FFR Community Pack Winter 2011 (Submissions Closed)
 

FFR Community Pack Winter 2011

Generic as fuc pack name with a plain typographic banner, etc.

Submissions are closed

Aiming somewhere between 30-40 files but this could change pending on submission flow.

There is a song choice restriction this time. Avoid stepping anything Japanese. Exceptions apply for the files I reserved from Autumn pack but that's about it. I'll allow non-vocal tracks of Japanese origin (e.g. IIDX, Pop'n, VGM, etc.) but for the love of god stop sending me aNiMe LoLi VoCaLS. Step different genres bros

Your file must have a minimum of 2 charts. The more charts the better. I don't care how long it takes you to make easier charts or how slow you step, get them done before you submit.

There isn't a limit to how many simfiles you can submit, however the more files you send, the stricter I'll be with judging. This way the pack doesn't end up with 87361283761 files from the same person and it'll more or less balance out in the end.

I'm also perfectly fine with already released files. Just let me know ahead of time before submitting it.

I'm the sole judge for this pack but Kommisar still volunteered to give me extra input. Since he's banned from here, I'll just relay his notes to the forum. Any other commentary or suggestions for the pack feel free to post them here as well.

GFX are highly appreciated. Any low quality ones will be replaced with a better set by myself.


File Queue: 43
A Far East Fantasy Flowering Game Night (Condoct) [2 charts]
Accept Bloody Fate (Kaneh) [2 charts]
After Laughter (Niko) [3 charts]
Armament Armed Arm (Scylaax) [2 charts]
BabeL ~Next Story~ (leonid) [2 charts]
Blackened (Baq12) [2 charts]
Byakuya Gentou (leonid) [2 charts]
Captain Murasa (Niko) [3 charts]
Circus Speedy Mix (Kommisar) [2 charts]
concon (Gundam-Dude) [3 charts]
COOLISH WALK (Kommisar) [2 charts]
Dark Prism (Gundam-Dude) [3 charts]
Ecclesia (Reshiram) [5 charts]
ecoFEAR (Scylaax) [2 charts]
Flames Within These Black Feathers (Szalu) [2 charts]
Heaven's Race Guitar Style (Sargon) [4 charts]
Hysteric Soda (Gundam-Dude) [1 chart]
INITIATIVE (Yume) [3 charts]
Innovation (Detrimentalist) [2 charts]
KOMMICORE (0 & Torrent) [1 chart]
Negus Nagast (Wineandbread) [2 charts]
Now A NEW Day (ca25nada & Gundam-Dude) [3 charts] + [4 solo charts]
Overture 1928 (Baq12) [2 charts]
Pair of Aces (Midigami) [4 charts]
Phalanx (Keywii) [2 charts]
Pop (Kommisar vs Rogdor) [1 chart]
Rave7 (hi19hi19) [3 charts]
Reasiness (Niko) [2 charts] + [1 solo chart]
Result (S Rank) (Midigami) [2 charts]
RPG (Yume) [3 charts]
SAMBA de ASPEL (bmah) [2 charts]
Session 9 - Chronicles - (Scylaax) [3 charts]
SIN (Nohara&Yume) [1 chart]
Star Trail (Gundam-Dude & LongGone) [3 charts] + [3 solo charts]
Super Bass (WTFBrandon) [1 chart]
Super Soaker (gnr61) [1 chart]
The Sky of Sadness (leonid) [2 charts]
Turning Japanese (Kommisar) [2 charts]
Ulterior Boss Battle (hi19hi19) [2 charts]
Ultrasounds! (Rin-Dude) [2 charts]
Vertex (Scylaax) [2 charts]
worldenddominator (Profraine) [3 charts]
Yellow Head Joe (Lynn) [2 charts]

Green = Completed GFX set


Files that need GFX

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Green = Has been looked at and accepted into the file queue.
Red = Has been looked at and needs revision.
Orange = Has been looked at but requires file fixes or more input before a decision can be made.
Blue = Has been approved for a spot in the pack but requires the mandatory easier charts or a small file fix
Violet = File has not yet been looked at by anyone.


Files Received: 53
Captain Murasa (Niko)
Dark Prism (Gundam-Dude)
INITIATIVE (Yume)
Now A NEW Day (ca25nada & Gundam-Dude)
RPG (Yume)
Star Trail (Gundam-Dude)
Seiya no special shooting star (aloola)
Phalanx (Keywii)
ecoFEAR (Scylaax)
Session 9 - Chronicles - (Scylaax)
Vertex (Scylaax)
Armament Armed Arm (Scylaax)
COOLISH WALK (Kommisar)
After Laughter (Niko)
Reasiness (Niko)
DOODAH! (DDRBaller123)
Winter V2 (DDRBaller123)
Ecclesia (Reshiram)
Visions Of Coming Apocalypse (Charlo)
Pop (Kommisar vs Rogdor)
Turning Japanese (Kommisar)
Circus Speedy Mix (Kommisar)
Super Soaker (gnr61)
Accept Bloody Fate (Kaneh)
Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus (Detrimentalist)
Rave7 (hi19hi19)
Ulterior Boss Battle (hi19hi19)
concon (Gundam-Dude)
Tera gets sand in his monitor (ghost-)
Far East Fantasy Flowering Game Night (Condoct)
Ultrasounds! (Rin-Dude)
Result (S Rank) (Midigami)
DIAVOLO (rparty89)
The Sky of Sadness (leonid)
Yellow Head Joe (Lynn)
Heaven's Race Guitar Style (Sargon)
Pair of Aces (Midigami)
Super Bass (WTFBrandon)
SIN (Nohara & Yume)
Flames Within These Black Feathers (Szalu)
Innovation (Detrimentalist)
SAMBA de ASPEL (bmah)
Negus Nagast (Wineandbread)
Sjalv (Szalu)
worldenddominator (Profraine)
Byakuya Gentou (leonid)
BabeL ~Next Story~ (leonid)
Hysteric Soda (Gundam-Dude)
90 Degrees (Vendice)
Blackened (Baq12)
Overture 1928 (Baq12)
KOMMICORE (0 & Torrent)

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lol cool

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Suhweeeeeeeet!

I'll finish something up for this for sure this time.

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cool, gonna submit for sure

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dat purple color

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There's still hope for a FFR Japan pack 2 \o/

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"There is a song choice restriction this time. Avoid stepping anything Japanese."

Nop sip japan xd

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omg no japan files ?? whatever will i step now ??

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pack will be shit kill yourself pat

jk i have 2 files in progress for this but thanks to skyrim idk if they will see the light of day

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Good luck with the pack ##

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jero gayluigi !!

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No Japan... what do...

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but japan is the reason we have this game

loljk even though its the truth

i wonder what blurk would say if he were still here

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lmao mashup hijack gogogogo

jk (;

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brb adding trash charts to neodelic so it can be accepted :V

and winter = purple?

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It's been winter for like 3 weeks pat where the hell have you been?

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you just killed stepmania!

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good

anything to stop people from stepping anime

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oh cool

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okay I might have a file or two to submit

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people like you

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Tempted to submit Hyadain but already released and already had someone step it in Autumn.

Ah well, time to get in some toho dubshit

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Haha! Now I can submit my metal simfiles without feeling crowded out by endless anime songs! HAHAHAHAHA

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mfw gd steps outta his comfort zone and steps skrillex

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You should state too that easier charts have to be EASY (not alternate charts) because my friend have problem on easiest difficulty on recent pack XD

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I have too much files to send.
Please be gentle. *blush*

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G5 incoming
Btw if I send a solo chart does it need to have 4key charts?

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aniem suck hail america

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I have absolutely no control over how difficult the charts are. From the previous pack, most people just completely bullshitted a 2nd chart that had absolutely no difficulty relevance to the main chart just to meet the minimum. Some files had 2 charts with a GIANT difficulty gap between charts with little to no transition but I didn't take that into account for judgement. I actually might this time so people actually get into the habit for making more charts and simplifying.

Solo charts must have 4key charts, however the minimum chart rule doesn't apply for 6key. You can have a single solo chart if you wish.

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I have no idea how low difficulties work, but I did my best to try to transition them in my Jealousy fire file.

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heavy chart = main chart
medium chart = main chart with no mines/jacks
light chart = underlayer everything

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finshed a file but, i need gfx >.<

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Give me the song
Receive gfx.

good gfx.

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I had a dream that I submitted a file to this pack.

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Destination Helios

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If by G5 you mean G5 Project we should collab dawg (:

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Sure ;)

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BG looks fine except the text color doesn't seem to match with the background well and what's with that random animu girl...
I don't like that banner

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banner is weird

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Not a easy song to make graphics on hehe :(
But Helios means "Sun" so I tried to make something luminous.

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You know, people should worry about GFX -after- files get approved. It's a complete waste of time if you make GFX for a file that won't get into the pack. Not that I'm questioning rparty's stepping but he should understand that GFX are secondary and aren't important. Send the file without GFX first and if it gets approved you can get some later.

I'll do a judging round possibly this weekend.

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rparty just doesn't want some HaRdCoRe TyPoGrApHy stuff hehu

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Submitting is going to be tough. No Japanese-related files. I'll try to submit something though.

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uhh... could there be exceptions where it doesn't sound like the song is made in Japan? Because this is one of my WIPs. I've also got a couple more WIPs like that I could potentially submit.

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I'm open to those kind of exceptions. Keep it to a limit though.

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It's not that all Japan is banned. Pat is referring to stuff typically related to Japan (anime OP/ED, anipop, stuff that explicity has japanese lyrics)

Plus you're Yesssss anything you submit will be accepted anyway (o:

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Then i'll double check it to make sure. And either way, I didn't made a 2nd chart. So i'm not ready XD
And if it isn't in the pack, i can make it as a single file.

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What's wrong with making gfx for simfiles?

And hey! At least we can get our japania fix this way~

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Expect like 3-4 pop songs

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Congrats Gunderp, I sent you a 5-charted file. Because I need to learn how to make multi-chart files.

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Sorry for the late notes.


Phalanx (Keywii)
- File's good. Send me the update with freezes+mines+whatever.
- Needs easier chart(s).
Pending


ecoFEAR (Scylaax)
Light
- Is it necessary to add a gap between this an Heavy? File's not a dump and is just simplified so you don't need to do this. Bumping it to Standard.
- Same notes about the 12ths having mini-freezes on M104 & 173 for the Heavy chart. As an easier chart though, you could definitely remove those freezes including more. The visual density is still about the same as the Heavy chart even if you simplified the layering a bit.
Yes

Heavy
- M104+ (Beat412+) do you really need the mini-freezes for the 12ths? They don't really add much of a difference for emphasis whether they're there or not because of the jacks. Adding them in just adds visual density and makes it tough to read.
- Same deal at M120 (Beat476+).
- M173+ (Beat688), mine placements to layer what you ignored would be good and would fill up the white space.
- Layering's passable. Expected more of the bass and percussive hits to be layered in with jumps but what you have is unique approach I suppose.
- Good for scoring. Consider removing the mini-freezes in the 12th parts I mentioned if you want to send an update.
Yes


Session 9 - Chronicles - (Scylaax)
Standard
- This is a sorry excuse of a 3rd chart and I can tell you got lazy at this point.
- This has more hands and holds than the Heavy chart which makes completely no sense.
- Simplify, simplify, simplify.
No

Heavy
- Beat243, simplify. As an easier chart you don't need the hidden 4th jumps nor do you need to keep the exact same difficult pattern as the Oni chart. Change the 24ths to staircase rolls of 432143214321 or something close so that it's much easier to hit.
- M68 (Beat268) you don't need the quad+minijack. Simplify the quad to a 3-note hand. Consider shifting the note to avoid the mini-jack if possible.
- Same note as the Oni chart about the colour coordination.
- As an easier chart, shortening the length of the majority of the holds is a good choice. Decreases visual density. Your call though.
- With all honesty this could be simplified even further by removing some of the hand placements and possibly some jumps. What you have isn't all that different from the Oni chart.
- Could use tweaks for above notes.
No

Oni
- Beat243 is tough to hit with the hidden 4th jumps inbetween all the rolls.
- M72+ (Beat284+) I didn't really get the point of the colour coordination there. You don't do it anywhere else in the file and you randomly decide to toss them in this section to emphasize the crashes, which is odd. With all honesty, it's either do it consistently or don't do it at all, your call. Colour coordination doesn't serve a purpose if you don't use it anywhere else in the file.
- Layering's passable. Again, I expected a bit more percussive jumps but this is just me.
- Good for scoring. Consider above notes if you wanna send an update for this chart.
Yes

Overall: Fix Standard & Heavy charts and this will be good to go Heavy chart is more important and Standard you don't even need unless you simplify. As of now, No.


Vertex (Scylaax)
Standard
- Holds could use shortening in length to decrease visual density.
- Could tone down the jump and hand usages more.
- Passable as an easier chart.
Yes

Heavy
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
Yes


Armament Armed Arm (Scylaax)
Standard
- Holds could use shortening in length to decrease visual density.
- Passable as an easier chart.
Yes

Heavy
- Layering transition to M32 (Beat124) is sudden and flow breaking. Can't be helped unless you layer more I suppose.
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
Yes


COOLISH WALK (Kommisar)
Technically this would've been in Autumn pack but you didn't send the chart. File passes regardless since you have the easier chart now.
Yes


After Laughter (Niko)
Easier charts
- All good to go. You know what you're doing.
Yes

Heavy
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
Yes


Reasiness (Niko)
Standard
- Good as an easier chart.
Yes

Heavy
- Entire beginning up until M13(Beat48) is funky with the layering transitions. At the very least, layering the 16th melody that continually repeats would better link all the measures together and will flow better.
- The dense 2nd half of the file made it much more interesting and less repetitive. Good call.
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid. Consider layering the 16th synth melody consistently for the first 13 measures for much smoother transitions.
Yes


DOODAH! (DDRBaller123)
- Absolutely not. Also you have a million edit difficulties that are all different.
No


Winter V2 (DDRBaller123)
- You sent me this file before for I believe Xoon 5. It's not any different and you still have a million edit charts.
No


Ecclesia (Reshiram)
Easier charts
- All good to go. You know what you're doing.
Yes

Oni
- A little bit too over the top with layering but not too bad to playthrough.
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
Yes


Visions Of Coming Apocalypse (Charlo)
Standard
- Index/pad friendly. Acceptable as an easier chart I suppose.

Heavy
- Decent as an old school-esque file but you definitely need to layer more thoroughly if this is to pass off as a keyboard chart. Chart's quite ambiguous to say the least because a lot of the patterns are index-friendly but then at times you have really awkward jump placements that are meant to be done on keyboard.
- Thorough layering of percussive jumps and some jumps to layer guitar rifts are what this chart needs. It would make layering much more easier to follow and would make the file flow better overall.
- With all honesty though, I'd save this for some other pack, lol.
No


Pop (Kommisar vs Rogdor)
- Absolutely ****ing yes.
- Make an easier chart if you guys want to. I've bitched at you both for months and to no avail neither of you want to do it so I'm just going to accept it the way it is jeez I hope you're happy
Yes


Turning Japanese (Kommisar)
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
- Needs a sync overhaul. Get someone with DDReam and time to resync it.
- Needs an easier chart.
Pending


Circus Speedy Mix (Kommisar)
- No real commentary. Layering's good and file's solid.
- Needs an easier chart.
Pending


File queue is at 14 files.

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tweaking out super soaker by blitz lunar and starting the lower charts. also looking for another song or two to step if anyone's got suggestions oO

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step this

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I've got an easier chart planned for Pop but it's the dirty version, not the regular one. :x

If Kommer or Rog wanna send me the file I'll slap the chart on there and make it so you don't hafta bitch-slap them.

Also, making minor techtweaks to Ecclesia since tiny issues have caught my attention.

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Thanks for the review. I thought excessive layering would make the file too difficult compared to standard, since it's already 210 BPM. That's also why the run patterns are so finger-friendly. Although I guess the real problem is I'm not a huge layering fanatic in the first place. ;)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIpqvIqNzLQ
B)

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roflmao

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Dammit, it was gonna step pop. But if it's Kommisar's cover of pop, props to him for syncing that SOB.

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I fixed 90% of the things you asked for my files.
And Session 9 is by far my best submission of all the things I sent.

also it looks like GD overlooked the little sync problem the second part of Vertex had hehe ; I fixed it too.

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sent an file

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Btw, requesting gfx for Reasiness, I suck at making abstract things, the most i can do is bg and some simple typo :(

Here's the song if you don't know
http://youtu.be/7Gg0Gd1sK_w

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I'd like to find a best fitting font for the background though

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making an xmod file for dis \o/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeZAL2Z-RM

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I think you should match bg and banner typo :P.
Can you add DEKU somewhere?
Also apart from this, is it me or you repeat too much filters and bg patterns ;)

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Somehow. I'm doing what I can with my personal means.

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I know ;), it looks pretty nice to me unless someone wants to try something different this is good 2 go :)

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god why am i being so lazy

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dunno \o/

In other news...I was bored and decided to poop out a cdtitle for Kommi and Rog on their Pop file

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That's a pretty big cdtitle you made.

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cetaka's is big

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that's not what patricia-chan said

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this. Also, I made several more that are Cetaka-certified TNSM xP

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I think you guys have really high standards.

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somehow.....................

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I got off my lazy ass and finished Rave7 for Stepmania with the updated sync. Totally different file from the one I'm trying to get on FFR.

Standard is 16th streams at 200 bpm, good intermediate file
Heavy is 24th streams and minijacks, would be FGO on FFR
Oni is the original 32nds from my old file that was never officially released, but the second section has been updated to the proper sync.

Gonna check it a final time then send it :)
Hopefully not rejected for being too hard... oh well, I'll find a pack for it someday if that's the case. But I'd love to have it in this one.