ITG/DDR Scores

[FrozenAngel91]

Originally Posted by Kibblre

Idk, those were on the machine when I first started playing on it. I have poor accuracy on Break Up because it's a pretty long song for me and I just got really lazy near the end, but Tekno is shorter so I can hit more accurately. I haven't played Quasar, it's not on my machine. If you give me a link I can try it out.

EDIT: Teknopathetic's in this pack: http://r21freak.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20169. I also forgot to say that I recently bought new shoes exclusively for ITG. I played Pheonix before the new shoes and failed it, but I got it the next week when I got the new shoes. I account it to these new ones weighing half of what my old shoes were.

Quasar is by eggman, and it was I guess originally intended to be a keyboard file, so it's in the original keyboard megapack, which you can find on icy's simfile pack thread but I'll also link it here.

http://izzysm.mine.nu/Other%20SongPa...ega%20Pack.rar

It might also be in the second keyboard pack (though I'm pretty sure it's in one) so give that a check too if it's not in there.


Anyways, I went to a new ITG machine today and found a bunch of stuff, including teknopathetic (yay ) and probably twin dragons too but I didn't end up looking for that. It looks like I was right though about us being close in skill level cause I got this on my second try on it



Which is really really close to yours, only slightly ahead actually. I then decided to whore it for a while to learn the stops and weird patterns and got this...



which I'm really proud of, and I think you can match. try for it next time you play, and get a quasar score too .

Anyways, one more notable thing from today



FIRST 13 PASS!!!!!

I know it's really probably a 12, but I don't even care. So happy about this. That last stream was brutal, surprised I came out of it with such a good score.

and lastly, here's a completely random score I took a picture of



Edit: I did not know shoes made such a difference in your playing ability, dang. Guess I should look into that sometime

[EzExZeRo7497]

Originally Posted by FrozenAngel91

FIRST 13 PASS!!!!!
I know it's really probably a 12, but I don't even care. So happy about this. That last stream was brutal, surprised I came out of it with such a good score.

Encoder is a solid 13 imo haha. That last stream is relentless lmao, nice job on your first 13.

[Mollocephalus]

Originally Posted by Kibblre

I played Pheonix before the new shoes and failed it, but I got it the next week when I got the new shoes. I account it to these new ones weighing half of what my old shoes were.

Shoes are a crucial aspect in playing ITG some even play just with their socks on, but if you don't have a dedicab or a ddr with modified flat screws in the arrows corners, you may end up hurting yourself. Besides, if you're not going for long sessions undisturbed, it may be a bit annoying to go around barefoot

Let me give you (and everyone else) some suggestions from my own personal experience and from what i've heard around.

Cheap and effective:
http://www.kalenji-running.com/en-GB/ekiden-50-8181520

Rather expensive, considered to be the best:
http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/puma...eturn-shipping

Experimental????? (also italian forum sry):
http://www.ddrplanet.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11360

[Kibblre]

Fine, I'll post.

I really like this song and the chart. I'm hoping for the FC soon.


This was a pretty stamina testing file for me, seeing as I don't have any.


Same with this one, had to push myself to finish. Wish I would've gotten the 90% though.


First 12! (before I got my USB)


Second 12. I think this one was harder than Melting Nails.

[dragonmegaXX]

I got 98% on twin dragons on a sightread
The chart is annoying though, it's candlestreams the entire time.

[dragonmegaXX]

I have a $60 pair of pumas that I leave sitting on my fridge whenever Im not playing ITG. My regular shoes cost like $15.

[FrozenAngel91]

Originally Posted by Kibblre

Frozen, I can't just take a one of those files and stick it on my drive and it'll work, right? Don't I have to make sure the music is in .ogg format and some other random stuff?

I also think you're better than me. It seems you have more stamina than me. I just passed those 12s and I barely had enough stamina to do so.

Well yeah it seems my stamina might be better than yours (though not that much better), but my accuracy is really close I think. Though I am skillboosting right now cause of how much I'm playing lately, so if you played more you might catch up and pass me real quick.

Anyways I don't know much about porting songs to itg since I've never done it, you may want to ask dragon about that, but I went and looked up how to do it since I wanna try it anyways and so I can link you to it.

So here you go.

http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Custom...roove_2_Arcade

Also make sure you get the right usb to port it, I've heard ITG doesn't recognize some of them. There was a thread for it a while ago that had some recommendations, hold on let's see if I can find it.

Oh you started it lol, welp anyways check out that thread you started and make sure you get a working usb.

Edit: and you already got one, nevermind >.<

Originally Posted by dragonmegaXX

Went to flashes for the morning...

Nice job finally starring gravity blast! gotta be hard to keep FA'ing with such a stamina draining song, too bad about what looked like a pad miss, you could of had a much higher percent. Though I could swear your PA was better on your last run o.o

And also holy crap that gravity blast 14, that looked ridiculous. I'm suprised you didn't just quit out from running out of breath or nearly fainting or something lol, that looked way way way too draining. I bet you can pass that if you warmed up a little too, good luck with it.

Originally Posted by Mollocephalus

Super post about shoes

Okay then, will definetly look into this when I get money. I just play in tennis shoes right now and that works for me mostly, but maybe this will help me not get so many misses or random greats sometimes.

[Kibblre]

Frozen, I can't just take a one of those files and stick it on my drive and it'll work, right? Don't I have to make sure the music is in .ogg format and some other random stuff?

I also think you're better than me. It seems you have more stamina than me. I just passed those 12s and I barely had enough stamina to do so.

[Mollocephalus]

Pretty sweet scores dragon

Originally Posted by Kibblre

Frozen, I can't just take a one of those files and stick it on my drive and it'll work, right? Don't I have to make sure the music is in .ogg format and some other random stuff?

If you don't wanna bother with guides, just do this:

• Take a (preferrably empty) USB drive. The smaller it is, the faster it will load. Old 256 - 512 MB are the best. Normal ITGs do not recognize usb drives with a lot of disk space anyway.

• Insert into ITG

• Wait for it to be read - it could take up to 30 seconds, cause first time you connect it it will write the "In The Grove 2" folder in it. If not read, try with another one.

• Go back home after you're done smashing arrows and open your drive. Look for the folder "songs" and there you put a FOLDER containing ONLY .ogg and .sm for each song. Simple as that.

• Unless the cabinet has been hacked or has extra settings enabled it either won't read songs longer than 2.30 mins or cut them off midplay.

• Profit!

[dragonmegaXX]

Went to flashes for the morning...

Power going out mid-song, and consufing the **** out of me-

Power came back on, 96.92 Gravity blast (12)

Gravity Blast(14) Almost passed, I was really tired.

Stay Crunchy 95.8% Feat. Flash

Level 1-1 good effort. 197bpm, extended streams. I did well till the middle.

Quasi-Tristar Baby (Great chart) Feat. Flash

[Kibblre]

I know HOW to put songs on ITG, but every song I've taken has been made sure to work with ITG (ie. .ogg files instead of .mp3s). What I was asking if I had to do anything different to get a file from SM and make it work with ITG. I have like 30 songs on my USB drive already that I've played. If you didn't notice, my screenshots signify I have a USB.

[Mollocephalus]

Oh, then i misunderstood you. Either way, if the song is from stepmania you just have to check if it's already .ogg, and if not, you should convert it. Usually, changing extension does not change the gap, but it's something that you should look into after you've converted the MP3.

[dragonmegaXX]

It should work fine if it's a stepmania file.

All a file needs to work on ITG is a .ogg and a .sm that matches it.

[Kibblre]

Do you guys know any good tools to convert the file then? If so, I'll just download Quasar out of that SM pack and convert it and try it out although I don't think I'd have the stamina for Quasar.

[Mollocephalus]

If you're interested, here is a thread which contains all the official packs we have in our cabinets in italy. Every ITG2 has them, and each of them corresponds to a tournament done in the past. In the first pack you can find quasar, one more lovely, dokudenpa and other old dumps. You can easily convert MP3s into .ogg files online here - there are a ton other sites which do the same, anyway.

[Mollocephalus]

BUMP

UGGGH this was so close to being my first quad star ;_; Got one exc midway and then a bunch near the end out of frustration.


also this not so bad barely gotten 3 star


EDIT: Thread is so ded :<

[Kibblre]

Played a couple rounds today in between raging at Technika.

Sup Frozen?

[dragonmegaXX]

Posting this for Mad Matt. Dude is a fucking legend now. He just got this yesterday.

[FrozenAngel91]

Originally Posted by Kibblre

Played a couple rounds today in between raging at Technika.

Sup Frozen?

Haha see I knew you were as good as me, in fact you're better. Amazing job

I'll see if I can get that AAA next time I go to the itg machine with that on it

Originally Posted by dragonmegaXX

Posting this for Mad Matt. Dude is a fucking legend now. He just got this yesterday.

O.o.

wat.


Also I have a bunch of scores to post but I'll do it when I get unlazy enough to upload them to my computer.

P.S: I am so addicted to pump it up routines. They are the best thing ever......everrrrrrrrrrr

[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by dragonmegaXX

Posting this for Mad Matt. Dude is a fucking legend now. He just got this yesterday.

He has more speed and accuracy in his feet than I have in my fingers.
It's always amazing to watch him play; his feet move the smallest distance needed to activate the arrow. Brutally efficient