TheVideoGamer

My post above kind of explains it. It's usually a 2 day extension, followed by an announcement if nothing happens.

Well technically there would be an extension (For about 2 days), and if nobody submits (In the extension), the person automatically wins. However since i didn't legally authorise any extension (Via OCR), it's been more of a delay/haitus thing than a lack of entries thing. It's all sorted now, although i wouldn't really do this often, because i'm trying to be as ethical as possible, but i feel we need to get things back on track, so it's the most viable option for the time.

Just noticed this now, thanks for the heads up. It's fixed.

Hey guys a few things: First an obvious one. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and soon to be new year. I enjoyed mine. Hopefully next year will be a good one. Second: Obviously where the hell have i been? Well i'm going to bring you a bit of slightly unfortunate news. Throughout Christmas i've been having an on and off relationship with my internet, and not long ago was the final straw. The whole of my internet blacked out, and i've been working through the clock to get it fixed. Now everything is up and running, which is awesome, so that's means it's no longer bad news. It does mean i had to have days without internet, so i couldn't talk to you guys. Also since it's Christmas i have a lot of stuff planned, so i wasn't able to have full access to my computer, and i was too busy to check the phone, so i had to work with the limitations as a result. Right now, i have a free day to use my computer and hopefully sort it out. It's also when i noticed only 1 official entry and a bonus, so i snagged something in, i had already worked on before i had left for one of my trips. Hope you guys were ok with my absence. Everything from now on should be smooth. So what's the future then? Since i've added mine in, the voting will go on as normal. The difference being, i've accommodated for my absence, so the voting ends on the 5th of January, than the intended date. The person who wins will get to pick one for MnP131. I said 131 here, because i'm planning a new year celebration round. Keep out for that. I don't need you to PM me or anything, you'll see the round as it's created. Don't worry, it's not ready yet, more info will be released soon. All other rounds are as normal, apart from that one, so nothing will be out of the ordinary, and hopefully since it's January i will be active pretty much as full time as i can be. So don't panic, i haven't abandoned or left Compo, i've just had a few hiccups and celebrations to go through. Anything else to add? Nope i think that's it. I want to extend a huge thank you to those who have stuck with my absence. Being gone a while makes a person very confused, so hopefully all works out for the future. Much love to you guys! Alright, ima post the voting stage now.

? Aww Thanks. It’s more complex than you think, but still a fun one to do.

You guys are far too fast for me to handle haha.

lol it's seriously a fun game, and this isn't coming from a fanboy!

Dam that was quick! Not long after the last round went into voting.

I'm the same, both sources are really good. But surprisingly might work in a key change or something. Ideas are endless lol.

To be fair, a lot of NES soundtracks used the triangle channel as a melody source, than a bassline, and that's kind of what made them sound so great.

I got something in at the last 30 minutes. Good luck all!

Minor to Major is a thing Lovely choices both of you!

Congrats HarlemHeat 360! (As well as Wassup Thunder in Round 127) Next round is up!

Compo: MnP (Meat 'n Potatoes) Congratulations to Wassup Thunder for winning MnP127 and HarlemHeat360 for winning the MnP128 Spooktober Special! As a result of the special, which involved selecting some sources, Wassup Thunder moved his source pick to this round, which also contains HarlemHeat's pick, since he won the special. As a result, they both chose their own source for this month's MnP source! Here's Wassup Thunder said about his pick: "got another NES chiptune source for us: Silicon Forest/Forest Labyrinth from The Guardian Legend (I think one's the Japanese name and the other's the English name, I dunno.) The Guardian Legend was a game that combined isometric adventuring with top-down schmup action with some rpg elements (this song is the theme for the forest isometric area). It had some outstanding qualities and some downs, but sadly the game's company is defunct so the franchise is ded But the soundtrack has some very nice melodies that lets it live on through remixers like us! A lot of my first OCR downloads were remixes of this game, and this song is among my favorites. It's short, and I look forward to hearing everyone's personal spins on this!" - Wassup Thunder GAME: The Guardian Legend (NES) SOURCE: Forest Labyrinth VIDEO: And here's what HarlemHeat360 had to say about his/her's pick: "Hey there, my source choice is Rosenkranz from Saga Frontier 2. I can't find a midi online but I have one one I extracted from a PSF on my PC and can give it sometime tomorrow. The reason why I picked this is because it's beautiful haha. Really it touches on something special about music and I can't quite put my finger on it. It somehow sits in this special category in my head of "I want to make music like this." An exclusive place of varying genres and complexities but all simply beautiful. I'm hoping through others interpretation of this piece I can maybe find out more of what it is exactly about this piece that makes me wanna make the same thing." - HarlemHeat360 GAME: Saga Frontier 2 (PlayStation 1) SOURCE: Rosenkranz VIDEO: Deadline: 13th December @ 1PM Closing Date: 15th December @ 1PM Vote Ends: 22nd December @ 1PM MnP ARCHIVE - made by Trism submit: https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/MnP129 MISSION STATEMENT The goal of Compo:MnP is to promote that "meat and potatoes" conservative approach to remixing: this includes the mood and composition of source tunes. It is up to the remixer to create their own personalization, or to simply give it a sound upgrade. Moreover, the compo is a great opportunity to hone your remixing skills and give video game music the respect that is due. SOME reinterpretation is recommended, but not required. MnP Instructions/Guidelines Rules for Picking a Source: All video game sources are limited to the 6th generation of video game consoles and earlier. This was due to community consensus, where people preferred to remix more retro games, than newer games. 6th generation includes: GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and Dreamcast. I'm now restricting big name franchises (Such as Zelda and Mega-Man) to one source per year. This is to encourage more obscure games, that not many people will know about to be picked. Make sure you provide me both a video and a MIDI of the source in question. Note: This is subject to change. Also keep an eye out, if any special rounds come into fruition. Guidelines: Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent. If you're gonna do a genre change, at least make sure the original aspect of the source is not lost. Tempo changes are fine, as long as it's not a big change. I'm talking like, going from 80bpm to 140bpm. Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max), and submitted as a MP3 file. Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry. Try to avoid making quality-based comments on submissions until after the Round is concluded. It is to avoid a Bias in Votes. MISC/TIPS - When picking a source tune, make sure it has a MIDI to make people's lives easier. - In-game sound FX are permitted, so long as they don't comprise the whole track (i.e. replacing entire MIDI tracks with just sfx)

No worries, not everyone can vote it's ok. You are always welcome to share feedback if you want. Take care!

Lol apparently i submitted a bonus song. I guess it's a weird win haha. Source has arrived your way.

Results In 1st place with 14 points: HarlemHeat360 In joint 2nd place with 11 points: Wassup Thunder & The Vodou Queen In 3rd place with 9 points: Coloradoweeks In joint 4th place with 7 points: Souperion and Kat In 5th place with 4 points: General Grunt And the last place hero with 3 points: APZX Nobody created a bonus mix. HarlemHeat360 please PM me with your source pick for Round 129. You are going to share a slot with Wassup Thunder in MnP129's Double Dose round. Ideally for next week (Roughly the 24th November) Next round will be a Double Dose round. 2 sources for the price of one! Congrats to everyone who participated, you peeps did great! Awesome turnout this round, 8 entries! That's a huge number. Comments: APZX - Ok i'm using this section to finally muster up and review this monster entrant of yours. Although MnP doesn't really have rules in regards to track length as such, this one to me personally did come out as excessive. I'm all for 15-20 minute entries, especially if needed (And done well), but 30 minutes is way too much for me (And personally, after being here for quite some time, and looking at a lot of past rounds on all the compo's, you are quite possibly a record setter for the longest submission on ThaSauce period). This isn't a dig at your entry, it's a bit of...say concern for how long it is. But hopefully that shouldn't be a dampener on my comments. Anyways time for me to take a look at this, and properly articulate my thoughts. Since you've pretty much remixed every source, while telling a story, i feel it's appropriate to break it down source by source: Ok first off, the dialogue are spot on. The effects on your voice is amazing, and the way you paced the story is fantastic. Now i have heard of the story, but i haven't invested the time into reading it, because i'm not a big Creepypasta nerd. But i did look into it, and the ending got me, not so much it was scary, i don't often get scared, but it was a seriously good twist. The story plays out like an internet forum conversation so it's kind of easy and effective to have the replies come in varying degrees. I like that it's not all sudden. but rather the reply comes maybe after a source remix. The big criticism however of the dialogue, is that the music doesn't give the voice chance to breath. When i hear one of the source remixes (As kind of background music), in contrast to your voice, i find it hard to make out what you are saying. When i have the text with me, it does sort of make it easier, but i still can't really hear your voice as such. The good news is that when a source remix comes in (At full volume), you don't speak, so it's great to hear each remix clearly. I also love you took each source in a different approach, i wasn't hearing the same style for each, and how you progressed with the story was also really good too. You kept it chilling without any sudden cuts, and i especially like how this wasn't just a remix album, but rather you made each source a part of the story, that was really good. I could go on further, but i feel like i need to discuss each source remix individually as each one was done in a different approach. Ghosts n' Goblins: Great piano work in this one, really makes it feel like it belongs in Micky Mania or some kids show, it's very light, but very spooky. This is the kind of source that could work with big drums, in a rock kind of remix/or synthpop thing. It's a great opener, but could be developed a bit into like a 2-3 minute part (Which is funny, because the whole thing is long as it is lol). Nice work on that! Spinal's Theme: This is very electronic, and reminds me of some kind of hip-hop trap song. The original orchestral version is almost given a full 180 in this. Great drum line, and the spooky voices give it a bit nice clarity, although i don't like the excessive delay tails that they come with, it distracts me from the music. I do like the bass in this one a lot, it's very thick and deep and and really makes me groove. I do miss a bit of the melody in this, the basslines get a bit too much attention in contrast to the rest, but i do like this idea a lot. Great job on this source! Damned: This just suddenly comes in without warning. I feel it needs to be transitioned in. The whole thing could have smooth transitions to really allow the story to come to life. Although i've said it isn't just a remix album, i do feel parts get close to that, because there isn't really any dynamics or fade outs to slowly anticipate the music coming in. The one thing i love in this source rework is the pad and piano combo, it's not only super spooky, but it really adds depth to what is essentially just solo piano. The pad is thick enough to really make it stand out. The voice in this is really hard to decipher, the music is too aggressive for the voice, but as a whole lovely work on this section. Mad Forest: Lots of similarities in instrument usage, however not everyone has the tools to make rock music or orchestral (Like me), so i understand. Great drums in this, almost like a balance of synthpop and electronica. In this one, you repeat the main melody a bit, which is fine, but i do feel that it doesn't feel like a smooth way of building you up into the source. While i do like the drums, i feel bigger beats are needed to match the intensity of the synths. The basslines and melodies are lovely here, great choice of sounds. It's still got a lovely spooky atmosphere that fits the source perfectly, which a lot of these remixes do very well. Great work on this! Dead Sea: The music immediately starts when the voice cuts off. Well ok, it starts a little earlier, but it's still there. Personally i would fade in the music to account for a smoother transition, but that's just me. Great ambience here, very haunting, and the plucks resonate well in this one. The spooky stabs also seem to add a layer of darkness, cementing this as a mix of electronic Castlevania and orchestral horror music. This one so far is my personal favourite, because it's the best mixed, and the most fitting in the horror music line-up. It does need a bit of polish, as do all of the parts, but the idea was great, and it was again my personal favourite of the bunch so far (I'm reviewing this as i go along) Great work on this! Ceremony: The story sounds awesome when there is no music, and just silence. Not only is the tension heightened, but your voice is very clear, and it works almost like a narration. This should be a staple throughout the whole piece. I like how you managed to transform a lot of the electronic elements into almost expressive orchestral sounds. This one feels almost sparkly, while still retaining a dark undercurrent. It's like something happy is trying to get in, but yet can't i love it. The impact of the drum is a nice touch, keeps it from being a single pad line, but a full almost ritual in a sense. The melody sounds like gamelan's in the original, and was created in a way to be almost like a clear chant/ostinato. In this remix, it gets blurred as a series of long reverbs and decay's, which is great for originality sense, but for me i like the original idea in a sense better. It fits that spiritual feel more, and is just more clearer in a sense. I guess taste is personal. Great work on this though! Concrete Cave: This is what we call the Jazz piece, and already i can sense you opted to go for that 80's FM bass and drum-machine. A wise choice, it feels like your amplifying the jazz, but also the electronic parts. I am feeling at this point, that i could do with maybe some acoustic instruments, in the sense that nearly every track feels like an electronic arrangement. Now i do feel a bit hypocritical to say that, because nearly every remix i do, primarily features electronic instruments, and i do know how difficult it is, to gain access to acoustic instruments. I don't hate the all electronic approach, i just feel it might maybe give it a bit of contrast who knows. The main melody in particular could work on a Saxophone or a reed instrument. As of now it doesn't feel as expressive as it could be, but again that might be me. All in all though, great work on this! Gothic Neclord: Another case of where the voice stops, and the music comes in. This kind of goes into my critique of the whole thing not being as smooth as it could be. Although i love all tracks and approaches here, if i've got to be honest, this is the weakest so far. There is a weird bit of distortion going on that i don't feel is intentional, specifically when the bass comes in, and the organ doesn't feel like it belongs there, even though it's necessary. I like when the drums come in, although i do find it interesting to use rock drums, maybe i'm used to a more dance beat for this. The drums sound great when you reboot the tune, but then the bass reduces it to background noise. The whole thing still sounds really good, and like i said, some people might think differently. All in all, great work on this! Haunted House: Didn't even get a chance to let the last source fade out lol. Already into spooky choir territories, alongside some really cool piano work. Apart from the Damned remix, this might be my favourite use of the piano in your composition/journey so far. It keeps the momentum going, while still keeping the whole thing creepy. I also like the background FX, it's very atmospheric and haunting. I do notice, and again this isn't a hate towards the whole thing, when i listened to it, i thought the idea was super cool, and unique and that really left a mark on me, but i do notice these tracks were probably made in a short period of time, largely because a lot of them feel like repetitive loops, especially in this one, there isn't really any major dynamic changes or sound experiments going on, you've just really added synths to the source. My theory is that the story is the selling point, and the remixes to the source kind work as an extra thing. Still though everything i say is to be taken with a grain of salt, not everyone might feel the same way, and again the idea is super cool on the whole thing, really lovely idea. Great work on this! Undercity: Again the source didn't have a chance to fade out. Also interesting i didn't hear any voices before the remix, maybe you were on the last paragraph or something. This one doesn't bother me, but it was an interesting revelation. Love the brass in this one. It doesn't sound realistic to me, but it was a joy to really bring out a bit of the natural orchestral sounds to close it off. The background FX were a bit loud for me personally in this one, it feels like you went a little too hard on the wind. The orchestral vibes were really good though, it's more epic than i'd expected. Of course there's still synths in there, to keep with the vibe, but honestly great work with this. The background parts need a lot of work, but the rest was really good, still fits the haunting feel. Great work on this! And great work on the whole thing, to accomplish such a feat is nothing short of applause. I would never go to this great lengths, or not at least succeed in the way you've set out for it to. Sure it needs a bit of work and polish to really make it awesome, but the whole thing was really fun to listen to, it's a joy to hear you approach each source in your own style. The ending could have been more satisfying than sudden, but really though i still can't commend how impressive the whole thing was, really hats of for going for such a feat. Well done on the whole thing! I feel like i've gone on a bit too long with this "review", so i'll summarize with pros and cons. It doesn't mean i hate this (Or have problems with it), it's more so what i've written is essentially "What i've liked" vs "What could be improved" kind of thing. Pros: For nearly 30 minutes, i did not feel bored or tired. If anything, it felt shorter than expected. Each source was well produced, even if it could do with polish. I loved each one. The whole thing was a ton of fun, and i loved the idea, and more importantly the impressive feat you took to make this. Your voice and the processing was amazing, really fits the spooky fit. You told the story super well, definately was immersed in the whole thing. Lots of cool unique approaches to how you remixed each source. Great work! It was more than just a remix album, it was a full blown journey. And because it was a journey, i didn't feel like i needed more. Cons: Although i did say it wasn't just a remix album, i do feel each track just comes in without context/warning or any sort of anticipation. It just suddenly arrives. I feel the tracks were made in a short period of time, since a lot of them used very similar sounds, and relied on a fair bit of repetition in some parts. I suppose it's the sources fault for being repetitive in a way, but i still feel more could be expanded upon in these sources to make it very varied and engaging. Some sources come immediately after another. I would let the sound fade out before moving on. When there is music, the voice gets masked, so much so i can't understand what you are saying. It's best to let the music be it's own voice, and the narration be another. That way it really amplifies the spooky nature of the idea. Some of the sound FX like bird calls and laughing can be a little intrusive, especially in the Spinal remix, that one had a little bit too much delay on it. With the exception to the last track, i felt more acoustic instruments could have worked here. I know i shouldn't be saying this, since i too overuse electronic sounds a lot, but in this sense a bit more piano or string, could take it to the next level. Most of what i'm hearing is similar electronic sounds, so it feels more like one piece, than multiple pieces. Again the story is the selling point, and i try to be as open minded as possible, so not everyone will agree with me. It's just me being in the moment. Again you did a really amazing job on this, it's a lot of work, and the whole thing was a lovely idea. I don't want to keep talking, because i've already taken up so much text with this monster review, but i will say in the simplest of phrases, well done, keep at it!

I voted.

This is a pretty funny source, i gotta admit. I think i might stick to the backing track lol. Fun to see what i will come up with.

I'd just mentioned that in my vote, and when i went to tell everyone, you had written about it lol, a strange coincidence. If you'd had made a NES tune, the cycle would be complete lol. Anyways, i've voted!

Interesting, i thought this was only as a result of a tie. I didn't know it was legally allowed. I might have to bring 2 sources in next time i win lol.

Welcome to the Voting Stage! There are 8 entries this round. There is 0 Bonus entry(s) this round There IS no voter bonus this round! Nobody has a vote worth 2x. When Voting, if possible, avoid granting 1:1 covers top spot. MnP requires a bit of remixage after all. Don't vote for Bonus entries please. Do let me know if you have problems voting, and we can sort something out. Try and not make any comments about each entrant until after voting has concluded. Thanks! Participants may not vote for themselves. The winner of this round, will join the winner of the last round, in a Double Dose source off, for MnP129 Vote ends 16th November 1PM. Vote here: http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/MnP128

Thanks for all your help! This is obviously an unusual system error, than a late error. I might message the mods at the discord, should this problem continue.

A perfect example of why i'm often slow at announcing the voting lol. If only i wasn't sick all the time, then i wouldn't be wasting time.

No worries, i was a bit behind, so even i didn't get to submit. Let's be honest though, 8 entries is more than enough, so i don't see what value i would add anyways lol.