Rexy

You got time to listen into them on SEGA Mixer Drive, starting now!

Either way, shifting attention towards the Pancakes as they stand... the bulk of them have stated at least some sign of progress, but any idea where Arceace currently stands? He's the only one that didn't post since the matchups were announced o_O

Well it IS technically synthy for the most part, right? xD Nice find on the press, guys! Is this the first time that TD got mentioned in print form, or do I seem to be missing something here?

Bizarrely, I voted in favor of Hakstok for the same reason you were more in favor of Amph. Think I'll need to re-listen to the latter and see if I could find the elements of Azure Lake I couldn't spot before. xD (hey, it happened eventually with Shaggy's entry last week!) Still it appears that we don't have any votes left outstanding from what I can see. Keep it up all [EDIT: Also, going by the vote totals so far... when did I miss the memo being "Vote Against Rexy's Picks Week"? ]

That's the point about being 'blunt'. Sometimes you have to be to express an opinion. And I've been around DJ EAR a bunch of times as well and he has shown enough hands-on experience to back up his blunt criticisms. But it's not like anyone's gonna care about that anyway. Sonic Retro makes me sad enough for them tearing down everything that made me feel content. Twice now in this thread I've tried to link to something more positive and get derailed. The more this keeps going on, the more I feel like keeping on asking the age-old question of "why the hell do people love Project Chaos so much" - truth be told, my stuff on there is heavily outdated in comparison to what I'm doing now. I swear I'm fed up of hearing "hey, your 'Beneath the Ashes' or 'Divided from Grace' is incredible" when I really want it to be stated in reference to something more recent! Yeah... I can't think of anything positive to derail this conversation. Someone needs to help out, for the sake of the forum's mental health.

I'm not generalising it - I'm going purely by my own experiences within the community. Sonic Retro has done more than just attack OC Remix - in fact, they have a tendancy to attack other Sega related communities as well, which also extends to meeting other site admins / forum goers in the flesh. Now, I can understand they're great at dissecting the games' codes and either finding secrets or creating wild hacks out of them, but as people I just think it's best we'd leave them way alone in their purist bubble. You told me in the past that with the album's release, we should be focusing more on the positive feedback. Let's leave that in the dirt and instead re-read DJ EAR's awesome review work five times more.

See, that thread is a CLEAR example of why people need to stay the HELL away from Sonic Retro. I've been closer-knit with the Sonic community since the SZRC2012, and from all interactions I've come to see Retro as one of the most close-minded clusterfucks (can't think of a nicer word, sorry) of a community that we'd ever see. I seriously didn't want to read that thread all the way through - it's all the most negative feelings I was anticipating with the album all bottled up into one. "This album isn't as good as Project Chaos..." "All the good tracks are made by outside people (Bev's note: not true, Hedgehog Heaven springs to mind)..." "People at OCR need to stop using shitty defaults..." I get the goddamn picture - what we did was an absolutely FANTASTIC remix album with a load of killer tracks and representing one of the Sega CD's finest titles. Were we ever thinking, in the first place, that we were going to cater it to a bunch of devilspawn that hates the idea of their childhood spoiled?? Yeah. This may end up being my most aggressive post regarding this, but if you're ever going to think of reading that Sonic Retro thread, for god's sake, don't. Everything about that site's community and their opinions is completely INVALID. Now let's all move on and calm down and think of something happy. Like kittens:

It's midnight out here. There's 7 tracks to listen to first-hand. Time to put a cup of tea on it. [EDIT: Mind me asking, but who's the male rapper on ladyWildfire's track? I heard another voice but there's no other credits anywhere o_O]

I'm briefly going over the voting as it stands. Even though I voted for urdailywater in this matchup, part of me just wants to go up towards BlackPanther and give him a hug

Oh come on Gar, there's a handful of people at RS particularly on the RPG-following front that really enjoyed your treatment for Skies of Arcadia on there; one person in particular would rather listen to yours than zircon's Addressing the 'extra compression', the mixer for SAM Broadcaster (the software that all DJs on RS use) generally deals with compression through the Gated AGC box. I brought the Gain level down to 3db (original value was 15) on one deck after similar criticisms when OneUp checked out the show a while back, but must've forgotten to do so on the OTHER deck. This'll take some time to figure out, but let's see what happens from next week xD

Last night's SEGA Mixer Drive is now up on RadioSEGA Media. Go grab it!

Do we have any updates from a certain Mr. Hakstok? He hasn't posted in here since the matchups were announced, I think.

If you want my take on the subject, it's that people have the right to remix what they want to - oftentimes, the best remixes come from those that do them out of nothing but sheer passion, not because they feel forced to work with the source material. So if you are an old-timer that still wants to remix the short riffs from Pac-Man or Dig Dug or whatever, go for it. Or if you're wowed over by the more modern scores of Journey or Portal and want to give homage to them, again it's your call. At the end of the day, OC Remix is open to BGM regardless of how old these tracks are. As for me, again I feel inspired by what I see/hear. It's just that a lot of my gaming passions appear to be within the 90s more than anything else xD

A few voting reminders, since we're about 3 days in: * Flexstyle still has 4 matchups to vote in (Gar/DusK, therex/Dom, Chernabogue/Arceace and his own) for his other 3 to count. * urdailywater also has 4 left (Tuberz/Sterling, Gar/DusK, therex/Dom and his own). * Shrackattack has only voted in the Chernabogue/Arceace matchup so far and would need to do the other 6 for that vote to count. * And wch090 is missing the Gar/DusK matchup. You'll be punching yourself in the teeth if you miss out after Sunday morning

Ladies and gents, this past Friday's SEGA Mixer Drive episode showing the Sonic Bracket Round 1 tracks is now available to download.

I'm not therex, but anosou a few months ago that should be able to help you guys out.

Usually if I mix something with no MIDIs and I want it to still sound faithful, I try recreating it by ear in Reaper first. Then you'd have something to pick from when making the actual mix x)

Let the exact concern with last week rise up again - just over an hour before the deadline. Matt, we know that Cosmic Sounds would be completely unable to contribute anything, but what would happen if Pete would also fail? What's going to happen to that matchup?

StarDragonJP still needs to vote in the 5 matchups other than halc / Disambiguity for his vote in that one to count. Other than that, it looks as if we've got a solid turnout going. Nice work all [EDIT: Also... cats.]

Because I am at London today for the London Anime & Gaming Con, the podcast will be Slightly delayed. But it should be online by Sunday night

Let the madness begin.

So we're still missing any sign of life from DusK, Cosmic Sounds and TGH. Any contact outside of the board or anything?

An update on The Damned's nickname censoring irk: I too also have a Generation 3 Flygon that also got hit hard by the censors (original name "Kakeru"; my main six there were named after Ape Escape characters). And nope, neither the Gen 5 / 6 Name Raters are able to change it to something else other than the generic Pokémon species name. Sucks, I know, but I'm greatful that none of my imported starters have suffered as a result of this *_*

I got that message too when transferring my main six from White 1 over. It doesn't tell you which Pokemon are affected by this, but I had a hunch it was my Krookodile, "Fukawa" (named the main 6 after Danganronpa characters!); so I quickly changed it to "Foukawa" by means of the Gen 5 Name Rater before trying again, and the warning disappeared. So if you get that message when getting to that stage, and you're attached to at least one of your Pokémon (like with The Damned's Flygon example), try and change it if you caught it in Generation 5 first. You'd be out of luck if it was in Generation 3 or 4 unless you've still somehow got them stored on their original cartridge you caught it from and you're able to name check using Gen 6's name rater. Still yeah, this is bizarre o_o*

Say, someone needs to try and do a beatbox using those VERY WORDS in place of what they're an onomatopoeia for in the first place. Come on, make it happen!