NOTE: I originally entered this file anonymously in 2007 to Sakura_Guy's Best Sim Author contest, round 3. Below is the original readme that was included at that time.

--Xythar (gmmazz@hotmail.com)

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No, don't really ban me. Thanks.

Song Title: 반 (Ban)
Song Artist: 이정현 (Lee Jung Hyun)
Song Album: Magic To Go To My Star
Song Genre: K-Dance

You may or may not remember Lee Jung Hyun from DDR 3rd Mix Korean, where she had two songs (Bakkwo and Wa). And this song is the one I've chosen to do for round 3 - in fact, it's the first Korean song I've ever stepped! I don't like my song choice here as much as in the previous two rounds (largely because I hate this category :( ) but it's workable, and I think my steps made the most of it.

The Heavy steps are split up into a few main parts - the intro (4th notes and then the opening synth bit), verse (mostly streams starting on red), chorus (mostly streams starting on blue), hilarious 'rap' bit (lots of double and triple tapping) and then finally outro (similar to intro but with more jumps and double tapping). This was all carefully planned out because I didn't want it to be just the same old same old throughout, OK?

The 'rap' part also contains my homage to 3rd Mix Korean :) Wa, specificially. That, and the fact that this file contains no freezes anywhere, just like 3rd mix.  I could have made this file really 3rd mix but then nobody would have liked it so other than that it's in pretty much my usual style. Also, there are no double steps anywhere in this file. If you think there are any, you're not playing it correctly. A relevant conversation on this subject with names changed to protect the innocent:

furybank600: Oh
furybank600: At the end
furybank600: When you're in the stream with the 16th jumps in between
furybank600: you haev a pattern UDLDU then a jump
thisisme: You do that one crossed over
furybank600: If you go around there
thisisme: Right foot on up
furybank600: Yes
furybank600: But you see how that can be confusing
thisisme: Yeah. I thought it might just be something fun to figure out the best way to do, though
furybank600: I like the first 4 measures of the 8 at the end better now
furybank600: yeah, true

Please don't complain that heavy is too easy :( I was debating putting in a challenge chart but the only part that would be harder at all would be the intro/outro (which would have had lots of 16ths). It seemed like a waste of a chart to have everything else practically identical and only make that part harder.

For the graphics, I wanted to duplicate the effect seen in the video where she sees people as illustrations or something weird like that. So I took a picture of Lee Jung Hyun herself that I found on Google, applied some Photoshop filters to make it look like an inked drawing, and then redid the background myself with dots and circles and stars and stuff. It's not the cleanest edit, but it should do. Ban means "half" in Korean so that's why I made the song title half black and half white (plus they do this in the video but I didn't notice until I'd already made the graphics, hahaha)

The video itself isn't the best quality but I didn't start from a high quality source so there wasn't much I could do. Sorry!

No lyrics because I have no idea what they are. Oh well.

See you next round, if I make it!
