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Sorry, I've been trying to hammer out my track for VV3. I've made a little more progress on both tracks since I last sent WIPs though. I should be able to attack both in the coming weeks.

I've transcribed some stuff on the guitar, hopefully I have a moment for recording.

Not this fast anyway!

I wish I could find the PC88 version of the tune(s), I'd be very interested in hearing the music in the original form. I guess I could try to pull out the Roland MT32 youtube links too.. both the Adlib and MT32 versions (just different sounds) are good to listen to. I'm partial to the Adlib version since that's what I've played.

Hnngh, I hope I have a moment tomorrow to submit a token submission...

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated likewise! I did start the previous day (figuring out the source on guitar & bass, drum loop "sequencing" and guitar recording), and thought it was total crap, but happily after sleeping on it I was able to glue it together (slap some more fx on the guitar, record bass + figure out the arp). Pretty good effort:outcome ratio for me still.. I'll see if I can polish it a bit (mixing, transitions and stuff and a bit more splicing of the drumloops) without having to spend a ton of more work.

Man, that's a tricky track.. O_o;

1. Frost Walrus (X4) 2. Commander Yammark (X6) 3. Neon Tiger (X3) 4. Wire Sponge (X2) 5. Bamboo Pandamonium (X8)

I'm also happy to provide assistance - (modest) electric guitar & bass, keyboard/synth stuff ... if any Renoise users out there want a collaborator, that would be fun. I'll claim a track of my own when I dig myself out of the other stuff I've piled on myself.

X8 also has a few (some are apparently unused themes, according to Youtube comments):

Some of the Mavericks seem to have two themes, how does that operate?

Yay! Uuhhhh, have to think about the source choice a bit. I've been mostly listening to newer indie stuff lately and I doubt there's that many MIDIs available. Nice tune, Paladin! I dig the dubby sound choices. There's one simple/chippy synth doing the arpeggio which sticks out as a bit simple/dry, but overall the sound palette is cool. I especially like how you handled the "laggy twang" in the first few measures (or whatever). I think it was a good choice to not incorporate the key modulations (or whatever). Yeah.

OCR would accept it, if it was up to the site standards. I know MSSIAH as the MIDI cartridge for C64, I want one of those (I have a C64). But it never occurred to me to check out the software in advance - is it available separately?

I'm definitely in, I just need to take my time to go through the Maverick themes - I have played maybe 15 minutes of the X series in total. Meanwhile, let me introduce Maverick Astley: Jorito, me & Tuberz McGee. PREPARE TO BE ... ROCKROLLED

I've got my project open 24/7 and work on it every five minutes I can. : )

It wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Glued together and uploaded.

I tried to start something quick, but it's not coming together very well. : )

Oh wow, 300th round. I do feel obligated to enter, I must say! Nice idea for the source, too!

Looks great to me. The look reminds me of the original Star Wars trilogy. FWIW I like flat-shaded, texture-free polygonal graphics anyway for the lean-and-clean style, this reminds me a little bit of that. The gamepad cockpit view and 3rd person on the telly may be a nice touch too. Fun idea, at least.

That was remarkably good. Some of the harmonies were a bit on the murky side, but with a little tweaking they'd be all nice and jazzy. Reminds me of the mellower Nintendo stuff on the DS. Well done!

Very much looking forward to tonight's request/learning stream. (Around noon for US-ers). It's been very enlightening, entertaining and inspiring to watch (and hear, of course) Sam work through the requests. Some are simpler tunes, others are fiendishly complex. As an arranger, it's fascinating to watch someone (and someone very skilled) work through figuring out the piece by ear. I definitely hope to pick up something from there. Another aspect is that the request tend a bit away from the most known VGM tunes, so I've discovered a lot of great music I didn't know before. And finally, of course, the performance on Sundays with the finished arrangements is quite a joy to listen to, even more so live. The arrangements are good (it's always great to hear Shnabubula put his own spin on things), they playing is good, and the live setting adds excitement. Since the Sunday show is a bit harder for me to catch I very much appreciate the recordings! edit: So if it wasn't clear I highly recommend catching the streams and checking out the recordings.

Nice to see some 16-bit home computer representation.. and the tune isn't half bad! I think the Atari ST version sounds better than the Amiga version, actually. Though the latter has a fun, quirky sound of its own.

Congratulations!

Very nice. I have no attachment to Shenmue, having never played it, but it's nice to see that the trilogy is on its way to completion.

Hah, that was fun. I had forgotten about this game completely.