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I was just about to post with that: http://ocremix.org/artist/4391/lazygecko

Box and Dropbox are just file storage... they shouldn't be transforming your files in any way. When you're playing them back on your computer, are you playing them in the same software before as after downloading? Your DAW may be playing them louder than Media Player etc.

Hey, that's cool that you tagged the ones that made it into mixposts, although especially in the case of "Charge!", the compo and final versions are significantly different.

That being said, nothing says that the lyrics you go with have to be anything like the original in cases like this.

Just updated all the links (old seasons and new). Enjoy! Also, watch this forum for Season 3, launching early next month!

Nice! Mad improvements over the original! That's a lot of hard work that really paid off. ReMixing With the Stars will be returning next month! Anyone who could use a leg up getting their mix quality up to this level, or is willing to help others do so, keep an eye out! (Oh, and I'm fixing all my old dead links now.)

You should poke Dale North to do some Diamonds In My Heart. Lunar: SSSC and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue have only one mix each. Legend of Mana has zero. Get 'em on the list!

Nice. Simple and effective use of the two sources. I'll be using this as something to make my own remixes like.

Idle question, since we just hit 3K remixes, and I noticed that some of the staff picks from The AV Club's interview were a bit lo-fi: Of the first 1000 ReMixes, about how many would you estimate would pass the panel if they were submitted today?

1) Rosalina 2) The King of All Cosmos 3) Purple Tentacle

Did you two coordinate those choices? They positively scream to be used together. I so wish I had time for remixing these days.

Sometimes I need to listen to a remix a few times, mull over whether to add it to my collection. This was not one of those times. Straight into my daily playlist. I even use it for A/B comparisons for my own electronic mixes. I still think the usage of Stone Man is too subtle for the context of the compo, but it's an awesome piece of music.

Main Finger chose him for the WCRG 2011. This one is offline, but Bundeslang should still have it somewhere.

Nice. I didn't know most of the sources, but lots of fun. I particularly liked the bassy PS1 boot. I wonder what the judges would say if someone submitted a remix based entirely on music from the consoles themselves, rather than any games? Could include the snail maze game built into the Sega Master System....

I did think the intro was too long, personally. I like the idea, but the Mega Man series just has too many games to make it work. Especially considering how short the remix source is and how little it's used. The initial saw is so simple and so exposed, and so far removed from the original, it sounds like someone just kind of screwing around on a keyboard they took out of the closet. It's just unpleasant. If you pretended this started at 1:08, it's not bad. An intro, a warmup, some solid beats. Not very recognizable as a remix (I hear the influence, but it's very liberal), but enjoyable. There are some fun house-style things you can do with a very short source to make it interesting but recognizable (risers, sweeps, etc.), play around with it.

As long as you don't directly sample any of the original soundtrack, and you aren't selling your remixes for money, you shouldn't have a problem. (And only Square Enix has a problem with the former.) Certainly just getting your remixes posted to OCR is perfectly fine.

Will should go ahead and make a remix for anterroir anyway. Remixes only take him, what, 20 minutes? An hour if he plans to send it to the panel?

If everyone names their files properly, tagging should only take a few minutes no matter how many there are. You shouldn't be tagging files individually anyway. MP3Tag or the equivalent is essential for any compo organizer (not using ThaSauce, anyway).

I'm excited! I'll see if I can get a mix ready to post in the new Workshop by the time it goes live.

You could write some code that parses one of the site's feeds and pulls out the number of the most recent remix on the list. Wouldn't be that hard.

This is for ages 10 and up. I wouldn't recommend it for younger kids just because they wouldn't appreciate it.

Or to be more modern: Settlers of Catan, Carcasonne, Dominion, Forbidden Island, Tsuro of the Seas, etc., etc.Brandon actually has a good, if tongue-in-cheek point, that "violence solves everything" is a problem even in cartoony games. It's less a problem than in realistic ones, and less likely to generalize to reality, but a healthy dose of cooperative games, and story-rich ones where your protagonist is genuinely good-hearted, can only be a good thing. You can't really be a gamer parent and avoid cartoon violence, though--the games are just so darn good! Classic Mario and Zelda need to be on the list (at least one 2D and 3D of each). Pokemon probably doesn't have to be mentioned, but it should be in their repertoire. I'd also include Super Metroid, Myst, Portal 1 & 2, Plants vs. Zombies, and Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, and X.

Nothing from me this week after all. I could have worked on it, but instead I chose to: - Assemble a crib - Replace a window screen - Watch all of No Game No Life - Play through almost all of Papers, Please I may still do the remix I had in mind at some point, but I really have to start questioning whether it's the best use of my time.