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The People's Remix Competition 414
PRCv17-12

Hello everyone and Welcome to the People's Remix Competition!
AxLR was unstoppable in round 412 and claimed the win. He picked a source from a N64 game.
 
Source: Smash Bros (N64) - Metal Mario
MIDI File
 
Source Information
 
ThaSauce link: Click here to submit
 
The deadline is Friday September 25th 2020 at 10:59 am ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT), check the ThaSauce page for the exact time left. Make sure that the song is uploaded to ThaSauce or that there’s a download link posted in this thread. Two more days.
You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that if you use ThaSauce, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix if you use ThaSauce. Of course you can also upload it somewhere else and put a download link in this thread.
Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted in this thread.
Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score.
The winner of this round may select the source for PRC416, the rounds after next round.
The winner of PRC412, AxLR, who picked this source, can only participate by submitting a Bonus Mix. His vote is doubled in the voting stage. 
You can find the full rules list at this page as well.
 
GOOD LUCK!
 
PRC Home Page

This could be fun.  Metal Time? 

Heavy Metal rendition?

Oh boi....I think I might give you guys a surprise this round...

Well, it's not Zelda CDI.  Or is it???  MY BOI.  This round is what TRUE warrior's strive for!!  Also, I wonder what's for DINNER? 

Compo: MnP (Meat 'n Potatoes)
MIDI: https://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/MnP117_Southern_Face_Shrine.mid
"Human, Monster, Sea, Sky!! This month's source is Southern Faced Shrine!!" -Nick C
Deadline: Sept 30th Wed @ 1PM
Vote Ends: October 4th Sun @ 1 PM
MnP ARCHIVE  - made by Trism
submit: https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/MnP117

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
Source-Picks are limited to the era of gaming 1984-2006.  In other words, Nes/Sega Master to PS2/GC/XBox 1.  Going to relax this rule with certain Indie Titles like Shovel Knight, Undertale and possibly Crypt of the Necrodancer.  Update me upon further titles that have that 'Retro Fidelity'.  Thanks! Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent.  Small tempo changes are OK.  But not 140 to 80 etc.  Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max). Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry. 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)

Alright you mad-lads, next round is up.  Cya next round.
 

Unless a miracle happens, all i can say is congrats 

Darth Vader wants his NOOOO back.  Well.  You tried.  Why not share it in this thread anyways?  Anything beats my shit entry.  Literally it is shit. 

I was literally about to upload now.... 

NOOOOO i was ready to upload! 

Only one submission, so
Results time
HoboKa wins PRC413!!.
HoboKa, you are the winner and may pick a source for PRC415. Send the source to me (with a MID/MP3 file, otherwise send a second source with a MID file) by PM, other options are PM me @ ThaSauce or by e-mailing to bambombim@gmail.com (I prefer a PM @Ocremix). Send your sources as fast as you can, but before next Wednesday (16 September 2020), 11:00 AM ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT).
You may select any source from any game, but not a source with an OverClocked remix or a source which has been used in PRC before. An overview of the past PRC's can be found in the following links (I recently updated this site):
http://sites.google.com/site/bambombim/prc
http://bambombim.googlepages.com/PRCRemixList.doc (also downloadable via the link above).
 
http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/prc413 for the votes and comments.

No songs yet, so two extra days.

Man.  I picked a bad time to quit caffiene.  My mind cannot slog through an idea right now.  Maybe a MIDI rip clusterfuck.  But beyond that, can't promise anything good.  Or at all. 
I submitted something. Something horrifying.  I'm so sorry Tim Follin T_T

I has voted.

Results
NickC got 1st with 16 points HoboKa got 2nd with 14 points TheVideoGamer got 3rd with 10 points Silverpool64 got 4th with 9 points NickC please PM me the source pick for round 117. 
Comments
Real awesome turnout, which convinced me to slacken the new rule in place, ever so slightly.  Gonna be interesting to see how MnP evolves.  Or de-evolves.  Thanks for the awesome turnout guys and for everyone voting too! 

I got me's a vote in...

MnP Instructions/Guidelines [Updated]...Watcha guys think?? 
Source-Picks are limited to the era of gaming 1984-2006.  In other words, Nes/Sega Master to PS2/GC/XBox 1.  Going to relax this rule with certain Indie Titles like Shovel Knight, Undertale and possibly Crypt of the Necrodancer.  Update me upon further titles that have that 'Retro Fidelity'.  Thanks! Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent.  Small tempo changes are OK.  But not 140 to 80 etc.  Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max). Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry.

Hm, that's very true.  They do make a good contrast.  It's harder to remix a texture than a melody.  But...I'm comfortable where it is with MnP for now.  I relaxed the "age restriction" on retro-sounding Indie Sources.  So

I’m out today, but vote will be coming shortly.

So true....
That applies to a lot of modern film/audio visual music. They rely more on texture than melody. John Williams uses a lot of melody, Hans Zimmer uses more texture/sound design...

Maybe so.  Personally, I don't mind ambient shit because I have the setup for it.  But not everyone does.  Also, another person here pointed out that it's hard to do a "tribute" to something that has super high fidelity production.  Maybe the leitmotiv deficiency played a part, but that was not quite the reason for my decision/vote/poll/pingas.  It's a pretty solid theory though. 
Sort of a Draft for Rule #1
Source-Picks are limited to the era of gaming 1984-2006.  In other words, Nes/Sega Master to PS2/GC/XBox 1.  Exception with certain Indie Titles like Shovel Knight, Undertale and certain tunes from Crypt of the Necrodancer.  If there any other 'retro' modern games, let me know.

To be fair, leitmotivs are the main reason, I do think. They are an easy go for remixes, and they scare remixers a lot less.
That's mainly why retro tunes are now one of the rules, because they heavily relay on leitmotivs to deliver, when more recent OST is more free due to less contraints.

NVM previous response, it wasn't really relevant to your comment.
I always trust that you are constructive in your votes.  Plus, I know a bad comment when I see it...*cough Old OCR cough* 

Yeah.  Maybe a stipulation is in order.  Like modern Indie's with a Retro Vibe rule.  To quote NickC (from ThaSauce Discord), "lol nah, it ([sic]Undertale) is an exception where it uses old school sounds, there's a lot of stuff now where trying to give a track a facelift isn't going to work at all."