Monthly Archives: August 2006

Zelda: OOT Project now recruiting!

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…and no, it’s not OLRina of Time 😀

This particular project is the brainchild of Nario, Link12584, and Jewbei, and so far there has been a VGMix thread informing us that they are now recruiting.
In this thread there are also some good points made about the scene in general
[depending on who you agree with, I guess]. As of this news post, the
artists who have signed on include myself, DistantJ, Strike911, DJ
Siamey, and a few others that I don’t know very well yet.

I’m encouraging that you get in contact with Nario, Link12584 or Jewbei and sign up for a track! I think this’ll be a great learning experience for everyone involved.

-soc

ReMix:ThaSauce welcomes 2 new arbiters + your opinion counts!

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Yesterday R:TS introduced 2 new arbiters, remixers Cerrax & EazyP, to help speed along the queue & it didn’t take them too long at all to jump into the fray.
This will hopefully help the queue move along more quickly as Suzu and Xerol become more occupied with other things. HOWEVER it’s important that everyone remember that, regardless of whether you’re an arbiter or not, your opinion counts. After all, ThaSauce is all about the community, and R:TS is about enjoyability. If you don’t agree with one of the arbiters or myself with why you feel otherwise. Make sure to clearly state your point, and now “That vote is BULLSHIT.” If we’re convinced that users will enjoy the song, then it’ll get posted.

COMMUNITY YES OVERRIDE 😮

The OrmGas Remix Project gets a new makeover!

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In the last couple of days, I’ve been revamping a new page for the OrmGas Remix Project!

For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s a project exclusive to Ormgas members. They make the tracklist and the community has its own remixers to do stuff. We’re quite soft on that rule, so even prolific OC ReMixers get to join too.
The site’s main purpose is to let people upload and rate WIPs and whatnot autonomously. I’ll be shortly adding something for the tracklists too.

Do visit Ormgas admin and my host Tanaric‘s page. If you can, a spare dollar wouldn’t hurt to keep the darn expensive costs down.

P.S.: e107.

40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted

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MMORPGs and game addiction.
If you’re suffering from dry eyes, headaches, back aches, erratic sleep
patterns, it may be more than just your average hangover: according to
Dr. Maressa Orzack, you could be suffering from video and computer game
addiction.
A clinical psychologist, Orzack is founder and coordinator of
Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Newton, Mass., and is
also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Computer
Addiction Services is one of the few outpatient clinics in the U.S.
that provides specific treatment for game addiction.

Source: slashdot

VGDJ #52 – Otakon Panel! Lucky easterners.

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From the VGDJ Website, “Stop! It’s panel time. Yes, that’s right, we’re back from Otakon and things went great. In fact, we had so much fun that we decided to bring home a big ol’ recording for this week’s show. djpretzel, GeoffreyTaucer, and even the great Liontamer all make an appearance as we take you through what has undoubtedly been one of the highest points for OCR and VGDJ yet. Sit down with your favorite tentacle, grab a lightsaber, and enjoy the ride.”
[00:00] Larry “Liontamer” Oji gives us a thoughtful and detailed review of Otakon.

[01:13] Oh shnap! We’ve been talking about it for over a month now, but this is it: the Otakon show. We had a great time hanging out there, but more importantly, the OCReMix Panel was a smash hit.

[03:24] OCReMixer OverCoat – SeattleOverCoat, soc, whatever you prefer to call him – recently completed an Anime “Chipdisk” (thread), and it only seemed appropriate to use it for some BGM on this episode. You can pick up the full chipdisk for yourself right here.

[04:27] As of this writing, we seem to have momentarily fallen one spot behind in the rankings for Music/Radio podcasts on podcastalley. Now, we can’t have that, can we?! Take a mere 10 seconds while you’re listening to vote for us this month if you haven’t already, and get that warm, fuzzy feeling. You can visit our OCR thread or our store too while you’re at it!

[07:15] The OCR Panel: Right from the start, it was clear that we had more than a handful of people present. djpretzel starts by explaining the fundamentals of OCR and what the site is all about.
[09:27] We go into a little more detail about the submission process and how ReMixes are evaluated. It was somewhat heartwrenching to tell fans of Bubble Bobble (YEAH!) that drumloops over the original tunes aren’t really OCR material, but oh well.

[10:57] pixietricks reassures the audience that groove bias is just a rumor, and that one can find all kinds of ReMixes on the site. And to prove it, we just happened to bring along a…

[11:29] ReMix Medley: Starting with ‘The Ken Song‘ by jdproject, from Street Fighter 2.

[12:28] Next up, we had ‘Da Black Market‘ by Mythril Nazgul, D-Lux, Flik, and Joe Cam, from Earthbound. Of course, Larry couldn’t resist rapping along towards the end.

[13:37] To switch up the eras we went with ‘Metal Gear May Cry‘ by Jared Hudson, from Metal Gear Solid 2.

[14:43] Harmony‘s ‘Dragon Song‘ from Secret of Mana was quite a crowdpleaser!

[15:48] A VGDJ favorite followed it up; ‘Love Hurts‘ by djpretzel, from Sonic the Hedgehog. Great porn music? You decide.

[16:41] Dhsu and GrayLightning represent! Their mix ‘Nayru’s Love‘ from Zelda: Oracle of Ages struck a chord with the audience.

[17:44] It may be aging, but ‘Bomberfuzz‘ by Fuzz from the game Bomberman is every bit as good now as it was when it came out.

[18:41] Anime fans = RPG fans, and RPG fans = Chrono Trigger fans, obviously. po!‘s Electric Clouds was a logical choice for ’em.

[19:50] SuperBuckJazz by Estradasphere, from Super Mario Bros. 2. Need we say more?

[21:00] We finished up the medley with none other than ‘Lover Reef‘ by zircon, pixietricks, D-Lux, shonensamurai, and GeoffreyTaucer, from Sonic & Knuckles.

[21:45] Thus concludes our medley, but if you’d like to hear it in full quality, you can pick up the MP3 right here.

[22:20] We tell the peeps that OCR isn’t just about music, it’s about community also, and we’ve proven that by way of our numerous meetups all over the world.

[23:24] Site projects have become regular occurences as well. As zircon explains, these are full albums that contain ReMixes of an entire soundtrack from a game. The audience seemed pretty excited at both the existing and upcoming projects we mentioned!

[25:05] Now we were pretty surprised when we heard this one. It appears as though OverClocked ReMix actually has an official podcast about the site and the community. WTF? Why didn’t we hear about that? They even went to Video Games Live and got some pictures. I wish we could have done that. 🙁

[26:44] djpretzel is more than happy to tell the world about OCR’s media exposure on the internet, in press, and on TV. What’s really amazing is that pro game composers like Jeremy Soule have even showed their support for OCR by submitting their own ReMixes!

[27:57] We thought it would be worth mentioning some sister sites that feature some kind of remixes. These include the self-explanatory AnimeRemix, the up and coming Remix:Tha Sauce, and the slightly handicapped OverLooked ReMix, which Larry was proud to talk about. He also had a brief addendum to our site list; Ormgas, the 24/7 streaming OCReMix radio station.

[30:43] Our Powerpoint presentation ended here, but you can always download it and watch it for yourself. Props to pixietricks for putting it together.

[32:53] djpretzel and GeoffreyTaucer perform their collab ‘Town Life‘ from Chrono Trigger!

[36:39] zircon subs in for Reuben Kee, accompanying pixietricks‘ as we perform ‘The Place We Knew‘ from Chrono Trigger.

[41:27] This would have been the part where we did a trivia & giveaway with the audience, followed by a question and answer session, but due to some technical problems we couldn’t capture it in the recording. Sowwy. :< However! We did manage to get the very last part of the Q&A, which featured a loyal OCR fan who actually came up to the panel, gave a little speech about how awesome we are, and then handed djpretzel a present... [43:31] “It’s a pretzel.” What a way to close out a kick-ass panel. [44:34] Suffice it to say we were very, very happy with the way things turned out. Not only was the panel really fun, but we had a great time at the rest of the con too! Just check out our action shot photo album. We really want to thank everyone who came to both the panels and the meetups and made them fun. Stay in touch via IRC, voicemail, or our OCR thread, and before this MP3 ends, check PodcastAlley and make sure you’ve voted for us this month!

[48:59] VOICEMAIL: Belthesar, Shivy, zircon’s-got-a-letter guy, Otakon meetup group call, DJAnubis, DJ, and Fusion2004.

[53:24] [stinger]

BACKGROUND MUSIC used in Episode 052, in the order in which it appeared:
‘Sync Ratio (Evangelion)’ by Coda, from the Anime Chipdisk
‘Origa Trail (GITS:SAC)’ by Coda and OverCoat, from the Anime Chipdisk
‘Serial Communication (Gundam Wing)’ by Coda, from the Anime Chipdisk
‘We Are the Stars (Ragnarok)’ by Coda, from the Anime Chipdisk
‘Twoson Hits the Road’ by djpretzel, from Earthbound
‘The Journey to the West’ from the Princess Mononoke OST
‘Lullaby for Tohru’ by pixietricks, from Fruits Basket

Amiga > PC = True

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So, now it’s been scientifically determined that the Amiga CAN beat the PC fair and square.

In the combined demo competition on The Assembly 2006 last weekend, the Amiga demo Starstruck by The Black Lotus crushed the competition and outdid all the others, which were mostly PC demos.

TBL only made 3rd place in the BreakPoint 2006 competition and
became quite annoyed at that “bad” result and decided to show people
what they’re made of, and they surely did.

Some random comments about the demo from pouët.net:

“Wheeeeyaaa!! This one is amazing!! Überdemo!”

“holy bananas.”

“Just as disappointed as I was over their Breakpoint’06 amiga demo, just as much in awe I am of this one …”

“No words for the best amiga demo I have ever seen!”

“I don’t know much about Amigas, but I presume this is rather awesome ;)”

“This demo rules….the soundtrack is AWESOME.”

“holy makrel, that’s one darn good demo! fuckings for humiliating the pc scene, louie :-)”

“have someone seen my jaws I dropped them somewhere”

“Nice one. The fact that an Amiga demo wins the demo compo in 2006 is kind of hilarious. Way to go guys! Keep the Amiga alive!”

The soundtrack to the demo by Olof ‘Blaizer’ Gustafsson will be played during the show ‘On Air with Ziphoid’ on SLAY Radio this coming thursday as well.

Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation: Plutonium Edition – Re-re-re-release.

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After countless requests to put the torrent back up, I’ve FINALLY decided to RE-RELEASE the RoFL: Plutonium Edition for the Xth time.
Though the original Plutonium Edition released after the April 1st joke was lost in a hard drive crash, I did my best to re-compile this one as best I can. This version contains all 35 original tracks AND AntonioPizza’s track for the re-release version, “Skeetin’ On a Cell Phone.” It also has way cleaner tags and filenames than the original release.

So enough talk, go download it @:

http://duck.thasauce.net/plutonium/

Dwelling of Duels – July 2006 – Tim Follin Month

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The theme was any game music by Tim Follin! This month’s winner was Ryan8bit! Congrats!
#1 – Ryan8Bit – Target Renegade (NES) – The Fuzz Scuffle

#2 – Reboot – Sly Spy (Amiga Computer) – Sly Spy – 18 votes

#3 – TheoConfider and Kolesch1 – Pictionary (NES) – Picture This – 13 votes

#4 – Cacomistle – Thomas the Tank Engine (SNES) – Dave Thomas the Tank Engine

#5 – XMark – Solstice (NES) – Isometric Groove

Next month (August) is Free Month! Go at it! The due date is Saturday, August 26th 11:00 PM EST! Good luck!

Ormgas gets a full load of minor features!

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To keep the people satisfied until Ormgas v2.0, Ormgas owner and admin ravon has implemented new and special icons for the main playlist.

The main playlist now has little ‘thumbs up’ signs for any songs on the Top 100 of Ormgas.

Earlier before, ravon also implemented a new icon (stars) instead of numbers for the voting process.
There is debate and whatnot, but the main consensus seems to be that they are helpful. There is much accord on the idea that newbies should have to wait and level up (as the rank process is named) before getting the thumbs up icons because it may influence the weight of voting towards it.

The logo is now clickable, and it leads to the main page, like many other sites (with the exception of here 🙂 ). Due to much complaining, the ‘Main’ link was restored anyways.

Another hidden feature has finally been linked. The ‘Search’ page was finally linked to in the menu, after many years of being sheltered away from users. It really helps to find what you need.

Check all of it out at oc.ormgas.com.