History of keyboard Stepmania pre-KBMP

[thunderstrike687]

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Dear Mans0n,

Please stop posting on the forums and hang yourself.

Love,

The FFR Community

[naijen]

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I miss you and this history.

-ChocoEx

[iCeCuBEz v2]

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lmao mans0n your gay as ****

I liked this read a lot it was actually really interesting.

[shad0wlord]

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Some things I knew about, but a lot that I didnt. Thanks.

[Dynam0]

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That was great to read since I had very little knowledge of the community before 2005 even. Everything could've been a LOT different today, like you said, 'karaoke' steps were frowned upon and if no one from that time kept pushing for more difficult steps, I highly doubt spread or keyboard playing would be existent at all, let alone diversity in simfile making.

[TheRapingDragon]

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Yeah, interesting enough read. I knew bits and pieces of what you wrote about but not the majority and all the old sites and whatnot.

It's nice that such a community bloomed and is what it is today.

[Wineandbread]

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Kewl story.
Didn't know that the history ran so deep. =o

[ledwix]

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Good job. This should be on Wikipedia.

[V_Valentine]

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This does bring back a lot of memories, I remember seeing a lot of that stuff as it was happening, back then I was still drifting from one user name to the next, but i believe I started in September of 2003 and seeing a topic title in the brag board saying "nobody will ever A caprice" or something like that. Most of that and the epic battle between Sinjin and myself that never really took off that well since he was always a little bit better than me. good times they were... Thanks for the refresher.

[CatchRothy]

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Very good read, I remember sitting here playing DWI like it was yesterday. Arch do you still talk to CR22?

I think CR22 died. ****! Add a 22 to the end of my name, I forgot it :-X

Good read Arch, i'm pissed you didn't include me anywhere for making the legendary kick your A or deleting the entire Bemanistyle 7.0 sandbox. I'm surprised to see bmr post, that was pretty interesting. I'm downloading stepmania now since I haven't played in probably 2-3 years, curious to see what simfiles are looking like now-a-days. Anyone have any of my old simfiles? I lost them all...

[Silver_Brian]

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I heard a story about a contest Arch, Reach and Spazzbite had once. They all wanted to make the hardest file on FFR. The results of that competition are Revo, Molto and OMW.

Also, I remember Hyro posting randomly once after he'd been inactive for years.

ps this really makes me wish I could go back in time with my current skills. hehehe

[Reincarnate]

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epic bump -- searched for stepmania history on google


What do you guys think the most influential stepfile ever made is?

[Izzy]

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Quasar, emerald sword, and one more lovely.

[rushyrulz]

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Definitely Quasar.

[Reincarnate]

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Personally, I think BMR's V, A, or Gravity. V and A were both considered a massive step up in difficulty back in the day that really catalyzed skill improvements. Gravity was what I would call the "bridge" between easier, oldschool difficulty and newschool difficulty.

Believe it or not, when these files were released, people were lucky if they earned C scores.