Here are my votes for the week. The Sims 2 and Tekken 5 tracks were surprisingly good. The rest of the tracks were neat as well.

(2 points) The Sims 2 - Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)

(2 points) FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)

(2 points) Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop

Eh, guess there are no more slots for the one minute of fame week. Here's a new nomination for a regular week (quite a short piece, too, from a rip CHz did of a flash game):

* Album Title: Elebest (Game Rip)
* Artist: Sorbonne Soken (Masayoshi Soken) & Ai Yamashita
* Track Title: Stage
* Source: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/ge...e-project.html
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
* Track Number: 5
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2007

3 points: Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop
2 points: The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
1 point: FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)

I'm quite looking forward to the theme week. I'll be sure to upload my nomination to the FTP this evening.

Next nom (for a normal week):

Album: Hollywood Monsters
Artist: La Union
Track title: Enigmas
Additional info: This is a track that a spanish band of the 80s made for a graphic adventure when the genre was still popular. They are the makers of the Runaway saga.

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(3 points) The Sims 2: Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)
Although "Sim" music was well featured in contests in the past, this piece does things a little different and quite well.

(2 points) The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
Reminded me of Charlie Brown. Much more cheerful than what I was expecting.

(1 point) Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop
A little short, but sweet. Nice guitar work in the second half.


And here's a <60 sec. nomination for the special week:

Album: 7 / 11
Artist: The Fat Man and Team Fat
Track #: 7
Track Title: In Front Of Doc's
Year: 1997
Catalog Number: HML 1001
Length: 52 seconds
Source: HML 1001: 7 / 11 - VGMdb, Haight-Masonic Laboratories: The Fat Man: 7 / 11 Credits

1 point: Killer Suits
1 point: RE-BIRTH (Ending & Staff Roll)
1 point: Sakyou (Stage 2 Midboss)
1 point: INFINITY (PRIMARY)
1 point: Dragon
1 point: Discover the Royal Chambers

Pretty much every song this week started out promising, but failed to deliver. Especially that Max Payne tune, that skip at the beginning severely hurt it.

EDIT: Even though the theme week sounds awesome, I have nothing to nominate for it. Actually I had tons, but checking my dearth of great <60 second noms took so long (because I had tons, you see) that all the slots apparently filled up. There was one track that immediately came to mind when I first saw the week proposed, but when I checked, the duration was 1:01, and I was all :(

Here's the info for my 1-minute nom:

Album: Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball: Power Pro Music Stadium
Artist: Naoyuki Sato
Track Title: Entering Basic Skills
Disc #, Track #: Disc 1, Track 35
Year: 2003
Catalog #: KOLA-010~1
Source: VGMDB

Comments: I first heard this years ago but held off on nominating it for a regular SotW 'cause of its length (1:45 looped). A de-looped version is under a minute, so it should work nicely with this week.

I don't have the song with me at college; I'll upload it to the FTP when I go back home this coming weekend.

So considering the amount of noms for the theme week (or the potential amount, since a couple of people want or are willing to participate but 'can't' due to numbers), would it be best to just extend the rules and have a SotW week with 10-12 tracks? Or would it be wiser to get a few more noms and stretch the theme week over two weeks?

Of course we could just cut it at 8 tracks and disregard some noms people such as Rimo and Drakken have posted, but that would be :(.

More the merrier. I think anywhere from 12-16 tracks will be a treat, and make for some really wide spread voting.

Also, a big screw you to Kaleb for jumping on one of the save themes from the Resident Evil series. I would have done the same thing.

Anyway....

Album: Grim Fandango Original Game Soundtrack
Artist: Peter McConnell
Track Title: Hector Steps Out
Disc #, Track #: Disc 1, Track 5
Year: 1998
Catalog #: 1097929
Source: VGMDB

And for my votes:

By the way, I don't know why the Max Payne track skips. It's my nom, it sounded fine on my computer, but it's not working right through the Flash Player. Oh well.

(3 points) The Sims 2: Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)
(2 points) Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop
(1 point) Max Payne (Game Rip) - Killer Suits

2 Points: FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)
2 Points: The Sims 2: Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)
2 Points: The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon

3 points - Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop
2 points - FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)
1 point - Sakyou (Stage 2 Midboss)

3 points - FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)
1 point - The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
1 point - Shinobi X (Game Rip) - Sakyou (Stage 2 Midboss)
1 point - Twinkle Star Sprites - LONGING ~ RE-BIRTH (Ending & Staff Roll)

:tpg:

I think the one I picked is perhaps the most obscure of the series, and it's also my favorite. Despite being a non-numbered game, I think Code Veronica has the best Resident Evil soundtrack.

Ok, here's a shot at a track that's gone before you know it (assuming there's still room for nominations, somehow):

* Album Title: Reciting Maple, Dancing Ink
* Artist: Su Hongzhang (surname underlined)
* Track Title: Mechanical Dragon
* Source: °aÁÕ¼C¸vºë¸Ëª©¤ñ¸û
* File Location: Nomination folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
* Track Number: 36
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2002
* Note: The track comes from a compilation soundtrack CD (of two games) that came with a special edition of the Sword of Xuan Yuan 4 game. It's from an old Xuan Yuan game, a prequel to Xuan Yuan 4.

For what it's worth, I probably would have tabbed the RE Zero one. But I listened to the Code Veronica one and it's good.

If we're going to accommodate all of the tracks in one week vs. cutting it off at eight and doing another one later (giving the people who were passed up priority), I think it would probably be a good idea to increase the number of points to 8, 9, 10, whatever so that the votes don't get too diffuse. It would have to depend on how many tracks we actually get, I guess.

I'd leave it like it is. 8 tracks. Otherwise we'd have to increase the points and the runner up placing would also not be comparable to the rest. Also the notion of "8 minutes of sweetest SoTW" would also be for the kitchen sink.

There is no harm in reserving residual tracks for a next opportunity or just plain SoTW.

Alright, you guys convinced me.

3 Points: Twinkle Star Sprites - LONGING ~ RE-BIRTH (Ending & Staff Roll)
1 Point: The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
1 Point: The Sims 2: Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)
1 Point: Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop

2 points: FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)
1 point: Max Payne (Game Rip) - Killer Suits
1 point: Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Original Sound Track - Discover the Royal Chambers
1 point: The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
1 point: Twinkle Star Sprites - LONGING ~ RE-BIRTH (Ending & Staff Roll)

Man, that Legend of Heroes track clipped all over the place while I was listening to it. Is it just me? It's not anything I did to it, because the originally nominated version does too.

Voting to close a little later tonight because we are officially back on schedule.

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Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!

1). [19/12.5] The Legend of Heroes Piano Collection - Dragon
2). [19/11] The Sims 2: Nightlife - The Sims Theme (Junkie XL remix)
3). [18] FantaVision Original Soundtrack - INFINITY (PRIMARY)
4). [17] Tekken 5 & Tekken Dark Resurrection Original Soundtrack - Pink Pop
5). [9] Twinkle Star Sprites - LONGING ~ RE-BIRTH (Ending & Staff Roll)
6). [7] Shinobi X (Game Rip) - Sakyou (Stage 2 Midboss)
7). [4] Max Payne (Game Rip) - Killer Suits
8). [3] Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Original Sound Track - Discover the Royal Chambers

There were eleven < 1 minute nominations, so I'll save the three spillover noms on the wiki for later.

Ah nice result there. Very tight this week! Good to see, does the quality justice.

As for the one-minute theme week thing, sounds fair enough. 11 tracks is a tricky number to deal with anyway.