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Thanks DarkeSword! Also thanks OA for creating the shiny new brackets for the compo! Hero Bracket is up for viewing in the first post and the Villain Bracket will be unveiled around noon tomorrow.

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Well, it's not like you can't revisit it after the compo is over and do more with it then. Just do the best you can with the time you have and if you aren't satisfied with it, expand on it later. And that goes to everyone.

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

Yes, the deadline for the first round of the Hero Bracket is at noon Eastern time tomorrow, Monday the 16th. Less than 24 hours to go. Hang in there guys!

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I didn't want to impose any hard guidelines on the creative process for you guys, like track length or designating any specific genres. However, the between 2 and 7 minutes range is a reasonable place to shoot for.

Edit: Also, yeah, some of our competitors have participated in previous compos on the OCR forums. Usually members of the community step up and make signature images for people in the compos. They would be cool to have but their absence does not detract from the music. And thank you for signing up djg-music!

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That's weird, they were working for me earlier. Anyway, I reposted the links and they are working for me now. Let me know if there are any more issues with them. Sorry for the snag, hopefully everything's fine now.

Edit: I figured out what I did wrong and corrected it. I also made sure to fix the links I added to the first post so everything should be good now. Let me know if there are any other issues.

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

The people’s reaction to the return of the Divinity Orb could be felt in every corner of the world. The stirring of unease that grew from town to town was palpable as the presence of dark forces made themselves known. Heroes from around the world answered their calling and gathered weapons and equipment for the road that lies ahead of them. But as they passed through the town gates, they took one last look at the place that had been their home, knowing that if they failed in their quest, they would never see it again.

Hero Bracket Round One: Leaving Home

Welcome to the opening round of the ReMix Role-Playing Competition! The Hero Bracket is starting things off with a round revolving around town themes! Towns are a common starting point in RPGs, so it is only natural for the rRPC to begin in a similar fashion. The Hero Bracket graphic will be added to the first post of the compo thread soon, but here is a rundown of our heroes’ starting positions, as well as, their Round One source themes:

djg-music and Nonamer:

urdailywater and HoboKa:

Ethan Rex and NovaReaper:

Yami and evktalo: Land of Beginnings - Bravely Default

ReMixers will have until noon EST on Monday, June 16 to submit their mixes to me via PM. Round One of the Villain Bracket will begin at that time. Be sure to follow the instructions provided in the opening post of the thread when submitting your mixes, I will not accept tracks sent in the wrong format or are improperly titled.

To help keep the various source themes organized in one place, I created a spreadsheet of the rRPC roster that I will update for each round as more source themes are included.

That said, Heroes, good luck and have fun!

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

Just touching base with everyone so you all know where the compo stands as the first round of the Hero Bracket opens tomorrow. The brackets have been decided, as well as the source themes for each match-up of Hero Round One. OA has agreed to create the brackets, which is greatly appreciated. However, they may not be ready in time for the grand opening, but I have a far less aesthetically pleasing set of brackets created using a spreadsheet on Google drive that will do the trick in the meantime. Obviously, the Villain Bracket will not be revealed until their first round opens.

I also created another spreadsheet for organizing everyone's character themes and included youtube links to their music and will do the same for the source themes of each Hero round as they come up. I also included links to Xenonetix's playlists as well as some links to extended versions of the themes that I could find, but unfortunately not all the themes had extended versions as far as I could tell. So far everything's coming together pretty well. So get hype everyone, Round One of the Hero Bracket begins tomorrow!

[Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta 2014]

It just came to my attention the other day that Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta will be starting soon. Four Job Fiesta is a challenge run of FFV where you are limited to only using four randomly determined job classes for the duration of the entire game. The event is done to raise money for Child's Play, a charity that donates games and toys to children's hospitals across the country. People make pledges via Twitter to give X amount of money for every player who beats the game/defeats Omega and/or Shinryu.

More information and details of how to sign up can be found on their website: http://fourjobfiesta.com/index.php You will have to use Twitter to sign up, as well as to get your random job classes.

I participated in Four Job Fiesta last year and made a mini-series out of it on my

. It might make things easier to understand for new players to see it in action. While I plan on giving it another go this year, I don't have any plans of recording any of it this time. Anyone else aware of this event or otherwise interested in participating?

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Yes, I was about to comment on that as well. I would appreciate it greatly if the Rudra no Hihou track were replaced with the OST version. Thank you once again for putting the playlists together by the way.

Also, in case anyone missed my edit in my previous post, we have filled out the roster for 16 participants. I am pleasantly surprised with how diverse the overall selection has been and just how many under-represented games are going to get a chance to shine, not counting any tracks I've got up my sleeve for the Hero Bracket. If you guys are half as hype for this compo as I am, this is going to be great.

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The Villain Bracket is now full! And we also received another Hero submission which means we now only need one more Hero theme to max out the roster. The newest entrants are: Anorax with

and evktalo with

.

Edit: And today we got our final submission! djg-music has signed on with

. That means sign-ups are officially closed. Thank you very much to everyone who signed up for the compo, and for everyone else who took an interest in it. The first round of the Hero Bracket will begin on Monday June/9.

Here are the entrants who have all signed up:

Hero Bracket:

1) urdailywater - Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - Nepgear (Nepgear's Theme Ver. V) - Hero

2) Nonamer - Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Felix (Traversing Weyard) - HERO

3) Ethan Rex - Chrono Trigger - Frog (Frog's Theme) - Hero

4) HoboKa - "Parasite Eve" - "Aya" (Theme of Aya) - Hero

5) NovaReaper - Etrian Odyssey - Ren and Tlachtga ( Rising Again) - Hero

6) Yami - Rudra no Hihou - Surlent (The Spirit Chaser) - Hero

7) evktalo - Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon - Marth (For Tomorrow's Sake) - Hero

8 ) djg-music - Final Fantasy Tactics - Ramza (Ramza's Theme) - Hero

Villain Bracket:

1) Jason Covenant - Earthbound - Pokey (Pokey's theme) - Villain

2) MindWanderer - Lufia 2 - Gades (Battle Theme 3) - Villain

3) Ghetto Lee Lewis - Icewind Dale 2 - Sherincal (Sherincal of the Chimera)- Villain

4) Saint Paradox - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time - Team Skull (A Sinister Smell) - Villain

5) gercr - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Dark King (Battle 3/Dark King’s Theme) - Villain

6) Xenonetix - Ni No Kuni - Shadar (Shadar's Attack) - Villain

7) Supercoolmike - Golden Sun - Saturos (Saturos Battle Theme) : Villain

8 ) Anorax - Breath Of Fire II - Deathevan (Evan ~ God of Death) - Villain

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

We've got another villain signed on to enter:

Only one more villain slot left.

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

If you don't get anyone else, you can do what Brandon did for the FFCC, and throw in a 3-way round against a "boss," and the best two move forward. In fact, this works more naturally for this compo than it did for his.

Hopefully it doesn't come to it, but that is a possible approach I am considering.

I'll be signing up later today.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to seeing what you pick.

Thanks for putting those playlists together, Xenonetix. It's something I was thinking of doing over the weekend after the sign-up period was over, so way to get ahead of the curve there.

freakin sweet idea u got going on. just suks that i'm figuring out about this now (as its about to begin) and the rpg maker vx ace tournament is under going right now (ughh so musch work!).

I'm here to ask if this theme is applicable.

this song plays when Chrono is being judged in a courtroom. I have always thought of this song as a theme for that (evil) judge.lol

Sign-ups are still open until Friday at midnight so it's not too late yet. Don't sweat it if you've got a lot going on and don't think you can join, you can still participate by voting on tracks to help decide which mixers advance to the next round. Regarding that track, first I don't think that track really works as a character theme; second, I wouldn't accept the judge as a villain anyway. Thanks for taking an interest all the same, regardless of how things go, I hope you follow along.

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Here's the latest update on the current status of sign-ups for the rRPC:

Hero Bracket:

1) urdailywater - Hyperdimension Neptunia V - Nepgear (Nepgear's Theme Ver. V) - Hero

2) Nonamer - Golden Sun: The Lost Age - Felix (Traversing Weyard) - HERO

3) Ethan Rex - Chrono Trigger - Frog (Frog's Theme) - Hero

4) HoboKa - "Parasite Eve" - "Aya" (Theme of Aya) - Hero

5) NovaReaper - Etrian Odyssey - Ren and Tlachtga ( Rising Again) - Hero

6) Yami - Rudra no Hihou - Surlent (The Spirit Chaser) - Hero

Villain Bracket:

1) Jason Covenant - Earthbound - Pokey (Pokey's theme) - Villain

2) MindWanderer - Lufia 2 - Gades (Battle Theme 3) - Villain

3) Ghetto Lee Lewis - Icewind Dale 2 - Sherincal (Sherincal of the Chimera)- Villain

4) Saint Paradox - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time - Team Skull (A Sinister Smell) - Villain

5) gercr - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Dark King (Battle 3/Dark King’s Theme) - Villain

6) Xenonetix - Ni No Kuni - Shadar (Shadar's Attack) - Villain

A very nice selection we've got going here, but we still need four more people (two for each side) to meet the new goal of 16 participants. If you guys know anybody who might be interested in joining in on the compo, get them to check it out. They just might come on board.

Sign-ups wrap up Friday night at midnight Eastern time.

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Just a reminder, we are currently on the final week for sign-ups. This coming Friday at midnight Eastern time will be the cutoff point, so please get your character theme lists PMed to me before then. If you caught last night's

, then you probably know that DarkeSword and I talked about the likelihood of settling for 16 participants total (8 per bracket) and cutting out one of the rounds. So unless we get a sudden surge of submissions (21 to be exact), that will be the most likely target for us to shoot for. Right now, I need two more heroes and two more villains at least and the fifth can go in either bracket as one of our current entrants has volunteered to fill in the final slot of whichever side I need.

Also, if anyone checking out this thread is interested, I will be in need of someone who can design the brackets and any signature images for the participants. Get in touch with me if you're interested. Much appreciated!

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Let's keep this to playable characters who can fight. The pool is already pretty big as it is.

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Sorry, but no.

[Speedruns]

My favorite runs of AGDQ 2014 were blindfolded runs of

and

I won't tell you exactly how well each of them do, but rest assured, each of them certainly "go the distance"; far better than most can hope to do with their eyes on such difficult games, let alone blindfolded.

These were absolutely fantastic. This might not be your speed but Brossentia does a glitchy speedrun of Final Fantasy IV for the SNES dubbed

. Lots of unusual sequence breaking as it gets near the end.

[rRPC - The Remix Role-Playing Competition (Congratulations to Jason Covenant and evktalo)]

So if a character doesn't have a specific theme we could just use a song from the game?

If the song is associated with the character closely enough. For example, Cecil from FFIV does not have a theme that is specifically his own like Rydia or Golbez do, but the Red Wings theme is close enough to his character that it would be an acceptable alternative. So long as the theme in question has a simple, logical connection to the character (theme of the group he/she leads, a track that plays during a key point in his/her story, etc.), it should be fine.

[Crowdfunded Projects (Kickstarter, Patreon, etc.)]

LeVar Burton is using Kickstarter to fund a revival of Reading Rainbow. They already hit their million dollar goal in the first day but there's still a lot of time left to see that counter go twice as high (and then some!).

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I'm wondering about the whereabouts of the hype myself. I received sign-up number 11 earlier today though I need it resubmitted with the names of the intended character themes. Still got a long climb to get to that lofty 32 participants goal.

Also, since it got brought up, I should weigh in on the Zelda: RPG or not? subject. I do not consider the Legend of Zelda to be an RPG series, they are action/adventure with puzzle-solving elements. However, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link does contain quite a few RPG elements and would likely qualify as an action RPG by today's standards. If someone were to sign up as Link with the overworld theme from Zelda II as his theme (I can't think of any other tracks from the game that would fit better), I would probably give it a pass. But that's the only exception.

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If you could, I would appreciate it.

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I think the temptation was there, but most of us are choosing more diverse sources so that we can see more potential remixes of our source. I chose Fenix not because I can remix it best, but because I want everyone else to work on tracks for Golden Sun. A subtle nudge.

Speaking of Final Fantasy, are there any rules regarding that series? For instance, can there be one person remixing Kefka from FFVI while someone else does Zidane's theme from FFIX?

Oh yeah I definitely get you on that. That thought process was one of the driving forces that got me to start planning the rRPC.

Anyway, in regards to the Final Fantasy question, there are no special rules regarding FF that wouldn't apply to any other series.

Edit: Is that game an RPG? Also, the music would have to be original to the game and not from the cartoon since this is OCR. The deadline is midnight Eastern time on Friday, June 6th so you've still got time to think about it.

[TotalBiscuit has cancer]

I'm not a regular viewer of his videos or anything but I hope he manages to pull through. Cancer is a horrible thing for anyone to have.

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No worries man. It's all good and thank you for resubmitting the sign up list.

Inseparable pair.

Alright, thanks for clearing that up for me.

It's still early but I am amazed we haven't had a single Final Fantasy theme as a #1 pick yet. While I was still preparing the opening post for the compo, I was imagining half the line up being FF-related. I'm not in any way saying we need that much FF in the compo (but I'll take it if that's what people want to run with), I'm just pleasantly surprised by the selection we've had so far.

Keep 'em coming!

[Non-Sonic Sega games: what's your favorite?]

Skies of Arcadia is my number one favorite non-Sonic Sega game. Altered Beast was pretty fun back in the day and I've also liked what I've played of NiGHTS into Dreams after it was rereleased on the PSN. There's a whole album of awesome NiGHTS ReMix goodness and it's hard to narrow down that list.