Congratulations to Kulor, fluidvolt and zephemeros! Their oustanding efforts have rewarded them with a place in FamiTracker's history!
Kudos to everyone else who entered, once again I think I can say we've been treated to quality entries!
As a side note, if you wish to dispute your own result, you are welcome to send me a private message, and I will recalculate your score to ensure no mistakes were made. :)
Stay tuned for Demo Compo 3 which should run from May 1 to May 22. The sound hardware to use this time will be 2A03+MMC5! We'll be doing covers, too.
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Hello and once again, welcome to this new installment of the Demo Compo series! As always, I will be your host for this contest. The rules are still the same: the contest lasts two weeks (exactly fourteen days), and the voting period happens during the first week of the next contest. When the results are announced, the first three entries will be promoted to Official FamiTracker demo module!
Every two weeks we alternate between covers and originals, and the sound hardware to use will be different. This week we're doing Originals!
The category for this installment is still Classical. This means the hardware to use is limited to the 2a03, and the DPCM channel must not be used, with the exception of direct $4011 writes (Zxx effect).
Entrants should ensure their entry is compatible with version 0.3.7 of FamiTracker (the latest stable release as of this moment). That means features like fixed arps and DPCM sample bankswitching, which are new in 0.3.8, are off-limit.
Contestants:
ArchJ
Ares64
BattleBeard
com63
DR0PB33T
fluidvolt
gyms
icesoldier
InterrobangPie
jrlepage
Kevvviiinnn
kinkinkijkin
Kulor
mario7mario3
MC_Jimmy
moviemovies1
MrFTBN
qazwsxedc
rainwarrior
Slimeball
SriK
za909
zephemeros
ElHuesudoII
Legend:
Normal = Has registered but has not submitted their entry Green = Has submitted their entry Blue = Has submitted and voted Cyan = Did not participate but has voted Red = Not eligible for voting
Sign up in the thread below (or join me privately here or in #famitracker at irc.esper.net)!
Note that anyone can enter even if your name isn't on the list, this is just here for convenience's sake so you have a general idea who you're up against!
Rules and guidelines (as I come up with them):
-All entries must be in FamiTracker Module (FTM) format only. You may provide an NSF alongside your FTM for exhibition purposes when the voting phase is over, but judging will be done using the FTM source file.
-Submissions are limited to only ONE FTM file per entrant. Subsequent entries will be disregarded.
-Each FTM may contain only ONE track. If you submit a FTM with more than one track, I will delete those after the first one.
-Entries must be compatible with the latest stable release (version 0.3.7), which will be used for judging entries.
-Usage of the DPCM channel is strictly forbidden, except for direct $4011 writes (Zxx effect).
-Usage of any expansion chip is strictly forbidden.
-Overclocking is allowed, but strictly within program limitations (e.g. clock speeds over 400 Hz are not allowed).
-Similarly, use of a cheat engine or of any sort of hex editing to overcome the program's limitations is not allowed.
-Covers are strictly forbidden.
-NSFs produced using other programs and imported into FamiTracker are not accepted. Again, I reserve the right to refuse entries I suspect of being the product of the NSF Importer.
-Similarly, MIDI->NSF conversions are not accepted.
-Anonymity is strongly encouraged to make voting as fair as possible. In keeping with this guideline, submitting modules written prior to the competition is strongly discouraged unless they were kept absolutely private up until this point.
Submitting & voting:
-On April 8, I will start collecting entries. Submission period ends April 22, 12:00 midnight, Eastern time. To avoid confusion, that means you've got until the end of April 21 to submit.
-Entries must be submitted to me anonymously. Emails to democompo@gmail.com are preferred.
-Entries will be renamed, and author/copyright info will be removed from them. When the voting period ends, the full pack will be redistributed with that info left intact (so don't remove it before submitting).
-Voting is also done anonymously (to the address above), and will be done as follows:
There will be two categories, Musicality and Technique.
Voters will mark each entry out of 10 for each category.
I will add up the two scores, and make an average of each entry's combined scores.
-In order for first place, second place and third place modules to be made official demo modules, they must receive a combined average score of at least 17, 16 and 15 respectively. This is to avoid the awkward situation where no entry is truly deserving of being a demo, but ends up in one of those positions due to lack of participation.
-Voting is compulsory for all entrants. Failure to cast your votes by the end of the voting deadline will result in a 1 pt. penalty on your final score. This is to prevent situations where I am stuck with only a small fraction of participants voting, leading to unfair results.
-Voting is optional for non-participants (but very appreciated).
-For those concerned with transparency and fairness, I will participate, but will not vote.
As always, let me know if you have any concerns regarding the way the contest is organised. And on that note, good luck to all, and see you in a week for the submission period! :D
I'll enter, like I did for DC1 one but nobody knew about it due to jrlepage's heinous censorship scheme.
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iGotno_scope wrote:
im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.
Well, with the crazy "server not responding" over I had this morning, I'm informing you that I'm entering this round as well, in fact I'm 90% ready with my entry.
You can put me down for entering, but I'll need to make time to do it. I've hit a lump of assignments being due for class this week, but hopefully I should be able to get something together next week.
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