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Lufia II DS Remake

Lyrai — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:43:09 GMT

http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/11/18/...-game-details/

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgom gomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgo mgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg

somewhere I have like, hand drawn charts and graphs and a ton of crap from the second one because I just played the crap out of it and then I bought the GBC one and my spirit was -crushed- and then they announce this

Oh god could they actually be LEARNING? Seriously the GBC one was a huge stinky pile of poo and it was even WORSE compared to the second one which was incredible.

The Fake RPG Soundtrack Project

ZhayTee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:50:58 GMT

Hi all,

I've begun an interesting participatory music project called The Fake RPG Soundtrack Project. I'm writing a series of songs which will make up the "soundtrack" to an RPG that doesn't actually exist in the real world. The interesting part is that I would like YOU to write the plot. Each song describes a certain aspect/plot point of the RPG, and I want visitors to write small narratives which will go along with them.

I thought that many of you might be interested in listening and participating. Check it out, and help spread the word!

http://www.zhaymusic.com/fakerpg/

Thank you.

ZhayTee

Can anyone recommend a sound card?

GarretGraves — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:49:13 GMT

This Audigy 2 is so fucken old I think it might be hindering on my sound as a whole. Time to upgrade! PCI is what I need. Affordable price range but open to more expensive setups as a long term goal.

GO!

EDIT: One more thing. Is 64bit windows any better for sound or recording?

I'd like to make the brass growl

K.B. — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:43:39 GMT

Please tell me how!

Bonus points to all who appreciate the thread title.

There must be hundreds, thousands of examples, but this is all I can think of at the moment (as I'm currently addicted): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR0jn8B6iJk. Skip to 0:45 for the growling (edit: it's the trumpets I'm talking about).

Is that some form of muting (and manipulation of the muting device)?

Yes I know that I should know this, but I don't. Help is appreciated.

Machinarium

Deathtank — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:08:03 GMT

Taken from Wikipedia:
"Machinarium is a puzzle video game developed by Amanita Design. It was released on October 16, 2009 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PC and Mac demos were made available on 30th September 2009.
Gameplay
The goal of Machinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers. The puzzles are linked together by an overworld consisting of a traditional "point and click" adventure story. The overworld's most radical departure is that only objects within the player character's reach can be clicked on.

Machinarium is notable in that it contains no dialogue, neither spoken nor written. The game instead uses a system of animated thought bubbles.

Development

Machinarium was developed over a period of three years, by seven Czech developers, who financed the project with their own savings. The marketing budget for the game was a scant $1,000.

Reception

Machinarium won the Excellence in Visual Art award at the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival.[7] The game has received generally favorable reviews from critics, achieving a Metacritic score of 85.

Vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xkhqVKJGHg

If you haven�t,try it, you won�t be dissapointed.
http://machinarium.net/demo/

Awesome gameplay, awesome graphics and awesome music, what else do you need to play it?! go get it!

EDIT: Little bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_D9WmYKITU :D

Vectorman - Ocean Cyberdesign Remix

cyberdesign — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:12 GMT

never played the game , but the melody is great. Tell me what you think!

OLRville - Tunes for the Road

Xenon Odyssey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:31 GMT

After 5 months of blood, sweat, and tears (mostly tears because nobody understands what a 'deadline' is), OverLooked ReMiX proudly presents our latest site project, OLRville - Tunes for the Road!

The album is a collection of different town/city themes, done in the traditional OverLooked style of making blood flow from your ears while you listen. 8 tracks of ReMiXy goodness from guys like Brunzolaitis, Zimish One, and nesper!

Click the picture (or follow the link -> http://olrville.olremix.org) and grab the .zip if you want everything, or have a taste-test with the songs first! And if you are feeling so bold, leave some comments in the official thread: http://olremix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8859

You can give your props to Zimish One (aka POCKETMAN in some places), as he is the project coordinator and I don't even know which site project this is for him...probably his 6th or so.

(also, this is an announcement that our queue is fixed, so you can submit songs again! yay!)

PRC158 - It's A Me in a Lifeforce RPG (Super Mario RPG or Lifeforce)

Bundeslang — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:10 GMT

Welcome to A New Season from PRC
The People's Remix Competition 158
PRCv7-02

Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition!

After the first slow round, we have now more sources as entries in the last round. OneUp, as winner from PRC158, and Diotrans, winner from PRC156, both submitted a source.
This means if you don't like one source, you can select the second one. Last round OneUp won by default (with a nice remix), now I want to see more competition with more entries.

PRC Classic of the two weeks
The classic of this round is PRC15. It's been a long time ago since Jeremy Robson won this round. The source was Mushroom Kingdom from Super Mario RPG. 6 Remixers submitted a song including one Bonus Mix from Azar. The Orchicalcon, one of the legends from PRC and ORC, took the last place.
Chockster37 and Bladiator ended fourth and third. Reactor Zer0 entered that round as well, claiming second place. The victory was for Jeremy Robson wih The Mushroom Wedding.

This rounds source
This round, we have two sources. One from Diotrans and one from OneUp.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diotrans

I was pretty much decided on what source to choose as soon as I realized I needed to choose one .p I pick... Monstro Town from Super Mario RPG!

I hope it's a good one and ppl like it ^_^;

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneUp

I've chosen stage 2 from one of the greatest NES games: Life Force (or Salamander). This wonderful tune hasn't been remixed here yet, so it's definitely time now. Make me proud!

Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Monstro Town
AND
Lifeforce (NES) - Stage 2

Source 1: Super Mario RPG
MIDI
Youtube Movie

Source 2: Lifeforce
MIDI
NSF
Youtube Movie

ThaSauce link

It's Super Mario RPG and Lifeforce. Super Mario RPG has been done before in PRC15 (like stated) and also recently in PRC154.
Hylian Lemon was the winner from that round. Lifeforce didn't have a PRC history.
Both sources look interesting. I'm sure you will like at least one of them. Of course it's allowed (and encouraged) to remix both sources in one song. It was a rule before.

GOOD LUCK!
Fine Print:
PRC instructions

If you happen to be mixing this song already, start over in the interests of fairness.
Limitations at ThaSauce require your entry to be 6MB or less in size. Length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed.
Entries must be posted in the ThaSauce link by SUNDAY November 29th at 10:59 am ThaSauce time (Check my signature (below) and the ThaSauce page for the exact time left. .
You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix.
Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted.
Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they recieve a free first place vote added onto their score.
The winner of the previous contest can take part this time, but he/she must remix the other source (the one she/he didn''t select). Vote will only be doubled if he/she doesn't enter.

Doulifee's PRC Archives! For information about the previous contests.

Chrome OS

Zephyr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:49:37 GMT

Google just announced some more information about their revolutionary web-based OS.

If this takes off, computers will never be the same. I can't do without my desktop programs yet, but it's exciting to see more things moving to the cloud.

I'm pumped to be able to log in to my computer from anybody's hardware too, although I suppose I'll need to call it something else now, my personal cloud I guess. Check out the videos.

Did I mention it's open source?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/g...e-os-revealed/

Messing with a WAVs BPM.

Dash Myoku — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:02:19 GMT

Ok...so, lets say I have a WAV that's of a song. Something that plays on the radio, but it's just vocals. No background music or anything. Now, what I want to do is compose music around that, but I find that I have BPM problems later on. Measures don't line up right and by the end, it's a big mess of crap.

So, is there any way to have the WAV play at a certain BPM so I can arrange music around it without it getting off track?

In need of someone with great woodwind samples to run a track through

Gario — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:53:24 GMT

Hey, all! I'm trying to submit some music to a few graduate schools, but one of the places I'm looking into requires decent recordings of my music. For the most part I have that covered... however, one of the pieces (a woodwind quintet) that I want to submit doesn't have a very good recording, unfortunately.

Would anyone be willing to run it through a good sound font (I mean a pretty realistic one, not a free one like I use, unfortunately) so I can have something decent to submit? I've got about a week and a half to get it in by, and while I've done everything else for this college I don't have this one recording :(.

I have it in Sibelius form and Midi form; if you're interested please send me a pm (no offense, but the material is a bit too sensitive for me to post publicly).

Thanks!

Vay [Sega CD]

johnny_chronic — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:04:35 GMT

Good ol' Working Designs... probably one of the greatest... and yet quickest to die RPG creating companies...

Too bad as well... Well, Vay was a masterpiece. And I'll tell you that if you have an iPhone and you like RPGs, you are in luck, search for Vay on the phone app program :<

Paladin's Quest [SNES]

johnny_chronic — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:54:08 GMT

There were a lot of good songs on this... and great and involving gameplay... too bad it's still one of the most unrecognized RPGs ever. I remember renting it from Wegman's and buying it a few months later when I was a kid. It was a great addition to my collection... not to mention a rare one, kind of like the remixes I am trying to find 8-O

Solar Jetman [NES]

johnny_chronic — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:52:05 GMT

C'mon... hasn't anyone ever played this game? I'd like to hear more than just a few of these tracks covered...

Interested in your thoughts on free/pay music distro. "Freemium"

sgx — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:51:12 GMT

Howdy folks,

I'm considering releasing my next album (February-ish, hopefully) in a different way than I have before. I've always released several tracks from my albums as free single downloads, usually at a medium bitrate, but I'm considering releasing the full, or mostly complete album as a free download, and offering high-quality copies as a pay what you want (above $0) download.

I'm curious on your honest thoughts on this.

While I'm pretty sure I'm going to do something like this, I have some ideas for slightly "handicapping" the free version, and I'd like to know how much these things would piss off people vs how much it would make them want to grab the full versions.

ideas for handicapping the free version:

1) Medium bitrate mp3's. I'm thinking 160kbps CBR. Full version can be had in either 320kbps mp3 or FLAC lossless.

2) Album art image tags have a little "free" image in the corner.

3) Some songs in the free version are a minute or two shorter than the full versions in the paid copies.

4) A couple guest remixes are only available in the paid version. Perhaps samples would be included in the free version.

5) Some or all tracks have a 10 second spoken message overlaid in the beginnings or ends of the song mentioning you are listening to the free version and you can buy it at iTunes, Amazon mp3, protagonistrecords.net etc. OR, these messages could be their own separate mp3's. I've seen this done with one of the recent Celldweller albums where the free copy was sponsored by Tomb Raider Underworld. A sexy english woman's voice would come on quickly in the beginning of the song to say it was sponsored by the game. It wasn't terribly annoying, but it always reminded me that I was being a cheapass and still listening to the free version.

I'm pretty sure I'll be doing at least numbers 1 and 2.

This seems like a trade-off between: Being extremely generous, creating the urge in listeners to go buy the full versions as more of a thank-you tip than something they really want, OR: Limiting the free version to make it more of an advertisement for a product they want enough to pay for the full version without annoyances.

What do you think? I'm interested in the perspectives of people here who DO produce and sell their music, people who are just listeners and are already fans of mine, and people who don't know who I am. Thanks.