                    Believe Readme

Created by: Balmung_of_Iraq

STATUS AS OF 12/30/04:

4 levels of difficulty (2/4/7/8/*)
BG Changes courtesy of pokegirl18 (More details below)
Made Heavy steps more paddable

STUFF THAT WOULD WORK:

SManiac Steps
The Actual Opening song.
An .avi format of the title screen.


HOW TO INSTALL THIS SONG:

Unzip this folder into whatever song directory you want. Don't bother making a folder for me!


ABOUT THIS SONG:

This is the 2nd Opening for the anime One Piece. It's also the credits song for the 2nd One Piece movie,
where I heard it first. Anyway, it's a catchy song by the JPop group "Folder5." I've been listening to it
for half a year now, and I'm still not bored with it. I also saw no other One Piece stepfiles on the net
(except for one on some site that has poorly made stepfiles). With these in mind, I've made the Second One
Piece stepfile on the net. My first release was a mess, with some step pattern mistakes, pointed out by some
Simfile mongers. Thanks to the Stepmania Editor (which I didn't use until just recently), I've not only fixed
the steps and have the song in both SM and DWI Formats, I've also thrown in some Beginner steps! Please enjoy
!


ABOUT THE STEPS:

Beginner (2): Very very easy. I took Light mode and dumbed it up.

Light (4): Also easy. It follows the beat pretty well. There are two 1/8th steps, but that's about it.

Standard (7): Now it get's interesting. 1/8th steps are much more prevalent, and there are now Gallops. There are
also more hold steps.

Heavy (8): I've always wanted to make steps like in the first part. I just never thought it would be in my first
simfile. Relax, it's very simple (at least more simple than, say, "So Deep,") and most of the steps follow either
the lyrics or the background synthesizers.


ABOUT THE BGCHANGES:

If you are running Stepmania, and have the appropriate .avi's, this Stepfile has scripted BG
 Animations.
(many thanks to pokegirl18's work on this, which beat the crap out of my original animations)
. However, I
haven't included the .avi's, unfortunately. The website that holds them isn't always completely on, and not
everyone has bittorent (including me).

Here is a list of the videos you need to look for on either 
http://ollec2004.ath.cx/simulation/bgchanges/movies.html
or on bittorent.

Highway1.avi
Sea1.avi
Sun1.avi
Heart1.avi
Heart4.avi
Balloon1.avi
Car3.avi
Star2.avi

If I can find a good website, then I'll upload them.

ABOUT PROGRAMMING THIS SONG:

I wasn't fortunate enough to get the TV edit for the song, so I had to do things the hard way and edit the mp3 until
I got it synced. It took about 3 hours to get it right. Unfortunately, after saving my work, I found out that I cut 
out and left in the wrong verses! Unlike some DWI fanatics, I didn't wanna spend another couple of hours working on 
the song, especially since it's already perfectly synced. This is why instead of calling it the "TV Edit," I called 
it the "DWI Edit."

If you have the TV edit in a CD Quality mp3, please e-mail either an mp3 or a direct link.


HOW TO HELP:

1) Let me know about steps that aren't physically possible on a pad. I didn't find any, but you might.
2) Give me the TV edit of the song.
3) Program steps for a) Challenge in Single Mode, b) All difficulties in Double, and c) all difficulties in Solo. I've
   never danced in Solo or Double mode, and I ran out of step ideas before working on Challenge.
4) Anyone want to work on the graphics? THey're kinda mateurish.




DISCLAIMER:

One Piece was created by Eiichiro Oda

Believe was written by Folder5

Dance With Intensity (DWI) was programmed by SimWolf

Stepmania was made by a bunch of guys that I forgot. You can go to their web site to see them.






CREDITS (You know who you are):

God: For all of his wonders, and for all of the below.

DWI & Stepmania: For letting us make our ultimate song collections.

Oda-sama: For making One Piece.

pokegirl18: For her excellent BGChanges.

The Car Guy: For urging me to make "Simple and Clean (Planit-B Remix)" so much that I actually IGNORED him, and worked
on several other projects instead. Sorry man, there are about 12 different versions of it online.

Neo Samurai X: For being a great friend, even if he can't DDR.

Dance Dance Revolution: For being an addictively fun game. I still play it more than most of my more recent games.

Guilty Gear X2: For something to distract me from DDR.

CONTACT: balmung_of_iraq@yahoo.co.uk