Z-I-v Summer Contest 2016

since nobody said anything about graphics and it's really late and i can't sleep here ya go. have a good belt parkway night everyone

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Just FYI: the Week 2 pack does not include the video for Whenever Wherever. Please download the custom ZIP for that file. I will add it to the pack post.

I can't decide what my next simfile should be. I cut three songs.

1. A 115 BPM alt-rock song from a band with a couple major hits from a few years ago. A somewhat moderate mood. Length 1:56.
2. A 90 BPM 80s-style pop song from a one-hit wonder who has gained a cult following. Length 2:01.
3. A 120 BPM alt-rock song from the same band mentioned above. An uptempo sound. Beats seem a little irregular but still in sync. Length 2:06.

I can post the cuts if it would help.

Assuming the 90 BPM one is LA Hallucinations by CRJ, you should do that one.

^^I second that, lmao.

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I was kinda leaning towards that one, but I don't want DDR Platinum to have too many female vocalists. I'd like it to be nearly balanced between male/female vocalists since I have a bias towards females.

Although it's basically taking Break Free's spot (thanks Konami) so it's not a huge deal.

Also, bumping this to the current page.

Just as long as it's not more Las Vegas songs, cause I have a bad feeling everyone's gonna jump on that and I don't need to be reminded of how much fun this place is again.

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Why do I get the feeling I started a "trend" or something (as I was the first one uploading a song regarding Vegas)

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Votes:

+3 Portrait of Pirate F (English ver.) [ddrstepper]
+3 Disco Night [brunobg24]
+2 Harmonia [ledgam3r1279]
+1 do the thing feat. Kanae Asaba [Gameoson]
+1 Pokno2 Girlish (feat. Nanahira) [Aegis]
+1 Neon Twilight [Lisek]
+1 Suzy [Gameoson]
+1 Sapuriminal Diet [mf32892]
+1 Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx]
+1 2 On (TOKiMONSTA Remix) [Feraligatr]

HM: About to Fly
HM: REcorrection
HM: Big Boss
HM: Tears

TOTALS:

Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 9
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 7
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 6
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 3
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
do the thing [Gameoson] - 3
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 3
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 3
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
2 On [Feraligatr] - 2
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 1
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 1
Problem [NuVirus] - 1
Suzy [Gameoson] - 1
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

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Votes:

+3 Neon Twilight
+2 Portrait of the Pirate F
+2 Disco Night
+2 Headbangeeerrrr!!!!
+1 Harmonia
+1 do the thing
+1 2 On
+1 Big Boss
+1 Suzy
+1 Common World Domination

TOTALS:

Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 11
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 9
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 9
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 5
do the thing [Gameoson] - 4
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 4
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
2 On [Feraligatr] - 3
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 3
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 2
Common World Domination [warpdr!ve] - 1
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 1
Problem [NuVirus] - 1
Suzy [Gameoson] - 2
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

Hi.

Here's my votes. Everything in HMs are stuff I'm pretty sure I'd give points to (especially the higher half) if they appeared in a round with WAY less files.

Simfiles



Song choices (NEW!!)



Good work to everyone once again.

The notes for the files are over here yet again. You just gotta scroll down. I might consider making a part 2 document if it gets too large.

Some other notes:

*I feel like by the time the file count enters the threshold of 30 files, the amount of points you can give should be increased. 23 HMs is ridiculous and I especially wanted to give points to the first 10 but I wanted to actually impact the totals somewhat this time.

*Please be careful when patterning; While sometimes doublesteps are forgivable, at high speeds there are just things that don't make for pad files.

*If you aren't at least somewhat bopping to it when you hear it, chances are very likely the song you choose isn't suitable for stepping.

*Exactly half of the individual users this week submitted two files (28 + 14 = 42). Kinda interesting. But it does make for a very large week; I'm pretty sure no one played all of these within one session.

TOTALS:

Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 11
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 10
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 9
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 5
Problem [NuVirus] - 5
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 5
do the thing [Gameoson] - 4
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 4
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
Sekai wa watashi de mawatteru!? [coolpeaches] - 4
Suzy [Gameoson] - 4
2 On [Feraligatr] - 3
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 3
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 3
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
Common World Domination [warpdr!ve] - 1
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 1
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

Played all files. Could have probably distributed my votes more spread out, but I had so much fun on these four I'm going to just boost them.

River +5
My favorite out of the bunch. Good stuff DJXYZ

Portrait of the Pirate F +5
DDRStepper, I did find the previous file you did for [Show and Tell] quite nice, but this song plus the chart made it easily a close 2nd for me.

Problem +3
A lot of fun. Iggy Azalea's part was pretty intense but manageable.

Paradisus-Paradoxum +2
This track reminded me of the old school boss songs from DDR mixed with some of the ITG mindset for good fun.


Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 16
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 10
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 9
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 8
Problem [NuVirus] - 8
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 5
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 5
do the thing [Gameoson] - 4
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 4
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
Sekai wa watashi de mawatteru!? [coolpeaches] - 4
Suzy [Gameoson] - 4
2 On [Feraligatr] - 3
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 3
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
Paradisus-Paradoxum [coolpeaches] - 2
Common World Domination [warpdr!ve] - 1
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 1
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

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I usually review the highest level chart only, sometimes dipping lower. To anywhere I didn't mention it: Please try not to start on ups or downs since they're easy to interpret incorrectly, this isn't a critical issue but I prefer the contrary. Also if you had a video, I appreciated it greatly if you made a seperate zip - this didn't affect the reviews but my internet sucks so I wanted to throw that out there. Alsoalso there are no names by the files because I don't want to know who's behind the charts/how many votes they have before voting.

Due to the size of this round the blurbs were short, if you want a fuller review please PM me. I don't think I'm going to submit for a couple of weeks because this is still too far many files to review for me lol, and I've got nothing for this week (this is because if I submit something I want to review too - I might still review anyway but idk)

Special thanks to Cuzco for having a code block nice and close for me to copy.



+3:
Do the thing
Neon Twilight

+2:
TIEFSEE
Ignite
Disco Night
2 On

+1:
Headbanger

VHM: (Very Honorable Mention):
Portrait of the Pirate F

Other HMs:
Bury it
Look Alike
Problem
Reverse
Ride
Sapurimal Diet
Suzy
Tears
Tomadoi Mischef

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Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 16
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 13
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 11
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 8
Problem [NuVirus] - 8
do the thing [Gameoson] - 7
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 6
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 5
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 4
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
Sekai wa watashi de mawatteru!? [coolpeaches] - 4
Suzy [Gameoson] - 4
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 3
2 On [Feraligatr] - 3
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 3
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
TIEFSEE [Pandemonium X] - 2
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
Paradisus-Paradoxum [coolpeaches] - 2
Common World Domination [warpdr!ve] - 1
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

Hopefully I didn't screw anything up with the scoring (besides my chart, ayyyyyyyy).

EDIT: Thanks again Cuzco, knew I messed something up there.

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Mm.

Portrait of the Pirate F [ddrstepper] - 16
Neon Twilight [Lisek] - 13
Disco Night [brunobg24] - 11
River [The Legendary DJXYZ] - 8
Problem [NuVirus] - 8
do the thing [Gameoson] - 7
Headbangeeerrrr!!!! [mf32892] - 6
2 On [Feraligatr] - 5
サプリミナル・ダイエット [mf32892] - 5
Harmonia [ledgam3r1279] - 4
Ponko2 Girlish [Aegis] - 4
Sekai wa watashi de mawatteru!? [coolpeaches] - 4
Suzy [Gameoson] - 4
IGNITE [DDRDAIKENKAI] - 3
About to Fly [darkanine] - 3
Big Boss [Vinylyarou] - 3
REcorrection [brunobg24] - 3
Tears [vincentw] - 3
TIEFSEE [Pandemonium X] - 2
Hello, Hello [K-Step] - 2
Stay Awake [hooky] - 2
Paradisus-Paradoxum [coolpeaches] - 2
Common World Domination [warpdr!ve] - 1
Tomadoi Mischief [xXMokou98Xx] - 1

The ending of Let's Dance, Boys! needs some explaining.
It was 100% intentional to have the player turn around at the end. It's a sort of "photo finish" moment, whereas the player ends facing outward from the "machine", where there would be people watching/waiting in line. It's not the only song I do that on...

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jinkies

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Holy shit.

What the hell IS that? It's not even the full song for christ's sake...

Edit: Try this link instead.

@warpdrive

Thank you for the detailed comments, they are definitely appreciated.

I think what I meant to do with "Whenever, Wherever" was to switch the steps to the background rhythm every once in a while. If I play the song again with fresh ears, though, I realize that in some cases it's not obvious and the vocals don't line up with the steps. In particular I found a couple in measures 25 & 26. Actually, it seems like there's quite a few. That's what I get for rushing it out the door... I wanted to put something together quickly Sunday night that wasn't already in an official DDR release.

In "I Want You To Know", by double step do you mean slides or using the same foot twice in a row? If you mean same foot, I was going for emphasizing either the note being sung doesn't change or the word not changing, eg "kno-ow", "ag-ain", but maybe that effect didn't work as well as I thought it did. I don't think any foot slides are necessary, but some steps require twisting left foot -> and right foot <-. Is that usually well received, or not really?

So is there anyway you guys can throw me in. My laptop went to shit and I've been caught up in a toxic relationship so it took a while before I finally got things fixed up.

Working fine on my end.

Edit: nvm fuck everything


This doesn't work, reuploading to a different site.

It's my file. It always has to be my file. Why.
It's like, the most low quality cut of River! And it's like half the song! Come on!
So you'll pick that out over Bury It? Done. I really hate MediaFire.

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