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I'm pretty sure as long as it is assigned to a zone, it's fine. But we may need SuperiorX for sure on that one. BTW Gario, I LOVE YOU for picking Sky Sanctuary Zone. It will be somehow interesting if we end up in a match.

Yes, but I just didn't think that GLL and Main Finger did as great as either respective artist IMO (though Jason vs MF was goddamn close imo). But let's save that for the SF thread then

But I'm gonna get knocked out in the first round due to odd voting politics... Then again, if Brandon Strader and Jason Covenant had the same thing happen to THEM in Street Fighter, with THEIR first round matchups, then what have I to lose? That's it - I'm in 1 - Emerald Hill Zone 2-Player (Sonic 2) 2 - Mecha Green Hill Zone (Sonic Chaos) 3 - Tidal Tempest (Sonic CD JP) 3 - Night Carnival (Sonic Rush) 4 - Ocean Palace (Sonic Heroes) Now watch me fall at the first round to some unknown hack. I can just picture it now.

I don't know if I'd be able to do the actual compo, but I am on hand to attempt sigs should they be required. Good luck all

Shameless double post time Sheet music to "All for Wumpa" is good to go as well.

Funny you said that, because I attempted that source 6 years ago. Now that I'm here, I would like to state a huge thank you for all the responses I've seen for both this and "Hogging Molly" through the #ocremix IRC, forum comments and exterior responses out at Youtube and Facebook. I felt really greatful that I was able to get both tracks past the panel and thus paying a strong homage to one of my all time favorite videogame series, and to see your reactions to it made me feel proud to be a Crash fan! While I do have a load on the backburner right now for other franchises too, returning to Crash one of these days can be a possibility; for now, I hope your Easter will be merry and... orange.

Stevo, I think I could do something with "First Love". Cue me in.

I'm on it, Rozo. I seriously think we need more than just 200 messages per user on this forum.

No "Hurricane Katrina" still makes me sad - that was GENIUS back in the VGMix days. ._. But let the nostalgia commence anyway!

Nah, it's not wrong at all - people like what they hear. I brought over a handful of tracks from the compo onto my iPod as well, which indeed included the Gentlemasters' final collab "When Robots Collide" (another one you were involved in ). I quite liked that one on the first go around - reminded me a little bit of Skapara when discussing it with WillRock about a couple of months back

I'm not too sure if it's everlasting peace just yet. I looked at the roster page, and I am just so puzzled looking at them all. Some of the votes to me don't add up - I mean, I couldn't remember WillRock's second entry doing THAT well at all, and neither could I even recall Ecto's third one going that high or my latter two submissions falling into fifth; they didn't even match SectorZ's tallies when they were posted here 3 months ago. And the tally sheet in the first post, while it was indeed more accurate - round 8 is broken. I didn't get 15 points with "Subtarctic Nightfall" - what kind of copy paste error is it? This isn't intending to make me come out as grumpy; I just feel perplexed by the tallies and some of those inconsistencies. But either way, I'm glad this has been semi-put to peace

My view is that we are all people from different walks of life - gaming generations, lifestyles, cultures, even entire nations - with a common interest in making videogame remixes and learning from what we have. I've been on many forums in the past, and we can't get any nicer than this, easily

I apologise for being late in my votes - 2 days in fact. But nevertheless, I have a reasoning for my viewpoints and I shall state them here. Guile vs Chun Li I know for sure that Brandon apparently is one of few people around here that doesn't like Chun Li's theme for some reason, which could explain his difficulty in integrating her theme in the scope of his mix. But it seemed to fit as a great countermelodic measure within the centrepiece of the track - kind of a more simplistic approach, but it felt workable. But he managed to make up for it with some strong clean production, lush work with the organic instruments and attention to structure, which given the length shows that he's capable of incorporating more inspiring ideas within a reasonable time frame. GLL's track definitely had some promising ideas in there - the Chun Li sound effects were cheesy (and rather low-fi) yet awesome, and the interpretation of her theme was taken into a great combination of dream trance and downtempo complete with some great accompaniment change-ups. However, this to me was let down by his production - it to me came out as rather muddy particularly when the bass and the gated chorded synths came together, fighting for this same frequency space, and the low fidelity of the soundscape in general similarly didn't quite add up. What baffled me more was the structure - for the first half, it had the potential to be a very fun dream trance track, but even then the downtempo section for the second half could have been cut down considerably to consume any filler. Guile's theme in that part was cued in pretty subtlely, so I'm cool with any artistic interpretation, but again structure is something that should be key for handling these things. Ultimately, my vote went to Brandon Strader for what I felt was a cleaner production and more cohesive direction. They both provided a great first match-up though - very enjoyable all around. Blanka vs C Viper I give mad props to Jake for doing something a little different and using the time to create a more downtempo entry in comparison to most entries and even weave the melodies of the sources together - had some promise early on, but then it started doing something that I admit didn't like Jewbei doing during the WCRG (sorry for calling you out x.x) and interpreting the other theme in the opposing key, which soon called it out to be a bit on the lazy side. It's definitely not a bad effort on the production side either - minimalist, a little on the quiet side, and fits appropriately well for the genre, so it just all comes down to what genre you prefer in this bout. But I felt that OA had a more significant edge in regards to cohesive direction. Not much melodic weaving like there was with Jake's, sure, but I WAS surprised with him taking the time to play the Blanka melody on the guitar THAT fast! Even then I felt the instruments were more distinct and separated; though I don't know about you but I think it was mixed a bit TOO loud? I recall heraing a rumble in my speaker, which I assume must've been down to the instruments' headroom prior to bypassing the mastering chain. That's probably my only real complaint about this, and I know that if it wasn't intentional it might see a fix for a future purpose. (hint hint... ) Just for the surprise I was taken with the effort put in, and even taking the time to speed up the enemy THAT much, my vote went with OA. I can see you doing really well here if you started like that! Ryu vs Eagle Gario's track as an arrangement was handled fine, and I thought the airy intro with the eagle sound effect was pretty cool. But some of the high-resonance synths didn't seem to fit this more ambient soundscape that seemed to be going; I would've hoped that there could've been an option to turn down the resonance/distorton on those synths or even replace them with something a little mellower. But I think I get the idea - have fun at the expense of thinking you'd lose against zircon. Guess that didn't really happen. Oni vs Yang This was a tough round to judge because of severe lack of familiarity with either theme. PH managed to give a good equal share to both sources; could've thought it may head in liberal territory but that's part of me blaming the familiarity here. What I DID notice about his track was that he had gone for a much cleaner production in comparison to what I have heard of him during the WCRG; the organic instrumentation in particular sound more lush, the synths don't necessarily feel as shrill, and there's been less messiness in regards to notation - there's a cohesive direction. The only thing that still felt as if it needed a bit of a look into were the thin sounding 909 percussion, but that's something that could be given some experimentation in future work and I have confidence in his production capabilities. I have understood that Neblix had complained about the way the voting went for his round, but let me tell you now, picking someone for the round wasn't easy. The sources were similarly mangled together with a cheesy sampling approach close to GLL's in the Guile vs Chun Li match-up, though there was still plenty of attention paid towards instrument clarity that really managed to work things over. In comparison to past works I've seen, the technical direction is steadily becoming more cohesive and well emphasized, though I still suggest that you don't put it off until the last minute - I know that some people prefer to do it that way, but you need to focus more of the time in the structure to avoid giving off that "rushed" approach, or worse, end up as a no-show at the end of the round. Both artists did really well and really upped their game, so well done to the pair of you. It was a tight decision to go between them, but I went for Phonetic Hero due to a stronger direction and having the edge on the production side. Still a remarkable match-up. And there we go - good luck everyone!

You know that handling Crash would be difficult as it is? I'm with you, Crash Bandicoot was a HUGE part of my gaming adolescence, and it was my goal since I discovered OCR to push any and all exposure for it. And right now, there are two mixes from the original game (BOTH involving me, may I add ) that are waiting to get posted onto the site. But it's hard because of the complexity of the originals and general structures for them, not to mention a lot of them are percussion heavy. And being a recent member that wants to give some exposure to a game that otherwise doesn't get much love at all, you need to watch out for what you've put yourself in for. It won't stop me from giving a few tracks a go, provided I don't overwork myself. Amusingly, I've had this dynamic worldy arrangement idea in my head for the desert town stages roaming in my head for years, but never really had the tools to pull it off; I hope with what I've learnt now, I could attempt it and see how it goes

Even for games in which MIDIs are really hard to find, I'd have a go at transcribing some key parts to use later, or to just learn to play it on the piano based on what I can hear and what techniques I am most comfortable with. Developing an ear for just writing music takes years to learn, and over time you will be able to identify notation in these songs that you might not have noticed without this training.

What if your track is really so close to geting a NO verdict? You didn't think of that, didn't you The judges can vote how they want, not by ultimatums. Even if there is no decision by the compo's start, have some patience. Things will look up down the line.

See, this is what we should be responding to instead of throwing in random female composers. And here I come with a comprehensive list of every female OC Remixer that has contributed - I hope this helps out in regards to the OP. If I'm missing anything, please clue us in!

I LOVE YOU JEWBEI! If I had a roster, I would've had Sakura as my first pick. I am so looking forward to seeing what you do with her, if no one else picks her too

I don't know if I'm going to take part this time as I already am busy enough (not to mention my familiarity with SF is stuck at SF2 and Puzzle Fighter), but I could still provide signatures again like with the WCRG and vote each week. Good luck to all

While I sent an MP3 your way for any potential feedback on Monday, the WAV however is going to be late. Within the past couple of days I ended up with a shoulder injury, thus heavily affecting my computer time. I'll try and get it within the coming week, or whenever it starts healing up

You can't have post-apocalyptic without Napalm Man and Grenade Man IMO - both robots based on weapons of mass destruction (assuming that nuclear war will be in the equation), and could fit suitably well in a situation like that. Cool idea though; would be interesting to see how others think about this.

I've been hearing about Nuzlocke runs for some time. Never got around to do it as I felt more focused on building teams based around what I seem to be obsessed with at the time. But yeah, should probably give it a go with my FireRed cart sometime. Wonder where would be a good place to make a log for it O_o

He did, but his two posts in 2010 showed that he was cool with sending stuff in if he felt desired to. Anyway, let me throw a question in here - it's definitely taking effect for tracks to be submitted from this point on, but what about tracks that are pending to be posted? Is it possible for the mixers behind those tracks to send higher quality versions over, and if so, where would be the best place to do it?

Eh, I thought Split Mushroom (X4) was ridiculous enough; I stated that on my Twitter once, and Monobrow told me that the name "sounded like a dick tip" (how else am I supposed to emphasize this without breaking the rating barrier again?!). Nice going, Katie. Well I claim victory of the WCRG . So there