No, here's how it works.

The long string of random characters is the song itself, you save it by creating a text file in your Prefs folder (iirc) and copying-pasting the text in.

What he did was save the song, record it and upload it to YouTube, which is nothing by itself. However, he claims it for his own creation, which is NOT true.

That is, I created the MPC file, he saved it and uploaded it, and he claims he was the creator. I left a message in his channel about it because for some reason I'm incapable of commenting on the video proper.

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There, got the comment to work.

You're welcome.

Fun with my favourite game evar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqbbwFghOA&fmt=18

Instead of dueling the fighters and trashing the minefield, I spent the first minute of the mission getting the big cruiser as pissed off at me as I could manage.

EDIT: for high-qualitay.

<-----Beaten it on easy mode, unwilling to play medium.

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I don't know if I should feel sad or honoured.

I've been plagiarized.

This video contains this crappy translation of Crystal Snail into Mario Paint Composer.

I'm not even particularly proud of that effort, and someone still came along and snagged it.

Technically speaking, it is not incorrect.

If I wasn't clear, it's not that I DON'T like non-linear games and non-linear platformers, it's just... I don't see why it's BAD for a game to linear.

Because people always seem to list that as a con lately.

It's generally only listed as a con when the game is supposed to be designed around non-linearity.

That is to say, if they listed it as a con and the game was not supposed to be non-linear, they're idiots.

I have no issue with linearity, but if it's linear it should be a classic-style game, and you should play as a Belmont.



@Wind, he was talking about the gameplay, not the storyline.

That's a relief, the previous two were mind-numbingly easy. Especially Portrait of Ruin.

Still trying to process what I just saw here.




I think I'm going to give up.

I can totally imagine that, too.

Alright, I suppose I'd better download this and see what all the hype is about.

There was other stuff in the post that you don't have to ignore

He wasn't the opposition in MM5, that was MM4. In MM5 he built you a new gun, which looked cool but really sucked.



Then again, he also built Beat.

I'm getting a little tired of Metroidvania games. I wish they would just up and make another classic-style CV game.



Barring that, they should remix Overture again, and do a better job of it this time.



I'm going to get this game, but I don't know when.

No.




No.

'Crispier'?

As in, KFC crispy?

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/megaman9/images.html

Yes.

No, he didn't hack Capcom's servers. He talked his 360 into thinking his top score was 1:08.61, then when it connected to Live it automatically sent his 'genuine' score to Capcom's servers.

Try to enjoy yourself.




I doubt you'll succeed, but there's always the remote possibility.

Haha, somebody on Xbox Live apparently hex-edited his top score for Concrete Man to read 1:08.61.

He admitted to it without even being explicitly asked (scroll down about two posts)

Never mind, I was trying to be too clever for my own good.

GS: Are there any robot masters that didn't make the cut that you can share with us?

HT: I don't mean to evade your question, but there is one boss we'd love to introduce to the fans in this occasion. His name is Fake Man. He appears on the special stage available in downloadable content. He also makes a small appearance in the main content. This is a big hint! Some of you might have already gotten it by just telling you this. The special stage will be very challenging for most of you, and you may not be able to see him often. Don't be discouraged. He is waiting for you, to battle you!

Read again, Nova.

The book was a collection of short stories without any single central plot, and in fact beyond a few characters (none of which were treated the same between the two entities anyway) the book and movie are 100% unrelated.

I caught War Machine, but who's the fourth?

LMAO ITZ NEWR N HAS REDONE SOUNDTRAXZ!!!!!11!11!

That's why.

He's not the guy yet though.

Oh, have you also been a party to the near-travesty that was that game?

Someone with madder skillz than me, obviously.

True, but it's enough to make the SNES edition infinitely preferable.

The Canadian Dollar is worth about 0.83661 USD right now.
... that's a little less than usual.

That's a lot less than it was two-three weeks ago.

HE'LL NEED A LOBOTOMY.



You forgot two adjectives anyway, which are 'terrible' and 'boring', respectively.

Out of sheer whimsy.

Captain America & the Avengers - Scene Four: The Giant Laser Cannon

The game suffers from serious play control issues, but the music is adequate.

At this point, however, I'd like to talk for a few minutes about 'dynamic voice allocation,' and how it made this an absolute nightmare.

Basically, the sound programmer, through laziness, ineptitude, or pure evil, decided not to give each line in the song its own channel. Instead, in his infinite wisdom, he concluded that it would be a great idea to have each note come in on a seemingly-random channel. Since channel-muting is one of my biggest tools in terms of making this easier, it screws me over.

Fortunately it was a very simple tune anyway.

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Recently I found a very cool application called GXSCC that lets me run any of my MIDIs through an NES synthesizer (without any regard for channel restrictions either) and author a WAV from it. I've encoded MP3s of a few of them for your listening pleasure.

Mega Man X - Spark Mandrill (middle of the range in terms of size)
Gundam Wing: Endless Duel - Epyon (HUUUUUUUUGE file, upwards of nine megs)
Mega Man 3 - Wily Stage 2 (this is basically a demo of how awesomely close to an actual NSF the program can get, small file too)

EDIT: Crap, it seems not to have uploaded them correctly. I'll try again tomorrow.

EDIT2: Actually, it did. Copy these into your address bar instead of clicking the links:

http://www.freewebs.com/colonelfatso/X1_SparkMandrill.mp3
http://www.freewebs.com/colonelfatso/GWED_Epyon.mp3
http://www.freewebs.com/colonelfatso/MM3_Fortress2.mp3

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MOAR!

Things have been slow, partly due to lack of interest and partly due to the sheer difficulty of one of these two sequences.

Front Mission: Gun Hazard - Map Screen - "Tension"

This wasn't the difficult one. In fact, this one was dead easy. The notation took me less than a half-hour.

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Castle - "Krook's March" (the second-best song in that entire game)

Nightmare. Absolute nightmare. I regret trying to do it channel-by-channel like I did; rest assured I won't be trying that for overly-complicated tunes anymore.



I'm working on the best song from that game right now, as well as a Splash Blue arrangement.

Oh, you had to write the dice-rolling program without functions?



Ouch.

Dude, that's the PSX version.



And it's #####ty.

The dollar only went down to like 90 cents. Maybe it's a little lower than that now...

Did you just say that Python isn't an object oriented language?

It was not presented to me as an object-oriented language. Since I never bothered to look up the precise definition... yeah.

Right up until I moved out of my old hometown in 2004 the local video store still had a (small, admittedly, but still substantial) shelf full of SNES games.

THEY EVEN HAD MEGA MAN X AND YOSHI'S ISLAND

No argument from me, as much as I hate the stuff these days.

No root beer is the best kind.

(actually I used to love root beer, this is from oversaturation arising from abuse of free drinks for employees.)

I decided to start at the very beginning (Python ftw!) and receive full training in the suggested order, so no object-oriented languages for me just yet (Java next semester though!)

Still, I think I could quickly mock that up, sans dice borders.

Actually, I think I'm going to go do that for fun right now.

I'm not averse to eating at A&W (of course, that's partly because I worked there for a year and thus I've assembled a legion of 'orders that actually taste good'), but most other fast-food can go to hell.

A couple years ago I saw one for $250 (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP) - I think it sold, too.

Oh yeah, and look for famous robots in the Future page. There's 3 or 4 depending on how you see it. None of them are hard to find.

That was part of what I loved so much about that page.

Wow.








Wow.






Wow.

I love the 'future' page.

ONLY BECAUSE HE LOOKS LIKE EARTHWORM JIM

I'll check those albums out.

And it has some of the best fortress musics ever as well.

Not the best, mind you, but extremely good, especially the first two.

##### you all, 4 was my favourite and still is.

Xero sent me this preview of a fan-remix of Concrete Man's stage...

It was only 9 seconds long, but it was so much better than the crap Inti made.

That's why I said 'professional' - I love places like OCRemix. They're often filled with musicians nearly as good as the original composers.

I have yet to hear any professional remix of any song that I liked anywhere near as much as the original version.

It's not just you.