KBO Chrono Trigger Anthology

[Arch0wl]

I've been tossing this idea in my head for about a year now, and I think it's worth pursuing. The SM community and the 6key community is in particular need of this sort of thing.

THE NAME

Notice how I said "anthology", not "pack". There's a distinction: a pack is a collection; a mix. This isn't a mix because we will step every song that appears in the Chrono Trigger SNES game.

SONGS

To give you an idea of what you'll be working with, here's the Chrono Trigger OST. Make sure you use these mp3s. This will total 55 songs, so if 18 people are involved that's roughly an average of 3 files per person, and the count goes down as more people are involved. (See Songs Part II for more info.)

GRAPHICS

All of the backgrounds will be stylized screenshots from the game, as will the banners.

CHART REQUIREMENTS

All of the songs are going to be 6key. The community, I feel, has enough 6key charters for this and I don't feel it's necessary to include 4key anymore. You can step 4key and release it separately, as I've done with my Magus file, but I'm going to manually remove all 4key charts in each .sm upon release of the anthology. Yes, including my own 4key charts.

If, on the off chance you have made a 6key chart to some song from the Chrono Trigger soundtrack elsewhere, you can use that here.

If, on the off chance you've found a chart of some song from the Chrono Trigger OST (be it a BMS, 4key chart, whatever) and would like to use that as your "base" for a 6key chart, you are allowed to do that.

DIFFICULTY REQUIREMENTS

All charts must have:

1. A "really easy" difficulty (light), which is as easy as Ice Frontier (18) on the current KBO difficulty scale or easier. Think a lot of 4ths with some 8ths thrown in.

2. An "easy to intermediate" difficulty (standard), which is somewhere between Brightone (22) and Math Party (26) on the current KBO difficulty scale as I type this. Think a lot of 8ths and some 16ths.

3. An "intermediate to advanced" difficulty (heavy), which can be anywhere from Math Party hard up to the 42s on KBO. It can't be as hard as Protosphere or Planetz, though.

(optional) An "advanced" difficulty (challenge) for players like leonid/LongGone. This can be as hard as Protosphere or harder. If it's obviously a joke, though, I reserve the right to throw it out.

SONGS PART II

We are skipping six songs because they aren't really songs; they're sounds that play during the game. The songs, as they are listed in the OST, are as follows: 10 - Goodnight (0:08), 14 - Huh (0:05), 16 - A Prayer to the Road that Leads (0:11), 25 - Mystery of the Past (0:06), 35 - Fanfare 2 (0:07), 38 - Fanfare 3 (0:05).

We are also skipping two unreleased songs because this anthology is restricted to songs that actually appear in the game: 48 - Singing Mountain and 34 - Battle 2. Although these have value to hardcore fans, the goal of this anthology is to give people an "oh, I remember that song!" feeling when they play the charts. That's simply not possible with unreleased songs.

Two songs are being combined into one. These are 45 - Castle and 46 - Confusing Melody. This is because Castle, in the game, was a natural lead-in to Confusing Melody, and Castle by itself is only 25 seconds long.

CUTTING SONGS

Because of the highly repetitive nature of Chrono Trigger songs, and because a number of songs in the OST run for three and sometimes five minutes, all songs 3:00 or over will be cut unless you specify that you'd like to do the whole song uncut. Your cuts must be at least 1:15, but the ideal range should be 1:30 to 2:15. If you don't know how to cut a song using Audacity, I can do it for you.

NAMING CONVENTIONS

The in-game referent for the song will be used first because that is the most familiar, and the proper name listed on chrono.wikia.com will be used as subtitles or failing a familiar name. For example, Fanfare 1 is also called Lucca's Theme. Obviously, Lucca's Theme is more recognizable, so we're going with that.

For the time being, you may use any name you want as a placeholder. But since this will obviously affect the backgrounds/banners, don't get too attached to the name if the song has gone by multiple titles. (e.g. "Time Circuits", as it is listed elsewhere, will be called "Kingdom of Zeal" with the subtitle "(Corridor of Time)" instead.)

JUDGING

I am the sole judge here for two reasons: (1) from my experience having a judging panel increases the time by several months, and I can judge every file in less than a day (2) judging isn't that important anyway, I just need to make sure every file isn't an obvious joke.

The judging here will be lenient. I cannot stress this enough. I know you're used to thinking that you need to be ultra-perfectionist, but when I am the judge that's simply not the case. If you submit AT ALL and just vaguely follow the light, standard, heavy difficulty guidelines, it is extremely likely your file will be accepted.


SONG LIST (55 total)

This list serves as a sign up sheet and lets you know who is stepping what, e.g. "Battle with Magus [Arch0wl]". Second, it lets you know what the corresponding OST number is so you have no problem finding it in the megaupload link.

1 - A Premonition
2 - Chrono Trigger
3 - Morning Sunlight
4 - Peaceful Days
5 - Memories of Green
6 - Guardia Millenial Fair
7 - Gato's Song
8 - A Strange Happening
9 - Wind Scene
11 - Secret of the Forest
12 - Battle
13 - Guardia Castle - Pride and Courage
15 - Manoria Cathedral
17 - Silent Light
18 - Boss Battle 1 [XxMidigamixX]
19 - Frog's Theme [XxMidigamixX]
20 - Fanfare 1 (Lucca's Theme)
21 - The Trial
22 - The Hidden Truth
23 - A Shot of Crisis
24 - Ruined World
26 - Ruin
27 - People Without a Hope
28 - Lavos's Theme
29 - The Day the World Revived
30 - Robo Gang Johnny
31 - Bike Chase
32 - Robo's Theme
33 - Remains of Factory
36 - The Brink of Time
37 - Delightful Spekkio
39 - Underground Sewer
40 - Boss Battle 2 [XxMidigamixX]
41 - Primitive Mountain
42 - Ayla's Theme
43 - Rhythm of Wind, Sky and Earth
44 - Burn! Bobonga!
45 - Castle / Confusing Melody [Arch0wl]
47 - Battle with Magus [Arch0wl]
49 - Tyran Castle
50 - At the Bottom of Night
51 - Corridors of Time, aka Time Circuits [Arch0wl]
52 - Zeal Palace [Arch0wl]
53 - Schala's Theme [glirandly]
54 - Sealed Door
55 - Undersea Palace
56 - Chrono and Marle ~Far Off Promise~ [SkRAWRk]
57 - Silvard (Epoch) ~Wings That Cross
58 - Black Dream (aka Black Omen) [SkRAWRk]
59 - Determination
60 - World Revolution [Arch0wl]
61 - Last Battle [SkRAWRk]
62 - First Festival of Stars
63 - Epilogue - To Good Friends
64 - To Far Away Times

DEADLINES

The deadline here is "once we reach all 55 songs stepped." Most packs have deadlines because there is no song limit. That's not the case here -- we have a finite number of songs and a finite number of spots. Once that's done, the anthology is done.

COORDINATION

This may be posted on FFR, but we will (if I can get Sprite's permission) use a secret forum on keybeatonline.com to coordinate the pack. All that's required is that you commit to doing a single song and I can give you access, provided you give me your KBO account name.