~~~Song Information~~~
Song:  I Cloned Myself For Christmas
Artist:  Neurotron 606
Album:  Code of Voice
Year:  2000


~~~Credits~~~
Steps created by:  Michaela "Miki" Lai
Contact Information:  E-mail - n3k0m1k1@yahoo.com or AIM - MichaelaLai

Original Photograph taken by:  J-Walk 
Banner and Background by:  Michaela "Miki" Lai

Special Thanks to:  
http://www.1001freefonts.com for the font Abduction II

J-Walk (http://j-walkblog.com) for taking an awesome picture that 
I used (*coughs*STOLE*coughs*) for the background and banner

Google (http://www.google.com) for finding me the photo


Programs Used:
Goldwave - To edit music, find the gap, and time the lyrics
XStep - To find the BPM and for syncing
Microsoft Paint - To create the font for the background and the banner
IrfanView - To convert the background and the banner to PNG format
Notepad - To code steps and creating the ReadMe
Nifta's DWI Step Chart Generator - To review step patterns
Microsoft Word - To spell-check the ReadMe
Dance With Intensity - To test the steps
StepMania - To test the steps and lyrics


~~~Notes on the song~~~
	Well, well.  Another song by Neurotron 606 (I Forgot To Sleep 
With You is the first).  Pretty soon I am going to run out of songs by 
him to DWI, seeing how he only had one album out.
	I actually wanted to DWI this song ever since last year's 
Christmas.  But I never got around doing it.  You know, stuff got in 
the way.  Like playing CounterStrike, or Quake3, or Halo, or whatever 
I was playing during Christmas.
	But this year I got the chance, since there is DDRUK Christmas 
Mix.  That way, there is somebody to host the file, I don't get 
buttered in the BemaniStyle Simfile section, I get pointers from the 
judges on what I did wrong or what is good about the file, everybody 
have fun, etc.  After all, it is Christmas.  It's that time of year 
where everybody have nothing to do and eat.  So I think getting out a 
Christmas Mix is a pretty good idea.  At least they get exercise.  
Regardless of what kind.
	Back to the song.  This is another one of my favorite songs 
among all 20 or so by Neurotron 606, or rather, Marcel J.  And the 
instruments used are so fitting for the holidays also.  I mean, you can 
just hear the bells.  Ding-ding-ding!  WE HAVE A WINNAR.
	As for what the song really mean, I lost track of the page on 
mp3.com where I downloaded it from.  But, if I can clone myself for 
Christmas, I know who to give my clone to.  


~~~Notes on the graphics~~~
	This is the first time I made the graphics all by myself.  So 
don't hit me for its crappiness.  Yes, you, the one with the hammer.
	If a dog is a man's best friend, his second should be Google.  
At least I found a picture through Google's image search faster than 
a dog could fetch me my dinner.
	That picture is taken by a guy named J-Walk.  No, I don't know 
who he is.  I don't think a picture of him on the banner of his website 
is going to explain who he is any better than I can.
	Anyways, so I tossed the picture into IrfanView for some 
rotating and color fixing.  That didn't take a really long time.  
However, the banner used the unedited version of the picture because 
the lights looked like lightning, and I think that fits pretty well 
for the song.  I blurred out the background because, well, it's going 
to get blurred out anyway when it's stretched to four times its original 
size.  I mean, not a lot of things look pretty when they are stretched 
out.  
	As for the font, I grabbed the first one I saw on 1001 Free 
Fonts.  Then I just filled in the bubbles and added shadows.  I made 
the shadows go all the way around instead of having it look like popping 
up like my previous fonts.  The font blends in better that way, and it 
gives the letters a slight glow.  This is all done in Paint.  The 
artist name is a self-created font.  That's why it doesn't look so 
blended or professional like the abduction font.
	Then the font and the background is put together like bread and 
cheese.  Then tossed back into IrfanView for converting it into .PNG 
format.
	The CDtitle is the leftovers from the other Neurotron 606 DWI 
I made.


~~~Notes on the steps~~~

-Beginner- 94 steps, 6 freezes, 96 max combo
	I spent a few hours on these, and they still didn't turn out 
right, so I gave up and this is what is left.  I actually coded one set
then deleted it so I could start over.
	Maybe you ask, why don't you just delete the set and have no 
beginner steps?  Well, it's pretty customary for me to put beginner 
steps in each and every DWI I make (now 4).  It's a custom.  And it's 
hard to break a habit.
	This is made by looking at the heavy stepchart then coming up 
with easier ones.  That saved me a lot more time than coding and testing 
a little at a time.

-Light- 135 steps, 2 freezes, 141 max combo
	Mm...Light butter.
	I made this set just like how I did with the beginner's.  It's 
got slightly more air than other 3 footers on Extreme, and the streams 
are awkward at times.  Definitely not my best, but I coded these last, 
and I got pretty lazy by then.

-Standard- 191 steps, 5 freezes, 213 max combo
	To tell you the truth, I hate this set.  It doesn't follow 
anything, I did it in a rush, and I stopped caring at the end.  I don't 
even remember what I put into this set.

-Heavy-
	Mm...Heavy cream.  263 steps, 1 freeze, 284 max combo
	I think this is the only reason why I even DWIed this song - 
the heavy set.  Except for the beginning, this song is all around fun.  
It's not too hard for a 7-footer, I don't think, and the break in the 
middle pretty much evens it out.  But I don't know why the max combo is 
so low though (in comparison to Standard).	


~~~A little bit about Miki - 2004 May - ~~~
	I am Michaela a.k.a. Miki.  I am right now in Sunnyvale, 
California.  I have known DDR for 4 years, starting when I have first 
played it in Hong Kong, and have been playing DWI and SM for a year or 
two.  I have only made 4 DWIs, and 2 of them were sent off for contests.
	I have started playing other bemani games as well, including 
IIDX and Drummania,   Other interests I have are origami, anime, Battle 
Royale, and occasionally some old computer games.  No, I don't play CS 
anymore.


Dedicated to Brett - I am going to dedicate a lot of things to you from 
now on.  Maybe it's just another Christmas without you.


Merry Christmas!


 - Michaela "Miki" Lai, December 7, 2004