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		<title>Terra&#8217;s Got Her Track Remixed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would anyone be surprised if a song from Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger was the most remixed? I wasn&#8217;t. I checked OCReMix&#8217;s track listing. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s not emo-franchise FF7, it&#8217;s FF6. Even more surprising is that there&#8217;s a whopping 13 remixes of that one song, and the game features a handful of other over-remixed tracks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocrwatch.wordpress.com&blog=2901437&post=10&subd=ocrwatch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Would anyone be surprised if a song from Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger was the most remixed? I wasn&#8217;t. I checked OCReMix&#8217;s track listing. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s not emo-franchise FF7, it&#8217;s FF6. Even more surprising is that there&#8217;s a whopping 13 remixes of that one song, and the game features a handful of other over-remixed tracks, and a plethora of under-appreciated and under-remixed ones.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Yes, I mean it. More Final Fantasy remixes, please. But not of emo-fantasy. With <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/album/id/1/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream/">Voices of the Lifestream</a>, it&#8217;s gotten more attention, proportionally as well as otherwise, than it deserves. Loads of decent tracks worth a remix or two. Although I think I&#8217;d prefer remixes of games yet to be  touched by OCRers.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Anyway, <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/song/id/11/">Terra&#8217;s theme</a> is in the lead with 13 remixes. Chrono Trigger&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/song/id/9/">Schala&#8217;s Theme</a> and <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/song/id/66/">Corridor of Time</a>, Mega Man 2&#8217;s<a href="http://www.ocremix.org/song/id/159/"> Dr. Wily Stage 1</a>, and Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Houseki&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/song/id/32/">Far Promise ~ Dream Shore (Part 1)</a> all have 10 remixes. Just <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/songs/?&amp;offset=0&amp;sort=mixcountdesc">look at it</a>! Crazy!</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">The stats don&#8217;t really cover re-used themes such as the Mario or Zelda themes, which are also over-remixed. We&#8217;ve heard their Overworlds, thank you and remix something else now.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Interestingly, Final Fantasy 7 is represented by three tracks, each being remixed 6 times. Is it a coinkidink that it spells 666? Does it have anything to do with <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/organization/id/123/">Square</a> dominating the top tracks listing?</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Anyway, I need a better lawyer. I hope <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/remixer/shnabubula/">Shnabubula</a> won&#8217;t sue over the not so subtle reference to the name he picked for <a href="http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0114/">his take on the over-remixed track</a>.</p>
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		<title>Monotonic Monopoly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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OCReMix has an annoying tendancy to remix tracks from the same games over and over and over again. Leading the race is Chrono Trigger with a prepostorous 86 remixes, followed by Final Fantasy VII with a stupendous 79 remixes. Coincidentally, both these games have had OCR fan arrangement albums made. Anyone see a pattern here?
 
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">OCReMix has an annoying tendancy to remix tracks from the same games over and over and over again. Leading the race is <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/game/chrono-trigger-snes/">Chrono Trigger</a> with a prepostorous 86 remixes, followed by <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/game/final-fantasy-vii-ps1/">Final Fantasy VII</a> with a stupendous 79 remixes. Coincidentally, both these games have had OCR fan arrangement albums made. Anyone see a pattern here?</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Let&#8217;s test that hypothesis. If a fan album is the cause for the ridiculous amount of remixes, the same should be true about the other games with associated fan albums. All games with associated albums should be having fantastic amounts of remixes. <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/game/kirbys-adventure-nes/">Kirby&#8217;s Adventure</a> proves this is false.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">The humongous interest in the music from these games can be attributed to composer extraordinaire <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/composer/id/3/nobuo-uematsu/">Nobuo Uematsu</a>, but since my lawyer says I should refrain from attributing anything to that particular composer again in these analyses, another cause to blame must be found. One could argue that the games were popular among music nerds and nerdy musicians back in the days before video games were as normal as they are today, but that would exclude more unlikely possibilities, something I&#8217;m sure <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/forums/member.php?u=22384">dr House</a> wouldn&#8217;t approve of.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">In the spirit of House MD, I should consult a number of experts before telling them they&#8217;re all wrong, but as I&#8217;m trying to maintain a secret identity, I&#8217;m gonna ask myself instead. Those possibilities I&#8217;ve come up with that I will completely ignore are: people like the story, people like the music, people like the gameplay.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">I&#8217;m gonna suggest <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/organization/id/123/">Square</a> (with a total of 418 remixes) has been attempting to take over the world since long before becoming <a href="http://www.ocremix.org/organization/id/3/remixes/">Square Enix</a> (2 remixes). Much like megalomaniacs like EA, Square Enix is all over the market, and seeing what a fan of FF7 my sister has become from just seeing the emos in Advent Children, this seems plausible. Subliminal messages is one possibility, but I seem unaffected. Then again, I missed out on FF7, which suggests exposure to both is required. Further research would likely confirm this, but I&#8217;m convinced I can&#8217;t be wrong about anything so further research is unneccessary.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">I can only assume exposure to subliminal messaging both games causes a psychosis-related condition in which reality is shifted towards diverting attention to the music of the games, ignoring the propaganda they may contain. It seems that since I have played Chrono Trigger, I can&#8217;t examine FF7 without exposing myself to this. I assume a symptom on the condition is the inability to notice this.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial;margin:0;">Further research might required to independantly confirm this, but i am confident I am right no matter what I propose. There are most likely subliminal messages in both games, but requiring exposure to both games to induce the psychotic state, like in that one Batman movie. Fortunately, I figured it out.</p>
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