some odi kid 18 years ago wrote:

A candle is a pad term that receives its name from the popular nursery rhyme "Jack Be Nimble". In a candle, such as LDURDUL, the player is making many movements over a center, untouched pad, akin to "jumping over a candlestick."

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MrRubix wrote:

4. Awareness. A lot of old files get randomly posted and then they get lost in the flow of time (e.g. Ayu Trance), and it's hard to see what's all out there to amass a big collection worth talking about. Legal issues make it even tougher to get a hold of certain large packs, let alone the bandwidth issues. As a result, it doesn't facilitate common play within the community. People will post scores for songs that many others have never even heard of. It's just a generally slow process to get everyone on the same page. It's all very disjoint.

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it seems to me that, on the whole, the Stepmania community is on the decline.

Windoze wrote: *

Tue Feb 24, 2026 11:01 pm

found something very interesting: the chart is from 2009

Windoze wrote: *

Wed Feb 11, 2026 5:52 am

found out a bunch of neat stuff like the fact that red fraction was a successor forum made after a hostile takeover of smgroove (i guess this makes rfpack smgpack3... and by extension dcp smgpack4)

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Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:35 am

Windoze wrote: *

Wed Feb 11, 2026 5:52 am

found out a bunch of neat stuff like the fact that red fraction was a successor forum made after a hostile takeover of smgroove (i guess this makes rfpack smgpack3... and by extension dcp smgpack4)

web_god was one hell of a person, i was on the site trying to chat with him the day he decided to ban kommi and he gradually banned everybody else on the site over the course of the conversation
iirc red faction also got 'hacked' once in a similar fashion to akuma's letting the odi crew fuck up smgroove. the combination of that, rebirth losing credibility due to dcp2 struggles and ffr going down were what eventually led to KBO

Windoze wrote: *

Tue Feb 24, 2026 11:01 pm

was doing some investigative work trying to figure out the answer to an old question: who is あしまる/egg (rose quartz charter)?

i got the original interesting files collection download from here to get the original metadata (smo and eo archives fuck with the timestamps and stuff) and found something very interesting: the chart is from 2009

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(the .dwi indeed contains the chordjack chart, if you were wondering if this was just a case of someone creating a new chart on top of an old 2009 chart)

this is particularly interesting because i didnt really think eastern chordjack charts existed this early, always figured it was somewhere in 2010-2012 where that started. will update this post with any new developments i find related to this

edit: figured it out! so the username of this author is "まるい足跡", here is their fc2 blog: http://yudegg.web.fc2.com
unfortunately, most of their DWIs are removed from the site now (and the remaining ones seem to be index/pad charts...). traces of their old dwi collection can be seen on archive.org, including a section dedicated to "trancer's dolls", the album rose quartz comes from, but no archives of that page exist. any mediafire links i could find are also dead.

in the process of this i also found that abokado posted an AA on this chart in 2011 that isn't on their youtube: https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13992689

i also found this site which recorded scores for a dan course made by egg: https://web.archive.org/web/20081011200 ... ry-20.html. don't recognize most of the names but do recognize AFOTHER and GTR34. i also found this page which lists some of the charts https://web.archive.org/web/20080803175 ... y-427.html. download links unfortunately link to a japanese uploader site that's long gone; none of the charts are archived

edit 2: also, i found out that egg is the one that drew the background for this chart. it's even still on his blog: http://yudegg.web.fc2.com/illust/rose_quartz_a_4_2.jpg

it's also featured in this compilation of rozen maiden fanart: https://asamegraph.sakura.ne.jp/before/mtwekcmkf8.html

i also looked for a really long time to try and find if anyone has archived the rest of egg's charts anywhere... doesn't seem like it unfortunately. this youtube channel has a lot of fairly recent (2022) videos of egg's charts however, and they have a X account they actively use still, so maybe if i really wanted I could try asking for the files?

Noire wrote: *

Sun Mar 08, 2026 5:34 am

the person from the last link it's an strange one, he's been playing since 2010 aprox but their replies are strange according to AFOTHER.
I give to him abokado's death piano only to see if he can get the clear on it and he got it after that he blocked me for no reason on twitter lol.
regarding the dan courses by egg i used to have them long time ago but the hdd died last year rip...
I only recognize 3min, juspian, 34GTR, AFOTHER, Kooh, Wyld (KITUNEKOTEI).