The worst thing that could possibly happen for this ranking has come to pass.
I will be unable to complete the ranking. I have unfortunately lost my flash drive. In 10+ years, I have never misplaced my flash drive but only 3 days ago it happened. I had a backup, or so I thought, that I attempted to make a couple of months ago but when I put the drive in my laptop it asked if I wanted to install the driver like it was the first time it had ever been used. That's when heavy depression set in.
Folks, I cried real man tears. I had over 10 years worth of project stuff plus family photos, music and some movies on that drive. The other thing it had was all of the lists, documents and the spreadsheet containing the rest of this ranking.
I could take a year or so and possibly put together a list of the remaining 650 songs but it wouldn't likely be the same so instead I must unfortunately concede and chalk this up as a project failure. It is a heavy disappointment on my conscience to give up since that really isn't my MO but I think this is still one of the larger Board 8 rankings as it is so I can live with the attempt.
I still have plans for the NES Chiptune ranking that'll be a few thousand tunes so I'm hoping to still snatch that record.
There was a tiny bit if luck and I was a little bit relieved when I found an old backup that I had made in April of 2015. It feels weird to be set back by almost 5 years but at least I have something and I got most of the family photos back. I'm lucky that this is the only topic that will be affected since I have posted updates in the BB7 topic that I can copy.
I do apologize for the disappointment if there were many of you following and I hope this doesn't keep you from visiting any of my other topics in the future. Thank you for following.
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