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Hey all! Someone on my YT said it would be cool to make some Shadowrun remixing. I'm working on just that and I just finished this one. I had forgotten all about this game TBH, a shame since I always loved it. Posting here before YT! Hope someone enjoys.

Hola, name's Mystwalker. I've known OCRemix for a long time, had people tell me I should join since around 2011 maybe? But never quite joined until now (big thanks to @Master Mi for giving me the final nudge to join). Mostly due to my imposter syndrome + being a dumb kid. Here is a little bit about me I guess, I'm not great at this stuff but here it goes: I'm a self-taught composer, keyboardist and percussionist. Started my music journey in 2009. My Messy Music Journey: 2009: Uploaded my first "remix" – PSX RPG Maker's "Home 3" with... let's call it "aggressive soundfont reskinning." 🤡 The Dark Ages: Churned out many such "reskinned bangers" (heavy sarcasm intended). Hey, we all start somewhere! Evolution: Gradually leveled up to actual arrangements + originals. Kept everything public – the good, the bad, the cringe. My YouTube's basically a 218-video journal of my musical growth. 2022 Hiatus: Vanished to practice like a hermit. Did commissions, released some commercial stuff. Came back recently to revive the channel with slightly less terrible skills! Been obsessed with VGM since I was a kid – 8-bit and 16-bit soundtracks are the lifeblood of everything I create (even if it does not sound like it). I remember recording video game music from the TV speakers into cassette tapes because I loved it so much and then going out with my Walkman of shitty VGM recordings thinking I was the coolest. lol tools of the trade: Include but not limited to - FL Studio, Kontakt libraries like Shreddage (both drums and guitar), Damage 2, Orange Tree Samples' guitars, Omnisphere, Sylenth, Serum, Engine 2 libraries, KORG VSTis, Roland VSTis, Arturia synths VSTis, many others all but those are the most regular use. But yeah not sure what else to say - I'm terrible at introductions, but must say I am loving the place and it feels just like the golden years of internet forums! Something I used to indulge in a good bit! TL;DR: Long-time Self-taught composer / remixer | FL Studio addict | Terrible at intros. Cheers everyone. 🍻

Thanks so much for the shares and inviting me to join!

Snowboard Kids Redial 2025-08-26 0912.mp3 Snowboard Kids "Board Shop" harmony with Bomberman Hero's "Redial" melody, except for Redial's B section which is included. Original rhythms. They are both extremely similar harmonically, but if you listen closely, you'll see the harmony is in fact leaning heavily on the Snowboard Kids side. Arrangement is not complete but this is the general idea I'm going for with this. EDIT: Had the cool idea to do some solo trading between piano, electric piano and drums, but with drum samples of course and repitched. Pretty cool sound. Introduces some jazz tradition into this modern jungle style. EDIT AGAIN: I took the reverb out to test listening to it without reverb. I feel like this particular style may benefit from being completely clean with no reverb, so it sounds as tight as possible. Let me know what you think. I made the ending section be the same as the first part, this time up a whole step. Freshly recorded, not copy and paste. A drum fill takes us to a final weird chord. The only question I have is, should I add the Redial B section at the end? Or it's fine as is? Maybe I could add that section and then just take it back to the ending... I might do that. Also need to go through and make sure bass and chords are well humanized, though they're pretty much there right now. Sources:

I love the sound and structure of this!

Ya got a very interesting style as a composer. I really dig the immersive soundscape. )) Great stuff! Is this your latest remix you were working on? ... The only thing I would keep in mind in the future is that the first sound signal in the music project probably should not start right on the first bar, but rather you should leave a full bar or so empty before the first note starts with the second bar, so to speak. This can also help to avoid processing errors in the DAW or even the swallowing of the first transients and sound impressions. I think there was a discussion about this in a thread of the forum many years ago, explaining why this is done - maybe someone still has a link to it. I can also hear a slight crackling noise at the end of the song in the last moments of the fade-out around minute 4:25 - maybe check this again.

That's too kind! Means a lot to hear that! For some reason I have always found it difficult to stick to a genre! Probably because being a big video game music lover, must have wired me that way. Video games are the motherlode of mixed music genres after all! All the tracks you recommended ("Flute of Sleepwalk," "The Abysmal Depths," etc.) sound amazing – I’ll tackle as many as time allows for sure. I also would like to thank you for taking the time to not only share my stuff around, but also to write that great tour guide of the site! It is great to have a focused summary of the site, and to learn how stuff works around here. Really appreciate you taking the time! I will definitely share my stuff. I'm thinking it would be great to have feedback from people who love video game music. Dude, for real? I had no idea he was the CEO of Impact Soundworks. And not only I do use Shreddage, but this remix was always one of my favorites and was big inspiration for my own. That's awesome. you've done awesomely at that for sure, and I feel wholly welcome already. c: Keep at it, even when it seems difficult; as music can be! Cheers, man! 🍻

You're radically welcome, @MystWalker! )) Your Lufia 2 remixes are absolutely dope - didn't took me long to realize that you are a really talented and ambitious composer. You also seem to be quite flexible in your style and music genre rather than limiting yourself too much in such matters (which is great in terms of future musical development potential). I hope that you will make more Lufia 2 remixes in the near (or distant) future, especially some remixes for the original soundtracks I mentioned on YouTube - just to revisit the original themes I already recommended to ya: - "Flute of Sleepwalk" (mystical theme) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JgflZYy6k - "The Abysmal Depths of the Ocean" (mystical theme) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJU83RQZfOM - "The Lost World" (mystical theme) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3omXPfuVM - "Final Battle" (heroic/energetic theme) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fzm2O4Zt-k - "To the Future" (emotional/sad and happy theme) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5zoFZq3Frw But I'm not here to shit ya you with work right away. ^^ I rather wanted to point out a few things to you in the OC Remix forum, which you may have already taken a quick look at - things like these: 1) Perhaps it's best to start by creating your profile so that others can see what you're generally interested in, which DAW you use for composing, what additional software instruments and plugins you use, or what instruments and musical skills you have mastered or are currently learning. ... 2) There is also a thread for newcomers where you can introduce yourself: https://ocremix.org/community/topic/7744-the-newbie-introduction-thread-come-on-in-and-say-hello/ For example, I would be interested to know how long you have been making music and writing remixes, or what you want to achieve musically in the future - your musical dreams, so to speak (if you have something specific in mind). ... 3) Before you submit your first remix, make sure to read the submission rules: https://ocremix.org/info/Content_Policy And then you can basically submit your first remix to the forum right away using this link: https://ocremix.org/community/submissions/ ... 4) You can also just share your own video game remixes (without submitting it to the judges - if you want to get some feedback before) in the thread "Post Your Video Game Remixes!": https://ocremix.org/community/forum/12-post-your-game-remixes/ You can share your own original compositions in the thread "Post Your Original Music!": https://ocremix.org/community/forum/15-post-your-original-music/ ... 5) You can also ask questions or start threads and discussions in the specific sections of the forum. ... Guess that's pretty much everything you need to know to get started, and I'll leave the rest of the journey of discovery in the OC Remix Forum to your own curiosity. )) I hope you'll submit one of your fiery Lufia remixes sometime soon. The listeners at OC Remix and all fans of video game music are guaranteed to go wild for it, and I would definitely submit the awesome Battle #1 remix as a starting point and first musical milestone at OC Remix. As far as my taste is concerned, over the years I've only found one really cool Lufia 2 remix on OC Remix. It was composed by Zircon, one of the early leading members of OC Remix: or (if you want to use the direct OC Remix YouTube link): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYZ5suUrN38 I'm not sure how active he still is on the forum these days. But I think he's pretty busy as a developer of VST instruments (Zircon is the CEO of Impact Soundworks and has developed famous VSTis such as Shreddage, which you apparently also use), creating video games and composing his own soundtracks from time to time. I'm just an advanced beginner on my own musical journey, but I hope I've been able to give you at least a little introduction to OC Remix. Have fun, dude. ))

Lol, Mario Kart 64....very popular amongst my military unit....many moons ago...and more than one brewing fistfight had to be calmed down;) Later, I should have time to comment on the Koopa remix that I listened to.

Hell, yeah. 🤘 I know. Got a really good taste when it comes to radically awesome, rare and hard-to-find video game music remixes. *heroic victory fanfare playin'* But I'm just the joyful messenger here - a messenger with the happy-go-lucky golden retriever vibes full of serious excitement, eagerly looking forward to upgrading my large MP3 player and soundtrack collection with a few more killer tracks. The legendary genius and composer behind this Lufia 2 remix masterpieces ist just one comment above yours - yep, the dude with the kinda naughty-looking hentai girl profile picture. ... I will also write back to you in a few days, Mystwalker. Just have to beat a few more rounds against Chaos in my own world like a Warrior of Light (or rather like some sort of a forced hobby paperboy in the secretary office edition). ))

As much as I'd like to see the human involvement in this piece or the other submissions by Craig, it is overshadowed by the audacity of submitting an entire album's worth of generative AI slop and lying about how large a role generative AI played in it. I have no pithy comments to make - my fellow judges summed up my feelings pretty well, and there's no need to belabor the point. NO. DO NOT resubmit anything using Suno or other such tools again and lie about it.

it's been a while yeah? Hope y'like.

I meant to listen to these since you've posted about them Mi, but these are, indeed, absolutely fuckin' 🔥❤️‍🔥 Damn. . . :D

How has that been coming along!? :D ♥ I'll add you and Seth to the list! Thanks for participating and I saw you got into the Discord server alright! I'll add a new link to this in a post, so people can grab it and it'll be working rather than expired. x'D @Seth Skoda Just let me know if it's an original track, or the name of the song / game or media it's being remixed from, and I'll add it to the list! :) . . .I think that's me caught up with everyone, or catching up via PM. I've got a watchful eye out here in the forums and on the Discord server, so keep be up-to-date everyone! The project's still on-going and I'll be looking into the website for it over this week! Also, we've got the cover artwork done! :3 ♥

IMC Archive on DropBox This is the whole archive i have available, but if anything is missing i can search around and see if i can find it. I found my Turtle Mix, it's not really worth it. Mae's is still at large! If anyone wants anything removed, let me know. It is currently in the most complete state that i have available, and that includes WIPs, and fractions that were uploaded and broke. My email address should be available, but if it isn't, DM me and i'll be happy to press the delete key. Some folks hate their wips, some folks don't care, and some folks didn't label anything, so it doesn't matter! Some of the IMCs have results pages, but after a while they seem to fade out, and i probably got lazy. I know the judges were really not as into it as we should've been toward the end, and i was one. I apologize! But also, from the bottom of my heart, i love all you guys, and your work to kick out songs i asked for, and judged without any credentials or skills. You're all first place. <3

mo.oorgan and 6 minutes, insert "Ah shit here we go again" meme but on a positive note. Anyway, we begin with some pad/SFX with "cave vibes". Actual track starts at 0:29 with a crystal-ish synth doing a slightly modified version of the source's melody. Electronic percussion sneaks in slowly and around 1:00 it turns into dnb/edm (not an expert on electronic genre names!). I'm not too sold on the lows, seems quite busy around 50-60 Hz and quite draining on the ears even. Source stays but on a minor role during this section, with some source melodies playing every few bars. We keep on a similar vibe until a cool "regular" percussion fill around 2:25 that moves us into the second source melody. I found it a bit odd that the "regular" percussion only did a fill to then disappear but I guess it's fine. Around 3:00 there's a very atmospheric break with a soft pad and a lead. 3:25 sees the return of source melodies while still keeping the same atmospheric vibe. There's an electronic percussion fill and around 4:00 we return to dnb/edm, clearly featuring the source once again. There's a prominent tom on the beat that I don't enjoy much, it sticks out a ton and plays on every single measure. We continue on the same vibe as the track progresses, with source melodies coming from a pretty piano around the 5 minute mark. At 6:00 there's a small break and then the track ends with a standard electronic fill. On arrangement this is good, definitely a lot more subdued than what I expect from mo. It's a nice and chill electronic journey, keeping mostly the same vibe for the whole duration, but there's also enough breaks and variations to keep it fresh. I think it could have easily worked as a 3 minute track but I don't mind it being 6 minutes. It's a great track to have in the background. Larry timed the source usage above so we're clear on that but I didn't have any doubts about it being enough myself, as most sections clearly feature the source and the only ones that don't are the intro SFX, the 3:00 break and the ending. Production is, as usual, stellar. I'm not a big fan of the 50-60 range on this mix but I got used to it while listening to the entire track and it's nowhere close to being a dealbreaker. Most of the samples used here sound excellent and there's a lot of cool sound design effects and transitions. Overall, a nice chill jouirney with great production and enough variety to sustain the 6 and a half minutes. YES

When are we getting to the theme, I say to myself, with this extended ambient build. Excellent, there we are at :29, and some impressive sound design to boot. Beats fade in after :50 and this just goes into the weird shit category with some funky beats, belltones for the melody, and lots of SFX mockery. 3:26 gets back into the source tune's chorus section. Nice lil' pointillist approach to the theme at 4:03, and a simple but effective adding of some thump beats at 4:31. Theme drops out at 5:00 and it's original beats with some quiet inclusion of the melody and chorus layered in. The track was 6:34-long, so I needed to identify source usage for at least 197 seconds to consider the source usage dominant in the arrangement. :29.5-59.75, 1:05.5-1:08.25, 1:13.5-1:15.25, 1:20.5-1:24.5, 1:28.5-1:32.5, 1:35.75-1:39.25, 1:43.25-1:55.5, 2:01-2:02.75, 2:05.5-2:09.5, 2:12.5-2:19.75, 2:27.75-2:56.75, 3:26.25-3:54, 4:03.5-5:05, 5:08.5-5:12.5, 5:17-6:00 236.75 seconds or 60.08% overt source usage I was just sanity-checking it for source usage since this has some longer gaps between the melodic notes in places, but just going off the feel, I wasn't expecting it would be a close call. Trust but verify. Awash with creativity. A sound design delight and a dynamic piece of business. :-) YES

Hallo hallo, another "long time listener, first time caller" for the list A long time fan of VGM; Vinyl & CD collector, obsessive fan-music listener, occasional VGM remixer with my partner. I was finally able to make it to MAGfest this year (I come from far off Europe, and it only cost.... Ye gods, over a thousand buckaroos!) where I met so many amazing friends, and even more amazing strangers, and had so many amazing conversations with 'my people', where I had a sort of, 'wait, I'm not alone, thousands of people are just like me!' moment. Especially it was great to hang out with the ever wonderful KyleJCrb, who I went to the con with, and spent a lot of the weekend with (and crashed the room of many times) - I was planning to check out the OCR panel regardless, but as he was one of the speakers, I made extra sure to clear my con schedule - and as I sat there at the panel, I wondered suddenly why I was lurking, because I felt like I would very much like to be a present part of all of this. I spent a while after I arrived home observing the site much more closely, asking around interestedly to my friends of their own VGM projects, then I decided to poke my head in for real. So... Er... Hello!

opens with a significant unpitched swoop that builds to an initial wash of colors and theme. the melodic material that comes in after 0:30 is nicely patient and doesn't rely on percussive elements to move forward, which is a nice change. the beat hits at 0:59 and is a nice vibe. the 808 conga sound that repeats at the end of every bar sticks out a bit to me, but i really like some of the other elements, like the wobbly vibes used for the melodic material here. there's a fun choppy transition at 1:57, and the following section is pretty obfuscated. there's some melody in there but it's really hard to hear, might be actually too quiet. the transition at 2:26 is unexpected, but the feel after is really fun - the glidey trumpet lead here with the heavy kick is a really interesting combination. 2:57 is a significant drop - there's like 30s of noodles here before it gets back to more than one thing in the texture. i'm surprised how much i didn't mind the dropoff, actually - i really expected to find it to be too long of nothing going on, but the patience again won me over. i would have minded if it was louder though, as the dynamic contrast is pretty huge. harmonizing the glider synth is a really clever idea to ramp it up a touch. big build into 4:03, and we get another low-key driving beat here (now with chippy arps). the toms that come in around 4:32 were a little forward and out of the texture for me (and the hats that came after felt really loud). once everything came together and we had the actual full beat together at 5:02, it felt better, but i still felt the hats were a touch loud. there's some building elements through this until we get another shift that winds up being the last. i felt that the more unpitched ending - basically everything after 6:00 - to be a bit of a let-down after you'd successfully built so many other clever textures throughout that tied so well to the original. it didn't feel as connected to the rest of the piece as most of the other things you'd done throughout. overall this is a really interesting ride. there's a ton of maturity in the textures you're building here, as expected, and the mix is super tight to help make it all pop. there's a few things i wish had gone differently, but as a whole i think this is superb. YES

Hello!!! Although I'm quite unfamiliar with this place, it is nice to meet people who enjoy remixing VGMs and OSTs! Although I usually make original tracks, I also make remixes. I met this place a few days ago, and I forgot introduce myself. I hope all is well!

Hi, I've been listening since 2003-ish, lurking since 2006-ish, and am re-vitalized to start getting involved by my most recent Magfest trip. Hope to do some things, make some happies.

track 2 of my album "the microphone is 3 electric guitars". In this album, I record a piano using 3 electric guitars as a microphone. It's called "the microphone is 3 electric guitars" because the microphone is 3 electric guitars.

Hello, everyone! I've been making electronic music in Garageband since high school and discovered OCR a couple years after I started. As a lifelong lover of video game music, I thought it would be neat to have something of mine accepted on the site, and I started working on a remix that I intended to submit, but I never ended up finishing it and it wasn't that great anyway. However, I randomly remembered OCR yesterday and (rather impulsively) created an account and submitted a remix I made well over a year ago. I'm looking forward to getting involved here, and this might just be the push I need to start seriously creating music again and maybe finally take the plunge and upgrade from Garageband.

Hey folks, I've been making music for a long time, but in these past 4 years or so, I've been mostly uploading to my youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/hitrisonmusic ). Mostly an old-ish punk and noise guy, but I like making ambient/electronic stuff, too. Mostly covering Megami Tensei tracks. Come by and say hello! https://linktr.ee/hitrison

Hi, I'm new to the forums. Funny thing, I've been making music for the last like 30 years, but I just learned now that this forum existed. So I guess I'll be slowly posting some of the back stuff I've done since this is probably a better suited place than other, less dedicated forums I dwelled. I started out with "classical" music training but my main goal was (back in the 90s) movie scores. Anyway, around 2008 I started working in the videogame industry (as a developer actually), and had the opportunity to make some game tracks / remixes / contest submissions. I'm much more a composer than an audio producing guy, be that bad or good.

Greetings everyone, Vandahlia here. New to this site in the capacity of a remixer since I primarily make original tracks, although game music remixes of 80s-90s titles is something that I do enjoy and sporadically make. All my stuff, both remixes and original music, can be found at Bandcamp: https://vandahlia.bandcamp.com Cheers!

Hi, I'm Accelerate13/HaxTheCharizard! I'm technically "new" in the sense that I haven't had much online presence apart from mods I have created for a handful of games, but I stumbled across the only comment I ever made on this site while talking with friends yesterday and managed to figure out my login... so you may be seeing me around quite a bit in the near future! I first tried my hand at making remixes around eight years ago at this point, but it initially fell through due to a lack of resources and experience. Since then, I got into modding Minecraft and Enter the Gungeon, in which I have been quite successful. My main Gungeon mod is in the top five most popular custom characters, and I've gotten to work with the very modders which inspired me to get into modding Minecraft as well. My original username was just a combo of my favorite/lucky number and the fact that I had a tendency to rapidly learn and improve at anything I tried, with my new username being in reference to the name I would give any rom hack saves I played (HAX was very fast to type in for many classic GBA/SNES/N64/etc games) as well as Charizard just being one of my favorite 'mons. I look forward to becoming a part of this community!

Hi everyone! Just a quick intro as a newcomer. I am a hobbyist music producer/composer/remixer and very recently, singer. Big into FLstudio, and hoarder of VST plugins. I'm currently on YouTube primarily with 176 uploads as of June 2023, and have a few posts on Newgrounds, but I wanted to come to the original, OCremix! (Only I am many years late to the party) I'm a dad of 3 and carer to my severely disabled daughter, not being able to socialize much because of the lifestyle, making music is one of my escapes when I do get the time. My last big project was remixing the entire soundtrack to Psygnosis and Reflections "Destruction Derby" I also got the blessing of one of the co-producers of OST, which was nice. My name? *ahem* Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter video game, the first developed by The Bitmap Brothers Draven, "The Raven", or "Avenger". Given the connection to the storyline of "The Crow", I was once Xenon_84 in Live For Speed many moons ago. (The online racing sim) I saw “The Crow” in my youth and took the name “Draven” Hi! I’m Xendraven

Kweh! I didn't logged in here since the day I joined, so it's probably worth to finally say hello instead of leaving the profile in ghost mode. I'm Unknown Pseudoartist but many people calls me just "UPA" as abbreviation. Most likely no one ever heard of me here but I'm infamously known in Dwelling of Duels, a monthly videogame music contest, for invading that place with weird shitposts using a silly vocal style to replace the main melody/leads (a vocal style that eventually was called as "chocobo vocals" or "birb noises"). It wasn't my intention to actually get into music making in a serious way, but just ruining other people's works to make people laught and help making this world a funnier place for everyone. However, my pseudomusic was unexpectedly warmly welcome to that place and eventually, as I got the support of so many kind and talented artists, I discovered that I can also make my own arrangements and cool stuff with it, and so I started trying serious stuff too that goes far awary from that silly shitpost thing I started doing 3 years ago. So, among my many archievements in the VGM scene there's the invasion of DoD by a bunch of chocobos over arguably decent music and crawling a lot of people to do more of that same thing along with me, the release of a 3-part album with 30 tracks each that was released 3/3/23 featuring over 33 musicians after 3 years of experience on this thing, and now also getting my best serious/non-bird track rejected (in my honest opinion unfairly) in OCR including accusations of "anonymous troll". Anyways, I just though that maybe it's a good time to extend the birds invasion to OCR territory, and maybe people here will eventually have their brains and ears hurt enough to actually like that stuff, just like I succeded doing in DoD. If anyone is curious enough after reading that message, you can find most of my music stuff here: https://unknownpseudoartist.bandcamp.com/ For examples of both sides (shitpost and serious), here's the first/main part of that 3-discs album, including mostly VGM covers with that "chocobo vocal style" and a few serious/instrumental tracks in between: https://unknownpseudoartist.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-pseudoalbum And here's a mostly serious album that is basically a collection of VGM covers from old DBZ fighting games (all from the Butouden saga except the first one, from Ultimate Battle 22). All here is instrumental and serious except the latest 2 tracks and bonus tracks, so no need to be afraid of the birds . https://unknownpseudoartist.bandcamp.com/album/metal-dragons-a-tribute-to-dragon-ball-z-games Thanks in advance to anyone who dares to listen

Hey, my name's Daniel! I've been making remixes for a couple years now as a hobby and am looking to expand my horizons to other personal projects, collaborations and anything along those lines. I've played video games since my first Game Boy in the early 2000's with Tetris and Pokémon Yellow and absolutely adore video game OSTs. Hoping to find some great new people and some more awesome remixes!

Hiya! I'm Nikki. I've entered on and off at Dwelling of Duels for years now under a couple of older names along with this one, but I've only lurked this place minimally, and I felt like trying to do something or other on here too, so here we are. I mostly just compose, arrange, and play guitar on my own time. You can find my long, extremely mixed-bag of a history of vgm arrange stuff and original works on my Youtube. That is a thing. So yeah, hi!