Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania Mod)

[Elipsis]

So I've been looking for a fun programming project this summer and I decided to mod stepmania.

My friend and I have been editing the stepmania source and we finally have clean installer and nicely functioning code.

Now you can get Ridiculouses!!!! Because AAAA's aren't enough, lol.

I've actually had a lot of fun playing around with the Stepmania source and making this. It's not perfect yet (especially graphically), but it is not available for download. (See link in signature)





I'd be astounded if someone AAAAA'd anything very hard, but at least now when we have multiple AAAA's amongst a few people you guys can settle your differences.

Swing by our forums if you want.

-Elipsis

[firemon22]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

you post in the wrong fourm

[Bahamut-X]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

This lookes pretty cool!

[Telvanni_guard]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

I don't think so firemon22. It's about Stepmania. Seems like the right forum to me.

[firemon22]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

o i c

[jcj64200031]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

Downloading now.

[dancingmaniac3]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

Im gonna wait till the full version is out.

[jcj64200031]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

Hmmmm..... I couldnt install it, so I backed up my stepmania, then moved the files from this into my stepmania file and let it copy over existing files with the same name, wouldn't work. I'm glad I backed it up.
EDIT: Spelling mistakes.

[Bahamut-X]

RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepmania

This is gonna ridiculously improve my timing.
Corny/10

Kinda like that guy on beyond belief fact or fiction that always uses those clever puns before commercials.

[Elipsis]

Re: RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepma

Hmmmm..... I couldnt install it, so I backed up my stepmania, then moved the files from this into my stepmania file and let it copy over existing files with the same name, wouldn't work. I'm glad I backed it up.
EDIT: Spelling mistakes.

Hmmm, I've tested the installer myself on a new install of stepmania and it worked.

If you install it to a stepmania directory that has never been run the backup process will have errors because it'll be trying to back up stepmania.ini which hasn't been created yet.

As I said on my site, I recommend directing the installer to a secondary backup stepmania directory for now and then editing stepmania.ini to point to the song files of your real directory.

You can't just copy the files that hte installer copies but it also needs to delete the old graphic files (which have different names), if you have both graphic files in there it will conflict and not start properly.

[stlunatic0124]

Re: RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (Stepma

Kinda like that guy on beyond belief fact or fiction that always uses those clever puns before commercials.

rofl.

[evilbutterfly]

RE: Re: RE: Ridiculous Timing!!!! Better than marvelous. (St

You'll need to fix it so the score isn't the max unless you get a AAAAA, because that first screenshot proves that you can get the max without getting ridics. Also, it'd be really nice if there was a way you could select this as a game mode kinda like you can select to play Pump It Up in SM and the graphics change around. That way you could turn ridiculous timing on and off as you please, and it wouldn't involve having SM installed twice, so you wouldn't have twice as much space taken up by SM.

Anywho, I may get this when the final comes out. My timing isn't so great, so may be if I have another level to work towards I can get better....

[Elipsis]

Thanx for your input evilbutterfly.

Ridiculous Timing can be turned on and off the same way Marvelous timing can.


Unfortionately, Ridiculous timing requires a seperate executable and I don't see a way around that (we had to make some changes to the graphics class to allow for 9 graphical grade tiers, it originally had some hangup that it had to be a multiple of 8 or 16)

I'm working on figuring out a scoring system that doesn't bite into your score so much when you get marvelouses.

My attempt at the math failed, and one of my real early AAA's had like 92Million points because of the score penalty for marvs.

[Snapps]

Now this keeps the same scoring for the others and the timing for Ridiculous is just smaller, am i right? Or are all of them changed.

[plasmix]

This is so freakin cool.