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SUPERBEAT XONiC Trophy Guide

Roadmap

Stage 1: Let's TOUR Delete

The best place to start XONiC is likely the World Tour mode. After selecting your difficulty from options menu (see the companion guide here for differences between the settings), open World Tour to be prompted by the tutorial. You can choose whether or not to play it, although it makes no difference (you'll be forced to replay it later for a trophy).

Start by playing through all the World Tour missions that you can. Make sure to set the speed to about x3.5, and upon unlocking DJ Icons, check the BACKSTAGE area infrequently in order to equip them. Aim for icons that give high EXP bonuses, or, if you're struggling with missions that have BREAK requirements, high Shield values. You may have to replay World Tour missions in order to level up enough to unlock the next set, so feel free to experiment with Stage Mode if you get bored.

Trophies you should work towards in Stage 1

PERFECT GAME
PERFECT PLAY ACHIEVED
SUPER COMBO
ALL COMBO ACHIVED
DON'T GIVE UP
MISSION FAILED IN WORLD TOUR
50 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 50 ACHIEVED
WANNA BE DJ
DJ ICON 10% ACHIEVED
THE BEGINNER
DJ LEVEL 2 ACHIEVED

Stage 2: Let's PRACTICE Delete

Eventually, World Tour is going to get difficult. Very difficult. At this point, it's recommended that you switch to stage mode, and working towards the ALL ROUND PLAYER trophy. It's specifically recommended that you unlock the 6TRAX charts of songs Voodoo Gooroo, MATADOR, March of Fear, STARGAZER, and Dimension Detonator for Free Style play, as they're featured in one of the game's most challenging missions, and require practicing in order to pass. Similarly, unlock the 6TRAX FX charts of Heavy Day~Guilty Gear Xrd, Voodoo Gooroo, Dimension Detonator, STARGAZER, and Souls of Vampire~Extended for two other missions.

World Tour Area 13, the KAMASUTRA club, has the mission 6 Eleven. For this mission, you'll have to clear the five aforementioned 6TRAX charts in a row, with an overall accuracy rating of 95%. Thus, you'll want to practice each song individually in Free Style mode, until you can consistently achieve a 94-96% accuracy on them. Thankfully, despite the game's description of it, restarting a mission in World Tour only restarts from the song you're currently on. When attempting 6 Eleven, use this to restart bad runs of songs until you're satisfied with how they went.

On my successful run of 6 Eleven, I scored 71,850 in stage 1, 142,050 in stage 2, 199,150 in stage 3, 266,050 in stage 4, and 340,200 in stage 5. This was a little high (a repeat run passed at 338,000).

Trophies you should work towards in Stage 2

HALF LIFE
DJ LEVEL 50 ACHIEVED
HARD TOUR
FIRST UNLOCK HARD CLUB IN WORLD TOUR
100 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 100 ACHIEVED
SOUNDS GREAT
KEY SOUND 50% ACHIEVED
FX LICENSE
6TRAX FX CLEARED
NORMALIZER
6TRAX CLEARED
WARM UP
4TRAX CLEARED

Stage 3: Let's SECRET TOUR Delete

After completing all 42 standard missions in World Tour mode, an additional 15th area will unlock: SUPER XONiC. Home to the hardest missions in the game, SUPER XONiC's EASY mission is the reason I recommended unlocking those 6TRAX FX charts in Stage 2. You'll want to practice those charts until you can consistently score 90% or higher on them in Free Style mode.

The EASY mission of SUPER XONiC also includes an EXTRA chart of Bang Bang Groove. This chart's interesting in that it's entirely consistent of parallel notes (i.e. every note on the left is mirrored on the right). The mission itself requires that you earn an overall accuracy of 90% or higher across all 5 songs. While difficult, this mission is arguably easier than 6 Eleven.

The NORMAL mission of SUPER XONiC is made up of 3 EXTRA charts, requiring a 95%+ accuracy. The first chart, Nodding Hawk, has no regular notes - only FX and analog ones. Nodding Hawk is the easiest chart of this mission - I scored 58,350 on my successful run of it. Aztec Groove's chart is harder, and I scored 129,800 total on it. The final chart, 5.1.5.0., is easily the hardest of the lot. On my successful run, I scored a total of 213,850 for it. This mission is aptly titled XONiC Master, as it's likely the hardest in the game.

The HARD mission of SUPER XONiC features Souls of Vampire~Extended 6TRAX FX with the GHOST effector, and an accuracy requirement of 95%. This is a very difficult mission, and you'll want to practice the song in Free Style beforehand. Consider playing Souls of Vampire~Extended's 6TRAX chart as well as the two separate 6TRAX FX charts of the song to get a better knowledge of its chart.

Trophies you should work towards in Stage 3

XONiC MAESTRO
DJ LEVEL 99 ACHIEVED
PERFECT DJ
DJ ICON 100% ACHIEVED
PERFECT SOUND
KEY SOUND 100% ACHIEVED
BANG VOX
KEY SOUND 'Bang Vox' ACHIEVED
DOG BITE
KEY SOUND 'Dog Bite' ACHIEVED
NEED MORE DJ
DJ ICON CHANGED 20 OR MORE

Stage 4: Let's CLEAN UP Delete

Now that World Tour is complete, and the hardest trophies of the game have been unlocked, it's time to clean up the trophies you've missed.

Earn the Master/Superior/Expert DJ trophies by completing Stage Mode for each button setting with an average accuracy of 98% or higher (S⁺⁺).
Using a DJ Icon with a high Shield value, play high-combo songs in Free Style until your combo hits 99999. Peach Fuzz 6TRAX is suggested. For other potential songs, check out the song/combo table in my companion guide.
Complete any song with your HP below 10%, but without failing the song.
If you haven't already, set the difficulty to HARD and try any song or mission.
If you haven't already, fail any song or mission three times in a row.
Play any songs in Stage Mode that are lacking a high-score until you've completed all charts.
If you're still not Level 99, equip the +500% EXP item, awarded for clearing the final mission in World Tour.
Play songs at your own leisure until you've amassed a total playcount of 1000.

Trophies you should work towards in Stage 4

THE SUPERBEAT
ALL TROPHIES ACQUIRED
1000 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 1000 ACHIEVED
ALL ROUND PLAYER
ALL PATTERNS CLEARED FOR ALL SONGS
MASTER COMBO
99999 COMBO ACHIEVED
MASTER DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 6TRAX FX
SUPERIOR DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 6TRAX
EXPERT DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 4TRAX
LIVING DEAD
CLEARED WITH 10% POWER GAUGE
LIFE IS PRACTICE
COMPLETED TUTORIAL 5 TIMES
F MAN
STAGE FAILED IN STAGE MODES
LUCKY SEVEN
BREAK 7 CLEAR
OTL
3 CONSECUTIVE GAME OVERS
ALMOST PERFECT
BREAK 1 CLEAR
HARD LIFE
DIFFICULTY HARD GAME START

Beginner's Tips & Strategies

Here are some gameplay tips for those new to SUPERBEAT: XONiC, or otherwise unfamiliar with rhythm games.

Speed

XONiC lets you choose your scroll speed. Values are 0.5-5.0, in increments of 0.5.

It's strongly recommended that you play at x3.5 speed, and become very familiar with it. x3.0 is also fine, but might make a few of the later World Tour missions harder, and x4.0 is also fine, but a bit too fast for first-time song reads in my opinion. Thing is, like with DJMax, a somewhat high scroll speed is helpful - by spacing the notes out further, it's easier to see the rhythm of the song, easier to break the song down into digestible chunks, easier to recognize familiar patterns, and helps avoid notes cluttering, which can overwhelm your brain in quick songs.

That said, putting the speed to x0.5 is fine for the Fade In missions in World Tour (not Fade Out; those are easier with high speeds), and the Flicker 1 mission with H.O.W.ling in KAMASUTRA had me lowering the speed to x2.5.
In short, play on x3.0 or x3.5.

Controls

There's been a range of opinions with players and reviewers regarding whether or not XONiC is easier with touch controls. Here's my take: touch controls can ease players who aren't familiar with the DJMax-style button mapping into the game, and it makes the swipe/drag notes seem less confusing at first, but touch controls also have a much lower skill ceiling.

You almost certainly will not be able to complete the later World Tour missions with touch controls. Similarly, they make the EXTRA charts and harder 6TRAX/6TRAX FX charts almost impossible to score well on. Button controls, on the other hand, allow for rapid movement between lanes, and quick switching between buttons and analog sticks. Play the game with buttons enough, and you'll learn how to move your thumbs such that rather than individually moving the analog sticks with your tips, you can move them with the sides of your thumb instead; this method is very important in some of the later missions/charts. In short, use buttons.

Key Sounds

XONiC lets you choose between a variety of different sound effects to play when hitting a note. You can also change the loudness of these sounds in the settings menu, or mute them completely. While initially, it might seem better to play without the potentially distracting key sounds and listen to the music to time your button presses, it's strongly recommended getting used to the keysounds on their standard volume before challenging the later World Tour clubs. Keysounds are an excellent way of avoiding hitting notes too early or late, or 'desyncing' from the song's rhythm. When it comes to the 95% accuracy missions, keysounds help maintain consistent rhythm across rapid note streams (a major factor in doing well enough to pass). In short, the default key sound is recommended.

Other Notes

Hold notes do not count more for judgement than regular notes (equivalent to one note; similar to how Clazziquai Edition scored judgement)
Hold notes also do not penalize you for holding them too long, unlike in DJMax
Charts must be manually unlocked in Free Style by clearing them in Stage Mode (like DJMax Portable 2/3 and Technika Tune). While charts may have a high score already present (high scores in World Tour songs carry over to their Stage Mode/Free Style equivalents), they may not necessarily be available in Free Style yet
The songs in the 6 Eleven mission are difficult, but also very good practice songs for the various techniques you need to know in XONiC; for instance, Voodoo Gooroo focuses on chord patterns, March of Fear has unusual analog-to-button patterns, Dimension Detonator has lots of double tap notes, STARGAZER has plenty of note streams, and MATADOR has chord-note alternations. Chances are, if you can get to consistently being able to clear this mission, you'll be able to platinum XONiC

THE SUPERBEAT
ALL TROPHIES ACQUIRED 1.70%
Ultra Rare

XONiC MAESTRO
DJ LEVEL 99 ACHIEVED 8.48%
Very Rare

Grind
This trophy unlocks after reaching DJ Level 99.

Grinding levels in XONiC is a significantly easier affair than any of the level grinding featured in the DJMax Portable games, or even Technika Tune. Leveling starts to slow down a bit at 60, drops again into the 80s, and the final move from 98 to 99 takes about 3-4 times as long as the other Level 90s do.

This trophy should occur naturally as you play, and should definitely occur before unlocking the 1000 playcount trophy, but if you wish to speed it up, take note:

HARD mode increases your EXP by about ~40%
Equipment further adds to your score; it's recommended that you use SUNNY as your DJ Icon (unlocked in World Tour) if you play on HARD, as it grants 20 anti-breaks and a 160% EXP gain, or any of the World Tour-unlocked 190/200% icons (FLORENCE and ATLAS specifically), if playing on EASY or NORMAL.

1000 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 1000 ACHIEVED 4.05%
Ultra Rare

Grind
This is the most time-consuming trophy in the game, and likely the last you'll earn. This trophy unlocks after clearing 1000 songs. You can keep track of your progress towards this in the BACKSTAGE menu (the number is displayed below Play Record). Note that individual World Tour songs add to this total, and that failing a song will not.

If you've completed the last mission in World Tour (Aftermath, Area 15), you'll unlock RACHEL BB, an item that increases your HP by 500%. There's an easy way to rack-up your playcount with RACHEL BB: equip her, set the difficulty to EASY, and play the 4TRAX versions of Morning Calm or Love is Real over and over again in Free Style. You don't have to press any buttons - your HP will survive missing every note. This means you don't have to actively play to earn this trophy. Both songs are 1:45, so they're largely interchangeable.

ALL ROUND PLAYER
ALL PATTERNS CLEARED FOR ALL SONGS 6.79%
Very Rare

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Unlike in Technika Tune, this trophy does not require you to play any of the EXTRA charts, present in the later World Tour clubs. You will need to pass, for each of the 59 songs in the game, their 4T, 6T, and 6TFX charts. As performance doesn't matter, feel free to play on EASY, and/or use HP/Recovery boosting items to keep you alive during the harder charts. To check whether or not a chart has been previously cleared, hover over it in Stage Mode (not Freestyle). If the bottom-right yellow box has a score/grade in it, the song has been played and cleared.

Songs played in World Tour missions count towards this trophy; their scores are also saved to Stage Mode. You should also be able to check your progress towards this trophy in the BACKSTAGE menu's Play Record, but as the time of writing, the menu is glitched and crashes on opening (a patch is coming to fix this, and is already available for the Korean version).

There have been accounts of people failing to unlock songs properly at certain level-up points. It seems this issue does not affect the US version of the game, only the European one. Until the European version's 1.01/2 patch is released, I recommend to be careful of this:
- Frequently back-up your save file to PC/cloud storage
- Upon nearing a level-up for a song unlock, turn off auto-save, then turn it back on after confirming the song has been unlocked

All song unlocks by level are as follows:
Song Title Level Required Fantasti-K 2 Candy Cane 4 Que Siga La Rumba 6 Miami Style 7 Round Trip 9 Heavy Day~Guilty Gear Xrd 10 U Can Stop 12 Murky Waters 14 Kitty From Hell 15 Everyday 17 Sakura Stream 19 STARGAZER 20 Let's Go 22 GIVE & TAKE 24 Souls of Vampire ~ Part 1 25 HINAGIKU ~towards the sunlight~ 27 CHASER 29 Souls of Vampire ~ Part 2 30 Drop the Shit! 32 The Lemon Squash 34 Party of the Year 35 Crazy 37 Moonlight Sonata (3rd Mov.) 39 Dimension Detonator 40 March of Fear 42 Systematic Chaos 44 Bang Bang Groove 45 MATADOR 47 5.1.5.0. 49 Voodoo Gooroo 50 Nodding Hawk ~ Extended 60 Souls of Vampire ~ Extended 70

PERFECT DJ
DJ ICON 100% ACHIEVED 2.07%
Ultra Rare

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This ties with PERFECT SOUND as the hardest trophy in the game to obtain. For this trophy, you will need to unlock all 127 different DJ icons in XONiC. Most of these icons are unlocked automatically as you level up, but many are also rewarded for clearing each of the different World Tour missions.

The hardest icons to unlock are RAGNA BB and RACHEL BB - both are awarded in the SUPER XONiC secret club (its EASY and HARD missions), which has extremely difficult missions to clear.

You will need to complete all 42 default World Tour missions in order to unlock SUPER XONiC - the hardest of these being KAMASUTRA's 6 Eleven mission.

There have been accounts of people failing to unlock icons properly at certain level-up points. It seems this issue does not affect the US version of the game, only the European one. Until the European version's 1.01/2 patch is released, I recommend to be careful of this:
- Frequently back-up your save file to PC/cloud storage
- Upon nearing a level-up for an icon unlock, turn off auto-save, then turn it back on after confirming the icon has been unlocked (for icons, this may not be practical, as icons are consistently unlocked at each level-up)

A list of all DJ Icons and their unlock requirements can be found here.

PERFECT SOUND
KEY SOUND 100% ACHIEVED 2.07%
Ultra Rare

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This ties with PERFECT DJ as the hardest trophy in the game to obtain. For this trophy, you will need to unlock all 41 different Key Sounds in XONiC. Some of these sounds are unlocked automatically as you level up, but many are rewarded for clearing each of the different World Tour missions.

The hardest sounds to unlock are CARTOONZ and INTERSCOPE - CARTOONZ being awarded in the SUPER XONiC secret club for clearing the NORMAL mission, and INTERSCOPE unlocking alongside the EASY mission's icon.

You will need to complete all 42 default World Tour missions in order to unlock SUPER XONiC - the hardest of these being KAMASUTRA's 6 Eleven mission.

There have been accounts of people failing to unlock key sounds properly at certain level-up points. It seems this issue does not affect the US version of the game, only the European one. Until the European version's 1.01/2 patch is released, I recommend to be careful of this:
- Frequently back-up your save file to PC/cloud storage
- Upon nearing a level-up for an key sound unlock, turn off auto-save, then turn it back on after confirming the key sound has been unlocked

A list of all Key Sounds and their unlock requirements can be found here.

The SUPER XONiC Normal mission is arguably the hardest in the game. Here's a video of it being completed:

MASTER COMBO
99999 COMBO ACHIEVED 12.25%
Rare

Grind
For this trophy, you will need to obtain a 99999 combo in Free Style mode. Unlike in Technika Tune, where restarting a song, or returning to the Song Selection mid-song would reset your combo, XONiC works similarly to DJMax Trilogy, and you can restart a song, or return to the menu and select a different one with no penalty. The only way to reset your combo is to BREAK during a song, and let the song finish.

The best song to grind on, in my opinion, is the 6TRAX version of Peach Fuzz, which has a max combo of ~1319 and a difficulty of 6. It's recommended that you either play with the Shield 60 item (QYRIE, unlocked in World Tour), or the highest shield item you can find. If you have SUNNY, feel free to combine this grind with the level grind to 99, as SUNNY has both a Shield 20 effect, and a +160% EXP effect.

For other potential charts, see the table of songs by combo/difficulty here.

MASTER DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 6TRAX FX 17.72%
Rare

This trophy requires you to earn a final grade of S⁺⁺ for 6TRAX FX's Stage Mode. The S⁺⁺ rank is awarded for obtaining an average accuracy grade of 98% or higher (in reality, I've received it for 97%s some of the time, but chances are the actual % value is in the high 97s).

This trophy is easily achieved by playing the three easiest songs of each stage for the setlist: Fantasti-K/Love is Real, Collaboration, and Morning Calm.

SUPERIOR DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 6TRAX 24.51%
Uncommon

This trophy requires you to earn a final grade of S⁺⁺ for 6TRAX's Stage Mode. The S⁺⁺ rank is awarded for obtaining an average accuracy grade of 98% or higher (in reality, I've received it for 97%s some of the time, but chances are the actual % value is in the high 97s).

This trophy is easily achieved by playing the three easiest songs of each stage for the setlist: Fantasti-K/Love is Real, Morning Calm, and Collaboration.

EXPERT DJ
S++ OVERALL RANKING IN 4TRAX 30.91%
Uncommon

This trophy requires you to earn a final grade of S⁺⁺ for 4TRAX's Stage Mode. The S⁺⁺ rank is awarded for obtaining an average accuracy grade of 98% or higher (in reality, I've received it for 97%'s some of the time, but chances are the actual % value is in the high 97s).

This trophy is easily achieved by playing the three easiest songs of each stage for the setlist: Morning Calm/Fantasti-K, Love is Real, and Collaboration.

BANG VOX
KEY SOUND 'Bang Vox' ACHIEVED 8.48%
Very Rare

Grind
This trophy occurs concurrently with the XONiC MAESTRO trophy, as the BANG VOX key sound is unlocked upon hitting Level 99.

PERFECT GAME
PERFECT PLAY ACHIEVED 39.59%
Uncommon

For this trophy, you'll need to clear any song in the game with 100% accuracy (any individual stage in World Tour also counts). 100% accuracy means that every note must be a SUPERBEAT; if your score ever ends in a 50, you've failed this requirement.

There's one mission fairly early in World Tour where you're required to earn a Perfect Play; this trophy should come naturally.

SUPER COMBO
ALL COMBO ACHIVED 84.07%
Common

For this trophy, you'll need to clear any song in the game with a full combo (any individual stage in World Tour also counts). To earn a full combo, complete the song without any BREAKs; you can use any of the DJ Icons with a Shield to nullify BREAKs a certain number of times, should you need to.

This trophy will come naturally on the way to the MASTER COMBO trophy.

LIVING DEAD
CLEARED WITH 10% POWER GAUGE 18.94%
Rare

To earn this trophy, you must complete a song with your Power gauge below the 10% mark, but above the 0% mark. It's recommended that you play an easy song, like Morning Calm 4TRAX, on NORMAL difficulty, and using the highest HP+ item you have available. This trophy is also doable on EASY, but you recover HP so quickly that you may accidentally end up with more than 10%. Play the song, intentionally missing enough notes towards the end to lower your HP as much as possible without running out.

It's also pretty easy to earn this trophy on HARD with no icon equipped - play perfectly to near the end of an easy song, then miss one note, hit the next, and miss one again (if there are any more notes, keep hitting them; it'll take at least 9 more notes to recover above 10%).

HALF LIFE
DJ LEVEL 50 ACHIEVED 32.05%
Uncommon

Grind
This trophy will unlock naturally as you play through the game, and occurs before XONiC MAESTRO does. Given the high leveling speed of XONiC, you should earn this after about 200 songs played.

HARD TOUR
FIRST UNLOCK HARD CLUB IN WORLD TOUR 42.32%
Uncommon

The description for this trophy is misleading. To earn it, reach Level 35 (unlocking the missions for the 7th club in World Tour).

DOG BITE
KEY SOUND 'Dog Bite' ACHIEVED 17.81%
Rare

DOG BITE is one of the key sounds unlocked by completing missions in World Tour. The mission in question is Reines Wasser, the NORMAL mission of Area 9: Watergate. After successfully completing the mission, the sound and trophy will unlock.

LIFE IS PRACTICE
COMPLETED TUTORIAL 5 TIMES 23.19%
Uncommon

Play the game's tutorial five times (play isn't technically right either; watch the tutorial five times). The tutorial can be selected in Stage Mode by selecting the upper-right button on Mode Select.

DON'T GIVE UP
MISSION FAILED IN WORLD TOUR 58.91%
Common

You'll get this trophy by failing any mission in World Tour, either by failing to meet the objective, or by finishing a song with an empty Power gauge.

F MAN
STAGE FAILED IN STAGE MODES 75.87%
Common

To obtain this trophy, you'll need to fail a song in any of the stage modes by running out of Power (Just don't hit any notes and that will get you to fail a song).

LUCKY SEVEN
BREAK 7 CLEAR 60.13%
Common

To obtain this trouphy, you'll need to earn precisely 7 BREAKs in any one song. This should come naturally.

OTL
3 CONSECUTIVE GAME OVERS 25.64%
Uncommon

In Stage Mode, run out of Power on the same song three times in a row to earn this trophy. You will have to manually navigate back to stage mode after it ejects you for failing.

ALMOST PERFECT
BREAK 1 CLEAR 76.72%
Common

Self-explanatory, and similar to LUCKY SEVEN. Earn precisely 1 BREAK in a song to get this trophy. This will definitely come naturally.

NEED MORE DJ
DJ ICON CHANGED 20 OR MORE 40.62%
Uncommon

To earn this trophy, change your DJ Icon 20 times. This is easily achieved by opening the equipment menu in stage mode, and alternating between two icons 20 times.

HARD LIFE
DIFFICULTY HARD GAME START 44.02%
Uncommon

To earn this trophy, set the in-game difficulty to HARD via the settings menu, then begin any song or mission. The trophy will unlock as the stage begins.

100 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 100 ACHIEVED 41.56%
Uncommon

Grind
This trophy unlocks after playing 100 songs. Stage Mode, Freestyle, or World Tour - it doesn't matter, as long as you don't fail the song. You'll earn this naturally, and well before earning the 1000 XONiC trophy.

SOUNDS GREAT
KEY SOUND 50% ACHIEVED 38.64%
Uncommon

Collectable
After unlocking at least 21 key sounds, this trophy will pop. This will come naturally as you level up, but to expediate the process, play missions in World Tour that reward you with key sounds upon completion.

A list of all Key Sounds and their unlock requirements can be found here.

50 XONiC
PLAY COUNT 50 ACHIEVED 57.87%
Common

Grind
This trophy unlocks after playing 50 songs. Stage Mode, Freestyle, or World Tour - it doesn't matter, as long as you don't fail the song. You'll earn this naturally, and well before earning the 1000 XONiC trophy.

WANNA BE DJ
DJ ICON 10% ACHIEVED 72.38%
Common

Collectable
After unlocking at least 13 DJ Icons, this trophy will pop. This will come naturally as you level up, but to expediate the process, play missions in World Tour that reward you with icons upon completion.

A list of all DJ Icons and their unlock requirements can be found here.