How to add C500 C550 and C600 into stepmania

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

For some (including myself) C400 is simply not fast enough!
I was told that there was a way to add these speeds into stepmania! After searching through the stepmania files for about 30 minutes, I found out where to add these puppies in!

Its actually REALLY easy to do!

Step 1.
Open stepmania program folder

Step 2.
Double click on the "Themes" folder

Step 3.
Double click on the "default" folder

Step 4.
Double click on the Metrics file

Step 5.
Scroll far down the notepad file and look for the options section. You will see things like (Speed, Effect, Accel Apperance, insert, scroll. ETC...)

Step 6.
Find the Speed option, paste this at the end of the list, and change the numbers in front to the cronological order that it should BE

Speed,11=mod,C500;name,C500
Speed,12=mod,C600;name,C600

Step 7.
Change the number in red to the number of speed options there are.

[ScreenOptionsMaster]
# Player options
Speed=12

Step 8.
Finished product should look like this, NOTE, some themes use different ways of writing out how step 6 looks, if so, write the new C500 and C 600 just as it is in the list with the other speeds.

Step 9.
Save the metrics file, exit it and open stepmania

Step 10.
Open the options for a song you want to play, a popup will come up saying that it cant find option name, just click ignore. I never figured this out why it comes up with the error, i suppose something else needs to be changed. THIS DOES NOT EFFECT GAME PLAY! click ignore, then your speed mod should be a blank spot next to the official C 400.

Overall, works GREAT! As you can see!

Notes:
Any constant BPM should be able to be used, but dont go overboard and make a C8972 or something ridiculous like that

Speeds can also be modded by following the above steps by just changing the cooresponding info.

For however many speed mods you make, be sure to change step 7 to the correct amount.

Thanks to phat(fat) mat for letting me know this can be done!

Enjoy!
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Jeffreyw · Trick Member Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: Spokane, WA

Very nice indeed... i hated 4x they added in there to so i changed it to 5x but can you figure out anyway for that error not to come up? it does it every time not just once

im sure its got somthin to do with the fact that it dosent show up on the options screen as say "C600" but instead a blank spot... very good tho... i love C600.. i also took out .25, .50, and .75 cuz i never use em.

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

I was browsing around in the graphics folder, didn't see much there that dealt with option speed. I will keep looking though! It has to be a graphic file thats missing, or at least I think!
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ultimablackmage · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:13 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot. This really helps
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Jeffreyw · Trick Member Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: Spokane, WA

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

on alpha 20, the error just happens once.
once you press ignore, it never shows up again

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hi i'm Lain · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject:

I do like how you can change the actual set speed mods, since using C mods is cheating if the song's got lots of BPM changes.

But that's a taboo subject =X
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|cey · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

I still don't get it LOL
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-joe- · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Location: lv

Arimasen · Trick Member Joined: 14 Feb 2003

Hey, dont you also have to add lines in the Languages/english.ini file that recognizes the mods you added? Lets say you added C500 to the metrics.ini file, your would have to add a line in the english.ini file (the section with the speed mods) that says: C500=C500

I had to do this with the latest version of SM, because if I would just add the line to the metrics.ini file, the mod would show up in options, but the option had no name. So to add a name to it, I had to add it in the english.ini file. I hope this makes sence

GeeForce · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

Wow, this is great! I personally won't use the C500 or 600 that much, stick to my 2x, but this has opened my eyes to a new Stepmania.

heehee

EDIT: I just think I should add, I used a combination of both :joe: and Nerosurferoth's techniques to get those two shots.
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MinsiKid wrote:

is just a good feeling.

Have you considered heroin?

Got Flux? · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2004

nice heavyMAX2nut........lol
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|cey · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:33 am Post subject:

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

|cey · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject:

Thanks, no wonder I couldn't find it.. I was looking under my extreme skin lol
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RevenG-D · Trick Member Joined: 07 Nov 2004

what exactly do the c mods do?

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GeeForce · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is what it is. They set it so that the arrows go a consant BPM, like 200 or 400. They're useful for songs that have lots of freezes or BPM changes or whatever, because the arrows stay going the same speed.
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Tassadar wrote:

MinsiKid wrote:

is just a good feeling.

Have you considered heroin?

ncsuzeller · Basic Member Joined: 25 Mar 2004

C400 = constant 400..which is what everyone else has said.

Makes the song at a constant 400 BPM. And makes Sakura alot easier thus, in essence, making it a 9 footer instead of 10

Just like I think when I 5x bag, the song is an 8 footer and not a 10.

Michael Scofield.Stg · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jan 2004

This took a long time to find, Can we make it a sticky or add it to some FAQ/ make a FAQ about SM customization?

It would be greatly appreciated.