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Keep at it and good luck. Make sure you always get outside opinions on your work as you develop your pieces. Critical feedback is an important aspect of artistic growth. You won't get better in a vacuum.

I skimmed through some of your tracks. I'll second Shariq's criticisms, all of them. Then there's also the matter of price. 10 bucks for this many tracks might seem reasonable from an artist's perspective, but you're competing with a lot of other remixers, with their own albums free and commercial. And it's incomplete, so 30 bucks to get the full experience? If the tracks were really good, and/or different enough from what's been done with these sources already, maybe people would want to pay that much for it. But even then it's a bit steep. Hence why many artists nowadays live on donations/tips/patreon-like things rather than sales, especially in the remixing scene to the extent anyone's making a living remixing vgm. Besides developing as an artist, you might want to build your audience/fanbase/following/whatever (eg on soundcloud or youtube or maybe tiktok or whatever makes sense). This will help you gain both listens and sales on future releases. I commend you for doing the licensing and trying the commercial album thing. Initiative, procedure, legalities. That's a good experience to have, you now know how complicated (or easy) that is.

Gar... I can't wait to see the results. I'm already searching my extensive VGM playlists for a source tune just in case. I did just win MnP, so maybe I'm on a hot streak, I dunno... I have a question. Who listened to every one of the submitted tracks? I did. I even listened to source material with which I was previously unfamiliar.

Pretty much keep the composition intact and your good. Anything else is fine. So in the case of NES knock yourself out.

I'm one productive mofo, as @HoboKa once said. Also, with some of these compos, I'm just curious to know... What about sound downgrades? Like, what if someone wanted to somehow water a composition down to the NES sound chip when the source is SEGA Genesis? Would that be allowed? Just wanna know for future reference

Excellent emotional progression. You do Koji Kondo proud.