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All links have been updated because during Izzys Moonshine Madness 2025 a few typos have been corrected.

UPDATE 2025-03-31:
I have pretty much completely redone the song:
* the note lengths and pitches are now much better
* the video is also suddenly high quality

it's probably the "BPM:400" that still comes from the original English version. it doesn't feel right, but I don't really want to go through and redo it yet again.

the new link is https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GgOIWjxFUyjGWZcLCX7B-5bcL4GtXNYm/view?usp=sharing

unlike 6.5 years ago I got >8200 on Hard on my first attempt, and I wasn't even trying particularly hard.

txt:
- original by IC on USDB for My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words (Album Version)
- lyric replacement + most timing by barbeque
- pitches + last bit of timing by lily

ogg source: https://princewhateverer.bandcamp.com/track/the-famous-last-herd
an instrumental exists

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LxdyLP4Mrv4KGLSPebL3kjmNSfkuy25U/view?usp=sharing

download was updated because I noticed a "Stuten Leben Schmerz" which should have been "Stuten leben Schmerz"

Piano cover of a Wasteland Wailers song that popped up in my Youtube a couple days ago. I only changed GAP and added a START, otherwise it's untouched compared to the instrumental already in the game. I don't know this song enough to tell if it's actually thet exact same pace or not, idk about the final sentence either but at least this stops people that "really like this song" from having easy sing-along options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxlbrdGw6XY

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hJxpTXPH-wZ-tV4ZwWIO74dQ1upVAF5s/view?usp=sharing

[libsoup]

My question is more so if this is the appropriate thing I should be installing?

I don't know Ubuntu enough to say if you need the -dev version or if libsoup2.4 would have been enough already (installing the -dev version should have installed it anyway). But to answer, yes you needed to install it.

And what would I need to install for Arch/Steam Deck?

Probably libsoup https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libsoup/

And maybe if this could be automatically done by the Lutris installer?

I don't know how Lutris works exactly. It does appear to have a section on required binaries needing to be present on the system https://github.com/lutris/lutris/blob/master/docs/installers.rst#requiring-additional-binaries but I don't know if that also works for libraries.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_Au9geRLgwc

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ihWIEY3D7Oy17JVy20ot1cNBS48xeMQ/view?usp=sharing

Title "Common Meter" is as it is listed in Antithology 2022 submission spreadsheet
Audio/video source: https://u.smutty.horse/mheifkyttdg.mp4

I've set the artist to fifteen.ai because there's obviously AI involved here and so that it shows up near Never Gonna Twi You Up, but idk what was actually used here.

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gngZxeTispcip6Pqcrg7kzD_OvEWNX_3/view?usp=sharing

PS I love how it's not turning the u.smutty.horse link into a link automatically (even though it has the https prefix) but it does make fifteen_ai a link automatically

Sources:
ogg+cover: https://lunaticks.bandcamp.com/track/socks
background: https://derpibooru.org/1297801

A video exists but I didn't use it:

A clean version of the cover file can be found here:
https://www.deviantart.com/darkflame75/art/Sparkly-sparkly-socks-on-ponies-with-sparkly-manes-469840608

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J2wvCPRlDzuQoh8PEnpylYGx8ytJuRWr/view?usp=sharing

the #GAP of the instrumental needs to be edited to somewhere near #GAP:16185

Updated the download link as of 2024-07-20.
Only updates were the removal of the two early chorus lines because nobody really sang them IRL, and because the song is now a little bit shorter, also changed one golden note to a normal note.

For a first chart I'd say this is pretty damn good! My first charts were terrible compared to this. There's a few easy-to-fix issues (some linebreaks aren't ideal, there's too many golden note beats, and some syllables are stuck together) but also: I'm rubbish at Prince songs and still got >3500 (Hard) on my first attempt, so there must be something done right lol.

I recommend using the actual background image without the text stuff though, from here: https://www.deviantart.com/insaheart/art/Not-Letting-Go-colaboration-with-PrinceWhatever-776182078 or https://derpibooru.org/images/3148482

[Renard]

If you're of the opinion that this isn't pony-related, I recommend asking Jamis about this song :D

I'm not entirely happy with it, but with >9600 on Normal and >6500 on Hard, it probably only requires minor tweaks.

Sources:
- Original txt by IC on USDB, but it's been heavily altered by me
- Audio: lossless CD rip converted to lossy ogg
- Video: not included because it's a raw blu-ray excerpt from the movie. A script is included which timestamps it is (on my version at least). Renard I can PM you the raw video if you need it.
- Background: https://derpibooru.org/images/1016893

An official instrumental of this song does (as far as I have found) not exist, and probably can't be officially in MLK anyway. I did find some interesting other instrumental versions, namely youtube ID's Vq-NvuLxSRg and KPMPHcdhIIc, but they're timed differently. If any of these can be released I'm willing to make the txt after the original has been quality-checked, otherwise I'll just make them after the MLK release or something because I like this song, okay?

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rBqCZxv7MfIwgL5a_6dPsYKlL2AwIxdR/view?usp=sharing

CREDITS:
ogg: converted from an actual CD and then +6dB was added. See script .sh for the exact commands. If you need a different volume adjustment let me know.
cover: cropped from https://derpibooru.org/images/924119
background: cover: https://derpibooru.org/images/1090928

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TFmcMpKpjadbpAXG11NU23zbCIvOSK0b/view?usp=sharing

NB: some really cool instrumental versions exist, eg youtube ID's C2SlqFoaf8s (orchestral) or kv86J3bV7RU (piano), but they're timed to a different version and I haven't found which version that is yet. Either way, those would require a txt with more than just a BPM adjustment, so I didn't bother for the time being. I'll only do that effort if they can be released through MLK at all.

there's a few notes (mostly the split ones) that I'm a little unsure of whether they should be split or not. also whether this is 2022 (musicbrainz says that) or 2023 (when I got the CD). but other than that: I have no regrets.

Special thanks to Batto for providing the lyrics, and Railway Dash for doing a final check on them. ogg was converted from the wav download.

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WNiNQUotQpi_sdrG_vvrkG8BX-JJPzwb/view?usp=sharing

MP3 source: Derpyfest 2022 download
TXT originally from USDB but quite intensively edited by me

An instrumental (not included) exists at youtube "SSixRsXOm90". What is included is a script to, if you "yt-dlp" it and extract the opus audio, fade that out at the proper time. For the instrumental txt you'll probably want to use around "GAP:2404".

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G-KnuPe_J_yr1ehi3JIUw82PB3C2xZQN/view?usp=sharing

txt: originally made by RustyHeadphones*. I added my name to it because the changes weren't exactly insignificant either, but feel free to take that off because Rusty did more.
ogg: "oggenc -q 6" on the wav from the Bronies At Down album
background: by adlynh https://derpibooru.org/images/875425
cover: by brianblackberry https://derpibooru.org/images/15920

An instrumental (not included in the download) exists at

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0dFxN6lNapMand you'll probably want to add/change the following tags for it:

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#PREVIEWSTART:41.031
#START:6
#END:190000
#GAP:6366
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OvHNUQFCxvDZH4OAx9Mg8aCSbyCqAU7P/view?usp=sharing

* = in RH's version, only Zecora95 sings. I'm not sure where that version came from though. Some notes are also different in this one.

txt: based on At The Gala by LardonCru, but it was heavily modified and a Duet was also added pretty much from scratch (or more precisely: modified from my made-from-scratch At The Gala duet version which I keep forgetting to post here)
mp3s: probably from some archive + instrumental from infinitydash or Senn555

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11x8C0O5wYjYPBfZV0d7MIIAEV7nJXtwx/view?usp=sharing

I'm not entirely happy with the "Rada, rada, radadadada" parts, but I'm getting over 7000 on Hard without really trying so anything past this point is probably overoptimizing it. There's also a few pitches I'm not 100% about (most of them are indicated by golden notes) but other than that it's pretty much all finished.

mp3: from Zecora's E23 album
background: photo by XetoTravels: http://meetup.bronies.de/index.php/Everfree-Encore-2023/Fotos-XetoTravels/0875
cover: crop from the background
video: from EE2023 Saturday livestream, a script to extract the relevant bit is included.
NB the video is a bit unstable in especially the first part. it is like that in the livestream.

an instrumental exists at YouTube

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Esp6bTg3m1s and will probably need a

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#GAP:510. It is not included in the download.

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EbK_33B0fLYYdjw975SWHAcBgd7wmy2E/view?usp=sharing

Mp3 + pretty much all the lyrics: Railway Dash
Also thank you Zecora95 for correcting the one or two incorrectly transcribed lyrics
Cover+background image: not included because Railway Dash explicitly forbade me from using my "suggestion" (probably rightly so)

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FVcaj0OGHzqdPGwYf4uTMR8iiaiWb4Ws/view?usp=sharing

NB: Railway Dash has also made some kind of video for this. It's huge so it's not included, ask him about it but the timings are not checked.