Level Contest 9: The Autumn Contest

h2643 · Postby **h2643** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:33 am

i want to join

HeroLinik · Postby **HeroLinik** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:50 am

Kyo wrote:And what many people misunderstood in the previous contest is that the total duration mustn't go beyond than 6 minutes, so you can't have two music files that are both 6 minutes long. Two music files that are both 3 minutes long does work, though, because the total duration is 6 minutes. I don't think it's bad if the total duration is like, seconds beyond six minutes, though.

To make it clear that it's the music tracks themselves that must not be more than 6 minutes and not the total length of all the tracks, I used 4 music tracks in my CC8 level. Each one was between 2-3 minutes long, but my level made it through to ToB7, even though the total length of all the tracks was somewhere between 8-12 minutes long.

Kyo · Postby **Kyo** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:34 pm

castlewars wrote:
Kyo wrote:And what many people misunderstood in the previous contest is that the total duration mustn't go beyond than 6 minutes, so you can't have two music files that are both 6 minutes long. Two music files that are both 3 minutes long does work, though, because the total duration is 6 minutes. I don't think it's bad if the total duration is like, seconds beyond six minutes, though.
To make it clear that it's the music tracks themselves that must not be more than 6 minutes and not the total length of all the tracks, I used 4 music tracks in my CC8 level. Each one was between 2-3 minutes long, but my level made it through to ToB7, even though the total length of all the tracks was somewhere between 8-12 minutes long.

Simply because if you were disqualified because of that, Valtteri would have to disqualify the huge amount of other users that did the same mistake which would decrease the amount of participants by at least 15.

h2643 · Postby **h2643** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:27 pm

Can my level have 3 Stars (2 SMW Stars and 1 SMB3 Star)?

Valtteri · Postby **Valtteri** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:27 pm

h2643 wrote:Can my level have 3 Stars (2 SMW Stars and 1 SMB3 Star)?

No.

HeroLinik · Postby **HeroLinik** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:31 pm

Valtteri, just to clear up the confusion about the music: what does it mean when you can't use music that goes beyond 6 minutes? Does it mean individual music tracks can't be more than 6 minutes long, or does the total length across all the music tracks have to not exceed 6 minutes?

Valtteri · Postby **Valtteri** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:34 pm

Individual songs cannot exceed 6 minutes. I don't care how many of them you put there. (Except if you put like 10 6-minute songs, then it's a problem.)

HeroLinik · Postby **HeroLinik** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:35 pm

Valtteri wrote:Individual songs cannot exceed 6 minutes. I don't care how many of them you put there. (Except if you put like 10 6-minute songs, then it's a problem.)

So I can have 3 music tracks, each 4 minutes long, and I'm not breaking any rules?

Valtteri · Postby **Valtteri** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:51 pm

castlewars wrote:
Valtteri wrote:Individual songs cannot exceed 6 minutes. I don't care how many of them you put there. (Except if you put like 10 6-minute songs, then it's a problem.)
So I can have 3 music tracks, each 4 minutes long, and I'm not breaking any rules?

Yes...

Kyo · Postby **Kyo** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:52 pm

castlewars wrote:
Valtteri wrote:Individual songs cannot exceed 6 minutes. I don't care how many of them you put there. (Except if you put like 10 6-minute songs, then it's a problem.)
So I can have 3 music tracks, each 4 minutes long, and I'm not breaking any rules?

Apparently yes, but then I don't even see the point of this rule. Why can I have two 6 minutes song but not one 8 minutes? Whatever, it's Val's job after all. I'm not participating anyway.

MistakesWereMade · Postby **MistakesWereMade** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:06 pm

Kyo wrote:
castlewars wrote:
Valtteri wrote:Individual songs cannot exceed 6 minutes. I don't care how many of them you put there. (Except if you put like 10 6-minute songs, then it's a problem.)
So I can have 3 music tracks, each 4 minutes long, and I'm not breaking any rules?
Apparently yes, but then I don't even see the point of this rule. Why can I have two 6 minutes song but not one 8 minutes? Whatever, it's Val's job after all. I'm not participating anyway.

it's pointless to have an 8 minute song because there's a 90% chance those extra 4 minutes consist of the song's loop

HeroLinik · Postby **HeroLinik** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:12 pm

Nien wrote:it's pointless to have an 8 minute song because there's a 90% chance those extra 4 minutes consist of the song's loop

What I do with custom music is download it off BrawlBRSTMs and shrink it down to about 2:30 using Audacity. That way, I can have high-quality MP3s that are not 30 minutes long.

Valtteri · Postby **Valtteri** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:22 pm

Kyo wrote:Apparently yes, but then I don't even see the point of this rule. Why can I have two 6 minutes song but not one 8 minutes? Whatever, it's Val's job after all. I'm not participating anyway.

The restriction is there because people would use 20-minute songs. While I don't want to restrict the contestants too much, I don't want to waste my time shortening extended songs so the TOB download would be so unreasonably big. The only reason a song would be over 6 minutes is that it's extended. Most of the time. Video game song loops don't go beyond that time. I know you could technically submit a level with 21 6-minute songs but that's never happened. You only ever need like three songs at best for your level anyway.

Kyo · Postby **Kyo** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:32 pm

Sounds like that would make sense. Well okay.

FanofSMBX · Postby **FanofSMBX** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:24 pm

I'm not trying to change the rule because I respect it's intention but as castlewars says he uses HIGH QUALITY MP3s. I don't think in light of people doing that you can really be filesize-conscious. It's sorta like eating 6 200 calorie Sundaes you know? It's not actually all that lean in practice.

Sux · Postby **Sux** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:39 pm

How fast... I'll try do a level for this. I'm not use my CC8 level on this, I think than Is better do a new.
Well after 2 days, graphics are done, I'll join this ( or try ) and good luck for everyone!

as303298 · Postby **as303298** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:52 pm

castlewars wrote:
Nien wrote:it's pointless to have an 8 minute song because there's a 90% chance those extra 4 minutes consist of the song's loop
What I do with custom music is download it off BrawlBRSTMs and shrink it down to about 2:30 using Audacity. That way, I can have high-quality MP3s that are not 30 minutes long.

Why shrink it to begin with. I thought you were able to download the original files the guy used to begin with

Blck_Guy · Postby **Blck_Guy** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:50 pm

So no one has really told me why this is called Level Contest 9 and has a picture as "Level Contest 9" if it is really contest number 8?

zioy · Postby **zioy** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:51 pm

Blck_Guy wrote:So no one has really told me why this is called Level Contest 9 and has a picture as "Level Contest 9" if it is really contest number 8?

This is Level Contest 9!!!

ToB is CC# -1

ToB8 is for CC9.

ToB7 was for CC8

You see the trend?

Blck_Guy · Postby **Blck_Guy** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:53 pm

KoolKat wrote:
Blck_Guy wrote:So no one has really told me why this is called Level Contest 9 and has a picture as "Level Contest 9" if it is really contest number 8?
This is Level Contest 9!!!

ToB is CC# -1

ToB8 is for CC9.

ToB7 was for CC8

You see the trend?

What is CC?