To those that haven't been following, VGM Classics (helmed by Kentaro Sato) are doing 3 individual Kickstarter projects for some orchestrated VGM. One for Fire Emblem, one for Suikoden II, one for Star Fox. This is mostly to test the waters of whether this can be used as a platform to launch successful products, so hopefully they reach goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … tral-cd-cd
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … ral-cd-2cd
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … tral-cd-cd

You can find some more information here:

http://www.vgm-classics.org/
https://twitter.com/VGMClassics
https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19544

The press release went out today so hopefully some bigger news sites will pick it up.

The kickstarters were cancelled!

They say they will be restarting soon:

http://www.vgm-classics.org/01-index-e.html

This is good to know.  I didn't even know this was happening in the first place.  I better keep an eye on this.

The Kickstart campaigns relaunched, but the albums have changed due to re-negotiations between VGM Classics and the rights holders (according to Mr. Sato, who was not involved in the re-negotations).

Star Fox 64: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … al-cd-64cd
Fire Emblem Echoes: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … tral-cd-cd
Suikoden II: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vg … l-cd-2cd-0

I understand why Nintendo pulled that (forcing titles currently on 3DS in hopes of cross marketing/sales) but it shows how they don't understand Kickstarter and VGM at all.  Can't say I'm happy about that and only backed the Suikoden II one this time

The Suikoden II album has been funded for a full album, while the other two fell short. Crowd-funding three albums at once was a bit of a stretch it seems. Hopefully the Suikoden II album will turn out great and there'll be more to come.