ESPIOKaos.com

ESPIOKaos.com was a website that was home to many Sonic-themed midi files back as early as 2001. It was created by John Weeks, a composer of many Sonic Team-related midi files back in the early 2000s.

Other midi files related to other Sonic Team games, such as NiGHTS, ChuChu Rocket!, Burning Rangers and Phantasy Star (yes, it is spelled like that!) could also be downloaded from the same website.

Sadly, this website is no longer online, & the 2013 archive version (still available online) only contains dead links, rendering the website defunct.

However, the functional version of the website can be found via Wayback Machine (archive.org), & its midi files can be found on various midi websites, including the ESPIOKaos.com Midis Category on this wiki.

Website Appearance
ESPIOKaos.com has the appearance of a website made in Geocities, but that is because it was created with Geocities:

The background is a solid black, with bright neon green text, which stands out easily enough to be read.

At the top of the page is the website's name in bright neon green, "ESPIOKaos.com" in an un-readable font. In the past, this impossible-to-read logo was once a much cleaner-looking logo; it was in a solid, neon-green font that read "ESPIOKaos.com", & had a Sonic Adventure 2 loading screen style to it, having a fuchsia zig-zag boarder on the left side.

At the center of the main page is a box full of links, each of them leading to a page containing links for midi files. On the 2013 archived version that can currently be found online, these links will just loop back to the main page.

However, archived versions found on the Wayback Machine (Archive.org) have functional links, which lead to pages containing the .mid files available to download, each composed by John Weeks.

At the bottom of the page is copyright information, and some website link banners, similar to the ones from the 90s.

These banners did not exist on ESPIOKaos.com until the final days of the old Sonic Adventure 2-styled logo.

The link banners can also be found on the 2013 archive, but don't work (they loop back to ESPIOKaos.com).

Closure & Recovery
Sadly, the website lost a majority of its midi files as of late 2007, and closed down in 2008. Eventually, Geocities closed down, sealing the website's fate as being closed forever.

But, in 2013, the website reappeared under an archive domain.

However, the 2013 archive, which can still be found today, is full of broken links; because of this,  all  of the midi files have been lost in time, & attempting to access most of the midi pages loops back to the main page.

To this day, the "recovered" website remains unstable and glitched, but can still be visited.

Luckily, most, if not,  all  of the midi files have been archived thanks to Wayback Machine (Archive.org), and a few can also be found at VGMusic, a video game midi website that has survived since the early days of the internet, and Khinsider, which has archives of midi files from ESPIOKaos.com.

The ESPIOKaos.com Midis Category on this wiki also contains pages for the midi files found on this defunct midi website, & where to find each midi file.

Links
https://www.espiokaos.com/ - The broken version currently found online.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070520044557/http://www.espiokaos.com/index.html - The up to date version of ESPIOKaos.com before it closed down, with its new logo.

Older versions found on Archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20020116052401/http://www.geocities.com/espiokaos/ - ESPIOKaos.com has moved message (displayed when visiting ESPIOKaos.com using the old geocities url)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010305234945/http://www.espiokaos.com/ - The oldest version of ESPIOKaos.com; its' logo is corrupted, for some reason, but it was likely the Sonic Adventure 2-styled logo.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020523030511/http://www.espiokaos.com:80/ - The oldest version of ESPIOKaos.com to have the Sonic Adventure 2 level loading screen-styled logo.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051127015131/http://www.espiokaos.com/index.html - The last version of ESPIOKaos.com to use its Sonic Adventure 2 level loading screen-styled logo.