Dwelling of Duels - August 2014 - Motoi Sakuraba Month!

[Brandon Strader]

Free Month Results

So, after half of the entries has been DQ'd (seriously guys, hide your songs better), here's the results.

#1 Mega Beardo - Alien 3 (NES) - Giger? I Don't Even Know Her! - good -0.17

#2 Dr. Manhattan - Uncharted 3 - Fear And Loathing In Ubar - good -0.2

#3 Harmsing - Darkwing Duck - Dave Bruduck Investigates The City N - good -0.24

#4 Ivan Hakštok, Sixto Sounds - Gradius Gaiden - The Heavens Are Calling - good -0.26

#5 GearX2 - Kirby Triple Deluxe - Fine Field Of The Pink King - above average +0.43

#6 Nestalgica - TMNT2: The Arcade Game - Technodrome Terror - above average +0.41

#7 VankiP - Streets Of Rage 2 - Night Dreamer 131 - above average +0.35

#8 Brandon Strader - Metal Gear Solid 4 - Like A Damn Fiddle - above average +0.31

#9 Juja, RawDanger - Chrono Trigger - Epoch...Become Bird!! - above average +0.22

#10 boobini - Marble Madness - Marbles Will Tear Us Apart - above average +0.2

#11 NesTalgia - Zen Intergalactic Ninja - Welcome To Earth - above average +0.17

#12 Harjawaldar - Ufouria - A Perilous Journey - above average +0.15

#13 Cyan - Golden Axe - Club Of Axe - above average -0.04

#14 PokérusVGM - Pokémon Emerald - Hoenn In Danger - above average -0.21

#15 zephyon - Mega Man 2 - Holographic Holocaust - above average -0.22

#16 Hyde209 - Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Amiga) - Saving Our Planet Is Yes a Good Thing - above average -0.28

#17 Shipluss - Kirby Super Star - Brainwave - above average -0.3

#18 Vic Viper - Baby Felix: Halloween - Baby Felix - above average -0.43

#19 Ailsean, finbeard, Nikolai - Silent Hill 2 - Laura - above average -0.47

#20 creepue - Guilty Gear X - Beyond The Dark Life - above average -0.47

#21 TwoJan - Duck Tales 2 - Captain MegaDuck Rescue Rangers - average +0.28

#22 valence - Mario Kart 64 - Peach's Chromatic Nightmare - average +0.1

#23 cacomistle, Zio Oxview - Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars - Downtown Playroom - average -0.01

#24 tibone - Dragon Spirit - Cave WIP - below average +0.46

Voters: 35

ALTS

Audio Sprite - Shenmue - Full Reactive Remix

Brandon Strader, streifig - FF7, Sonic, Excite Bike, Chrono Trigger, Battletoads, SMB2 - First Place Entry (Sent Over Facebook Chat)

cacomistle - Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars - Second String

TheBigSpoon - Child of Light - Aurora's Theme

Congrats to Mega Beardo, Dr. Manhattan and Harmsing (sorry bro, Hugo beat you at the last moment).

Welcome to Dwelling of Duels, Audio Sprite, TwoJan and Shipluss.

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The month page and zip are updated.

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August Theme

Next month is...

Motoi Sakuraba Month

banner by FoxxDragon. Here's the high-res version.

So yeah, we're having a composer month. If you wanted to cover Star Ocean, Mario Golf, Dark Souls, Valkyre Profile or, i dunno, Sol-Feace, here's your chance!

Here's the list of Motoi Sakuraba's works.

Due Date: August 27th, 3PM EST

Send Entries To: dodsongs@gmail.com

RULES

Read the rules to avoid disqualification issues! NEWCOMERS, give heed.

[Mirby]

Motoi Sakuraba is part of Linked Horizon, who helped work on the music for Bravely Default.

So yeah. That would be eligible too, or at least Fighting to the End (boss theme, not the asterisk battle one but the normal one) since I know he did synths on that.

[Ivan Hakštok]

Well me and Brandon have been asking for a Star Ocean month for quite a while, I think this is the closest we'll get.

Also, a composer month gives me hope we'll see a Mitsuda month somewhere in the future!

[Chernabogue]

Gooooooooooooooooolden Suuuuuuuuun!

[Jamphibious]

Oh man oh man. Is this the DoD I finally enter? Sakurabaaaaa.

[orlouge82]

Oh man, I hope someone picks a song from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour

[Eino Keskitalo]

They're not Shining Force II.. but it'd be cool to hear Shining Force III or Shining the Holy Ark please!

[ebuch]

Oooh.. that includes Kid Icarus: Uprising. I want to make time for this.

[Rexy]

Apparently, Shipluss is a 13-year-old girl? And she played the piano better than when I was 13?! I'm very impressed!

Just thought I'd get that out there. Nice turnout this month!

[Brandon Strader]

Apparently, Shipluss is a 13-year-old girl? And she played the piano better than when I was 13?! I'm very impressed!

Just thought I'd get that out there. Nice turnout this month!

Yah, I felt bad for how critical of it I was during the listening party, but honesty can be the best feedback. Though with recording a live real piano, all you can really do is improve your microphones and mic placement.. so it's purely financial. Luckily, I don't usually write actual reviews on DoD so there's no proof I said anything overly critical.

As for this month you all better be remixing the STAR OCEAN

[Chernabogue]

Yah, I felt bad for how critical of it I was during the listening party, but honesty can be the best feedback. Though with recording a live real piano, all you can really do is improve your microphones and mic placement.. so it's purely financial. Luckily, I don't usually write actual reviews on DoD so there's no proof I said anything overly critical.

Confess you wanted to replace SnappleMan, Brandon!

But yeah, it was a nice month with some nice surprises. I really loved Brandon's MGS remix and the SATANIC POKEMON REMIX OMG

[Brandon Strader]

I hope you guys are entering because this is Motoi Sakuraba month and this is important. Tomorrow the 27th at 3pm ET is the ending time I believe.

[Eino Keskitalo]

Aww crap, time just flies by doesn't it.

[Garpocalypse]

Wait a minute. It's WHAT MONTH?!

awwwww crap.

[jnWake]

This month was stupidly busy for me... Next month I'll return to DoD fields.

[Chernabogue]

Already finished?? Ouch. No time to do music this month

[Brandon Strader]

There's still about 8 hours left to make something

[Ivan Hakštok]

Entries are up! A really good month I have to say

Here's another of those posts with a bunch links. Motoi Sakuraba Month entries are up! Good and quality turnout to celebrate the great composer!

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THE PAGE

THE ZIP

Didn't have time to upload the entries to YouTube, so no playlist till the end of the month, sorry.

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Thanks to everyone who attended the listening party!

THE LOG

Don't forget to vote at: http://dwellingofduels.net/voting/

[Brandon Strader]

It wasn't the best month entriy amount-wise or length-wise but it was amazing and it had multiple Star Ocean entries and that's all I ever really wanted. I think Hakstock's song could have been a little less conservative and have more variation to the leads but overall very good stuff!