Older News - July-September 2004

Video Game Music In the Olympics!

Posted by 92">Suds on 08/30/04 01:17 AM

Anyone watching the Olympic Games recently may have heard something familiar during the Synchronised swimming event. The Americans used music from Final Fantasy VIII as their background music. More specifically, "Liberi Fatali", composed by Nobuo Uematsu. Could this be a sign of increasing appreciation and respect for video game music by the general public? Only time will tell.

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Video Game Music on NPR

Posted by Yaginuma on 08/26/04 06:08 PM

I was driving home this evening, and had the radio tuned to NPR's All Things Considered show (like usual), when lo and behold they do an interview with minibosses. Nice clips of Castlevania (actual game and then a snippet of the minibosses playing) played on national radio. Congrats to the band! (Couldn't recognize the second game music they played. Anyone else hear it?)

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Please, no more conversions.

Posted by Pongball on 08/04/04 08:07 PM

It was decided at a staff meeting today that we will no longer be accepting MIDI files converted from music that was directly ripped from ROMs (better known as "conversions") into the archive. There was once a time when conversions needed to be edited heavily in order to make them sound anywhere near as good as a quality hand-sequenced file. However, it seems that in the past year or so, conversion software, such as Sappy and spc2midi, has improved so much, that near-perfect MIDIs can be generated in a matter of minutes. This may seem like a wonderful thing to some, but it's simply not fair to the sequencers who have spent countless hours of their lives sequencing MIDI files by ear, note by note. This site has always been supported by the outstanding work of these people, and we want it to continue that way.

As of today, any conversions found in the new-files will be deleted on sight. Anyone who is caught repeatedly uploading conversions is subject to being banned from uploading to this site. All of the conversions already in the archive will stay right where they are, but we have essentially closed the door to any new ones.

For anyone who doesn't understand exactly what a conversion is, dw_junon will be writing a page explaining what they are that we will link to from the "Sequenced by" field of all converted files currently on the site (once we find them all, that is).

We'd like to hear what you think of this new policy, so if you have an opinion, please comment on this post via our forums (if you don't already have an account on our forums, you'll need to register).

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Forum rollbacks

Posted by Powerlord on 07/11/04 03:02 AM

As some of you may have noticed, earlier this evening we rolled back the forums twice.

This was part of a project to recover some of the older posts on the News and Staff boards. Things didn't go quite as planned, but things should be running correctly now.

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Soundtrack Survey

Posted by Braxus on 07/02/04 01:11 AM

CocoeBiz and TEAM Entertainment are performing a survey for the future soundtrack release of Dragonball Z Budokai 1 and 2. If you're interested in the soundtrack, your opinion would be greatly appreciated!

Survey Poll

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