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In [url=http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=64723#64723]this post[/url], mic_ wrote:it will still require some actual work to get a good-sounding cover (take chris' "Comic Bakery" cover for example)

Or Dead or Alive's "Comic Bakery" cover

(proof)

Not to mention that even commercial games on the old consoles / home computers had music that were covers or remixes of pieces of classical music or pop songs.

Classical yes; pop no. I worry more about what the major music publishers will do, given that licensing songs for use in video games to be sold is a big business now. But I encourage people to raid Mutopia for songs to arrange and raid it hard.

Not to mention that even commercial games on the old consoles / home computers had music that were covers or remixes of pieces of classical music or pop songs.

Classical yes; pop no.

You don't consider Jarre to be pop music?

Most of us don't have the financial resources of Konami or Elite Systems to license big-name songs for use in compo entries.

I'd be surprised if they payed him a dime. C64 games weren't exactly big budget projects. But hey, who knows.

Probably should split the music stuff away...

While we're at it...
The song you hear all the time in sports arenas

The C64 game they took it from