HAY GUYS

niki · 06:21 PM

Video Game Music is a domain in which amateurism has been taking a very important place along the years. Few are the VGM fans who don't listen to a fan remix everynow and then. Some even mostly listen to those.

The opinion of professional game composers towards fan arrangements tend to vary. It is a known fact that Nobuo Uematsu frowned upon the doujin music circles in a few occasions.

Others, though, have the opposite stance and actually participate in non official projects.

In the Japanese doujin circles again, a recent example is Hyakutaro Tsukumo, of Tecno Soft fame, who arranged Kenji Ito's music from the SaGa series on the latest Dangerous Mezashi Cat's doujin album. The result is quite awesome btw and I highly everyone to get it now.

Hiroshi Nishizawa, who composed part of the Selected Sorcerian music, released unofficial soundtracks of that work of his through the doujin market as well.

Ryu Umemoto, composer of many of C's Ware great (in Japan) successes such as Yu-No, composed (under an alias) original music for digital novels, also released through the doujin market.

That's only a few examples. Anything to contribute on the topic ? =p

Jam it back in, in the dark.

niki · Local time: Sep 15, 2007, 01:25 AM

Originally Posted by Cellius

If I were a professional game composer, I would definitely embrace fan arrangements and even contribute to a community with my own unofficial fan creations.

Heh, that reminded me of that ~20 minutes Bare Knuckle arrange Yuzo Koshiro released on some forum a couple years ago. =p

There's nowhere I can't reach.

niki · Local time: Sep 15, 2007, 08:06 PM

Cellius and Liontamer, keep it civil please. The core of your mutual animosity is the most common one on the internet, AKA not saying in my opinion enough. That's an official warning ~

Never heard about that Yuzo Koshiro Merrignon thingie. I'll have to check it out.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

niki · Local time: Sep 18, 2007, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by RainMan

WHERE!??? WHO? WHEN? HOW? ...LINK PLEASE!

TKCA-30516: F-ZERO - VGMdb beta

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I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

niki · Local time: Sep 19, 2007, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by RainMan

Thanks for the info. This is an unexpected surprise!

I'd be very grateful.

Thanks fellas.

I wouldnt really call it Jazz though, personally ... More like, cheezy easy listening with a sax or two ? ^_^;

Liontamer, I'll ask Teioh. He was the one who first mentioned it to me back in the days.

How ya doing, buddy?