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The top and bottom rows used to overlap and Starlight 2.0 is the first theme I know of to fix the top row. I’ve seen DDR World theme footage on YouTube that has the bottom row issue fixed.

It’s literally taken until this year for the wall of jackets to be recreated in StepMania without major issues (I personally consider the bottom row overlapping the folder like it does to be a major issue). When you scroll you can watch the jackets “shift” so to speak on folders where the bottom row overlaps. It’s very hacked together. I think it was around when Starlight 2.0 was released that the same issue for the top row was fixed. It’s taken years and a lot of very talented people to figure out how to make this kind of song wheel in StepMania. Konami has the advantage that their game is made to do it in the first place while StepMania is not made to do it at all which is why I referred to it as hacked together. But generally I agree that World looks like a StepMania theme. Especially with how bare bones and empty it was at the beginning, combined with the speed mod options, it reminded me of DDR’s version of Simply Love. It wasn’t necessarily bad, as a matter of fact I liked it, but it definitely didn’t have the visual flare that screams “this is an official DDR product”. It has a lot more to it now and looks really good though.

Turning off italics for the wall of jackets doesn’t make it an original stepmania concept, it’s still the same idea. X2-2013 was pretty much ripped right out of iTunes if you want to talk about stealing a concept.

I’m not 100% sure what that means, I’ve seen terms like N-0 before and was under the impression it meant latest version. But this update isn’t just customizing and challenge charts. There’s UI updates for sorting and the results screen. I’m sure there’s songs in there that we don’t have access to yet as well since there always is.

It looks like a pretty standard update with challenge charts and paid customization, I must be missing something. What is weird about it?

It’s not a cab, it’s just a PC running the emulator with Born To Lead (B2L) pads hooked up to it. They’re arcade replica pads from iborntolead.com. Also the sync drift in the emulation is very apparent once you kick up the difficulty. I played for about 2 and a half hours today and genuinely had a blast but this is only good for players who aren’t looking to PFC most of their songs even if they normally could. I got one more PFC today and then spent a good chunk of time in Challenge mode since I generally care less about accuracy in courses. But for a large chunk of players the emulation is definitely good enough.

Yeah, of course. I used FFE9 which is -23. It might be off by 1 or 2 for what you need but you can see it lined up well for me.

I got SN2 synched really well. It's tedious, but it turns out reloading cheats after making a change doesn't work. You have to exit the game and reload it, which takes ages. But I managed a PFC on Your Rain even if it isn't the most difficult song out there without my preferred speed mod of choice so I think it's okay. I'm excited to play it. I just need to figure out why cheats aren't working on SN1 now. Thanks for taking the time to explain what the values are, btw. I really don't know anything about hexadecimal, this is my first time messing with that kind of thing.

I just wish i understood what the “units” are that I’m adjusting. From 0000 to FFED is a change of -19 and I notice that change. But from -19 onward I don’t notice any change at all. And there is just flat out no change in SN1 it’s still like a full 1/4 note behind.

What is the best way to get these games synced? I started with Darkfeline’s FFED on SuperNOVA 2 and that took me from wildly late to within the late Great window, but after that it felt like nothing I did would change anything. I swapped the converter to convert to hexadecimal and threw the wild value of FED4 (-300) at it just to see what it would do and there was no change. I’m reloading cheats every time I make a change and it gives me the pop up saying it reloaded but it’s not working. Also UAA SuperNOVA 1 doesn’t want to load cheats properly. It comes up saying it loaded 7 and loaded 14 in one dialogue box and none of them seem to do anything at all. I don’t have the debug menu option and the sync won’t change at all. Does anyone have any ideas there? While I’m here, the cheats won’t load automatically even though it’s set to. I have to reload cheats every time I launch the game. How can I get that to work properly?

These updates are in the game files for a while before we get them in arcades. Is This Dance Hakken? is in the data we have for October 2024 and it wasn't unlockable until December 11. I think there is a very strong possibility that the leakers saw something in November that they didn't want certain subsets of this community spoiling for the larger playerbase like they did before.

Oh please. It's far more likely that DDR World updates aren't leaking because we're in the middle of an event and the people who leak it don't want people uploading the unrevealed songs to YouTube like they did Hou. That's the kind of stuff that harms this scene.

Small channels don't even get their attention. If Chris' "hypothetical" DDR X3 scores didn't catch their attention and get them to tighten security then I can assure you they don't even know I exist and I'm not even uploading DDR World footage to my youtube account. I think it says a lot about you that you're picking this fight with small channels and not going after people like Chris or Kon with larger channels where you might actually get some push back from their viewers. You don't have a cause you're fighting for, you're a coward looking to pick a fight with someone you think you can win against. Go up against a big channel if you want to change this aspect of the community. I dare you.

What do you mean hopefully? You seem to be very against this.

I have a question about Asphyxia. The Sanbai Ice Cream website lets people log into their Konami account if they pay for the basic course to get their scores. Would it be possible to set something up like that for Asphyxia? Obviously it can't write scores from home into the arcade, but I'm thinking more of a one time pull your scores from the official server into your home server kind of thing. I have a lot of scores at the arcade that would be really cool to import into my home database.