Z-I-v Summer Contest 2014 [CLOSED]

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When I saw that the theme was about nostalgia, my mind instantly jumped to Collective Soul. They're one of a few bands that I've listened to ever since I really started listening to music, and 7even Year Itch was one of a few albums we had growing up that I played on repeat. Unfortunately I haven't seen Collective Soul live yet, but I will be changing that come this August! I struggled for a bit finding a good song, and I had it down to either Heavy, Gel, or Listen. I went with Listen as it seemed the most steppable of the three. The cut is a bit longer than I would've liked but whatever.

Hi guys, I'd like to join the competition, is it still possible? c:

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^ Yes it is!
It's up to Pandemonium X to give you access to the category though.

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You are in now.

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X-ratings for Singles: 2 / 5 / 11 / 14

Added Doubles charts
5 8 9
X-ratings: 7 / 12 / 14

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Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) (Eurobeat Mix) - Vengaboys
3 // 5 // 7

Well, this is my entry for the contest. It's been a long time without doing simfiles but today I was particularly excited about making something new and I found this contest. I spent the whole evening thinking what should I edit for my entry and suddenly I found a missing CD in my pc and I said "Yeah, this is the right one" When I was a child I thought this song was a love song and it was so sweet... until now that I looked up for the lyrics. This song reminds me when I was like 8 or 9 years old, when pop songs started to be interesting for me.. Ah, good old times.

P.S.: How/where do I vote? D:

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no joke this was the other file I has made for this week in case my original file didn't go as planned haha

Wow, that was fast

Vinylyarou, you now wait until this week's deadline - Monday 5:00 pm UST (3:00 pm Santiago time, I believe) - to vote for the simfiles.
The voting procedure is specified in the first post.

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Oh, I thought you guys would mess with the voting system. But then again it's 1 file per person, right?

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Yes, one file per person for now.

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I loved this ever since the first time I heard it! :3

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Listened to the Japanese version a lot in my early childhood, and played the Korean cover a few times in PIU.
Not to mention this remix's genre is something I was fond of when I started making simfiles back then at FFR, making it nostalgic on many levels to me. (Possibly more to you if you're Italian?)

Gotta say this was a really tough pick, I had my plans ruined thrice!
I considered stepping something from Ridge Racer, then an old Brazilian song, then a Crash Bandicoot track...
(Could have done them still, but I'm all for variety )

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This is one of the songs I'd keep playing when I started playing IIDX back in '07. Wish I could play it in the arcades though. This song has fun IIDX charts.

Tried to put the fun experience I had in these steps too. Enjoy!

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BPM: 70-140
Length: 2:13
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Nostalgic Part : Whenever I listened this song, I kept remembering times when I play DDRSN2 US Version on PS2. At that time, I always avoiding songs like EternuS, Fascination ~Eternal Love Mix~, and OUTER LIMITS. And nowadays, I fav them a lot. I really miss the time I played DDRSN2 on PS2.

Anyway, Enjoy my Simfile.

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[CHAMBER POP]
Something For The Weekend // The Divine Comedy
128 BPM
1 3 5 7

Right, way back in the late 90s before I formulated a musical taste of my own, I used to have to listen to what my Mum wanted to listen to on the radio every day she dropped me off at school. Most of the time she'd buy a CD on her lunch break and we'd listen to that on the 15 minutes or so drive back in the afternoon. I guess I get a lot of my taste from her, as a lot of the music was pop and rock (this was about the time things like Stereophonics, Oasis and the Super Furry Animals were in their prime, and there was always a Queen or Bon Jovi album on standby in case the releases that week weren't much cop).

Anyway, my dad bought her for her birthday the Best Of album of a little-known band called The Divine Comedy. Now, they had a pretty big single out around then called National Express (I tried, but I can't cut that one right), and after this in track 2 was Something for the Weekend. It's been stuck in my head as a result of endless car journeys since September 1999, and thanks to that, I hope it'll get stuck in yours.

Incidentally I SERIOUSLY recommend getting A Secret History: The Best of the Divine Comedy if you can, it's a fantastic album and Neil Hannon is a songwriter who deserves FAR more credit than being known as the guy who wrote the theme tune to Father Ted.

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So I didn't get into music until I got into music games and played shitty songs like One Winged Angel and TTFAF and I didn't want to step those so here's a thing from the before time.

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GIUDECCA -FLASHBACK 2 RAVE- / qat itna
BPM: 85-170
5/6/8/10
DOWNLOAD

I was gonna step "Nothings Wrong With Me" from the Disney movie Pixel Perfect but I couldn't find a mp3 in 320kbps...

In 2009 when I was like 14 I was obsessed with Diverse System Bemani remixes. I planned on doing a whole bunch of simfiles of their songs, some I did make simfiles for, but there was a lot which I made graphics for and never did anything.
This is probably one of many of my favorite remixes from DS. I tried making the graphics for this similar to the graphics I made for this song years ago. However, I don't have the actual photos of the old graphics anymore to reference from, just this video from 2009.

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In middle school, my family didn't get cable TV and so I didn't have access to MTV (all the kids at my school were really into MTV that year). Instead, I decided that I would listen to the radio for several hours each night so that, for once, I would understand all of the pop culture references that the cool kids were making...and hopefully I could join in and be cool too.

My plan to be cool that year didn't work, but I ended up hearing this great song dozens and dozens of times. Thanks for sharing these memories with me