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PRC240 - Winner Announced - Being Trapped in A Remix (Pitfall 2)


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The People's Remix Competition 240

PRCv10-06

Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition!

Last round four songs and 1 bonus mix where submitted. Adge made his PRC debute and ended up with 8 points. FreakyT and DrumJ8 could'n stop MindWanderer who claimed victory.

The first game I ever played that actually had a soundtrack was Pitfall 2 on the Atari 2600. Granted, it was really only one song, but that song was catchy! And on top of that, the music actually told a story: when Harry died, the music became slow and sad; when he picked up a pile of gold, it became happy and energetic. There are earlier examples of "real" video game music (not just ambient sound and effects), but I consider Pitfall 2 to not only be a milestone in game music, but to be the source that made me first realize that video game music was a Thing.

I apologize for the poor quality of the YouTube source; it's the only one I could find that didn't truncate the beginning, didn't include jumping noises, and wasn't played on an off-key emulator. You can find others on Youtube. Similarly, the MIDI below is the only one I found that combines the opening music with the ongoing music; there are others on vgmusic.com (including the "sad" variant).

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Source: Pitfall 2 (Atari 2600) - Theme

MIDI 1

Wiki

ThaSauce link: Click here to submit.

GOOD LUCK!

PRC instructions

  1. Limitations at ThaSauce require your entry to be 20 MB or less in size. Length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed (only as Bonus Mixes). If anyone has problems with uploading songs to ThaSauce let me know (in this thread) and post a download link to your song in this thread (so I can upload it to ThaSauce).
  2. Entries must be posted in the ThaSauce link by MONDAY March 18th 2013 at 10:59 am ThaSauce time: check my signature (below) or the ThaSauce page for the exact time left.
  3. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix. You can post it in the thread if that doesn't work.
  4. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted.
  5. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they recieve a free first place vote added onto their score.
  6. The winner of this round may select the source for PRC241.
  7. You can find the full rules list at this page as well.

Doulifee's PRC Archives! For information about the previous contests.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Welcome to the voting stage

The mixing stage is over. This round has 2 songs. To vote, do the following:

- Visit the stated ThaSauce Page and listen to all the entries

- Scroll to the form at the bottom of the screen.

- Fill in the rank of the entries from first to second. Leave the third box empty.

- State a reasoning for it.

- Participants are encouraged to vote and leave feedback. However, they do not win or lose any points by voting, since they cannot vote for themselve but get a free first place bonus if they vote. So non participants are encouraged to vote and leave comments.

Last round winner, MindWanderer, has a vote that counts twice.

You have until THIS Wednesday, March 20th at 11:59 am ThaSauce time to vote (which is exactly 2 days from now), check my signature in the first post or simply the ThaSauce page for the exact time you have.

The winner gets the right to choose the source tune for PRC241.

The songs:

Check the ThaSauce Page:

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It's results time.

Total number of mixes - 2

Total number of votes - 5

Maximum Score - 15.

DrumJ8 was very close to win, but his 12 points are just not enough for the win. He still gets the last place wooden spoon.

And the winner of PRC240 is FreakyT with 13 points.

Congratulations FreakyT. It was a close call, but the double vote of MindWanderer helped you to beat DrumJ8 with one point. Both of you did a great job.

I'm also happy with the number of voters. In most cases rounds with two songs ended up with one or two votes, but this time four people voted who didn't enter the round.

FreakyT, you may select the source for the next round. Send your source to me (with a MID/MP3 file, otherwise send a second source with a MID file) by PM, other options are PM me @ ThaSauce or by e-mailing to bambombim@gmail.com (I prefer a PM @Ocremix).

You may select any source from any game, as long as it doesn't have an Overclocked Remix and it hasn't been on PRC before. Check it at the list:

http://sites.google.com/site/bambombim/prc

http://bambombim.googlepages.com/PRCRemixList.doc (also downloadable via the link above).

Send your source as fast as you can, but before this Friday, 22nd of March 2013.

You can find the votes with comments here:

http://compo.thasauce.net/votes/index/PRC240

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