[lurker]

Originally Posted by TheNoSoMan

I'm kind of wondering why this build of Stepmania even comes with songs at all. 3.9 and 3.95 didn't come with songs and we all had to find stuff ourselves back then. The included songs also double the size of the installer.

this build is geared towards a particular style of play and it's a huge benefit to new players to have some examples of what that entails
3.9 and 3.95 were super user unfriendly and 5.0 only made extremely superficial changes to improve that (including some built in songs) before the devs started breaking it just so they could say they were doing something big

Originally Posted by TheNoSoMan

I'm gonna miss the old scoring system with the letter grades when it gets removed since I can't compare to how I did back then.

it's not difficult to learn what percentages correspond to the old letter grades, plus the scoring system in 3.9(5) gives you so little information about how you actually did that it isn't worth worrying about