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So, a recent e-email conversation reminded me that there are still a lot of people out there that just don't know that the community is bigger than just OCReMix. Sure some people know about KWED or VGMix, but even less know about R:TS or OLReMix, or even cover bands like ARM CANNON or Powerglove. This is a damn shame. We all owe a lot to djp and OverClocked ReMix for being the foundation of the community, but the community has grown much bigger than just OCR. ==================================== ReMix:ThaSauce A few years ago (a bit over 2 now) I decided it was time for another remixing site. Why? Well VGMix was down until further notice, and the bar at OCR has risen to a higher level. Now here is something that everyone needs to understand, because I don't think a lot of people do: OverClocked ReMix has fairly high standards as far as arrangements and quality goes. That's great. As a result OCR posts nothing but extremely high-quality songs. However, this means that OCR also rejects a lot of songs. It's easy to assume that any song that doesn't get on OCReMix probably didn't get on for a good reason, and from a submission standards viewpoint that is true, but from a general enjoyability standpoint that's not always the case. Sure, OCReMix gets a lot of submissions that are flat out crap, but there are a lot of songs that have small problems that the general listener base probably would overlook, or are too close to the original song and are thus more of a “cover” than a true “arrangement” (or fall somewhere in between). There's a long list of reasons why a song cannot get on OCReMix, and just because they don't get on in no way means they're bad. A good example of this is something close to what I heard on an episode of American Dad: "It's like [your music] is Arrested Development and [OverClocked ReMix] is America. It's not that [your music] is BAD, it's just that [OverClocked ReMix] isn't interested." This is to say, OCR has very specific guidelines that one must meet to be considered a "ReMix." It requires a certain level of arrangement, production, and all that jazz. That's cool, and that's OCR's thing. That's what's given OCR is reputation over the years for it's high quality mixes, and that's what makes sure OCR has a steady flow of good stuff. R:TS simply exists to broaden those guidelines in order to showcase more music. People pay to see live bands who have gotten denied to release their music for free on OCReMix (at least 1 of which is doing a national tour and has been invited to open a show for DragonForce). Professional composers doing covers of their own songs have been rejected from OCReMix. I don't think a lot of people realize this stuff, but it's a reality. Here are a few songs on R:TS that got rejected from OCReMix (or flat out wouldn't get on) for one reason or another: TechnoX - Chrono Cross 'She Was Dreaming in the Rain' http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0040/ http://www.ocremix.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-1752.html Cyan - Duck Tales 'Moon Beats' http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0005/ http://www.ocremix.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-3421.html And some of my favorite examples: Shnabubula - Final Fantasy VI 'Espergirl 2A03' http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0004/ http://www.ocremix.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-4024.html sephfire - Final Fantasy VII 'Speed Limit' http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0042/ http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4518 This is just a few of the songs on R:TS that didn't make it onto OCReMix, and if you're familiar with a lot of OCR's artists you'll see we get a lot of the same ones submitting here. All these songs are really cool and really fun to listen to...they just don't make it on OCR because their mastering isn't good enough, or their instrumentation is off, or (and most often) they're too close to the original tune. I have gotten permission to keep this thread updated with update from R:TS, so I'm going to continue to do so. ==================================== OverLooked ReMiX Back in 2005, sum n00b named Richter posted a thread here on OCR about a parody site for bad/parody music. This was in respect to the competition run by MC and SuperGreenX called BEER (Bloody Ears Extreme Remix) in 2003, in which the object was to make "crappy music" and was rated on "n00bish qualities and amusement factors." A year later, Trenthian created a contest called EAR (Egotistical Execreable Extreme Remix), which was basically a "let's try and revive BEER." It had a rough start, but then picked up and sustained for a year, and then went up in flames in true BEER fashion as the results were never posted for EAR92. Now, this isn't to say that EVERYTHING on OverLooked is horrible and unlistenable to. There are plenty of songs that are enjoyable and just silly, which is exactly what our goal is. We have a "Cream of the Crap" page, listing the highest rated songs we have on the site. (yes, you can rate our songs by the way!) Here's a list of interesting songs you probably didn't know we had: Wizards in my Armor (Warrior in my Longjohns) This is the first version of the OCR version. Toyota Disco What? Liontamer made a remix that isn't Pigskin Power? Da Black Market That's right; this remix is so epic it broke the time-space continuum. yoshi's island moose analoq proves that sometimes, all you need is your mouth to make a catchy, amazing remix. So come on over, and enjoy the blood running from your ears. Also check out OLRmageddon, our only competition and the general store that is keeping our forum board from being a ghost town. ========================= Anime Remix Anime Remix was started back in 2002 by DJ Carbunk1e, now known as Xaleph, and is currently the only site specifically meant for hosting arrangements and remixes of songs from animation around the world. We currently host over 90 [what 90?!?!] remixes and arrangements, and one album. Our most popular event year after year has been the Anime Remix Halloween Remix Competition, hosted by yours truly (soc) where people enter awesome scary tunes. some of our work includes.... anime chipdisk vol 1 Misa No Uta (blackaurora mix) our newest mix [surasshu is awesome] and some... less serious songs (But still good!) Thunder Thunder Thunder Thunder Cats Matt's currently working heavily on the site, while at the same time working as a secret agent for the government and caring for two super-cute half-asian babies, so some things are not solid yet. ========================= Until I can get blurbs: Remix.Kwed.Org - http://remix.kwed.org/ VGMix - http://www.vgmix.com/ Dwelling of Duels @ VGMix - http://dod.vgmix.com/ AmigaRemix - http://www.amigaremix.com/ Powerglove - http://www.vgmetal.com/ OneUp Studios - http://www.oneupstudios.com/ etc, etc, etc... I'm gonna edit this thread with more info later on...since I have school like now. Remember to support your greater arrangement community!

I just caught this while adding people to ThaSauce MySpace. SO amazing.

I was avoiding it because I didn't want someone to throw a fit and ask you to change it.

Where the white women at?!

http://www.ocremix.org/images/site/oldversions/version03.jpg I think both OCR3 and OCR4 need to spend a bit more time in the sun =P.

OH NO HE DIDN'T. Insert darma....now.

She also sits on IRC all day, that's gotta knock her down to AT LEAST 40%

I kind of would like to think that they wouldn't make such a big deal out of this announcement if it were just a direct port. I mean...there has GOT to be something phenomenally new to show...right?

I'm yet to see proof of that.

Same here.

Oh boy. I can't wait to pay $40 to play a game that's over a decade old again for like the 6th time. Utter joy.

Did a quick fix to remove the white. Main page still looks a little jacked, and doesn't look like I'm going to be able to remove that Google ad anymore, S'OH WELL, but userstyles is over bandwidth (with just text? o.o) so you gotta paste the code manually: @-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.ocremix.org/) { [COLOR="DarkGreen"]/* === QUICK FIX === */[/COLOR] div.tab-container { background-color: #000 !important; background-image: url() !important; } div.tab-panel-br, div.tab-panel-bl, div.tab-panel-tl, div.tab-panel-tr { background: url() !important; padding: 0 !important; } div.tab-panel { background: #000 !important; } } Just make a whole new style, and paste this into it. It should fix things.

I call bullshit on that one. First off XP barely fucntions if you don't have 512 MBs of RAM, and I honestly wouldn't run it with less than 768 ANYWAY, so Vista needing a gig really isn't that outlandish. Especially since RAM costs pennies now a days. The Crysis / Vista thing is bullshit, and if it's NOT, you're doing it wrong. My PC can barely run Portal at minimum settings but runs Vista fine. THIS...ugh. You're going to complain about the compatibility about a program made by 1 guy to hack your PSP not working on Vista and call compatibility issues? Cool. Here's one for you: I BOUGHT a popular OS X skinning program that now that doesn't work since I upgraded for Leopard because Apple broke the whole coding environment. And Ubuntu is FREE and "easy to use" but if you wanna talk about compatibility problems...yea good luck having a good range of software choices with that one. Linux really has no place in this conversation. Yea, I put Ubuntu or gOS on every computer I build for my family members, but that's because they only listen to music, browse the internet, and chat on AIM. They really have no business installing a bunch of other crap so that way I don't have to go in and clean out their computer once a month; becuase they can't figure out how to install anything. Makes my life way easier.

yeaaa, I quit using the theme until like 3 days ago for some reason and forgot. I'll get it in tomorrow. should be easy.

Don't make me do it a 3rd time. THRICELY noted would be turning it to 11.

dually noted

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QFT. I haven't seen all these "bugs" and "compatibility issues." In fact, the only people I've heard of that have compatibility issues are people using pretty specialized hardware/software. The average user shouldn't have any trouble with compatibility. It seems to me that the people griping about Vista most often are people who've either NEVER used it, or just used it for a short ammount of time. I've been on it since launch and I honestly see no reason to ever go back to XP. I've actually had WAY LESS problems with Vista than I had with XP over the years.

Vista hates all things audio...that's the only real problem I've found. Otherwise I've NEVER had a problem, and my hardware isn't even all that great... It DID come with free 512MBs of RAM when I bought it, though...and that helped a LOT, lol. And, to Dyne, the only reason I use my MacBook more frequently now is because it plays WoW at Max settings, and all my addons, with 40FPS, I like Adium better than Trillian, and my MacBook can handle my iTunes library where as NOTHING on my PC can handle my music library over there...

And a PC with Vista on it? AND NO PROBLEMS. ZOMG.

q.q Most people who cry about Vista don't even have a legitimate reason to not like it, and it's getting old.

From the petition: From reality:

I stick to strickly to NewZealand, and I don't remember ever having an issue. I actually connect to NewZealand because the other servers had an issue with my router not having port forwarding for IDENTD

It actually has a lot of similarities to the Morrowind soundtrack as far as the soundscape goes.