A hobbyist archive. Nothing too serious.
Just over 27 years of collecting BMS works,
repairing broken themes,
hunting down old BMS players and preserving those too,
recovering things that probably should have been lost to time
and sharing it all on BMSworld.NZ with anyone who might find it useful.

It\’s a labour of love, powered by equal parts curiosity, nostalgia and stubbornness.

A collection that began in December 1998 on a single innocuous (and very new at the time) ‘burnt’ CD-r passed to by a friend of mine at the time who said “good luck finding any more!” (on the internet). To put a Technology Stamp on the time period, 56k Dialup was still in use, CD-r’s burning at 1x, ZIP drives were still a thing. Bebo was a popular Social network and MySpace too,

I enjoy the creation of music and I found my guiding light in principle later on in my journey, thanks to DJ Kentaro who coined the phrase (romanji) “Ongaku wa ongaku da shi, kabe nante nai” (音楽は音楽だし、壁なんてない) a mantra lovers of music should aspire.
The idea behind key-sounded BMS ticks all the boxes, leaving a feeling of creating the song live, as the artist intended, having fun while doing it and making new friends through music.
BMSworld is a place I store BMS I have found over the years. Just an archive, again, nothing too serious. Every song available has an autoplay video listed, which is a LOT of work. 13,500+ made so far.

a BMS found here may not be the true original unmodified version – that is simply unmanageable, Too many BMS I’ve come across has had its BGA stripped just to save a few MB. I do not condone that and take pride in storing the BMS with its BGA intact wherever possible. I reach out seeking permission wherever practical.
I do not modify any BMS script or its associated data. It is presented ‘as I found it’ , unless of course it is broken.

This website is the first I’ve ever created(2nd iteration though). There are NO ADS anywhere to be found, and it will stay that way(by principle-not my content-). I pay for all the associated costs myself, a donations system is slowly being worked on, electricity costs being the biggest concern.
BMSworld.nz is served by my custombuilt server, -hypertaNk- , running a virtual Linux VPS(virtual.private.server) environment on 2TB of stripe\’d raid0+1 SSD\’s piped out to the world via a 1gbit fibre without CGNAT.
Powered by CPU\’s found in Noah\’s Ark 2x Xeon X5500 CPU’s., 256GB DDR3ECC RAM, 31tb, LTO6 Tape Backup with backup’s around 9 years ago.
It has been running every day 24/7 since 🙂

and it looks like this. It *was* a beige 8u cube chassis, bored as early 1990’s beige could possibly be.
new server coming soon though, I hope.