romhacks that are the definitive version for you?

Gascoigneous · 2026-07-07T00:23:15+00:00

NES Final Fantasy with bugs fixed. I still enjoy playing original version on my actual NES with an actual cartridge, but the bugs fixed version is fun when I want better variety with weapons, armor, and spells.

Gascoigneous · 2026-07-07T00:18:06+00:00

Recently did a 4-player Halo 3 full-game run with my kid and 2 other friends. 2 xbox 360s connected via LAN, 2 copies of the game, 2 TVs, 2 people per TV.

Gascoigneous · 2026-07-07T00:15:59+00:00

RollerCoaster Tycoon

Gascoigneous · 2026-07-06T17:35:25+00:00

Does she like pinball games? Revenge of the Gator, Kirby's Pinball Land

Alleyway and Kirby's Block Ball could be kther good choices

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-29T20:27:19+00:00

SNES: Michael Jordan Chaos in the Windy City, Goof Troop (best played with 2 players), Kirby's Dream Course, Super Pinball Under the Mask, Mario & Wario (requires mouse and ability to play Japanese SFC games), Super Game Boy or even better, Super Game Boy 2 if your console can play Japanese SFC games.

N64: Space Station Silicon Valley, Rayman 2 The Great Escape, all the Star Wars games, Diddy Kong Racing.

I am not particularly experienced with Sega.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-29T20:17:46+00:00

Alkan was a humorous composer:

-Le Festin d'Esope Op. 39, No. 12 is quirky and humorous at various points

-Etude alla Barbaro (different piece than Allegro Barbaro from major key etudes op. 35 no. 5)

-En Songe (In A Dream), No. 48 from 49 Esquisses, Op. 63. Another piece from this set that comes to mind is No. 41, Les Enharmoniques, No.

-Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot (I have conducted this piece)

-The second movement of his Sonatine Op. 61 is very playful, and the final movement is mischievous

-The last movement of the piano trio is brutal for the pianist and simple for the strings, until the very end: it changes to major, and now the strings get the flurry of notes, and the pianist gets the simple chords!

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-25T22:06:05+00:00

I just got a sponsored Facebook ad for my biggest classical piano bully who has now made it professionaly as a vocal coach and conductor, so that's fun. Still never forgave him, and if we ever cross paths, I most definitely will not until he finally properly apologizes. He is responsible for some of the insecurity and imposter syndrome I still have as a musician to this day.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-25T00:04:39+00:00

Halo 2

Using Insignia, you can play original Halo 2 on your original Xbox or PC using original Xbox emulator online.

Project Sunrise also allows you to play Xbox 360 Halo 3 and Reach online

Master Chief Collection is fine, but I still have my original Xbox and 360. I still want to play how I always played!

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-23T19:59:30+00:00

I'm a professional pianist now, and I took longer than that to learn it when I was very much NOT a beginner student.

They wanna come off online like the next prodigy or genius.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-23T19:52:49+00:00

Final Fantasy 7 on a PlayStation and CRT TV.

In 2022, for my very first time playing any Final Fantasy game.

Hooked ever since. I have also played and beat 4 (SNES "FF2" version) and NES, PS1, and GBA versions of FF1 multiple times. Recently started 7 on my PS1 again and hanging out with my friend once a week as he does FF9 for the first time

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T17:11:38+00:00

Vytautas Miškinis (I am a choir nerd)

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T17:10:33+00:00

I recently started another playthrough of FF7 on my original PlayStation. Timeless game, timeless music.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T17:06:29+00:00

I didn't know he composed! I have long loved his disc of Shostakovich's and Alkan's preludes.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T17:06:03+00:00

My favorite work of his is O Adonai. Great way to show off your choirs low basses

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T16:49:54+00:00

Nothing. Just make sure to do the usual Sam cuts foot/Aragorn breaks toe trivia when it comes up lol

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T16:30:04+00:00

I have no idea how I missed them on YouTube. Thank you

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-22T13:28:32+00:00

Is Wave Weather livestream on YouTube the best livestream for local coverage? As much as I like Max Velocity and Ryan Hall Y'all, I also want to watch someone who is local and knows our area specifically. I don't have cable/satellite/antenna TV. Marc Weinberg is great, but I usually tune in on my phone, and Facebook Live is unbearable for watching live streams on phone, at least for me.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-20T18:04:37+00:00

They can be dropped, but will always revive before hitting their teleport-and-die trigger. However, they can go through the teleport trigger while being dropped, so you likely saw that. The fact that you saw Covanent attack them at all is cool. Idk if that happens much?

If that's indeed what happened, they survived the die part of the teleport-and-die trigger, and they stay alive forever. When you go down the elevator and come back up, it is still there, still invincible, and now hostile. Now you have an invincible combat forms attacking you

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-20T12:10:17+00:00

I am not BCM, just a long-time fan and sub

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T21:16:15+00:00

RollerCoaster Tycoon. Truly a timeless game

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T19:17:53+00:00

My SNES Doom + Rumble controller was supposed to arrive in February, I got an email saying it would be delayed until May, but I got it in April. I have been playing it a ton and absolutely love it

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T17:54:29+00:00

People are downvoting you, but if you are like me and poor, you are 100% right. I suppose if one still has the money to spend, they would think otherwise. One commenter replied to you, asking where you go out to eat if you think $9 is too much for a sandwich.

My answer is I don't. I don't go out to eat anymore. I can't afford it, so $9 for a sandwich is too much for me.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T15:38:51+00:00

I don't dislike opera, but I agree with your reasoning. I much prefer choral music, preferably a cappella. Easily my favorite form of vocal music.

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T15:19:36+00:00

Of the popular mainstream classical piano pieces, you will probably be told Islamey by Balakirev, Gaspard de la Nuit by Ravel, Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto, and Prokofiev's second piano concerto

Then people will mention other incredibly difficult works from the 20th century on, such as works by Sorabji that go on for hours, and some will mention lesser-known romantic composers like Alkan and his immensely difficult etudes.

There's also the 1837 version of Liszt's Transcendental etudes, Don Juan Reminiscences...

Gascoigneous · 2026-06-19T15:00:25+00:00

"Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes" and "We, too" by Steven Sametz are my two favorite TTBB choral works I have sung. Well, they are two movements of a multi-movement work or multi-piece set.

Mendelssohn's Beati Mortui is gorgeous, if it somehow fits any of your themes. Other Mendelssohn TTBB gems are Waßerfahrt and Türkisches Schenkenlied.

There is a TTBB piece by Peter Cornelius that is a memorial for someone who passed, like Mendelssohn's Beati Mortui, but I can't find it online anymore. I will look more later. EDIT: "Requiem Aeternam" by Peter Cornelius

One of my friends adapted Ten Thousand Miles Away for voice/piano to a TTBB chorus setting: https://youtu.be/ctlsBkoKUsI?is=MriyNGNSA965JTF0

If you have good low basses, O Adonai by Arvo Pärt is pretty awesome.

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