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A new set of playable songs for the piano minigame, based on music from the world of FF7

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Refresh your set list at the piano minigame with 6 new songs! This pack of new minigame songs is based on in-world music from Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth. The new songs replace the 6 songs that can be collected from the 6 pianos around the world, making it a perfect way to change up your next playthrough or graduate to a tougher challenge than the standard songs. 

  • Stamp's theme - found at the Crow's Nest inside CAS Basecamp. Replaces "On Our Way"
  • Rufus' Inauguration Parade - found at the Royal Coast Hotel in Costa Del Sol. Replaces Tifa's Theme
  • Welcome to Gold Saucer - found at the Rock Bottom bar in North Corel. Replaces Barret's Theme
  • New Merc in Town - found in the music house in Gongaga Village. Replaces "Cinco De Chocobo"
  • Loveless Symphony - found in the Syldra Inn at Cosmo Canyon vale. Replaces "Two Legs? Nothing to it"
  • No Promises to Keep - found at the Nibelheim treatment center. Replaces Aerith's Theme.


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These songs are more of a challenge than most of the standard songs, but there is a variety of difficulty within them. I provided some optional extras that will change the minigame scoring info in several possible ways:
  • Fast Streaks - your note streak determines how much embellishment you hear in the backing track. I already shortened the streaks in my songs compared to the standard ones so that you can reach the max streak quickly and hear all the embellishments, but this optional extra file will get you to to the max streak after just 2 notes.
  • No Metronome - The metronome is baked into the lowest embellishment backing track, so the metronome normally comes back if you break your note streak two times. This optional extra file will take the metronome track out after 1 hit and prevent it from ever coming back for the rest of the song. Having the metronome on at the very start is useful since some songs need a count-in.
  • Easier scoring - you have to get a "great" on every note of the entire song to get a perect score. This optional addon lowers the score requirements for all ranks, making it a bit easier to achieve each rank and allowing a pefect score even with  3 missed notes.
  • Always Win - this optional extra will give you a perfect rank as long as you hit at least 1 note.
  • Nightmare Mode - The notation allows "grouping" of notes to a single input, which means not every single note you play requires an input - unless you use this optional extra file, which makes every note including some very fast runs, trills, and arpeggios to require inputs separately. The score ranks have been adjusted as well, and so you will not pass... probably.
Each of the above options modify the same file, so they can't be used at the same time.
  • Silence crowds - this optional extra file silences the crowd noise in the Rock Bottom bar and Syldra inn. I used this when I recorded my preview videos above, and it's available to download if you want to silence the crowd noise when you're trying to play piano.

All the piano versions of these songs in this mod were arranged and produced by me. There is a soundtrack version of these songs available as well, so you can listen to them with higher quality samples and better timing than I was able to hit in the preview videos. 

This mod as been a monumental effort that I started before the PC port was even out. I had to create scripts to convert MIDI into arrays used by the minigame and deal with more issues than I could count over the months of making this mod, so if you read this far in the description, I would really appreciate if you gave the mod a try and let me know your thoughts, and share this mod with others. A special acknowledgement is due to Yoraiz0r and YIIS over on the FF7R Discord for helping me squash a bug with BGM playback by building an alternate version of AudioMog for me. Without them, this mod wouldn't have made it to completion.

Any feedback, issues, requests, appreciation, or criticism is welcome in the posts tab. Please report bugs using the bugs tab, but for game-crashing bugs, do please check if it happens every time. I will be adding a few extras soon so let me know if you have any ideas related to difficulty, backing tracks, metronome, and things of that sort.

I would love to read your appreciation or criticism on the posts tab. Please remember this is only a mod, and you don't have to install it if you don't like it. My re-scores aren't intended to disparage the replaced music or composers. I sometimes replace music I don't like, and I also sometimes just want a fresh alternative to something I do like, just like any other mod. 

Check out my other re-scores