Since Legacy itself as a genre is supposed to archive how the oldest files looked like ingame, I’d like to give my experiences and input on it.
I encountered FFR back in 2005 which was actually not too long since the last blue note file. 2005 was only a year after the first colored file was put ingame (2004). The color converter still didn’t work properly back in this time period, because Balloon Fever had all pink notes, Crowdpleaser’s bursts and trills were a mess of red/yellow/etc., Grand Galop Chromatique had red note syndrome, and so on.
Shashakiro took the time to recolor Crowdpleaser and GGC from what I remember -- Grand Galop Chromatique definitely got a big fix because the original file had 37 two-frame minijack and jack placements while the current version ingame has no two-frame minijacks. I don't remember exactly when this happened, but when it did, I soon started to despise the annoying blue note colorings. Back in 2005 I didn't mind as much because there weren't many files back then (you don't even reach the 200th file until late 2006!) so it seemed normal.
The converter back in legacy times (2002-2004) also had issues; Revolutionary Etude's original file is different from the one in FFR. There was an error that converted [12] jumps into [14] jumps, so Revolutionary Etude's Anchor sections are not exactly the same. Synthlight's files were made from a .dwi recording program similar to CTRL+R in StepMania where the user taps and inserts notes into the file from whatever they pressed; needless to say, this made for plenty of offsync files. Other steppers used notepad such as Hyrogashi (who by the way did put 300 BPM 64th minijacks in Chrono Trigger on purpose).
The legacy genre is a great archive, but I got sick of legacy way back in the day. More files came in and the converters were getting fixed. FFR went through many changes. It's bad to keep legacy in the public ranks when the game has vastly improved. Of course there are files like Beethoven Virus that were way ahead of its time, but most of the files in legacy simply just are too random; they follow the erratic feel of ancient Konami DDR charts such as Make It Better.
I've taken the effort to AAA all legacy songs. It's certainly a beast to conquer, but it is better to leave legacy in token ranks so players can appreciate how much the game has changed over time. Legacy is an archive, not an inferior barrier to piss players off.
I encountered FFR back in 2005 which was actually not too long since the last blue note file. 2005 was only a year after the first colored file was put ingame (2004). The color converter still didn’t work properly back in this time period, because Balloon Fever had all pink notes, Crowdpleaser’s bursts and trills were a mess of red/yellow/etc., Grand Galop Chromatique had red note syndrome, and so on.
Shashakiro took the time to recolor Crowdpleaser and GGC from what I remember -- Grand Galop Chromatique definitely got a big fix because the original file had 37 two-frame minijack and jack placements while the current version ingame has no two-frame minijacks. I don't remember exactly when this happened, but when it did, I soon started to despise the annoying blue note colorings. Back in 2005 I didn't mind as much because there weren't many files back then (you don't even reach the 200th file until late 2006!) so it seemed normal.
The converter back in legacy times (2002-2004) also had issues; Revolutionary Etude's original file is different from the one in FFR. There was an error that converted [12] jumps into [14] jumps, so Revolutionary Etude's Anchor sections are not exactly the same. Synthlight's files were made from a .dwi recording program similar to CTRL+R in StepMania where the user taps and inserts notes into the file from whatever they pressed; needless to say, this made for plenty of offsync files. Other steppers used notepad such as Hyrogashi (who by the way did put 300 BPM 64th minijacks in Chrono Trigger on purpose).
The legacy genre is a great archive, but I got sick of legacy way back in the day. More files came in and the converters were getting fixed. FFR went through many changes. It's bad to keep legacy in the public ranks when the game has vastly improved. Of course there are files like Beethoven Virus that were way ahead of its time, but most of the files in legacy simply just are too random; they follow the erratic feel of ancient Konami DDR charts such as Make It Better.
I've taken the effort to AAA all legacy songs. It's certainly a beast to conquer, but it is better to leave legacy in token ranks so players can appreciate how much the game has changed over time. Legacy is an archive, not an inferior barrier to piss players off.
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