"Play/Test/Judge my simfile" thread

[Strider11o7]

Thanks, glad you liked it foilman. I can possibly fix those strange patterns next time i go and make some edits and add in the easier difficulties (I'm pretty sure i know what parts you're talking about) and i'll change the difficulty, i'm never sure what to put.

Oh, and the blue/pink notes weren't intentional, i think it was caused by the freeze near the beginning of the song, but it works =p

I'll play and grade your song when i get the chance, either later tonight or maybe tomorrow.

[cry4eternity]

Kryptonite (Harder)
How Could You (Easier)

I stepped 2 songs. Let me know if you like them because I wanna step more.. maybe even submit something to FFR eventually.

[Strider11o7]

C4E, i played your Kryptonite.

Very difficult type of song to step, usually songs that are focused on singing and vocals don't make for very good steps, and even though i'm not a fan of that kind of music, i still enjoyed this song.

BPM was perfect, stayed in time the whole song. Most of the vocal stepping was spot on, but some random non-vocal patterns caught me off guard and threw my rhythm off, please no arrow solos, stay with the music. The increased difficulty towards the end was strange too, you should keep it at one difficulty, so either make that part easier or make the rest of it harder.

Also, even if you're not a good artist or own photoshop, you can still just use an album cover or something as a background. Maybe you're planning on adding that later, but don't forget!

7/10

[cry4eternity]

Thanks Strider!

Although I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "arrow solos," I value your criticisms and agree about the whole difficulty changing thing. This particular song just happened to be the one case where I did something crazy like that in a song.

Also, I play SM with background off so I didn't think of it until after I uploaded.

[Strider11o7]

By "arrow solos" i mean steps that seem out of place because they stand out and don't fit in with the music being played, i felt that way mostly with yellow and purple notes out there by themselves, and a few others.

Personally, i feel you'd make some really great files if they were more instrument heavy, but you still did a really good job making a fun vocal song.

Btw, 7/10 is a pretty good rating for me, i'm not really good with judging but i'd consider that to be like, an B+ on a test i guess?

[cry4eternity]

Well thanks for the gracious rating then . I'll have to try stepping some more "instrument heavy" stuff.

Also, lol @ B+. I'm a straight A student in school so a B+ would make me sad.

[Oubliette]

Here's my file, it is more over the fun factor but yea I still want it judged even though its half a minute long and is a huge joke, I've only made a few of these ( my first one sucked, I think this is my fourth attempt ) so it might not be that good but let me know on what you think about my simfile I'll make a more serious one next time.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=33889

[Zybanthia]

I'd appreciate if someone tried these:

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=34058
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=34059

You don't have to scan the whole thing for little technical errors (although more power to you if you do); I'm just mainly interested in what people think of them. If you feel something is out of place / dumb / epic / whatever, please, do tell.

EDIT: If you're going to point out pitch relevancy issues, be ABSOLUTELY SURE that I am wrong and you are right. ABSOLUTELY SURE. It is a total pet peeve of mine when people tell me my pitch relevancy is bad when it's not.

[ONESTEPAHEAD]

I KNOW NOT MANY PEOPLE PLAY OR TEST SIMS ANYMORE, BUT PLEASE TEST MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!

<Z>X<Z>
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=34506
Z.X.Z OVERKILL
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=34505

[moches]

I'm requesting a private test by a simfile author with experience. If you want to help, please PM me.

[Sidecutter]

So i finally decided to share my files here. Couple years of file making, mostly keyboard files for stepmania. Test and comment! ^__^

-SONG NAME- -ARTIST- -BPM- -PAD/INDEX/SPREAD-

*NEW* Release of the Far West Ocean - Falcom Sound Team jdk - 130BPM - PAD/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

*NEW* Midnight - cornandbeans - 200BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

*NEW* Epileptic Crisis - Nightmare - 190BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Delirium 155BPM - Unknown - 155BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Strangeprogram - DJ Sharpnel - 215BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Twinkle Star - F-777 - 175BPM - SPREAD -DOWNLOAD HERE

Dream To Nightmare - Nightmare - 178BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Time Running Out - K. Nakamura - 240BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Turrican 1 level - Level 3-1 - Chris Huelsbeck - 167BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Fragile Chaos - nubbiownz - 185BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Birdie - Doolittle - 136BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Attitude - Y&Co. - 145BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Enviromental Product - Brisk & Vagabond - 177BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Bloodrush - Tekno Dred - 158BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Happy Snowman - Easy Pop - 180BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Ageha - Ruy* - 180BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Beaker Sunset - The Flashbulb - 123BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Bonecrusher - V.A.G.A.B.O.N.D - 180BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Boom Boom Fire - D.Essex - 154BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Cooking By The Book - Lazy Town - 110BPM - INDEX/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Dishevel - The Flashbulb - 222BPM - SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

Summer ~speedy mix~ - Smiley - 185BPM - PAD/SPREAD - DOWNLOAD HERE

[gtmitchell]

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...5664&dc=121261

here is a link to my first (posted online) simfile
If you are too lazy to read the description on there, I would like to point out that it is not quite finished, but I will delete the unfinished version and add the finished one hopefully by the end of the week.

[DeeZy13]

Hey there, I just made my first simfile ever for Flowing by the band 311, a song I love and I think the only simfile for it. I'm open to suggestions, since I'm a n00b. ;p
here's the download links:

stepmania - http://www.stepmania.com/download.ph..._Flowing.smzip

FFR - http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=36623

Thanks, hope you enjoy it!

[Virus881]

I don't know how to make pad simfiles. I'm trying to learn, so can you test my simfile when I release it??

[zakizdaman]

play / rate my simfile. DONT JUST PLAY the first 5 SECONDS AND SAY OMG THIS IS BORING, as it gets fairly fast further into the song. My first simfile that i have actually tried on, using DDReam

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=38204

[zakizdaman]

Sorry for double post, the forum was like OMG WTF LOOK ERROR

[Dr Tran]

Originally Posted by zakizdaman

My first simfile that i have actually tried on, using DDReam

for someone who used DDReam you're offset was off by A LOT. im not really to sure why you paused when you did and why you had stream when you did. some of the jacks made no sense its like you werent sure if you wanted to step the vocals or the guitar. i quit out 20 seconds in

[Virus881]

I want to get my Pull Me Under simfile accepted into AMP2, and I need to make some tweaks to it. Can you help me please??

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=37853

[Dr Tran]

that has to have been the most boring file i ever looked over in ddream. pattern choice is bad. replay value is 0 for me and your sync starts to go waaaaaaay off track at 347.3(this being the current second) i have no idea why you would choose to step the entire song. cut it down to like 2 minutes or something =/. song choice was also terrible for stepping too

dream theatre is cool though

[Virus881]

Originally Posted by Dr Tran

that has to have been the most boring file i ever looked over in ddream. pattern choice is bad. replay value is 0 for me and your sync starts to go waaaaaaay off track at 347.3(this being the current second) i have no idea why you would choose to step the entire song. cut it down to like 2 minutes or something =/. song choice was also terrible for stepping too

dream theatre is cool though

In fact, I really don't trust too much in DDream studio. I only use it for the offset of the songs, but when I sync with that program, it inserts way too many BPM changes that make difficult to sync the song.
Also, I checked the sync at second 347.34, where that was supposed to be an 0.07 second offsync. I tried to correct it out with the help of DDream (set that beat to 347.41 from the last BPM change) and the result was an ugly offsync in Stepmania. At least at very low speeds (0.1x) the beat makes sense.

Although I really need some help with correcting the patterns, but can you detail that please?

EDIT: I've found the reason for the little offsync in my files: It's due a Stepmania 4 lag when slowdowning files, it's about 0,03 seconds.