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If I ever faced AkumajoBelmont, I will definitely NOT fuse rock n' roll with organic instruments like the time we clashed in the WCRG. Also: Come on Mokram, you're not a noob; "The Desert Has a Strange Dream" is waiting to be posted right now, and I saw a lot of potential in your style since my last days of involvement with the PRC. I'm pretty sure you'll fight the good fight in your bracket

Firstly, one step ahead of you. Secondly, I'm pretty sure "Sonic-related" is perfectly acceptable. I shall wear that and my sig with pride! (at least up until I get beaten mercilessly... x_x)

Really? I think if I was Brandon right now I'd only be worried about Gario and halc. But in my case here's Jason Covenant, Phonetic Hero, Main Finger (probably one of my biggest fears), Ben Briggs, AkumajoBelmont... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. I guess if I get knocked out in the first round, better by the hands of someone more experienced.

I guess this is when I start looking into all the possibilities. The Sonic bracket roster looks tough, but hey, Rexasaurus is there so who knows about what will happen

I'm obviously weirder than most other people on the forums, but I shall bring Spyro: Season of Ice (GBA) into the 'frustration' related category. While the isometric gameplay was a good idea to put a naturally free-roaming console platformer onto a handheld, it did however result in huge navigation difficulties that made it difficult to keep track of where you should be going. Put that on top of the ridiculous requirements to get to the following world hubs and the fact that you practically need EVERYTHING before even fighting the final boss once, not to mention the ridiculous difficulty of the Speedways even in comparison to the console versions, and you have a painfully hard collectathon that may even make the guys at Rareware blush. I have only ever 100%'d that game without cheats once, and even then I had to look up maps >_>

I'm all hoping to see if I could form a good collection, but I honestly can't see myself getting that far. Even if I do my best, I'm already in fear of a) what my opponents might do, and odd voting politics. I'm still pretty sure I won't survive the first round

Rexasaurus, if you're reading this, it'll be hilarious if we come together in a matchup here, even moreso since we both have 2-player Sonic 2 stages. If it happens I already have a damn title in mind...

I actually still have the project file for "Divided From Grace", believe it or not. However, most of the soundfonts (mostly the more organic ones) that I used for it were completely lost, so if it ever gets used for something, it may more likely be a remaster rather than a lossless re-release. But who knows, some of the other remixers might still have WAV files for their tracks yet, for whatever purpose or other.

The earliest moment for me would be the lock-on technology for Sonic & Knuckles. Sure, we only had the physicals for Sonic 1 and 2 to attach it with, though the awesomeness kicked up tenfold when I borrowed a friend's copy of Sonic 3 and really got to see its capabilities. It's a shame that maybe up until Vib Ribbon, that kind of technology won't be seen again. And of course, I can't avoid threads like this without bringing up Crash Bandicoot. When I saw it in action for the first time (from the same friend that I borrowed Sonic 3 from, no less ), I had absolutely no idea that a platformer would end up go into the fresh dimension that it took. I wondered what it would be like in the past if a standard scrolling platformer had a character that could occasionaly walk into the background or closer to the player, but the clever design for the first game really took the cake. I feel honored to see it be my first experience of the PlayStation And while we're on a PS1 tangent, let's bring up the Dual Shock controller. N64 players may have already had their equivalent and had fond memories of it, but I never really got used to analog control until my brother invested on one some point in early 1999. It took some learning to try and get used to it, as well as the rumble in it whenever I'd take damage or react with the environment someway or other, but it really brought fresh life to the games that were compatible with said controller. Just as well that I had to learn to Dual Shock, especially since I'd eventually be playing Ape Escape later that year, with its complete dependency on said controller. Yep, call me a 90s kid, but I feel at home with those memories

This is looking pretty sweet. Merely 3 weeks left and we have a full house, but I guess all there is left is the hype. Looks like Crash Bandicoot is on the substitute bench again.

Nope, still 8. The spreadsheet had 2 of the rows dedicated to headers; use your grey matter!

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