jnWake   Judges ⚖️

It is true that the appeal of the site are the remixes, denying so would be absurd. However, there are still key differences from how the YouTube approach works to how the website one does, both in perception and in how money is generated. First is that the website links everything as a community. The website isn't just the remixes and even each remix's page has much more than just the music. Each remix has a great write-up by djp, comments made by users in the thread forum, a direct link to the artists' OCR page (which in turn links to the artists' Twitter, YouTube or whatever info that appears), links to OCR's site for the game where the sources come from (which in turn link to the composers of the source material), OCR's site for the source (which links to other remixes of the same source) and maybe more that I'm missing. The YouTube video for each remix has the video which is music plus the same video for every remix and the video's description which is pretty much the same for every remix, indicating the artist, sources and many links to OCR social media. Second is that YouTube videos have views. Hence, there's a completely direct link between what each individual artist does and the money it generates. This distinction very clearly does not exist on the OCReMix website. When someone goes to www.ocremix.org you have no easy way of telling what the purpose of that person was. Unless you have access to Google Analytics you have no idea which remixes (or remixers) generate more traffic. And, even then, each remix's page has enough information and content that it's more than just the remix. Perception is clearly a big part of why some people feel uncomfortable with this but you can't simply say Perception != Reality because they are not the same, regardless of how much you try to reduce it. EDIT: Also, just in case, this isn't about me being bothered by OCR making money instead of me or anything like that. I don't make remixes for money and like supporting the site. I'm just trying to point out why this model could generate issues for users.

I think what makes website ads different from YouTube ads is that the YouTube ones are directly linked to the artist and not much else. The only relevant part of OCReMix's YouTube uploads is the remix, which links the money directly to the artists. When the ad is on the website, it's harder to link the money to the artists and instead it feels like the money goes directly to the website. I don't have a defined opinion about this (and only have 1 posted remix haha) but I can see why it would bother some people since this way it feels like your work is directly generating money while it didn't feel that way before. Regarding the ads themselves, I recently listened to some of the newest remixes and didn't notice the ads. I probably had ad block though... Either way, if there are going to be ads in the videos, I feel they should be the ads that just show a message instead of those video ads that play before a video. The latter ones are obnoxious as hell.

This is pretty good. I'm surprised you managed to make a 5 minute arrangement of a source that seems to be just one melody that changes key. Love the samples used and how dynamic the arrangement is.

Nice symphonic metal or whatever this style is called! Guitar playing is sick and I love the organ and choirs. Love how powerful the arrangement and mixing is and how you blended the sources, I didn't even notice it was more than Dancing Mad until I read the description.

Kinda surprised this has no comments. I'm not the biggest EDM fan but the bass alone deserves a like here!

It's nice to hear remixes of the other Dr. Wily theme, since it's pretty good. Awesome arrangement by the way, love how it expands on the simple idea behind the source by adding more harmonies, more percussions and more melodies.

I'm not a longtime Metroid fan but I've played through a chunk of the franchise these past few years: Super Metroid, Prime 1, 2 and 3 and Other M. I'm now playing Fusion. So far I've liked all of them with Prime 3 and Super Metroid being my favourite.

No hate but this part made me lol.

Thanks Damned! OCR community has been great in giving me codes so far. If there's ever a Chile event (LOL) I'll get codes for you haha.

Yep, North America for Nintendo related purposes (geographically in South America of course). My account is Canadian either way since Chile has no eShop haha.

If you do it'd be awesome. It's impossible to get them here in Chile.

Lol once again I'm here to ask for a code... If anyone has an Arceus code I'd really appreciate it.

One of my tracks has been ready since 2013 haha. The other two I left in hiatus when the project started dwindling.

I wonder what's the progress on this. I want to do some small revisions to my track but I have no clue about the deadlines haha.

Looks cool. I have many NES games on VC though so I'm not sure I'll bite.

Awesome remix! I kinda wish the guitars had more palm mutes and stuff though.

I agree with Neblix's first opinion here. Composition is the most important part, considering that composition isn't just the "melodies and chords" part of the music creating process. Also, I personally love writing music but don't enjoy the mixing/mastering part that much sadly. I wish I loved it haha.

What exactly does the Custom Knight do? The Shovel Knight amiibo is damn cool but they charge way too much for it here in Chile (like US$40 haha).

Nice! Any plans for a finish date? There's a track I haven't even begun yet (woops).

Way too quiet sadly. RECKENEFIN has contacted us by e-mail a few times but has been silent for a while.

Awesome! I should work harder on my tracks then... Why aren't days longer ;_;

I've never donated to OCR so I can sort of make it up by buying this I guess haha. Btw, does the OCR promo code still work?

Actually, Ganondorf is mentioned in ALttP. According to the Zelda wikia, a maiden mentions him as a thief who turned into Ganon.

IIRC the Wind Waker says the hero didn't even show up so this wouldn't be possible. There wasn't a hero who failed, there was simply no hero. People on the internet noted that the Rock Salt item Mirby mentioned was found in a mountain which is a weird place for it to be... unless it used to be part of the ocean.

It has to be before/after Wind Waker since Koroks appear. People also noted that the Old Man resembled the King of Hyrule from WW but that's probably coincidental.