Alright, I know I said I was working on a pixeled theme. I was, but due to lack of... motivation, I cancelled it.
However, after looking through the metrics and toying around with them, I realized that making a theme isn't all that hard. Its just some of the commands I'll have to figure out, but by looking at other themes such as System Zero and SM. Urbanized, I was able to realize what did what to answer my questions (such as putting a banner up in the demonstration).
A little background about some of the drawings and sprites, I used to rom hack Super Mario World. For those that don't know what rom hacking is, its modifying roms to make new levels, graphics, etc. Anyway, a few months ago I announced a new SMW hack in the making called "Alzo's Adventure" which featured a new main character I called Alzo (mainly because he looked like some weird alligator to me...) and his younger brother Rixe. New graphics and levels were shown off a bit, but I got little to no comments on it. The comments I did get on the screenshots were either "I like it. Good work." or were real comments. The sad thing was there were only I think two real comments out of the ten or so posts. I fixed the problems presented and posted new screenshots, but they got overlooked by some new person's crappy hack and dumb questions which eventually led that particular topic on the board down to the "crap" section. I lost interest in SMW hacking since then due to people being just dumb in there, but I kept my sprites that I made with that hack, although there were only two.
This theme utilizes what idea I had then to a StepMania theme. Alzo and Rixe are the two main characters covering this theme, although there will be other sprites supporting them.
STORY OF THE CHARACTERS
Believe it or not, I actually tried to make a story for the characters in the theme. NOTE: They will not be on screen dancers. If someone wants to make them dancers, please do so, but I can't and won't. They will just be present in the theme.
Rixe is a smart creature, although small. 23 years of age, equivilent to a 23 year old human, he has always been one to revolutionize things. Although he was kicked out of his hometown because of his brother erupting the sewage lines into the streets using Rixe's equipment, Rixe kept a positive attitude and after being catapulted in front of an old building, he decided to try and build an arcade machine that didn't require hand-to-button movements. He made a dancing machine in his personal arcade, and became a big hit. (This is why he is the main character of this theme.)
Alzo, 25 years, is a bit fatter than Rixe, but he is also more comedic. Instead of trying to revolutionize ways of playing games, he'd rather revolutionize how to prank someone. Due to the incident in his hometown, Alzo and Rixe were kicked out of town, and although Alzo tried his best not to prank Rixe while they find a new home, one prank went too far and threw Rixe in front of an abandoned arcade a long distance. Since they weren't given a vehicle, it would take a month for Alzo to get there, but once he saw that Rixe made a new arcade, he grew jealous and now wants to defeat every player in the arcade to reign supreme. (This is why he is seen with dynamite and whatnot.)
More characters to be announced later.
I'm sure you want screenshots, right?
Company screen. Not likely to change, but the music for it is very familiar to old school Nintendo racing fans. *hint hint*
Title screen. Most likely to stay this way minus the font.
The select difficulty cursors have been changed. Alzo with dynamite made me laugh.
Now, while most themes focus around high quality graphics, these graphics are all pixelated. Therefore, this will give the theme a more... "old school" look, although it will be more like Super Mario World old school than Chrono Trigger old school.
I have basic ideas down, but things I would like ideas for would be:
-Basic background - Other than the title screen, I want a cool pixelated background that would fit in with Rixe and Alzo, whether it be SMW-ish background or a map background.
-Colors - Player 1 and 2 are obviously purple and light-blue respectively, but I want some different text font colors and don't know what to make them.
-Fonts - I can't do fonts. I don't even know how to assemble them for themes. If someone could either give me some pixelated fonts or direct me to something that makes the fonts like that it would be appreciated.
-Foot rating - What should I make these instead?
-Sounds - No new sounds yet, but I don't know what would be good sounds. Obviously some NES sound effects...
-Music - The company music is a secret unless someone got the clue, but I don't have any ideas for any other music.
-Uh... anything - State an idea even if I didn't list it if you want. Just no asking for me to add in characters from other games, as I will prefer to handdraw sprites than copy/paste them.
On a second note, here are some things I do plan:
-Things not being done - Oni, Nonstop, Endless, and Rave are not going to be included. A bummer, I'm sure, but if I get enough responses, I'll reinclude Oni, but the others seem pointless... as I don't use them. The Select Music Group isn't going to be done either (since nobody cares about it anyway, right?).
Alright, now that I'm finished with this post, I'd like comments, questions, ideas, etc. For the problems you see in these pictures, its hard to see white in Photoshop with the transparent in the background, but those white marks will be removed. If I have problems, I'll post them here so I can get them answered. It beats making a new thread...
[SM][THEME]Pixelizing Dance[WIP] 
