Dj Mokram

Speaking of which: KNGI released 3 albums in 2011 (not counting AtW). These deserve some love as well.

Sonic 2 is one of the best games on the system, hands down. And the music is just awesome. Excellent source from Binweasel. Freaking love Bahamut Lagoon and I'm a huge fan of Noriko Matsueda! Really hoping to find enough time to enter this round...

Now I'm intrigued and certainly looking forward to that sir. Glad to have been able to contribute to OCC again this year, and I've enjoyed listening to this fifth volume. As usual, props to The Coop for gracing us with some wonderful sprite art on the album cover. It would be nice to have a 'readme' inside the archive with the tracklist and what songs were arranged. Just a thought. Anyway, congrats again to everyone involved.

Just gonna leave this here: "But what about the spirit of Christmas during the holiday season?" you ask. No worries, Capcom got all Rockman fans covered: Yet another lovely demonstration from Capsule Computer on how to successfully rape both a great franchise AND its customers.

^ This. More love for Sega please ...and by that I mean moar remixes as well.

Have a good one sir.

If anyone can actually make that happen for BadAss volume 2, he/she/them will be the true hero(es) of mankind.

I reckon that if you've been here long enough, you might know how the project system works. But for newcomers looking to join, this Official/Unofficial concept can be mighty confusing. The 'Recruit and Collab' section is fairly new, and not that many people are checking it. Maybe there could be two separate posts (one for each category) in their respective section?

Yep, everything is A-OK now, much appreciated sir. Looking forward to this year's album.

The tracklists for v2 and v3 are indeed fixed, but every song from these two volumes now redirects to a 404.

ARMed and DANGerous is now up on VGMdb. Jade's backstory in the album writeup is a truly moving display of passion and fan commitment. A real inspiration for anyone aiming one day to direct such a project. *sheds manly tears*

Forcing people to provide a MID file will instantly reduce the game list to titles popular enough to have been covered on sites like VGmusic.com. Obscure games coverage will most likely suffer from this choice, but paradoxically this might also solve the problem of attendance. We'll just have to hope for the best and see how it goes.

Wait, this can't be right. ...ok, looks like the video description indeed features the following typo: Discretely replace that with PSX before fans catch up to it and start plundering your Berry Cave. ;DTrailer is fantastic as usual, Jose rocks the house. Wild HYPe!

Well, that's too bad the PMM visual novel had to be cancelled, but you stuck till the end and that's what matters. And it shows: you've killed it man. Really captured the spirit of both the anime and Yuki Kajiura's work. Really good and versatile album right there. Mellow emotional pieces flirt with eerie unsettling tunes, while high energy rock share the stage with ethereal pads and uplifting world music for good measure. Dreams of Happiness just blew me away, reminding me at times of the Chrono Cross soundtrack and .Might I be so bold to ask what you used to make this piece? Was it live instrumentation? Also, some tracks reminded me of Biohazard, like for exemple when listening to 'My Oath', I can't help but hear . Same with 'Loss of my Heart' which reminded me of Credit Line from Biohazard 2. Not that it's a bad thing mind you. Anyway, I know how it feels to finally be able to share something you've been working on and had to keep under wraps. So congrats on the release, and again for an awesome job on this soundtrack Calum. It was a real treat to listen to.

It's the acronym for 'Ancient Relic Machines'.

Proly gonna give a shot to last round's source (from Warlords III). Sparse and challenging material to work with, should be fun.

Not just dates, entire tracklists have been swapped between these two albums. vol.3 is vol.2 and vice versa. Additionally, all links (aside from OCC vol.4) are redirecting to the main site with a 'not found' message. All in all, minor fixes really. Please resub.

Technically, Kojima was done with Metal Gear after the first one. But his former collegues convinced him to make MG2 Solid Snake, and it was a masterpiece. Later, when he said that he was gonna pass the rod to his team for MGS4, he received death threat from angry fans, which provided incentive to continue directing. So, not only this has already happened to Metal Gear, it will happen again, cause it's standard policy for mangas, animes, movies and videogames since the 80s. There is no compelling reason for Konami, or any big game company out there not to stretch a popular franchise and squeeze it dry with Hollywood-style sequelitis. Now on topic: armored Vamp wielding a freaking hi-frequency blade while battling Raiden on top of a moving train. Wait, what?

All I can say is: cannot wait to see the front cover now. Critical EXCITE Hit!

Nothing really, because: Most people tend to stick with what they already know. That's the sad reality the PRC has to face. I guess if you're not forced to mash'em up together then yeah, it's could probably work in a cool kind of way. Sounds needlessly complicated for such a small-sized event. Plus, that would imply many people are interested in the compo, which isn't the case atm. I was under the impression that we weren't entering the PRC for the 'prize', but rather for the fun of exploring uncharted gaming territories. Try to imagine the headache this would give to our friendly compo organizer Bundeslang... You will never get anyone to do or like anything by forcefully shoving it into their throat (or ears in this case). If people are set on listening to Sonic or Final Fantasy, no amount of El Viento or Kickmaster in the world is gonna change that. Yeah, this is what I like the most as well. But as mentioned before, chance of people giving a try to a game they don't know are slim to begin with. Dude, that's my mission statement right here. Glad I'm not the only one in this boat. This is an easy one: because people are way too busy arranging popular music from popular games they know and love. ;D

Freaking loved Vanquish, but I'm worried about Metal Gear potentially sliding into mid height cover military shooter with brown color palette. Plus, the prospect of another MGS starring sissy-girl-turned-badass-Raiden isn't that appealing to begin with...

No offense sir, but: are you serial? But yes, it is. Look: That right here is called a collection/compilation. That's the closest thing to an album release really. Nope. It decides for them. That's a cowardly and despicable practice known as: 'replacing freedom of choice with bias'. So you wanna make albums of regular mixes just so they compete with OCR albums for marketshare of listeners from inside the community. Fixed. And we've come full circle. Agreed. Simple to put into motion and effective. Partiality though, is still somewhat unavoidable.

@Binweasel: If not for the fact that sometimes people are struggling to find one song to remix, that could be a good idea. Having options might make it easier to get started, but having to mash up sources will needlessly complicate the compo. That's especially true for the folks not wanting to remix in the first place, simply because they aren't familiar with the game. For those, whether there is one or five source to choose from isn't gonna matter. Only the game in question will. And this issue is at the core of what's been plaguing the PRC for months: the lack of participation.