I don't feel like planning a levelranks strategy

[ilikexd]

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swear to god i watched the whole thing

[popsicle_3000]

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now i want to go play the song.

but seriously, so much white, I think i'm getting sunburnt

edit: omg

[NeonSM]

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I feel like this is the worst possible way to work on your levelranks. Go by genre or something, I'm getting nauseous just thinking about your strategy.

[cedolad]

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You care about FFR now? :P

[choof]

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this is actually turning out to be really interesting. I get to see how files progressed throughout the 10 years FFR has been around.

the first file with colored notes was contradistinction (maybe not, there seem to be more than a few files from around this time that were deleted), and based on how many files after it were all blue notes, it looks like either the community didn't like the colored notes and synthlight agreed, or the community really liked colored notes and synthlight still kept making files all blue.

another cool thing I noticed was that once synthlight stopped putting his files into the game, colored notes came back. maybe he was accepting defeat? idk.

there were a ton of pretty generic techno tracks around this time. FGJ and SGX were super popular. it also seemed like libertine was stepped solely to break away from the whole generic techno thing. not sure if it worked very well lol.

You care about FFR now? :P

i didn't really care much for ffr because it seriously runs like shit on windows. i just recently set up my computer to dualboot (turns out there's a native grub booter on my motherboard rofl) into linux. I'm using linux to study for IT certs, but it also runs FFR flawlessly so... I figured why not :P

[NeonSM]

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nice to see you're having fun with it at least I can't get through a good file, let alone some piece of crap that isn't even synced properly.

[choof]

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if I had to play more than 3 rock files in a row I'd punch myself in the dick

[T-Force]

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Have fun with the era of widget files.

[Solomine Gray]

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the first file with colored notes was contradistinction stuff with synthlight etc

I have a vague memory of reading that NeoMAX was actually the first level ever to have colored notes. I think the reason any levels earlier than NeoMAX have colored notes is because they were colored retroactively after the new noteskin had come out. But I guess people decided this wasn't such a hot idea and didn't color all the levels, nor did they see it fit to uncolor the levels they had colored.

Of course, it's been 6 years, so somebody may want to verify that.

[choof]

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if that's true, I wonder why contradistinction was the only one changed... hmmmmm

for some files that have patterns higher than 16ths (vizions, epic, etc), what's the reasoning behind not coloring the patterns properly? was this an issue with dwi, or with whatever was used to convert files for FFR? I also distinctly remember gradeus being all red during the section that's 12ths and 24ths now.

[Solomine Gray]

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Contradistinction wasn't the only one that was changed. It looks like NeoMAX was released on 4-20-2004, while The Essential was released on 4-12-2004, and it has colored notes. I'm pretty sure there are a few more in between The Essential and Contradistinction as well. You may just not be that far along yet.

As for why certain levels behave as they do with the colored notes, here's a post of mine I dug up from 2007 about Delirium. Post of notable interest:

not intentional. it's from the early days of the noteskin, when we didn't have colors for anything but red, blue, and yellow. so any 12th, 24th, or 32nd arrows showed up in one of the other 3.

which is what led to red note syndrome on songs. most of them were fixed by Shash a long time ago, but a few weren't. Delirium is one of them. RATv2 is another. I think Wish has 1 or 2 notes as well.

This explains Gradeus, and the others.

[choof]

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hmm maybe I just forgot about some of them
I'm also not purchasing charts because I'm trying to buy a profile

HINT HINT

[choof]

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grinding today and tomorrow, just got to Straight To Video

did anyone, back when this file came out, think that this was foreshadowing something? bland song (definitely not the first MSI song I'd step), and the file was really fucking boring. nothing interesting about it whatsoever. but a lot of the rock songs that were stepped after this were pretty much the same thing. bland song, boring chart.

[dAnceguy117]

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foreshadowing only in the sense that there were more rock files to come I guess, haha.

probably not the first MSI song a lot of people would step, but that might be the only one for which permission was obtained. I think the notechart was also supposed to be easy and simple in order to be suited toward new/casual players.

[choof]

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i guess my thought was that it was needlessly repetitious. even if it was stepped for new/casual players, the patterns could have been way more interesting

also I'm really glad jx got better at simfiling because man some of his older files are... bad lol