FANiME MiX Simfile Pack

[SSJ2Trunks]

FANiME MiX SAiNT is available for download. The links are posted on the first page at the very top of the main post. Please enjoy FANiME MiX SAiNT and I hope you have lots of fun!

[1newb]

so far soo good lol finished downloading the first 2 parts but this download limit exceeded thing sucks haha o well so far playing part one mostly AA and a few AAAs pretty good so far got my pad hooked up now gonna try that out in the mornin so i dun wake people up ahha

[Zop]

Since it's megaupload, I can't get the other two parts until I wait two hours between each one...

[SSJ2Trunks]

Originally Posted by Zop

Since it's megaupload, I can't get the other two parts until I wait two hours between each one...

I'm very sorry you have to wait very long to download each piece. The only thing I can recommend is getting the Megaupload toolbar.
MEGAUPLOAD Toolbar
Sign up as a free member of Megaupload and install the toolbar. Every night from 9pm est to 3am est, you get happy hour premium mode. You get all the benefits premium users get. I recommended this to my friends who downloaded FMS and they were able to download all three pieces at once. The only downfall was they had to wait till 9pm est.

You can also install each piece individually. You don't have to install the other 2 pieces right away if you are limited to downloading on Megaupload.

I'll add this comment to the main post so everyone can have an easier time downloading the pack.

[1newb]

LoL yeh i had to wait but it was ok i downloaded em all now lol was just playin on pad it is pretty good. thanks SSJ2Trunks

[SSJ2Trunks]

Originally Posted by 1newb

LoL yeh i had to wait but it was ok i downloaded em all now lol was just playin on pad it is pretty good. thanks SSJ2Trunks

Thanks for the feedback because it gives me motivation to work on future releases. I've been working on FMSOS (FANiME MiX SAiNT OMAKE SPECiAL) which I mentioned in the readme file but it's a lot different than how I explained. FMSOS should be completed by the end of the month so please look forward to it!

[Zop]

I'll review each song and make you wait 30 minutes for each one! Just kidding. Whoever is good with Jubo is good in my book.

Would it be bad if I uploaded the pack parts as a mirror to filefront?

[SSJ2Trunks]

Originally Posted by Zop

I'll review each song and make you wait 30 minutes for each one! Just kidding. Whoever is good with Jubo is good in my book.

Would it be bad if I uploaded the pack parts as a mirror to filefront?

I just sent you a private message about uploading it to filefront.

[LK4D4]

*have not posted here in almost a year*

I found the couple sims I randomly choose, mostly based on personal sims and others I have played/witnessed, to be not only DS oriented but also boring with the same step patterns. CDTitles were a very very nice touch, (most) banners were very good, and videos had great quality. I felt that with songs I did play, I think it was 6 or more, it was as though one person made all those (coincidence? Yes, because it's true when you read the "readme"). I ~could~ give leeway because I see that these are designed for DDR and not ITG (lack of mines/hands/rolls), but I won't. Although I do want to say, "keep trying, and perhaps I can be a future tester for your sims?".

Current Rating on Pack: 5/10
DS, same step patterns that look like the same person made them, no Doubles charts, and Courses are half single anime title based and half musical/theme based yet don't give any modifiers.

[SSJ2Trunks]

Originally Posted by LK4D4

*have not posted here in almost a year*

I found the couple sims I randomly choose, mostly based on personal sims and others I have played/witnessed, to be not only DS oriented but also boring with the same step patterns. CDTitles were a very very nice touch, (most) banners were very good, and videos had great quality. I felt that with songs I did play, I think it was 6 or more, it was as though one person made all those (coincidence? Yes, because it's true when you read the "readme"). I ~could~ give leeway because I see that these are designed for DDR and not ITG (lack of mines/hands/rolls), but I won't. Although I do want to say, "keep trying, and perhaps I can be a future tester for your sims?".

Current Rating on Pack: 5/10
DS, same step patterns that look like the same person made them, no Doubles charts, and Courses are half single anime title based and half musical/theme based yet don't give any modifiers.

Thanks very much for your feedback. I'll work on the patterns a lot more. I've actually never played ITG before so I never add anything from ITG into my simfiles. I don't make double steps because I don't think I'd make great patterns from not personally being good on doubles. It's true that I made every single simfile in FMS so I understand how you feel like the patterns are alike. I've never thought about adding modifiers to the courses so I'll look into that. I've only played Trick oni in Extreme so that's my only experience with oni courses with mods . I'll let you know if I have any simfiles in the future for testing and thank you again for the critique.

[LK4D4]

I did not mean Doubles Chart. Although, as I go more into having more experience I felt that expanding into the Doubles Mode would be beneficial. I have not seen any Anime Doubles charts as of yet being submitted into Otaku's Dream. But I'll save that for later.... Check out this video on DoubleStepping (DS).

Let's take a look at Couses; this one taken from "Bounce".

#COURSE:Bounce
#METER:REGULAR:6;
#METER:DIFFICULT:8;

#MODS:
TIME=15.17:END=29.64:MODS=50% Wave:
TIME=29.64:END=44.11:MODS=50% Dizzy:
TIME=44.11:END=58.58:MODS=50% Wave:
TIME=58.58:END=73.05:MODS=50% Sudden:
TIME=87.53:END=101.99:MODS=50% Drunk:
TIME=101.99:END=116.46:MODS=50% Wave:
#SONG:Da Roots:Easy:;

#MODS:
TIME=12.54:END=29.00:MODS=70% Tipsy:
TIME=29.00:END=50.94:MODS=50% Wave:
etc.

As you can see, first you put in the course name, dificulties for Regular and Difficult, then start adding mods based on time in the song (not beat) and percent you want applied for each mod. Separate modifiers within the same time frame with commas. The song should be last with the difficulty, and if needed you can type in the folder like so; "#Song:In the Groove/Song Name:Difficulty:;". If your SM does not read "END" use "LEN" instead with the amount of time for each modifier to take affect.

EDIT: I forgot to mention what songs I played. They are: "Ash Like Snow", "Chance!", "Chasse", "Colors of the Heart", "Danzai no Hana ~Guilty Sky~", "Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi", "Gekidou", "Get My Way!", "O2", "resonance", "Shamrock", "Special Days", "What's Up People?!". So yeah, more than 6, sorry.

[Zop]

Some picky reviews of some songs by a one-handed keyboard player (played at highest difficulty available):

After Dark:
It seemed some of the arrows were out of place; example: look at the arrows in beat 4.5-5 and 6.5-7. Although they match a pattern, they don't match the music and are awkward.

Festivo:
It was fun for its skill level. No complaints.

Gekidou:
I'm one of the few people that use xmod. so this song is a bit annoying. The first bunch of bpm changes can stay, but the one at 15.5 is hidden within that stream, and the one at 40.5 AND 41 together is just too mean with such a pattern, then the one at 71 seems to be missing an arrow, so it's quite easy to miss the first arrow since the bpm changes when you're aobut to hit it. A good bpm change is 23.5 and the one at 7.5 is somewhat good.

Mamette:
No complaints.

Marisa:
Didn't try because I have enough stepcharts of this song as is... I also skipped Hare Hare for this reason...

Resonance:
At around beat 12 the chart seemed mismatching, and near the end, the jumps at the end of the short streams seem to be an eighth off. Otherwise, fun song and steps.

Stay gold:
I once made a stepchart to this song, so it's interesting to see this. What I gathered was that I concentrated the steps on the vocals too much, and I think you did more than me! I never thought it was that big a deal until I tried a stepchart of a song that I never heard that was heavy on vocal steps, and it's not that fun. From what I know, beats 18 through 25 is a good example of the most concentration you can have on vocals, but after that to beat 32 is a good example of too much. Beat 32 and beyond is good.

Wana:
Pretty fun once you learn the bpm changes! Though, the one at beat 26 is rather sudden... or it's the steps that don't quite follow anything. Then, from there to about beat 40, the chart is not focused on anything. Beat 30-33 is suddenly fun in there, though.

*Asterisk
A bit heavy on the vocals again. Though, it works well at 38.5-39.5 especially, and quite decent for the rest of the song afterwards.

If you're going for a pad pack (based on the difficulty you write), you should take a look into what LK is saying. You may really need to move your legs around to see if you're making workable patterns.

[Nefluw]

wooow, surprised to see that you're still alive, awesome stuff man keep em coming! ( I got into stepmania cause of your first pack )

[neothe0ne]

I finished downloading Part 1. I'll probably add more comments (especially on songs I've also stepped which are in Parts 2-3), but without repeating the reviews of others too much (doublestepping, patterns, etc), I'll add some. Assume all comments are on the highest difficulty level unless otherwise stated.

General complaints:
-All videos: You have Widescreen videos (16:9 ratio) stretchsquashed into 4:3 ratio, which is a big no-no (see pretty much any of your sims from 2007 anime on). Since you're using StepMania 3.9 because of the Popcandy theme, there's not even a way to get proper aspect ratio back during gameplay.
-Steps to silence. (CHU-BURA measure 53,
-Steps to nothing (beginning of After Dark, measure 5 of Chasse which LK also did in his file, most of the 16th triplets in Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi on vocals instead of the drums in the verse, etc.)
-Many steps feel too karaoke, where you follow the vocals too strictly at some points and the bgm too strictly at others. Gekidou stuck out most to me, as it was awkward even though I know the song thoroughly from editing my sim of it over and over.
-Jumps to non-accented vocals and singles on one-time percussion/w.e (lots of songs)
-Bad song title ("ki no me kaze" does not exist, the cover of the single itself says "ko no me kaze". I'm assuming "ki" came from the retarded inaccurate Wikipedia nazis.)

Despite these complaints, I did like your BLUE BIRD better than my original which ended up too overstepped, as well as your Minami-ke Okawari ED, as I had wanted to step it but gave up before I started. I guess it's ironic you released Kokoro no Tsubasa just before I did and I released Days just before you did.

I enjoyed the original FANiMEMIX mostly because I found several songs with decent steps not done by anyone else (properly), such as most of the Gundam SEED songs. This time though, I'm looking at the pack from an entirely different perspective (I wasn't a simfile author myself when I first played FANiMEMIX for example), as I've already stepped 28 songs in this pack (counting COLORS which I'm stalled on making a banner for), 29 if you include "Say cheese!", which has exaggerated some of the issues I have with the steps.

[Leonodra]

Very good Pack...

And you upload it in MU...!!