MrMet2087’s Video Game/Movie&TV Themes/Real Songs Updated 08/23/2020 – Evanescence – “The Change” & “My Heart Is Broken”
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Things that I have discovered that can cause a song to not show despite changing a song_id:
* Conflict with an existing song_id.
* Changing the song_id but not touching the ‘short name’ at the start of the songs.dta entry.
* Incorrectly changing the path/filename in the ‘song’ section
* Two songs having the same track number (running into this a LOT when recording isolated audio)
* Not changing the filename when keeping the song cache
UPDATE 6/21/13 – Added my custom of the opening main theme to the game Silent Hill 3 on the front page.
Why do you have Far Away under the artist “Video Games”? The person playing song is named José González and was popular even before making the song for Red Dead with him being most famous for his cover of The Knife’s Heartbeats and has a UK platinum album because of it. I thank you for making the song into a custom, but using the artist name of “Video Games” is just lazy considering it would have taken you 5 seconds worth of time to find the actual artist name.
Why do you have Far Away under the artist “Video Games”? The person playing song is named José González and was popular even before making the song for Red Dead with him being most famous for his cover of The Knife’s Heartbeats and has a UK platinum album because of it. I thank you for making the song into a custom, but using the artist name of “Video Games” is just lazy considering it would have taken you 5 seconds worth of time to find the actual artist name.I know who the original artist is trust me. If you would read the beginning part of the post on the first page where all the text is, where it clearly says “Sorting” I mention CLEARLY that I plan on doing A LOT of video game themes. So If I wanna play Far Away, The Zelda Theme, Silent Hill 3 Theme, and the Metal Gear Solid theme, I simply go to the “Video Game” artist and BAM there they all are, instead of going from artist to artist trying to find them all. If it bothers you that much, fix it in LeFluffie, it’s very simple to do if you did the research on how. I’ll even private message you on how to fix it if you want, but AGAIN my methods are CLEARLY mentioned in the front post which you chose not to read.
Why do you have Far Away under the artist “Video Games”? The person playing song is named José González and was popular even before making the song for Red Dead with him being most famous for his cover of The Knife’s Heartbeats and has a UK platinum album because of it. I thank you for making the song into a custom, but using the artist name of “Video Games” is just lazy considering it would have taken you 5 seconds worth of time to find the actual artist name.I know who the original artist is trust me. If you would read the beginning part of the post on the first page where all the text is, where it clearly says “Sorting” I mention CLEARLY that I plan on doing A LOT of video game themes. So If I wanna play Far Away, The Zelda Theme, Silent Hill 3 Theme, and the Metal Gear Solid theme, I simply go to the “Video Game” artist and BAM there they all are, instead of going from artist to artist trying to find them all. If it bothers you that much, fix it in LeFluffie, it’s very simple to do if you did the research on how. I’ll even private message you on how to fix it if you want, but AGAIN my methods are CLEARLY mentioned in the front post which you chose not to read.
The problem is that there’s no precedence for naming the songs this way, take the Super Meat Boy songs for example, are they listed under Super Meat Boy or Videogames, no they’re listed under the artist that made the song dB Soundworks. Imagine if the song was released in the actual Rock Band store would the artist want to be listed under Videogames with their name showing up nowhere in terms of the releases or under the name that the music was released under, as in the case of Far Away Jose Gonzalez is listed in the artist column, not Red Dead Redemption. Again I thank you for taking your time to author the track, but your sorting method is all screwy with iffy logic.
His logic is that he’s prepping them for his own enjoyment and convenience, and sharing his work with others. If it was being released in the actual store, for dollarbucks, then yes, it absolutely should and would be listed that way, but it’s not, and he’s elected not to.There is a quick fix option out there for people who want proper, up-to-code sorting, and I encourage anyone who’d like to do it that way to go for it.
I know we’ve had a similar discussion on our end, especially as it pertains to the most recent release (the Sonic Adventure II track), and while my personal preference is to list it under the artist/composer (for, as you mention, consistency with RBN standards), we’re leaving it mostly to the author’s discretion (provided they can make a compelling case). In this case, we received one.
Similarly, for the tracks I’ve released that are by one artist featuring another artist, I moved the (ft. Collaborating Artist) line to the song title so that they would all sort under the same artist heading. Up to Harmonix standard? No. Convenient in my case and justifiable? Sure. Fixable by someone who absolutely wants it up to code? With a small time investment and a few keypresses.
I know, for example, that with my old custom of a Star Control II track, I had a similar internal debate. I intended to author a bunch of Star Control II tracks, and it would be far more convenient to list them all (since the soundtrack was put together by several different mod authors) under one header, but since I’m firmly in #teamrbnstandards, and I do consider this to be a more… egregious… standard violation than the “ft.” stuff, I put it under the authors name — but that was a decision I made for my own work.
Espher pretty much made my point by that I plan on doing a bunch of video game themes for my own enjoyment, but also plan on sharing with everyone else, and for me it’s easier to find them all under “Video Game” artist if I wanna play a bunch back to back to back. Again if you want me to tell you how to fix it, PM me and I’ll tell you, it’s quite simple if you take the time to do it.
Excellent stuff man, glad to see the video game music love this week. I remember playing “You’re Not Here” back during the DDR days, which led me to Guitar Hero, which brought me to Rock Band. A little full-circle action for me!
Wow, didn’t even know Silent Hill stuff was in DDR.
UPDATE 6/23/13 – Adding another video game related custom to the front page, this one is from the game Final Fantasy VII, “Sephiroth’s Theme (Those Chosen by the Planet)” Very dark sounding with the bell tones. This is NOT the song that plays during the final boss battle. That may or may not be coming later
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ALSO this song from Silent Hill 2 “Letter From Heaven” This is in the game early on when he walks out of the bathroom and read part of the letter from his dead wife. Just guitar and bass, but A nice little song.
“In Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth is the focus of three pieces of music written by series composer Nobuo Uematsu. His primary theme is “Those Chosen by the Planet” (星ã«é¸ã°ã‚Œã—者 Hoshi ni Erabareshi Mono?), a piece utilizing bells, low drums, and a deep chorus, which accompanies Sephiroth’s appearances throughout the game. In the final battle, “Birth of a God” (神ã®èª•ç”Ÿ Kami no TanjÅ?) plays while the player combats Sephiroth’s first form, “Bizarro Sephiroth” (also known as “Reverse Sephiroth”). The most well-known piece is “One-Winged Angel” (片翼ã®å¤©ä½¿ Katayoku no Tenshi?, lit. “An Angel With a Wing on One Side”) which is played during the final confrontation with Sephiroth.”
Going to assume this is Those Chosen by the Planet. Also, having read it in posts from fanboys talking about how he’s the greatest Final Fantasy villain from the greatest Final Fantasy game (lol), it’s Sephiroth.
if you want the font in Visualizer to be the one we use and I intended to be used with it, go into the res folder, right click on font.otf and Install. then launch Visualizer again.
Given those descriptions yes I think it’s the one you mentioned. I just put up a fixed version using LeFluffie but I’m at work and can’t test it so if someone can maybe try it and let me know if it changed properly that’d be great. I changed the top name, song ID, and the track name so it should be good. And Trojan I tired to right click font in the res folder and it’s not an option to “install”. It’s ok though, I just use it to let people know what the song is and what it has, it’s ok.
UPDATE 6/24/13 – Another Video Game custom. Another one from Silent Hill 2. This one is “Promise (Reprise)” This plays in game during the encounter with Angela in a room where she has a knife and is possibly preparing to kill herself. Guitar and Bass only, Guitar follows the main piano section, Bass follows the backing chimes, fun to play. Enjoy.
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