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Yeah, it's happened before, a game rip not existing. The few cases of it that have happened, the submitter ripped the track themselves and just hosted or attached it without having to be prompted. If they didn't already do that, we just email them as ask. As zircon just mentioned to me in #judges, "If we don't have access to the source, we can't judge it, so, it then becomes remixer's responsibility to provide the source". djp also added, "The policy is also case-by-case for rejecting games due to extreme obscurity/"indie"-ness." So if the game is just someone's Newgrounds game with original music, but the game isn't mega-popular, then we'd pass on it. I supposed we can add a sentence to the guidelines on that, but I honestly can't say I've seen the need in 6 years of being a panel member. The worst case scenario is just that the submitter can't find the original audio and we have to do the legwork. We've yet to have something submitted from something that absolutely can't be tracked down.

Already planned. It'll be between the "previous" and "next" links on the writeup pages. Perhaps we need to have it in more places than that.

Birthday mix! I wonder who did dat?

When are you going to learn how to spell sephfire? Please be More Ashamed of Self for a few moments. Congrats to Dan on the excellent news, which I'll be plugging in full force tomorrow after I get some sleep!

Never heard of 'em!

This one's now flagged for Mod Review.

Which thread?

Nah, no it's not.

The hate. It's coming.

Ha! I was about to say...

YouTube no longer uses a 5-star rating system, they use Like/Dislike. That said, we originally disallowed ratings on all videos. In hindsight, it was a complete mistake and ignorant of how YouTube works. I re-enabled them because YouTube's sharing and searchability is primarily based on people "Liking" videos. Disabling the ability to do that drastically decreased the ability of the songs to spread around and reach more people. Also, anyone could go to our YT channel and sort by most viewed or top rated, which can't be disabled, otherwise we would. Whatever's most viewed or top rated on our YouTube channel is more a result of nostalgia bias & our subscriber base at the time the vid was uploaded rather than anything objective, so ultimately we chose to live with it, realizing those sorting methods don't actually reflect what's "best".

That's not objective, that's still very subjective. There's always bias toward game, genre, composer, how recent or old the mix is, just a bunch of things that wouldn't make any top 10/100/1000 list worth anything. The only real benefit is a discussion starter and something that would be shared & debated, but and that's at the expense of other ReMixers & ReMixes that wouldn't be on such a list.

I didn't remember it was from DoD, but it's a revision from the DoD version regardless, and not the same one.

Yeah, you're weird. That's not accurate at all. Oh wait, you're right. It's totally depressing hearing "HEY, it's the party song. Party's over here. C'MON!"

I can only answer the first part, but, no, that source tune would be outside what we could accept. It has to be music created for the medium of a game.

Apparently, he says/thinks that to himself in a dream at the end of EarthBound. He just didn't speak or have his thoughts presented for most of EarthBound. He's talked in the Smash series, so he's not entirely mute throughout his character history. So there's no reason there shouldn't at least be something in the way of a quote. If it's a matter of using a legitimate quote or attempting to make a sentence "true" through omission, go with the former.

STYLE CHANGES http://ocremix.org/info/Kefka_Palazzo Move the quote up top and make it it's own italicized section header, i.e. == ''"QUOTATION STUFF"'' == Quotes look silly having their own section, plus it's cooler to have them up top, makeing it more compelling to read the subsequent bios. Also, for all first mentions of the character name in the article, please bold the name, i.e. '''Kefka Palazzo''' Thanks to anyone who can help! I think these are small but important revisions. To keep easy track of this, work alphabetically. I've done N-Z.

Haha, that's a reach. But I will be trying to holler at Tycho about Phantasy Star Online music at PAX this year if I get the chance. He's got good taste.

Megaupload?

The first part about the filesize limit is right. The second part about why we don't host FLACs for individual ReMixes is not. We're down with hosting FLACs of ReMixes, though until bandwidth is cheaper, we'd probably just keep it torrent-based, not available individually, like we do with our album FLACs. But in 5 years, improvements in technology could make FLACs a drop in the hat. That said, I'm totally fine with gathering FLACs of OC ReMixes, and we can make that official. Letter coming soon to all ReMixers...

In the meantime, could someone make placeholder pages for the new additions? Pololo?

Could I get you to redo that with a ReMix with my updated tagging layout? It might not be dramatically different (especially since OCR02001 uses mostly the same stuff). But I can send you some.

Also thought I posted here too. Super strong stuff, per Star's usual. He's great at pulling off those grandiose soundscapes.

You got that right.

Ah, I gotcha; I haven't looked at those settings in quite a while, since I haven't needed to alter them. Indeed, I used the default, ID3v2.3 UTF-16, because there are some foreign characters we use, mostly accented vowels. I don't know if v2.4 is supposed to be any better, and was thinking about using it, but when edited in iTunes, the tags became v2.3, so I stuck with that. But yeah, you pointing out the non-standard extended tags that were in these files will lead to a lot more cleanup, so you've given me a lot of peace of mind thanks to that eagle eye. I want these files to be as close to perfect as I can get 'em. EDIT: EVERY miscellaneous non-standard tag has been removed.