Dafydd

lol 10 char EDIT: Yeah, this needs some humanization. Everything is very stiff, playing at the same velocities and perfectly in tempo most of the time. Fixing that could improve this. Also, hearing the same string/brass sample playing the same note 3 times in a row makes the fact that it's just a sample very obvious. Messing with the velocities could remedy this, I think.

Agreed. Though I really like the console icons - who made them?

He's already got all the help he deserves and more...

Haha, awesome. Though this would arguably sound better if played using Jeremy's current equipment... It was you who made that "what if Konami had made Duck Tales" nsf, wasn't it?

Ahahahah! 10 char

Then how are they going to introduce Will? As I remember it, the second book starts with Will, in our world. How are they going to present him to the audience without some crappy explanation, if the movie begins with Lyra and Lord Asriel stepping into our world? Will they just randomly run into him?

That soundtrack was good enough as it was. If it didn't have so much sci-fi stuff in it I'd use it with the Total War games as well.

Ok... I've seen it now. Like I suspected, I was disappointed. CONS: - Why did they change Iofur Raknison's name? I mean, what could possibly have been the reason? - Before the movie even began being made, there were rumors that Vin Diesel would play Iorek. I was so disappointed to hear Ian McKellen's voice when Iorek showed up. Not that I mind him at all, but he's an old man and he plays like he's doing Shakespeare all the time (which is what makes him so awesome in e.g. "Flushed Away", where they parodized this fact). Iorek should have sounded younger and more masculine. Diesel also has the voice to scream like a bear - they could have done without the sound effects if they'd picked him. - I thought Iorek was pronounced "I-uh-rek", and the fact that it wasn't is ok, I guess, but then when I'd gotten used to it being pronounced "Your-ek", there was definitely a tendency among some of the actors to say it as "You-rek", which sounds totally less-than-awesome. - Lyra has dark brown eyes while both her parents have bright blue. Ho-hum. - There's this scene where the snow looks really fake... - Everything happens too fast and incoherently, it's like the whole movie is made from cutouts... and more than once, it feels like some conversations are forced into a scene to explain something. Like when Serafina explains that witches get really old, or when Asriel walks in the snow, only to say "Svalbard...", in case the audience didn't get that already. It's not like someone would walk that far on a piece of land, climb mountains and shit, and then go say the place's name out loud - that's what you do when you first see it from a distance, like in an airplane when the clouds suddenly split and you can see the ground. - Pantalaimon and Lyra have almost the same voice, it's really difficult to tell who's saying what, especially when neither of them are on the screen, or have their faces turned away. - Lyra went to Bolvangar first, and then to the bears, but in the movie they switched it around for whatever odd reason. - Why did they leave out the ending? The first book leaves you on a real cliffhanger, but the movie doesn't leave you with the same urge to know the rest at all. And how are they going to begin the second movie, I wonder? Are they even going to make one? PROS: + Scoresby is pretty cool, even though he's a lot older than I imagined. + Kidman is awesome, both visually and acting-wise. + Nice music! Although it was kind of shamelessly dramatic sometimes. + Nice visuals all-round, and the architechture, especially in Oxford, was particularily impressive. The daimons were well rendered and looked pretty real most of the time. Lyra riding on Iorek's back was pretty ugly though... also, I'd pictured Iorek as being bigger. But that's just me. + Nice acting most of the time, I think, and Lyra was doing really well, too. Though my favorite was the nurse at Bolvangar - completely void of any remorse towards they children's suffering. + People spoke their own langauges - the Russians spoke Russian, the Svalbardians spoke Icelandic (I think?) and the Samoyeds probably spoke whatever it is they speak, too. Funny that the bears spoke English though. + They just had to throw in Christopher Lee playing a bad guy, didn't they? Hah! In other news, I don't really get the religion issue. And it's been so long since I read the books, I don't even remember what it is the Magisterium thinks they're doing cutting those children away from their daimons - what are they trying to achieve? Anyway, what the Magisterium is doing doesn't seem all that different to what the church tried to do in the middle ages. The religious people trying to ban this movie are just pathetic. What people should be more worried about is how it treats some peoples as "bad" (like the Russians and the Samoyeds) - things like that have caused outrage before (though I personally don't have a problem with it - it's just a movie for god's sake). Seems like being anti-religious is worse than being a racist. Wtf?

I played RCT with winamp playing something else in the background. It always caused the game palette to screw up though. And I remember I played Twisted Metal at a friend's house while listening to Scooter's "Fire".

I'm a choir bass, usually reaching down to D, sometimes all the way to A. Been taking classes about 5 hours a week for 10 years, performed (in a choir) in churches and on various stages. My favorite piece is probably Frank Martin's Mass. I'm not a very good solo vocalist though, but how many solo bass singers do you know of? I have decent recording equipment.

I'm seeing it tonight. I'm pretty sure it won't be as good as the books. I liked the whole trilogy. There was really nothing in the books that stood out as being impossible, just another possible explanation about how things really are. I like how he mixed religion, fantasy, our own present-time world and science fiction all into one story. The idea of God being a bad guy who took all the credit for creating the world was an interesting take on creation. I don't understand how anyone can say "don't see this movie" because it presents this other version. Seriously, does anyone think that the author believes he's telling the truth? That he wants to overthrow religion and god because he wrote a fantasy story about it? It's just a book, a big "what if". Like that other guy said, if your faith is so fragile that it can't take a little experiment like this, what's the use? That's like a girlfriend who says she loves you and who will dump you for being 5 minutes late for a date. Absolute crap. Also, I have a signed copy of one of the books and have met the author in person and shook hands (although he didn't seem all too happy to oblige with that last part, haha).

That last one looks really cool.

Anyone is free to work on their stuff, join, etc. This project is put on hold - that means I won't actively do anything or yell on anyone for not doing anything. If anyone does anything, that just makes me happy. It'd be nice to see something from you, DJ. I haven't given up on this... yet.

"Weihnachtsmann"... hahaha Over here we call him the Yule gnome...

The chord changes in the end are the same as in the original song, only that one lets you wait for them a lot longer. You need to keep going around in the menu constantly to get the music to play for that long (or else it will enter demo mode before the interesting stuff begins. You could sit and look at the victory screen, too, I think. since it has the same music and will stay until you push a button). Unfortunately, you can't do that with the intro theme, since both pressing any button and waiting will get you to the main menu. I'm sure it's longer in the game than what you get to hear. Shame. I, too, thought about alternating the intro and the menu themes, but I still don't really know how I should all do it. All I know is I'm going to move that speaking part to after the intro theme, so that the "game" echoes into the beginning of the main menu theme. What to put in between I don't really know, but if it's ever going to be a real song, it needs a breakdown somewhere and then a new buildup of some kind. So, you're Finnish, huh? Death Rally has some really sweet (but hard to remix) tunes. That's like the only Finnish game I know of (except the Max Payne series, which was made by the same guys).

Yeah, Zophar is a great place to find game soundtracks. There are more complete archives elsewhere, though, for example: http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/ http://snesmusic.org/ http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/ http://www.hcs64.com/usf/ http://project2612.org/ though that last one seems to be down atm.

This link works for you? http://www.ocremix.org/game/25/ That's what I get when clicking on ActRaiser in that list.

Is anyone aware of this? Browsing by songs, the game links are all dead. Also, browsing remixes by song length, there are a few that don't have any length listed. Also, this game boy game has a screenshot from the NES version.

Get chipamp, that way you can listen to all the old chiptunes (gameboy, NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis etc.). You can find NSF files in several places, try giving google a search for "nsf archive". Many of the games remixed here also have chiptunes here on ocr.

Thanks, Polo-pal.

Did you get an NSF plugin or did you get chipamp?

Hey, LT, you skipped my previous post (the one with the Game Boy Megamen).

Wow, I didn't know you could send rns files containing the sounds. That's nice. There used to be something named spctool that allowed you to rip sounds from spc files, but I never got it figured out...

No way, that game has a quality assurance badge on the cover. Nintendo wouldn't have accepted a bassline being a semitone too low. It must be an issue with your emulator or something. What? Now you can record it from the NSF (but now you don't need to, since... well, people can just listen to the NSF).

Too bad no one's ever managed to rip it...