January 5th (lazy bastard webmaster) March 2nd (lazy bastard webmasters) March 26th, 2008 (wow, just in time! Again!)
MONSTER-LAND (Reuters) - Wed Mar 26, 8:17 PM ET
To celebrate its 11th anniversary - being the oldest website on the whole planet - SMS Power annonces new edition of its worldwide Sega 8-bit music competition, along with its sister Sega 8-bit coding competition. Musicians from all around the world gather to compose amazing tunes, coders suffocate in complicated machine code to produces outstanding games and demos, webmasters copy and paste fake news agencies' bulletin from previous years to avoid writing something proper! Stop reading this and finalize your entry!
1.1 Competition timeline
2008/01/05
Community announcement.
2008/03/26
Just-in-time official announcement, news spread by worldwide media.
2008/03/27
Entries submissions deadline!
2008/03/28
Public voting.
1.2 Competition rules
Entries are to be related to the Sega 8-bit gaming consoles and their games, namely the Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, SC-3000 and varieties.
Two types of entries will be competing in the same category : entries related to specific Sega 8-bit games (remixes, medleys) and original compositions playing on Sega 8-bit systems (submitted thru a VGM dump).
Entries are to be submitted through the form in the entries section.
The deadline for submissions is March 27th, 2008, included. Entries submitted after midnight, GMT (night from 27 to 28) will not be accepted unless you bribe judges.
Files submitted must be formatted as either MPEG layer 3 (.MP3), Ogg Vorbis (.OGG), or VGM. If your source format is another (eg: a module), you are encouraged to submit the original format along with a MP3/OGG/VGM rendition.
Judging is open for the public. Voting forms will be made available starting March 27th and for a duration of one week.
Acceptance of entries is up to the competition administrators, who may choose to disqualify any entry at their own discretion. Entries containing expressions racism, religious beliefs, etc will naturally not accepted. The administrators may also choose to disqualify entries judged as not being serious or being too similar to existing material. So use common sense!
Each composer may compete with any number of entries.
1.3 Entry Submission
Submissions closed. This doesn't prevent you from creating new music and posting them, thought :)
For any question regarding the competition, please post on the official forum thread.
Page, rules and ideas by SMS Power! team and contributors. Banner by Niloctronic.
2. Contest Over!
March 28th, 2008
The contest is over! Sorry that this year we really lacked organisation and emulation, and thanks for those who managed to submit entries! All MP3 this year:
