DarkeSword
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That's 8.
Should we try for 16?
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I updated the post to include MM&B masters.
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About
Rise again, Robot Masters! The year is 2018, and the battle for musical supremacy returns! Bring your phattest beats, your wailingest guitars, and other superlatively described musical elements!
Current News
Round 7 is over. The matchups were as follows:
Remixer and Source VS Remixer and Source Arceace - Air Man vs Garpocalypse - Tengu Man Voting is live and will last until November 14, 2018.
Past Rounds
Music downloads for past rounds are available in voting threads. A tournament archive will be provided at the conclusion of the competition.
- Round 1 - Mega Man Bracket
- Round 2 - Proto Man Bracket
- Round 3 - Mega Man Bracket
- Round 4 & 5
- Round 6 - Proto Man Bracket
- Round 7 - Grand Final
Eliminated Competitors
Eliminated competitors are welcome to challenge other eliminated competitors to friendly matches during any mixing stage. I will encode, tag, and host any friendly matches and provide voting along with tournament entries.
Submission Instructions
Submission
All entries must be sent to me (DarkeSword) via PM on the forums. Please include the round number in the subject line of your PM. I encode all MP3s myself, so please send me your submissions in 16bit, 44.1KHz WAV format. Don’t send MP3s.
Please do not use MediaFire, RapidShare, or any other ad-ridden public sharing site as a host for your entry. There are many better options you can and should be using to host your music. I recommend Dropbox or SoundCloud. Make sure your files are downloadable.
File Names
Filenames must be in the following format:Your Artist Name - Your Remix Title (Your Robot Master vs. Opponent's Robot Master).wavFor example:
DarkeSword - Be Cool, Man (Ice Man vs. Blizzard Man).wavNotes
- Make sure you’re using proper capitalization for Robot Master names.
- Put spaces on both sides of the hyphen the Artist and the Title.
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If your remix’s title has special punctuation that you can’t include in the file name (e.g.
\ / : \* ? " < > |), please let me know in your submission PM so I can include the correct title in the tags. - Robot Master names have a space between the element and Man; e.g. it’s Ice Man, not Iceman.
- There should be a period (.) after vs.
Please follow the file name format exactly; I use the file names to make sure that all the metadata is correct when I tag the MP3s. It’s a massive pain sitting there renaming, re-spacing, and reformatting so that everything works properly with mp3tag’s file-name-to-tag tools, and ultimately it means that when you all do it right, I can get the music up for voting way faster.
Voting Rules and Guidelines
Voting is conducted publicly in the Public Voting forum. Every week, a thread will be created for the most recently completed round of remixing.
Things to keep in mind when voting:
- The most important thing to consider when voting is how well the remix incorporates and arranges both themes. Production and enjoyability should also be considered, but this is primarily an arrangement competition.
- Everyone is allowed (and encouraged) to vote, including competitors.
- Everyone must adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct.
How Does it Work?
Theme Selection
Choose three Robot Master themes from any of the following classic Mega Man games:
- Mega Man 1-6 (NES)
- Mega Man 7 (SNES)
- Mega Man 8 (PSX/Saturn)
- Mega Man 9-10 (PSN/XBL)
- Mega Man V (GB) (This game has Stardroids instead of Robot Masters, but that’s okay)
- Mega Man & Bass (SNES/GBA)
Post your list of three in order of preference. A draft will be run to determine your Robot Master theme assignment. This is the theme you’ll be remixing as you progress through the tournament.
The Tournament
The GRMRB is a single-elimination style tournament, with scrambled match-ups every round. The tournament will have 3-4 rounds (depending on participation). Each round is divided into two stages: the Mixing Stage and the Voting Stage.
At the start of the Mixing Stage, you’re matched with an opponent. You and your opponent have one week to write, produce, and submit your own respective remixes that arrange both of your Robot Master themes. Once the week is up, all remixes are submitted to the Competition Organizer (i.e. me). This is the end of the Mixing Stage.
At the start of the Voting Stage, the remixes are uploaded and made available for voters to download. Voters will listen to the music, and decide which remix in each pair “wins the battle.” As the GRMRB is an arrangement competition, the primary criteria voters should look at is how well the remixes incorporate both themes. Production quality and enjoyability should also be considered. After a week of voting, votes are tabulated and the winners of each remix battle are declared. These winners are scrambled and new match-ups are posted for the next Mixing Stage.
Defeated competitors are welcome to challenge other defeated competitors to “friendly” matches while the tournament progresses. These matches won’t affect the outcome of the tournament and won’t be tracked in any kind of bracket, but I will collect, upload, and provide voting polls for friendlies.
The tournament will continue until one remixer remains. That remixer will be crowned the Grand Robot Master Remixer.
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Click the little up arrow above the knob on channel 1.
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We're not having any official presence at GenCon. I don't know if anyone from OCR is going.
What do you mean by custom shirts?
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Fantastic arrangement. Wowow.
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The track certainly is short but I feel like if it was any longer it might overstay its welcome. This is pretty emotive and I'm definitely not hearing any of the "too quiet" or "too sparse" points here. It sounds good to me. We should post this. YES
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I don't think the effects are working in this piece's favor. The hiss is too distracting.
I like the core idea of the arrangement but I found it difficult to follow because of the effects added. If this had been purely a brass arrangement I could see myself passing it, but I've gotta say NO.
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This is fine because you’re promoting the music by talking about it.
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On 5/6/2018 at 3:59 PM, Farthingale said:
I want to start out by saying how much I LOVE this site and HUGELY appreciate all the super awesome, talented remixxers who have given me my best driving tunes for years. There's nothing cooler than hearing hot new takes on game tracks that mean a lot to me.
So, that said: Hi! I'm Rowena, from Cape Town, South Africa. My tiptop gaming franchise is LoZ, and I found this place after seeing some of the Link To The Past special album in a YouTube Let'splayer's video on Lynel fighting.
I have a newb-o-rama question: if there's a game track that there's no remixes of -- specifically in this case, the Gerudo Desert theme from Twilight Princess (and I'm not sure *how* there's no remixes, but I guess it always gets overshadowed by the Gerudo Valley theme) -- apart from simply requesting it on the suggestions forum and waiting in hope... is it possible to set up kind of a call for commission or contest? I'm an illustrator, so I could offer game character art as a prize (http://faerthingpen.tumblr.com), if that appeals to anyone?
Thanks again!!
You can trade for remixes, but YMMV.
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Here's a video of the upcoming implementation.
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How do you change the time signature of a playlist mid-song? Pretty sure that's something they teased for the next version?
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FLStudio is also finally adding time signature changing in-song with FLStudio 20 (the next version coming out this year), I believe.
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It's fine.
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Hey all! Just wanted to plug my first ever original album. You guys are probably more familiar with my remixes and arrangement work here, but I have actually been writing original music for almost 20 years. The album is called Sound the Clarion Call: A Musical Tribute to 1001 Knights. You can pick it up on OverClocked Records for $3.99!
This album is inspired by the 1001 Knights art anthology that was Kickstarted about two years ago. It's a set of three hardcover books with beautiful artwork of different kinds of knights. I was hired to write the trailer music for it and ended up putting together a full album. If you've ever enjoyed my remixes before, give this album a shot. It's a mix of new age, jazz, and classic SNES sounds. Hope you enjoy it.
Here's the fourth track from the album, The Accumulation of Knowledge.
- Phonetic Hero and djpretzel
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2 hours ago, SuaveDandy said:
Again, I listened to all of SA1's songs. I know what I'm talking about.
So did I. I also do.
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"It Doesn't Matter" from Sonic Adventure has a great melody.
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Just gonna throw this out there:
"Catchy," in the context of BGM for a Sonic the Hedgehog game, absolutely means "good." xD
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You can actually do this with OCR's full catalog, as per our content policy.
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49 minutes ago, Narzack said:
I stop in from time to time to see if this old joint is still going and to check out the changes. Definitely a different vibe than when I posted, though I didn't really post all that much. Here are some of the names I remember, mostly from Unmod, since it was a pretty cool wild west kinda place.
Darksworde - Don't remember if he posted a lot, but he did a really cool 50 Cent In Da Club classical mashup
I didn't participate in Unmod all that much. That In Da Club remix was done by DCT; he wrote an instrumental that was an arrangement of one of my old original tracks and put the a capella on it.
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Fix those notes. Everything else is great. Love the solos, performance is killer. NO, resub
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Mega Man: The Grand Robot Master Remix Battle 2018
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We have 12, which technically can work because it will give us a three-way battle at the end. It would be nice to have 16 but if 4 more people don't sign up in the next couple of days, we'll roll with this.