This collection contains all old approved osu std maps. About approved maps Approved maps are a defunct category as of 2015, but they were once core to the game's leaderboards system. Approved maps were largely very high quality because to push a map through the approval process meant there were far more eyes on the map during the times of old. Approved maps functioned mostly like ranked maps, but they had several core differences in terms of criteria, namely: 1. Mappers only wanting to rank 1 difficulty because the full spread would take too long on 5+ minute maps 2. They gave too much score (20 or 30m iirc), in the time of score ranking this mattered. 3. More allowed patterns, TAG2/TAG4 were only mappable for approved, same as too high difficulty, such as with chipscape, airman, big black