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Alright, I've made some alterations according to the feedback and uploaded the updated files. I believe the formatting is 1:1 with the template file from the linked thread, but please let me know if I am missing anything else.

Funny enough, I upgraded to Finale 27 and the note scrunching thing from doing the time signature change was resolved. I don't know what was causing it in the first place, but I'm glad to say the least.

I think the file template that you are using is a tad old, the current template and formatting guide can be found here. We are attempting to keep a visual consistency across the different sheets that are submitted to the site, so copying over your work to this template will help with that.

Explain, please. I literally downloaded the musx file from that post and made sure each text body was the correct font, size, and orientation.

• I counted the tempo to be slightly slower at q=110.

No offense but I feel like this is extremely pedantic. It is marked circa 112, after all. Doesn't seem worthwhile to nitpick over a 2 BPM difference.

"Marching" is fine as a tempo text, but I would again reference the formatting guidelines for how the tempo appears.

So... is that what's off about the formatting then? The number is not supposed to be size 14 bold, enclosed in parentheses, but rather open in size 12, unbolded font? That's the only discrepancy I see with the formatting between the score and the template. Is there anything else I'm missing regarding formatting? Too easy for me to overlook these things.

Time signature wise, this is definitely going to work better in 4/4. For identifying this, I would suggest looking at how writing this in 2/4 splits the melody at m9 between it and m10.

Funnily enough, I originally had it in common time and second guessed myself halfway through.... Unfortunately, rebarring is not as simple as that, as whenever I try to rebar the whole thing, it scrunches up the notes really close. https://i.imgur.com/edujcap.png

It looks terrible. Even rebarring only two measures at a time screws up the spacing, so idk. There might be some advanced setting I'm overlooking but everything I've tried doesn't work. Curiously, only page view is affected, rebarring looks fine in scroll view. Unfortunately, that's not what I need. Idk, probably will just be easier and faster to simply rewrite it in 4/4. Yay.

Generally, you do not need to assign a dynamic for each staff if they are the same; the starting forte dynamic is fine so m4 doesn't need that under the Bn.

Interesting. I don't typically focus on writing for piano, so it just seemed weird to have a staff with an unassigned dynamic, even if it was a tad redundant given that it's the same instrument lol. But you're right, going through my piano books that's how it usually is.

from the m9 on when the main melody comes in, it sounds like there are some measures where the chord notes beneath the melody are not present in the original [...] (ex. current m9 there should be no notes under the RH melody)

Composer's instinct kicked in I guess, lol. Alright, I'll take those out.

and some measures where they are in the original but are not currently written in.

Where?

I think you could add staccatos to most of the accompaniment part (LH) notes; it might seem a little silly as a reference, but if you compare the sound of Finale's playback to the original song, you'll notice the notes in the original sound shorter than what is currently present. I'd suggest also you could look into utilizing the term "simile" (found in the expression tool), meaning similar to indicate each note in measures beyond this text also is staccatoed. You could then hide most of the staccatos for the LH.

Yeah, wasn't really sure how much I wanted to ornament the left hand. But that's a good idea. I'll also add that I've been using Finale for well over a decade, so I'm pretty familiar with its features.

Anyway, thanks for the response, I'll make adjustments accordingly.

Hello. I've perused this site for many years, though this marks my first submission. To be honest, I don't see myself doing very many VGM arrangements for awhile, as I have other non-VGM music projects that I really should be working on instead. However, I played through this game over the weekend and this song has been stuck in my head ever since, so I felt the need to write it down to get it out of my system, so to speak.

Anyway, thanks for the consideration.