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Well, that's just bad marketing. It says absolutely nothing about the quality of the game (which was part of your point, but it still doesn't mean it WILL be shit).

Ah, on OCR people distinguish between a cover and a rearrangement based on how close the arrangement sticks to the source. If the arrangement is very close to the source then it would be considered a cover, whereas something that has more fun with the source and has more originality would be a rearrangement. As I said, there is nothing wrong with covers - they're awesome. It's simply that if something is submit to OCR there is a certain amount of reinterpretation that would be required in order for it to be passed. If you listen to posted remixes you'll see that they do tend to change the structure of the songs they represent, sometimes quite a lot, in fact. I hope that helps.

Well, first of all welcome to OCR - you'll have a good time, here, I suspect. There are a few rules/courteous things that you should know when posting in the WIP forums. When posting a remix, please name what game/track you are remixing in your title - that way people know what they're listening to. A source is also necessary to provide, as not everyone is familiar with the source (yes, I know people who haven't played SMB2... much sadness). Finally, when linking to a track please link to the track and not to your home page. Feel free to link to your home page in your signature and people will find you from there, but people will primarily want to listen to a remix in this forum (also, it's a part of the rules, as seen here). As for the remix, I actually like the sounds used in it - a nice combination of chiptune sounds and fake guitar, and it works. The production is quite a mess, though - it's just brickwalled like crazy, and it clutters the soundscape a lot. To your credit I can still hear most of the instruments alright, but the soundscape would be greatly improved if you didn't max out your limiters on the track. It's a very nice cover. I'll give the heads up and say OCR as a site wouldn't be able to accept the track on the grounds that it's a cover and not a rearrangement of the source, but you're not stating that as a goal anyway, so no worries. Sometimes people in here will mention that something is a 'cover' in a negative light because of that rule, though, but don't worry about it unless you're planning on submitting to the site. Alright, I made a few changes to your post to help it follow the conventions of this forum. I hope to see you around here more.

Whoa, holy crap you have a working shift button! When did that happen?

Well, the closest you'll come to that is the Russian ReMix Roulette. You won't find the J's advertising favorites, as once that starts happening the site will run into the problem discussed. Even worse (and from what I hear this has happened in the past, though perhaps not with the judges, per se), the judges comparing remixers against one another (that is, having a remixer remain a consistent favorite and having plenty of others get ignored on 'favorites' listings) causes plenty of bad blood to be spread among not only the fans, but sometimes even the remixers themselves. Unlike other sites where people share their music freely, this place is home to a relatively small pool of remixers, so favorite remixers lists are more personal (and as a result, abrasive) to the other mixers, as a result. Glad you still love the site, though.

We could always get Will super drunk, then get him to record a solo whilst in that state. Then after he wakes up, remembering nothing that he did the night of recording tell him that he has to compete with a secret challenger and make a solo against the same track. Bam. Willrock having a competition with himself. It would be epic.

To add to that point, take a look at how things are currently run on Newgrounds.com. A public voting system is ripe for abuse - the people that gather the audience are generally the people that are willing to promote themselves by either spending every day ranking their own song as high as possible or by advertising their work endlessly - quite often even good tracks get buried behind the tracks that people spend the time to pimp. Because OCR has a quality panel that every single track is run through, everything is roughly at the same tier as everything else (at least most of the music from 2006 on; the standards have risen steadily over the years), so there is no need for another voting system for the sake of quality control. You shouldn't be looking for the 'best' song, because every track that is on here is very well done, and there's no way that a crowd of people will be able to tell you what your favorite piece will be, since at this level of production it's entirely up to everyone's personal taste. So yeah, the big 'problem' with the site is that everything is really well done. Not a problem that we mind having, I don't think.

DS still needs to vote on that last round. He alone can determine the victor of that bout - your team only has a single vote more than my team and Rozo's team, Brandon (and if my teammates had voted I would've swept the floor with ya both ). Though that does nothing more than boost one person or another's ego a notch - the top three spots tally the same overall, anyway. Darkesword will one day set things right in this forgotten land of WCRG 2011. Or so it has been told in legends.

Unless I'm mistaken, that guy just defended sexual harassment by saying that's just the way it is. For the sake of my sanity, please tell me I'm mistaken, somehow, because that was just... ugh. I can see defending cursing on a game like that, but really, making gender based insults? That's just fucked up.

I can understand the confusion, but this isn't a game remix, is it? It's a remix from the anime with the intent of using it in a game, correct? That belongs in the 'Originals WIP' forum, as it's not a remix from a video game, hence the move. Eh, may as well give you some feedback, too. The drums are really pretty good - I like the tight sound of the bass, in the context of the mix. The samples are pretty good, too - a lot of the electronic instruments give a nice, open feeling to the whole soundscape. There is a lot going on in the track, and unfortunately that does create a muddy soundscape, especially in the mids/lower mids of the EQ range. I'd suggest removing an instrument or two in that range when the track gets cluttered, or even move some of the instruments to a higher register. I don't know the source (a link to it is generally courteous, in a WIP thread - not everyone watches Naruto), so I can't say how the arrangement compares. Structurally speaking, though, the song on it's own is coherent and isn't boring, so that's certainly a good thing. Yeah, my biggest gripe with this is the production - the mud in the soundscape is mucking it up pretty consistently. Clean up your sounds and you'd have a really neat track, here. Also, yeah, Video Game remixes are for remixes of games, not of soundtracks with the intent of making them into game music. That's why the thread is moved - I do hope you make some game remixes sometime, though, as you could make something pretty neat, I suspect.

Light said that if X ever lost control there would be no force on Earth that could stop him. So yeah, there's that.

This is a thread for speculation - if we wanted to portray reality from the games, Needle Man would be far more powerful than the other bosses from MM3, even though he shoots sewing needles at the blue bomber...

Yeah, that works better. It's still a bit awkward, but it resolves well enough. Sweet mix, man.

I had this discussion with someone else earlier, but Centaur Man has the potential to be the most destructive of all the robot masters. Why? Let me ask you - what IS his power? Well, when you fight him, he can teleport, shoot bullets and stop time. When you use his power, however, it just destroys everything on screen. The report on him doesn't help (it says his power is 'UNKNOWN'), so at this point we must draw conclusions. He's a robot master who can destroy virtually anything in the flash of an instant in any given area, stop time and freakin' teleport. As there is nothing known about his power, we can fill in the blanks with whatever we want and say that's what he's doing, giving him the potential to be more destructive than any other robot master in existence. He's like a blank check for our imaginations.

I think I love this. The section at about 2:45 (I think - Tindeck doesn't have a timeline) that changes keys is throwing people off, though (including myself). If I recall correctly, the source actually does drop down to that area for a section, but not at that particular spot. I would consider changing that back into the original key. Otherwise, this is fucking awesome.

I see what you did there. I think Mars would make Napalm Man's and Bomb Man's weapons look like pea shooters, in comparison, but I'm not sure if stardroids count as robot masters... They WERE a part of the Mega Man Classic mythos, though, so they might.

Yes, I think most people here would agree with that. That's also considered sexist - that stigma had no reason to be there other than the fact that girls shouldn't do things that guys like to do. The perpetuation of that idea is a form of sexism. Just saying, is all.

Reminds me of when my brother and I would play x-com and save the game after every single turn/every passing day, no matter what happened. Similar concept - you get very attached to units because they could die the next mission, and such, and really changes the way you see a game like that. Too bad I don't play Pokemon - I might enjoy trying something like that.

Damn, that sounds fun. Shame I don't have the cash flow to justify going up there, right now.

Well, since you've posted most of your other tracks in other threads a workaround would be to link to your different threads (rather than to the actual YT tracks).

Unsealed would likely be rejected on the grounds that it's a medley and not a cohesive track. OCR is stringent on that front. It's length wouldn't hold it back, on it's own, though. The reason DjP was questionable with tracks longer than 7 minutes is because long tracks have a very difficult time not sounding repetitive, not sounding like a medley AND sticking close enough to the source(s) to remain within the submission standards. If there is a song that's long, not repetitive, sounds like a cohesive, single entity (and not like multiple songs put together) AND the source is recognizable then given that it's production was up to par it would likely be passed.

Yeah, I think Monobrow pretty much said everything that needed to be said, here. I would be annoyed at the large pictures, but actually by complete accident I learned that on my mouse wheel I can scroll fucking sideways by tapping the mouse wheel side to side. In-fucking-credible. Dexie does have a point. Zero Suit Samus makes sense dressing like that - it's her undergarments to her more complicated suit. On the other hand, that means that if she's running around in her 'Zero Suit', she's running around in her underwear. So... yeah, you're playing a female character in her underwear. Mmm, I'd argue in Zero Mission it made contextual sense - her armor was taken away. That's about it, though. A little better than running around in her bra, like the Super Metroid version would have been reduced to.

I'm all ears, at this point.

Two internet killers - to my knowledge, ACTA has already been pushed through and continues to spearhead into the international community.