Feedback on Suko's files.

Stamp On The Ground
+ AWESOME SONG
+ Heavy chart is really fun, but has a few odd parts, some steps that have no rhythm to match at one point.
- Don't have super short freezes in your charts. You don't even have to hold them to have them counted as "OK" making them pretty pointless.

Super Mario World
- It crashes my Stepmania (3.95)
- Bad formatting in the file prevents some arrows from being hit at all.

Romeo's Dead
- Bad formatting in the file prevents some arrows from being hit at all.
- Short freezes again that are useless
- holy batman jackhammers and double steps. I think you tried to over engineer this chart.

4r73r m3
~ Heavy is an Ok chart. Song didn't jump out to me much though.
- Bad formatting in the file prevents some arrows from being hit at all.


I don't know what's up with your files, but there are sections where they completely lock up Stepmania from accepting input on those arrows. I've NEVER had that happen before. :\

Keby's Pumpin Kicks.

Deadline:

March 20th.

All that's left is Banner and Backgrounds. This is my goal. If I don't get them done by then I'll just release the pack as it is.

I have a Sarina Paris CD as well, although it's a Singapore edition with a 2nd cd of different mixes from the songs. I was addicted to that for a short bit.

Suko, I'm gonna try to play your files tonight or sometime soon and give some feedback.

I've loved Sarina Paris since I heard Look at Us Now on Max2. Great song and a great artist, IMO.

Btw, thanks for the compliments. I'm always trying to improve my charts and I like to know that someone other than me (and Tom) might actually play'em.

I think the next thing I need to focus on is making patterns that are a little less chaotic and a bit more straight-forward. I like my charts, but the patterns in most of them are slightly...unconventional.

1. Scott, your charts always manage that perfect balance between "actually possible to sightread" and "actually fun to play," so thanks for posting them!

2. I totally had that Sarina Paris CD when it came out like a decade ago. Holy crap!

I've got a couple more charts that I'd like some input on. I feel that playing my charts on the pad offers a better experience then just playing it in StepMania or OpenITG. So please keep this in mind when critiquing. Oh yes, I'm also not shy about inserting 360 spins into my charts on occasion. I don't think that I forced any of them in these charts, but just keep that in mind.

Romeo's Dead by Sarina Paris

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Just a head's up, this one's got a few spins in it. The WIP is an unfinished chart, so you can ignore it.

Super Mario World (Sky Theme) by Koji Kondo

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I'm still waiting for Keby to give me his "awesome" edit chart, but in the mean time you can enjoy what I've got.

4F73R M3 (B4U Remix) by SuperGreen X

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This is an old stepchart from years back that someone else made. The Expert 10 was the original chart, which seems to have been a keyboard chart. I loved the song and wanted to give it a proper stepchart that can be done on the pad, so I made the 9 step Hard chart.

I thought the chart was pretty good actually. It was a bit bland in some of the patterns, but the majority of it was pretty good. I'll try it out on the machine sometime soon.

Made this pretty straight forward chart the other day. It may not be Christmas anymore, but it's still a pretty fun song. It's on sync for the most part. Suko, you might like this one Thought I'd share it with everyone else here.


Last Christmas by Crazy Frog: Difficulty is 9 block and song time runs about 3mins and 25secs. Happy dancing!  

http://www.mediafire.com/?n4m9iz4kxi85gns

Edit: Some feed back would definitely be a great help to me making better simfiles in the future

FYI, ITG banner size is 418 x 164. It's not a big deal, because it still looks fine, but I thought I should mention it.

http://www.stepmania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17235

Also, I used Any Video Converter to reduce the size of your video file. I generally reduce mine to 400x300 pixels and to a bitrate of <512. I also strip out the audio (since it's unnecessary for a BG video). I was able to reduce your original video from 12mb to 5.5mb.

http://www.any-video-converter.com/download-avc-free.php

Regarding the chart: Not too shaby. I don't know if this is one of your first charts or not, but I did notice a couple places that I felt I had to double-step. Either that, or you intend the player to do some (kind of) funky 360/reversals. Try to make sure the player isn't forced to double step without it being intentional. The best way to check for this is to assume that they will not use the same foot twice in a row (gallops are excluded from this rule).

Example: In measure 51 - 62 of your chart, the player generally will be hitting the UP (^) roll with their left foot if they did the previous sequence correctly. From that, you have them go into a diagonal jump (V >) which they should be positioned to hit with their right foot on the DOWN and their left foot on the RIGHT. This causes a problem with the following sequence of steps, assuming you don't double-step anything. Either that, or this was an intentionally complex 360 setup.

However, i think I'm being a bit too harsh about this, because it is a simple song without too many steps, it's not hard to switch foot and correct yourself on this chart. If you do get into making more intense charts with a greater step density, please keep this in mind.

Also, I don't know if I'd rate this a 7. It's closer to a 5 or a 6 IMO. I definitely think you could write a more challenging chart for it that would be a solid 8 and perhaps a 9. Maybe give it a try sometime. All-in-all, not bad work. Also, I agree with Keby about cutting the BPM by half. 220bpm is a bit fast for a peaceful song like this.

I'll get into more detail about it later since I have to run off to school, but not bad Dr. Z!
First thing I'll say right now is that you should cut the BPM in half. 222 doesn't seem appropriate for a song with such a gentle melody to it.

Edit: Alright. First off cut the bpm in half. No biggie but I definitely would. Fits the song better.

I honestly think there should be more arrows. Even though it is a hard chart it's okay to add in my gallops and triplets. Try to keep a recurrent pattern going on through out the song rather than having one idea here then another here and then another there.
it's good to build up some patterns on top of each other throughout songs.

Tuan and I tried that same V3 song at Acme, but only some of the reverse bpm seemed to work. Other parts lagged (like the beginning and middle) to the point of being even less playable than normal. lol


Hmm.. Finished a short little video game chart

Lunar by AzureVixen
Singles: ( 2 / 4 / 7 )

Link for download~
Video cutscene included. Thought it might be potentially usable as a Sakuracon'11 Pack song along with a couple others, if we plan on doing something like last year  

Edit: Thanks for the feedback. Modifying the image was easy, but I apparently can't just plug in the smaller bpm number without re-modifying the whole song.. So I'll look into that. Presently on the fence about adding an Expert chart.

People actually enjoy playing crap like that!? Blows my freakin' mind.

that is the exact one! wow, that is some cool crazy stuff. Thank you!

U talking about this?

StepMania - V^3 (Hello World) 99-foot version - A	Small | Large

It's nice to see a thread like this up! I had to ask everyone if they've seen or have the VerTeX song that has the reverse BPM runs in it? (pretty much reverses the song at certain points making it near impossible to pass unless you memorize it)

I'm working on a simfile for everyone's enjoyment soon

Here's my latest simfile with charts for all difficulty levels. For those of you who've seen AirGear, this song will be familiar.

Let Me See Your Love by SkankFunk
Singles: ( 3 / 5 / 7 / 9 )

*Updated on 1/13/2011
Download: Let Me See Your Love

Speaking of Air Gear, here's the serie's intro song, Chain. It only has the Hard chart completed at the moment, but I'm hoping to get the rest done soon.

Chain by SkankFunk
Singles: ( - / - / 8 / - )

*Updated on 1/13/2011
Download: Chain

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Here's a simfile present from me to you! This is the first draft and I'm planning to put an expert chart to this at some point. For now, enjoy this while it's still the holiday season!

Don't Cry, baby by SoundTeMP | Ragnarok Online
Singles: ( - / - / 8 / - )

*Updated on 1/13/2011
Download: Don't Cry, baby

BUMP!

Keby - Bulletproof	Small | Large

New chart! 1st Draft! let me know what you guys think!

Oh hey guys.
There's been a lot of changes to the pack, but I'm actually done with all the expert charts so far.

Working on finishing all difficulties.
Also working on a 24 minute marathon song.
The Odyssey by Symphony X

I did the same thing. I started working on it over a year before I ended up finishing it. I've actually been refining all of these simfiles over the last few months, but haven't released an updated version yet. Keep an eye on this thread, hopefully in the next few weeks I'll put the "final" versions of these out. I want to put them behind me so I can focus on some new charts. =D

OOOOOLD sticky to reply to, but then I just checked your SOTG sim. Not bad tbh. Some of it doesn't seem bang on, but then most of it's fun.
I worked on the same thing, although I need to get a rip of a shorter version from a flash video, and get the video in a stepmania usable format. Never did finish it, but then I get bored like that.

I have ideas for lots of charts but they're mostly bemani songs.
Also, I'd like to make a full set of single charts to my old files before I ask to put them on the machine.  Most of them only have one chart.

Time Machine = blown subwoofers. =D

Here's a new one I just made. It's from Smile.DK's Party Around the World album. It's a catchy song and was begging for a good chart. In typical fashion, I've made two charts. One is a moderate to difficult 9, the other is an easy 6. I'm in the process of making a doubles chart, but since I've never stepped doubles before, I'm starting with a wimpy standard chart first. I've tested these on my machine and didn't notice any glaring issues, so please check it out and let me know what you think!

(I've also updated my original post to include this as one of my "collection")

Summer party by Smile.DK

Download: See first post

I've got a pack in the works right now.

I thought I'd be nice enough to give people a song list sample so far

Blue Horizon - S.S.H.
Final de la Danza de la Horas - Amilcare Ponchielli
Laughing Gas - Neon Indian
Put A Donk On It - Blackout Crew
Timepiece Phase II - Jimmy Weckl 
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
Get up Offa That Thing - James Brown
The Girl and the Robot (Spencer & Hill Mix) - Royksopp
Unholy Grail - Alex Kidd(USA)

and some more to come as well.
I'm planning on getting this pack done by august with full banners and backgrounds. Maybe not all difficulties, but I'll try

I did a search and didn't find anything. Mostly 'cause searching for custom song or stepchart just brings up 1000 posts related to the Acme ITG machine.