Ace Of Arrows Simfiles

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About Twitch & Myself Real Quick

I don't only exist here. Actually, I primarily exist over on Twitch, where I am a broadcasting personality with my own channel, where I stream regularly. (I also post on Twitter.) I am a variety streamer, best-known for speedrunning Mario 3 and doing various things (still including dance game play) on my dance pad.

My most recent work is found below on this very page, just scroll down a bit.

Welcome to AOAS!

Introduction

What's the deal here?
I was you call a "stepartist," which means I write arrow charts for songs, so you can play them on-foot with StepMania, or on an ITG2 cabinet. (If you want keyboard charts, you're totally in the wrong place altogether.)

Goals
I was dedicated to 3 main concepts:

* Friendliness to players of all skill levels.
My main packs' focus is songs containing all 5 difficulty levels, so that even newbies can enjoy my work.

* Sensible charts.
My hope is not to write crappy charts. If I decide one of my simfiles is trash, I rewrite it.

* Fun charts.
Perhaps the primary goal, my charts, even the harder ones, are fun to play.

Discord

Are you totally new to StepMania and need to get yourself started?
It's best to check out the StepMania Stuff page to get the game itself first.
It would then do you well to visit the How-To Page to learn how arrow-based rhythm games work.

I have retired as a stepartist.
You can view my retirement statement here.
I retired on August 15th, 2021.
The site is unlikely to see any updates so long as I remain retired.
Will I come out of retirement again? Only time, and the return of love and support, can determine that.

Current Archives Megapack & Preview Packs
(Check out my best, or any available previews!)

Current Archives Release

Ace's Archives of Awesome Arrows
(Volume 20 Iteration)
Get It From: [Google Drive] [MediaFire]
The Best of Volumes 1 to 20
(August 2021 // 100 Songs // 1.58 GB // Which Songs)

This pack contains a mix of songs from all my standard packs.
It is specifically designed for tournaments, events,
or people who don't want 100% of everything I've ever written.

If you already had a previous Archives iteration,
you replace it entirely with any new version that comes out.

Standard Pack Releases
(Get my standard packs here.)

Latest Standard Pack Release

Volume 20: Memes, Dreams, and Electric Guitars
Get It From: [Google Drive] [MediaFire ]
Latest Standard Pack
(August 2021 // 8 Songs // 44.2 MB)

Previous Standard Pack Releases

The Gospel of Rhythm (Vo. 19) <2020>
Strength Through Unity (Vol. 18) <2020>
The Sky's The Limit (Vol. 17) <2020>
Full Circle (Vol. 16) <2019>
A Gift from Ace with Love (Vol. 15) <2018>
The Definition of Fun (Vol. 14) <2018>
One for Love and Love for All (Vol. 13) <2014>
Unstoppable Love Power (Vol. 12) <2013>
Dawn of a New Age (Vol. 11) <2013>
Reaffirmation (Vol. 10) <2012>
Heartful Transition (Vol. 09) <2011>
Deceived by Adoration (Vol. 08) <2011>
Just Another Lovely Day (Vol. 07) <2011>
Blunt Honesty (Vol. 06) <2011>
Love is Contagious (Vol. 05) <2010>
Tough Love (Vol. 04) <2010>
My Heart, Your Arrows (Vol. 03) <2010>
Kickin' It Old-School (Vol. 02) <2009>
Gear Up! (Vol. 01) <2008>

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Special Notes About Zenius Downloads
Although Zenius is fantastic for acting as an archive (the primary reason I'm uploading there), it has very strict limits on file types and sizes.

* Pack banners on Zenius must be DDR standard 256x80. This is not the resolution I use, which is ITG standard 418x164, but I had to make Zenius pack banners, or there wouldn't be pack banners there.

* Due to file type/size constraints, some nonessential files such as videos/BGs may be missing entirely from the Zenius version of my packs. I'm not resizing a bazillion things for them.

For these reasons, I don't generally recommend downloading my packs from Zenius unless you've got awful internet and/or don't care if you don't get everything.

Latest Singles Megapack Release

Ace Of Arrows Singles: Memoirs
Get It From: [Google Drive] [MediaFire]
Best Singles I've Ever Produced as of Volume 20
(August 2021 // 54 Songs // 566 MB)

Singles are simfiles with only one stepchart.
This pack consists of the best Singles I've made, complete with
new banners for this release.

When a new iteration comes out, you replace the old pack entirely!
Memoirs is the current iteration of my Singles pack.

You do not need to have any singles packs by any other surname!
These surnames are those of OUTDATED singles packs:
Simply Splendid Steps (July 2019)
Wholehearted Choreography (June 2014)
Taller When Determined (November 2013)
Aiming for Your Heart (October 2010)
Heart and Soul in Arrows (May 2010)
Songs to Stir the Soul (October 2009)

Site Last Updated
September 20th, 2021

News

September 20, 2021
* [Fix] Changed sharing permissions on the Google Drive link for pack 20. Not sure how that ended up not having proper sharing permission; it does now.

September 10, 2021
Yes I'm still retired, but I can't just sit idly by when I know my pack releases have stuff in them that must be fixed; such things must be fixed for the sake of anyone discovering my work down the line.
* [Fix] Pack 20 has received mandatory fixes.  Two things were wrong:
-> "Ring! Dong! Dang!" had an extra arrow in the middle of a 16th run on Expert, creating a jump that was not supposed to be there.
-> "Lonely Storm" gained a necessary Display BPM.
* [Fix] The Archives pack and the starter bundles are updated.  Unfortunately, both of the above songs were in the Archives pack, and thus also the with-songs starter bundle, so those had to be re-uploaded as well.

August 15, 2021
* [Info] I have retired as a stepartist.  I explain all my reasons thoroughly in my retirement announcement here. While I suppose technically anything is possible, as I write this sentence, I don't presently see myself coming back from retirement. This site is likely to see no further updates past today.
* [Update] The starter bundles have been updated.
* [Update] The PrismRhythm theme has been updated to version 17.
* [Update] The Volume 20 iteration of the Archives pack is available.
* [Release] The Volume 20 iteration of my Singles pack, now called "Memoirs," is released.
* [Release] Volume 20: "Memes, Dreams, and Electric Guitars" is released.

February 12, 2021
* [Update] The starter bundles are updated to correctly include AI.ini. No other changes were made to the bundles; they still otherwise include exactly what they did before the fix.

February 11, 2021
* [Fix] Apparently, I forgot something in the starter bundles: the CPU player AI file (AI.ini), which the game needs for the demo loop and CPU auto-play as much as it needs it for Battle Mode. The file is separately available on the StepMania Stuff page. I'll re-upload the starter bundles as wholes later in the next few days.

December 8, 2020
* [Update] The starter bundles have both been updated.
* [Release] The Volume 19 iteration of the Archives pack is now available. Naturally, this means it has some songs from pack 19 in it.

December 1, 2020
* [Release] Volume 19: The Gospel of Rhythm is released! As usual, please give a few days to a week or so for me to make Archives pack decisions; whenever that happens, you'll know, 'cause the Archives pack and the Starter Bundles will all get updated and I'll announce it.

November 20, 2020
* [Update] Pack 18 has been updated to include all of its content, which means the primary pack download now has:
-> Tech Lab <DLC Song>
-> a fix for Step! <audio file was wonky>
The new download is marked as having these things. (I actually remembered to update the My Simfiles page links this time too!)
* [Release] The PrismRhythm 16 theme is released; see the StepMania Stuff page. (Note that the full starter bundles still come with 15-RT; they will be updated to version 16 once pack 19 is done and the Archives pack gets updated.)

September 27, 2020
* [Info] Pack 19 is ready for charting! If you love my work, track progress here.  Some of the work may happen on my Twitch channel on-stream (see above - directly below the site banner - for the link to my channel).

Update (September 8, 2020)
* [Info] I know what the news item below says. (I wrote it, I was there at the time, and it was accurate to how I felt at said time.) Since that time, I have discovered that I have both fans that I didn't realize I had, and ideas, too. So I want you to know that pack 19 will be a reality, and I'm putting together the song list. I don't usually announce a new pack will exist before I have a solid idea what it's going to be like, but I wanted this info out there to clear the air. So yeah, details will be forthcoming once I have any real clue myself what all will be in the pack and thus what its theme and name may be.
* [Fix] Pack 15 links on the My Simfiles page have been fixed (evidently, I forgot to update them when I put out the Definitive Edition of the pack). The main page links were still working; I need to start remembering to actually update links in places that aren't the front page.

Special Statement (July 20, 2020)
* [Info] Just so you know, this could be the last update for a very long time, if ever. I want to be transparent and concise about the reasoning. It has nothing to do with the Mega ban. And, although my work certainly hasn't been very popular outside the few people in my own little community who care, that's only part of it (and no longer even the biggest part), not the whole story. Mostly, it's actually that for the last few packs, I've slowly been running out of ideas for songs I want to attempt to chart, and now I'm actually pretty much out. Even if I suddenly got really popular and could see it was an obviously good idea to make a 19th pack, sitting here today as things are, I would not know what to tell huge fans. I absolutely want this much to be very clear: I still love this game, and I still want to chart. But I'm practically out of stuff I know I want to chart, and I have, as far as I'm aware, mostly been charting for a very small subset of people all this time, so I don't have the motivation I used to. So, is this a retirement statement? Could be, I don't know - It's always impossible to know for sure at the time. I wasn't sure when pack 17 was done, either, but I wasn't out of ideas then. I am now. So it's possible. As with anything you love, there's no way to know for sure until you wake up one day and go "gee, I haven't done this in a very long while." So could pack 19 eventually be a reality? Perhaps. If I get some notable traction with people who really want me to chart and I figure out some new ideas, anything's possible. Maybe we are fated to cross paths again - or perhaps fated not to. We'll see what RNG life tosses at me.

July 20, 2020
* [Release] The new iteration of the Archives pack is done and available.  Remember that if you had an older iteration (the Volume 17 or 16 iteration, for example), you completely REPLACE the old version with the new one.
* [Info] As a result of the above, the With-Songs Starter Bundle has been updated.

June 30, 2020
* [Release] Volume 18: Strength Through Unity is released! Expect a new iteration of the Archives pack in the next week or two (which also means updated Starter Bundles).
* [Info] While attempting to do work to prepare for pack 18's release uploads, I discovered that my Mega account has been banned; I have thus been forced to remove all Mega links from my website. I'm sorry if this causes anyone any inconvenience; however, I refuse to re-upload all of my packs and probably other stuff to a new Mega account if I cannot trust it won't also get banned.

May 5, 2020
* [Info] My more recent packs (14-17) are now placed in the quasi-official ITG Packs Release Spreadsheet that a non-trivial number of people now use to locate simfiles to play, alongside a very fair number of my older packs. I am hoping this increases my exposure and allows my simfiles to reach more of my intended demographic!

January 22, 2020
* [Fix] Pack 17 just saw an emergency fix, which are live now:
-> Ai Like Hamburger had a placeholder arrow near the beginning of the song for video syncing purposes that should NOT have stayed there. This had to be deleted. If you downloaded my pack in its first few days, you need to get it again or grab the SM file.

January 19, 2020
* [Info] Just saying that unless there's anything that comes up, it's possible this is the last update for a while, only because there isn't anything still outstanding that I need to do for this website or any of its content. The next likely announcement will probably be that I've figured out what I want to do with pack 18, whenever that is. For now though, things seem good!
* [Update] I've updated the With-Songs Starter Bundle to reflect the update in the Archives pack.
* [Update] I've updated the Archives pack to include top picks from volume 17. The linked songlist should accurately reflect the new additions, and the axes made to make the necessary space for them.
* [Release] Released Ace Of Arrows Volume 17: The Sky's The Limit! Don't let anyone tell you not to do the things you love. Face obstacles head-on and let no one stop you.

January 7, 2020
* [Info] Pack 17 is being worked on. It's nearly half-done. In fact, it's going so fast there isn't going to be a preview released (public or private).

* [Fix] Pack 16 just saw two fixes, which are live now:
-> Love is Real had a double-step near the end of Hard that was fixed. Nothing score-changing is different; arrows were jockeyed around to fix the issue.
-> Yume to Tsuki had a hold on Hard where there should have been a roll in that location. Again, nothing score-changing, the tail was merely changed from a hold to a roll.

When downloading, look for the "[with LiR & YtT Fixes]" designation in the zip's filename to be sure you have the iteration that has these fixes.

These fixes will be present in the next Archives iteration once pack 17 is done if either song ends up being present in that pack at that time.