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@Mirby & others - might require hard-clearing your cache, but the mascot now kicks in at 1600px+ resolutions... it won't appear for as many users, but it also won't obstruct navigation... full v6 design should hopefully have a better solution for this. @Slimy This feature has been reinstated, with a nice alert box message that includes a link back to the ReMix. Give it a shot @ http://ocremix.org/community/topic/39634-ocr03029-kirby-super-star-food-frenzy/ @MindWanderer First issue addressed, above. Second issue, well... apparently bbcode is still supported in some weird, strange fashion, but not really in a way that would make it particularly useful. I liked having the option, too, but it doesn't seem like it'll be coming back any time soon. However, it's all about the tradeoffs... as mentioned, CKEditor has some definite advantages, and we'll be leveraging it more in the months to come.

Fixed on MY profile, at least JK, a fix is in place for artist profiles, SOME of which are cached (server-side) and will need a few hours to clear out entirely... good catch! @Anorax Not 100% sure what you're referring to - which piece?

How do you mean? December is always slow, but we're making progress...

iZotope IRIS is a pretty badass sound design tool: https://www.izotope.com/iris

It's always a question of tradeoffs... I HAVE seen folks complain about quoting usability on the IPS site... but CKEditor has a lot of other things going for it re: extensibility, support, wide user community, etc. As a fan of ordered/unordered lists, I plan on re-adding the indent/outdent buttons to the toolbar, for one... there's also a custom spoiler button that's kind of cool.

I think you missed the part where I suggested you take some time to get used to it before forming any judgments I've been multi-quoting and responding in this thread, with callouts, with very little issue, personally... I agree that sometimes it gets kludgy, but my experience (with more extensive utilization than yours) is that most of the time, it's pretty smooth sailing...

I don't know if I find it "extremely hard" but it's a little annoying... some of that is just CKEditor and not the IPS dev team. Might take some getting used to, might be improvied with a future release. It's bothered me a bit, but I've been using IPS4 over at the main Invision site, and I've gotten very used to it. Then again, I never found it extremely hard

@timaeus222 The first issue should be resolved; please confirm. The second issue is a customization that will be reinstated once things have settled down a bit. @DarkeSword This setting was indeed overridden by default... I guess the thinking at IPS is that it increases engagement or something, but I made it configurable by users. Please confirm when you can. @YoshiBlade Okay, this was a two-part issue: The first issue, with clicking on judge decision threads from remixes, should be resolved. The second issue was that you should never have been able to upload an attachment in the first place... we're not ready to enable attachments quite yet, but they got enabled automatically during the upgrade. You were able to upload an attachment, but since no one has permission to DOWNLOAD attachments, you encountered the second error.

@Kat - without spoiling it, was it satisfying at least? Would you do it again, or recommend it?

Okay, I've actually got a question... is there a way to play through without joining ANY faction? It almost seems like Bunker Hill forces your hand a bit... strange things start happening if you try to remain neutral... Has anyone played through different factions yet and have advice on which one seems most "definitive"? I'm sympathetic to the Railroad, but some dark part of me wants to join the Institute... for the SCIENCE....

Well, signatures have been re-enabled. That was probably part of it Seems fixed... at least, that post does. Let me know if you find others. Are the quote tags fixed? Can you link to specific threads where they are broken, if not? This was a legitimately odd issue with the permissions being borked... dunno how on Earth that happened, but it should be fixed. Please confirm when you get a chance! @DarkeSword - still haven't add a chance to look into your issues... also very strange! @Black_Doom, @Chernabogue, @Rozovian, @Neblix, @timaeus222 - appreciate the feedback/issue reports! And yes, IPS4 allows callouts/references to users, which should be VERY helpful...

This is probably an aspect of the background jobs still running.... just checked progress, and it's gonna be awhile, longer than I thought, possibly rest of the day, so I guess we'll see on Monday! This is also the responsibility of the background jobs... we'll see. There were definitely some folks having trouble with this over on the Invision forums, and they said they were looking at alternative embed mechanisms. Once the dust has settled, we definitely wanna get SoundCloud embeds working too! I happen to like the extra space for readability/cleanliness, but I think we'll probably be making better use of it once we start customizing a bit

Should be; I did test on Chrome, but you DO have to clear your cache...

Confirmed; think I've fixed it. Please clear browser cache. For some reason IPS jack up the z-index to 1000 & 2000 on some of their classes, so I have to compete

As you may have noticed, we've upgraded our forums to the latest version of "Invision Power Board," now re-titled as "Invision Power Suite"... Please report any issues on THIS thread alone, and please include screenshots, text of the error, time/date stamp, & browser/OS version... Things will likely take some getting used to; some features will be improved, others may be missing/altered... please give yourself some time to adjust before posting any feedback. That being said, if you've got questions, concerns, comments, etc., let us know! Counters & content are currently being rebuilt... this will take awhile... some older posts & some statistics may not render correctly until these backgrounds jobs are complete. I'll post an update when they're done, so you know that anything you STILL see is an actual issue (should be done sometime today, 12/13)... Just in case something goes terribly wrong and we need to roll back to the previous version, you may want to store backups of any long/extensive posts you make in the next 48 hours. Of course, I personally recommend using the Lazarus plugin (for Firefox & Chrome)... Fingers crossed that things goes well... once we get the kinks worked out, we look forward to building on this platform with the additional functionality we've promised repeatedly in the past & committed to on our Patreon; this is the foundation for future improvements, so please help us get it right!

Hello! Contact Information Remixer Name: ExperimentalSoundLab Real Name: Jamie Anne Leibowitz Email Address: UserID: 25506 Submission Information Game: Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories Arrangement Title: The Item God's Lair Songs Arranged: Cyber Dance, Trance No. 4!, Dark Zone Additional Info: Composer - Tenpei Sato System - PS2 Release Date - 2006 Original Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1M8MWromo9PGi5DgB3Rd8kiFAY8Bux8s Cyber Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAaly669vE&index=5&list=PL1M8MWromo9PGi5DgB3Rd8kiFAY8Bux8s Trance No. 4!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OptMuyJzI&index=36&list=PL1M8MWromo9PGi5DgB3Rd8kiFAY8Bux8s Dark Zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmwIZ14xdw&index=6&list=PL1M8MWromo9PGi5DgB3Rd8kiFAY8Bux8s Comments: Hi there! This mix is actually something I started in my junior year of high school and only came back to recently. I posted it on the WIP forums a while ago, but I never submitted it. When I came back to it, I ended up exporting all of the tracks as audio files from Cubase and working with them in Ableton since that's what I'm most comfortable with these days. Disgaea 2 is one of my favorite games, and the soundtrack in particular is something that I listen to frequently for personal enjoyment. So, I've always wanted to get a remix of the game's music on this site. I originally recorded live drums for the metal portion, but I couldn't get it sounding as good as I wanted. My recording equipment is not what it would need to be to get a piece up to OCR's submission standards, so I went back and did the drums electronically. I'm hoping the current drums sound "human" enough? Also, about the title: I kinda envision this piece as a journey through the Item World, the part of the game that I draw from primarily in this remix. It reflects this with the chill beginning, transitioning into a metal section to represent the Item Bosses leading up to the Item God (the final boss), and then a calmer portion leading into the big finale representing the battle with the Item God. Anyway, enjoy! Here's hoping for a Disgaea mix on OCR! Link to Remix: Best, Jamie

So alt rock! An interesting vocal transformation into something radio-friendly in a specifically 90's sorta way - see what you think! - djp --- ReMixer Name: Darangen Real Name: Michael Boyd email: website: http://www.reverbnation.com/darangen userid: 8887 Game: Final Fantasy Song name: Find Your Way songs arranged: Town Theme original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1RS5znEZ4c Comments: After MAGfest, I started listening to a lot of 90's music again, thanks to Vinnie's 90's flashback guitar playing - so I blame him for this remix. So one day I was messing around on the guitar since I couldn't sleep and played a C chord followed by E7 and it brought me back to the town theme. And thus it began. Originally this was going to be completely instrumental, but I purchased iZotopes Nectar 2 plugin (which I HIGHLY recommend anyone mixing vocals picks up) and had to try it out, so I thought "what better way to try this out other than writing and recording some lyrics". With that said, it's a lyrical remix, and while I've done lyrical mixes before, my vocals were always my obvious weak point; so I spent more time on them than any other element. While they're still not perfect, I like to think I've come a long way since "Falling Back". The chorus is original and the verses, bridge and solo carry the source. The bridge is very liberal with the source while the verses and solo are straight forward, but if you listen to the bridge the right way you'll hear the part of the source I got it from. For the inspiration for the lyrics, I tried to take it from a villagers perspective. A few Warriors of Light stroll into town after a weary day on the battlefield, only to know that the next day will be more grueling than the last. As someone who played Final Fantasy when it was first released way back in the late 80's, I remember needing to return to the towns quite often to heal up, replenish magic charges and restock on potions. So I wrote from the standpoint of a villager telling them to stick through the tough times ahead and come back when they're weary. The lyrics are as follows: ---------------- verse 1 just ahead beyond the horizon look above, the azure blue who would think that this world was at its end and its fate belongs to you verse 2 pressing on, there are those who'd discourage you trials, there's more than just a few each new day has a challenge of its own but the light will see you through chorus go left, go right start another fight, come back and stay another night you'll find your way right now, some how take another chance again and turn it right around we're here to stay so if ever you're in trouble come back to fight another day verse 3 with the means to overcome what's in front of you and even what you cannot see you'd do well to remember all of those who have saved your memories chorus go left, go right start another fight, come back and stay another night you'll find your way right now, some how take another chance again and turn it right around we're here to stay so if ever you're in trouble come back to fight another day chorus go left, go right start another fight, come back and stay another night you'll find your way right now, some how take another chance again and turn it right around we're here to stay so if ever you're in trouble come back to fight another day verse 4 just ahead beyond the horizon look above, the azure blue who would think that this world was at its end and its fate belongs to you my friend ---------------- As always, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it!

Probably a textbook example of medleyitis... but it's the panel's opportunity to explain whether & why. -djp --- This is a sort of Big Band medley I created of theme tunes from nearly all of the Super Mario games (Hence the title), and that is including “Super Mario Bros”, “Super Mario Bros 2”, “Super Mario Bros 3”, “Super Mario Land”, “Super Mario World”, ”Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s World”, “Super Mario 64”, “Super Mario Sunshine”, ”New Super Mario Bros”, “Super Mario Galaxy”, “New Super Mario Bros Wii”, “New Super Mario Bros 2”, “New Super Mario Bros U”, “Super Mario 3D Land” and “Super Mario 3d World”. The medley is almost 6 minutes long and was played on a synth called “Novation Launchkey49” with “FL Studio 10” as my choice of music program. Hope you like it! Best regards, Hugo Junstrand (aka. Toxodentrail)

Actually really cool... sorta wild west vibe to it, then some unexpected jazz flourishes. I liked it; need to make sure source is VGM and not arranged from the anime, if possible. - djp --- Contact Information Your ReMixer name : Juan Huayamares Your real name: Juan Huayamares Your email address: Your website: don't have one. Your userid (number, not name) on our forums, found by viewing your forum profile: 32473 Submission Information Name of game(s) arranged: Mamono Hunter Yohko: Makai Kara no Tenkosei / Devil Hunter Yohko: The Seven Bells Name of arrangement: Sword On Fire! Name of individual song(s) arranged: Volcano - stage 2 The original composer is Keiichi Yamamoto and the platform is sega genensis/mega drive. heres the original music: (BTW youi don't have it on your website) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsY6XDQ3nPg This game is incredbly underrated, and I think the cause is the duration of only 5 tages to complete. but the music is AWESOME..i am a fan of this for about 23 years, since I first played it. the music of all stages got stuck on my mind!! I have done this arrangements several times, but this is the first time I got to play guitar, mini moog and added a LIVE twist on it!! I tought the song deserve it somehow! Also this will be the first remix of devil hunter on your website..i think it's important, almost the same of what i've done to the valis remix years ago. I intended to do some kind of disco/jazz version of the song...but saved the original melody, wich is so good and added some twists and turns with the guitar and live drums...also there's a saxofone!! =)) hope you enjoyed as much as I do. sincerelly Juan

Pretty straightforward from an arrangement perspective... and of course, the mix title. - djp --- Losstarot Nick Hemler https://soundcloud.com/theparadiselast/ 32469 Submission Information Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger - "Corridors of Time" (Losstarot Remix) Corridors of Time I was inspired by the SQChips series of remixes. This one has been in my head for a while and I finally decided to do it. Download:

Repeats about halfway through, fairly minimal, seems to have some... strange intonation issues... but some nice textures going on, deserves feedback. -djp --- Hi, My name's Philip Aldous, and I'd like to submit my arrangement of Koji Kondo's piece, Gerudo Valley, from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, for OC Remix. I've wanted to start doing arrangements for the site for a long time, but unfortunately my university studies have given me limited time for personal projects (I studied Music Composition for Film and Games at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.) Now that I've finished my degree, I've finally got the time to submit some music for you, and I really hope you enjoy my arrangement. I hope I've included all the submission information you require: Remixer Name: ThunderStrike Real Name: Philip Aldous Email Address: User ID: 32461 Name of Game Arranged: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Name of Arrangement: Moon Glow On Gerudo Valley Name of Individual Song: Gerudo Valley I arranged the piece in a chilled out, electronic style, contrasting the upbeat, energetic style that the original piece uses. I used ambient sounding custom synth textures, and I also heavily used the Wurlitzer. As the piece is based almost entirely on a repeated chord progression, I had lots of freedom to mix up different melodies, and weave between them, stack them up, or simply rewrite them. I tried to give the piece as much variation in terms of texture as possible, building the instrumentation up more and more, to a big climactic ending. Thanks for considering me, hope to hear back from you soon, Philip Aldous

Since I've already done the analysis & Larry's explained my reasoning, I'll chime in with my own NO Would love to see this on the site, but strumming alone doesn't change the extremely conservative nature of the arrangement - change all the strummed parts to single notes and you've got something we would never pass on piano, for instance. Just needs more interpretation/creativity beyond the (very cool!) novelty of the instrumentation.

Love YamaYama! -djp --- Remixer name: YamaYama Real name: Milo Fultz Email: Website: http://www.yamayamatheband.com Userid: milothefultz (http://ocremix.org/forums/member.php?u=49032) Game: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Name: Forest Adventure (Watch Out For That Big Scary Wolf Out There) Songs used: Lost Woods, Title Theme Song is attached. -- Milo Fultz // Upright and Electric Bassist // Bass Teacher and Music Theory Tutor

I thought this was rather awesome; BONKERS' arrangements are always complex, so analysis appreciated! -djp --- Your ReMixer name: BONKERS Your real name: Nicholas Steven Perry Your email Your website:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1310105117 Your userid:31818 Submission Information Name of game(s) arranged: Mega Man X4 Name of arrangement: "Into The Rebellion!" Name of individual song(s) arranged: Overseas game instro,Stage Select, Opening Stage X Link to the original soundtrack: http://youtu.be/X3YFjBID83o http://youtu.be/EceE4uc3DeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJolkUasFgo Your own comments about the mix, for example the inspiration behind it, how it was made, etc: Well here is something I never thought I would do. I never felt like the track was of quality enough, was too medleyitis(tits)... maybe something I was even embarrassed about... You see, given recent work I have now worked on this ONE song on and off again for nearly 6 years. 6 damn years. It's almost insanemous to think about. Something positive you might say to me;"Yo BONK, u sure is having somma dat poesiztenze thingamagoob ta work on duh sungz fahr ma so long!" I guess? I don't know. I mean, here's the original first version from August of 2009 from Dwelling of Duels > (WARNING IS MUCH LOUDNESS. TURN VOLS DURHN) It's hard to go back and listen to this, I mean. Uh. Sorry, i'm sitting here in my chair listening to this and find my self mumbling in my mind, or rather stumbling? Man I sure ask a lot of questions. Maybe it's persistence? Consistently wanting to better myself? Being a perfectionist? Wanting to prove myself? My love of Mega Man X4 and wanting to do it justice? Maybe it is all of it. I can still remember as a kid going into Blockbuster video and seeing MMX4 and just having this weird draw to the boxart. I was 6 at the time, and it certainly wasn't my first Mega Man game(IIRC, I had played 2-5 and X1 at that point) but something about it just felt right. So perfect. ESPECIALLY THE MUSIC. I had never heard anything even remotely like the kind of crazy sound combinations and production Toshiyuki Horiyama had come up with and put together in song. And at the same time, so utterly fitting of the game. I never was very good at it at the time, I think I could make it to Iris by piggybacking off my brother playing maybe? It's hard to remember. A large part of why I am subbing it now I also suppose is because after the fact when MR came out, the more I listened to it. The more gigantic problems and mistakes (Horrible decisions)I could hear, the worse it would sound with each listen. The urge to maybe someday just remake it from scratch all together again and make it sound far more balanced, more natural, better in every way. "Maybe then I can sub it and hopefully my medley tits can be forgiven?" Well at some point in the last month few months(Jan-Feb/2015), I just had the itch, the burn. The URGE to just maybe,play around with it when i'm bored after work here and there? (V) ;,,; (V) Why not Zoidberg? MAY 2015 EDIT: There was originally a wall of text and babbling and shit here. Man I don't know! I'm too tired and embarrassed or something. I hope people can hear all of the attention to detail and love that went into this. Although a large portion of problems with the structure remain and I am unable to fix problems innate to problems with my instruments and old recordings. (Ex: The Bass guitar used in this is a piece of shit 200$ starter guitar that needs to be retired). I feel maybe it's finally good enough to do Mr.Horiyama's music some decent justice. ALSO: I didn't proofread any of this, so it probably is a bunch of gibberish. And the V1MP3 sucks! Download (And put up a link to please if you would) the FLAC Here > If it's passable but needs adjustments, please let me know. Constructive criticism is very welcome. (V) ;,,; (V)

Crazy source tune, crazy arrangement, crazy title. Gotta dig it... see what yall thinks. -djp --- Contact Information > ReMixer name: HeavenWraith > Real name: Antanas Palaitis > E-mail: > Website: http://www.heavenwraithmusic.net > Forum user ID: 50325 Submission Information > Game: Bravely Default > ReMix Name: Virgin Mojito At Bubble Joseph's > Original Name: 歪なる思念 其の名は魔王 (I don't know the official translation, because the track's not on the soundtrack CDs) > Original Author: Kamanaka "Revo" Yasuo (I think officially the artist of the OST album is Linked Horizon) > Link to the file: > Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDi3Olyp02w Source breakdown: Source -> Remix 0:00-0:06 -> 0:33-0:45 0:22-0:34 -> 0:51-1:09 0:06-0:22 -> 1:09-1:29 0:22-0:34 -> 1:29-1:48 1:08-1:31 -> 1:48-2:23 1:36-1:42 -> 2:23-2:28 2:34-2:51 -> 3:03-3:17 0:22-0:34 -> 3:30-3:47 2:05-2:27 -> 3:47-4:19 2:29-2:32 -> 4:19-4:21 This track... just happened. I was improvising with piano by the tune of the source (good thing I was recording), listened to it later and decided there are some parts good enough to make a remix. It ended up being a rather jazzy kind of thing with a taste of dementia and cheesy halloween harmonies, something quite not what I usually produce. It was immediately deemed hipster by everyone I shared this with, fortunately not in a bad kind of way. Though in my opinion, one cannot expect something remotely normal when Revo and Sound Horizon are involved.