Stepmania confession

[YoshL]

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i ain't gonna bite, 'rachnee-san

but yeah, majority of SMOC is just that, so unless you're training gluts specifically lol

[Hakulyte]

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Sometimes I pick a song I like, go in SM Editor, use the correct bpm and then I just jam randomly with the song playing to place notes. I tune it a little in case I don't like certain mess I happened to do while jamming and then I'm done. I know I will enjoy the file because it can't be faster than me since I'm the one who smashed the keys.

#fast food stepping #jam jam revolution

[cedolad]

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Oh yea, I edited the mines image on my theme to be a transparent square because I absolutely can't read mines no matter what. Anything that moves registers as a note in my mind. There is zero chance of me hitting them if I can't see them though.

This is a brilliant idea

[One Winged Angel]

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I have 20 WIP's with about 20 seconds charted in each

Din Mo's MP3 Player

[choof]

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I have 20 WIP's with about 20 seconds charted in each

rerelease that venetian snares chart PLEASE

[Sidek]

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well only i play choof stuff

[SKG_Scintill]

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I have 20 WIP's with about 20 seconds charted in each

more like 50 and an external hard drive with another 200

[ilikexd]

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of all the packs i've ever downloaded i usually only play like 3-4 files from each one, based on the attractiveness of the music preview or if i've seen others play it on video or lots of people post scores on it

i missed out on a lot probably

[leonid]

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i ain't gonna bite, 'rachnee-san

but yeah, majority of SMOC is just that, so unless you're training gluts specifically lol

SMOC has different definition of fun than ours. The main problem is that they have an unspoken rule where every song needs to be charted with every difficulty, regardless of how much is going on with the song. This often results in awful hand/quadgluts and questionable jacks throughout the whole song that doesn't even match any melody or sounds whatsoever. We do have this thing called jack theory and we do believe that properly placed jacks are fun to play, but if literally every chart available to you is vertex true gamma, the bar raises significantly and you can't be satisfied with tinny bits of jacks, then you keep asking for more and more ridiculous charts.

[ATTang]

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I play every files unless too easy.

btw the thread name should be like google confession.

[VickyFox]

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Sometimes I pick a song I like, go in SM Editor, use the correct bpm and then I just jam randomly with the song playing to place notes.

Doing what steppers do the best. Mash 'n mash.

@Leonid: And this is exactly the problem of StepMania, sometimes stepwriters don't properly determine the stream of arrows needed for lower/higher difficulties. Because of this the real difficulty doesn't match the expected difficulty (colour and amount of feet) Then you've also got quirky lower difficulties which look like a random stripped version of the higher difficulties. (And to be frank, I don't think StepMania has standards of difficulty...)

Some steppers do this scaling the good way, however; they step the beginner level first and add more instrumental patterns progressively throughout difficulties.
AAA : SM Blue logo version, I believe it is a modified version of AAA on FFR and has at least 4 difficulties, very well stepped.
Victory - Bond : same story.
Sounds of Life - Pendulum: with changing backgrounds and multiple difficulties. A real b**** I never got around to mastering.

Anyone know these?

[Wayward Vagabond]

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The only reason people don't step enough easy files is because most stepartists step to the difficulty they are comfortable with. Because most stepartists are avid players with higher still than most they tend to step on the harder end of the spectrum.

[dAnceguy117]

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(And to be frank, I don't think StepMania has standards of difficulty...)

You're correct; it was never meant to. StepMania is a freeware game that comes with somewhere from 0 to 2 simfiles included out of the box. There's a centralized body for the game's development, but that's it.

Simfiles are spawned by end users. There's no official recommendation or anything of the sort for how difficulties or ratings should work. The game itself has a bunch of different modes, which would all require their own standards. Not to mention, any peripheral or controller whose input is detected by the PC can be used to play the game. It's not at all feasible to cover all of this in an official manner, nor would it be useful.

[cedolad]

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I remember when I used to make 8th note stream files just to appease my peasantry.

[DeadSignal]

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I listen to in-game music way too much.