Fearofdark
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Brighton/Southampton

So I suppose I should mention that this is happening soon: http://midr2.under.jp/compo/vol9/index.html

Entry forms are still under construction but people should be able to enter soon.
For people who haven't heard of this; Famicompo Mini is a yearly Japanese contest, but people from around the world enter. It gets some really awesome/fun entries

Rules I think are the same as last year:
- Up to 2 entries allowed (one original, one cover) per artist
- Up to 5 songs per .nsf

Woo! smile

Last edited by Fearofdark (Sep 19, 2012 2:27 pm)

Heosphoros
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My favourite time of the year! Looking forward to listening to a slew of awesome new NSF!

Zephemeros
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Campbell River, BC

Can't wait to hear some badass entries and get my ass kicked to oblivion.

El Huesudo II
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Already submitted a cover. Called it "somewhat decent" in the description, fearing people will think worse of it. sad

TristEndo-in-spacebutt
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California

Entry period over.nsf Waiting for pack.nsf

jmr
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Ottawa, ON
El Huesudo II wrote:

Called it "somewhat decent" in the description

ANONYMITY COMPROMISED.  tongue
EDIT: heh, I could have swore that the track descriptions were released at the same time as the anonymous songs.  Don't I look foolish now.

Last edited by jmr (Nov 5, 2012 5:46 pm)

B00daW
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Philadelphia, PA

FUCK COVERS #69 FOR USING ALMOST ALL EXPANSIONS BESIDES KONAMI!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!v

chunter
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Brunswick, GA USA

There's always at least one...

rainwarrior
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Toronto, Canada

I thought you weren't going to listen to the covers B00daW.

B00daW
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Philadelphia, PA

Fine, I will listen to #69 next year too.  Good number.

El Huesudo II
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chunter wrote:

There's always at least one...

Speaking of stuff in FCM that there's always at least one of, I'm surprised that there's no chip-vocal stuff this year...

...unless there is and I'm forgetting it?

(Pictures of a City, GET WILD '12, Gothloli Attack and the PENIS entries don't count, those are sample-based :P)

chunter
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Brunswick, GA USA

I think the people who create that stuff couldn't enter for assorted personal reasons. There are a few "usual" things that don't seem to be in this time, I'm looking forward to the results.

justinbailey
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I have painstakingly converted all tracks to mp3. I noticed this year, like last year, that some of the track lengths are off.  So I found out the actual lengths, and made a nice playlist for nsfplug.  (sorry, not going to listen to an 8 second song for 6 minutes, like row, row, row your boat from last year).  Unfortunately some songs wouldn't play correctly, so this year I went super geeky and only used virtualnsf for conversions.  It took a little while longer but I think you guys might like the results. 

I will be posting torrents within a day or two.  Anyone prefer a specific site?

A few notes about this, any song that I determined to be less than 60sec, I looped 2x then exited it with a 5 second fadeout.  Other songs that loop have a 5 second fadeout.  I even found a track that appears to have 2 hidden songs in it, about 3 seconds after the listed track length ends.

Let me know if there are any problems or questions, I spent the last 10 days on this and plan to go back and do all the other famicompos next month, the same painstaking way, or better if I figure out a better way to convert them.

I can do flacs too if anyone wants them...

So far my absolute favorite is Original 45 "Batteries on Backbeat."  To me, that song is amazing.  There are many others but I imagine that one will win the Original category.

I already had a Mediafire account, so...

Playlists for Winamp & nsfplug:
http://www.mediafire.com/?n577b4fjb87dy26
http://www.mediafire.com/?pycvomac7wtv0wb

FCM9 Covers:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ctj2wery89n0fjx
http://www.mediafire.com/?p3d8760h2yhx6jz

FCM9 Originals:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vnds43qn32zz8kx

Last edited by justinbailey (Nov 11, 2012 8:45 pm)

rainwarrior
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Toronto, Canada

If it helps, I wrote a quick/dirty python program to generate an nsfplug playlist directly from list.html: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/883356/famicompo_playlist.py

Generated:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/883356/famicom … ginals.m3u
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/883356/famicompo9_covers.m3u

There was a bug in entry 39 preventing it from playing properly in NSFPlay/NSFPlug but the rest are just fine. I even patched entry 39 so that it can play in NSFPlay as well: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/883356/Entry39 … atched.nsf

Using NSFPlug 2.2 and Winamp's Diskwriter feature, making the playlist and dumping a set of MP3s can be almost completely automated, and can be done in a relatively short amount of time. It's easy to edit the playlists by hand if you want to tweak the times, though I'm not sure why you want to reinterpret the times; why not listen to it for the length the submitter specified? In this Famicompo I think there were only 3 troll tracks which had times longer than their actual content (i.e. Hypnotoad, Kiss Me, Sandstorm), and it's pretty easy to just skip it if you don't want to listen to it anyway...


What track had extra stuff after the end of the specified time?

Last edited by rainwarrior (Nov 11, 2012 4:42 pm)

Fearofdark
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Brighton/Southampton

http://midr2.under.jp/compo/vol9/index.html
Voting has opened, and will close on the 26th November (JST)

justinbailey
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@rainwarrior Thanks for the updated version of nsfplug and nsfplay.  I had only found the version from 2006.  The python script will be handy as well when I start to do the older famicompos.

I used to do what you suggested (nsfplug and winamp disk writer), but last famicompo, and a few entries in this one, the times were a bit off.  I remember a really good track from last famicompo that the timing was listed about two minutes shorter than actual. 

To answer the question about which track has hidden/bonus tracks see Covers 55-5 "Stinkoman K/20X6", its listed as 51 seconds but if you save it out to 7 minutes and open in up in say, Audacity you can clearly see the other tracks. 

Since I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, if there is one track with wrong timings, there are probably others.  So I have to do it this more combersome way now.  I did use nsfplug to save out the WAVs initially, with a length of 10:00 and then opened each one up in audacity to see what the times should be.

It's a little excessive and perhaps obsessive, I guess, but I like it!

@Fearofdark, that is great news, I was wondering where the voting page was.

Last edited by justinbailey (Nov 11, 2012 6:06 pm)