keyboard or sound module available today. GS is the Roland GS Standard, an extension of GM, which among other things adds the capability of handling more instruments than the 128 instruments of General MIDI. While you can still play these MIDI files on a non-GS compatible soundcard, the instruments will be wrong. We chose to use this format for some of the MIDI files, because they allow us to get closer to the original sound of the games. The CMI Difficulty Screen, for example, just wouldn’t be the same without thunder and a dog barking. Other MIDI files will be released in the GS format too, but most often a GM version will be released too. This is not the case with CMI Difficulty Screen, because the effect of it would be gone. KAR is Karaoke format. These MIDIs can be played normally in any GM MIDI player, but if played in a Karaoke MIDI player, the lyrics will be shown in time to the music.
