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An interesting video is hidden on the European website for The Last Window (UK and Japan-only sequel to Hotel Dusk) that showcases how exactly they achieved the hand-drawn animated style of the characters in the game. Click on the 'Music Preview' tab, then look for the 'Behind the Scenes' tab in the new menu. Enjoy! http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/nds/last_window_the_secret_of_cape_west_18683.html

Oh, thanks for the heads up, even though I already got one. This one will be in a Cherish Ball. :3

Happr bitheyda!

Let's see here, I'm very cute like the Mystical Record. And I'm undeniably badass like the new male protagonist trainer from Black and White. :3

I have an mp3 of the Grape Gardens map music from Kirby's Dreamland underneath some rap, complete with explicit lyrics, but that's pretty much the opposite of what you asked for. :3 Anyone interested, ask me on IRC and I'll shoot it over.

Happy birthday, starl(a)! From your friend and OHC buddy, Ohsear.

And, 1337 1, feel free to update us on what games you decide to pick up and what you thought about them. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to know how it all turns out.

Saturos's Battle Theme from Golden Sun. Motoi Sakuraba has a penchant for making brilliant and catchy battle themes. It's hard to pick a favorite battle theme from the Golden Sun series, but I personally find this one to be the best. This theme played during the big confrontations with the recurring antagonist duo Saturos and Menardi, and I think it captures the intensity and gravity of those moments well. Gotta love the part at 0:44. Regarding the Majora's Mask Boss Theme, I can't help but hear Odolwa's bellows when I hear it.

Have you ever played the Advance Wars games? Look into Advance Wars Dual Strike. There might be something you'll like with that game. In the same vein, the Fire Emblem GBA games are great.

HORPY BROTHDAY, Mr. Sounds(no relation to Sixto, I hope)!

Gonna go ahead and round out this thread with a final thanks. Thanks guys.

I know this isn't what you're asking for, but this youtube vid is of a song this guy made using Metroid Zero Mission sound extractions. Pretty cool. You might like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg4Xas9gEOU&fmt=18 Unfortunately the link to the data he used to make it is broken. Also Wow. What a fail.

Happy birthday, lizz and co!!

Just wanted to say thanks to errone who wished me a Happy B-day since I last said thanks. ^^ Thanks guys.

Thanks for all the birthday messages, errbody. Means a lot!

Happy belated birthday from your friend ohsear!

The Katamari Forever soundtrack was pretty disappointing for me. I realize the game is called 'Tribute' over in Japan, but they could've given us some original songs on par with the brilliance of the original soundtracks. For the most part, a lot of the remixes they did for the game sound very repetitive. My favorite remix from the soundtrack, bar none, is the Yuri's Mixx of Sayonara Rolling Star. originally from the 360-exclusive Beautiful Katamari. Most of the others, if they aren't repetitive, they're jumbled mess. If only they had given him a link to OCR, eh? That said, I'd love to hear an OCReMix of Bluffing Damacy (We <3 Katamari).

To be fair, not everything on that list was my suggestion. The 'doing a listing of VG tunes people want to hear' itself was my suggestion. And people should suggest more songs they want to hear. VG tunes that relate to snow levels, Christmas levels et cetera. I'm most looking forward to winter/Christmas-ized vg tunes that aren't normally very winter/Christmas (as Lukas did with his Uncharted arrangement last year.) Dyne, if you would add Freezeezy Peak from Banjo Kazooie, I think that's pretty damn Christmas-y.

For the most part, they definitely are incentive for some people to take on extra challenges within games, and I see nothing wrong with that. Some people take them too seriously and put too much emphasis on them but who cares. That said, I think that Achievements and Trophies are a great idea, but at an immature state right now. I had an idea that may well have been the next evolution of Achievements and Trophies: virtual items. As you know, Sony created the PlayStation Home platform as it's a virtual world where you make your own avatar, collect different clothing items, decorate your own virtual apartment, and play minigames within different 'Spaces' owned by different companies and developers to earn themed items and exclusive items. There was a personal space called 'The Trophy Room'(developed, never released) where your Trophies were represented as virtual 'tangible' trophies (for example, a trophy from Loco Roco was a group of rendered LocoRoco characters). I think this would've been an exciting way to go about Achievements and Trophies. Get an Achievement on Halo 3, get a Spartan Helmet for your avatar to wear. Only problem for Microsoft with that business model would be A) the items would be earned, not sold slightly more development time to make the virtual rewards. Anyway, I'm thinking of a reward system like in Bully, if you've ever played that game. You do a mission about... you beat a mission about boxing, you get boxing gloves put up in your room. You win the bike races, you get a bike racing trophy. Et cetera. I honestly feel like Motion Controls distracted from this development. (You have to go back and think about what Sony and Microsoft were working on before the Wii really REALLY proved its popularity to be more than a fad.) Now, I'm not saying PS Home is perfect. Far from it. I'm just saying that Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo could've taken these reward items to the next level, if they had further persued the "virtual world hub" for their platforms (and they all have one. Xbox Live has that thing similar to PS Home(I remember it was supposed to be based on an Arcade and made use of New XBL Experience Avatars), Sony has PS Home, obviously, and I think it's fair to count Nintendo with it's Miis and Animal Crossing. Whew.

I just hope I can trade eggs into my 2nd copy of the game from the get-go, from the version I complete first. So I can do my patented foreign-pokemon run.

Basically how the entire community felt, circa the announcement of the alleged starter evos. Well, almost everyone.

This scan contains info on the first gym, which will have 3 gym leaders, one of which will challenge you with a fire, grass or water type variation of the "Broccoli-head Monkey" you may have seen before, depending on what starter you picked. They will use the monkey of the type that's stronger than your starter.

New Iwata Asks on Nintendo's Japanese site. Someone on Serebii.net's forums did some translation. Interesting stuff, including Isshu officially being based on the New York City area. http://www.serebiiforums.com/showpost.php?p=11598933&postcount=15253 - Non-PokemonCenter IR Trading. You can trade from your boxes, too.