The League of Extraordinary Stepmen: Chapter 1 (Coming Soon)

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The stepmania stars have aligned at long last. Included are 24 simfiles, six from each simfile author. The following list indicates who made what. Also, as a neat easter egg kinda thing, 4 of the 24 simfiles represent our submissions to r21freak's Fifth Simfile Competition (some of which are revamped a bit): Mootz' Negative Nature placed 1st (out of 33 entrants), zimlord's Arcadian (Castilian II) placed 2nd, mute's Electronized placed 3rd, and Revolver's Resurrected Replayer placed 6th. Each file come with graphics, which were all made by zimlord. mute handled the pack's sync.

Sweat. Blood. Tears. Stepmania Science.

Mootz -
Gravity Blast (12)
Negative Nature (10)
Oosanbashi (10)
Smooooch (DJ Command Remix) (11)
Stereo Sonic (12)
White Tiger (12)

mute -
Destination Relapse (14)
Electronized (10)
Fantasy Flight (11)
For You (11)
Good Bye (11)
Lament Configuration (11)

Revolver -
Hatsune Miku no Tomadoi (12)
Miracle Meets (10)
Mirage Garden (14)
Presentiment (Stage 4-B) (10)
Resurrected Replayer (11)
The Vampire Saga (13)

zimlord -
Arcadian (Castilian II) (11)
Enraptured Soulz (12)
Gentleman (14)
Talli Hua (Jay Dabhi Mix) (10)
Tanglang (13)
The Sonic Song (13)



Arcadian (Castilian II) - Ceephax Acid Crew - Acid - Expert 11



Destination Relapse - Renard - Breakcore - Expert 14



Electronized - Sota Fujimori - Electro - Expert 10



ENRAPTURED SOULZ - INVADER - Hardcore - Expert 12



Fantasy Flight - Wiklund - Chiptune - Expert 11



For You - Jaql - Nu Breaks - Expert 11



Gentleman - Venetian Snares - Breakcore - Expert 14



Good Bye - Ruby Tuesday - K-Rock - Expert 11



Gravity Blast - -12insomnia- - Chiptune - Expert 12



Hatsune Miku no Tomadoi - cosMo@Bohsoh-P feat.VOCALOID2 CV01 - Vocaloid - Expert 12



Lament Configuration - Rephaim - IDM - Expert 11



MIRACLE MEETS - Lucky Vacuum - BUCHIAGE TRANCE - Expert 10



Mirage Garden - Xi - Jazz Metal - Expert 14



Negative Nature - Electronic Boutique - Funky Breaks - Expert 10



Oosanbashi - Ucchies - Traditional Japanese - Expert 10



Presentiment (Stage 4-B) - Yoshimi Kudo - VGM - Expert 10



Resurrected Replayer - zts - Psytrance - Expert 11



Smooooch (DJ Command Remix) - kors k - Eurobeat - Expert 11



Stereo Sonic - Darwin, Obie, & Mr. E - Hardcore - Expert 12



Talli Hua - Singh is Kinng - Bhangra Beatz - Expert 10



Tanglang - Hifana - EASTERN CRUNK - Expert 13



The Sonic Song - iamerror - Nintendocore - Expert 13



The Vampire Saga - N. EX. T. - Video Game Metal - Expert 13



White Tiger - Sabrepulse - Chiptune - Expert 12

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YES. DEAR GOD YES.
I am excited.

Eh.

Lament Configuration + foot switching = <3

Will pick this up.

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Wow, only one of the three responses was negative? Not gonna lie, I'm pretty surprised.

This pack is rock-solid and extremely varied. I do hope you people check it out, because the quality level here is just completely unparalleled in the realm of ITG simfiles. The other three step artists in this pack are easily my three favorite in the ITG community. Their work is very deserving of your attention.

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thanks mute&co, prefer revs files over yours tho :@

No offense taken. Our song selection and charting styles are certainly different, so to each his own. And like I said, I love his work too.


EDIT: Keep in mind, this pack consists of 24 files. The four preview vids are just a small taste of the overall song and chart variety.


EDIT#2: Whoever keeps subtracting points from me, you're just making me wetter. =]

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I like wet...

BUMP FOR RELEASE

MAXIMUM HYPE GOGOGO

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To my dismay....I found only a portion (2) of the sims somewhat interesting.
Some lacked a fun chart. (Preference)
Others lacked...song-wise. (Preference)
There is something for everyone, just nothing extraordinary. :/

ps-don't let the graphics fool you. x_X

Oh wow i need to try this.
I guess it was posted on R21Freaks too but i didn't check out the forums since 2 weeks :s

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Exactly what sims would you say are 'extraordinary'? I just have a hard time believing that someone would find almost nothing they like in this, unless they hated files that're over a 9 (or just not DDR style) in difficulty.

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Don't get me wrong, I love the charts you guys make. These just fall short from the things you used to do.

I hate files that are Expert only where every song is over a 9. If you don't have time to add in more charts, then you probably don't have time for other quality items such as music videos, proper synching, making sure the steps are paddable and fun. Just another trashy keyboard crap-o pack IMO, but at least you posted the difficulties before I wasted my time downloading. Not saying I don't like ITG style charts, I really do, but ITG has lots of under 9's, videos, doubles, pad-friendly patterns, again many 9 and unders. Many of these "ITG" fan packs are just junk

tl;dr "seems like the ITG fan-trash typical, if we pick technical but lame sounding songs, put in long streams, crappy gimmicks galore, minefields, and make the chart as hard as possible, and nothing else, people will love us simfile pack".

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Well, that's a lot of bad arguments imo.

Did you played at least one file hellrazor before complainning ?

Saying that people who only makes charts have bads steps/sycn or whatever is rude and also sucks.
Some people doesn't care about making easier difficulty (some people does), that their choose, respect that.

Also, some files could be hard to make on //ect, but that's a different story (try Operation Evolution for exemple).
The (and only chart) have some REALLY quiet parts. So even if it's a low 13, some part are damn easy.
One part as like 8 arrows on 10 sec. Go steps differnets stuff on easier difficulty. Even if you change paterns, people may say "copy pasta".
But this is an other story.

Imo, i prefer whena chart have all the difficulties. But i rather play a good than have 5 poor stepcharts with differents difficulties. I also loves double but not every people know how to do this (or wants too).

Musics videos ? Who care about that except if the song came with a video. Go put a video on some songs from Newgrounds for exemple.
Also, if i see a video, i delete it. This takes too much space and makes my itg laggy.
But again, if people have a video with the files, that's good to have the choose. Imo, i don't really care because of my pc issues.
I care more about the quality of the chart(s).

And whoa, is that keyboard because it's harder than a 9 ? Sure, Pluto Reliquish is for keyboard only...

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You're a joke, hellrazor. No one in the community takes you seriously. Not here, not on AIJ, not on the Rebirth dev team. You have no idea what constitutes a pad file or a keyboard file (that fact that you think easy pad 11s are keyboard charts speaks to this), so why do you even bother to comment on a pad pack?

If you want easier charts, there are thousands of them in DDR, DWI Extreme, ITG 1/2/3/Rebirth, etc. By no means is this some crazy elitist pack full of nothing but 15+ difficulty files, but no one plays custom novice, easy, or even medium charts. (Tachyon Alpha being an exception, because some of those medium charts are the only thing under a 12) This is an ITG expansion, not a commercial release. Your average joe is not going to see a DDR machine, go "oh hey that looks neat", and then scour the internet for a custom pack for hacked/r21-enabled ITG machines.

Nothing you said has any validity, anyways. You talk about syncing, but Mute did the syncing for this. His sync is dead on. He has resynced countless packs, tournament expansions, and other things. You, on the other hand, were responsible for the 'syncing' of Rebirth 1 that had to be completely redone for every single file, since you have no fucking clue what you are doing with sync when it comes to stepfiles.

No one cares about music videos. 99% of songs wouldn't have music videos that went with the song. They don't show up on anything outside of a hacked r23 cabinet, and only if they are directly hacked on, not carded on a USB. A music video would make a stepfile go from 2-4MB up to about 15-25 MB. All ITG has are random BG animations, WHICH SHOW UP ANYWAYS WHEN YOU PLAY CUSTOM FILES. Hell, a lot of the ITG community has started using 'Hide Background', since seeing a little cube rotate in the background or a colorful swirl moving around does nothing to add to the experience.

You talk about paddable patterns, and being fun. You didn't even download the pack. Your comments about the pack hold no weight when instead of looking it over, you just act like an obnoxious little twerp on the internet. Everything in this pack flows perfectly, there is no double-stepping (besides a couple forced double-steps for pitch relevancy but thinking of that might give you an aneurysm so I won't go into detail), and everything follows the music just fine.

You clearly don't like ITG charts if what you like about ITG are the 5-footers that every commercial dance game has. Those are no different than the 5-footers that DDR has. The distinguishing features of each game are what the higher difficulty charts bring to the table, since at low difficulties, your options are quite limited as to what you can do.

You didn't listen to any of the songs in this pack. How can you comment on the music quality? We didn't use any low-quality audio and the music choice in this pack is quite varied (I do not expect someone to like every song, but I don't want to imagine what you like if you dislike every song here). I really hope you aren't calling stuff like Sammi Morelli, DAX, Digital Explosion, and most Kyle Ward songs 'good music', especially in comparison to these songs.

Doubles charts, sadly, take much longer to create than singles charts. Also, they are played by about 5% of the community that plays custom files, if that. There's no point in making doubles charts that will be played twice, ever. Again, leave doubles charts to commercial dance games, or a fan-made 'official' release like Rebirth 1 and 2.

Now, if someone (who isn't fucking crazy) wants to give valid, relevant feedback to this pack, I will be more than happy to go through it and discuss it in a reasonable manner. I am all for receiving feedback. However, the retarded bullshit that Hellrazor posted is just a waste of everyone's time.

ps - get fucked <3

pps - WinDEU said to add him belching to the end of this post, as well as seconding the "no one takes Hellrazor seriously" comment. So imagine him belching. And saying you're irrelevant.

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Oh my fucking god hellrazor just got served.

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PanStyle, thank you for being reasonable. I just noticed you covered a couple things that I did.

ALSO ACTUAL IMPORTANT POST HERE

Any detailed feedback you guys can give on stuff -- including difficulties being accurate or not -- would be appreciated. Once the sync on Gravity Blast and Stereo Sonic are fixed, plus a couple other small tweaks (based on feedback we receive), we'll upload a revised version of the pack to replace the original. I'll also include the fixed .sm files and what not in the first post and update posts, so that those who already have the pack can grab those.

Proposed changes at this point...

Miracle Meets is a 9, not a 10.
Replacing the three 32nd scales from Mirage Garden. I was unsure about those, and several people have told me they seem a little awkward compared to the rest of the chart.
Stereo Sonic sync fix.
Gravity Blast sync fix.

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Sadly, I'm not downloading this because I'm not really a fan of ITG charts in general. However, I have to say your graphics are quite damn brilliant. Seriously, great work on them.

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To each their own. If you don't like ITG files, I wouldn't expect you to download it.

And yeah, Zimlord does a fantastic job with graphics. Top notch stuff. I especially love the ones for Destination Relapse, Mirage Garden, and Resurrected Replayer (best graphics he's made, in his opinion and mine).

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