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Would it be possible to add the download, chiptunes, links, and other tabs on the top of the review pages as well? I know it's only one extra click to get to these pages, but I think having these links available on the review pages would further streamline the site.

I agree that it's definitely not sampled, but I can easily see how someone could think that. The string bit that sounds like CT is from a song called "The Love We Share Is The Greatest Of Them All" by Tom Brock (released in 1974). The pitch is altered, and some bits are edited, but apart from that it's the same. So yeah, mythbusted. EDIT: Here's a sample of each, for comparison purposes: http://jmr.sitesled.com/tb-jz-comparison.mp3 First 20 seconds are from the Tom Brock song, the last 20 seconds are from "Say Hello"

2 gigs not enough for a workday's worth of music? I've got an iRiver iFP-899, which is only one gig, and I can squeeze upwards of 280 songs on it. I currently have 283 songs (19h:52m), which I think would be more than enough for a workday. I just swap out songs as I get tired of them, so I constantly have a fresh playlist. (I convert everything to q3 or q4 OGG Vorbis, which doesn't sound all that bad for the filesize.)As for why I use the iFP: Well, the OGG support, for one. Plus, it's got an FM tuner/recorder, a decent built-in microphone, and a line-in/external mic input. It's damn useful for instances where lugging around recording equipment isn't an option. The pre-programed eq. presets, and the ability to set your own is a pretty neat option as well. EDIT: Another reason why I like my iRiver: it runs on a standard AA battery. I'm using an old, modified Kodak battery pack and charger, and I get a good weeks worth of use on a single charge.

I love the disclaimer at the end of the BioShock review:

I've been using Winamp as long as I've had a windows computer. It plays nearly everything, and lately they've been adding a lot of transcoding tools which make it extremely useful for converting for my Mp3 player. I don't really use the library features, though. I rarely have more than 5 gigs of music (some of that's lossless) on my hard drive at a time, and most of it eventually gets archived to a DVDR. I use a disc cataloging program (Advanced Disc Catalog) to keep track of everything instead.

I thought the same thing. Would be awesome to hear something similar to this on OCR.As for the rest of the song: I think it's pretty good. I'm not quite feeling the vocals, but the rest of it is alright. I'll definitely be checking out this band's other music. By the way, is there any reason why a band would post a radio rip on their official myspace? I've heard the incomprehensible words (heard as the song's fading out) on other radio rips from Zane Lowe's show. Plus, the version on their player is EXACTLY the same as the BBC Radio One recording that's been circulating online for the last week (save for the shitty myspace 96kbps/22khz bitrate).

My sentiments exactly.

That was the main focus of my high school course as well. Many in the class actually operated their businesses over the school year, which was pretty cool.

Just out of curiosity, what else are you doing in that course? Because it sounds a LOT like my high school enterprise course.

I completed it, if only to repay you for that question and answer thing I put you through when I was taking Enterprise 3205 (which was also an entrepreneurship course) in high school. I didn't even notice that you were offering prizes. EDIT: I passed the link on to my younger brother. He's more of a gamer than I am, so I think that makes his opinions a little more valid.

I'm guessing that this is what you're looking for: Might want to do a forum search before asking next time; there was an album art thread not to long ago. Given how often a request for OCR album art shows up, isn't about time that an official, OCR-sanctioned version was made available? EDIT: Damn, looks like DarkeSword beat me to it.

Same here, although getting a full quality WAV version isn't that bad. Any chance of this EP getting a physical CD (or CD-R) release in the future?

I remember seeing other 'for sale' threads here, so I would guess that this thread is okay in the community forum.

I really haven't got that much to add. I don't mind unobtrusive advertising, so anything without sound, popups, offensive content or seizure-inducing flashing colors should be fine. As others have mentioned, there's plenty of unutilized space to the left below the navigation sidebar that could be used as ad space (on both the main pages and the forums). As for the in-thread advertising between the first and second posts, I'm completely okay with that, as long as it doesn't appear when I'm logged in.

Yeah, the fact that they're GD-Roms, which can't be read in CD Drives. Now, if you have a coder's cable or a broadband adapter, you could probably rip the games using the dreamcast itself as a drive. In most cases, though, you would have to scale down the video or do some compression or something in order to fit it on a CD-R. Not to promote piracy or anything, but it's probably MUCH easier to download and burn versions that are already pre-compressed or modified. As for game recommendations, here's what spends the most time in my DC (some of these have already been said, but whatever): Ikaruga (Japan only, but worth it if you can find it.) Soul Calibur Grandia II (I've only started playing this one recently, but it's shaping up to be pretty good.) ChuChu Rocket! Crazy Taxi 2 (Very addictive. There are a lot of extras and unlockables, which is pretty sweet.) Worms World Party (great for multiplayer.) ...the next few are non-commercial, so it's pointless to look for them in stores. nxDoom (a homebrew port of the Doom engine. Requires the original Doom WADs, or, if you want, modded versions.) NesterDC-Special Edition (What can I say, I really love NES games. This emu is probably the most compatible and the easiest to burn out of all of them; it comes with a builder program that automatically adds boxart and cart photos, manual scans, NSFs, and all of that to the disc.) Also, be sure to search online for the Street Fighter 2 Turbo "ReMix" version, which has the in-game soundtrack replaced by Blood on the Asphalt.

I listened in to most of last night's show, and I enjoyed it enough to want to listen again next week. The Daniel Brown interview was pretty interesting as well. His Final Phantom project seems like a pretty neat concept; I think I might check that out later. How long after the show are the MP3s and Playlists posted? There's one song in particular that I really enjoyed, but can't find anywhere (I think it was Yuu: "The end of 1000 years" [Melty Blood]), so I'd like to have the show recording, if only for that one song. EDIT: Found it. Once I found this, it was no problem.

I've been using a modified version of GenesisPlusDC. It runs fullspeed on most games, but the sound could use some work. Here's a link to the sbi (sorry, that's all I can find right now), which you use with Selfboot Inducer. Yeah, you can. Like I said, look for the hacked versions of the bleemcast bootdisk (I would give you a link, but it's legality is questionable). The compatibility is, well, not quite as good as I remember it, and apparently saving doesn't work with the hacked versions. For some reason, though, I remember it working pretty well with the games I tried... In some cases, you can find PSX games that have been have been modified to selfboot and not require the bleemcast bootdisk. I found a version of Megaman X4 like this that works pretty well, save for a few small graphic glitches. EDIT: As for the SNES issues, you can usually improve performance by using PAL roms with the latest DreamSNES. They run much better than their NTSC counterparts.

There is a program called XMSNES that allows you to convert XM, MOD, and S3M files to the SPC format. As far as I know, that's the only way to create an actual, original SPC. EDIT: Here's another option that I forgot about: You can use the Zelda 3 rom editor Hyrule Magic to edit the music in the game, which you can dump to SPC with nearly any emulator. However, if I remember correctly, the editor's interface was pretty complex to me and I wasn't able to accomplish much with it. Maybe someone more familiar with tracking software could figure it out. There may be a few legality issues as well (for one, you need a Zelda 3 rom, and any SPC files you'd create would retain some elements of the game's code), so you may want to avoid going this route. I'm just letting you know your options.

This page has a pretty large collection of DC Homebrew software, games, and emulators. Definitely worth checking out. I don't exactly agree with that statement. Sure, the SNES and GBA emulators don't work that well, and N64 is pretty much impossible for the system, but with a bit of effort, you can get near-perfect PSX emulation with a lot of games. (Look for the hacked Bleemcast demos.) With a bit of searching, you can find a few NeoGeo games that run excellently as well. And of course, the NES, GBC, Sega Master System/Game Gear, Genesis/Mega Drive, Atari 2600, and nearly all of the older systems (including portions of MAME) are emulated nearly perfectly.As for something to use with the keyboard/mouse... I don't have either of those accessories, so I can't recommend anything.

I posted this a few days ago in the OC ReMix Albums thread, but it didn't seem to get any attention. I figured that re-posting it here would be the best course of action.

My brother uses a set of protectors on his DS lite. As far as I can tell, they've been working great. No noticeable effects with the touch screen, no discoloration, no dimming. I don't think he's replaced them since last Christmas, either. I can't remember the brand name of the one's he's using, though. They were bought in a Walmart of all places and I don't think they were too expensive. The only identifying feature I can think of right now is that the top screen protector is fairly rigid and has a white frame; it wasn't like the clear film-like protector for the touch screen.

You could use pretty much any wave editor and backmask the offending words. Just select the section of the song containing the word and reverse it.

Nice. It's great having all of the main album info and links condensed down into one concise page. I noticed a few things that might need to be fixed, though. On the Project Chaos page: What about the third ("Special") disc? Not counting it? All of the individual album pages have some sort of project logo to the left of the section with the links/generic info, except for Hedgehog Heaven. For consistency alone, shouldn't there be one? If you don't have anything suitable, I can find my original CD artwork files and send them to you. EDIT2: Looks like you had one there, but the image is no longer available. The red x doesn't show up in Firefox, but it's there in IE7. I've also noticed a few (minor) issues with the last.fm implementation. The playlist widgets that are on each page only show the first 26 tracks in the playlist (up to Shnabubula's Stone Eyes on VotL and Hetcenus' Ivory Gadget on Project Chaos, doesn't affect other projects). Also, some of the track times in the player are showing up as 0:00. For example, the whole of Kong in Concert shows up like this, and on Rise of the Star, all but two are 0:00. (I'm not sure if these are errors on OCR's or last.fm's part, or if it's only some issue on my end, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to point these out anyway.) EDIT: Will this be extended to forum profiles as well? I'd love to see some sort of indication of OCR album involvement in my post header.

Equalizer settings are not exactly a one-size-fits-all kind of thing, so it's kinda hard to recommend particular settings. It depends on your speaker setup (for example: you wouldn't use the same settings for laptop speakers that you would for desktop speakers, and headphones are a completely different ballpark...). It also depends on what you're listening to. If you're listening to a poorly mastered recording (perhaps a concert bootleg or something like that), you may want to use a custom preset to compensate. What works with one recording won't necessarily work that well with another. To top it all off, what sounds 'good' to one person might not please another. It's really a subjective thing. I'd recommend that you just experiment with the different presets, or try making a custom one, and see what sounds best for you.

Here's what I've been using: It's nothing special, but it serves the purpose well.