Fun Facts regarding "Through the Fire and Flames (Nightcore Mix)
(4/26/12-7/26/12):

* This is obviously a Nightcore mix of the most ridiculously popular,
  hyped, overplayed and overcharted Dragonforce song in existence.

* As such, this is my pack's second formal Bonus Boss-status simfile
  (the other as of this writing is "Kokoro Gamebox").

* It's quite a long song with several instrumentals.  Do not play
  this if you don't hold up well during marathons.

* All difficulties are blazingly hard; as of this writing, it is
  THE single most difficult song in my pack.  PAY ATTENTION to the
  difficulty ratings!!
+ Added September 11, 2014: This song remains the toughest in
  my entire pack, and in my entire history; I've charted no
  other 17s, no 16s, and I believe two 15s ("Kokoro Gamebox"
  and "Banned Forever").

* Expert is a 17 (the hardest chart I've ever written to date); it
  pulls no punches, and has more than enough 16th-note stream to
  kick you into submission.  It properly follows, I'm pretty sure,
  at least 96% of the song's total drumroll and electric guitar
  content, meaning you'll be doing more than your fair share of
  streaming.  The first major slowdown section contains the chart's
  only hands, so you know.

* Hard is a 14 (the hardest Hard chart I've written).  Though it is
  significantly easier pattern-wise and overall compared to Cosmic
  Pope's chart for the regular version seen in the official pack,
  the nearly 30 extra BPM pumps what would otherwise easily be a
  13 up to a rather difficult 14-footer.  It remains that it follows
  most of the song's fancy electric guitar stuff, but a fair amount
  of the 16th runs have been replaced with rolls or shorter bursts.
  This is a great difficulty to try first if you're used to my other
  really hard boss songs.

* Medium is an 11.  This low in difficulty, we follow mostly the
  lyrics at this point (it's heavy on jumps when doing so), though
  it still manages to get more than its fair share of rolls in for
  guitar wails and numerous drumrolls, as well as still possessing
  a fair amount of fanciness in the long instrumental.  This is the
  difficulty you want to try first if you're used to clearing other
  regular Expert-level songs.

* Easy turned out to be a 9 (I was really hoping for an 8, but the
  way things happened, I really can't rate this chart that way).  It
  almost exclusively follows the lyrics, with few other real frills;
  all it really does with the instrumentals is take out more of the
  mandatory quick fanciness the higher difficulties have (though I
  think I still charted it in a semi-epic way) and add a ton more
  rolls.  Speaking from an Expert-down perspective, this is the first
  difficulty to not use long holds with the other foot doing a lot of
  work during the bridge (although it does still use jumps there).
  It may be an "Easy" chart, but don't play it unless you've at least
  started playing on Expert otherwise and are used to 9-footers.

* Novice is a blazingly hard 6.  It's the only difficulty that
  actually manages to take anything significant out of the lyrics,
  but is still riddled with more rolls and mines than any true
  newbie is going to be able to handle - don't play this difficulty
  unless you can handle average Medium songs really, really well.