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 GADARINA / D-crew
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  Stepped by Xythar for Spookymix 2

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   Song Title: GADARINA
  Song Artist: 1:51
   Song Genre: Fortune Tale Beat
        Album: Pop'n Music 13AC/11CS OST

     Steps By: Xythar
  Graphics By: Xythar (source image by CrocodileHunter)

 Author Email: gmmazz@hotmail.com

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I don't have time for all the usual sections this time. I'm getting lazy in my readme writing, I know >_>

Mazrim requested a file for this, and I thought it'd fit acceptably within the Spookymix theme, right? Plus, Pop'n 13 just came out, so this is my little tribute to it, heh. Awesome game :)

The song is GADARINA by D-crew. D-crew's had a few songs in DDR before (Be Lovin' in Extreme and CURUS in Supernova) but I wasn't particularly trying to emulate them... I can't even remember how they go, actually. CURUS was in fact this song's direct predecessor, it was "Flow Beat" from Pop'n 12 whereas this is "Fortune Tale Beat" from Pop'n 13. It's a fun song... it was also the first 40 I passed on EX because it's really really easy for a 40, but I digress.

The song wasn't very editable, so I left it alone rather than perform any Supernova-style butchery on it. It's a bit endurance-testing for that reason, but that's just part of it I think. There's a bit of a break in the middle anyway. It's on OGG format so Mazrim can play it on his arcade's ITG2 r21 machine. Heh.

Beginner and light are fairly basic and not very interesting, so I don't have a whole lot to say about them. The main difference is really that light has more incidences of quarter notes next to each other, obviously, but on average they're still fairly spaced out.

Standard on the other hand I'm quite pleased with, I think it's one of the best Standard charts I've done yet (watch as nobody plays it... :P) Quarter notes for most of it, but it uses enough offbeats to follow the background rhythm well (which is something light couldn't really do). Generally what it will do is have a step on each second beat most of the time, then switch to having one on every beat during the 'fast bits' with the occasional few 8th notes thrown in where they fit (but obviously not very many since the song is 200 bpm).

Heavy... well, the steps pretty much wrote themselves. It follows the music more or less exactly for most of it, with lots of long 8th runs (including some twistiness at times too) broken up by 4ths. A pretty worthy 9, I think.

The image I used for the background of the graphics is by CrocodileHunter, I got it from here:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21226889/

I added the text in Photoshop, pretty standard stuff. CD title is Ye Olde Pop'n Music CD Title From DDRUK.

I think I've covered about all I need to. Catch you later!

-Xythar