the difference between dance with intensity and stepmania?

ghosx · Trick Member Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Location: Your heart

what is so different?

-joe- · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Location: lv

thats like comparing a soft pad connected to Konamix with an 8th mix arcade machine.

The difference is night and day. Stepmania is far superior!

It has much more custimization and features than DWI.
It's as close to a DDR simulator as you can get (excluding home versions)
The timing is closer to the arcade than dwi (yes, you can change dwi's but you can sleo change stepmanias)

I can't really list all the differences, it helps if you play on both setups. You WILL like stepmania more, trust me

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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

Meh, that's coming from a bias'd for SM view...

Now I use SM, DWI does stink, however, this is what I find that is different:

DWI works on slower machines
DWI is easier to work with
DWI takes less sytem resources

SM is more customizable
SM has more power
SM has more features

It's really trade-offs, if your comp. cannot run SM, DWI is just as good (it does all the base things SM does). SM just looks purdy

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-joe- · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Location: lv

blah, i'll give DWI the fact that it can run on junkier computers.
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onoessnaked · Staff Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Location: UK

If I see "omg j00 use dwi j00 suck" (or words to that effect) there will be many points and kapowing.

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Well, it explains the disappearance

[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

onoessnaked · Staff Member Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Location: UK

We haven't had one in a while and the fact that similar (ie: bar-hugging/speed mod) threads in other forums have been going fairly successfully makes me have faith in this staying relatively flame-free.

But I'll be keeping an eye on it and see if we can have a sensible discussion about the difference in DWI and SM.
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DDRNemesis · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Location: Bryan, OH

I like Stepmania because DWI gives me the blue screen of death whenever I play. It is also not as feature full as SM.
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porkn · Basic Member Joined: 02 Oct 2004

yea i also get the blue screen at times... think it has 2 do with my random movies, and i cant run the svp visualizations at all. wats up wit dis??
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sexdwarfuk · Trick Member Joined: 30 Nov 2004

Now I have just put both on my pc and I cant run the DWI that well so I play SM and boy is that fun!!! one day I will learn about DWI I hope.

EmiOfBrie · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Hopkins, MN

Stepmania has far more features...

Also, Stepmania can run both .sm and .dwi files, while DWI can only run .dwi files.
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