OverClocked ReMix Design ?'s and Issues

[Jago]

No, but I'll give that a go. Thanks!

[Pyro Paper Planes]

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this...

Is there a way to change the order of the posts, so newest posts are last, instead of first? I could only find the option for topics.

Thanks for the help, sorry if this is the wrong place to post it. I have a feeling this option is somewhere very obvious...

[DarkeSword]

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/profile.php?do=editoptions

Go there, and scroll to Thread Options.

[Pyro Paper Planes]

That only has the order for threads, not posts.

[DarkeSword]

That option is for how posts are displayed in threads. Set it to "Linear - Oldest First."

[Pyro Paper Planes]

...I swear I did that before, and it changed the order of the threads, not the posts.

Regardless, thank you for the help.

[djpretzel]

Amy noticed that the 15 latest comments on a ReMix page also shows deleted comments. Check out http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00316/ vs. http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=148&page=5 for an example.

Fixed, sorry for the delay.

Noticed that too. Another occurrence (eighth one down, as of now): http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01711/ and http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16169&page=2. It was deleted for a good reason, but the ones Palpable pointed out are worse.

Also, this page just delivers coding errors: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01180/.
(such as: Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [domdocument.loadxml (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/../remix/OCR01180/domdocument.loadxml)]: Opening and ending tag mismatch: x line 11 and blockquote in Entity, line: 18 in /home/ocremix/public_html/includes/php/classes/BaseView.php on line 155)

Also fixed; FCKEditor (used on the backend) appears to have a weird bug where the word "expression" is parsed into a rogue <x> tag that closes asymmetrically.

[Polo]

- To Madara and Back is titled "MadaraMedley" in Winamp.

- The review thread for FF7 - Where Destiny Meets is missing an 's' in the title (Fantasy).

[Liontamer]

- To Madara and Back is titled "MadaraMedley" in Winamp.

- The review thread for FF7 - Where Destiny Meets is missing an 's' in the title (Fantasy).

1. Got missed back when I did the renaming effort for OCR01000. I'm still hoping to move forward with updating every individual ReMix re: tags, so that's fixed in my copy and will eventually be fixed.

2. Fixed. Gracias.

[abg]

Maybe you already know about this, but I just noticed and felt inclined to mention.

BBCode from the Comments/Reviews threads is visible on the ReMix write-up page. I noticed when I commented on tefnek's new mix, here: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01907/

[K.B.]

On the main page for each remix, the game picture can be covered by the discussion. This appears to be because the discussion is set to start at the end of the text of djp's writeup without regard to the picture. When the picture is taller than the writeup (which is more prevalent for earlier remixes... even when the picture is already small), the discussion still starts right after the text and therefore right on top of the picture. For example: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00451/ and http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00385/. I checked these pages in IE as well as Firefox to make sure it wasn't a browser-specific issue, and it wasn't.

If there's a web-programming equivalent to image-wrapping, that would fix this.

A small thing, of course. Just noticed it and thought I'd point it out.


Edit: Since it came to mind, a second issue: there are numerous instances where the title of a song is without spaces (and sometimes without punctuation) on the main remix page but has the correctly spaced (and punctuated) title on the discussion page. Case in point: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00946/ and its review thread http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1176. Frankly, I don't think it's worth the time to correct the titles of every single affected remix, and those of us who care to get the absolute correct title have learned (or will learn) to go to the discussion page, but since it's a discrepancy I figured I'd point it out as well.

[Mustin]

Did I break the boards?

http://www.oneupstudios.com/_Pics/Capture.JPG

[Liontamer]

Nope. Just going default for now.

[Neblix]

Why are the forums not like they were?

It says vBulletin at the top and everything is all... NOT OCR forums.

[Mustin]

Okay good 'cause I was scared.

[Scufo]

and what the hell happened to the sidebar??!?

[Matt E. Waldman]

Whew! That scared me. Is there going to be a new skin or something?

[Tricklozen]

and don't worry about the vase.

[Bahamut]

and what the hell happened to the sidebar??!?

Maybe the sidebar is getting axed as mentioned by djp before?

[Scufo]

excuse me what?

how will I navigate the site :(

[JH Sounds]

and don't worry about the vase.

What vase?

*accidentally breaks vase*

[EdgeCrusher]

Fuck that, I want some bans for this lack of sidebar. NOW!

[Gollgagh]

they're probably changing the OCR skin

[The Mutericator]

and what the hell happened to the sidebar??!?

It was rabbid, so we had to put it down. With a rocket launcher.

[Neblix]

they're probably changing the OCR skin

Oh I see... so it's not a bug or something. I was worried DJP did something horribly wrong with the site programming or vBulletin was messed up or something.

[Scufo]

it will always live on in our hearts.

[JadeAuto]

my god the default look is.... scary

[Gollgagh]

ooooh I'm liking the way this new skin is looking so far

reshopping all those characters is going to be a pain in the ass though

[prophetik]

I'M SO ANGRY THAT THE SIDEBAR IS GONE I'M MAKING MY OWN FORUM no banz plz kthnx

[KyleJCrb]

Man, the site design no longer looks like something circa 1995.

[Txai]

ooooh I'm liking the way this new skin is looking so far
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/117505/img/space.gif

[Gollgagh]

the best part is how it still works with Rama's dark skin



edit: wait wait wait so does this mean we're now in OCR5 or OCR 4.5?

[Bahamut]

It seems so weird without the sidebar now. :-(

[The Mutericator]

It seems so weird without the sidebar now. :razz:
(Insert rage over ten character limit keeping me from making a succinct quote edit here.)

[Mustin]

nm i fixed it

[The Mutericator]

nm i fixed it

Yaaaaaaay!

[The Coop]

ARE WE BEING DA HAXXORED?!

Anyway, if they're changing the skin, I feel sorry for the one who has to redo all the mascots :lol:

[Neblix]

ARE WE BEING DA HAXXORED?!

Anyway, if they're changing the skin, I feel sorry for the one who has to redo all the mascots :lol:
The mascots are all redone already, if you haven't noticed. ;)

[Scufo]

the best part is how it still works with Rama's dark skin



edit: wait wait wait so does this mean we're now in OCR5 or OCR 4.5?
I'd say 4.5

[Aninymouse]

Fuck that, I want some bans for this lack of sidebar. NOW!

hahahahahahaha

[The Coop]

The mascots are all redone already, if you haven't noticed. ;)

All right, then I fell sorry for the one who had to redo them.


Edit: Hmmmm... seems only one third of the mascots are up and running. Are they still being worked on? If so, I can lend a hand.

[Gollgagh]

djp did them personally, I believe

you might message him

[Nekofrog]

ooooh I'm liking the way this new skin is looking so far


What an incredibly racist thing to say

[The Coop]

ooooh I'm liking the way this new skin is looking so far

...

You're not pulling a Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb on us, are you?

[Gollgagh]

What an incredibly racist thing to say

damned straight

[The Coop]

Message sent.

[Drack]

Good riddance, sidebar!

Let's keep it OFF the forums this time.

[big giant circles]

Did I break the boards?

http://www.oneupstudios.com/_Pics/Capture.JPG

You sonofabitch. You divided by zero, didn't you?

[FR]

Site looks weird now

personally don't miss the sidebar though

[Neblix]

You sonofabitch. You divided by zero, didn't you?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH
I couldn't resist laughing my head off!

[EdgeCrusher]

All the fallen souls we lost years ago died in vein :(

[phill]

Got to wonder how many of the people whining about the lack of sidebar now were whining about the sidebar back when it was introduced.

[Gollgagh]

I haven't actually seen anyone genuinely whining about it at all

[djpretzel]

Message sent.

Thanks for the offer; I can handle them BUT... you've still got wiki access, right? It'd be good to update the images used in each wiki mascot entry. I personally think it'd also be nice to embed official OCR youtube mixes of character theme mixes, one per article, so the mascot pages have some musics :) Good idea?

[The Coop]

Thanks for the offer; I can handle them BUT... you've still got wiki access, right? It'd be good to update the images used in each wiki mascot entry. I personally think it'd also be nice to embed official OCR youtube mixes of character theme mixes, one per article, so the mascot pages have some musics :) Good idea?

Sounds like fun, but I never had access to the wiki. I believe that was Dafydd and a couple of the other bio writers.

[Mustin]

Gotta say, now that I'm on a real screen and not my Netbook, the site is lookin' pretty snazzy!! Great work!

[Darth Lime]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b213/darthlime101/wtf.jpg

What is going on here? 8-O

[FR]

already answered

lrn tu red

[Polo]

you've still got wiki access, right?
I believe that was Dafydd and a couple of the other bio writers.
Yeah, me and Linearity.

It'd be good to update the images used in each wiki mascot entry.
I'm on it, sir. :salute:

I personally think it'd also be nice to embed official OCR youtube mixes of character theme mixes, one per article, so the mascot pages have some musics :) Good idea?
While it would be super awesome to have Tatsumakisenputronic play while someone reads Ryu's bio or any One Winged Angel mix queued up for Sephiroth, that kinda defeats the point of encouraging readers to click on ReMixed titles and find the mixes themselves. Not to mention some mascots don't even have one linked title (Wain, the Darkstalkers, *cough*theTapRunner*cough*), or even their own theme songs.

Also, can someone tell me which game the new full armored X comes from?
http://ocremix.org/images/template/ocr_mascot_030.png

EDIT: Never mind, found it. He and Bowser and Kraid's Pictured from lines have been updated, as well as every mascot image in the articles.

[Roberto]

What happened to the good skin? The blue one.
Just yesterday I finally decided to stop lurking and the skin changes completely?

*goes back to lurking*

[DarkeSword]

Those skins aren't official.

[DZComposer]

One thing really bothers me about this change: the ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet when sorting alphabetically appears to be missing.

I looked up New Super Mario Bros earlier, and had a heck of a time finding it in the 60-page alphabetized list. If each page were a letter, it wouldn't be that bad, but Mega Man 2 takes up a whole page (at least) by itself...

I like the way this theme looks better, but I feel that there was a loss of functionality.

[Fishy]

I have not been getting email notifications when I get pms for a few weeks now. It's all set up correctly still, right boxes ticked etc and I didn't change anything recently that might have caused it. My email is also listed correctly. Can't think of any reason why it's not working.

[Txai]

One thing really bothers me about this change: the ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet when sorting alphabetically appears to be missing.

I looked up New Super Mario Bros earlier, and had a heck of a time finding it in the 60-page alphabetized list. If each page were a letter, it wouldn't be that bad, but Mega Man 2 takes up a whole page (at least) by itself...

Just use the quick search tool at the top right corner of the page and you will be fine.

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4524/clipboard01kkv.png

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2189/clipboard02m.png

[djpretzel]

Quick updates:


All mascots are now back in place; clear your cache to get the new javascript if you're still just seeing the first 50
Regarding alpha nav, what I'm hearing isn't necessarily that it needs to come back, but that SOMETHING needs to be added to make things more user-friendly. I'm thinking this will involve one or more of the following:

Changing google search on far right to some version of quicksearch instead, making it clearer that you can search games/mixes that way...
Moving the "browse" quickstats navigation smack dab towards the top of the homepage... it's still alive but looks fugly at the moment since it wasn't updated >>> http://ocremix.org/browse/
Adding specific quick search boxes to the list pages, so that when viewing the "remix" list there's a big search box for mixes, ditto games, etc.
Other ideas?


Again, just trying to get away from the alpha since it's not particularly scalable...

[KyleJCrb]

I have not been getting email notifications when I get pms for a few weeks now. It's all set up correctly still, right boxes ticked etc and I didn't change anything recently that might have caused it. My email is also listed correctly. Can't think of any reason why it's not working.

I actually noticed this yesterday as well, when I received a PM but didn't get an email notification about it. And actually, I haven't gotten any thread response notifications recently either for a thread that I'm subscribed to, and the thread has been replied to several times.

[DarkeSword]

A couple of people have had that issue. Check your spam folders and the like. OCR's been doing a fair number of mailouts in the past year or so, and spam filters might be seeing emails coming from admin@ocremix.org as spam.

[The Pezman]

Not crazy about the new gray... makes it look more depressing.

[Dafydd]

I agree. It's "sportier", but also less welcoming. But I guess it's just a matter of what you're used to.

Another issue I have with it is that on my monitor, if no other, the upper part of the headphones in the logo is barely visible against the slightly brighter gray background. This wasn't an issue with the old colors, and to most people, it probably still isn't, but I still thought I should point it out.

[Martin Penwald]

the upper part of the headphones in the logo is barely visible against the slightly brighter gray background.

Heh, that was the first thing I noticed when I saw the new skin.

[jmr]

Heh, that was the first thing I noticed when I saw the new skin.Hmm, the headphones are pretty easy to distinguish on my screen.

I don't really miss the functionality of the sidebar (never used it much), but I sort of miss the screen real estate it used to occupy. Feels weird reading threads spanning the full width of a wide-screen monitor.

Apart from that, I'm liking the new layout. :nicework:

[prophetik]

i kind of want the sidebar back, i liked using it for navigation purposes. maybe a setting in the user CP to disable or enable it?

[jmr]

I don't really miss the functionality of the sidebar (never used it much), but I sort of miss the screen real estate it used to occupy. Feels weird reading threads spanning the full width of a wide-screen monitor.
Hmm... I'm not sure if it's because I'm using a different resolution monitor at school (1680x1050 at school vs. 1280x800 at home), but I like what I'm seeing now (http://www.cs.mun.ca/%7Ep34jmr/share/ocrscreenwork.png). I'll check how it looks at home this evening.

[djpretzel]

Hmm... I'm not sure if it's because I'm using a different resolution monitor at school (1680x1050 at school vs. 1280x800 at home), but I like what I'm seeing now (http://www.cs.mun.ca/%7Ep34jmr/share/ocrscreenwork.png). I'll check how it looks at home this evening.

The forums are max-widthed at 1300 like the rest of the site... at home there should be no change. It does look like vBulletin 4 will be reintroducing sidebars at least on the forum index, and we have been considering using a thing RIGHT column on forums for ads, promoting mixes, albums, etc... we'll see.

The whole idea behind the width lock at 1300 is that, while folks with screen supporting larger resolutions shouldn't suffer, reading text that spans the width of the screen can get annoying.

[jmr]

Ahh, I appreciate the explanation. :smile: I'd like to see the max width of forum threads to be a little less than 1300px (like I said, it feels weird reading things spanning the entire width of the screen), but that's just a personal preference and in the end, it's not a big deal at all.
EDIT: Holy wow I just discovered Stylish.
@-moz-document url-prefix('http://ocremix.org/forums') {
div.middle-column-full {max-width:1000px !important}
}...suits me just fine.

[K.B.]

i kind of want the sidebar back, i liked using it for navigation purposes. maybe a setting in the user CP to disable or enable it?
Please? It's a lot harder to read now with the expanded width and I'd rather not resize my browser every time I come to ocr.



The Dreamhost links are dead for the recent Xenogears remixes.

[The Coop]

First people bitched about it, and now they're begging to have it back.

It's like djp's conducting some bizarre behavioral experiment.

[Dafydd]

As an experiment, why don't you make a list of people who complained about the sidebar, and then another one of those who complain about it being gone, and then see if anyone is in both lists? :wink:

I would like to, once again, propose the smiley window be cleaned up. There's one duplicate, one triplicate and one empty slot. This means another 4 smileys could fit in that same window without changing its size.

Besides, the order is messy.

[prophetik]

As an experiment, why don't you make a list of people who complained about the sidebar, and then another one of those who complain about it being gone, and then see if anyone is in both lists?

why worry about if someone's on both lists? just ban them all straight-up.

[DarkeSword]

Can we get back to discussing actual design issues, instead of making stupid sidebar-ban jokes?

[Rozovian]

I liked the sidebar. I want it back in some form. Looks weird to not have something on the left side of the window.

Anyway, unrelated matter, where a picture says more than a thousand words, and I am too lazy to write those anyway:

http://filesap.com/r/275m/045.png

[K.B.]

I should have just said something like 'it would be awesome if we could set the max width for forum posts in our control panel' because the thrust of my request was on forum width, not on the sidebar (regardless of how I never once complained about the sidebar, ahem!). I should have posted this in the other thread, sure, but I thought prophet's idea here about a user cp option was excellent and I wanted to echo it. And the only reason I repeated it was because I already had another issue to point out, not to be annoying.

So: sidebar option would be cool. Max width function would be awesome.

[Arcana]

Hey, is there a chance you can consider moving around the "forums" submenu to display the forum subsections before the Chat and Social Networking/RSS?

When I mouse over forums, I want to go to forums, and it takes more time to mouse down to where the forum subsections are listed at the moment because they're at the bottom of the list.

Regards,

[The Damned]

Well, personally, I don't think it's that big a time loss.

But I would like to make it so that the menu doesn't drop down just by moving the mouse over it. I just click on it to go straight to the forums. Having it drop down is kind of pointless, and sometimes, it causes Firefox to hang.

Maybe make it so that you have to click open the menu instead?

[Rozovian]

Hey, is there a chance you can consider moving around the "forums" submenu to display the forum subsections before the Chat and Social Networking/RSS?

When I mouse over forums, I want to go to forums, and it takes more time to mouse down to where the forum subsections are listed at the moment because they're at the bottom of the list.

Regards,

The forums text right under the logo is actually a link, you can click that and get straight to the forums, then nav on from there.

[IrateResearchers]

Has anyone mentioned that on Internet Explorer (How I loathe thee), the menus that pop up appear OVER the section links, but on Mozilla Firefox, they don't? this makes it hard to click the section links, although I have found a way to click them even with the menu blocking the links.

[Harmony]

There appears to be an incorrect link on the Workshop Page (http://ocremix.org/workshop)

Towards the bottom if you click on the heading for "Latest Feedback: Original/Other" it directs you to "Feedback: Workshop ReMixes"

The current link is: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16
It should be: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19

I've cleared my cache and I'm in Konqueror/Ubuntu

[KyleJCrb]

Humans + Gears is not in the flash carousel on the main page. Might want to look into that, since it really should have a longer spotlight time than just two weeks.

[prophetik]

i noticed that too. was a little curious about it.

[The Coop]

Can we please, for the love of God, get a home page button? I know I brought this up before, but it seems rather silly to allow people to enter their home page URL, but not provide a link so other people can actually visit it. We all know how lazy web surfers are, and the chances of anyone digging through a member's OCR account pages to find out if they even have a home page, are pretty damn slim.

We used to have one before the vbulletin changeover. Please bring it back.


Edit: Fixed my botched English.

[KyleJCrb]

Humans + Gears is not in the flash carousel on the main page. Might want to look into that, since it really should have a longer spotlight time than just two weeks.

Oh good, they fixed it.

[Liontamer]

Can we please, for the love of God, get a home page button? I know I brought this up before, but it seems rather silly to allow people to enter their home page URL, but not provide a link so people can actually visit it. We all know how lazy web surfers are, and the chances of anything digging through a member's account pages to find out if they even have a home page, is pretty damn slim.

We used to have one before the vbulletin changeover. Please bring it back.
Agreed on bringin' it back. Never liked it disappearing in the first place.

[The Coop]

Agreed on bringin' it back. Never liked it disappearing in the first place.

Did you like how I slaughtered the English language we've all come to know and love? That's what happens when you type while still waking up. It was so bad, I had to go back and fix it just now :lol:

[Gollgagh]

http://ocremix.org/songs/original/Earthbound.rsn leads to a 404

I haven't tried any other chiptunes though

edit: actually I can't find any chiptune links that do work

did we remove them or what

[djpretzel]

http://ocremix.org/songs/original/Earthbound.rsn leads to a 404

I haven't tried any other chiptunes though

edit: actually I can't find any chiptune links that do work

did we remove them or what

Mirror folder structure was changed dramatically; also working on renaming/reorganizing chips. This should be fixed in 48 hours.

[jmr]

On the chat applet page (http://ocremix.org/community/chat/applet/) in the navigation links that appear in under the page title, the link back to the chat info page (http://ocremix.org/info/Chat) is broken. It instead links to http://ocremix.org/community/chat/, which 404s.

The dropdown navigation tabs on the top of the page hide behind the Java applet as well. I've tested it on Chrome 3.0 and Firefox 3.5.4.

The chat applet also refused to connect, but that's probably because I'm at work right now. :-P

[Martin Penwald]

The links to the info pages in languages other than English are garbled, and the ones for Spanish and French don't work (the one for Japanese does, and all the characters show up correctly on the Japanese pages).

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4151/garbageb.png

Firefox 3.5.4, btw.

[Doulifée]

^i concur Martin's post. same here on both my computer (FF and opera) and i have french and japanese font on it :p

[jmr]

It's a character encoding issue. The page's character set is Western (ISO-8859-1), but the non-english text uses Unicode characters.

Here are the corrected phrases in Western encoding. (I'm not sure if this'll display properly, so here goes nothing)

Información en Español
L'information en Français
日本語での情報

[Rozovian]

Same problem in the menus as the other guys. jmr's post's looks good to me tho.

[Abadoss]

Ditto for IE 8. I see jmr's text fine, though.

{edit} - The text is also mostly fine on the front page. Only the Japanese is a little weird. The two hirogana symbols show up fine, but the kanji symbols show up as boxes. I wonder if this is related to the other problem I mentioned.

[djpretzel]

Ditto for IE 8. I see jmr's text fine, though.

{edit} - The text is also mostly fine on the front page. Only the Japanese is a little weird. The two hirogana symbols show up fine, but the kanji symbols show up as boxes. I wonder if this is related to the other problem I mentioned.

Made some changes; still trying to fix the links themselves, but the text was reduced down to language codes, and I added a meta tag that I *think* has fixed the issue with the dropdowns hiding the links - can you confirm, Mr. Keyn?

[Abadoss]

Made some changes; still trying to fix the links themselves, but the text was reduced down to language codes, and I added a meta tag that I *think* has fixed the issue with the dropdowns hiding the links - can you confirm, Mr. Keyn?

Seems to be. I'm not on my own computer for a time, though, as my video card (or slot) died.

{Edit} - Tried it on my work computer and it's not fixed. Actually, the problem has migrated to the front page now.

{Edit 2} - Scratch that. My work computer is IE 7. The problem still exists, but it's on an earlier version.

[Martin Penwald]

still trying to fix the links themselves

Why don't you do what you did for the Japanese page, i.e. not use any non-english letters in the url? Instead of "http://ocremix.org/info/Category:Información_en_Español", you could use "http://ocremix.org/info/Category:christwheredidthesepeoplelearntodrive" or something.

[Gollgagh]

hahahaha holy hell that is the funniest URL suggestion I've ever read

[The UnMod OutKast]

I know its been addressed many times, but I'll ask anyway. Can we please have the alphabet back at the top of the homepage? Its a pain in the ass to find the particular remixes/remixers I'm looking for.

[Abadoss]

Made some changes; still trying to fix the links themselves, but the text was reduced down to language codes, and I added a meta tag that I *think* has fixed the issue with the dropdowns hiding the links - can you confirm, Mr. Keyn?

I'm on my own computer now. And I confirm: the issue is fixed.

[K.B.]

Big ole' gap between the first and second album on http://ocremix.org/info/Albums. Encountered on both Firefox and IE.

Screenshot: http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/kewlguy715/albumgap.jpg




Different issue: missing a source on http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01909/.

The source credited is correct, but - per the judges' thread and my own ear (by checking the source) - the second one is missing: Those Chosen By The Planet.

Another incorrect source: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01086/.

Per Miku himself (and again by me, checking the source), the correct source is Mabe Village.


As I find these, should I post them here? I ask because these aren't exactly design questions/issues. Is there a more appropriate thread? I couldn't find one offhand; I'd be happy to create one if desired.

And yes, I plan on finding more of these (should they exist) because I re-title every remix to include the source tunes.

[Dafydd]

Big ole' gap between the first and second album on http://ocremix.org/info/Albums. Encountered on both Firefox and IE.

Got it too. The distance between the rest of them is a little big too, I think, as is the distance between the album titles and their images, which is probably a result of removing the sidebar, enabling the frame to cover nearly the whole screen.

[Abadoss]

Got it too. The distance between the rest of them is a little big too, I think, as is the distance between the album titles and their images, which is probably a result of removing the sidebar, enabling the frame to cover nearly the whole screen.

Also, a few of the albums are missing from the list.

[Gollgagh]

Mirror folder structure was changed dramatically; also working on renaming/reorganizing chips. This should be fixed in 48 hours.

hm, all of the chips are still 404'ing

not to rush you or anything

[DragonAvenger]

For me in Firefox all of the mascot's heads are being cut off by the Log In button. (Obviously a pre-log-in issue)

Anyone else seeing that?

[djpretzel]

hm, all of the chips are still 404'ing

not to rush you or anything

Yeah, that 48hrs turned into MUCH longer. Should be fixed; please see http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26630.

I know IE 8 is pretty much the devil, but I thought I'd let you know about a bug. I went to this page, http://www.ocremix.org/game/secret-of-monkey-island-dos/, and noticed that there were some thumbnails of screenshots to click on. I thought that was a cool idea, by the way. So, I clicked on it and got... nothing. The lights dimmed, but nothing came up. Here's a screenshot:

http://www.abadoss.net/images/ocr-error_-_6-16-09.png

Quoi?

Yeah, that was an issue with the lightbox we were using, called shadowbox. The author went all commercial and changed the license, so I've been wanting to move off. Found a good alternative that uses jquery - works in IE8 now, at least for me, though it still looks better in FF35/Chrome/Opera. See http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26630 for more.

[Gollgagh]

Yeah, that 48hrs turned into MUCH longer. Should be fixed; please see http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26630

sweet

I like it

[Abadoss]

Yeah, that was an issue with the lightbox we were using, called shadowbox. The author went all commercial and changed the license, so I've been wanting to move off. Found a good alternative that uses jquery - works in IE8 now, at least for me, though it still looks better in FF35/Chrome/Opera. See http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26630 for more.

Sweet. It's working well.

Of course, there's now another interesting problem. In IE 8, the quick reply button is borken. It's going to reply with quote...

[Poke'G]

I know its been addressed many times, but I'll ask anyway. Can we please have the alphabet back at the top of the homepage? Its a pain in the ass to find the particular remixes/remixers I'm looking for.

I have to agree with this. I remember DJ Pretz saying it was a clutter issue, or something along those lines and to give the new layout a shot.

After a while, the lack of alphabet shortcuts really just makes navigating all games together tedious. The search bar is a good substitute only if someone already has a specific game in mind.

Is there anyway you can bring it back, maybe as a drop down menu or something? There's a drop down menu up there already, but users have no idea where in the list of games each page will end up, making the feature kind of pointless.

[sefirosu]

For me in Firefox all of the mascot's heads are being cut off by the Log In button. (Obviously a pre-log-in issue)

Anyone else seeing that?

I'm getting it in IE8, also.. And after you do log-in, the Private Message notification(specifically "total") gets in the way but not nearly as bad as the Log In button.

[prophetik]

i was looking at the ocr albums page today and discovered this link: deus ex (http://ocremix.org/album/1046/deus-ex-game-of-the-year-edition-soundtrack).

dunno why that's there. i figured it's a glitch.

[Dhsu]

A Freudian glitch, perhaps...

[The Coop]

Wouldn't that be more along the lines of "OverCocked Remix" appearing somewhere? ;-)

[prophetik]

i fixed the spelling =)

ilpo's mega man album doesn't even have a homepage listed, and there are others that surprised me as they aren't really ocr albums, just albums by ocr members.

but then there was reserve tank, and i had forgotten about that, and i downloaded it and enjoyed it today. it was good.

[djpretzel]

We're playing around with having data for non-OCR albums where relevant; since a lot of mixes that get submitted are from albums, etc., it makes sense to be able to contextually display related albums. Deus Ex was added back when we interviewed Mr. Brandon, just for testing purposes, mostly.

[Otakatt]

I was talking to someone about an idea of mine and they directed me to this thread so I suppose I'll put it down as a suggestion. ^^

There are plenty of people who would love to help with site projects who can't make music in any way shape or form. However, site projects are sometimes rather big so it requires more than just music. There's a matter of forum/web hosting, art, coding (html, css, etc), flash, etc. And there are people who could (and would!) help with these things who don't necessarily have musical talent.

So I think if there was a way for people who have the means to volunteer to help out with non-musical aspects of projects and put that out there, that'd be cool. Be that in a way like a field in profiles (kinda like the collaboration status?) or even just a thread (like that Sale/Want one Prophet has) where people post and someone keeps it updated. I dunno the best way, but it seems like it'd be cool if it could be pulled off.

[Palpable]

I was talking to someone about an idea of mine and they directed me to this thread so I suppose I'll put it down as a suggestion. ^^

There are plenty of people who would love to help with site projects who can't make music in any way shape or form. However, site projects are sometimes rather big so it requires more than just music. There's a matter of forum/web hosting, art, coding (html, css, etc), flash, etc. And there are people who could (and would!) help with these things who don't necessarily have musical talent.

So I think if there was a way for people who have the means to volunteer to help out with non-musical aspects of projects and put that out there, that'd be cool. Be that in a way like a field in profiles (kinda like the collaboration status?) or even just a thread (like that Sale/Want one Prophet has) where people post and someone keeps it updated. I dunno the best way, but it seems like it'd be cool if it could be pulled off.

Not a bad idea for tracking this kind of thing. At our MAGFest panel, we mentioned that we want to get more volunteers to do work for the site. We always could have used volunteers for something or other, but it's been difficult to organize. A system like you describe is a step in the right direction.

[Gollgagh]

oh hey I like the reorganization of the workshop

not that I ever post anything, but I like browsing people's original stuff

[Gollgagh]

Sweet, you made it so the drop-down search bar text auto-clears when you click on it. *thumbs up*


...I feel like I'm posting this stuff in the wrong thread.

[Red Shadow]

this (http://img190.yfrog.com/img190/7303/91103691.png) is the worst design yet

[djpretzel]

this (http://img190.yfrog.com/img190/7303/91103691.png) is the worst design yet

THAT is called a late night database restructure & code push :)

Should be fixed now, please report any further issues you encounter (check browser cache first!)

[DarkeSword]

Also, don't stay up so late.

[Neblix]

This has been said before, but the mascots are cutting off/being cut off by the "private messages" count data. Is this permanent or will it be fixed?

[Dark_T_Zeratul]

Got a new one. The dropdown menus are being displayed BEHIND the embedded YouTube video for Serious Monkey Business.

EDIT: Fixed now, thanks!

[Blue Magic]

Is it possible to add spoiler tags to the message post options, allowing users to hide their post and others an option to view the post or not?

I think that would be great whenever people discuss games and movies that have recently been released.

[Gollgagh]

[color=white] works pretty damn well already imo

[The Coop]

Unless you happen to be using Rama's dark skin for the site.

[Gollgagh]

rama actually coded his skin so that [color=white] actually turns into [color=dark gray]

so no, that is no longer true (unless the person does [color=#FFFFFF] or something)

[Abadoss]

Got a new one. The dropdown menus are being displayed BEHIND the embedded YouTube video for Serious Monkey Business.

EDIT: Fixed now, thanks!

It's not fixed in IE8...

[The Coop]

It's not fixed in FireFox 3.5.(something) either. My cache's been cleared, but they still show up behind it.

[CC Ricers]

Ditto what Coop says.

Browsers where the dropdown works fine: Opera 9 and Safari. In the meantime I have to click on another link to get to using the menus.

[pimpin23]

do you know how i download songs? whenever i hit download all it does is open a quicktime thing, is there like a way so i can put a song on itunes from here?

[Rozovian]

do you know how i download songs? whenever i hit download all it does is open a quicktime thing, is there like a way so i can put a song on itunes from here?

Right-click the link to the song and select download/save link(ed file) as. On mac, control-click (if you haven't set the mouse to use a second button) and do the same, or alt-click

[KyleJCrb]

rama actually coded his skin so that [color=white] actually turns into [color=dark gray]

I was not aware of this. I would like to remove this "feature", as I enjoy laughing at futile attempts to mask things.

[Gollgagh]

I was not aware of this. I would like to remove this "feature", as I enjoy laughing at futile attempts to mask things.

go to the very bottom of the style and change this line

font[color="White"] { color: #1b1b1b !important }

to this

font[color="White"] { color: #aaa !important }

or just remove the line entirely




I, on the other hand, rather like these as spoiler tags and added this line to supplement color=white

font[color="#FFFFFF"] { color: #1b1b1b !important }

[PriZm]

When I type something in the search box and then change the category, it erases what I just typed. It's not a big deal but I like to search for mixes and since the default is games, I end up typing the name of the mix, realizing I have to change the category to mixes, and the retype the name of the mix. Like I said, not a huge deal, but if you could have a buffer to save the content of the box, it probably wouldn't take more than an hour to fully implement and test.

[Gollgagh]

http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=29131

suggested use of esperanto

also the use of "Jouhou" on the mission page as opposed to "Nihongo"

[Arek the Absolute]

The Aplus server is being funky.

I am unable to download anything from it.

[Polo]

A few game title-related matters:

1) DuckTales (http://ocremix.org/game/50/ducktales-nes) needs a capital T according to Wikipedia and Google.

2) Since we're going with full titles in the database, Guilty Gear X (Dreamcast) could use its subtitle "By Your Side" added on its page and in its url. If you need proof, take a look at a larger image of the cover (http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/uploads/Main/GuiltyGearCover.p.jpg).

3) Personal nitpick: I'd like to see the Street Fighter pages for Champion Edition (http://ocremix.org/game/55/street-fighter-ii-champion-edition-arc) and The New Challengers (arcade) (http://ocremix.org/game/575/super-street-fighter-ii-the-new-challengers-arc) replace the hyphen - with a colon : in their titles for consistency.

And speaking of Champion Edition, it was released in '92, not '94.

[Liontamer]

A few game title-related matters:

1) DuckTales (http://ocremix.org/game/50/ducktales-nes) needs a capital T according to Wikipedia and Google.

2) Since we're going with full titles in the database, Guilty Gear X (Dreamcast) could use its subtitle "By Your Side" added on its page and in its url. If you need proof, take a look at a larger image of the cover (http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/uploads/Main/GuiltyGearCover.p.jpg).

3) Personal nitpick: I'd like to see the Street Fighter pages for Champion Edition (http://ocremix.org/game/55/street-fighter-ii-champion-edition-arc) and The New Challengers (arcade) (http://ocremix.org/game/575/super-street-fighter-ii-the-new-challengers-arc) replace the hyphen - with a colon : in their titles for consistency.

And speaking of Champion Edition, it was released in '92, not '94.

For no reason, I refuse to make these fixes. (i.e. done, the fixes will be live later.) Re: GGX, I see what you're saying and agree, but Dave has a point that conventionally, practically no one at all uses "By Your Side" as a subtitle, unlike say Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. But I have added the data of the full GGX name as an alternate name.

[Dafydd]

When I type something in the search box and then change the category, it erases what I just typed. It's not a big deal but I like to search for mixes and since the default is games, I end up typing the name of the mix, realizing I have to change the category to mixes, and the retype the name of the mix. Like I said, not a huge deal, but if you could have a buffer to save the content of the box, it probably wouldn't take more than an hour to fully implement and test.

Seconded. This is a very annoying and completely unnecessary behavior.

[Liontamer]

Seconded. This is a very annoying and completely unnecessary behavior.

Duly noted, although Dave knows about that issue. But we'll see what he says on whether it's a relatively straight forward fix.

[Rozovian]

Not sure why, but I noticed Halo's composers (http://ocremix.org/artist/208/martin-odonnell/remixes) don't get the Marathon/Halo remixes (http://ocremix.org/artist/4764/nick-singer/remixes) listed on their pages.

The sources still seem attributed correctly to Halo and the composers.

[Arek the Absolute]

I tried looking for any threads on it, but I see none, so I guess this is the best place to ask.

Is this the new forum upgrade? I see that everything is more square ish.

Any way to get the "private messages" button back on the top right? It makes going to your inbox easier than what I have to do now.

[Dafydd]

Dunno 'bout you, but reloading the page seemed to work for me.

[djpretzel]

I tried looking for any threads on it, but I see none, so I guess this is the best place to ask.

Is this the new forum upgrade? I see that everything is more square ish.

Any way to get the "private messages" button back on the top right? It makes going to your inbox easier than what I have to do now.

I assume you're using IE8? This isn't the forum upgrade, that'll look significantly different. This was an HTML/CSS change to switch from using *somewhat* hackish nested div tags to instead using the CSS3 rounded-corner property. IE8 doesn't support this, but FF35, Chrome, Opera 10.5 all do. IE9 is supposed to, when it comes out.

I realize the aesthetic will be slightly less pleasing for our IE users, but to me it's worth the tradeoff for much cleaner HTML/CSS. Approximately:

Before:

<div class="panel-white">
<div class="panel-white-tl"> </div>
<div class="panel-white-tr"> </div>
<div class="panel-white-inside"> STUFF GOES HERE!! </div>
<div class="nogap"> </div>
<div class="panel-white-bl"> </div>
<div class="panel-white-br"> </div>
</div>

After:

<div class="panel-white"> STUFF GOES HERE!! </div>

...

I didn't move the private messages link - is it still not showing up, after refreshing? It should not have been affected.

If you're not using IE8 or earlier, please let me know what you are using. Again, IE9 should come along this year, and has been advertised to support rounded-corners.

Part of my decision-making process was that vBulletin 4, which WILL be the forum upgrade, employs rounded-corners in its default theme, and simply looks boxy in IE. I figured if they're gonna do it, so am I, plus I like the cleaner code.

[Arek the Absolute]

Using Firefox.

Dunno what happened. Yesterday the layout was normal, then suddenly today it is all blocky.

EDIT: DJP helped me and it is normal now :)

[Gollgagh]

yeah it was gone for me for a bit too, but it reappeared when I did a hard refresh

[cyclone306]

Search songs by genre.
i.e. drum n' bass, rock, hip hop, house, whatever.

[prophetik]

there's a reason that you can't do that - mainly because there isn't a way to classify most remixes. some songs may start out chiptune, then go to rock, then to 'orchestral'...(black wing metamorphosis). there are tags, however, that you can use to find remixes.

[Gollgagh]

oh sweet, I don't know when you guys finally increased the pic limit to 10, but I approve

[Neblix]

Search songs by genre.
i.e. drum n' bass, rock, hip hop, house, whatever.


there's a reason that you can't do that - mainly because there isn't a way to classify most remixes. some songs may start out chiptune, then go to rock, then to 'orchestral'...(black wing metamorphosis). there are tags, however, that you can use to find remixes.


And also because I read somewhere the one of the goals of OCR is to get listeners to open up their scope to more styles of music rather than searching for an individual style (example: only hip hop remixes)

EDIT: FOUND IT!

Why aren't the ReMixes categorized by genre, i.e. techno, jazz, orchestral, etc.?

OC ReMix has no intentions of categorizing pieces by genre. We've discussed this matter several times - what it boils down to is a feeling that:


There are many pieces that don't fit nicely into genres or have multiple genres, and putting them in "miscellaneous" and "multiple" categories would be kind of lame; and
Part of the purpose of the site is to open people's minds (and ears) to new horizons. Try everything. (http://ocremix.org/forums/../info/Torrents) If all you want to do is download Square techno, so be it, but you'll be missing out on tons of great songs. We've decided not to implement a system that would encourage that kind of navigation. Taken off the OCR FAQ.

A third reason could potentially be that djpretzel would feel lonely having the only piece in the hillbilly genre (http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00015/), but we think the first two reasons are strong enough.

[Polo]

The Castle BGM (http://ocremix.org/song/224) source from Super Mario Bros. is erroneously applied to all mixes in its list except Bowser is Pissed. The other 3 actually remix the Underground BGM (http://ocremix.org/song/227).

Also, the Play Preview window for Will is the Lord (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01708/) extends to 9:05, meaning 5 minutes of silence follows the end of the mix.

[djpretzel]

The Castle BGM (http://ocremix.org/song/224) source from Super Mario Bros. is erroneously applied to all mixes in its list except Bowser is Pissed. The other 3 actually remix the Underground BGM (http://ocremix.org/song/227).

Also, the Play Preview window for Will is the Lord (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01708/) extends to 9:05, meaning 5 minutes of silence follows the end of the mix.

First issue should be fixed.

[halc]

http://ocremix.org/game/310/donkey-kong-country-3-dixie-kongs-double-trouble-snes

no gamepic? it does appear on the remix pages though.

[Gollgagh]

Can we get strike-through tags?

this probably got vetoed a long time ago but I thought I'd ask

[Polo]

Every FF4 ReMix page is missing the company with its link in the Game line, i.e. it appears as:

Game: Final Fantasy IV (http://ocremix.org/game/11/final-fantasy-iv-snes) (, 1991, SNES (http://ocremix.org/system/snes/))

instead of:

Game: Final Fantasy IV (http://ocremix.org/game/11/final-fantasy-iv-snes) (Square (http://ocremix.org/org/123/square), 1991, SNES (http://ocremix.org/system/snes/))

This might have to do with the fact that FF4's info page doesn't say "Published 1991 by Square for Super Nintendo Entertainment System"

[Gollgagh]

is there an easy way to get to the tag cloud for the remixes

the only way I've ever been able to find it is if someone links it so there must be a way

I... just can't find it by myself

[djpretzel]

Every FF4 ReMix page is missing the company with its link in the Game line, i.e. it appears as:

Game: Final Fantasy IV (http://ocremix.org/game/11/final-fantasy-iv-snes) (, 1991, SNES (http://ocremix.org/system/snes/))

instead of:

Game: Final Fantasy IV (http://ocremix.org/game/11/final-fantasy-iv-snes) (Square (http://ocremix.org/org/123/square), 1991, SNES (http://ocremix.org/system/snes/))

This might have to do with the fact that FF4's info page doesn't say "Published 1991 by Square for Super Nintendo Entertainment System"

Should be fixed, thanks. Any interest in officially joining staff in a data quality capacity?

is there an easy way to get to the tag cloud for the remixes

the only way I've ever been able to find it is if someone links it so there must be a way

I... just can't find it by myself

Forums > Search > Scroll Down

However, we're strongly leaning towards making tags more official and implementing them outside of vbulletin, then opening vbulletin up so that users can tag threads themselves...

[Polo]

Any interest in officially joining staff in a data quality capacity?
Hm, that sounds intriguing. Sure. Details are welcome.

[Gollgagh]

Forums > Search > Scroll Down

However, we're strongly leaning towards making tags more official and implementing them outside of vbulletin, then opening vbulletin up so that users can tag threads themselves...

aha

thanks :oops:

[halc]

game pics for Twilight Princess (http://ocremix.org/game/505/legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess-wii) and Wolfenstein 3D (http://ocremix.org/game/357/wolfenstein-3d-dos) are missing.
(http://ocremix.org/game/357/wolfenstein-3d-dos)

[evktalo]

The following games are listed as Windows games, despite being (first) released for MS-DOS:

DOOM: http://ocremix.org/game/110/doom-win

Released in 1993 for DOS as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/doom and to Windows only in 1995 as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/doom

Star Control 2: http://ocremix.org/game/351/star-control-ii-win

Released in 1992 for DOS as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/star-control-ii - there's no Windows release at all for the original SC2 (contra the open-source Ur-Quan Masters).

7th Guest: http://ocremix.org/game/26/7th-guest-win

Released in 1993 for DOS as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/7th-guest and to Windows only in 1997 as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/7th-guest

Legend of Kyrandia: http://ocremix.org/game/342/legend-of-kyrandia-win

Released in 1992 for DOS as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/legend-of-kyrandia and to Windows (3.x) in 1993 as per http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/legend-of-kyrandia

Doom 2: http://ocremix.org/game/111/doom-ii-hell-on-earth-win

1994 for DOS: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/doom-ii-hell-on-earth
1995 for Windows: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/doom-ii-hell-on-earth

Highway Hunter: http://ocremix.org/game/503/highway-hunter-win

Only a DOS release in 1995: http://www.mobygames.com/game/highway-hunter

King's Quest V: http://ocremix.org/game/294/kings-quest-v-absence-makes-the-heart-go-yonder-win

DOS looks like the earliest release platform (1990): http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/kings-quest-v-absence-makes-the-heart-go-yonder
Win (3.x) in 1992: http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/kings-quest-v-absence-makes-the-heart-go-yonder

Mechwarrior 2: http://ocremix.org/game/278/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat-win

DOS release predates the Windows release by a few months: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat vs http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat

Command & Conquer: http://ocremix.org/game/76/command-and-conquer-win

According to Wikipedia, it was first released for MS-DOS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_(video_game) (MobyGames only listed 1995 for both)

--Eino

[Polo]

Two nitpicks for two review thread labels:

- Will is the Lord (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16040) should have a short I in the word "is" (that's the rule on the mix page, in the MP3, and everywhere else).

- Uh Oh! The Beat Have Started To Move! (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=655) needs a single quote mark ' at the end of the title (also in the first post).


Also, last I checked, the Metal Gear mix was the only one shortened to acronym form (UOTBHSTM) in the 1-1000 torrent file. But I trust you've dealt with it by now. :)

[Liontamer]

Two nitpicks for two review thread labels:

- Will is the Lord (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16040) should have a short I in the word "is" (that's the rule on the mix page, in the MP3, and everywhere else).

- Uh Oh! The Beat Have Started To Move! (http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=655) needs a single quote mark ' at the end of the title (also in the first post).


Also, last I checked, the Metal Gear mix was the only one shortened to acronym form (UOTBHSTM) in the 1-1000 torrent file. But I trust you've dealt with it by now. :)

1. "Is" is a verb and is capitalized in proper titles. That was a mistake of mine I caught a ways back. So the thread title is right, and the DB will be corrected when we re-release the individual mixes.

2. Fixed.

3. Fixed in January '09. The updated files will have this fixed, no worries.

[Polo]

- The Japanese title for Mega Man & Bass (http://ocremix.org/game/657/mega-man-and-bass-gba) doesn't need the subtitle after "Rockman and Forte" (未来からの挑戦者) - that version was released for the Wonderswan in 1999, and the game in OCR's database is the GBA version released years later. Just cross-checking with Wikipedia.

- I can't access the page for Singing Pretzel (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00214/) (it gives me "DOMDocument::loadXML()" warnings of the sort). I assume this happened when a lyrics tab was being added?

[Dafydd]

Dunno if I'm supposed to be, or if only OCReMixers are on this page, but I'm not listed among the arrangers here (http://ocremix.org/album/22/legend-of-zelda-links-awakening-threshold-of-a-dream).

[Blue Magic]

Could it one day be possible to set up quick links to YouTube channels for OCR members, or at least remixers?

By that, I mean something similar to how we have the links set up for Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo Messenger, ect. where they appear in the upper right corner of our posts in the user info bar (I don't know what the proper name for it is.)

[DarkeSword]

Remixers do have a YouTube account that we populate.

[Liontamer]

Remixers do have a YouTube account that we populate.

He means the icons on the right side of one's posts (alongside the various friend codes). We'll need to add that Tweeter thing and YouTube.

[djpretzel]

- The Japanese title for Mega Man & Bass (http://ocremix.org/game/657/mega-man-and-bass-gba) doesn't need the subtitle after "Rockman and Forte" (未来からの挑戦者) - that version was released for the Wonderswan in 1999, and the game in OCR's database is the GBA version released years later. Just cross-checking with Wikipedia.

- I can't access the page for Singing Pretzel (http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00214/) (it gives me "DOMDocument::loadXML()" warnings of the sort). I assume this happened when a lyrics tab was being added?

Both fixed, thanks.

[Mirby]

Just to mention, the Wonderswan Rockman and Forte was actually a sequel, and is canonical.

[KyleJCrb]

Dunno if I'm supposed to be, or if only OCReMixers are on this page, but I'm not listed among the arrangers here (http://ocremix.org/album/22/legend-of-zelda-links-awakening-threshold-of-a-dream).

I believe that's only OCReMixers that get listed there.

[jmr]

I know there's not really much you can do with the ad rotation, but I have to say that this threw me for a loop for a second or two...
http://www.cs.mun.ca/%7Ep34jmr/confusingad.png
I'd imagine new users could be pretty confused by that ...

[Rozovian]

I know there's not really much you can do with the ad rotation, but I have to say that this threw me for a loop for a second or two...
(image)
I'd imagine new users could be pretty confused by that ...

lol

Those play-asia ads are ok, but the google ads stuff is pretty irrelevant most of the time. How much does ocr actually get out of the ads? Would a "make ocr ad-free" campaign work? (I don't mean Ad-free, punny as that might be.)

[Dafydd]

This is a list of all games on the site, sorted by number of remixes, in ascending order.
http://ocremix.org/games/?&offset=0&sort=mixcountasc

There's 74 of them with no mixes at all. Some of them are left in the database after all of their remixes were removed during the removal processes/holocausts (good thinking, btw). Some (e.g. Guild Wars) are listed as having no mixes because they are a secondary source; covered only in ReMixes primarily of some other game (World of Warcraft, in this case).

A few games are ported to several consoles but only have mixes listed for one of them. I guess this makes sense if a soundtrack is not identical on all ported versions. The strange thing is - while e.g. the Arcade version of Bubble Bobble is listed as having no ReMixes, its game page lists 4, each of which in turn list the NES version as their source, never the Arcade version. However, each of these ReMixes are listed to cover the 'Main Theme'. Clicking this song name takes you to that song's page, which lists the Arcade version as its source. An incredibly minor issue, but it makes me wonder how this database is set up. :-?

Finally, there's a few here that actually do have ReMixes (though fairly recently added) on their game page, but are still listed as having no mixes in the list I linked to above (The Ninja Warriors, The Curse of Monkey Island, Crush, among others) despite existing on only one console. How long does it take for the database to update itself so it shows the correct number of ReMixes? I'm assuming it's not being done manually and that someone's just been sloppy. Either it doesn't update itself often enough or there's a bug somewhere.

[djpretzel]

Dafydd you saucy bastard, your attention to detail would be better served as part of our official staff, working on data entry/quality... we must discuss this on the IRC.

The answer to your questions is almost too complex to get into, but one of the causes is cached counters that do indeed get updated manually. There's KINDA a reason for that but it's not a great one, so we'll see about automating it. The counter currently calculates mixes based solely on primary game assignment, and needs to factor in songs as well. That should address most of those issues.

[Dafydd]

So apparently I possess "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner", according to reliable sources and your previous post. Eye I can roll with that. :roll: I'd much rather be called saucy than cheesy, at any rate. Anyway, I noticed Polo was offered the same position. Can't think of a better person for the job, as the two of us have a record of excellent teamwork.

Fixing those counters would probably help, yeah, but I still wonder about Bubble Bobble. There's a song for the NES version, named 'Main Theme (Hurry Up!) - Skull Monster Appears' (http://ocremix.org/song/773), but that's not the one listed as the source tune for any of the ReMixes. Any good reason to keep it this way? Why is the arcade version even in the game database to begin with?

Speaking of the IRC, I can't seem to connect to it right now. Something about the channel not existing, despite being able to see the list of people logged in. Maybe it's only an issue with the online client.

[Dafydd]

The Recuit & Collaborate subforum would probably get a lot more visitors if it was listed in the forums dropdown menu in the site header. I found it by accident a few minutes ago, before which I had no memory of ever visiting it (even though I realize now I must have since I've posted in some of the threads). I know there's a Forums Home, but my guess is I'm not the only guy who mistakes the list in the dropdown menu for an exhaustive one. The Forums Home link looks more like a list title than a link, anyway.

Also, the online java client used for the irc seems to be broken. Maybe it needs an update?

[Abadoss]

The Recuit & Collaborate subforum would probably get a lot more visitors if it was listed in the forums dropdown menu in the site header. I found it by accident a few minutes ago, before which I had no memory of ever visiting it (even though I realize now I must have since I've posted in some of the threads). I know there's a Forums Home, but my guess is I'm not the only guy who mistakes the list in the dropdown menu for a complete one. The Forums Home link looks more like a list title than a link, anyway.

Also, the online java client used for the irc seems to be broken. Maybe it needs an update?

Is it still pointing to ETG?

[Dafydd]

I'm sorry - is what still pointing to where?

[Gollgagh]

the java client to the "Enter The Game" IRC server

[Dafydd]

My point is that when using the online applet, I can join the #ocremix channel and see the list of people in it, but whenever I try to say something I get the message 'Not in any channel yet, please type "/join #your_channel" first.'. Typing /join #ocremix, of course, doesn't help, since I'm already there. It didn't use to be this way so I'm assuming the client is either broken or outdated. I tried joining using xchat first, and then I could see my applet user joining and then quitting, so the applet is working to some extent, but the elevator doesn't quite go all the way up.

[Polo]

The page for the NES port of Donkey Kong (http://ocremix.org/game/133/donkey-kong-nes) could use some fixin'. A few Wikipedia articles state that it was released in '83, not '81 like the arcade version. This means that only the UVL reference link is correct about the release year (speaking of which, the IMDb page talks about the original game and the MobyGames link says '83 only in the header, not in the page contents). Also, the screenshot currently shows the arcade title screen, not the NES one.

[Blue Magic]

Whenever I enter the Community forum, the site logs me out and it will not allow me to make a post without asking me to log in again. But, it wont allow me to log in. It just asks me to log in over and over again.

I can enter any other forum, even Off Topic and the private forums, and make posts, but I can't stay logged in wheneve I enter Community, so I can't make a post.

Is my computer just being an asshole, or what?

[Late Mistakes]

http://ocremix.org/game/24/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-gen

Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [domdocument.loadxml]: xmlParseEntityRef: no name in Entity, line: 99 in /home/ocremix/public_html/includes/php/classes/BaseView.php on line 192

Warning: XSLTProcessor::transformToXml() expects parameter 1 to be object, boolean given in /home/ocremix/public_html/includes/php/classes/BaseView.php on line 192

[KyleJCrb]

I'm not seeing any errors there.

[Late Mistakes]

It seems fixed to me also.

Something I have come across about twice ever. Once there, and another on a remix I looked at months ago.

[Nutritious]

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01462/

Listed source is Bionic Commando Theme, though I'm pretty sure it's the Area 2 (& others) music. The three NES mixes we have list the same sourcetune from the NES version of the game, but they remix the Area 1 music. So, unless it's different in the gameboy version of the game, this should be renamed to Area 2 or whatever the official name of the OST track is.

[Liontamer]

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01462/

Listed source is Bionic Commando Theme, though I'm pretty sure it's the Area 2 (& others) music. The three NES mixes we have list the same sourcetune from the NES version of the game, but they remix the Area 1 music. So, unless it's different in the gameboy version of the game, this should be renamed to Area 2 or whatever the official name of the OST track is.

The song name being "Bionic Commando Theme" doesn't mean it's wrong and/or not the Area 2 theme in the Game Boy version. If someone can verify which levels the theme is used in for the Game Boy game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txbQ3nD7HdE&playnext=1&list=PL83CA8CC1365BDC2F), that can be added as alias information. It's basically the same theme as the NES version, so (in terms of a relationship) it's like a child version of the parent NES theme.

[Weimar Pluto Knight VII]

don't know if this has been mentioned but when I download a remix I usually try aplus b/c it was faster than the first one iiens. But I randomly only get part of the song so I have to go to dreamhost and then I do get the entire song. Like today aplus only gave me like the first 2:50 of the new FF8 remix so I had to use dreamhost then I got the whole song.

[Dafydd]

The Recuit & Collaborate subforum would probably get a lot more visitors if it was listed in the forums dropdown menu in the site header. I found it by accident a few minutes ago, before which I had no memory of ever visiting it (even though I realize now I must have since I've posted in some of the threads). I know there's a Forums Home, but my guess is I'm not the only guy who mistakes the list in the dropdown menu for an exhaustive one. The Forums Home link looks more like a list title than a link, anyway.
It might be a saucy thing to do, but I would think this is kind of important, so I'm quoting myself in case this got overlooked somehow.

[evktalo]

Deus Ex is missing Reeves Gabrels from composer credits. He's included on the game's Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex#Music) and his own wikipedia page credits him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves_Gabrels) with writing "the 'club music' portions of the soundtrack'.

--Eino

[Liontamer]

Deus Ex is missing Reeves Gabrels from composer credits. He's included on the game's Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex#Music) and his own wikipedia page credits him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves_Gabrels) with writing "the 'club music' portions of the soundtrack'.

--Eino

Thanks for the catch!

[-Dan]

Hi OCR staff guys!

I don't know if it is apropriate for this thread, but months ago I offered myself to translate the submitting page ( http://ocremix.org/info/Submission_Standards_and_Instructions ) to portuguese. At that time, I sent the proposal by e-mail.

But I haven't even received a reply. So I don't know if my propose of translation is unecessary or it was ignored because that, or because the e-mail was not received.

[Liontamer]

Hi OCR staff guys!

I don't know if it is apropriate for this thread, but months ago I offered myself to translate the submitting page ( http://ocremix.org/info/Submission_Standards_and_Instructions ) to portuguese. At that time, I sent the proposal by e-mail.

But I haven't even received a reply. So I don't know if my propose of translation is unecessary or it was ignored because that, or because the e-mail was not received.

I never got that message, so it depends what e-mail address you mailed.

We could definitely use Portuguese submissions instructions, so, YES, we would definitely appreciate your help! Go for it! :-)

[-Dan]

I never got that message, so it depends what e-mail address you mailed.

We could definitely use Portuguese submissions instructions, so, YES, we would definitely appreciate your help! Go for it! :-)

Thx for answer Liontamer. In fact, I don't remember which e-mail I sent. Well, just tell me to which email I have to send it, and it will be ready faster than you can think.

[Liontamer]

Thx for answer Liontamer. In fact, I don't remember which e-mail I sent. Well, just tell me to which email I have to send it, and it will be ready faster than you can think.

admin@ocremix.org works best!

[-Dan]

Liontamer,

The email was sent! =]

Please confirm if you received.

[Gollgagh]

Can we get strike-through tags?

this probably got vetoed a long time ago but I thought I'd ask

I guess that's a "no".

[Gollgagh]

http://i.imgur.com/qbpvm.gif

[Neblix]

Since no one actually cares to answer you I'll try:

They may or may not when VB4 is implemented. That's my speculation.

[Liontamer]

Since no one actually cares to answer you I'll try:

They may or may not when VB4 is implemented. That's my speculation.

<djpretzel> post-vb4, for sure

Pretty durr, so just wait for it, Goghagalla [sic].

[Gollgagh]

hokey dokey

[Abadoss]

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02282/

Embedded YouTube video displays "This video has been removed by the user"... Wrong link?

{edit} - Apparently it's fixed now...

[Neblix]

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02282/

Embedded YouTube video displays "This video has been removed by the user"... Wrong link?

It works fine for me. This is been happening to some others where a certain person couldn't get them. :(

[Polo]

- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (http://ocremix.org/game/684/metal-gear-solid-2-substance-ps2) came out in 2003 according to every source I checked, not 2002.

- Similarly, Pokémon Red (http://ocremix.org/game/508/pokemon-red-version-gb)'s release date is currently listed as 1998. Since you're going with Japanese release years, it should be 1996 (the same as Blue).

- The YouTube vid for Sagat's Moonbike (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYuMWPeTnM) cuts off before it fully finishes, i.e. without the smooth fadeout in the MP3 or the fade-to-dark OCR headphones logo. Would this warrant a reupload like with Will Is the Lord?

- Finally, the review thread for Club Del Toro lowercases the D in "del" (it's supposed to be capitalized, right?).

[Liontamer]

- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (http://ocremix.org/game/684/metal-gear-solid-2-substance-ps2) came out in 2003 according to every source I checked, not 2002.

JP release date was 12/19/2002 according to MobyGames & GameFAQs, so 2002's correct as year of first release on PS2.

- Similarly, Pokémon Red (http://ocremix.org/game/508/pokemon-red-version-gb)'s release date is currently listed as 1998. Since you're going with Japanese release years, it should be 1996 (the same as Blue).

Corrected. Should show on the site soon.

- The YouTube vid for Sagat's Moonbike (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYuMWPeTnM) cuts off before it fully finishes, i.e. without the smooth fadeout in the MP3 or the fade-to-dark OCR headphones logo. Would this warrant a reupload like with Will Is the Lord?

Bummer. Yeah, it cuts out 2 seconds early. If it had just ended w/o the typical video fade, but the song cut out properly, I would have lived with it; will fix soon.

- Finally, the review thread for Club Del Toro lowercases the D in "del" (it's supposed to be capitalized, right?).

It's lowercase. "de" & "del" are lowercased in proper titles. It's a short preposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_prepositions#de

[Mirby]

I'm just wondering... why is there no [spoiler] tag here?

Will that come with the upgrade (if it happens) orr...?

I mean, using white text is nice and all, but sometimes it seems like a proper spoiler tag would be so much simpler, and look a lot better than wall of invisible text.

[Liontamer]

I'm just wondering... why is there no [spoiler] tag here?

Will that come with the upgrade (if it happens) orr...?

I mean, using white text is nice and all, but sometimes it seems like a proper spoiler tag would be so much simpler, and look a lot better than wall of invisible text.

vB upgrade'll have it.

[KyleJCrb]

Can we expect that upgrade before 2015?

[Liontamer]

Can we expect that upgrade before 2015?

2027's the target date.

[KyleJCrb]

2027's the target date.

Oh good, I was worried that the worst case scenario would be 2031.

[Dark_T_Zeratul]

This is what the main page looks like for me:
http://i40.tinypic.com/ohiqfb.png

[Dvorak_User]

I was wondering if, instead of using YouTube to host the videos on here, there was any consideration to using HTML5's AUDIO or VIDEO tags? From what I've seen, all modern browsers should be compatible with them.

[Dafydd]

That would mean storing the videos on the site, which would impact bandwidth for the rest of the site considerably. The site doesn't even store the MP3's right now, I think. Leaves more bandwidth to run the forum.

[K.B.]

Heath Morris (http://ocremix.org/artist/4556/heath-morris)' current website is http://heathmorrismusic.com/. The link on his artist page is outdated.

[Mirby]

So I was just checkin' my profile options for some reason and noticed that there's a field for Wii Number, PSN ID, and Gamertag.

I was thinkin', maybe there could be a field for 3DS FC, since that's system-specific and not game-specific? Just a thought.

[Gollgagh]

speaking of, we still need the steam field

[JH Sounds]

Is there any way to get a notification if someone quoted me in a thread? It would be a great way of keeping track if someone is directly replying to something I may have said, in a more specific manner. (As opposed to subscribing to the thread and checking all the posts manually)