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I love hearing a remix of such an old and obscure tune. The original is also quite a banger! Anyway, we begin with some fun SFX into the bass of the original. I dig the synth bass used. The main melody soon joins in on a synth with a ton of reverb. At 0:21 we have a key change that's also in the source. So far we're following the source pretty closely in what feels like a "remaster". On this section you add some fun new backing elements. At 0:33 we move to the next section from the source, still keeping the "remaster" feel. I hadn't mentioned it until now but I dig the drum sound, it's super punchy. 0:49 continues the trend of keeping the structure and melodies of the source while improving the sound quality and the backing. To not repeat myself too much this continues for quite a while, until the original's track material ends around the 2 minute mark. Here we finally get some arranging that's different from the source, first with some cool bass and then some fun modifications of the first main melody around 2:29. Not long after that the track ends with the same SFX from the intro. On the production side this is great, I don't really have many nitpicks. Percussion is punchy, the samples picked sound good and everything sounds clear. My only nitpick, and this could just be personal preference, is that there's a lot of reverb and that can make things muddier than they should. Not a big deal though. On the arrangement side, though, we have issues (for OCR's standards at least). For the first 2 minutes this track is basically a "remaster" of the original, you kept the same structure, melodies, genre and tempo of the source, mostly upping the quality. Don't get me wrong, this is a very valid approach to VGM remixing but it's simply not what OCR looks for. Overall, while this sounds great, the arrangement is too conservative for OCR standards. As an "expanded remaster" of the original track this is basically perfect but it's not what the site looks for. If you ever feel like doing something more akin to the final minute of the track I'd love to hear it, but for now, the decision is... NO

@AshleyXR Yeah, pretty much the perfect beat to knock the teeth out of drunken hooligans, fascists, their greedy capitalist sponsors and merchants of war. Though their connections are not limited to a few countries, it rather seems to be a global phenomenon, depending on where the big money of the rich 'n' greedy people flows - quite similar to the Shadaloo organization, which also spins their webs or "fasciae" secretly around the globe. I'm really not happy to have to live in an era of continuous downfall again, especially when I think that my birthright to grow up in a socialist society was literally taken away from me by some greedy sons of bitches. But as a martial artist who grew up with Japanese full-contact karate, I somehow still have hope that, in the worst case scenario, I won't have to stand completely alone with such often cowardly, opportunistic followers of Western German and European beer and schnitzel patriots. Since many Arabs, especially devout Muslims, have come here, I have the feeling that the tide has turned somewhat, that fascists will no longer have such an easy time terrorizing people here and that the newer generation of neo-Nazis in particular are really getting knocked out in the respective neighbourhoods. For me, it was really impressive to experience the down-to-earth, straightforward, virtuous and warm-hearted nature of the Muslim people on the one hand - and on the other, the impetuous fighting spirit, pride and sense of justice when they encounter disrespectful, unjust and malicious people. Sometimes just one of them can be some sort of a Saiyan-like one-man invasion or a small Saladin army in itself. I followed some media reports where, for example, an Arab teenager was racially insulted by an adult German, who then even wanted to get violent, but the Arab teenager only gave him about three punches, the consequences of which killed the adult within a short time. Certainly questionable from a moral point of view, but truly impressive in terms of fighting force. You will rarely see hardcore hooligans and neo-Nazis fool around in a Muslim hood, and they won't even dare to terrorize the people there for too long. Because they'll easily get engulfed in the flames of the battle they tried to start there, learning the hard way through massive pain, loss and humiliation as a just punishment for disrespectful behavior. As I have occasionally dealt with Muslims and refugees from the Arab world in my job and have often talked to them, I have noticed that some of them are also active in martial arts and often have a really good education, not to mention the many natural beauties among the really cute oriental ladies. ... Kinda chaotic but interesting times and strokes of fate these days. ... But back to the "real" (digital) Street Fighter series. I also think that Street Fighter 6 doesn't have too many memorable soundtracks besides Ed's theme "König oder Feigling". But I strongly believe that it's quite hard and annoying for the composers to make new remixes of the iconic character themes one after another for every new Street Fighter game. Sometimes you really have to try out new soundtracks, new styles and music genres to evolve as a composer and enjoy the variety of new attempts. This doesn't always meet the taste of most fans. But sometimes it works out quite well. I remember that the developers of the Street Fighter series had a similar approach with completely new character themes in Street Fighter Alpha 3 for Playstation (still own this game). And this game had at least a few pretty nice new tunes, for example Ryu's theme "The Road":    

i remember that zombie edit specifically, for some reason, but no details of the original

WIP: My personal favorite song from MK64, colored a little differently. The sweet memories of getting lucky with a lightning bolt and using it on my older brother as he went over the jump in Wario Stadium, plummeting towards sudden demise. Mario Kart 64 Winner 2025-04-05 2131.wav

Hah, that's legit. I didn't even know that was an actual injury until now -- I thought you put some fake makeup on for the photo for some reason lol. Probably because of the saturation or something. But glad you're doin well and have a nice beard.  Here's that old zombie picture I made for you -- glad you don't look like that. I'd post the image directly, but it's so ugly.  But yeah, those were the days. https://postimg.cc/hfFSj4c5