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Updated with all edits made! I opted for rests in measures 1-8 and a tie in the final measure. Let me know if I missed anything.

Some things:

-Chords at m 13 are split between hands because they felt awkward to play with just the right hand (to me anyways)
-Not sure about the really high chords at the end, some notes might be wrong

Thanks! Now I can finally submit this.

Fixed, sorry about that.

Could someone please add a working swing command to this? Thanks! https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vec40rp4gzg8in/Main%20Plaza%20%28Night%29.mus?dl=0

Obligatory "move the beginning of the 8va over to the left a bit more" in m11.

m18 would probably appreciate a load of courtesy naturals.

Change the half notes in m3 and m7 so that they don't cut across beats (i.e. use dotted quarters).

make the last note in each LH measure a dotted half instead of a dotted quarter, and similarly eliminate the rests in the RH.

Done, done, done and done. Updated.

-Finale defaults to flipping all layer 1 notes up if there are any layer 2 notes present but that's not always what you want to do.  Since layer 2 is only really there for the start of the bar you'll want to flip a lot of the left hand stuff the normal direction.

Ah, thanks for that! I actually did have them flipped down, but the XML import must have flipped them back. Files have been updated.

Looks great, thank you!

Space Junk Galaxy part 3, anyone?

I'm having some difficulties implementing proper pedal playback in NotePad (namely pickups), and there doesn't seem to be a way to hide pedal markings for the pedal simile. If someone could help me with those things, that would be great.

Submission has been updated. Thanks for all the help, guys!

I also support using Trasdegi's Musescore template and XML formatter in https://www.ninsheetmusic.org/forum/index.php?topic=10136.0.

I just tried this, and although it seems somewhat helpful, it does not fix the main issues I usually run into with importing (articulations being messed up, fonts not translating, etc.). I will use it for all future arrangements, though.

-Normally when you have additive time signatures you have them notated as such in the time signature itself rather than as a marking.

I might agree if it was something more obscure/weird, but I think this song fits nicely into 9/8. Also, 9/8 subdivided into 4 unequal pulses is decently common as far as odd times go. I see no need to do an additive time sig here, especially since other time sigs have been notated on-site the way I did it. https://www.ninsheetmusic.org/download/pdf/3950  If it's really that big of an issue I suppose we could change it, but it looks fine to me as is.
 

-It might just be the video you linked doing something funny at the start, but I actually don't hear the first left hand note in bar 1.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. Pretty sure it's just an issue with the video, most other videos that I can find of the song do have the note in question.  I only linked the one I did because it's the highest quality version I could find.

https://www.ninsheetmusic.org/forum/index.php?topic=10136.0  -I'm not 100% convinced on the staccato pattern in the left hand bars 18 onwards.  It feels oddly specific and I can't really hear it like that in the original so it might be worth coming up with something a little more natural (like maybe all the lower notes staccato and the top ones not staccato).

It sure is oddly specific, but that's what I'm hearing. If it's too weird I can change it.

-I get that the notes are there, but some of the quaver runs of triads are a little awkward to play and it might be worth cutting some notes there for playability purposes.

Omitted some notes in measures 7, 19, 23, and 27. Submission has been updated. Let me know if I missed anything you thought was too awkward or edited something I didn't need to.

-Some of the beaming was a little off in places.  In 3+2+2+2 split the 3 group off from the rest and I wouldn't beam across groups unless you can get the whole of all of the groups you beam across.  There's also a few places in the 4/4 section where you can write crotchet tied to quaver as a dotted crotchet and similarly minim tied to crotchet as dotted minim.

I only found one instance of the first thing you said about 9/8 grouping (measure 7), but it has been fixed. As for the 4/4 stuff, if you're talking about measures 18, 21 and 26, those were all edits by Levi. I originally had them notated as dotted, but he changed them to multiple tied notes. I'm honestly not sure which is more correct, so I'll just leave them as they are for now.

If there's anything else I can do, let me know.

I apologize about the title, I thought it would be too long. Lesson learned, I suppose. Submission has been updated with the correct title and an updated .mus file with the rests and staccatos fixed. Unfortunately I can't export PDFs from NotePad, so if someone else could do that then that would be great. Also, even though you didn't mention it, thanks for fixing some of the note durations—it seems I need to check more thoroughly for those.

(Incidentally, I do use a template with correct formatting for my sheets, it just apparently breaks when converting to MusicXML.)

The soundtrack to this game has some of the best usage of the extra sound channel on the FDS that I've ever heard. The formatting in the .mus file is messed up once again due to importing from Musescore.

It looks great! The only other thing is this:

As for things you may have missed, I'm almost positive I hear a B#/C grace note in the melody's lower voice at measure 9, beat 2, and in the same spot in measure 37.

If you really just aren't hearing it then we could get someone else to weigh in, but again, I'm 99% sure it's there.