ITT you request isolation files for practice

[MrRubix]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

Ah I posted the pastebin thing on those by mistake (freaking "Copy Link" function on Mediafire only seems to work half the time). I'll add the correct links when I get home.

[MrRubix]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

How to make your own isolation file (you will need a working version of Flash for editing the .fla files and Actionscript, and you'll need a decompiler):

1. Download relevant .swf from http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/levels/level_#.swf where # is the number corresponding to the song you want. Your levelranks page is good for extracting the song number (for instance, Excite Bike's is http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?level=296 so you'd get the .swf from http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/.../level_296.swf)

2. Get a Flash decompiler. Decompile the .swf into its .fla format. You'll need the full version of something like Sothink to do this. Open the .fla in Flash.

3. On the second action-frame of the file, you'll see a _root.beatbox array that contains all the steps in the file. Find out which section corresponds to your desired isolation piece. You can typically do this by listening to the music track in the file and figuring out which frames correspond to that point on the Flash timeline. Remove all steps from the beatbox variable that don't coincide with your desired isolation.

4. Through whatever means you want, scale back all the numbers in your stepfile isolation such that the first step lands on frame 69. So if the first step in your isolation typically corresponds to frame X, subtract (X-69) from all steps.

5. On frame 50, add a new actionscript keyframe on a new layer and add the code "gotoandplay(X-20);" where X corresponds to the frame denoted in step 4. This makes it so the music scales with the steps correctly. This gives a bit of extra breathing room before the isolation part begins.

6. Go to Publish Settings and make sure you change the sound settings so that the music quality is at 160 or so.

7. Export the whole thing as swf under naming scheme level_#.swf where # is a number of your choosing.

8. Add XML to your feedback file that corresponds to using the number # as denoted in step 7. Example XML can be seen http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RuGSUxB9

9. ???

10. Profit!

[Tarrik]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

I want your children now.

[MrRubix]

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[Plan_Bsk81127]

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lul jumptrilling. :P

[MrRubix]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

Whoa what engine is this

[Plan_Bsk81127]

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lol its NSS's, I just downloaded it.

[fullmetal_alchemist027]

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was very glad to see this thread thanks Rubix

[MrRubix]

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lol its NSS's, I just downloaded it.

Ah nice -- I might start using this from now on

[scl1604]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

4. Through whatever means you want, scale back all the numbers in your stepfile isolation such that the first step lands on frame 69.

I just made this:

http://www.farfallas.com/scripts/shift.php

Paste your beatbox string in the large textarea, and input the amount you want to subtract from all the numbers in the "subtract" field. Hit submit and the new beatbox string shall be outputted below. Just don't input anything non-numeric in the "subtract" field or it will likely behave abnormally. Let me know if you find any bugs or whatever.

Edit: added a bit of error-proofing for negative and non-numeric input

[MrRubix]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

Cool -- can you add in a function that lets you choose what to scale it back to?

So if I input a scale-to variable as 69, it'll move everything down accordingly?

[scl1604]

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Yep, but it will have to wait until I get back from school

Edit: Eh what the hey. I couldn't resist. Refresh the page to see the new version. If you input something in "scale to" it will ignore the "subtract" field. In its current state it lacks robustness bigtime and will probably break easily if you input anything unexpected. Enjoy!

[MrRubix]

Re: ITT you request isolation files for practice

Scaler doesn't work properly and has strange hypenated outputs sometimes

[OneHandNow]

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lul jumptrilling. :P

now AAA the rest of the file in one run

[igotrhythm]

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Nnnnnnyarrrrrgh.

There's this one 24th bit in Melted Marble that I just cannot hit. No matter what I've tried, I *always* get one or two misses in the 400-450 region. And this is after I blackflagged Yoshi's Cookie and AAAed Twilight Techno (by far my longest AAA with 1107 notes) the night before.

Requesting Melted Marble 24th bursts isolation.