Guide to Making a Proper Request - READ BEFORE POSTING! (Updated: 7/03/12)

[Bubbles]

Good idea

[TheZeldaPianist275]

Bubbles, can I ask why you became the new request mod?

Legitly not being passive aggressive, genuinely interested.

[Bubbles]

I took a job opening. Pretty simple actually Too bad I can't do that in the real world :/

[JDMEK5]

Wait, what? Bubbles is mod now? Congratulations Bubbles!

Why can't I be a mod?....? :-P

Hey, let me know if you ever need help with your newly-acquired moderator duties!

[TheZeldaPianist275]

Too bad I can't do that in the real world :/

Ugh.  Me too.

[FireArrow]

I took a job opening. Pretty simple actually Too bad I can't do that in the real world :/

guise, theres a job opening in the halp form

[JDMEK5]

guise, theres a job opening in the halp form

I'll take it!

[DonValentino]

Oh, congrats Bubbles! If you need any help, count with me! I used to help Shado a lot with all the requests, so hopefully I can help you too.

[MusicMeister47]

Stupid question. Can we request music from a fangame like Mario and Luigi rpg 4?

[FierceDeity]

You can request whatever you want; that doesn't mean an arranger's going to do it

Personally, I prefer arranging songs from games that I'm familiar with, and I would assume that applies at least on some level to other arrangers on here. If I were you, I'd take slow's advice and take a crack at arranging them myself. If you ever wanted to get into arranging, this is a pretty good starting point, as far as transcription goes; the songs are relatively simple/not too layered.

...As for whether songs from that game would be put on the main site, I would imagine so, but I'm not entirely sure.

Whatever you decide to do, good luck

[SlowPokemon]

I am around 99% certain we can't put music from a fan game on the website, especially since the fan game is a copyright infringement of Nintendo's characters...

Not to mention there's already a game called Mario & Luigi RPG 4 (that's the Japanese title of Mario & Luigi Dream Team)

[FierceDeity]

Well, the music is original, and I can't imagine us getting in trouble over their copyright infringement. It seems like we'd be ripping off nintendo even less than usual...
As long as we indicate that it's a fanmade game, I don't see why it should be a problem.
EDIT: Granted, I haven't studied law or anything. I'm just curious as to how arranging music that isn't even nintendo's would cause a copyright dispute with them.

[SlowPokemon]

I'm still saying no, but a mod would have to decide that officially.

[DonValentino]

Not that anyone cares, but I think it shouldn't be a problem. Were not actually doing anything with the characters, were just arranging the music, and in most of the cases, it's either composed by someone else not related to Nintendo or it's reused from another game (so the arrangement should be the one from the original, of course).

Anyways, as long as there is copyright, I think everything should go just fine.

That said, I wouldn't really approve of uploading those arrangements of fanmade songs to the site. But sincerely I can't see why we can't have them here in the forums.

[SlowPokemon]

Well of course we can arrange them here. I don't think they should be allowed on the site is what I was saying. Therefore I don't think official requests should be allowed.