ZENIUS -I- MANIA 2023

I WILL NEVER NOT BE SURPRISED THAT IT IS INDEED THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!
ZENIUS -I- MANIA 2023

Oh yeah, we are back for Round 5. Five! Not bad for an idea I had whilst taking a dump, eh?

GROUND RULES

Submission deadline: I'm going to set this to Sunday 24, December.

My role as project lead: I don't really have a stake in this above any of you who wish to take part. I am very much the librarian in this project, I'll take the finished songs in when you're done and figure out the best way to arrange them on the final product. I'm not going to be a nagging type; this isn't a paid job, so I'm not going to be an arsehole about it. My idea is that this is an open forum, so I believe everyone should have a stake in how we tackle the project. Anybody interested in taking part already has this thread to pitch ideas and get help from others if they need to, and we're going to revive the seperate channel in the RM Discord too.

Song Rules:
- Keep your songs between 1'30 - 5'00. I won't be too strict on the upper limit, but if you ARE going over the 5 minute mark, there needs to be a valid musical reason for you to do so. Don't loop a chorus for the sake of looping it, and the like. I'd like the median to be about 2-3 minutes.
- There's not really going to be any sort of quality control, if you submit something, it's 99.9% likely to be going in, but...you wanna send your best stuff, right? Don't be a twat, is what I'm saying.
- Please enter your files at at least 320kbps. I'm not an audiophile, but we have standards. MP3 and WAV formats would be preferred to OGG and FLAC, do feel free to upload those other formats in your own places if you wanna.
- Send me your files through either a Discord link (Oni-91#9956) or through a PM here. Bear in mind that you CAN send direct files through Discord but be mindful of any file size limits.
- There is no limit to the number of songs you can send, but remember: quality is better than quantity. I'd try to limit it to three at most, but ideally just one or two should be fine.
- I don't hold any kind of rights over your music that you send here, feel free to upload anything, whether it's something you've done for this project, for a sim contest or pack, or anywhere else you please. The only rule is that it must be you who made it. You can't upload MAX 300 and try to convince me you're actually Naoki Maeda, we're not that dumb here.
- There are no restrictions on genre, but do be mindful that an album full of songs with STEP or CORE in their genre is gonna get old real fast.


When you do submit something, enter it through the submission methods in the following format:
SONG NAME:
ARTIST:
GENRE:
USERNAME ON ZIv:


Now, good luck, and get out there! I want as many people as we can to take part in this, like last time.
Do feel free to spread this about as much as you can, I really love it when y'all get your stuff in. Even if it's not anyone with a Z-I-v account, the more people giving the project love, the better.

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Yeah I'll participate. Also we really need to change the rules to ensure people provide WAV by default.

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Alrighty friends, we've got about six weeks to get something in, I reckon? How are we doing?

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Bump, but in.

Come on guys, we've only got 8 songs in so far

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Normally it does kick up in the last month or so, we were in a much worse state last year and still got a good number at the end. You can’t really compare the numbers to the ones a couple of years ago because without lockdowns we have other things to do!

TWENTY DAYS TO GO

OK, NOW I'm starting to poke people. If you want to get something in, now is absolutely the time to do it.

UPDATE - 30, DEC

Alrighty, the official release is gonna be a bit later than I'd have liked, I have some thing on my plate I can't exactly shift atm. Rest assured that it's definitely coming, it'll be more about second-week-of-January-ish. Which DOES mean you get more time to finish off urgent things if you need to. Number-wise, we currently have a really good 24 in total, thank you SO much to everybody who chipped in!



Track List


Thank you very much to the following users for taking part in the project:
- 500MASTER
- 5l1n6507
- about:blank
- aidan9030
- darkanine
- Densetsu.EXE
- edelstein00
- finalfan2cwiz
- Lampshade
- MrShoopa
- riskofsoundingnerdy
- ryugyong
- SirDj0nt

See you next year...wait.

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