Z-I-v Summer Contest 2016

This Stepchartist Just Tried To Step His First Challenge Chart In Over A Year. The Results? I'm Disgusted.

エイリアンエイリアン (DIVELA REMIX) / ナユタン星人 feat. あらき
BPM: 76-152
- 2 | - 5 | - 7 | - 9 | - 10

I completely stumbled upon this song by accident. I clicked the wrong video a few days ago and decided to just let it play and h o l y c o w I fell in love with the song immediately. DIVELA's remixes never fail to go off and あらき's vocals are to die for. This song was too fun and too cute to not step. As I've said, this is my first whole Challenge chart I've made in just over a year. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it because there's a part of me that really likes it, but I already have a feeling I know what a lot of the criticisms will be, but we'll see how that turns out, I guess. Hopefully y'all enjoy it as much as I do.
"It's all freshly typed..."

BLACK & WHITE / GHOST feat. Dex
BPM: 150
- 2 | - 4 | - 7 | - 8

The second part of the first case of GHOST's COMMUNICATIONS series! In case anyone is wondering, this is the sequel to ROTARY DIAL, which I submitted for the third round of TOI. If you thought ROTARY DIAL was spoopy, read the story component of this track and you'll be really spoop't.
A few warnings. First off, the AVI has some flashing imagery, so if that may be a problem for you/your brain, maybe download the custom AVI. Second, please play this song on SM5. There is a warp involved, so any other version will probably crash.

Nowhere / Nhato
2/3 4/6 7/9 9/12 10/15

This was another song I considered for Voiceless Week, until I started hearing what I thought were vocal samples. There's one single non-invasive SM5 gimmick in this file. If you're playing on an earlier build of SM, I included a .sm as well so the file will work fine on any version of SM.

I checked the half-speed sections, they only make up about 17% of the file so this should be okay for this week's theme.

https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=29344 Wow, I can't believe nobody stepped this one. The hella smooth track from IIDX copula, and as you'd expect from the song, there's a LOT of 16ths to play with. Even in Basic. This one was a hard one to work out what to rate.

Basic is easier than it looks, but the chaos makes it a 5, I'd reckon. Both Difficult and Heavy charts are on the harder side of the 6/7. You could make it 5/7/8 if you really want, but I don't think they're hard enough. Challenge is a 9, a chaotic one, but not as offbeat as envidia was.

Do enjoy the graphics, they took bloody forever to make.

NO LIMIT -オレ達に限界は無い- / SUPER STAR 満-MITSURU- vs. 伝説のダンサー マイク
2/2 4/6 5/9 8/12

My second Mid Speed submission, and quite possibly one of my favorites from the get-go made by TAG/Mitsuru.

Just a fun tidbit for the Heavy stepchart, when you reach the streams of the UD jumps, try to do the dance that Mike does in the IIDX video. Have fun shuffling to that ;)

Fact: I initially considered a PENDUAL song that would've practically reached the 160BPM limit, but I did not feel like it would be good enough. Similar case with a SPADA song.

Motivation Is Dead
BPM: 128
Old Scale: - / 3 / 5 / 9 / -
X-Scale: - / 5 / 8 / 13 / -

Featuring a fav of mine. I was really on the fence about leaving the hard chart as is (it played out differently than it had in my head), but idk, you can be the judge of that.


Tokyo Mannequin
BPM: 150-160
Old Scale: - / 4 / 6 / 8 / -
X-Scale: - / 5 / 8 / 13 / -

This file is about two weeks in the making, mainly because I couldn't decide what to do with its length (rn at the maximum 2 min 30 sec). I tried a couple variations that would've shaved off 10-15 seconds, but in the end decided to leave it at this cut. I know y'all got things to do, so hopefully the length's not too much of a problem.

[Mid Speed]

Allegro PIU Mosso / DM Ashura
BPM: 160
1/2 3/5 7/9 9/13 10/15