KyleJCrb

For those who are interested in the history of and learning some more answers regarding the OCR Kickstarter, Larry and I talked about it on our radio show for a bit here: http://kngi.org/p=3915

And now you're on the project! Nice work!

From my discussion with Liontamer, the rewards aren't set in stone and the staff is trying to figure out ways to make them better with the extra funding. Based on your numbers, the additional reward that is being hinted at on the Kickstarter update page is going to push the value of the $50 reward they're giving up OVER that price point, which means that if your numbers are correct, they'll be taking a small loss. It's in the pop-out under this question in the FAQ on the bottom of the page: Will I be able to buy the album some other way, after the Kickstarter is over?

Yeah, he had a good arc. But dat Toph, man...

Also, like Avatar: The Last Airbender. The second season was amazing. Mostly because of Toph, but still.

uses real guitar and sounds much better overall anyway.HOWEVER, I talked to brentalfloss about OCR some time ago and he's not really interested in submitting more songs beyond what he already has, sadly.

I actually do agree on the $50 price point being a little bit high, for the record, but there are also packaging and shipping costs to consider; not only for shipping them out to the people that want one but also the shipping costs of getting them from the printing company to whoever is shipping them out (presumably zircon himself.) It's outlined on the Kickstarter page.

Really? This is the first time OCR has done a Kickstarter. Usually album printing costs are covered by private donations, and then the extra albums themselves are ALWAYS given away; never sold, and never with a huge banner on the front page that says "send $8 to reserve your copy!" OCR didn't expect this huge level of support and nobody was setting out to line their pockets under false pretenses. They very clearly posted an estimation of approximately how much they would need to do the printing and mailing, with a tiny bit left over for studio work. So is it suddenly OCR's fault that people wanted to show their support and continue to donate despite the earnings trouncing the initial goal? It's pretty clear that they are well past what they will ever need to create the album, yet people are STILL backing the Kickstarter. You can't blame OCR for that, nor can you blame the dozens of other Kickstarters that have also massively and unexpectedly exceeded their original goals. Look, for all you VV guys out there: Do you want to try a Kickstarter? I know the album is almost a year old and the hype has died down, but if you guys want to do a Kickstarter and get some physical copies made up, get over to the KNGI forums and let's talk about it.

I am not uncomfortable with VV and am proud to host it. The way the donations were going to be handled was my only concern. As for the respect thing, maybe you should take your own advice. EDIT: I should also mention that this isn't the first time OCR has done a fundraiser for donations to receive physical copies of albums, but it was done privately. In fact, I think I even suggested the same method for VV, but we never went for it.

VV probably wouldn't have been breaking records or anything, that much is true. But, there was concern expressed on where any potential extra costs would've gone. I distinctly remember kicking around ideas for some time on what we would do in that case, and we never did get it nailed down. I made it very clear from the get-go that, since my name was in fact on the album, the way donations were being handled wasn't something I was comfortable with. Kickstarter would've been a great venue to go with it; create some rewards, make it obvious what we're doing and, if necessary, come up with stretch goals and additional rewards if the funding exceeded the target. However, the original idea was for a set amount for the album ($8; which was being misleadingly called a "donation") being taken by a private entity with no stretch goals in place. Even if the OCR discussion about this had never entered the picture, I STILL wouldn't have been comfortable with it, especially since Chernabogue contacted Kinuyo Yamashita before the album was released and her very first concern was whether the album was being sold or not.

Cry me a river, dude. Vampire Variations print run wasn't a Kickstarter: it was a set price of $8 per album in the guise of a "donation." Outside of the cost of the print run and mailing, what were they donating to? At KNGI, we discussed it internally for months, and during that time I even expressed some serious concern over it because I didn't feel comfortable with anyone pocketing donation funds (this was before the discussion at OCR even happened, if I remember correctly,) and we never could figure out what to ethically do if the donations exceeded the cost of the print run. I honestly have no idea if each album would've even actually been $8 to both print and ship, and there was no indication of where any extra funds would go. In this case, OCR is a central organization that is receiving the money to use for bonus materials, additional rewards, overhead, upkeep, bandwidth, etc. etc. and it's transparently obvious that is where the Kickstarter money is going, which is why people keep continuing to make donations even when it's patently obvious that they're not going to be able to use all of the funds on the FF6 album. Maybe if Kickstarter had been a thing we knew about back when VV was released, we could've utilized it and had more transparency with rewards for donations. Otherwise, we had no way of making potential extra money work out.

I hope djp uses it to get a new Ferrari. At the rate it's going they'll probably end up with enough.

Dreams Come True rearranged a few Sonic songs later on (meaning after Masato Nakamura stopped composing for the series,) as well. Green Hill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4CXfhqBI8 Star Light - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyZAuEG4yho Labyrinth (sort of) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxnsbWTRtc Chemical Plant (sort of) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvyg4KlJ8Yw Sonic 2 Final Boss - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzhFFbUcOis Mash-up versions:

Getting pissed off, throwing a public tantrum, and leaving a community because you didn't get invited to a private remix project is some childish and immature bullshit. There's thousands of other people out there who make quality music that weren't invited either. I have huge lists of people that I wanted to invite to my projects but never could or did for one reason or another. What makes one person so much more special above all of them?

Sent out an email to the project folks today. Basically, if your name is red on that tracklist, I want to see a listenable WIP by July 31st. I wanna get all of the red off of that list. We've gotta pick up the pace if the album is going to come out this Fall!

As someone who directed one of the albums that probably falls under that criteria, I will reply to this. Yes, there were a lot of quality control issues with some of the earlier compilations released through OCR several years ago, Summoning of Spirits \being one of them. However, I feel that almost all of the albums released since the implementation of album standards and reviewing have been very consistent and much better quality, and every album since Echoes of Betrayal has been damn solid across the board in my mind. Not that the earlier albums should be discounted (it was, after all, Blood on the Asphalt that got OCR the gig to compose Street Fighter II HD ReMix, and it's honestly showing its age a bit at this point) but I have thoroughly enjoyed every album released over the last several years and have been very impressed at how much album quality has improved.

Or, y'know, a certain album about adolescent shelled reptiles that know martial arts. Wait wait wait wait. WAT.

It's not GYM either (even though GYMs suck), but I think Project2612 more than covers your Genesis music needs.

No, this is a different project that began as a private endeavor. Prophecy's public FF6 project moved over to the KNGI forums, but it seems to have stalled out as of a few months ago and there hasn't been any activity. That's zircon.

Pretty funny that it costs more to ship the damn things than it does to make them.

http://project2612.org/ http://nsf.joshw.info/ http://slickproductions.org/nsfe.php http://www.tzone.org/~llin/psf/ http://www.hcs64.com/usf/ http://www.caitsith2.com/gsf/ http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/ http://www.smspower.org/Music/VGMs http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/ http://asma.atari.org/ http://www.chipamp.org/links/ and http://www.8bittoday.com/articles/27/8bit-music-preservation have most of these and more.

It is a rock project, but rest assured that there will still be a bit of variety within that scope. Also, I changed the tracklist around a little bit. I moved Try Harder and High Score to a list of non-essential but still welcome source tunes (mostly jingles and really short loops that I left out of the list originally.) If anyone wants to tackle a non-essential source or include it in their existing remix, go for it!

You can still buy things from the XBLA store without a Gold account.

The best part of that Karaoke Mode was the video that came out of it.

Given the choice, I vastly prefer the latter.