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That is technically quite true, yeah! That could work! In other news, NiGHTS has been given his own official poll now, asking what pose and outfit the character should be in. The poll is open for one week so if you want to get a NiGHTS figurine statue then now's your chance to get your voice heard! The poll is here! I've got to hand it to First 4 Figures, really liking their stance on listening to the fans choices and suggestions. Not many companies go to this kind of levels in getting consumer feedback!

Yeah, actually a few other people in the comments suggested the Hornet car too. Though, that might be a licensing issue, i'm not sure. It's a nice idea though, i'd cop that. As for Vyse, yeah definitely. That character get's a lot of love, i wouldn't be surprised if he makes the All-Stars statue line. They're looking at the highest voted ones and Vyse is definitely one of those!

Oh no no, those are not listed in vote count order, they're listed in the order they were added to the poll in. That's also why Phantasy Star is right at the bottom. It initially was not considered until fans in the comments suggested it gets added. I really want Phantasy Star to get more votes than this, and Streets of Rage too. They both have large online communities so it would make sense for those guys to get in there and vote, before they miss their chance!

So, for those that don't know, the company First 4 Figures have begun a deal with SEGA to make a bunch of figurine statues of some of SEGA's favourite game characters. Ryo Hazuki from Shenmue was already put on sale not too long ago. You can see it in all its bad ass glory here!! NOW, First 4 Figures want to see what you think they should include in the rest of their line up, with a voting poll being hosted in their forums. The topic is over --> here!! The voting poll is multiple choice, so go nuts and choose! The quality of the figurines are high-class. It's very rare we get merchandise as good as this outside of Japan. Get in there and get voting, people! (you can even sign up using FaceBook and Twitter, if you don't want all the hassle. Getting in and voting is quick and easy). I personally want to see Streets of Rage and Phantasy Star Online get more votes than they're currently getting (would love a Blaze Fielding and Red Ring Rico statue, personally). Naturally, i voted for NiGHTS too. Because, hey, this is me we're talking about! I just figured i should bring this to everybody's attention. The voting poll seems to be going over a lot of peoples heads, and we as gamers here should show support for the things we love, right? Anybody else own anything from First 4 Figures, by the way? If so, what? I'm curious! Also, if a topic for this already exists then nuke this one! Cheers~

You know, some of the best types of fans i come across are the ones who don't reside in any communities. I call them 'adrift fans'. They contain as much love as any other fan who regularly visits a forum, but they keep to themselves online. And they're unbelievably humble too. I find that a lot of the work OCR puts out gets heavily praised by these adrift fans, because they're not constantly surrounded by negativity and they form genuinely well structured opinions of the songs we make. They tend to be just happy that their favourite games are being covered at all. I do feel sometimes the Sonic fans take for granted what they have, all this love for one hedgehog and they just can't get along. Every other old school SEGA franchise struggles to remain active these days, one day when the hedgehog has been packed away in to its box by the company they're going to lose their shit. But i digress, yeah. Some fans are just crazy as all hell.

Because i'm so involved with Sonic Team based communities (i still kinda co-run the NiGHTS into Dreams one) i get to see first hand how the Sonic lot act. They have their fair share of nutjobs, but i think every fanbase has them. We just tend to notice the Sonic lot more because ..well ..we're surrounded by them and our work tends to fall in to their catchment net! XDI mean, for example, i'm a huge Final Fantasy VII fan. But fucking hell, i can't even scroll two posts on Tumblr without coming across some extremist fans arguing with FULL ON HATE MODE ACTIVATED about love triangles, of all things. LOVE TRIANGLES!! What the shit?! Lol, there are bad eggs in every basket, we just need to chuck those in the trash and cook with the good ones!

Actually ...you know, you're not far wrong. When Sonic 4 was actually announced a lot of the 'extreme fans' complained about Sonic's eye colour being green instead of full black. I am not even shitting you. It get's a little ..er ..scary sometimes, especially when the hardest of core fans get on a hate trail. (those same extremist fans once attacked our NiGHTS community because we had been campaigning and petitioning to get the character in to the first Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing game ...it didn't even involve them but they felt the need to blast our community to high hell, all because we were asking for our character to be featured.) One thing to remember though is the Sonic series has a massive fanbase, all walks of life and all from different era's from the Hedgehog's career. I've been to some of the Sonic conventions here in the UK hosted by the UK Sonic community and they're a really great bunch, hell they had a rave at the last one and 50% of the music played were remixes by OCR alone! So the love is there, for sure! I just want to remind everyone that while i certainly don't condone the unbelievably shitty way some of the fans are responding to this project, there are still some great fans out there looking forward to this. And this leads me on to - Hit the nail on the head, man! We're doing this because we LOVE it. You can hear it in the quality of the work. And because we love what we do there are people who will feel it and love it too. It's those people we should be focusing on. Haters gonna hate, so skate over them when we release this bad boy!! XD

Hey all! I'm currently Co-Directing the OCRemix album 'VROOM: The Best of SEGA Racing'. I'm looking to cover but take it down a very 1990's Eurobeat/pop/dance route. So, imagine that song with style like this - . I'm just looking for someone who can cover the genre from a production stand point, i will be arranging the vocalists myself, so don't worry about the vocal work. If you or anybody you know can craft music in this particular style then please link me to some of their/your work and if they fit the bill i'll get in contact with you via PM's to discuss the remix idea's in more details. Ideally, i'd like to have a short list of names so my options will be open to me. Thanks for your time

I have to agree with this. It's a similar thing that happens with getting artists to draw art on board for our personal albums. You wouldn't expect them to draw something for nothing, you have to pay them ...and usually this means out of your own pocket. Same with getting someone to do your music. Making music can take a long time, depending on what you want, and if you're asking for 20something tracks then that's someone's time completely taken up to accommodate your requests all for the 'possibility' of it being featured and no compensation in the slightest for the work aside from a credit. If there's two of you working on this project then seriously consider saving up between the pair of you and offering something for these peoples time and workmanship. You might attract more people in the long run too, this way. Just a suggestion

Oh yeah, for sure! I totally would add that in.If only we were remixing that song!

Yo, sorry for the delayed response, i only just saw this.Dude, i had no idea you did vocals. I'll definitely keep you on the list as a possibly, i want to talk more about the song idea through with Damashii!! first before we start hunting more people to get on board the track. The track we're doing is 'Angels with Burning Hearts' from Burning Rangers. Looking for someone with a soulful edge that can hit some high notes. In any case, i'll keep you on the short list i'm writing up for now, man! Thanks!

Hell yeah. I'ma let the people KNOW!! *to the networks* ~

That's odd! The forum icon didn't notify me this thread was updated! My bad! o.o Also, glad to see more people have claimed some more tracks. This thing is bulking out a little more now! Awesome! Also, you can update the info for my Burning Rangers track, i will be collaborating with Damashii ...and possibly some others if i can get some vocalists on for it. But more on that later

Ooooh, is that why? I didn't know that. Though now you've set me on a mission to find hi-res SoR official art And, while i'm here, Red Ring Rico from PSO. Because we have a HuNewearl mascot but not an actual official character with a name, from that series. HOLLA! ~

1 - Vyse (Skies of Arcadia) 2 - Ryo Hazuki (Shenmue) 3 - Bayonetta

Dale North, you went and did it again, homie! This is ace!! ...i will now be singing the main hook line for months to come! XD

I think someone went IN! I think it was Metaphist! Absolutely loving this one, man! Aoooowww!

Providing things go to plan, i'm going to be needing a female vocalist in the near future. To try and save myself some time and headache, could i ask you guys to please post a list of female vocalists in OCR and any outside OCR that you feel might be down to do a little collaborating for a video game remix tune. I suppose i might as well go and throw this out here, but i need a female vocalist who can sing the choruses (and some extra stuff) from this Metropolis Street Racer track - Yeah, the subject matter is a little risque and full of that old skool SEGA cheese but it's still a classic. Yeah >.> So a list of the female singers we have and any which you know outside of this place, please compile it here and let me go head hunting. Please post examples to their work, also. That would be a huge help! Thanks!

Hey Dave, with all respect due, i think maybe you might want to reconsider using Segata Sanshiro's name in the album title. Not sure we should be using something that high profile in a fan-remix album title, if you catch my drift.As a suggestion, think along old slogans and advertising catchphrases that the Saturn had during it's era. Like how the UK adverts had the "You're Not Ready!" slogan on them, maybe we could expand on that, something like "You're Still Not Ready!". Or the American slogan used to be "Head to Saturn", and we could make it something like "Heading back to Saturn". These are just thrown in for examples, not saying we consider using these.

Yo, you gone got SEAN PAUL on this mother fuh! I know for real he re-did all his vocals specially for this project. I spoke to him the night before he went back in the studio, he told me he was putting down some sick vocals for us OCR bredrins. DUTTIER! Knocked it out of the park with that tune alone. I mean, it's Sean rass clart Paul, son!

Argh, man. I shouldn't do this because i really shouldn't be taking on any more work than i have already got on my plate ... ..but i'm considering taking the Saturn Bomberman track, finding another MC to join me on this tune here - I just imagine us portraying White and Black Bombermen and doing some old skool thing here. Just throwing the idea around right now. Not sure if i should do it or not, i just want to make sure this project has plenty of material so it passes approvals. I'd be gutted if the 20th Anniversary comes around and we don't celebrate it, ya know?

And i would like to say how happy i am to hear you claim that

Lol, and i shall continue to tempt you to do so, sir! ...i did kinda mention it ....a few posts ago >.>;;

Yo Meta, man! I don't know if you ever played Guardian Heroes, but i could totally see you drop some of that awesomeness on a tune from that game. Just a suggestion. This tune right here would be an awesome cover - Don't mind me here though, i'm just throwing idea's around the place hoping something i suggest might stick with people and get them inspired to create something for this! XD Consider me a little bit keen for this project to get accepted ~