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Someone appears to have added pictures to some posts, including my own. We must get to the bottom of this mystery!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, guys. =) I mean, 'grats on avoiding my assassination squads for another year, 'pretz'. (Fresh Greens was always better)

How can you not like ReCapitated? Easily the second best remix project. It puts Voices of the Lifestream to absolute shame. Anyway, I'm going to Northwestern for a couple of days for some reason or another, so I put up a filler post about VGM Facebook groups for those crazy people who use that site.

I KNEW IT

Posted a new Composer Spotlight: Koichi Namiki. Probably best known because he worked on the super awesome Super Hang-On. Tons of album purchase links: buy buy buy! And very oddly, to accompany Liontamer's previous post on vocal arrangements, one of my samples is a vocal track. Completely unintentional. =O

Yeah, it's totally fake for that reason (before | after | side-by-side) and because there's been no official announcement from Nintendo, Camelot, or anyone that this game even exists.

Excellent. I'll begin lowering the blog's standards even more than they were when you added me as a contributor immediately.

I actually do have some pics from Sixty Nine 2, and I found some shots from Lost Child on Tama Soft's site when I was looking up info on the game. I could insert them into the post if you'd like.

Hey, I finally finished Composer Spotlight #2. It's about S.S.H., or something. I think I probably should've called it Sales Pitch #1.

Has Earthbound even been announced as coming to Virtual Console yet? Because not even Japan has it yet, and I have yet to see any news saying that it's a planned future release. I mean, EARTHBOUND FUCK YEAH and all that jazz, but they're really jumping the gun here.

Because that's the proper title of the track, as seen on several DQ original soundtracks and arrange albums.

I made another post. Still no Composer Spotlight #2, though, because... I wanted to chat up the Liontamer (and maybe the pretzel, conveniently on vacation) about this very thing, because all the samples I would include in my next entry would be from CDs, as opposed to from games with never had any soundtrack releases. Even if we have the go-ahead now to just post whole CD tracks, whenever the blog gets moved to WordPress on vgf.ocremix.org or whatever, doing that could pose a serious liability to OCR, which of course I don't want. Basically, I wanted to know if lo-fi'd and/or short snippets of tracks (like thirty seconds to a minute) would be okay. ELABORATION EDIT (to avoid double-posting): I don't see posting songs from games without soundtrack releases as I did in my first Spotlight as a problem for two reasons. The first is that OCR already sort of (not really but work with me here) does this in the form of emulated sound formats like NSFs and SPCs for games. MP3 or otherwise, shit's still copyrighted. The other reason is come onnnnnnnn. Are TV Asahi and Toei going to come after me for posting one track for a game released in 1991? They're well within their rights to, of course, but the harm there is roughly equivalent to $0.00 (0¥). This might be a bigger issue with more recent games, but I just don't think anything would be very likely on those grounds. CDs, on the other hand, are a bigger issue. In my world, posting one track from an album wouldn't be a problem at all, but of course in my world I have a trillion billion dollars, my own space shuttle, and a private continent. I know an online retailer currently selling one of the albums I'd want to sample in my next Spotlight, and possibly more (I've only made up my mind on one track), and posting music from those is a whole new front that I'd be opening up OCR to. I really don't know what, if anything, would fall under fair use guidelines or any other copyright law loopholes.

I'll have another post someday. Someday. Dammit I'm lazy.

Almost all. Garian made the tracker module loop better.

Why not use PNG transparency?

You know what's worse? Playing it with four white mages but killing off three of them in the first battle and never reviving. I think beating the game with a single white mage has roughly the same difficulty as 1CCing DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou. Playing FF1 with four white mages was simultaneously the most and least fun I've ever had playing a video game. I think it took me like twenty tries to beat Garland. It's an amazing experience, but it'll go even slower than Dragon Warrior. God, I need to do that again some time and actually play the whole way through.

Yeah, how does it fucking feel for you to have fucking written the fucking music to a fucking Contra game?

Apparently someone (Steven "surasshu" Velema) asked virt if he was doing the music, and he said no. NDA? NP got it wrong?

My favorite new thing added to Pokemon Puzzle League were the action puzzles. In PlanPL, they're basically just skill chain practice, but in PokePL, they were all about how to exploit different timing tricks in the game. They're an awesome way to get familiar with mechanics like the ones Bahamut mentioned two posts above. The "vacuum suck" addition to PlanPL also increases the number of opportunities. I haven't really played with it in depth and figured out new ways of chaining, but in matches I've made chains that I really don't think should have worked. I vigorously agree.

I agree with everything except this. The soundtrack is amazing and you're a terrible person for thinking otherwise. (I cut off the "and repetitive" part because I agree with that too.) > > > With the exploding lift, my high score's somewhere in the 58K range with I think a 33 chain. I haven't played Planet without exploding lift, but when I was at the top of my game in Pokemon Puzzle League, the highest I could get was somewhere in the 30,000's.

I made a real post this time. D: The next one will be better, I promise. I already know it will be.

He does. Cocky bastard.

I can't believe you made birthday cookies and didn't give me any, zirc. ;_;

That's such a gay strategy, but I can't believe I've never thought of it before. :\ I didn't even realize I'd been hit by it until Baha was ranting in #ocremix about this guy who was doing it to him and it turned out I'd played and lost to him before. >____> (although that was by a stupid error on my part) Also, greatest game ever, etc. 472549-375548

I posted. D: Please don't fire me, Larry.