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Oh yeah, I forgot to do something about that. This might not be the best solution but I added a grace note chord at the beginning of the measure, and changed the notehead and stem symbols to things that appear blank to me, then pushed it left a bit. Let me know if this looks okay on your end! I also added a dash manually here through Text > Insert Hard Hyphen and pushed it left to match the other similar places (current m. 61).

This all looks good to me yeah!

Let me explore that a little bit and get back to you about that later; I don't remember myself. Everything else above has been updated though! Thanks again!

That's alright! I'll approve for now then ^^

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Awesome, I'll accept!

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Awesome, then I'm ready to approve!

[Deep Sea Bass (Coral Riff)]

Deep Sea Bass (Coral Riff)
-m1: Maybe instead of "2x" you could write "2nd time", as 2x implies "2 times". You could also just put "2nd time only" above the note and add parentheses around the notehead.
-m6: L.H. beat 2.5 should have its stem flipped (make sure the accent stays below though)
-m15 and 19: I hear Dn instead of Db in the R.H. Also, in m19, maybe you could add a courtesy accidental (maybe without parentheses) to the Bb, so the player's sure we have a Bn and Bb in one chord here.
-m23 and 27: I hear Bb instead of Bn in the R.H.

[Riptide Rupture]

Riptide Rupture
-m2: I don't think I particularly hear the 7ths in the R.H., only octaves.
-m3, 31 and 49: It feels kinda weird to have the ending note of the glissando be somewhere halfway through the bar, without indication where that beat lies exactly. According to Behind Bars, you can put a half note (or dotted half note in m31) between brackets above the bar. See the top image example at the bottom right:

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In m3 and 49, the glissando also seems to start an 8th note earlier.
-m6: I hear an Eb in the L.H. on beat 4.75: the R.H. (trumpet) does play the Db though
-m10: Same as in m6, but the trumpet seems to play C here instead. Trumpet player be trying to get that Eb and failing hard lol
-m8: I noticed the D-Eb in the R.H. in this bar before I saw your comment about some places sounding like there's an unintended note. I feel like in this part it might be intentionally unintended, similar to how the trumpet in m6 and 10 doesn't seem to get the Eb that the piano plays. I feel like it might be intentionally unintended, to make the song sound more chaotic and sloppy, but including that in the sheet might help to increase that sloppiness?
-m17 and 19: The L.H. tenths are hard for me to play at speed, and some (The Fm and Gm in m19) are too stretchy for me in general. Maybe in m17 you could make the tenths optional, or rewrite it as 3-note chords (leaving out the tenth in beat 1 and 3 and the fifth in beat 2 and 4, nice voice leading stuff), and in m19 you could move the bottom note up an octave?
-m24-26: Maybe instead of cross-staffing, you could just move the cross-staffed notes in the R.H.? It might look a bit cleaner without the tall lines crossing the bars
-m28-31: The articulations in the R.H. should be reset to its original positions (above the noteheads)

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Awesome, then I'll approve Dragon Palace!

- I can add the 8th = 8th, but I'll need the appropriate maestro font for that note to adapt to the new format

The correct font should be MaestroTimes 16pt for the notes and Times New Roman 12pt for the text. You can find the notes in Text -> Insert Symbol

Everything else looks good now though!

Yeah I see that too. Maybe swap it to custom barline and choose character #102? I did that and it fixed it/appears normal now for some reason.

Yeah that seems to work, thanks! File is updated!

- I can have it set as Dotted Quarter = 132 at the beginning and Half = 100 at m. 9, does that work?

That works yeah, though now that I think about it, maybe you could also add an 8th = 8th marking (like a metric modulation) to make sure the player knows the tempo pretty much stays the same.

- not for playability, I just felt those specific beats needed more emphasis and that if all the notes were accented, wouldn't that essentially mean none of them were? I'd like to hear your thoughts

The accents could also more of an articulation thing: seeing them all accented makes sure the player tries to play them accented too.

- grace notes sound fine with me, how's that?

That's good yeah!

- I moved some of the whole notes around. That should be playable, right?

It's definitely a bit more playable, but something like the R.H. in m21 is still on the hard side, and for example in m29 I personally can't really hold the low B for the whole measure, unless you want the player to use a pedal throughout some of these measures? If you do expect the player to be able to hold a tenth, I'd again suggest moving some B's to the L.H. instead, where the player can just use the thumb and pinky, instead of the R.H. which needs the other fingers for the melody too.

Everything else looks good though!

Man, what is with this series' music

no idea i haven't played the game but i'm here for it lol, thanks for taking a look!

• m33 RH beat 1 sounds like Dn on top for 1.0-2.0, and Eb for 2.5, and then top note for 3.0 and 3.5 is Fn. 4.0 is Eb and 4.5 Dn.

Fixed this!

• m34 RH notes 1-4 sounds like Fn on the top instead of the Eb. 5-6 hearing F# on top, but 7-8 hearing Gn and then same for 9-10, then 11-12 is G# as well as 13-14.

I think I hear something like this too, but it seems to be slowly pitch-shifting upwards anyway, just to add to the chaoticness. I raised all top notes so the starting point is correct, but I think it might be better to keep the R.H. all in half diminished chords, and imitate the chaoticness by having it rise a bit higher than it does in the original
if that makes sense

• LH m36 and similar instances of this pattern, I'm hearing the 6th note of the figure F# as Gn

I'm pretty sure that's still an F#, though in the recording it might be a little bit in-between cuz it doesn't seem to be tuned a bit weird. I hear it a whole tone below the G# at least.

• m39 RH quater note hearing G# and An

Ah yeah, on closer inspection the minor seconds before that in m39 as F-Gb (instead of E-F), and I heard Bn-Cn (instead of A#-B) in m41 beat 5

Also, for some reason there's a double barline at the end of m61, despite the measure attributes saying it is a normal one. Does this show up for you too?

Awesome, thanks!

Seems to me though it should be "Rain Code" not "RAIN CODE" for the title. Wikipedia seems to say latter and the VGMdb link also says "Master Detective Archives: Rain Code"

The title on the Nintendo site and the developer site stylize it as RAIN CODE though, so I'm not really sure what the best source is in that regard?

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Awesome, then I'll approve Seasource!

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Awesome, I'll approve!

I added some constant offbeats to match the rhythm of the snare and made them minor seconds to get the texture of the guitar. Also added some extra rhythm to the LH to vaguely match some of those record scratches and the ghost notes.

That works pretty well yeah! I think it's fine to re-beam beat 2 and 2.5 though, as un-beaming it doesn't necessarily make the rhythm much clearer.
 
The rest looks good like this though!

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Awesome, I can approve!