DDR X2 Work Thread

@neotheone: kindly please read my previous post:


I don't expect anything new/favorable when transcoding audio. Just happened that i don't have time searching for better orig audio when you have done your Mei simfile. That's why i came up with your ogg.

@ ArcticWolve: thanks for your understanding.

EDIT:

- going up banner added.

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The point is that .ogg is either better quality at the same size or the same quality at a smaller size. I made a detailed post on this before, because there is no reason to intentionally stick with .mp3 but every reason to move to .ogg. Every version of StepMania decodes .ogg and several versions (in the groove anything for example) doesn't support .mp3.

As for bad snapping at low quality... well, what you did essentially lowered the quality. If you're going to arbitrarily hike up the bitrate, just do that to the .ogg instead. I'm pretty sure the snapping issue is for low bitrate .mp3s, not .oggs.

I'm not saying that you need to start converting the whole library to .ogg, just that since the file was already properly formatted there was no reason to mess with it. That's like taking a 640x480 background and reformatting it at 320x240 in the name of dated standards.


Just because you post a YouTube video doesn't mean it'll go into the database instantly. Maybe he can't get around to coding all the charts because he, I dunno, has a life?

Silly, I also appreciate the work you're doing. Don't get me wrong. Taking a finished file and recoding it for aesthetics only just doesn't make any sense. Especially since the original file is a model of where the simfiles should be move TO.

Thanks for your understanding

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actually i'm in favor of using ogg files cuz i know it can be directly used for the ITG machines without any hassle. All my simfile collection here are all oggs. Just happened that i'm basing to what z-i-v official ddr simfile standard which are mostly mp3 320kbps.

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Yeah, but I didn't post a YouTube video, I posted a complete SM chart.
http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewthread.php?threadid=3156&page=24#p173930

As a student in the middle of midterms I found the 10 minutes to transcribe a video into SM so I'm sure you'll understand why I'm inquiring why sillybear isn't copying and pasting a block of text when he clearly had time to code an entire chart (going up) himself...

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sorry for late post...

UPDATE:

- MEI sm file updated; added D-EXPERT (neotheone)

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Same difference, he may just be too busy. Grats on your level 80 time management skills.

I think you know quite well there is a huge difference between transferring a YouTube video into the ziv simfile database and transferring a block of text from a SM file into the ziv simfile database.

I'll even show you right now!
A) going up S- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhQ0m5uUNI
B) going up S- http://pastebin.com/bTjqgHzk

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Sillybear is in mobile mode now. Will be back after another 14 hours.

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Thankfully someone else here can upload sm files too.

Update:

- going up sm file updated; added BG video

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btw, is Mei's BPM correct already? If it isn't, just see Kynayo's simfiles.

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Very obvious that you haven't tried that simfile in the X2 database...

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Added D-difficult to Valkyrie dimension
.sm : http://ifile.it/pwsjx37

from http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12662090

line-out for VD is being processed... thnx for the stepchart...

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We can use these line out for Anti Matter and Shiny World .

Hahaha he missed the last arrow

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Edit: Ignore this post.

Oh yes! i almost forgot them... thanks for reminding.


EDIT:

Updates:

- mp3 and sm files for Valkyrie dimension, Anti-Matter and Shiny World updated (from nico line-outs);
- added D-DIFFICIULT for Valkyrie dimension (credit to Parodius)

so far, the remaining songs to look forward to for their clear line-outs:
- Poseidon (kors k mix)
- IF YOU WERE HERE (L.E.D.-G Remix)
- KISS KISS KISS -Akiba Koubu Mix-
- iFUTURELIST (X2 version)
- NIJIIRO (X2 version)

and

- shining...

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Poseidon and KISS KISS KISS remixes (along with Pierce The Sky) were released for download on mobile phones in Japan...if only someone could get those online somewhere...

And apparently our Chinese versions of Nijiiro and iFuturelist were only previously accessed by glitch and have since been patched up.

EDIT: and what exactly is the improvement of the lineouts updated for Shiny World and Anti-Matter? I don't hear much a big difference.

I bet the guy who was playing the course from the lineout vid was pissed losing his FC on VD at the end

Yeah the line out are not very loud :/

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(mobile mode)
i also noticed. Too bad my internet sched is over. I think the difference from the previous is the very end of song where a full combo sound effect is heard. I will increase the decibel in these when i return 18 hours later to increase the sound, because what i did was just normalizing them. Since i usually do them for line-out audio.
Again, sorry.

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