Fun Facts regarding "Black Apple":

* This chart is one of few purposeful attempts at "an epic simfile."
+ I am told I delivered exactly that.

* There is a clear difference between the streamy parts and the gotta-be-
  careful parts.

* I ordinarily hate charting anything that has either a slow fadeout or
  none at all (such that you can't immediately tell the song is over when
  you hit the last note), but being a Touhou remix, it is designed to
  loop, so there was no good way to definitively end the music file itself
  (and making the fade faster would've felt wrong).
+ However, players don't seem to care much (especially ITG theme users who
  have a time progress bar telling them when to expect the end of the
  stepchart, if not the end of the song).

* The slowdowns near the end are meant to catch you off-guard, and until
  you learn them well, can be frustrating to play through.

(Update 6/13/11)

* Added the other four difficulties, making it a Main Pack simfile.

* Hard is basically just a bit easier than Expert; it's still got some
  short streams, but nothing as ridiculous as Expert.  The rest of the
  song is more or less approximately the same.  It is an 11.

* Medium is a pretty difficult 9; it's along the same lines as my Hard
  chart for "Imagination," what with 8th note streams everywhere.  Still,
  it's pretty epic for a Medium chart, as I think I did a pretty good
  job with it.

* Easy is a 6, but it doesn't really have all that many blue arrows, as
  the song's already 180 BPM; most of the difficulty comes from batches
  of red quarter-note arrows and several rolls in the bridge.

* Novice is a 3, one of few in my pack.  It's not that hard to follow
  rhythmically - the arrows are just a bit difficult to follow around,
  not to mention that this, like several of my other Novice 3s, features
  rolls, in the same places as on Easy, part of what makes it so hard.