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Bought and listened. This album just oozes deliciousness. Really impressed all around on this one, and hoping to catch them in Jamspace next year or something to hear some of this live.

I was under the impression that damn near EVERYONE did that.

An acoustic guitar album by Will and Tim? The second this goes live on iTunes (and I'm at home), I'm buying it like a boss.

Trailer Official website Ars Technica article which actually tells us what in the world is going on This is the ultimate in conflicted emotions. I want a new Eternal Darkness-styled game very very badly... but do I want to put up with more Dennis Dyack shenanigans to get it?

...that was actually pretty tough. 1. Alucard 2. Vyse 3. Shulk

Man, I'm horrible at replies. MC Final Sigma: Contributors are free to chime in as they feel free, but the plot we're making won't end up being incredibly detailed; it's not like anyone's going to write an entire fanfiction to get this across. It'll be just enough to allow the tracklist to make sense. I suppose the Luigi thing is quite feasible, if whoever grabs that track is willing to toss in a cameo of a Luigi-related song in there. As for the Disco Boo Rave music, that would be amazing! But someone would need to decide to mix it first! Both of you: Do either of you have previous work you can link so I can hear what kind of stuff you've done? If you don't have anything available, I am actually accepting newcomers on this project, though I'd need to hear an initial WIP before I can officially throw you in the list in the OP.

Congratulations!

Liontamer's two links explain why tracks have been removed, and liquid wind's link goes to a site where all those removed tracks can now be found. You shouldn't have any problem finding the old tracks, unless they were never actually on OCR in the first place like in timaeus222's case.

Hey, I gave that shoe back to your sister! Your friend from lunar.net is the one who won't part with the other one.

On that line of thought, toss out obligatory mine cart levels in 2D platformers as well.

Remember MGS2? Kojima's entire sthick is fucking with what we think's going on. I wouldn't be surprised if he gave conflicting information to Konami for kicks.

I don't have the production skills to really be submitting any tracks to any projects or to the site at large, but I just wanted to pop in to say this is an amazing idea for a project, and more power to everyone involved. DON'T LET ME DOWN, BRAHS.

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Wow, that is smooth and undeniably sexy. Going straight into my standard playlists the moment I get home.

First few claims have been made, and there's several more people actively looking. Progress!

Bunch of us were talking about Dracula X for SNES in IRC the other day. As a Castlevania game, it was pretty solid. As a port of Rondo of Blood, it was pretty crummy.

With much help from DarkeSword and ocre, as well as half a day at my job yesterday where I had no work to do, we now have a tracklist up in the OP. Those of you still interested, see what strikes your fancy! As you'll read in the explanations there, things are very open if you have a particular song outside of the listed tracks you'd like to tackle instead.

Herc's Adventures uses this in a neat way. You get 5 lives, but each time you die, instead of immediately respawning in the level you died in, you wake up in the underworld and have to fight your way back out to get back to the level you were at. If you die in the underworld, instant Game Over. Each time you die, you wake up deeper in there and have to fight further to make your way back out. It's really effective for the plot too, when you make it to the underworld physically during the final level and have to storm your way in from the other direction to take out Hades.

NOT what I was expecting when I came into this mix, and I left totally satisfied. Brilliant piano work, excellent flow in the rap, relevant and awesome lyrics... A+ for real.

And if any of the previous people back out, I used to be a police officer (sort of). Not sure if my voice is gruff enough, but I could give it a try.

Hyrule Historia came out a month after SS, so it didn't surprise me much that Nintendo took that route. However, though I liked SS, the amount of focus did bug even me to an extent, so I'm not arguing your point at all.

To be more accurate here, the book has 4 sections, one all about Skyward Sword, one about the timeline, one with random artwork from the whole franchise, and a SS prequel manga (which runs significantly shorter than the other 3 sections in terms of length). So instead of "most" of the book being Skyward Sword, I'd say it's closer to 2/5.

I'm slowly making my way through my own copy; just got to the Link to the Past portion of the Chronology section. It's amazing; I wasn't expecting an outright tome when I ordered this thing. I could've done without learning that there was a short yet serious discussion among the design team of Skyward Sword on whether Fi should have a Mii for a head though.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa, that's the Archives/Navy Memorial green/yellow line stop here. They actually paid the money and followed the rules to film in the DC Metro? They didn't cheap out and show people walking down the DC metro stairs into the NY subway? I'll be damned! This is worth a watch for that alone.

Several years after the onslaught of Smithy, life was peaceful in the Mushroom Kingdom... or as peaceful as it ever gets. But out of nowhere, a strange malady began crossing the land, and citizens fell sick from viruses that nobody could find a cure for! Native animals, instead of falling sick, began attacking everything! Mario and Peach saw the obvious need to don their scrubs once more. As they visited old friends and locales, they put Mario’s virus-busting skills to work. While their efforts seemed temporarily successful, the mysterious Valentina began offering a permanent cure that worked instantly on every test subject. Our heroes knew something was up, so they struck out to truly find out what was going on. Can our heroes find out the truth behind the virus attack? (Certainly!) Will old friends Mallow, Geno, and even Bowser join the fray to assist? (Of course, maybe, and who the heck knows) Is Valentina trying to help or is she up to something shady like before? (Take a wild guess) Is someone else possibly steering events and manipulating things from behind the scenes for their own benefit? ($50 says it’s the Axem Rangers) Find out in Super Dr. Mario RPG, the delightful sequel to Nintendo and Square’s classic team-up! ----- Is that a real thing? Of course not; it's just a sick awesome scenario DarkeSword came up with. But he and I would both like to see an album based around this concept. Since he's hard at work on the Final Fantasy V project and a whooole bunch of other stuff, I'm attempting to head this particular project up with his support. As the fictional sequel to Super Mario RPG with a Dr. Mario-flavored plot, the idea here is a Mario series project with SMRPG and Dr. Mario themes prevalent throughout the album. Artists can choose to remix themes from those two games directly, or they can choose to remix a track from anywhere else in the Mario franchise. When remixing a track specifically from SMRPG, a Dr. Mario leitmotif should be used in the track to keep the two series tied together. When remixing a track from anywhere else in the Mario-verse, either an SMRPG or Dr. Mario leitmotif should appear somewhere. The themes of the two primary series for the project should remain prevalent throughout the album. The album will tell its story through the track titles, so this also means that while people on the project can obviously choose what they want or prefer to remix, there has to be some consideration as to where their remix will fit in the "story". As a result of this, I'll also have to work with everyone on creating a legit story beyond the quick plot above. I feel fairly confident that the story can be written around the choice of remix and not the other way around, so as to not have to force people to be told what they should remix and in what style. I have every intention for this to be an official OCR album down the line, which also means that though this is being framed as an RPG soundtrack, we're not talking lofi repetitive VGM here, or original tracks. It's a remix album first and foremost, before any other consideration. One thing I'd like to make clear here is that this is not simply "a Super Mario RPG remix project". There's already two of those. (and the second one's shaping up very nicely!) This is a Mario franchise album, with a serious focus on both SMRPG and Dr. Mario, and is very unique in what it's aiming for. This is why there's such a push to include leitmotifs from those games if you remix an unrelated track, or to include a Dr. Mario leitmotif if you remix an SMRPG track. Those interested should keep this and everything I've mentioned so far in mind as they create their tracks. Several people are on-board already, but I’d obviously love to recruit a lot more to get involved. If you’re at all interested in contributing to this project, feel free to speak up! If you've not actually officially done mixes before, you may still be able to get on board, but I'd need to hear a WIP to get a handle on what you can do before I can officially add you. Tracklist The tracks immediately below are the current setup for our pseudo RPG, ordered by plot location; keep going underneath the list below for a bunch of extra tracks that aren't ordered yet. Each line starts with where the song fits in the plot, followed by the tracks to be remixed and the game they come from, then links to sources on Youtube where available, and finally who's claimed the track. For tracks below that aren't from Super Mario RPG or Dr. Mario, remember that a leitmotif from one of the two games needs to be used somewhere in the mix to keep the album's theme strong throughout. Also remember that since SMRPG and FFIX were Square titles, you cannot use samples or actual audio from those games in any mix on this album. Note that this is all fluid. If you claim a track in the plot and then feel a different song from any game in the Mario franchise would work better there, we can move stuff around. Nobody's locked into anything. Immediately below this portion of the tracklist is a list of people who have offered their services for people looking to collaborate. Title Theme: Title Theme (Dr. Mario)/Happy Adventure, Delightful Adventure (Super Mario RPG) - / Mario's Theme: Menu Theme (Dr. Mario) - Mushroom Kingdom: Story Mode 4 (Dr. Mario 64) - - Claimed by therexCelebration: Buenos Aires (Mario is Missing) - Source Panic: Red Comet (Super Mario Galaxy) - Source - Claimed by Argle Monster Battle: Fight Against Monsters (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by DarkeSwordPeach's Theme: Ladida Plains 1/2 (Super Princess Peach) - / - Claimed by Brandon StraderVirus Battle 1: Fever (Dr. Mario) - - Claimed by theshaggyfreakVirus Battle 2: Chill (Dr. Mario)/Ice Land (Super Mario Bros. 3) - / - Claimed by RexyBoss Battle: Fight Against a Somewhat Stronger Monster (Super Mario RPG) - Valentina's Theme: Margarie Margarita (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by WiestyImportant Discussion: Soft Light (Super Paper Mario)/Poshley Heights - Inner Sanctum (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) - / - Claimed by ArrowGeno's Theme: Geno Awakens (Super Mario RPG) - Mallow's Theme: Let's Do the Fluff-Fluff! (Super Mario RPG) - Bowser's Theme: Bowser (Super Mario Bros. 3) - - Claimed by DarkDjinnAxem Rangers' Theme: The Axem Rangers Drop In (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by Chimpazilla and Plasuma!!!Dodo's Theme: Dodo's Coming!! (Super Mario RPG) - Smithy's Resurrection: The Underwhere (Super Paper Mario) - Bonus Boss: Battle 1 (Final Fantasy IX) - Final Virus Battle: Vs. Rudy (Dr. Mario 64) - Final Dungeon: Weapons Factory (Super Mario RPG) - Final Boss: Fight Against Smithy 1 (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by DarkDjinnEnding: Credits (Dr. Mario 64)/Happy Parade, Delightful Parade (Super Mario RPG) - / Location: Beware the Forest's Mushrooms (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by MindWandererLocation: Hard-Working Moles are Good Moles (Super Mario RPG) - - Claimed by EsperadoLocation: Plack Beach (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story) - - Claimed by Mirby, conditional on colabBlack - Open Red - Claimed Purple - Initial WIP Blue - Significant WIP Green - Done People offering collab services - MC Final Sigma (rapping), DragonAvenger (vocals), BrothaDom (rapping), J. Lawrence Kenny [Orangedragan] (vocals), DarkDjinn (guitar) ---- The stuff below this paragraph is completely open. We just want a track or two from most of these games. The only real limitation here is that the track you choose to remix needs to work as a visitable location in a fake RPG since these will be locations the heroes visit in our plot. Past that, the remixer can choose whatever song they want from whatever game in this list, and multiple remixers can choose the same game here. As an additional reminder from above, remember that a leitmotif from Super Mario RPG or Dr. Mario needs to be used somewhere in mixes not from those games, to keep the theme of the album tied together. Also remember that since SMRPG was a Square title, you cannot use samples or actual audio from that game as part of the leitmotif used in any mix below. Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario World Yoshi's Island Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 Super Mario Land Super Mario Land 2 Any New Super Mario Bros. title Paper Mario Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Paper Mario: Sticker Star Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story