Stepmania Helping Me Improve?

Razor LOL · Trick Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Clarksville, MD

I find it odd that I do significantly better in Stepmania than on my PS2 versions of DDR. For example, on Extreme 2 today I got over 110 greats on Cartoon Heroes, but immediately afterwards I did the same song on Stepmania and got 24 greats

. Plus I got only 14 greats for Sakura (compared to the 75 I got on Extreme 2)! How did this happen? Is it the timing? Placement of timing windows?

BTW, I use a "red-box" Ignition 3.0 for both PS2 and PC.
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[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:18 am Post subject:

I think the default timing windows on Stepmania are different from the PS2 DDR versions. Though from what Ive heard, the timing windows on CS DDR versions are so big you can fit a truck into them.
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Kalek · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:15 am Post subject:

DDR CS timing windows are big, but Judge 4 on StepMania is even bigger. I can AAA anything I play on Judge 4.

[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:22 am Post subject:

^ Yeah, I figured default on StepMania was pretty big, but I couldnt compare them to CS timings because I dont own any.

Speaking of StepMania timimgs....I put in the "DDR Extreme AC 60FPS" timings for my StepMania build, and it turns out these timings are stricter than any/most DDR Extreme AC Ive played on (not by a whole lot, but enough to be noticable). Not that its a bad thing. Just thought Id put that out there.

So actually, RevenG Survivor MAX...Stepmania may be causing you to believe youre doing better, when you may end up relaxing since youre doing so good. This can probably go so far as to say that when you step onto an Arcade machine, youre going to have possibly even lower scores than any of your CS scores.
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William Howard Taft wrote:

Japanese arcade dancing simulations are built upon a strict code of honor and pride.

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ITG can go beyond level 10? Woah...

Razor LOL · Trick Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Clarksville, MD

[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

Im not sure if theres anything for the CS timing, but if you go into StepMania.ini (look for JudgeWindowSecond, thats where the timings should be), and find the timing window settings, you could replace them with these:

Kalek · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject:

Kalek, you sure about the modded SM timings feeling less strict than DDR Extreme AC timings? It feels the complete opposite to me. At home, my average passing grade is a B, while at arcades on Extreme machines, I usually can FC and pass with an A or better.
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Japanese arcade dancing simulations are built upon a strict code of honor and pride.

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ITG can go beyond level 10? Woah...

Razor LOL · Trick Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Clarksville, MD

Another reason I do bad on the CS versions is because I still need to play around with the timings (i currently have +3 for all of them), any suggestions?

EDIT: Never Mind, I just entered the numbers and it is definately more strict. Oh well, it gives me more practice with arcade timing

. I might not evr go back to console versions since I have downloaded just about everything I need from DDRUK.com (1st mix-8th mix, Festival, Party Collection, and 8th mix PS2) and I love it

. The only immediate trrouble I'm having is reading the stops in PARANOiA -Respect- and reading the 600bpm part in MAX. (period), they do sound really cool, though.
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