FFR Community Pack Summer 2012 Released

[moches]

on behalf of the woefully underappreciated BynaryFission, here's two more reviews...

SoC - this was actually really fun. love the jaunty piano rhythms and you brought out the accents well with your layering. complaints mostly deal with aesthetic stuff: the 16th freezes you used for the chunkier guitar could be expressed through some jack theory or shortened minifreezes, some of the longer freezes had way too many jumpjacks around them, which were very hard to hit often (and oftentimes not ver consistent...), and I'm not sure you had to use as many grace notes on the guitar as you did in the first half of the file. solo stuff all ruled.

Magewind - okay this was also quite fun but I'm shocked at how ridiculously hard some of these parts are. this is a super chill song, and even if there are instruments going haywire everywhere, following ALL of them makes the file feel super claustrophobic and way too intense. selective layering is really key here. it wasn't a problem in most parts, because the percussion/melody stuff either snapped into place or was separated, but you struggled a lot when everything came together--particularly in the ending, which had a flute (??) solo being followed with full freezes, with 16th streams cramped around it and even percussion stuff. had you chosen to follow any one or two of those elements, it would have worked out, but as is it's incomprehensible when playing.

patterns had problems in this regard, too, mostly with SUPERTRILLS, but that might just be me. don't take my complaints about difficulty too seriously, but remember that intermediate players like myself need charts to cater to our level as well.

otherwise, solid file and I can see you put a lot of effort into this.

okay...17 files left

Nightmare Night - I seriously don't get the backlash to this song. "ITS ABOUT PONIES GAY AS FUC LOOOLLOOL". it's a pretty legit song if you ignore the lyrics (which you can barely hear when playing anyway and mean nothing if you aren't versed with My Little Pony anyway). anyway, this is fun. 32nd patterns felt shoehorned in though (ie just filling in random spots between 16ths), maybe some flowy 16th jack theory might have helped with that.

16

Passage D ~Neus Remix~ - I don't call many drum'n'bass files majestic, but not all of them are created by wc. this is a boss file, maybe a bit freezy at times but the flow captures the song so well

15

Polar 240 - minifreeze use is kinda weird here. it works really well in some parts (like when you alternate btw the main melody and that recurring three-note xylophone melody in the chorus), but other parts are just confusing or inconsistent. choice of rhythms is good though, nice variation. ending's weird. I remember stepping this file a long time ago, but yours is definitely better. well done.

14

Sayonaramatane - Scylaax, you have this mad, hypercompressed way of stepping that just throws a bunch of insane motifs together. that means sometimes your files lose their sense of direction or feel disorganized, but when the song rises to meet your level, you have gold. I think that's the reason you do so well with t+pazolite songs: there's so much to work with that others struggle to bring out that you can perceive and express. this is a Scylaax file to the core: super-dense, varied, and oftentimes frustratingly messy, but it's perfect for this song.

13

Whore - yes, you do have to pee in a girl's mouth to make babies. this is basically Saddest RMX for people who thought that file wasn't dizzying enough, so if you like Saddest RMX, make of that what you will

12

Foxy Lady - very fun if simple. reminds of Sargon's best work--straightforward but with great texture.

11

Hatsune Something Something VOCALOID - played Heavy (because I know better than to play a 15 from leonid). really neat concept for scoring with the mixed 16ths and 12ths--this was quite a tough one to MA. simple but excellent throughout.

10

Divided By Three - I feel the same way about this as I did circa UEMP. good file but way too accurate with details to feel comfortable

9

JPEG Jive - noticed I skipped over the Kommisar files for the most part until now, apologies to Chris.

EDIT: boy that sure was a Kommisar file. really jaunty and varied, but structure is flawless and patterns express the song in creative ways (I like how you stepped that stuttering 16th note in the solo as a series of jumps w/ jack theory instead of just a dumb pattern like 44444444...way more fun and fitting). freezes, in typical Kommisar fashion, might be overlong in some parts, but the file still plays very crisply overall.

8 more to go! I will finish this pack if it's the death of me.

[eastsideman09]

Originally Posted by LongGone

Admittedly, I don't expect many to like sweet drops as a song (its just from a show which I loved)

Originally Posted by eastsideman09

-sweet drops: ...and the song sounded like a potential theme song for an asian sitcom

lol nailed it

[ddr_f4n]

Originally Posted by kommisar

why not use your talent to make solo rulz pack 2 gfx

because stealing r21freak graphics are cool :V

[moches]

I just finished the last 8 files and now they're gone

**** **** **** **** ****

reviews part 1
reviews part 2
reviews part 3
reviews part 4
reviews part 5

y'know what I'm doing this again

Watashi We Mizuki Desu - well-stepped but feels kinda pointless, tbh. almost everyone will fail at the trills, and those who can do them already have other files to play. maybe an intermediate chart would have helped?

Vortex - hard but very fair file. I doubt I could even pass this lmao

Watch Out part 2 - starts off promising, but gets messy later on. needs more creative ideas to fully flesh out the effects in the song.

Weapon - yeah this rules. simple and brutally effective

The Island part 2 - this is well-stepped and has some fun ideas, but the file gets really repetitive really fast

Queen of Rose - excellent intermediate file. freezes are weird but work because you commit to them. kinda has old-school vibes to it...I think Ossa would be taken with this file.

Theory of Eternity

I listened to this song FOUR TIMES

light - potential for a nice intermediate chart here, but mines are too intense (I like the idea, but save it for a harder chart) and the long jack is a HUGE difficulty spike. decent otherwise.
medium - parts of this are very good, but others feel underdeveloped or plain weird (I think you misunderstood one of the synth rhythms?) minefield+note on piano is hella hard and inappropriate for such a subtle moment. all in all, headed in the right direction.
heavy - quit out at the 24ths. I don't understand this file, to be honest: there doesn't seem to be any consistent way of organizing or layering the various parts of this song.
challenge - see heavy. good ideas with mines but they make the file kinda hard to play at parts.

finished, whew. final thoughts in a post below.

[dAnceguy117]

like your reviews disappeared after you wrote them? wowwww that's the worst

[moches]

I honestly have to say that playing this pack gives me hope for Stepmania. That so many people would be willing to contribute to this is amazing and shows that our community is still alive and well. I've seen people who submitted files to this pack grow so much from last year (or even two years ago), and those who are new to the community are putting in just as much effort as everybody else.

a few special notes

LongGone - damn, you make really good files
danceguy117 - I'm glad you're back, dude.
Torrent - keep making hard files and maybe I can play them someday
Kommisar - you'll be in this community forever, won't you? thanks as always, original mentor~
Gundam-Dude - I WILL meet you in person some day, mark my words
wc - same goes for you
alexdest - and you. marvelous progress, brother
Yotipo - keep making files! the two you have here are very impressive (if not fully developed yet) and I think you bring a flavor to the stepping community that not many have dabbled in before.
Scylaax - stepmachine
Bynary - ilu
Yume+Lynn+Melon+leonid - 사랑하고 감사합니다
WTFBrandon - keep stepping Korean songs, mayne. Monster is hella fun
Baq12 - I'll always appreciate your files
icyworld - didn't actually submit but I just miss him <3
Xayphon - keep stepping songs with controversial titles
hi19hi19 - mad respect for you, dude
lurker - I hope your posts are being facetious but even if not, you'll always have a place here
Wineandbread - Heavy WAS fun!
Rog - dodgeball is fun, but please make charts that I can actually pass next time. thank you and much love.
bmah - always great to see you around.
ddr_f4n - you're always getting better and it's fun to watch. keep up the good work.
Zelda-YEH + mi40 - you two came out of nowhere, but fun files in any case. I wanna see some more
eastsideman09 - does this mean you're our designated xmod guy now?
LegendaryHawk - I didn't think you'd actually step legit stuff after Coward Killing Time, so this was a pleasant surprise. hope to see you around some more.
Detrimentalist - DODGEBALLIN
Kaneh - fun stuff as always
Ferrari - retreat back into your stepping cave, we have ~top secret~ planning to do
Raine - BONAMANA is your best file so far, keep it up dude
iRanch - I prefer Italian dressing myself, but good stuff. good stuff
Reshiram - you've refined your style quite a bit since I first saw your files. enjoying them a lot. look forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Valor - make more files
plopadop - nice cdtitle
Arntonach - did I spell that correctly? thanks for all the graphic stuff. I'm so glad we have artistic people in this community.
condoct - step sth other than vocaloid :P
megamon88 - step sth other than pony music :P :P
rparty89 - dj cat be scratchin' everything up in this house
Gameoson - Poseidon is fuuuunn
Draco Centauros - FOXY LADY

great work, everybody!

this pack gets a legit A+ from me

[moches]

top 20 files

AVALON (leonid) [2 charts]
BattleJam (Rog) [1 chart]
Breaking Through The Gate (wc) [2 charts]
Come on (eastsideman09) [1 chart]
Grave Consequence (Gundam-Dude) [2 charts]
Hanz Up! (Lynn) [2 charts]
Harvest Dance (Anaru & hi19hi19) [2 charts]
JPEG Jive (Kommisar) [2 charts]
London (AlexDest) [2 charts]
Monster (WTFBrandon) [2 charts]
My Unfortunate Erection (Detrimentalist) [2 charts]
Neurotoxin (LongGone) [2 charts]
Passage D(Neus Remix) (wc) [1 chart]
Poseidon (Kors K Mix) (Gameoson) [3 charts]
RPG (Gundam-Dude) [2 charts]
Sayonaramatane (Scylaax) [2 charts]
Sweet Drops (LongGone) [2 charts]
The Sampling Paradise (Kommisar) [2 charts]
Todestrieb (Yume) [3 charts]
Weapon (Kommisar) [1 chart]

[NeoMasterPie]

moches play unfortunate erection (o:

edit: hmm apparently i forgot to refresh when i got home disregard this i suck cocks

[dAnceguy117]

word up. love the positivity.

here's x number of my favorite files

532nm (Zelda-YEH)
BattleJam (Rog)
Charging Swarm of Mousketeers (AlexDest)
Come on (eastsideman09)
EXTERMINATION (moches)
GIGA BREAK (melonid)
Grave Consequence (Gundam-Dude)
Hanz Up! (Lynn)
Harvest Dance (Anaru & hi19hi19)
House of Pleasure (iRanch)
Interrupt (Torrent)
Kimi no Heart ni Lock-on (bmah)
Magewind (BynaryFission)
Morgenglut 2012 (Yume)
Neurotoxin (LongGone)
Passage D(Neus Remix) (wc)
Tuff Guy Not Tuff (Yotipo)
Weapon (Kommisar)
Where's Bill (mi40)
Whore (Xayphon)
[getsufumaden] ryukotsuki -yks Remix- -Exhaust- (Gpop)

[xanox100]

Im too late! ;A; Well crud...

[FFR4EVA_00]

Originally Posted by moches

lurker - I hope your posts are being facetious

maybe the first one

[kommisar]

da sm community not going anywhere for a while it seems


much love mocher

[leonid]

Most successful FFR seasonal pack I think :>

[AlexDest]

Yeah, this pack is the best we've had in a while.

Top 20 from me:

Activation Synthesis Theory (BynaryFission)
Advent of Purinpu! Satan-sama (Scylaax)
BattleJam (Rog)
Breaking Through The Gate (wc)
Come on (eastsideman09)
Divided By Three (BynaryFission)
EXTERMINATION (moches)
Grave Consequence (Gundam-Dude)
Harvest Dance (Anaru & hi19hi19)
Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu -Gekijouban- (leonid)
House of Pleasure (iRanch)
Kimi no Heart ni Lock-on (bmah)
Magewind (BynaryFission)
My Unfortunate Erection (Detrimentalist)
Passage D (Neus Remix) (wc)
SoC (BynaryFission)
The Sampling Paradise (Kommisar)
Weapon (Kommisar)
Where's Bill (mi40)
Whore (Xayphon)

Originally Posted by moches

alexdest - and you. marvelous progress, brother

<3

[wwplpmpn]

Originally Posted by LongGone

[MLG]420 pr0ComBo NOhOldS AAAA VoDKAQUAdShOtS
//]]\[=-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZkj4OqZ5k

[Profraine]

Review aww yay


24th Century BOY - Big Ovulating Yodelers

532nm - got my beep beep boop beep going

Abstract Art v2- piss christ was awesome

Acchi de Kocchi de - my eyes are all full of super desu-ne~

Activation Synthesis Theory -This move recovers its HP depending upon the weather. If no weather is in effect, it heals the user by 50% of their maximum Hit Points. If Sunny Day is in effect, this move heals the user by 66.66% of its maximum Hit Points and if Rain Dance, Hail or Sandstorm is in effect, this move heals the user by 25% of their maximum Hit Points

Advent of Purinpu! Satan-sama - We can solve everything with a puyo match

AVALON - I still need that Mendes song translated...

Battlefield - WOOBWOOBWOOBWOOB

BattleJam -Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
Brrrr
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Bent Choral - I remember the time house made a pokemon referense. good times

Bingo Highway (Remix ver.) - http://www.soniccenter.org/rankings/.../bingo_highway

BONAMANA - Behold my most technically perfect simfile. It's bullshit play Pop a parade if you wanna score shit.

Breaking Through The Gate - Just put velcro in between her leg and if you hear a tearing noise, stop. Perfect birth cotrol.

buki -


Cadaver Anatomy - Extraction Of Viscera - Nelson Frazier, Jr. is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Centipede - I get it you put in explosions to coin off of the success of mythbusters how original

Charging Swarm of Mousketeers - vocals and speeling by Bittney Spears

Checking You Out - ;P

Chronon - GOOD MORNING CHRONO!

Come on - I cannot, I just masturbated to kory's avatar

Couple Breaking - **** yeah everyone asexual now Muhahahaha!

Divided By Three - 3.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333shits' gonna take awhile

DON'T WAKE ME FROM THE DREAM (2010 Summer Edition) - Explosions will wake you ass up

El Perdedor - es stupido

Emotional Skyscraper ~ Worlds End - toehoe bullshit vol. 1

Excalibur - Statisfaction is the best use of vocaloids ever

EXE - I'm the guile rippof frozen queen of EXEcutions

EXTERMINATION -

Far East Nightbird - Orange juice concentrate, crossword puzzles start to grade; one across, four letter word, it's just not sittin

Foxy Lady - She ain't foxy where's the taiL?

GIGA BREAK - generic guitar musics no wonder Guitar Freaks sucks

Grave Consequence - Once Tsukasa files a restraining order on you, will you stop stepping her stuff?

Hanz Up! - DONT MAKE ME KILL NO BODY IN HYRR

Harvest Dance - More asiaman dance music fuccccen

Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu -Gekijouban- - **** your toyota miku

Healing Vision Rmx - eye massages are deadly

House of Pleasure - he stuck his thingy in my you know what and we did it

Hunters Chance - damn nobou fix your synthesizer the drifty BPMS are pissing on PEEPES

Interrupt - IM NOT MAKEING BEATS MI MAKING MAKE IT MONEYS

Intro Outro - STOP!

GAMMER TIME!

JPEG Jive - oops right eyes broken

Kimi no Heart ni Lock-on - shit fissure's gonna hit fearow

Lake Bestriel -


London - Bitches got Doctor Who so they b coul wit me

Magewind - magic nerds always stock up on burritos before a long and strenuous tournament so bring lots of deodorant and car fresheners.

Meteralice - toehoe bullshit vol. 2 ~ carpet busHfire

Minus 3 - bithric is good withmathemeatics

MIRACLE RUSH - YOUR WAPANIMU BULLDICKS KILLS COMPUTERS PLEASE GETS A BETTTTER HOBBY LIKE CRACK

Monster - That boy is a monster (mamamamonster)

Morgenglut 2012 - I'm hip anf trendy by using a dofferent language that tokyoean and american

My Unfortunate Erection - Is that a celery stick in yuouuor pants cauce immia vegetrainian

Mystery Metropolis - that city doeswn't ****ing exist bro

Neurotoxin - I got my loppy pills IMA AOK IN MY BOKKDS

Nightmare Night - **** YOU go i to bed at 06000

Passage D(Neus Remix) - it's bzzzz part 2341235r234123451234

Polar 240 - PARAGOCN stole paraowcas ikEA

Poseidon (Kors K Mix) - kosk k is a ddr nerd at hart <3

PRESENTER -

she's now 1e of us

Queen of Rose - bithchh

Ramua - onoken simfile hwowh

Rengetsu Ouka - gd gognin bakc to his roots in da blackest of affrikaa

RPG - WALKS DOWN YOUR PRTTEY haLEY WAY OFR 40 GOSHDANM HORUS
Sayonaramatane -

-,-

Seiken Densetsu - Final Battle - Use OraneGel??3????????????

SoC - My girlferind imspiered me to finimseh thins

Super Soaker - GET IT Super Shaook HRRR

Sweet Drops - WHERE"S THE DROPSS/

The Island Pt. 2 - Penedum YYYYY?

The Sampling Paradise - The song = korks k in a belendreer

Theory of Eternity - Go to Flowrida and gets me rat fouintan of youf

Thunderbolt - WEWOWEWEO RYU STAR MAKES 180BOM D+SONG SOTP THE PRSESSEING

Todestrieb - I'm om the higghywa to heel!!@

Tuff Guy Not Tuff - the loove shakce is a littlr plaec where we can yoff toghether

Valkyrie Dimension - ENOCORE EXRTE SRAGT!!

VALLISTA - The House of the Vallista is a House of warriors and craftsmen. Vallista are renown as builders and especially arshittecks; the majority of the great structures in the Dragaeran Empire, including the Imperial Palace, were constructed by Vallista.

Voice - tsukasa is a lie
eEEEE

Vortex -



Watashi Wa Mizuki Desu - You tespped 8bit no fking wiay

Watch Out Pt. 2 - tea

Weapon - yes fuking wey

What You Got - I got ihts

Where's Bill - BILBILBILBILBIL! *pewpewpewpew* BILBILBILBILBIBLIB

Whore - that m,ovie was suttipd

[getsufumaden] ryukotsuki -yks Remix- -Exhaust- - This is tury loev weer makim~~~~~~~

oh yrreees

[Tyson ultima]

wwplpmpn can only weed reviews =/

[sticklydude]

Glad you guys enjoyed House of Pleasure and El Perdedor c:

Best seasonal pack ever.

[kommisar]

well I finished playing the whole pack. Except sexylatino's file,

[Bynary Fission]

Originally Posted by skyfox_

i like magewind...alot

i think its the song...

Glad you like it! I have another Caldera song like it already stepped (off of a different album though), I'll definitely submit it to the next pack.

Originally Posted by moches

on behalf of the woefully underappreciated BynaryFission, here's two more reviews...

<3

Originally Posted by moches

SoC - this was actually really fun. love the jaunty piano rhythms and you brought out the accents well with your layering. complaints mostly deal with aesthetic stuff: the 16th freezes you used for the chunkier guitar could be expressed through some jack theory or shortened minifreezes, some of the longer freezes had way too many jumpjacks around them, which were very hard to hit often (and oftentimes not ver consistent...), and I'm not sure you had to use as many grace notes on the guitar as you did in the first half of the file. solo stuff all ruled.

Hmm, interesting. I've never been one to apply jack theory much (likely due to my intense dislike for minijacks), I felt that freezes were a good way to bring out the guitar in a more unique way - SoC in general was stepped a bit differently from my usual style and that was a way I felt it would work.

As for the jumpjacks, those were primarily intended to bring out the multiple instruments at work in that specific section (hands would actually have worked but I thought that was overkill). My stepping style generally is to bring out the certain instruments and sections at work, which is why my jump usage isn't 100% uniform, especially in the solo sections.

Glad you liked the file in general.

Originally Posted by moches

Magewind - okay this was also quite fun but I'm shocked at how ridiculously hard some of these parts are. this is a super chill song, and even if there are instruments going haywire everywhere, following ALL of them makes the file feel super claustrophobic and way too intense. selective layering is really key here. it wasn't a problem in most parts, because the percussion/melody stuff either snapped into place or was separated, but you struggled a lot when everything came together--particularly in the ending, which had a flute (??) solo being followed with full freezes, with 16th streams cramped around it and even percussion stuff. had you chosen to follow any one or two of those elements, it would have worked out, but as is it's incomprehensible when playing.

I wouldn't say I stepped ALL the instruments - there are many sections where this isn't the case, in fact it's somewhat understepped in a few sections (not the harder parts, of course). To see what I mean, try playing the Edit chart sometime - that was the old 2009 chart that lingered in my folder for years prior to some clean-up work and revisions made to bring it up to standard for this pack. It's even more densely layered the Oni chart, to a fault actually. I removed a bunch of steps to certain sounds and instruments because of how much it broke the flow of the song at a few points.

The ending was a pan flute solo - the thing is, I didn't want to put it as plain freezes because I felt it was a waste to ignore the relatively even drum work going on. I was hoping to add a challenge factor to this song since many parts (especially that sax) really had some incredible stepping potential - but I see your point though, and in hindsight a really easy chart would have been a nice addition.

Nice commentary, it's definitely a contrasting take to my own opposing opinion on it, but I appreciate the comments regardless! Glad you enjoyed it, and yeah I almost killed myself stepping this way back in the day haha. It's pretty disappointing that none of my files made your top 20 but I'm glad you liked them regardless!