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This was in the request forum, not sure if there is any special criteria for submitting these kind of things

Hey, no worries! It's a legitimate point with merit. That said, this comes up every so often; let me explain:
There's more discussion around this post that refers to MuseScore, but can be similarly adapted to other notation softwares. Basically, there's nothing we have against Sibelius specifically. It's not just the appearance of the scores that we try and keep uniform, it's the way they're stored and maintained.

Of course, we understand people use other notation softwares and we welcome new arrangers regardless (we don't judge, great arrangements are great arrangements!). As such, we'll always be around to help you convert an arrangement into Finale form for submission.

Thank you for the info regarding this. I appreciate it a lot! And if that is the case, I need someone to take the .xml file for my arrangement of "Deep Castle" and convert it/fix it to a .mus file.

I've only been on the forums for a very short time so I'm probably not going to have a very powerful say in the matter, but here are my suggestions.

Something that I would be very grateful for is the combined integration of both Finale and Sibelius files for uploading scores. I'm not including free programs like Musescore or Flat.io because they aren't coming from anyone's pocket, whereas Finale and Sibelius are both professional programs that cost a hefty amount. I understand your guys' aim for unanimity with the appearance of your scores but it would be great if you could include the PDF's made from Sibelius files. They don't look all that different from Finale files if you know what you're doing (and if you spend several hundred dollars on Sibelius, you know how to use it). I may be completely oblivious to it, but I genuinely don't see the issue with this; people like me want to share their scores but not being able to because of this barrier of the two programs. I also understand that it isn't hard to ask for someone to convert the files and tidy them up for us but, it makes me feel that I'm not qualified to produce scores myself in an effective manner although I am just as qualified.

In place of the ".mus" option, why not have a ".sib and/or .mus" option instead? It would be super helpful to people like me who have spent hundreds of dollars on Sibelius. Yes, it would mean having to add another button to both the submissions panel and the webpage but it would make it so much more accessible for the population of Sibelius users.

I really want to contribute to the site, and I feel like I have the skills to supply well put together and accurate sheets, but having the barrier of Finale and Sibelius makes is very difficult to maintain your standards.

Please forgive me if I sounded rude or obnoxious, but if I had've known the world would be so displeased with Sibelius users, I never would have purchased it to begin with.

Welp, there goes all my good karma on this site. Forgive me. 

I've changed all the fonts (most of the font sizes were correct to begin with. I'm assuming it was a conversion error.), and I'm going to keep the chord markings because they aren't hurting anything. Besides, if people want to use my score for whatever, it helps a lot to have the chords marked in especially if you play guitar or bass or don't know how to determine the chords yourself.

The only think I cannot do is satisfy the .mus file. :/

(I'm going to write a post in the suggestions forum to discuss the Sibelius/Finale barrier)

I sent my score in to one of my friends who owns Finale and she has converted it into a Finale PDF file, so that solves that issue. Are there any other criteria I may have missed and/or need to fix before my arrangement can be considered?

Thank you! I hope to hear some news on this soon!

So I have made some changes to the sheet:

- Changed the title from "DEEP CASTLE" to "Deep Castle" and the subtitle from "From MARIO & LUIGI: BOWSER'S INSIDE STORY" to "From Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story"

- I decided against changing the R.H. in Piano 1 to 8th notes and 16th notes simply because it made it look way to confusing to read so instead I decided to make the echo in small, bracket notes with the instruction to play them quieter. It looks much better and accomplished the same thing.

- I also messed around with the notation in measure 19 (Piano 1 R.H.) and it sounds much better.

- Added some more text explaining how sections should be played (ie. quasi Harpsichord and quasi Celeste etc.)

Thank you for your suggestions!

Thank you for the welcome! I appreciate it.

I wasn't too sure about the all caps title, its just a habit I got into after making so many concert band and orchestra scores haha. I just think that "Deep Castle" doesn't look as nice as "DEEP CASTLE" on paper. That being said however, it is a very easy fix.

I agree with the rhythm dependencies in the R.H. of Piano 1. I feel like it would make more sense to have it written in 8th notes + 16th notes in unison and I think that I may change that.

Also the notes in Piano 1 at measure 19 are a little off and will be something I'll look at more (I may have made an error and never caught it lol)

Thank you for your input!

I should probably firstly state that I don't use Finale, I use Sibelius for my scores (I just like the way it looks and works better) so I apologize for the potentially crude .mus file. I did a conversion of a .xml file using Finale NotePad. I really hope to hear some feed back on this. I've been working on it for a while