Eino Keskitalo

Watch this space. EDIT: I felt like making a new thread to grab control of the first post; with apologies to The Mighty Kelp! Please join in the drive!

We used to play this a lot over at a friend's. Got to let him know about this round. There's a bit that I like in the source, maybe I can make something out of it.

15th Anniversary of GBA would be in 2016! edit: I'll claim Minish Cap.

I'll send a WIP in for a Castlevania 3 track shortly. Some thoughts about the project concept below: About track selection: almost all of those well known games have been covered numerous times. SMB1, almost all of Mega Man, the first Zelda and Metroid have been done numerous times in many different styles. The NES/Famicom Final Fantasy games have or will have full dedicated OCR albums. I makes sense to include those well known games of course, but it'd be great if the directors and arrangers took care to pick tracks that are less arranged - such as on your list, from SMB3, the Airship and Athletic themes have no arrangements on OCR, which is good. And if the sources have been done already (SMB Overworld), do them in a style that hasn't been done before (you'll have to think hard about that!). Kid Icarus is a good game to do, a Nintendo original that hasn't been done to death. There's a ton of games on NES, a huge variety of stuff with tons of less known but still great music. It'd be great to showcase that variety and unearth some gems for the people alongside the stuff they are already familiar with! Overall I think this is a great idea for a project, it is timely and it's not too far away - this worked great for the Game Boy project reboot (coming out just next week!) so I do hope this gets off the ground. Good luck, and I'll be sending in my WIP soon!

Do rank Pleiade somewhere in your list (example, ), he was quite keen of the project idea and it'd be great to get him to do VGM arrangements again. =)

Sweet trailer is sweet!

Oh? I could be there.

Oooh a Jivebird talkback? Let me witness.

I dunno, his last mix is from like 2009, does he even read these forums anymore? Happy birthday! Maybe this year I'll find a pretzel to celebrate with.

Indeed, kudos to all the hard-working butts all around the globe!

Good arrangement. The way it progresses, grows and pulls back and develops the instrumentation sounds very thoughtful and is both easy and rewarding to listen to. I like the string work. It's quite buried under everything else though. I think there's more work to be done in giving each instrument their space with levels, EQ, stereo placement, and possibly reverb. There also seems to be little in the way of bass, a solid bass might help to glue things together and help the other instrumentation to find the balance. The loudest hits of the djembe are quite loud and make the percussion sound mechanical. Guitar is, like everyone mentions, quite mechanical. Trying to let the previous notes ring longer might indeed help. The sound is also kind of hard. Very very cool arrangement on the guitar alone though.

Submitted!

That's a cool list, thanks for linking! I took a couple of comparison listens. is pretty interesting to listen to, it's quite similar indeed but at the same time it's clearly(?) not a note-for-note copy, didn't check the 2:00 bit more closely though.From a bit of cursory comparison of to , it seemed very close but not quite the same. I have an old WIP that I'm thinking of working on some more, but I couldn't be bothered if it wasn't applicable for OCR.And oh man, ..

Kinda alright! Green with envy for the chops and talent and everything and enjoying the hell out of this. Props for getting props from Mitsuda as well.

I have something fun going on.

Temporus happily got funded! They'll be setting up PayPal for preorders/stuff which will count towards the stretch goals, I hope that remix album becomes a reality.

It'll be coming! edit: Sent! Still had to leave a few holes in the arrangement and couldn't put every bit of the source(s) I was intending, but I'm pretty happy with what I could achieve. I obviously need to gauge a bit better what I can achieve in what time. I really needed the extension and used pretty much all of it (not that I had every moment of the week for making this thing but anyway!)

I most likely won't be entering, the rRPC deadline is the same as PRC's this round.

I kinda have a full arrangement, there's just these holes in it and I hope I can manage to fill them. Anyway I'll submit what I have now if I don't have the time. It's turning out alright too.

I've gotten past the pain and am now having fun with the arrangement. I have no idea if it is any good, but good times are being had. Good to have a second week, I put the bar way too high for myself with the time signatures and live guitar and what not. On Monday I actually had a crash that erased a bunch of work I had done, including a transcription of the chorus (or whatever) of the Xenoblade theme, that I couldn't just get right a second time. That's still waiting. I think the laptop just overheated in the hot weather. Hope it doesn't act up anymore or blow up, I dunno when I could get back to making music again if I lost it..

I'm cool with extending the deadline, definitely. I do have half a skeleton ready here but it'd be cool to have a competition + I'd like to work on it some more, definitely.

I've done some recording, but I'm occupied for a few following hours and would need about five hours more to turn something in. If I could get an extension and it'd be ok with Ethan, that'd be great.

I have stuff jotted down for electric guitar in 7/8. I'm not sure if I have any more time to work on it until Monday, so it'll be crunch time again I suppose.

Here's something that I'd really like to see happen: Temporus is aiming to put platformer, SHUMP and RPG together in one scifi adventure. Those are quite possibly the three genres that get me playing lately. But the real USP is that C-Jeff is marked down as the musician. I mean.. you know.. Anyway, I pledged my $10 for the digital copy of the game and I hope a lot of you will pledge various sums for various reward levels too.

You know what we need? We need a tournament compo for this game. The old Windows laptop I have access to is running the game slowly, which funnily enough can make jumps lower, which makes Lost City impossible to play. Maybe the coming update will help, or the Linux version (though my own laptop is almost as old). It's kind of funny that a game that follows NES hardware limitations relatively closely requires that much horsepower! Maybe this'll be the killer app for getting a new machine. Or a 3DS! edit: One more thing: our daughter (3 years) appeared on the doorway as Shovel Knight (stick in hand and a scarf over the shoulders). Then we dug up some diamonds and jumped around.