Making Stepmania work *exactly* like DDR Extreme Arcade???

blueamoeba · Basic Member Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: Las Vegas

Ok, someone must've asked this before (probably lots of people), but I couldn't find in the last few pages of threads.

My daughter (11) and I have been playing StepMania at home for a couple months now. We're having a great time, and we've worked our way up to 4 and 5 footers, so we went to play at the arcade last night. (Actually Peter Piper's here in Las Vegas, full of screaming teenagers.

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We had a lot of fun, but they had DDR Extreme, and it didn't play or look exactly like what we've got at home. For some reason my "goal" when I'm playing at home (besides having fun and getting excercise) is to practice for the arcade, so I've decided to focus on trying to get StepMania here to work as much like DDR Extreme Arcade as I can.

So here's the problems I observed:

-The pads. Actually, we're ok here, got Afterburner for bday. w00t! Now I wish we had two so we could play at the same time, but that will have to wait.

-Themes and announcers. Found and installed these. When I heard the announcers at the arcade it threw me off at first, because I hadn't really played with announcers before, so I wanna make sure to have this obnoxious guy harassing me to get into practice.

-Timing. The timing windows were definately harder at arcade. I came home and found the sticky here and set StepMania to be like "8th Mix". 8th mix means Extreme in U.S., right? Hopefully I've got this working now. It feels harder at home than it was...

-The songs. Working on that. Do I have it right that there are like a dozen "lists" of songs, and Extreme Arcade has songs from all sorts of previous mixes, including wacky stuff like Guitar Heroes and Home DDR?

-Screaming teenagers. Actually, these guys can stay at the arcade.

Though the kids really playing were polite, and when we put our token on the machine to stay in line they respected it, even when it was my daughter without me. Seeing a kid beating Max 300 on heavy was a little intimidating, though. Someday...

Is there anything else I'm missing to make the home experience as much like arcade as possible?

BreakfastPirate · Trick Member Joined: 05 Feb 2005

Somebody on ddrmaniax.net is working on making a complete extreme mix. Here's a link to thread, it looks pretty promising.

http://www.ddrmaniax.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=121
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dieKatze88 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2003

However without compiling your own version of Stepmania, and some SEVERE work, you wont get EXACTLY like DDR Extreme, its better to get the timings right, and have all the songs (and ones that arent on DDR Extreme) because its alot less work and gives more features.
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shocker · Trick Member Joined: 04 Oct 2004

noteskins are important too. i use katze's extreme noteskins, but his site seems to be down so i don't know where to get them. maybe he'll reply again with a link.

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GeeForce · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:56 am Post subject:

Yeeah, the timings and such would be the only thing I would have thought to change. MAX (which SM is based off of) and Extreme are pretty close, with the same type of songwheel, etc. Announcers I guess would be a little different at first, but not too difficult to adapt to.

Screaming fans though, that's always a plus IMO

and I love seeing better players than me, it gives me something to look up to

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runwithscizzors9 · Trick Member Joined: 06 Feb 2005

the timings is really all that matters, and the songwheel and colors, i mean its just a difference in colors, its not like OMGZZORS ITS GREEN!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!EDFSJDFHKASJLD, it's just color, and the announcer shouldn't really make a different

blueamoeba · Basic Member Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: Las Vegas

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blueamoeba · Basic Member Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: Las Vegas

Ok, we just went back to the arcade tonight, and the timing windows in the "The SM Timing Window Configurations" sticky are definately pretty close. I can beat 5 footers at home, and same at arcade, and can't beat 6 footers, and same as well. It really felt the same, too.

Also, the Japanese arcade theme I have turned out to be dead on with the Japanese-use-only version that Peter Piper's inexplicably has. (Doesn't "for use in Japan" mean anything? Not that I mind, it's sorta cool.) Anyway, I'm pretty happy!

I did notice that the grades scroll in a different way at the arcade: they go straight to A or whatever, not to AAAA and then back to A like SM does. Maybe I'll try to figure out how to change that; not because I'm anal, but because I like the arcade way better.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: Re: update