Pandemonium X Presents: X15

New Stepmania project by yours truly. Here's some notes about this pack.

-The title is to celebrate 15 years of Pandemonium X simfiles!

-X15 is what I’m calling a “soft reboot”, so there might be some classics from way back might be coming back.

-Simfiles will have both singles and double charts, I am however going back to some files having challenges rather than all of them. There were too many cases of two difficulties in Nightfall being too close to each other, so we’re going back to the way it was in Wave Ravers, but now with doubles!

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Damn you're on a roll. Nightfall just ended and you're already going to the next project. It certainly sounds very interesting...

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First update is live with 2 new songs



UPDATE: Decided to ditch Genres and release songs by Category.

[BEMANI] - Song from Konami Music Games

[OTHER MUSIC GAMES] - Songs from other music games that area not BEMANI

[BE-MUSIC SCRIPT] - BMS from short. Songs made from rhythm game community.

[VARIETY] - Song that don't follow the other categories. Stuff like Licenses and stuff like that goes here.

[COLLABORATION] - Simfiles that involve me and another member of the simfile community.

Also sorry for the lack of updates, I've been feeling a little burnt out on things, but hope to get back into the swing of things.

Anyway new file.



Bump. No new song but right now I'm debating on a few changes.

I learned with newer versions of outfox, you can make ratings by .5 intervals. (for example you can have 10.5s and 11.5s and so on). I might change the rating scale back to classic with .5s. This is the system I've always wanted to do because I'm not the biggest fan of the X-scale. So right now the hold is decided what I want to do with this pack going forward. The only downside to this change is I'll have to use .SCC files rather than .SM, meaning my files with some older versions of Stepmania/Outfox would have issues working. So right now I'm kind of at a standstill deciding

Here's the new ratings.

Across The Sky
2.5 / 6 / 8 / 10 / X
X / 6 / 8 / 10 / X

Session 1

3.5 / 6 / 8 / 9 / 11.5
X / 5 / 7 / 8.5 / 10.5

Now and Forever:

4 / 6.5 / 9 / 11
X / 6 / 8 / 11

FREEZE:

3 / 5 / 7.5 / 9.5
X / 4 / 6.5 / 9

Valgus

4 / 6 / 8.5 / 10.5
X / 7 / 9 / 10.5

Also realized I did not announce I stepped Valgus yet, I'll announce it here next update but it's up in the category. Update will come out later this week along with a new file.

BUMP: Transfer to the new rating scale is complete. Also since I forgot to announce it last time...


And new file:




742 also did Idenshisousa that was in Nightfall.

Graphics by Yona

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I'm liking the new rating scale! I also feel like it's a bit more illustrative of a file's difficulty than the X scale.

Might end up getting some deja vu in the challenge chart.





megawolf77 also did Neon Paradise in Wave Ravers, the blue shark also shows up in that song's BGA as well.

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Ahhh, Dr. Chemical & Killing Machine is one of my favorite Bemani songs currently!

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Also I'm bumping the season simfile count from 20 to 25.




Next file will be The PandyVerse: Crystal Gazer


Nanoray was the artist for SALMON CANNON DELUEX in Crystal Gazer, also this song fits the magic/spell theme that was Crystal Gazer for bonus points.

HOT FIX ALERT!

It was brought to my attention that some songs with BGAs would start at the wrong time. I've went in and should have fixed the issues. The songs that got fixed were...

Across The Sky
Cool Blue Shark Girl
FREEZE
LOUDER ROLLING THUNDER

If you could, please redownload these and reload your files and that should fix the video issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.


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Also made some QOL fixes here and there before doing the pack download.

Season 1 of X15 is now complete! 🎉

X15 Season 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LWZrDVtvfrZprkI61atCbjEJM6SNTuvL/view?usp=drive_link

X15 Season 1 (X-Scale): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m4h2lHHNuATRIWFrb-NlGW8j4xtlyDHc/view?usp=drive_link

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As for Season 2. I'm going to do something quite different this time. The plan is to do the 20 song update all at once. So might be awhile before you hear something from me in this project. I promise it will be worth it.

Also to much request, Season 2 will go back to the X-Scale rating system.



Hello world, it's been a bit. Don't worry I'm still working on things. Currently I think I'll drop the seasons idea and do more "events". So some events might have a gimmick to them. Some packs will be small, others will be larger. In fact the next event is coming sooner than you think, just in time for the Holidays.


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2023 Holiday Pack is out now! Also soon the category page will get a massive makeover but that's for another day. Anyway happy holidays!!!

SONG LIST:


DOWNLOAD:
Holiday Pack Download

X15 will be getting a massive make over. I am doing away with seasons and just going to upload songs single file and keep it as simple as possible, with new content to be released starting in the new year. Might have some other goodies in store as well. Thank you for sticking with me in all of this, but good stuff is coming.


Heads up, later tonight the category will be closed until the New Years makeover.

I have plans for New Years Day, so let's do this a day early!!!! And we're gonna start the new year with a bang!


Thought doing this would be fitting as this project is kind of a rebuild in itself.

Also there's a TON of changes and fixes in this update. Here they all are:



Also if there's any issues you have, let me know and I'll do what I can to fix them. Again, I have no idea Across the Sky was bugged out, so let me know if something like this happens.

Happy New Year, this will be the year of X!

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Are you taking requests this time around?

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Sadly I won't be taking requests at this time. If you want to recommended something, I'm all ears. But I may or may not do it depending on the song.

Anyway new file!

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I wanted to recommend Kamui by TJ.hangneil from EZ2DJ, it's a really really good song that I'd love to see your take on.

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I'll look into it but again, no promises.

Anyway I've gone back to uploading videos of my files on Youtube. Gonna try to do 3 new videos a day until all of X15 so far is uploaded.

Link to the Youtube page




It's the robot.

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I gotta ask, how many songs are planned for X15?

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There is no set limit for how many songs X15 will have. It's just going to keep going until I have a reason to start a new project. This is in a sense a soft-reboot of my simfiles.


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Small update, just some QoL fixes.

GENERAL CHANGES

-BMS category in the simfile category page is gone, it has been merged with the "OTHER" section. I don't think I have enough BMS songs there or planned to justify having its own category. The Collab folder that was planned will also be in their designated categories.

Therefor there's 3 categories total, I might have aa idea for a 4th category, but nothing set in stone.

RATINGS CHANGES

SINGLES:

BLOCKS 1 → 2
Henry Henry 15 → 16
MAX301 11→13

DOUBLES:
Henry Henry - 15→16
MAX301 11→13

Henry Henry re-rate was due to feedback. I'm always open to feedback if you think there's a rating that's not quite right. I'll change it if there's enough feedback with it.


What I love with the system I got going is I can just suddenly drop 18s on everyone without warning.


Apparently tomorrow/(today in japan) is the 25th anniversary of IIDX. What better timing than to do one of the game's most iconic songs?






Had a small weekend vacation out of town but now I'm back to get back at it.




A little something silly for April Fools...



Next will be the 50th song in the project and an announcement...

"You are.... going to die"




Not a new file but information on BEMANI Pyramid.

It will be 5 phases.

Phase 1: 16s (part 1)
Phase 2: 16s (part 2)
Phase 3: 17s
Phase 4: 18s
Phase 5 19!?


Any guesses on what the songs could be?


This was a request. Subscribers to the youtube page can make requests. Please read the rules before requesting.


BEMANI Pyramid Phase 1 is out now!!!

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