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I'm up for appearing on tonight's Talkback. It's been a while, hasn't it?

I'm very anxious now - the Royal Mail tracking service now states the package is delivered. I hope it came in one piece!

I find it hilarious that some of the staff and artists would throw dignity out of the window and pimp their own work... That said, 15 years is an amazing feat for any website! Here's to 15 more!

Say Chernabogue - assuming we're the only two non-Americans doing this Secret Santa, who do you think will have which? xD

According to the Royal Mail online tracker, the package has hit my recipient's country. Shouldn't be too long now!

Eh? I wrote it, he performed and produced it

And SENT! Amusingly the gift was cheaper than the actual postage, but frankly I don't care. I'm in good anticipation here in the "awaiting-receiver-response club".

I think I've almost got it - could even ship it by Friday if I keep at it. This may be one of my more challenging Secret Santas, but could still be very rewarding.

I remember complimenting this on Facebook when I saw it get approved by the panel. Might as well copy-pasta for significance - I'm very pleased with this outcome, Ben! Having transcribed some of the PS1-era Spyro MIDIs, I can understand the difficulty of being able to work with something more riff-driven, and Midday Gardens is what I feel is even more restricting than the rest of the soundtrack. But regardless of the outcome, I'm really glad we've got some Spyro love on OCR - big love there! (...and I'm sorry Larry for not stepping up my game on this yet =()

Bumping up to proudly say the album was RELEASED over the weekend! Same link as before. Missed the listening party? Go listen into the SMD Podcast with commentary on the entire album with myself and DJ EAR! Listen, before I hurt hedgehog-suited kittens.

Full speed ahead!

My bedroom now has new life as a non-musical workshop for this process. Gotta knuckle down!

That's the problem - I enjoy a good platformer, but the vast majority of them from the past 3-5 years or so really fail to hit the mark as far as jaw-dropping wowness is concerned. I absolutely adored Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 (though obviously 1 was indeed the more novel of the two) and so having seen Nintendo's natural progression, I thought it would be natural that they would keep doing more crazy ways to step up what their tech is capable of. As for having an "alone opinion", Anyway, can we finally get away from this sudden break in the thread and go back to what we were on about in the first place? *_*

The argument is, 3D World and the NSMB Wii U games aren't the big Mario products that Nintendo are doing to persuade users to get a Wii U. I am not at all saying that Sonic's better than Mario or anything of the sort; we're past the 90s as it is; but I won't get a Wii U just to see how awkawrd Rise of Lyric was put together either. To sum it up: NSMB Wii = Not 'Fantastic' Super Luigi U = Not'Fantastic' 3D World = Not 'Fantastic' Rise of Lyric = A BROKEN SHAMBLES Do you get my message? Bottom line - both Sega AND Nintendo need to get their shit together to make sure they stand a chance in this gaming generation.

Not at all. It's just that after giving it more of a chance in the Wii era (and enjoying what I got), I'm expecting Nintendo not to go the cheap way out. The aforementioned three games may sound cutesy cutesy, but they are no way in hell going to convince me to get a Wii U because they aren't 'THE major Mario game every past console generation has had' to me

TRAILER: PREVIEWS: https://soundcloud.com/soundoftss/sets/sotss14-out-of-the-ashes-previews As the previous two TSSMA albums were promoted in Community in the past, I might as well go here too. xD As implied, there's going to be 2+ hours of remixed Sega / Sonic sources from the combined efforts of 20 musicians (including myself) that are either active or affiliated with the TSS. The TSSMA albums were fun to get onto the right foot, but EAR's consistent nit-picking particularly on the production side of things saw him as a good fit to make sure the albums had significantly more punch and cohesiveness in comparison to these previous two albums. Assuming this goes down well, this would mark the start of a new twice-yearly album with themes, so this is set to go down as a more artistic production to come out from the TSS yet! This week's SEGA Mixer Drive will also host a pre-release party for the entire event - this Friday, 28 November, at 4PM EST. Anyone free this Thanksgiving weekend are more than welcome to come on in! Thank you for reading in

Please explain what Mario games on the 3DS / Wii U are considered "amazing". Nintendo are supposedly meant to provide revolutions for their character through each gaming generation, but from what I can see, the Wii U in particular only had an NSMB Wii follow-up, an NSMB spin-off with Luigi, and a partner game to 3D Land like NSMB Wii was to the original. #DerailingTheThread

^ What Timaeus said. I received GSO's PM on the subject, but it would definitely help if I know what the arrangement is intended to be used for.

First of all, this competition looks pretty organised and clear - it's a nice idea to be able to give back towards the artists in monetary form as well as focus really well on emphasis on a single game score. However, if you're expecting 50+ people taking part, I'd recommend that you simplify the bracket considerably - Mercenary Kings isn't really a popular game for artists to cover, or if it is, it definitely isn't as iconic as Sonic, Mega Man, Final Fantasy or Shovel Knight - 4 other games which similarly had bracket styled competitions from these. So if there's any way you'd be able to revise your brackets for a potentially smaller turnout, you might be able to get a workable competition here. This is my tuppence on the whole thing *_*

Go Go Advanced Workshop! It'll be awesome to see how that'll get developed down the line.

My Amazon is ready.

Correction: we have that, AND a strong candidate for a future Awful Games Done Quick.

Whoops... Thanks Mirby. I apologise for getting my Alien series games wrong xD