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    Donkey Kong Country 2 .- Stickerbrush Techno Symphony -.

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    You're playing with a masterpiece of a source tune. I'll second Liz - your beginning is okay (the pulsing thing sounds a little bit off, timing-wise - on re-listens, it appears and disappears. Just check - for me?), but your lead synth isn't quite apropo. It doesn't mesh with the bass synth, I don't think. Try to get a blend going - I'll follow up below.

    Try to remember what's going on in Stickerbrush Symphony. It's a laid-back but intensely energetic place. You've got a semblance of the energy going, but that laid-back thing comes from the blending of sounds in the original. You can hear only a few voices that are active - the rest are backgroundish. This sounds like Brambles on the 4th of July - it's not bad, but I'm not getting the essence of the original. You have too much going on, I think, and the (very decent) writing you've got going suffers for it.

    So, in short - calm down a little bit here. Make your drums more organic - part of Stickerbrush's charm is that there isn't much of a beat demarcation. Only the hums give you a real downbeat - try that, then throw some drums in, keepin' em nice, tight, and simple. I appreciate the experimentation, but your current drums aren't doin' it.

    Keep up the good work - like Liz said, there's potential here - I just think you've buried it with too much love.

    OC ReMix plagiarism: report it here!

    in General Discussion

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    Time to send another PM to that newgrounds admin, then? Or should we go over there en masse and just register and all post our songs so the plagiarism will be much more obvious from now on (on their part)?

    Blow the whistle on 'im. Literally - just pile that stuff so high that it hits Newgrounds admins.

    Lots of free electronica.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Chippin' through your album whilst putting the final touches on the importance of Buriyat Script on Mongolian history is, in a word, enlightening. I picked up 'You're Not Here', and I'm enjoying it immensely. I'll do a more proper review later (hopefully), but, for the moment, I'll just say that I'm really likin' it.

    It never hurts to re-post things if they've been idle for a while - if you hadn't, I'da never found your stuff!

    Opening up NES carts

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just out of curiosity, what do you need to clean on an NES cart that a cotton swab and alcohol on the contacts won't fix? That's all I've ever needed to clean to get some of my Ebay finds working.

    I got a pile of games from an attic that a co-worker's mom's relative-person was going to throw out. They are in DREADFUL condition - the only way those contacts can be saved is with fine, fine sandpaper to the contacts (or eraser). The swab tried and failed. The only solution I can see is to open 'em.

    ALBUM RELEASE: Espers by 12 Followers/Meteo Xavier

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I've listened to a little bit - thus far, I'm liking what I'm hearing! Lovely ambience! I'll be sure to pick up a copy of this! Thanks for posting (and making)! That was 4 - FOUR - exclamation points in a row - impressive.

    I'm really getting a Metroid feel here - I know you mentioned it as an influence, but it seems to be the strongest one thus far. I'm digging it!

    Opening up NES carts

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So, I'm too lazy to buy the screwdriver, but I really, REALLY wanna clean my Nintendo games. I've been told that you can mold your own tool (kinky) by lighting some plastic and ramming it in there; does anyone have better ideas that don't involve the screwdriver, or experience opening the games, or whatever?

    So yea...Nintendo 3DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The most popular use of the PSP for emulation is easily the PS1. The capability of it to play PS1 games is built right in; you don't even need to download a special emulator. Cracking a PSP does require more than a faulty battery, though. It's a long, annoying process. When I had it done to mine, it took at least an hour. Also, the PSP doesn't have a hard drive either. It uses special SD cards that are proprietary to Sony, so it's really no better than the DS at all.

    Mine was super-easy (it took about 20 minutes): maybe it's just the old models that're easy to hack? And even using the Sony "Fuck-You Brand SD", it can still read stuff that came from the compy.

    ugh, fuck 3D technology. It's worse than movie theaters that only do 3D showing of movies. Some people don't have true binocular vision with stereopsis, and albeit we are a small minority, I can't help but feel trampled upon with higher prices for a technology that doesn't matter to me. The only way a person like me (or many birds, for that matter) can appreciate 3D is through something like Johnny Lee's virtual window thing: when you move your head, things on screen move relative to the position of your head.

    I just hope you can turn it off. Or, though I am not totally familiar with the glasses-free technology but I imagine this isn't the case, if you don't use both eyes, you won't see both images.

    I guess now I can better empathize with those missing hands, fingers, etc. who wish to game - a controller that uses both hands, etc. And typing has to be brutal.

    What about people with one eye? I didn't think of that.

    So yea...Nintendo 3DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Huh? PSP sales are way lower than DS sales, and I think if anything people buy the PSP so they can play PS1 games, not GBA or SNES games. The DS can already play GBA games and AFAIK it has emulators for NES and SNES, not to mention all the countless remakes and ported games for DS, so... what?

    I agree that a more powerful DS would be nice but it could be that the technology just isn't there yet to do it properly. The DS is already as powerful as the N64/PS1, but the leap to GameCube-level power is pretty huge for a portable device.

    I know the PSP doesn't sell well - but, of the people I know who've bought it, most did for the ability to hack it to play emulators and the like. PS1 games are up there, too, but the PS2 can do that (not to mention, I think, the PS3). The trouble with the DS is, it takes effort and the ported games cost a lot. It can emulate, but it requires on-line purchases. A PSP can be hacked from a computer, or, worst case, a faulty battery; from there, you can just upload stuff to it. A DS, because it lacks a hard-drive (and the DSi's is tough to crack), makes it necessary for every would-be emulator to have the tools (a DS-accepted SD card)

    I think the 3D thing is gimmicky - all I really want to see is a hard drive that I can put stuff in. Give me a calendar, some sort of document reader (DS e-Book?) - that kind of thing.

    So yea...Nintendo 3DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Don't wanna nay-say, but...wow...3D? Really? How about a more-powerful DS with the ability to play Wii's VC games? I mean, let's not kid ourselves - the PSP sells effectively so it can be hacked for Nintendo emulators.

    Why doesn't Nintendo get this? If they would just sell a machine that let me play old games without jumping through hoops, I'd be all over it. Instead, whadda we get? 3D. It's like the 3D TV crap. I don't know if this is Avatar's influence or what, but it's making me worry for the future of televisions. Hoard your regular ones now!!

    ...Of course, that's a bit overstated.

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