About 2 years ago, after many years of service, my beloved PS2 DDR pad finally died on me, I couldn't find a good replacement, and so I reluctantly entered the world of Stepmania. About a week later I was making my own charts. I think I may have been subconsciously avoiding Stepmania because I knew that would happen. Anyway! I've been honing my skill since then, with the idea of putting out some pad packs, but haven't really published much. What I wanted to do was to take my time and put out a pack of 100 perfectly polished charts with 4 difficulties per song, when I was good and ready. And my plan since Cohost came along was to publish here first. Well, about that...
...without further ado I am proud to present my first pad pack, 83 mostly polished anime charts, with mostly the highest-quality videos available for the music, mostly correct song information, mostly lossless audio, mostly consistent volume...entirely hot shit if I do say so myself.
The charts in this pack are designed for DDR players of all skill levels, designed for no-bar play, and designed with ergonomic flow in mind. I want to encourage a style of play where you move ya body, y'know? Not trynna blow up knees or write impossible stuff - all of these charts have been extensively tested by yours truly.
Each song has 4 difficulties, and while not every song's beginner chart is going to be suitable for absolute beginners, there's plenty in here you can try on day 1. I have taken a cue from classic DDR, and limited crossovers and 180s to hard charts only. You'll see a number of songs where the step count in the normal chart is virtually identical to the hard chart - in those cases you can expect that the hard chart is much more technical. Some examples below (pardon the scuffed videos, I don't have time to edit them).
Anyway I am excited to share all of this with you! the denizens of Cohost! For a very limited time! After this is all good and ready I'll probably publish on zIv, some time around the end of the year I imagine. Any feedback on any aspect of this is welcome.
If I have the time, I'll write up some notes on the individual charts - It's a wide range of material ranging from the early 80s to 2024's summer season. I've included a fair amount of music that makes for "bad" charts - I think that sort of thing can be very interesting and love teasing out fun charts from songs that don't seem to lend themselves to the format.
Please do note that a few of the videos are risque - for full release I'll mark those ones so people can avoid them if they're streaming/don't want to see it/etc. No time to do that now, so just consider yourself warned.
Enjoy!