Rules/Submission Guidelines

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Alright, so the Batch Search Engine has been updated with the results from July/August 2016 and September/October 2016 and those two batch periods are now finished. This means that the November/December 2016 and March/April 2017 periods are what currently remain for the Regular Batches.

There is still some updating I have to get to in relation to Conditional Queue, although this is a good checkpoint to be at for the time being. I'm going to be taking a break for a bit (until next Wednesday) after I have my interview.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

So Conditional Queue is now up to date. There are currently no submissions for the open May/June 2017 Regular Batch Period.

Conditional Queue

Alien Lair: July 7th, 2017 (Notes posted 5/12 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...72&postcount=4)

Alone: July 4th, 2017 (Notes posted 5/9 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...48&postcount=4)

Before Cynthia: April 1st, 2017 (Notes posted 2/4 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=67)

Castorpollux: July 7th, 2017 (Notes posted 5/12 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...74&postcount=4)

Creamy Sky: March 25th, 2017 (Notes posted 1/28 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=26)

Credits: July 4th, 2017 (Notes posted 5/9 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...48&postcount=4)

Glitchcraft: May 7th, 2017 (Notes posted 3/12 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...7&postcount=28)

Grid Compass: February 20th, 2017 (Notes posted at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...46&postcount=2)

Hesperides => Pending Fixes

Light of the Seven (Ghost in the Machine Cover): July 4th, 2017 (Notes posted 5/9 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...48&postcount=4)

Love is Over (Prod. Mikeneko Homess) (matra magic remix): April 1st, 2017 (Notes posted 2/4 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=67)

Smiling: April 1st, 2017 (Notes posted 2/4 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=67)

The Big Black: April 1st, 2017 (Notes posted 2/4 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=67)

Tope Doge: May 10th, 2017 (Notes posted 3/15 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...1&postcount=29)

Underwater: May 9th, 2017 (Notes posted 3/14 at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...69&postcount=3)

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

So as of June 12th, 2017 these are the currently assigned Pending Fixes.

DossarLX ODI
Hesperides
Rainbow Archiver
Smoke Weed Everyday
Welcome to My Kastle
Your Lies

gameboy42690
3 Year Anniversary Mix
[Resubmission] Miss Jackson
[Resubmission] Nightfall (Original Mix)
Problematic

DarkZtar
Light Emitting Diode G

TC_Halogen
Horizon
Iggy
La Tristesse Durera Toujours
Polis Ruin

[DarkZtar]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Light Emitting Diode G [*8/10]
There's still a few glaring errors/inconsistencies that need to be fixed, but this is much improved.

Red = my responses
A little bit last minute i've fixed some of the issues in LED-G that put it into the conditional queue. The changes are:
4.707: Is now a jack (10.871 is the same)
The jack usage here is still slightly inconsistent, there are a couple times where you acknowledge the 2 consecutive sets of jacks as appropriate, but other times you have one jack set followed by other patterns. Not really a huge issue and I'm not requiring you fix this, but you should be aware it might feel a bit weird to play. (ex starting with the j ump at 3.457 should play like [24]233 instead of the [24]322 you have now)

17.983 and all other instances: Jump has been removed, however a jack is still in its place.
Acceptable change, the jack matches the sort of illusion of a stutter the synth gives.


36.222: A note is now here to match the vocals
38.656: Pattern has changed from a trill to something else (44.630 is the same)
39.367: Burst patterned adjusted so the last note doesn't lead into a jack (51.505 is the same)
This plays so much better now, gj.

42.164 and all other instances: PR for the jumps has been adjusted accordingly.
42.544: Jack adjusted to the left hand side.
I'm assuming you meant right since the jack is on 4, either way it works now.

52.216: Jumps have been removed from the backing synth until later on for consistency.

71.924 missing an 8th

78.958: Hands here are now jumps aside from the last one in this pattern
mmmmmm You really should have hands on the crashes to make it consistent. tbh after playing it through a few times, you could put the hands in and just make the player eat a pretty hefty difficulty spike.
Either way though make it consistent, having hands on only a few ending crashes feels a bit odd.

84.269: Pattern no-longer contains a three note jack
96.796: Ending jack adjusted accordingly, now a two note jack.
Ehhhh, the ending pattern kinda just sticks out like a sore thumb (the [23][12] thing) now compared to your patterning leading up to it (with the alternating jump patterns). I guess I can see your intention of calling back to the jack motif in the intro but I'd personally just have it follow the patterns youve been doing in this section.


The only thing you absolutely need to fix is the hand consistency in the section around 78.958, I'll go ahead and recommend you add hands in to the rest of the crashes.
Edit: looking at my prior notes I told you to tone it down, oops. Well either way works, just make it consistent

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

May/June Regular Batch update

This batch period is now closed. Because of the low number of submissions, they will all be moved over to the July/August 2017 Batch Period. The five files listed below will appear under July 2017 on the BSE; note that Ghost was an overflow submission in the March 2017 batch, and the four other files are transfers that do not count towards the submission cap.

[Apr 17, 2017 11:05 PM]
Ghost {Silverstein} (Travis_Flesher)

[Jun 30, 2017 5:37 PM]
A new Torch, a new Legacy {Dan Johansen} (M0nkeyz) **transfer
Flying Moon Creature {Dan Johansen} (M0nkeyz) **transfer
Solar Overdrive {Dan Johansen} (M0nkeyz) **transfer
Stay Alive with Style! {Dan Johansen} (M0nkeyz) **transfer

[gameboy42690]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Finished up my pending fixes. All four files are accepted.

With the exception of Nightfall (Original Mix), the other three files were special cases where the stepartist gave permission to have the judge make changes according to the review. The notes provided below are documentation of all the changes that have been made. Dossar has reviewed all three files and has accepted the changes.

3 Year Mix (Razor & Xiz) - Accepted
- Special case in which the stepartist gave permission to have the judge make the changes according to the review given.
34.791: Single note changed to jump.
47.330: Single note changed to jump.
51.725: Deleted ghost 32nd note. The forced mini-jack is gone too.
52.604: Extended 16th jackhammer by one note.
52.955: White note switched to a normal blue note.
57.526: Same as above (yellow note this time)
64.440: Added missing 4th note.
65.612: Added missing 32nd burst.
67.370-69.245: Added missing 16ths for the snare hits.
70.065: Changed to a 24th trill.
76.100 & 77.799: Added additional notes for drum.
80.846: 32nds changed to 24ths.
82.643 (basically the entire Toothless Hawkins bit): Fixed all the 24th swing.
96.667: Deleted ghost 16th.
99.479: Changed jump to single note, deleted a few ghost notes.
99.74: Jump changed to single note.
101.823: Added 16th note.
105.339: Deleted ghost 32nds.
106.432: Added 48th grace note.
113.542: Changed 12th note to 16th jack.
121.745: Added 16th mini-jack.
144.421: Okay, guitar solos are admittedly a weak point of mine, but I did my best to try and make it somewhat accurate. I think it's kind of messy but Dossar made no mention of additional fixes for this part so whatever. *shrug*
168.150: Fixed the polyrhythm. It's straight 24ths now.
169.602 & 175.796: Fixed the grace notes going to the guitar wailing. There's only two grace notes now instead of three, and the second grace note actually occurs at the right time.
170.279: Added missing notes.
171.118: Tweaked the patterning here a bit. Just adding in the missing 12th didn't really flow well.

Miss Jackson (Xiz) - Accepted
- Special case in which the stepartist gave permission to have the judge make the changes according to the review given.
30.046: Added in a 32nd burst. Same thing at 47.607.
34.436: Added a 16th here for the bass kick.
- I chose to leave in a couple of jumps that were stepped to the guitar plucking. Even though the main focus of the layering is the bass kick, I think the plucks add a bit of variety. It would be too impractical to try and jump all of the plucks though, so it's only done twice.
41.753: Changed 16th jump to a single note. A jump technically works since there's a bass kick here, but none of the other 32nd bursts begin with a jump so it just seems out of place.
46.326: Left arrow should have also been white to correspond with the vocals. Fixed.
49.070: Added a 16th jump for the bass kick (again at 54.924)
- Naturally I had to adjust a few patterns for the sake of flow, otherwise I tried to leave all the patterns as close to the original submission as possible.
66.082: PR on the jumps got a little messed up (second AY is definitely not a different pitch from the first)
72.313 etc.: There was this odd recurring issue of leaving out an 8th note during the chorus and I couldn't really figure out why it was omitted or why nobody brought it up in the review (in retrospect it's pretty easy to tell I was a new judge just by looking at some of my notes from that set, lol). These 8ths have all been filled in.
72.496 etc.: Turned these bass kicks into 16th jumps. I don't think everyone's going to be a fan of the anchoring but at the very least it stays consistent with the "Miss Jackson" jacks and how the bass kicks were being layered earlier.
81.643: Added a jump for the drum here as well. I don't think it's what I personally would have done had this been my file, but Xiz did it later on so I'm just trying to stay consistent with his work.
84.752: I guess technically these bass kicks should be stepped as jumps as well, but the trouble here is that they conflict with the jumps to "whoa-o-o-o-oah" so I'm just leaving these as single notes.
- From this point on the fixes are a repeat of earlier. The bridge was completely untouched.

Nightfall (Original Mix) (XelNya) - 8.5/10 - Accepted
- Honestly I didn't even really notice any [14] spam. Besides, I'd rather have [14] spam than down arrow spam.
- Fixes approved!

Problematic - Accepted
- Special case in which the stepartist gave permission to have the judge make the changes according to the review given.
12.807: PR was backwacks, this has been corrected. Same at 24.101.
29.483: Added a 16th note for the high-frequency synth. Even though you can argue that Xiz only intended to follow the vocals and drum, it just feels weird leaving out one fairly prominent synth note.
31.204: Deleted a ghost 32nd note.
- A lot of these 32nd bursts contained ghost notes. These have all been addressed.
33.542: Changed to a 16th note.
46.953: Added a 16th note for the drum.
53.394: Changed the patterning here to be way less repetitive.
59.747: Xiz seemed pretty back and forth on whether to step the snare drum with hands or jumps. I went ahead and made all of them hands.
90.100: Fixed the timing on this burst.
94.865: Changed to an 8th jump for the bass kick.
101.394: Changed the staircase pattern to a 4-3-2-1 roll (which fits the song way better and isn't such a difficulty spike).
114.276: Added missing 18th jump for the bass kick.

[VisD]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Fixed up and sent my cq files (alone, light of the seven, credits)

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

The below are the results for my assigned 6/12/17 Pending Fixes. Hesperides has been put back to Conditional Queue.

Accepted
Welcome to My Kastle
Rainbow Archiver
Your Lies
Smoke Weed Everyday

Conditional Queue
Hesperides

[8/10] Welcome to My Kastle
- 23.87, 31.55, 39.23, 46.91: These should be changed to be consistent with what's mentioned at 131.40
- 146.51: Missing offsetted note

[8/10] Rainbow Archiver
- 112.07: Missing 32nd [RESOLVED - very quiet note]

[7/10] Hesperides
- Offset to change to 0.480
- 163.61: This part is stepped awkwardly. It may be a good idea to get rid of this 32nd note, or just have the 5-note 32nd burst with the 12th at 163.55 removed. [RESOLVED - goofed this one, I meant 163.45 but upon looking again this isn't a problem]
**- 170.55: The incomplete 32nd bursts here are misleading. The jumps should be removed to account for stepping the full 5-note bursts. [UNRESOLVED - 170.77 and 170.81 should be stepped as 32nd notes, 170.89 is a ghost 32nd. The patterning is also a bit tight in the anchors here]
**- 183.97: Missing 16th for bass kick
**- 189.82, 190.13: Missing 16ths for bass kick before 32nd burst (these can be patterned properly as well) [UNRESOLVED - The 16ths were added, but there are nasty anchors here on the down arrow]
**- 206.55: Missing jump [UNRESOLVED]
**- Please cover items marked with ** for acceptance.

[7.5/10] Your Lies
- 118.70, 121.45: Missing 8th note
- 166.37, 169.13, 171.89, 174.64, 177.06: Missing 16ths
- 201.11: Could add a jump here
- 213.26: Should be the 48th before (see 207.72)

[8/10] Smoke Weed Everyday {Rasmus Hedegaard} (Xiz)
- This was a special case as the changes were made by the judge by request.
- Offset changed to -0.133, and BPM changed to 100.08 (from 100.00)
- 9.868 etc.: Ghost note. This same exact 16th ghost note appears every time the lyrics "smoke weed everyday" come up. (Occasionally there's actually a synth being played between "weed" and "everyday", and in those cases you're okay. Other times there's nothing being played and you're left with a ghost note.) Pitch relevancy could also use some fixing up around here. "Smoke" is a higher note than "weed", so a pattern like 4-3 would make a lot more sense than the current 2-4 pattern. [RESOLVED]
- 10.768 etc.: The two chopped vocals this mini-jack is going to doesn't make that much sense as a mini-jack, since the two syllables here are two completely different syllables and pitches instead of a repetition of the same syllable with the same pitch (such as "smo-o-o-o-oke" where you stepped the 5-note long jacks). [RESOLVED - not minijacks anymore)
- 57.394: I'd change this 2-4-[13] pattern to something like 1-2-[34], in order to better distinguish what's being played in the song here is completely different from what's being played at 57.734. (Notice the inflection on "up" compared to the next few lyrics; it sounds very different from what comes immediately after but the steps don't really reflect that). [RESOLVED]
- 104.211: The vocals here are an exact repetition of what was played from 26.550-29.548, but here you stepped a mini-jack that you didn’t step the first time around. Like the mini-jacks I pointed out earlier, this mini-jack doesn’t really fit (same reason as before) so I would get rid of the mini-jack. [RESOLVED - not a minijack anymore]

[ItsOnlyDanO]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Wow didn't even notice that LED had notes, I'll get on submitting the fixes at somepoint within the next week

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Hi guys, I'm heads down on deploying my new Crossover Spectrum site and if all goes well it should be up by Sunday night. When this is finished I can catch up with batch-related matters. Thanks for the patience.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

I've done a big BSE update to keep it up to date as of now and here is the summary of the changes. The Pending Fix list is now smaller at 6 files, and there are zero files in Conditional Queue. I'll be going back to deploying the CS site today; tomorrow I'm hoping to assign these pending fixes and get some more of the March/April 2017 sets assigned.

On another note, September/October 2017 is open.

July/August 2017 Additions

[Jul 3, 2017 at 12:58 AM]
Sonic Vision (rayword45)

[Jul 15, 2017 at 2:29 AM]
OmochiMochip Pe-ta-ta-Turn (Maximemoring)

[Jul 16, 2017 at 8:38 PM]
Tope Doge (PrawnSkunk)

[Jul 16, 2017 at 8:39 PM]
The Candy Corn Witch (PrawnSkunk)

[Jul 24, 2017 at 12:04 AM]
Helix of Garatia (YoshL & PrawnSkunk)

[Aug 15, 2017 at 2:58 PM]
Imperial March (Travis Flesher)

[Aug 28, 2017 at 6:46 PM]
Blue Army V2 (DarkZtar)
Glitchcraft (DarkZtar)
Verse IV (DarkZtar)
Violent Arcade (DarkZtar)
Visitor (DarkZtar)

[Aug 31, 2017 at 2:40 PM]
Arctaic (Konestoga)


You can find the full submission list for July/August 2017 on the BSE page.

Conditional Queue/Pending Fixes

[Jul 6, 2017 at 5:11 AM]
Castorpollux (bmah)

[Jul 15, 2017 at 4:24 AM]
Unfortunately the three updates sent were past the July 4th deadline so I will have to deny these changes.
- Alone
- Credits
- Light of the Seven

[Aug 17, 2017 at 7:19 PM]
Unfortunately two of the updates were past the July 24th deadline so I will have to deny those changes.
- Starlight Express
- Quietus Ray

Hesperides (DarkZtar) was submitted on time.

Several other files were moved to Rejected for going past the 8 week deadline for Pending Fixes.


Accepted File Updates

[Jul 30, 2017 at 12:43 AM]
Your Lies (Kraezymann)

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

A mishap was resolved with three files, so now the 9 Pending Fixes are assigned as follows.

gameboy42690
La Tristesse Durera Toujours
Polis Ruin

James May
Hesperides
Horizon

trumaestro
Castorpollux
Iggy

DarkZtar
Light of the Seven
Credits
Alone

TC_Halogen
Discord (not a pending fix, but resolving a passed file)

[DarkZtar]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Notes for pending fixes,
Alone {Marshmello} (VisD)
Credits {Frums} (VisD)
Light of the Seven (Ghost in the Machine Cover) {Ramin Djawadi} (VisD)
For all 3 files, pretty much everything I asked to be fixed was fixed, there are just 1 or 2 minor things in each file that should be cleaned up before they are ready for acceptance.

[7*/10] Alone {Marshmello} (VisD)
-25.302 there should be an 8th jack here for pr and consistency (you did it earlier to match the synth)
-**37.769 File was great, and then this happened. Pls fix the vocal syncing.
Ehhh, the last 3 notes that you have sound accurate,
but the 16th really sounds like it should be on the 32nd note before it (a 32nd earlier)
-52.771 just condense this into an 8th jump, the 48th grace just feels out of place in this section.
-70.300 4th should be a jump
-71.568 not sure why you swapped to putting jump to the synths when you could have stuck with putting jumps to the vocals. This transition would have been much cleaner, and you would have more to work with in this drumroll buildup.
-**74.946 alright the whole “I’ll use three 32nds to acknowledge the cymbal burst that actually persists through the majority of the beat” does not work at all. Just make the jumps white or something (and consider removing the rest of the white notes since they’re just to abnormally high or low pitches)
-**101.992 last note is a ghost note
-File’s honestly pretty good aside from that odd 32nd section.
** = stuff that must be fixed
Rest of the stuff I wanted fixed is all good now, I hate to hold a file from acceptance because of 1 note but that vocal rhythm still sounds a bit off.

[7*/10] Credits {Frums} (VisD)
-**18.110 polyrhythms suddenly start here when you didn’t have them in the two instances prior? (probably easier to just fill in the polys for the 2 prior instances)
-28.669 keep the consistent 8ths going, it matches the kind of droning on and on that the background synth provides (fill in this 4th)
-31.183 ^ same comment, but fill in the 8th
-39.395 same thing as 28.669
-40.903 missing a jump here to the kick
-41.909 like I mentioned in the earlier review, should fill in the 8th here to kind of keep the droning of the background synth going.
-42.076 this should be a single note, while the white note at 42.412 should be a jump
-42.998 missing 16th in here that you should fill in
-**55.799 check the jumps around this measure, either the sync drifts or you have the 16ths misaligned.
-**63.760 also this 16th jump seems inconsistent with each repetition, double check the section for this.
Other than the things mentioned file seems fine.
Rest of the file looks great now, fix that one section in the middle of the song around 40s in and this is good to go.

[8*/10] Light of the Seven (Ghost in the Machine Cover) {Ramin Djawadi} (VisD)
I can't believe I didn't catch this in the original review,
but there are 8th piano notes running from 35.578 to 37.578 that you should fill in (making 36.578 and 37.078 jumps.)
-**46.580 there’s a faint higher note here which I’m assuming follows what you put a jump to in the earlier instance of this pattern. Make it consistent, either add the 4th here, or remove the 4th earlier. I’d recommend adding the jump here.
-**55.580 should be a single note
-**66.581 add a jump here to follow the descending high pitch melody.
-74.081 remove placeholder
Short and simple, well done overall. Song’s pretty too. Fix the couple things noted.
Fill in the 8ths mentioned (I'm sorry for not catching them earlier) and this is good to go, rest of the stuff was fixed as asked.

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

James May finished his assigned Pending Fixes. Notes are below.

Accepted
Hesperides
Horizon

Hesperides - Resolved issues - 8/10
-Offset is a bit late (off by a 64th)
-2:50.55: RESOLVED - For a moment, I thought the last set of the 32nd bursts on 2:50.97 was a ghost but its stepped to the sound when being heard on .5 rate. Optional to remove it.
-3:03.945: RESOLVED - Good to go
-3:09.82, 3:10.13: RESOLVED - Good to go
-3:26.52: RESOLVED
-File is good to go. Just fix the offset and it's good c: Also, check on that last burst

Horizon - 8.5/10
-Definitely prefer this one over the V1 that's currently in FFR (God, I rmember playing that file so long ago lmfao)
-1.150 (and other instances similar to this in the intro): Personally, I think you can get away with making this into a 4321 flam (and other varieties) to accentuate the transition.
-I actually like the fact that you didn't spam the living hell out of the jumps throughout the song. If anything, this is a better approach to it.
-Also, thank god that you cut the song. The V1 for this was too long and dragged forever lmfao.
-Aside from that, there were very minor technical flaws but that didn't hinder the fun factor of the file itself. Nice job c:

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Rules/Submission Guidelines

Below I've listed some BSE updates that have been done before the batch freeze for the rest of the year. Because I'll be taking down the current BSE site soon I'll also provide the current status of the queue a bit afterwards, and then the effort will go towards migrating to a new site.

BSE Updates before batch freeze

Song Release Updates

Metal Crusher
Spider Dance
Spear of Justice
Megalovania
Your Lies
Miss Jackson
In The Summer (Canblaster Remix)
Dreamin’ attraction!! (Extended)
Cruel Whole (Abelcain Remix) v2
Lust for Blood
Drive of Unliving Things


Regular Set Updates

Changes below are based off of 2017 Regular Batch Results.

March/April 2017 Set 2
Kindred, the Eternal Hunters => Accepted, 9
Decretum => Conditional Queue, 8.5
Almost There [Standard] => Conditional Queue, 7.5
Blue Girl on Sunday => Rejected, 6
Discord => Rejected, 5.5
Set 2 Notes

March/April 2017 Set 3
Ocean Floor => Rejected, 2
Losing My Religion => Rejected, 1
Youth of the Nation => Rejected, 0
Ever So Sweet => Rejected, 0
Set 3 Notes

March/April 2017 Set 4
Beep Beep I'm a Sheep => Accepted, 8
Moonbase 101 => Rejected, 5.5
Back of the Yards => Rejected, 4.5
See You In London => Rejected, 4
Shooter => Rejected, 1
Set 4 Notes


Conditional Queue updates

Oct 9, 2017 4:26 AM
Almost There [Standard] (XelNya) => Pending Fixes
Decretum (XelNya) => Pending Fixes
Kindred, the Eternal Hunters (XelNya) => Accepted (update)