Thunderforce IV - Community Cover Project

[recme]

Info
In this project, members of the Famitracker Forums cover already made songs from a specific video game soundtrack in which the community has voted for. For the sake of reference, I've included some guidelines for what should be followed.

1. Only one song at a time per person.
2. The limit for calling dibs for each person is 5 times. We don't really need one person covering the whole soundtrack.
3. Members can use whichever expansion chip needed to cover the song needed. The only limit is your creativity. As for the organization, all the songs will be kept in a folder/zip.
4. Usage of references are allowed, whether it be looking at a .midi or looking at the games files. As long as the end product sounds great, I'll allow it.
5. You may stylize the song if you want. It can range from a simple cover of the song to a complete remix. I must ask that you should at least make the main melody recognizable.
6. You must send me your finished .ftm through PM.
7. You may pick another song once again if your song has been completed and sent to me.
8. If I do give your song the greenlight, then you may post it in this thread.
9. The maximum time it should take to make a song is 1 week. If you called dibs on a song and still haven't PM'd me the song, I will send you a PM and/or contact you through e-mail. If I didn't receive a response from you within 2 days, the song shall be available once more, for people to call dibs on.
10. The most important part of all: have fun!

Chat
EDIT: I just figured out that you must have a client in order to hold a channel. I'm not on my own PC at this moment, so the IRC chat must wait until I'm at home (which is on Monday.)
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Here is a chat that I made for the purpose of this project.

http://esper.net/publicirc.php

Put your username and write the channel name. The channel we will be using is called "#ftm" (without quotations). I might not be online all the time, so please try to respect one another and keep discussions only for this project. Otherwise, find yourselves another chat to talk about things in your life.

OST
Here are the songs from Thunderforce IV (Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... B4713E7D2A):

1. Lightning Strikes Again - Opening Taken by SamW
2. Don't Go Off - Stage Select Taken by MovieMovies1
3. Fighting Back - Stage 1-A Taken by Mojitone
4. What!? - Stage 1-B Taken by LarryLarington
5. Evil Destroyer - Stage 1-Boss
6. Space Walk - Stage 2-A Taken by MovieMovies1
7. Danger!! Danger!! - Stage 2-B
8. Attack Sharply - Stage 2-Boss
9. The Sky Line - Stage 3-A
10. Air Raid - Stage 3-B Taken by YobaHere
11. Simmer Down - Stage 3-Boss
12. Sand Hell - Stage 4-A Taken by Zalaan3
13. Where!? - Stage 4-B
14. Strike Out - Stage 4-Boss
15. Battle Ship - Stage 5-A
16. Stranger - Stage 5-Boss
17. Neo Weapon - Docking (Thunder Sword) Taken by PostApocolyptica
18. Great Sea Power - Stage 6 Taken by za909
19. The Breaker - Stage 6-Boss
20. Sea Of Flame - Stage 7
21. Rancor - Stage 7-Boss
22. Metal Squad - Stage 8 Taken by ImATrackMan
23. Phantom - Stage 8-Boss
24. Down Right Attack - Stage 9
25. Recalcitrance - Stage 9-Boss Taken by Shywolf
26. The Danger Zone - Stage 10
27. War Like Requiem - Stage 10-Boss
28. Shooting Stars - Easy Mode Ending
29. Silvery Light Of The Moon - Normal Mode Ending
30. Light Of Silence - Hard Mode Ending
31. Love Dream - Maniac Mode Ending Taken by Scooblee
32. Stand Up Against Myself - Staff Roll Taken by PostApocolyptica
33. Dead End - Game Over
34. Count Down - Continue
35. Tan Tan Ta Ta Ta Tan - Configuration
36. Because You're The Number One - Ranking 1st Taken by jaxcheese
37. Remember Of ＜Knight Of Legend＞ - Ranking 2～10th
38. The Stars - Ranking Demo
39. Omake 1
40. Omake 2
41. Omake 3
42. Omake 4 Taken by TheMudkipMaster12
43. Omake 5 Taken by Amilgi
44. Omake 6 Taken by TheMudkipMaster12
45. Omake 7
46. Omake 8
47. Omake 9
48. Omake 10

When songs are called for dibs, I will strike the ones that were taken, in order to make things easier and such.
Red = Taken, but not sent
Green = Taken and completed

Inquiries
If you need to contact me, I'm available at recolorme@gmail.com. Otherwise, shoot me a PM!

(You guys can use this thread to just call for dibs or for posting your completed music!)

[jaxcheese]

Nice, I really love this soundtrack. I can't get started until I get home in a couple days but I'd like to do at least one, maybe more depending on how many people get involved before I finish my first. I'm calling dibs on Because You're The Number One. One of my favorite tunes, I think I'll try to extend it a bit.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's submissions.
Doing a great job so far, recme, thanks for keeping it clear and organized.

[MovieMovies1]

I'll go ahead and take Don't Go Off.

[Amilgi]

I think I'll call Omake 5. You know you have an awesome soundtrack when your omitted tunes are this good.

Some things that might be useful for people (from Project 2612 iirc):

[Shywolf]

Thanks for the lack of limits on expansion choice and such, recme!

Anyway, dibs on:

25. Recalcitrance - Stage 9-Boss

[Scooblee]

I think I'll take Love Dream- Maniac Mode Ending.

[jrlepage]

2. Members can use whichever expansion chip needed to cover the song needed. The only limit is your creativity. As for the organization, all the songs will be kept in a folder/zip.

I have strong feelings against this. My original idea when pitching this project was to reunite every FTM under a single one at the end of the project, and this rule makes that idea impossible. Selecting the expansion should've been part of the brainstorming process. But oh well, it's too late now. It's your project now anyway so you get the final say I guess.

[LarryLarington]

I'll start off with "What Stage 1-B"! Also quick question for you guys -- what are you using to open the .vgm files? I'm using Audio Overload but when I silence all the channels there still seems to be a couple playing... is it buggy or am I missing something? Thanks for the drum samples too!

EDIT: Also jrl makes a good point. I'd personally prefer to keep the chip consistent.

[jrlepage]

VGMPlay/in_vgm.dll should be the only player anyone has in mind for VGM. It supports every chip the VGM format implements, has superior accuracy, and is maintained by the creator of the VGM format himself.

[recme]

2. Members can use whichever expansion chip needed to cover the song needed. The only limit is your creativity. As for the organization, all the songs will be kept in a folder/zip.

I have strong feelings against this. My original idea when pitching this project was to reunite every FTM under a single one at the end of the project, and this rule makes that idea impossible. Selecting the expansion should've been part of the brainstorming process. But oh well, it's too late now. It's your project now anyway so you get the final say I guess.

i thought about this during the brainstorming process, but i figured that i shouldnt change how people want to do their covers. forcing somebody to make simple/complex songs may turn some them off, thus leaving them out. plus, leaving everything in a single ftm can cause issues, instrument-wise.

putting everything in a single ftm would make things easier for me, and easier to access for everyone. however, id sacrifice those two things so that the people contributing to this project can have more freedom with their songs.