José the Bronx Rican

No, you don't. ;P It was a raw WIP, with quite a lot missing, but good enough for the folks at MAG to get hyped on. The proper final will shame it. I'll give you screens, tho:

You forgot F.) OLD, Stevo, even if it only applies to me and Jon St. John. And didn't know you guys are on that panel, Jim; I was already interested.

Avoid sleep at your peril: it will make you its bitch later in life. Mine is NEVER scheduled, and you will see me lying around a lot.

This one hurt a bit. My love for her talent is endless. Two of my favorites: I Need Your Lovin' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8RLxJ2Q8Pk Tune in Tomorrow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2eYW5ljXQ

Plus one peeps.

Here's a good place to mention, in case no one's noticed: Congrats on having exactly TWO THOUSAND posted songs! "Full Moon Cello" is officially ReMix #2142, but brings the current song count to 2000.

Me, on the evening of the 2nd: "Wait, what?!"

Nobody asking me how I heard it beforehand? 'Cause I'm dying to know.

You did it, but I added extra thunder where needed, for added smex.

Oh, HELLZ no. "Old, popular Nintendo phrase"? "In addition to Nintendo's use"? I've only ever heard it ONCE in the 90's: Ice Cube's " ", first line. Nobody cared then, and it damn well didn't rise to any level of "pop culture" in 1992. Sad that they have even a slight chance of approval.

I didn't argue in either direction. Some get sick of the "Met-vania" stuff and it's understandable, but I just draw the line at this apparent resentment toward the all-time classics. Trying to deny their status like that just ain't right.

Funny you mention: I've seen it happen with Castlevania, and it's kind of a sad development. It's referred to as "Metroid-vania" now, and some are actually blaming "Symphony of the Night" for taking it in this direction. I shake my head and move on. The most vocal opposition is likely not true fandom, sorta like those who scream about how much they hate the Simpsons, but watch every new episode so they can come online and tell you how much it sucked. The type who can't wait to be first in a thread with the most tired, most unoriginal snide comment against the franchise before actual discussion begins. Positive opinion is ignored and/or dismissed, and the revisionist history continues. There is such a thing as passion to a fault, however. I don't have much faith in the collective fandom to look at any of these titles with an open mind anymore. Saddest part is, I came to this conclusion in 2004. I also knew the fans wouldn't accept any liability for this one: are we pretending the "Needlemouse" poll didn't exist now? Did they or did they not utilize fan feedback?

Did anyone bring up yet how fangames can develop over several years without any kind of deadline, and the team adds tweaks and improvements "whenever they get to 'em" and it'll be released "whenever it's released so stop asking"? Not to mention we usually forgive everything in a fangame and nothing in a professionally developed one. Not saying this happened with S4 and the 'remix' thing, but I'm willing to bet the fan title would be declared a lot closer to "suck" if Sega did release it. EDIT: Oh, and quoted from the Sonic Retro article: Less relevant in the age of downloadable patches, but still worth mentioning.

I thought I out-Vin'd everybody by now.

This. Of course, people who've met me know this about me.

Full agreement on Spinball. A regrettable pile of noise in that one, even though the music was decent to me, especially "Lava Powerhouse."

Just curious: I'm wondering if many of the "ear-screech" opinions were the result of listening to Genesis chiptunes or emulators instead of an ACTUAL Genesis? SPC's can sound almost exactly like a real SNES, but the FM in the Gen formats are pure and unadulterated, as opposed to the warm (almost too warm) Genesis hardware output. Big difference IMO. That's why I rip my tunes from the original machine, and why I need to look for carts of Moonwalker and Incredible Hulk.

Also known as "Apple vs. Orange, the Armageddon". Pretty much goes for every sound chip. No one complained about the NES stuff, which worked off the same technology, had less to work with, but also had no real console competition, while the state of the art in console sound synthesis was apparently no match for cheap, quickly looped samples. Of course, this comparison of two completely different sound technologies was just another excuse to dump on the opposing console. You had to be almost a professor in sound design to get great results out of a Genesis, and you usually had to go into major megabit territory to get good enough samples on the SNES side. For every Genesis Street Fighter II, I give you SNES Thunder Spirits. Either can fail if you don't put the work in.

Wow, five whole minutes for the snidest, most obvious comment to appear? Things are looking up.

A few from my older faves that come to mind.... Thunder Force IV: Rolling Thunder 2: Later, same video: And I remember this one because Pezman asked me to transcribe this madness to MIDI once... from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake:

GOING! The plan so far is to room with Dyne and others. Before we continue, the word from bgc and Brendan is to decide very quickly if you're going, and then GET PRE-REGISTERED ASAP!!, because it's likely they're going to fill to capacity again, and anyone still putting off might miss out. Don't be one of those people.

You should know that's not the same thing. Parody is much closer to fair use than complete original content. Disregarding the irrelevant stuff about how they operate, you're assuming it's completely up to them. We're talking billions of people on this planet; it's impossible to enforce anything consistently. More likely, they simply wait for enough complaints, then take action. It can happen anywhere, at any time. It may yet happen to OC ReMix... one day an arrangement might not get off. Like Dave said, 'knock on wood'. It may yet happen to me... I deal in small excerpts, not whole films, but that's no guarantee either. I have two videos with claims on them (another vid's claim later disappeared), and they get ads. I happen to like that solution, because before they'd just be removed altogether. I give youtube some credit.

My "no fear" update: Because I'm finally confident I'll be rolling to a finished track on deadline. Trying to coordinate with zyko now on some lyrics.

"Mexican Flyer", by Ken Woodman and His Picadilly Brass, became the influence and inspiration for most of Space Channel 5's soundtrack, but that means it probably couldn't be done here, because it was an original track released decades ago, and obviously not for a videogame. As for the rest, I'm dying to do something from the game, so this has my endorsement. PS: "Coco*Tapioca" is my JOINT!

I can vouch for the epic stories.