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Sapphire bullets Bullets of pure love

requested by @giantlove !!!

original midi at https://freemidi.org/getter-27650

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@fishmech replied to your post “”:

@secondbeatsongs well the convenient thing for winamp skins, is the skin file is actually just a renamed zip, containing standard image formats, and for these freeform "modern" skins introduced in winamp 3 onwards, xml files describing what parts of the images are meant to do what function/display what info etc. older winamp skins that are confined to the standard window shapes are even simpler, cuz you just need images in a renamed zip file

@secondbeatsongs i'd reccomend starting by simply making copies of the default Classic and Modern skins that come with winamp , and just start editing off those as templates to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. and of course any modern graphics package should offer tools to create simple gradients and fake reflections and all the rest key to this particular style, you'll just need to make sure your output files are in the right sizes.

​so the good thing about this is that windows media player skins pretty much work the same way, so I'm sure I already know how, skills-wise - I made a bunch of WMP skins as a kid, so I know how to do the XML and the hover images and everything.

it's really the amorphous shiny-smooth graphics that I love so much, and that's what I desperately want to learn how to do. I want to make things that look like weird old mp3 players! I want the cluefinders laptrap aesthetic! I want to make things that look like they stepped out of a late-90s or early-00s disney channel original movie!

so yeah! code-wise and image-formatting-wise, I can do it. but unfortunately I am not good enough yet at the shiny fake reflections to make things exactly how I want.

ah well. I'll get there eventually!

also, for funsies: here are screencaps of some of the WMP skins I made back in the day:

...y'know, looking back at these, these are pretty good, considering I was 12-14 when I made all of them! I was not bad at graphic design, turns out!

and a lot of them have bonus stuff - the ones that have a picture for the play button, the picture changes into something else when you hover over them - like, in the Mythbusters one, the truck explodes, or in the ASOUE one, the eye turns into a picture of Count Olaf.

there's some fun alt text too (esp in the ASOUE one)

and if you hover over Adam and Jamie in the Mythbusters one, little speech bubbles pop up with quotes from the show

these are like! not bad for a literal twelve-year-old! I'm proud of past!me!

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Before you vanish forever, I need a list of the top 10 most smoochable shark species. Godspeed, Frank.

"Top 10 most smoochable snooziest species" is easier, but the top ones are

1. Bald Eagle

2. Golden Eagle

3. Scarlet Ibis

4. Puppy (generally)

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sigma klim buying his goofy outfit at the store

love the idea he specifically wanted a version with the woman on it and was Very Serious about it

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Lit - My Own Worst Enemy but it’s in Earthbound

same MIDI as the previous post

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I got love for you If you were born in the '80s, the '80s I've got hugs for you If you were born in the '80s, the '80s I'll do things for you If you were born in the '80s, the '80s I've got hugs for you If you were born in the '80s Yeah

original midi at https://onlinesequencer.net/4641721

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Do you gin all these up from a mid file and a soundfont or do you source the completed file from elsewhere?

basically i'm still doing mine via this method when i get around to it

Best of MIDI

the process of assembling a complete bestofmidi post, as i do it.

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team- Sky Tower by PsytroniX Started on: 18/05/09 Finished on: 03/06/09

original midi at https://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/ds/Mystery_Dungeon_-_Sky_Tower.mid