OCRA-0001 - Super Metroid: Relics of the Chozo

[Protricity]

Super Metroid: Relics of the Chozo - Feedback

This thread is for the purposes of feedback and answering questions in regards to the RotC Project. Please post your questions, comments, reviews in this thread.
Note: I appologize for the loss of the other thread. It was my fault for not paying attention to how close it was coming to being pruned from Wip. Should have been moved here a long time ago.

Relics of the Chozo is a project aimed at producing a collective and collaborative interpretation of the soundtrack of Super Metroid. However, each individual piece, despite being a unique standalone work of its own, is also a part of a larger scheme arranged to create an ambience of continuity; one large song, if you will. The project could be thought of in terms of a progression of events/sentiments/stages of every relevant theme from Super Metroid for the Super Nintendo.

Updates

4/3/04 - Update: RotC Wave CD Album Torrent back online!

So like, sorry for the downtime. It was suprnova.org's fault. Anyway, now I'm perminently hosted on http://bt.ocremix.org, so no more downtime. Now you can all get back to enjoying the cd in 44khz 16bit goodness!

http://bt.ocremix.org/files/SMProject-Relics_of_the_Chozo_CD.rar.torrent

Links

The Website (http://smproject.ocremix.org)
The Files (http://smproject.ocremix.org/files.html)
The Artists (http://smproject.ocremix.org/artists.html)
The FAQ (http://smproject.ocremix.org/faq.html)
How to play ogg vorbis files (http://smproject.ocremix.org/files.html#OggVorbis)

Have fun.

[Bren]

No replies? How is that possible...this is an awesome collection of mixes...great for sitting back and relaxing. I especially like "Full of Life", "So it Begins" "Noumenon" and "The Galaxy is at Peace"

Im surprised you didnt slap on "Zebesian Midnight" :D

Anyway, great work all who contributed to this great project. And to anyone who likes/loves/is obsessed and/or infatuated with the Super Metroid soundtrack, I highly recommend this.

[Red Omen]

The reason this thread didn't have any replies was because it was the second incarnation of the thread made for the purposes of this second forum. It got to be about a dozen pages in its first form.

[Protricity]

The reason this thread didn't have any replies was because it was the second incarnation of the thread made for the purposes of this second forum. It got to be about a dozen pages in its first form.

Alas, all lost in routeen triming of WIP.

[Ib05~HAC]

Hi Im kinda slow and dont understand things easily. Or maybe its just that im new.

Anyway I love The Metroid Collection.

And I love the music. I really love these remixes that has been done and I am really wanting to own like the cd. Is this possible?

If so I would really like to buy it.

Thanks

Ib05~HAC

[Protricity]

Hi Im kinda slow and dont understand things easily. Or maybe its just that im new.

Anyway I love The Metroid Collection.

And I love the music. I really love these remixes that has been done and I am really wanting to own like the cd. Is this possible?

If so I would really like to buy it.

Thanks

Ib05~HAC

Not going to happen. Selling music that does not belong to us for profit is against our ideals for the most part.

You may download the actual cd and burn it in all its full-quality 44khz 16bit wonder. The torrent file is available on the website. You can paste cd art onto it if that really floats your boat (theres a nero and EZCD art cover print available), but for the most part, that cd you burn will sound as good as anything you could possibly buy. Thats a promise.

[Moguta]

This is a very nice album; I just downloaded the full-quality WAV torrent. However, I couldn't help but notice clipping in "So It Begins" (sporadically, starting at 1:07) and much more noticably in "Traversing the Beyond" (1:00 to 1:16). There might be more spots, but I haven't listened all they way through yet.

Admittedly this is an amateur project, but if you're treating this release like a CD album & even providing PCM-quality tracks, I wish you'd have taken the time to ensure that the signal doesn't clip.

Aside from those technicalities, the ambient flowing nature of the project definitely appeals to me. Nice work all ye who contributed to this.

[Dhsu]

Protricity did his best to eliminate the clipping, but apparently it was specific only to certain setups (for example, some people had their equalizer turned on), so it was impossible for him to troubleshoot every possible cause. I'm sure he'd appreciate any suggestions on avoiding this kind of thing from happening in the future, though.

[Protricity]

This is a very nice album; I just downloaded the full-quality WAV torrent. However, I couldn't help but notice clipping in "So It Begins" (sporadically, starting at 1:07) and much more noticably in "Traversing the Beyond" (1:00 to 1:16). There might be more spots, but I haven't listened all they way through yet.

Admittedly this is an amateur project, but if you're treating this release like a CD album & even providing PCM-quality tracks, I wish you'd have taken the time to ensure that the signal doesn't clip.

Aside from those technicalities, the ambient flowing nature of the project definitely appeals to me. Nice work all ye who contributed to this.

Firstly, there is no clipping. I've checked it to a rather minute detail. I can pretty much guarentee the problem is with some factor in your system. For example, you can read up on the ogg vorbis issues with this project on the main page. Thats usually the most common reason people may hear clipping.

[Moguta]

I am quite sure that my playback chain is not the source of clipping in this case. For one, I am listening from the WAV torrent, not Ogg Vorbis files. Additionally, I ReplayGained the audio (which scaled the album by -6.72 dB) and I have WinAmp's equalizer disabled. And my Sennheiser HD 280 Pro 'phones could hardly be considered prone to generating artifacts.

Perhaps it's not actual clipping. All I know is that I definitely hear heavy clipping-like distortion whenever the bass drum & cymbals are hit together from 1:00 to 1:20 of "Traversing The Beyond". Maybe the levels were too high for the compressor to deal with it well? I dunno.

As for "So It Begins", perhaps it's static & pops from the electric guitar recording. The other instruments seem to mask it pretty well, so at least it's not glaringly obvious.

[Adun The Untouchable]

I loved this album and the rest of the metroid songs, too.

[Corporal Eschebone]

This is an excellent project that I've had on my computer since soon after it was finished. Too bad it didn't get more response in this thread.

[Protricity]

Perhaps it's not actual clipping. All I know is that I definitely hear heavy clipping-like distortion whenever the bass drum & cymbals are hit together from 1:00 to 1:20 of "Traversing The Beyond". Maybe the levels were too high for the compressor to deal with it well? I dunno.
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The bass here is indeed very strong. On my system it comes out clear. Doesn't clip. All I can suggest is that your speakers probably cannot handle the dynamic range of frequencies present in that 20 second section. Lots of bass, lots of trebel, pretty loud. Lots of systems can't handle that combination. I'd also suggest listening to that part in headphones. It should sound far clearer.

This is an excellent project that I've had on my computer since soon after it was finished. Too bad it didn't get more response in this thread.

It actually got some 12 pages of response. Unfortunately that thread was automatically pruned. We created this thread more recently and naturally it hasn't gotten much response as this project is a year old.

[SILVERWOLF]

Excellent job. Kudos to everyone that worked on ROTC. Now, time to get back to listening to it :)

[SirRus]

It actually got some 12 pages of response. Unfortunately that thread was automatically pruned. We created this thread more recently and naturally it hasn't gotten much response as this project is a year old.

Since I just dled this album this year, I'll go ahead and add to the noise: this rawks! Great work Prot, et. al.

[NNY]

I downloaded it a couple months ago. I'm pleased. It's just that I don't use Winamp, so I had to download a converter to turn the .ogg files into mp3s. I burned a copy for a friend too.

[BardicKnowledge]

The quality of this whole CD is ridiculously good. Does anyone know if there's a way to disable the music in Super Metroid (ZSNES) so I can remote play the correct track for the proper area? It'd be pretty cool to play through the game with this music.

[Dhsu]

Try disabling the SPC700 emulation or, alternatively, turning off all the sound channels (I forgot the shortcuts for that). Some of them might be used for sound effects though, so you might want to leave a couple on.

[badrad5]

Somehow - and I have no idea how - I missed this project. With the completion of Kong in Concert this was mentioned somewhere I was reading and I just downloaded it and just now finished listening through it all the way.

All I can say is WOW! Thank you so much to all involved in this, it is simply amazing, and something I am sure to listen to again and again.

Again, THANK YOU!

[Epic1044]

I love the fact that Super Metroid received a complete remix treatment, but I didn't care too much for the product. Did you? The whole soundtrack was very homogenous. Almost every piece started with a fade-in of tinny drums, followed by a watered-down version of the melody. And that's my biggest criticism -- melody. Just because it's a "remix" doesn't mean you have to transplant the melody into a different style that doesn't quite fit. I would've liked to see more enhancements, rather than unmemorable interpretive pieces.

The main theme of Super Metroid only made a brief cameo in the ending piece. About twenty seconds was devoted to that awesome melody, and it was represented by a stacatto synth string. The rest of the song was filled with the same dreary ambiance of the previous tracks.

The DKC remix project turned out more enjoyable, and I think the reason was that there was a greater variety of composers. Many of the tracks retained the elements that made their originals great songs.

[Protricity]

sure you weren't listening to pink noise?

[Sanguineuniverse]

First off great job on these remixes to all the artists.
I only had one issue with the entire project which was Adhesive Boy's contribution to it. THE INTRO HAD BAD DISTORTION ON IT! other than that it was awesome

[Protricity]

He did that on purpose. Initially the distortion lasted like 10 seconds and he had it in the end also. He agreed to let me remove much of it as I saw it as nothing but a bad idea.

[cytosisx]

I don't post much here, but I read a lot, and have been around OCRemix for a long time(since 2000 or 2001). I was just recently able to download Relics of the Chozo, and I must say that all of the artists who contributed to this project should be commended for their excellent work.
Fan-freakin-tastic work. I'm listening to it right now.
The only thing I see wrong is that I didn't download it sooner.

[OutLander]

:D you guys did a good job with this. the whole thing blew my ears away. :mrgreen: my personal favs are "Vast Inner Depths of Brinstar" and "The Galaxy is at Peace". it rules! :D

[SirRus]

"Full of Life" is my favorite. It gets me so amped. Its like Prot made that song just for me.

[Protricity]

I did, actually. You didn't recieve my birthday card in the mail?

[hobo]

Does anyone have the album art for this (eg. just .png files, like Kong in Concert did) because I hate using Nero Cover Designer.

[Linearity]

Nice job, folks. This is enjoyable music.

"Kong in Concert" played more on the "project" in "dkc project," whereas RotC focuses mostly on the "sm" in "sm project." What I mean is that RotC pays tribute to its game through a generally uniform mood, with each song evoking "Super Metroid." "Kong in Concert" pays tribute with many different kinds of music that seem to say "listen to some music" louder than they say "Donkey Kong Country." I'm being abstract. Bottom line: both projects approach their music in different ways and do a good job.

"Full of Life" is a good song.

Thanks for making "Relics of the Chozo," it's quite an accomplishment.

[Protricity]

Now I'm confused.

[StarZander]

I think he means that the different SM themes are very clear, and you recognize them immediatly. RotC pays tribute to this music more than King in Concert does with DKC. Kong in Concert pays tribute to different forms of music, like jazz, electronica etc., instead of the music from the game. Sometimes it's hard to hear what song it really is. I must agree with him.

[SirRus]

for example, "rare reminiscence" was badass in the sense of "listen to some music" whereas "full of life" is badass like "uniform mood intrinsic to super metroid" badassness.

[ella guro]

"I think" part of the reason he said "he was confused" was because of the "excessive and unnecessary" use of "quotes" in that "post".

[Protricity]

"I think" part of the reason he said "he was confused" was because of the "excessive and unnecessary" use of "quotes" in that "post".
"perhaps" you have a "point". The ""quotes"" may have been """unnecessary""""".

Either way, the reason RotC stayed with a theme, more or less, is because that was a project objective. We tried to create a flowing mood and continuity. While KiC was just a random rambunxious representation of ravinous rhinos and ruthless rofls.

[akachrismorgan]

I really like the flow of the whole project. Kong in Concert is a collection of ReMixes while Relics of the Chozo is a great album that has a good flow from start to finish. Its not for everyone but I feel Protricity did a good job keeping everything together. Excellent work and thank you oh so very much for the uncompressed Audio. Might I suggest a lossless compression like .shn or .flac next time though, .wav files can easily get corrupted in data transfers like bittorrent. you can messege me for info or find tons of it on the internet, or mostly http://etree.org

[Digital Coma]

While KiC was just a random rambunxious representation of ravinous rhinos and ruthless rofls.
Sorry, you can't make up for RotC's ridiculous lack of alliteration now.

[Protricity]

I really like the flow of the whole project. Kong in Concert is a collection of ReMixes while Relics of the Chozo is a great album that has a good flow from start to finish. Its not for everyone but I feel Protricity did a good job keeping everything together. Excellent work and thank you oh so very much for the uncompressed Audio. Might I suggest a lossless compression like .shn or .flac next time though, .wav files can easily get corrupted in data transfers like bittorrent. you can messege me for info or find tons of it on the internet, or mostly http://etree.org

The waves were compressed with crc check rar files. Anything can get corrupt in a transfer. The rars are as viable as anything else is gonna get. flac was considered and dismissed as the file size difference would have been something like 5%; simply not worth the n00bie brigade outcry of pain and ineptitude that would surely have followed. You know who you are.

[DarkeSword]

I really like the flow of the whole project. Kong in Concert is a collection of ReMixes while Relics of the Chozo is a great album that has a good flow from start to finish. Its not for everyone but I feel Protricity did a good job keeping everything together. Excellent work and thank you oh so very much for the uncompressed Audio. Might I suggest a lossless compression like .shn or .flac next time though, .wav files can easily get corrupted in data transfers like bittorrent. you can messege me for info or find tons of it on the internet, or mostly http://etree.org

The waves were compressed with crc check rar files. Anything can get corrupt in a transfer. The rars are as viable as anything else is gonna get. flac was considered and dismissed as the file size difference would have been something like 5%; simply not worth the n00bie brigade outcry of pain and ineptitude that would surely have followed. You know who you are.

:oops:

Anyway, I told coworkers about this last week, and they absolutely love it. STILL GOOD AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

[OchreJelly]

I got this earlier last year, and I was very impressed with almost every single song in this project. You've crushed my hopes of ever being this good. :D

The Lower Norfair theme was my favorite, followed closely by the orchestra Marida rendition. It reminded me a lot of the Crashed Frigate theme in Prime in terms of mood. And hey, the Brinstar theme just rocked. Plain and simple.

All-in-all, a stand-out effort and kudos to everyone who put work into this project. It is extremely appreciated. ^_^

[hobo]

Does anyone have the album art for this (eg. just .png files, like Kong in Concert did) because I hate using Nero Cover Designer.

[Twelve Motion]

Totally fantastic album. I love all of it. Protricity escpecially since it seems like you worked on almost every track, must have been one hell of a task, but I am glad you made it happen. Everyone else also, totally great!

I am having some trouble getting the cover art though. I just want the CD front cover, thats all I am interested in. I posted this request in general also, but is there like a jpeg of it someone can send me?

[JC83]

Congratulations guys, bloody excellent stuff.

Glad you made it happen. I have been pretty much listening over and over again.

[Digital Coma]

Does anyone have the album art for this (eg. just .png files, like Kong in Concert did) because I hate using Nero Cover Designer.

I am having some trouble getting the cover art though. I just want the CD front cover, thats all I am interested in. I posted this request in general also, but is there like a jpeg of it someone can send me?

I'm posting for Ari - grab the full cover package including jpegs here: http://supertux.com/~aasulin/ROTC_Covers.rar

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg

[Liontamer]

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg
Very nice art. Did Ari make those CD cover pics or did someone else?

[Digital Coma]

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg
Very nice art. Did Ari make those CD cover pics or did someone else?
Someone else, we don't think it was Rob Saunders.

[Final_metroid]

his collection is Brilliant, BUT WHY OGG?! I can't get it on my Ipod because of OGG!

[Linearity]

And suddenly...!

[irriadin]

his collection is Brilliant, BUT WHY OGG?! I can't get it on my Ipod because of OGG!

Ogg is simply a better filetype than .mp3. If you want to have it in .mp3 format, download dbpoweramp and convert it.

[Liontamer]

Did a Wikipedia page for the project based on a template from Rmrfstar's Kong in Concert Wiki entry (which I also updated). Check it out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_of_the_Chozo, and of course Ari or anyone else that can genuinely contribute to the page is encouraged to fix any potential inaccuracies and provide additional details for the project. Hope it proves useful. If anyone can dig up information on who made the CD cover art linked at the top of the page in Binnie's post, I'd appreciate it. OMG, gr00ve biaz! (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01305/)

EDIT: ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFL! Look at Protricity keep trying to edit/vandalise all of the OCR Site Project wikis! (You'll get there yet, baby, don't tucker yourself out!)

[Patrick Burns]

This is just a little note to tell you that RotC carried me through an all-night marathon of trig homework. Perceived by Cold Intelligence just sorta puts the arithmetic section of my cerebrum into overdrive.

[Monobrow]

hehehhe

I listened to this tonight for the first time in a long while and I just want to say that I still enjoy it as much as I did when it first came out. Yup.

[The Final Minuet]

Something doesn't seem right. I was on http://smproject.ocremix.org/ looking for the album, and I downloaded it. However, while I was converting the album to .mp3 for my own purposes, I found an error with track 7, Unsettling Nature (Miniboss theme).

Maybe the file got corrupted somehow, I'm not completely sure. Just wanted to bring it to your attention.

By the way, great job on the album!

[KingTiger]

I'm posting for Ari - grab the full cover package including jpegs here: http://supertux.com/~aasulin/ROTC_Covers.rar

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg

Does anyone know why these covers weren't officially released? They are very good. 2 covers wouldn't have hurt anything, that's what the Hedgehog Heaven folks did.

[Lourde Incarnadine]

I've never been an especial music buff before, but this project blew me aurally. Super Metroid had some great music to begin with, but after people like Protricity and Prophecy get ahold of it... This project is just so mesmerizing, so entrancing, that there's hardly anything I can say that would do it justice... And the album cover artwork (was that done by Rob Saunders too?) was as sweet as the music itself.

Everyone who worked on this did an excellent job; my condolences for the loss of Avien. ::bows head solemnly::

[KingTiger]

you know, if protricity is reading this, i have a question for you...what crazy time signature is your "escaping retribution" in?! I can't figure it out for the life of me.

and BTW, I agree, this project rawks. :)

EDIT: I figured out what it is...it's 5/8 for most of the song, but it switches for 6/8 for part of it and 7/8 for other parts. Very nice job, Protricity!

[The Mutericator]

If someone seeds this for me, I will be willing to seed it for anyone who requests it from me from here on out. But I can't bear the 2kbps download rate, and I'd really like to hear this without wasting bandwith (and getting my .wav goodness).

[kidThunder]

meh...I say that Super Metroid was when the series started getting better!! The original was OK, though!!

[watkinzez]

So.. now that Prot left ASU and has no more web space/deleted the site by accident/deleted the site because of his relationship with OCR, is anyone picking up something to fill in the gap? You could easily say that the torrent is an alternative method for new users to grab the project, but having a dead homepage is a bit unprofessional towards OCR..

[Liontamer]

So.. now that Prot left ASU and has no more web space/deleted the site by accident/deleted the site because of his relationship with OCR, is anyone picking up something to fill in the gap? You could easily say that the torrent is an alternative method for new users to grab the project, but having a dead homepage is a bit unprofessional towards OCR..
http://smproject.supertux.com

Yeah, dunno what was up with the orginal page being deleted but we'll link to the other instead.

[The Mutericator]

Does anyone want to set up a torrent for .mp3 quality instead of just .wav and .ogg? I found it really inconvenient to have to download the huge .wav version and then use Winamp to turn them all into .mp3's so that I could keep them easily...

I'll seed if someone sets up the torrent for me (I don't know how, unfortunately).

[Demonicmaster]

I have to say I grabbed this way back when it first popped out and loved it ever since, but because of a freak computer accident(small children and the 'Delete' button) I no longer have it and I am grabbing it again. I would also like to point out that friends of mine who didn't know it was music originally from a video game loved the collection. I can't praise this enough. I am of the nintendo generation and Metroid and LoZ have been my favorite games since I first bought my nintendo. All I need now is a LoZ project which if I remember in one of the forums it is already underway I can die a happy man.

[r-tiztik]

K this is a kinda random question, but I'm curious. Does anyone, hopefully Protricity, know the actual release date of Relics Of The Chozo?

Thx

[OverCoat]

9/12/03 - Relics of the Chozo is officially out. Thanks to dave for the awesome spotlight! Thanks to everyone involved who made it possible. Thanks to SuperMetroid for being so frigin kick ass. Enjoy.

http://smproject.ocremix.org/

[r-tiztik]

K I'm a dumbass. Thx lol.

[The Mutericator]

Okay, time for some critique:

Pros:
- Track blending makes it very, very nice. I always try to blend my own CD's.
- Kickass tracks like Full of Life, Vast Inner Depths of Brinstar, Ebb Tide Manifest, Percieved by Cold Intelligence, and Escaping Retribution kick ass (yes, I said it twice, they're that good).

Cons:
- Tracks like Putting Down on Zebes (admittantly, not much source material to work with), A Change and a Passing, Metal Fatique, and Pyroclastica. Seriously, WTF? I've yet to see any music in any of Children of the Monkey Machine's works, try though I might to actually like them. It's like noise, made even worse by the fact that Protricity felt the need to imitate CotMM's style. These tracks, I think, really killed the project for me, to the point where I only listen to the last three tracks and various ones in between these listed; I can't stand listening to the half-noise tracks.

So, yeah. This project could have been so much better, but at this point I'm considering just replacing said tracks with virt's Crystal Flash and making an awesome Super Metroid CD.

[Black Mage]

Y'know, of all the remix projects to have graced OCR (most of which were great, love KiC) I think that RotC still rocks them all!

[Patrick Burns]

Can anyone suggest a course of action for obtaining the wav .rar?

edit: wow, somebody could have told me it was on the tracker. you can lead a horse to water, i guess

[mEtaLoRgY]

Just sign up a few moments ago just to say. I loved this album, it brings back great memories of my personally favorite game.

Great job and im looking forward for your guys next project!

EDIT: Just to let you know, I played super metroid again while listening to music. It brings a completely new theme to the whole game. It accually goes quite well. Just wished my cd drive would work so i could burn this cd :( .

[ShadowLord]

I recently downloaded the project (in ogg format) and I've heard quite a few annoying clicks and pops so far. Mainly at the start of track #7 (Unsettling Nature). Is this intentional or not?

Also then there's track #8 that crackles alot when the bass reaches loud notes.

Am I the only one getting this?

[watkinzez]

I recently downloaded the project (in ogg format) and I've heard quite a few annoying clicks and pops so far. Mainly at the start of track #7 (Unsettling Nature). Is this intentional or not?

Also then there's track #8 that crackles alot when the bass reaches loud notes.

Am I the only one getting this?

http://smproject.ocremix.org/

Possibly the 'How to get rid of ogg vorbis playback static in winamp!!!' heading.

[ShadowLord]

http://smproject.ocremix.org/

Possibly the 'How to get rid of ogg vorbis playback static in winamp!!!' heading.

D'oh! I should've taken actual time to look around the site. ;) Thanks alot! :)

Edit: Except it doesn't work completely. The crackling in track 8 is fixed, but I'm still getting annoying clicks at the start of track 7.

[jebushatesu]

it's hard to believe how good this album is. I stumbled across it about a half year ago, and there is never a bad time to listen to it.

Escaping Retribution is truly incredible. Is there a way to get Protricity condensed into liquid form and injected intraveinously?

[Jaybell]

The torrent is not working for me :-(

I'm using Azureus. The Tracker status says "OK (:dht)", but it stays on the red face. I know almost nothing about torrents, so what does that meaaan?

[TenOfTen]

.wav files can easily get corrupted in data transfers like bittorrent.

That's a lie. Bittorrent uses checksums and won't signal 100% download until all parts pass checks.
The only reason you'd get errors anyways, is if your RAM is broken. Try memtest86 if you have problems.

[Mad Dog]

Does anyone have the all the cover art that was posted on here a long time ago as an image format, including the unreleased art? I don't understand why it was decided to use a Nero format for it. I'd just like a .jpg or a .gif. Also, why are they still seeding this without jpgs in the rar? Makes no sense to me. They should reupload the torrent with the art.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[TrueLugia121]

if this is a late call i'm sorry but i've found a way of how to have this Project in one large file (WAV, MP3 OGG Vorbis, eetc.)


for anyone who'd like to know how this is done, all you need is Audacity and the project in whatever format.


1. Open Audaicty

2. Open the first track of the album on one window and the second track on another window (for this example 01 - Protricity - Premonition Of Fell Purpose (Title) and 02 - Vigilante - So It Begins... (Intro Theme)

3. on the second track (mainly the second window with Track 02) click on EDIT point to SELECT and click on ALL or press CTRL+A to select all lines of that track.

4. Click EDIT again but afterwards click copy or CTRL+C.

5. on the first track (mainly the first window) paste the selection of the second track just in front of the first. that way you'll get something like a track that's about 6m:12s long but with the first two track on it.

6. then open up the third track in another window and repeat steps 3 and 4.
you should then have a very long track about 15 minutes long.

7. repeat steps 3.6 with the other tracks and you should end up with the SMProject in one non-stop file.

[Sensai]

I have a question aimed specifically at the creators of Relics of the Chozo and more generally at people in this thread:

Would anyone object (or better yet, think it was a good idea) to uploading the MP3 version, taken from the .wav files at 320kbps, onto a torrent tracker? I have no problem doing it and was actually thinking about it, but figured I'd ask.

[TJF588]

MY turn to post. I second the request for the .jpg/.gif files for cover art (for use in media players, specifically iTunes). I'd also like to know what's the preferred way of labelling everything before I burn a copy (I'm a nitpick). I'm currently using the Every-Word-Is-Capitalized format, as seen on file names (I put the slash back into 'Change & Passing'), the album is set as a compilation (to allow for artist names to show with the track title, as well as labelling the album artist as "Various Artists") and as a gapless album (with the burn option set to 0 seconds between tracks just in case), and the track and disc numbers are fully filled. What I'm kinda trumped on is what to label the album ("RotC", SM:RotC", "RotC-ASMMC", etc.), whether what main-site track comments there are should be included in the comment field (wouldn't hurt), and how to label composers (I might could see who did which originals).

On the note of gaplessness, anyone know if FFVII:VotL (or is it just "VotL"?) is gapless-intended?

[The Unsung Plumber]

I'm posting for Ari - grab the full cover package including jpegs here: http://supertux.com/~aasulin/ROTC_Covers.rar

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg

Here ya go. As for the labeling, I wouldn't think it matters how ya do it.:tomatoface:

[Antipode]

I'd just like to call out some naysayers and bump this thread! I'd still say after all this time that this project is right up at the top of my favorite album projects from this site - and it was the first! That's a hard bar to reach. I definitely think some of the best music OCR has produced is in it, and more importantly it's by far OCR's most cohesive project in atmosphere and in continuity - really, this is OCR's only "album", where the rest are just compilations - excluding maybe Rise of the Star. I do like the ambient tracks too, just as much as the others. All of Prot's tracks on this are gold, and the others are excellent.

Check this out if you haven't. Its only weaknesses are the ambient tracks which understandably aren't some people's cup of tea (but I still feel are very necessary to atmosphere). I remember listening to this back when it came out, and I still listen to it today! In fact, I'm listening to it RIGHT NOW. Are you?

[Txai]

Still the best album of this site.

[The_Mighty_KELP]

Escaping Retribution is truly incredible. Is there a way to get Protricity condensed into liquid form and injected intraveinously?

OHHhhhhhh.... if you ever find out a way, I want 6 million shares of stock.

[m68030]

someone did a pic one time for a bottle of "Ari Insulin". That'd be pretty close to injectable.

[Monobrow]

No see, what they gotta do is buy a pair of Air Asulins and learn to jump/remix and maybe sell Hanes underwear and hot dogs.

[olanmills]

Does anyone have the album art jpegs? The links to download them are dead.

Sorry to dig up this old thread. I would have PMed Digital Coma, but he's not listed as a member anymore.
Thanks



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Originally Posted by Digital Coma http://ocremix.org/images/vbulletin/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=50009#post50009)
I'm posting for Ari - grab the full cover package including jpegs here: http://supertux.com/~aasulin/ROTC_Covers.rar (http://supertux.com/~aasulin/ROTC_Covers.rar) DEAD

The final covers that weren't released are also included; direct links to them are:

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg (http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_front_final.jpg) DEAD

http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg (http://supertux.com/~aasulin/rotc_back_final.jpg) DEAD

Here ya go. As for the labeling, I wouldn't think it matters how ya do it.

[GTAHater836]

I've only heard bits and pieces of this album because I don't know how to use OGGs. My favorite track, out of what I scavenged from elsewhere, was Braving the Flames.

[a_d]

I agree with the gainsayers here: although OCR's first album, this remains one of its best and is definitely the most cohesive
Does anyone have the album art jpegs? The links to download them are dead.

Sorry to dig up this old thread. I would have PMed Digital Coma, but he's not listed as a member anymore.
Thanks
I found several places where you can find it just by searching "relics of the chozo" in a search engine's image search. Here's a couple hits: http://survey.mektek.ca/gift/chozo_cover.jpg and http://ocremix.org/album/3/super-metroid-relics-of-the-chozo (the preview pic of the album). Of course, the latter is more accurate but smaller, but if you just want it for your ipod, it's plenty big

[GravitySuitCollector]

OGG fies aren't that bad. you just need the right player. I think there's a plug-in for Winamp. If you need to switch the file format, though, BonkEnc Audio Encoder is a okay tool to use. I haven't had too many issues so far using it to switch mp3's to AAC's for my DSi. (http://download.cnet.com/BonkEnc-Audio-Encoder/3000-2140_4-10550755.html)



I've only heard bits and pieces of this album because I don't know how to use OGGs. My favorite track, out of what I scavenged from elsewhere, was Braving the Flames.

[Calebyte]

Just wanted to pop in and say that I've been listening to this album quite a bit recently at work. It's great, very atmospheric. Definitely the most cohesive and uniform album on the site. Love it.

[duskvstweak]

I have no clue why I've ignored this album for so long! It has to be because of the format (which Audacity has fixed for me) and that seems like a really dumb reason. This album is all atmosphere and I love it. It's hard to believe this was the first OCR album, the quality is amazing. Just goes to show chronological snobbery is lame.
Love this thing!

[Miletus]

Nearly a decade later, I still listen to this. Good work everyone