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When you click on the 'homepage' link from the Apex 2014 page (http://ocremix.org/album/53/apex-2014-a-new-challenger) it takes you to the Apex 2016 page. I know it's not that important and it literally only takes a second to switch over to the correct page, but it's still a minor nuisance.

I wrote an entire snes-style soundtrack with my own custom built sound-set a couple of years ago, for a game that at the time very closely resembed a real 16 bit JRPG. The game has since changed direction enough that this music will no longer be the best fit, but I just recently got permission to release that version of the soundtrack. I've been doing it 1 song at a time through my soundcloud. 18 are up now and more are coming soon. I think you guys will enjoy these. The square and enix OSTs from the 90s snes era are SUCH a hugely formative and inspirational thing to me, so getting to attempt this was a very powerful emotional experience and I'm really glad I got to do it.

I doubt I'll be able to make the second check-in, as I'm between PC builds right now and my FFVIII remix has shifted to the top of my priority list. However, I should have the track finished by the beginning of October, at which point I'll probably rapid-fire revisions based on feedback until the 30th.

YOOOO, WE'RE IN EVAAAAAL Tracks are 98% done, the art is PHENOMENAL, and everything at this point is on DaMonz, me, and staff. It's been a long road, friends, but WE'RE ALMOST THERE. Thanks for all your hard work everyone =)

I don't think that the Shinespark tricks required in AM2R are more difficult than those required in Fusion and Zero Mission for 100%, fwiw. And though I like the extension of Metroid 1 that Zero Mission offers, I will say that I would have been livid if it were inserted into Metroid 1 proper instead of being placed after, if that makes sense. As for Metroid Prime: Though you may not be comfortable with first-person movement as much, the reason it's so well-regarded is because it absolutely has the best platforming physics (e.g. requiring jumping) of any first-person shooter ever. Consider the platforming sections in Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for N64 or some other game, and it's a whole new world. In 2002, the graphics were also out-of-this-world good, which doesn't hurt at all (seeing accurate reflections, including Samus' own face in the right lighting, was a new thing back then). The Morph Ball sections are about as good as you can possibly get in 3D as well. Not saying you have to like it or anything (Newt doesn't particularly care for them either, and he loves 2D platformers), but I'll say that there will probably never be a _better_ conversion of the franchise to 3D than the first Prime game.

It IS pretty shocking because it gloriously overlooks a lot of key points that goes into that for this context. You guys just see it as black and white and call it protecting your work and its value, I call it chasing windmills and confusing a stubborn attitude for a principle. Let's figure out how a completely subjective item should be determined an objective value that also somehow has no limit for how high that value should be: 1. What is the value of a single remix you've done? What is the value of your time spent working on this based on your lifestyle expenses and spending habits? 2. What is the estimated value of the tools you used to work on this? 3. What is the estimated value of its potential of exposure? 4. How many times has your remix been played on Youtube? 5. What is the value per video view? 6. Has it directly contributed to additional album sales or music commissions? 7. Have you signed an appropriate tax form relating to your work on OCR? 8. Are you paying taxes or taking tax incentives from your work on OCR? 9. Have the companies you have re-interpreted IP from commissioned you to do so? 10. If YES to 9, what were the contractually agreed-upon payments you are expecting from them? 11. What was the final rating of quality for your work as agreed by committee of the OCR judges and conglomerated public perception? Now take the sum total of that and apply your state's current income tax percentage. Go ahead and work on the math there - in the meantime you can answer why you seem to think just doing work itself deserves to be rewarded without any additional context to that point and why you deserve to be paid for work you were not commissioned or contracted or to do and did completely on your own compulsion for a website that was well known to not provide financial incentives for doing so in lieu of simply being a popular passion project for celebrating VGM.