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I don't know what the limits of playability are here on NinSheetMusic, but generally the sheets don't have much over an octave, and are certainly a lot easier than a fair amount of classical pieces.

Since I've been playing classical music for a while and am an advanced pianist, sometimes I prefer a harder piece that follows along the original music better.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.  Perhaps if this site had multiple copies of the same piece in different difficulty levels, then both intermediate and advanced pianists could be satisfied.  However, if you say it should be simpler before submitting, then I can do that and leave the harder one here on the forums.

Thank you for the editing tips.  I realize that the sharps and flats are not consistent.  I merely forgot to fix those before putting this up.  I do agree that the key signature should be changed part way through, since at that point, the song goes from one theme to another.  That's one of the reasons I love the Malladus battle theme.  It's a medley of two of the games main themes.

In regards to the 10ths, I somewhat larger hands, so I can easily hit a tenth.  Some of those however, can be played using the other hand.  For example, in 29 (which maxmic480 mentioned) the top of the chord in the bass clef can be played by the right hand.  It's in the bass clef since it looks better, and it's up to the pianist to decide whether it's easier to play in the left hand or the right.

With measure 109, I realize that the notes in that chord are impossible to hit at the same time.  In this case, the top note should be played first and then the hand should quickly jump down to play the other notes.  Either the damper pedal or middle pedal can be used to sustain the higher note (I do need to put in pedal markings still).

My justification for leaving those large jumps in comes from some classical pieces I've played that have similar jumps and large chords.  In particular, Rachmaninoff's c# minor prelude, which is one of my favorite pieces to play, has some of those impossible chords that must be played in the manner I described for measure 109.

Thank you WaluigiTime64 for the styling tips.  I'll be sure to clean up the sheet some more using what you described.  I was planning to submit it once I got everything fixed up.

I've updated the piece into what may be the final version.  I added an ending that I'm feeling alright with.  I just need to run through it and the actual song side by side a few times to see if there's anything that needs to be added or changed.

I've dropped the MSCZ file into the dropbox folder.  Since NinSheetMusic uses .MUS for everything, it would be rather helpful to know how to get the formatting to look more like what everyone else is using.

I can't all the credit for the Sacred_Duet_and_Final_Battle piece.  I found these on MuseScore:

Sacred Duet

Malladus Battle

Then I took as much as I could and fit it into a piano score.  I nearly got all the parts pulled into the piano score, which is one reason why it's as difficult as it is right now.

Since I had some work done before NocturneOfShadow put his up, I decided to continue on mine as well and put it into my own personal arrangement thread also.  I did notice that NocturneOfShadow's version didn't have the Sacred Duet, which was originally requested here.  I've included that in my arrangement.

I'm fairly new to posting to the forums.  I've been using this site for a while now though.  I've been playing piano for a long time, so I'm fairly advanced.  Every now and then I will make some arrangements when I can't find what I want elsewhere, but they tend to be somewhat difficult to play due to my skill level.

Since I've been wanting to play the final battle against Malladus from Spirit Tracks for a while, I've been working on that song recently.  I noticed that a another arrangers have also been doing it and that it's been requested by a few other people, so I thought I'd post my work on it as well.  Specifically one person had asked for the Sacred Duet to be arranged into the same song as the Malladus battle.

Sacred_Duet_and_Final_Battle

I use MuseScore for arranging, so I exported to MusicXML which can be imported into Finale, as well as a typical PDF and MIDI.

[EDIT] I now have the free Finale Reader which can import MusicXML and save them as .MUS, so you won't have to worry about the importing now.

As I mentioned in another post requesting the final battle against Malladus, I've also been working on it.  Looking at yours, they're both very similar.  I put the Sacred Duet at the beginning of my version though.  I believe mine is also more difficult to play.  I don't mean to imply what you skill level as a pianist you might be, but I'm fairly advanced, so I enjoy difficult pieces.

[EDIT] I had previously put a link to my arrangement here, but I don't wish to intrude on your work, so I'm going to create my own personal arrangement thread and put the link there.

I found some sheet music for this song written out with all the parts on MuseScore.  So it's not in piano form, but now I have a starting point.  It shouldn't take too long to take what's there and work it into some decent piano sheet music.  And then a little more time to refine it to play well and sound good.  Depending how school goes (since that starts next week), I might be able to have it done in a month.

Is anyone still working on this?  I too would love to play this song.  I currently have quite a bit of free time, so if no one is currently working on it I could co it.  I'll need at least a midi file of the song, or if you have some in-progress sheets I can finish them up.