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【MCM Expo London 24-25 oct 2009】 All Caramelldansen in Nine (HD)

Here are all the Caramelldansens which Dnstje and I recorded at MCM Expo last weekend, combined into one video! =D

Thanks very much to Dnstje for editing them all together, and even making dual-views for the parts where we were both recording at the same time!

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Eye was the strongest, who also carried around around a “soundcase” (sound suitcase) which Dnstje helped me to make. It was playing the music most of the times in this video.

【MCM Expo London 2009】 Okuu’s.. eh Aya’s Nuclear fusion gym thing..

So yeah, stuff happened. Thanks to Dnstje for recording and uploading it. Damn Kaguya for stealing my Sakuya. =P

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R/C Reimu Yukkuri at Abunai! 2009 [HD]

Dnstje, a friend of mine, made this remote-controlled yukkuri Reimu head, which also has a speaker for playing sound from things such as an iPhone connected to the controller. A bunch of Touhou fans formed around us, so Dnstje played some Touhou-related remixes on the yukkuri as we all chased it around the various rooms of the Abunai convention, seeing everyone’s reactions. =D

The alarms at 03:13 and 03:31 were set off by the FM transmitter (controller). xD

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Sorry for the many fast-forwarded clips, but it was VERY hard to squeeze about 25 minutes of footage down to the length of the song. I tried to completely remove the most boring parts, and I sped up the parts where it took a while for anything different to happen.

Window Light Show - In Memory Of Cirn⑨ Day

Well, I was a ⑨ and only started making this on the 8th, so it was a big effort for me to get it done and recorded before the 9th ended.

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This is an insanely rushed video of the view from outside my bedroom window. Later I intend to upload a video showing the simfile I made (and which these lights are playing) playing on StepMania, because it looks kind of insane, perhaps along with another few views of the lights from other locations.

This video is not uploaded in HD, because too many computers struggle to play HD YouTube videos (they update the picture slowly), and that’s a very bad thing for this video. Smoothness is essential here, and the picture resolution is not. ^^

Sadly, I couldn’t get it compressed and uploaded before midnight GMT (and certainly not a proper in sync version, *cough* YouTube), but we will NEVAR FORGET our little blue idiot, so I guess it’s okay. ^^ Yep, that makes no sense whatsoever. But who cares? It’s Cirno d–! Oh wait, it’s not any more.

A Day in the Sky of England [HD]

One day in June this year, I decided to do a time-lapse recording of the sky. Little did I know that the weather would turn around a full 360° to how it was when I started it. I’m not complaining, though, since I find thunderstorms awesome. However, that’s why the view shifts around so much around the lightning part - I wanted to record the lightning/thunder at its normal speed as well as it being a part of the time-lapse video, so I repositioned the camcorder to try to get a slightly better view of things.

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Thanks to my brother (Steeeven1 on YouTube) - it was him doing his own time-lapse video a couple of days ago which made me finally be bothered to edit this video which I recorded 3 months ago.

Copyright Claim From Myself, Against Myself

EDIT: Thankfully, all is back to normal now. What you read about below is what was happening until today.

Seeing as this is taking more than a few hours to resolve, I feel I should actually make a post explaining the situation regarding this.

On Monday, someone informed me of a copy of my video and suggested that I try to get YouTube to remove it. Being no stranger to the process, I sent off an email to YouTube… but shortly after, got one back telling me that my own video at been removed, due to a copyright claim from… wait for it… myself. This is not the first time which YouTube has made the exact same mistake with the exact same video - it happened on the 10th of February this year, too.

They replied to a second email I sent them, in which I explained to them that they removed the wrong video. They told me, “There has been a mistake by our system”, and said that the problem would be resolved shortly. …That was 22 hours ago. I’m not sure what their definition of “shortly” is, but in my opinion, that’s a long time to wait for the “leader in online video” to solve a problem which they caused so quickly.

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So, that’s how things currently stand. As of now, if you try to view the video, you will get a message telling you that it’s unavailable due to a copyright claim from myself. On the plus side, I’m now actually using my blog as a blog! =D

2nd Touhou Piano Medley Attempt [HD]

Well, I tried again… and failed again. xD

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I know the piano isn’t perfectly in tune, but it was the best I had access to. Plus, if it had been really good, I might not have been allowed to have the front cover off it.

By the way, the piano happened to be in a building attached to a church, so I thought there was a nice irony to starting the medley with the theme of a vampire.

StepMania Player (revision 50)

Just a few updates this time, nothing major… Here’s the usual download link.

  • More efficient memory usage.
  • “Music finishes in” (shown at the bottom of the main playback view when the events have finished being played, but the music still hasn’t finished) now always counts down in seconds, no matter what the playback rate is set to. This means the number will go higher if you set the playback rate lower.
  • Jumps, hands and quads (taps, not holds, which happen at the same time) now appear as red arrows on the scrolling arrows view to distinguish them from the yellow arrows which represent normal taps which don’t occur at the exact same time.

StepMania Player (revision 49)

Well, as always happens when I make big changes, a lot of new bugs cropped up when I released revision 48 yesterday. This update squashes all the bugs I found, including one which has been lurking since long before yesterday but which I only just discovered. Also, a little countdown to the end of the music is now shown at the bottom of the main playback view if “Allow music to finish” is ticked and the step chart has finished, but the music still hasn’t finished. Quite a lot of things in total are fixed/changed (even more than in revision 48).

You can grab the now-somewhat-more-stable version from here, as usual.

Full details on changes I made are below the page-break~

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StepMania Player + Bleeper Music Maker (”Fix” update)

Shortly after making the newest version of StepMania Player, I wanted to try it out on my brother’s computer, which runs Vista (mine runs XP), and it wouldn’t run. More worryingly, though, the “Fix DLL OCX.exe” which I include in the download, designed to fix problems just like this, also failed! So, I’ve fixed the “Fix”.

One of these “Fix” programs is included in my Bleeper Music Maker program too, and so, if anyone has been having trouble getting either that or StepMania Player to run on Vista, this may well have been the problem all along. To those people, I suggest grabbing the latest versions of the programs from their download pages [SMP/BMM] and running “Fix DLL OCX.exe” again (right-click, “Run as administrator”). I haven’t added 1 to the version numbers of the programs because it’s not actually SMP or BMM themselves which have been updated (it’s just the “Fix” programs).