Mute Sims 5 ~ 35 ITG simfiles

02/22/11 - Marie Antoinette and Zenius-i-Vanisher revised. (Thanks, Sujay and Patrick!)
>> new Marie Antoinette .sm: http://r21freak.com/mute/Mute_Sims_5/mariean.sm
>> new Zenius-i-Vanisher .sm: http://r21freak.com/mute/Mute_Sims_5/ziv.sm

02/09/11 - Mute Sims 5 released.



Mute Sims 5



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Song List (35)


9 ~ 100 bpm ~ 2:14 ~ R 'n B


11 ~ 162 bpm ~ 2:12 ~ IDM


12 ~ 195 bpm ~ 1:45 ~ Happy Core


13 ~ 190 bpm ~ 1:53 ~ Chiptune


12 ~ 160 bpm ~ 1:59 ~ Eurobeat


10 ~ 72-143 bpm ~ 1:53 ~ J-Trance


10 ~ 135 bpm ~ 2:08 ~ Mash-up


10 ~ 140 bpm ~ 1:45 ~ Trance


12 ~ 89-178 bpm ~ 1:50 ~ Roxorcore


10 ~ 152 bpm ~ 2:02 ~ VGM


666 ~ 120 bpm ~ 1:26 ~ Gospel


13 ~ 192 bpm ~ 4:10 ~ Metal


12 ~ 154 bpm ~ 2:06 ~ Eurobeat


11 ~ 76-152 bpm ~ 2:46 ~ Techno


12 ~ 160-220 bpm ~ 1:53 ~ VGM


13 ~ 174 bpm ~ 1:58 ~ Breakcore


11 ~ 150 bpm ~ 2:12 ~ Chiptune Rock


10 ~ 100 bpm ~ 1:58 ~ IDM


11 ~ 180 bpm ~ 1:48 ~ Happy Hardcore


13 ~ 200 bpm ~ 1:57 ~ Breakcore


11 ~ 140 bpm ~ 2:16 ~ Dubstep


10 ~ 205-248 bpm ~ 2:06 ~ Baroque


11 ~ 105 bpm ~ 2:08 ~ IDM


11 ~ 140 bpm ~ 2:07 ~ Swing


10 ~ 128 bpm ~ 2:08 ~ House


9 ~ 160 bpm ~ 1:45 ~ J-Pop


10 ~ 112 bpm ~ 2:08 ~ IDM


10 ~ 140 bpm ~ 2:13 ~ Electropical


11 ~ 89-179 bpm ~ 2:14 ~ Hardcore


11 ~ 165 bpm ~ 1:54 ~ IDM


11 ~ 208 bpm ~ 1:42 ~ Ragtime


11 ~ 170-200 bpm ~ 1:48 ~ Chipbreak


911 ~ 95 bpm ~ 1:47 ~ Rock


12 ~ 174 bpm ~ 2:00 ~ Breakcore


11 ~ 80-160 bpm ~ 2:06 ~ Trance

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THESE SUCK, WHERE'S MY BEGINNER STEPS?! ...AND NO SOLO CHARTS?!


(i liked marie antoinette the most, still preferred pack 1 and 2 though)

ITG Simfiles huh? Sounds very interesting but I have a honest question.

What do you mean by an ITG simfile?

To me it means a well-rounded high quality simfile that took alot of time and work to create. I attribute ITG simfiles to mean full step-charts SINGLES and DOUBLES, BGVideos, and well placed arrows with a few more boss songs than the typical simfile.

Seems like my opinion of an ITG simfile may not match yours, so please I would like to know what you consider an ITG simfile to be.

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Fashioned around ITG's rules? Difficulty ratings, step style, triples & quads, Rolls, etc.

Like Keyboard charts?
That's a very loose definition because from what you just listed Keyboard packs have everything you mentioned minus the high quality, additional difficulty levels, BGVideos, enjoyable step-charts and high-quality pad-friendly charts. I wouldn't consider any KB pack to be an ITG pack though (actually other than ITG 1, 2 and yes 3 and Rebirth I don't consider anything else to be worthy of the ITG title personally).

Anyways all these things used very sparingly and no speed gimmicks either correct (well very few exceptions like Robotix)?

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You just defined the difference.

What's my definition of an ITG simfile? Generally speaking: a simfile that's made with pad play on an ITG cabinet in mind. Pad-friendly step patterns and syncing relative to ITG's global offset are the biggest factors, I'd say. ITG-style chart elements like AeronPeryton mentioned (mines, rolls, etc.) are present in some but not all of my charts.

Some charts have hands in the traditional ITG sense (Foundation of You, Day 'N Nite vs. Boom Boom Pow). Some charts have triple/quad hits that are intended to be "cheated"/bracketed on pad (Hajnal, Machine Gun). Some charts have newer/more experimental ITG chart elements like footswitches and bracket jumps (Save A Life and Bad Cheetah, respectively). As for bpm gimmicks, my simfiles run the gamut: some are totally straightforward (Mellann, Non-Fiction Story), some have minor stops or slowdowns (Thoughtcrime, Zenius-I-Vanisher), and some have prominent bpm stutters (Stretch Industry, Dream To Nightmare).

So in other words, there's quite a bit of variety with chart style and difficulty. So, what's my definition of an ITG simfile? I dunno, play the charts and find out. Or don't play them, whatever floats your boat. If you don't like simfiles that lack doubles charts, full difficulties, and bg vids, that's totally fine; you're not my target audience and you can just move along. But if you're gonna say that these "aren't ITG simfiles," well...that's kinda silly, considering that the AIJ & r21freak communities are the ones that play my simfiles.

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How did I miss this in the latest 10 posts D:
*Downloading*

AIJ & r21 freak communities? Well they definitely don't represent what makes a good ITG simfile IMHO. I saw so many rants against the ITG Rebirth charts and rants against ITG official charts as well. They seem like a community who is so caught up in their "I'm better than you" type thoughts that their target is to make the most gimmicky charts possible and think it's good. I would definitely not call those ITG simfiles. I downloaded the R2112 pack a long time ago and thought it was horrible, everything was gimmicky and way over-done. Thanks for your honest explanation but I personally like ITG official simfiles, I like knowing that CHEATING anything is not required to play because the chart is created for normal play and hands are created to allow you to use your HANDS to hit them and that the most difficult charts are extremely difficult but still possible without cheating and they go with the music without having to following every tiny little noise in the song. What made ITG good to me was the immense overall quality and the skilled play-testers like MJ. The ITG community that followed suit went off on a tangent (kinda like an ITG meets FFR and had a mutant baby that everyone thinks is the future of ITG), but Rebirth is on-point.

So obviously from your description I am not interested in this pack, and I don't think you should be using ITG in the title, but the community has so bastardized the meaning of ITG that I'm used to it by now and I second-guess anytime anyone says they have an ITG simfile. The truly sad thing is that I love ITG style simfiles (traditional ones) with kinky rhythms, high speeds, great pad flow, but the majority of simfile creators either can't or won't make quality files, I've found Rynker in his Mungyodance series has SOME great ITG style simfiles but most of them are NOT so for me it's player be wary but when I find a good file it makes everything worthwhile.

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So you aren't even going to download the pack...just for that...

Don't rebuke him, he'll just hate you.

"Cheating" hands in the case of quads and hold walls is hardly cheating. Quads meant for stomping are a great cue for sudden musical events, like gunshots or heavy drum hits. Hold walls are a more contentious device and are typically meant to force bracketing. But the point is, if the chart writer intended you to bracket stuff, you should bracket stuff. Their charts will be less fun if you decide to use hands. (This is coming from somebody who absolutely loves putting his hands on the pads even when he's not supposed to ) Some of the best charts I've played were doubles charts that forced one-foot/two-arrow brackets within more simple streams. This is hardly a good idea for most people to try when writing their own doubles.

The vast majority (97% or more) of critically acclaimed ITG custom charts don't even require (or even think about) bracketing. That's still typically reserved for the technical chimeras.

The first time I played Energizer SX on pad, I involuntarily BS'd all the rhythms (by translating them into 5-tuplets of some sort, I think, haha) and managed to pass it with a 67%. I would call that cheating. Is that more sinful than hands cheating? Possibly. But it was the only way I could pass the song at the time. Since then I've tightened up my timing dramatically and can usually pass with an 80% (which is still not that good, but okay).

Gimmicks are okay. Seriously. Gimmicks as in r2112 are very difficult to sightread, but sometimes you have to just forget about score and enjoy the ride. I didn't like the song choice in r2112 very much, but I've played Silikon DX a number of times on pad and it's never unfun. These were early simfiles in a sense, before color-correct gimmicks became standard. Nowadays, you don't have much of an excuse for being unable to read gimmicks, because the arrows usually fall on the same beat as they would without.

The main purpose of the Rebirth and Rebirth 2 packs is to provide a challenge - they are really meant to be successors to the ITG 1 and 2 chart sets, and touch on a variety of step patterns a player might want to practice. They're more like an opus full of etudes, rather than a set of performance pieces. (Note that etudes also have their place in performance arts and can also be a lot of fun to play ) The ITG community knows this, so they write charts for higher fun vs. hard quotient, or to pick up on technicality where Rebirth leaves off. That's where people like mute, zimlord, Mootz, Mandodo, etc. come in.

That said, I typically keep only a few of mute's sims, because I have different taste in music, but the ones I have I play very frequently indeed. And I haven't downloaded this pack yet so I should better do that now

tl;dr you're kind of right, kind of misled, and kind of have an issue with comma splicing.

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LOL, well said. I really just hate the abuse of synching for no reason and I demonize bracketing, but your retort was well said. Still I'd rather have a pack of 7's and 8's with simple popular songs and music videos than a pack of 11's-14's to hardcore music. While a few 11+ files are great to have and I will whore them if I like them I won't play them for more than 5-10 minutes a day and I need other songs to fill in the void. Basically I love having harder songs but I don't need that many and having a family that plays with me I also need multiple difficulty levels to choose from. Also the error in your logic about Energizer is that while you cheated the file by moving off-tempo you did that because you used to not be fast enough to pass it normally. As you build up you can pass the file with more proficiency and skill and no cheating, the big difference is that the chart is designed that it can be passed with great effort without cheating anything while the charts you mentioned with mandatory bracketing are not designed to be quality pad-friendly charts because you have to use your feet to hit the HAND markers. If someone wants to cheat a chart that's fine by me but if a chart requires cheating then I can't be bothered to even consider it.

I'm actually going to be doing a StepManiaOnline workout gathering with my wife, two sons, sister, mom, and a co-worker. Out of the bunch only my wife and kids have played before and most everyone is overweight. Having a variety of difficulty levels is going to be mandatory for our gatherings and I don't even want gimmicks to mess anyone up constant is best.

I actually downloaded this pack and played a few files, I didn't like the song-choices and the synching gimmicks were horrific IMO.

tl:dr, I can't wait for ITG Rebirth 2

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Then make some charts suitable for them to play with.
It would be simple, really.
Just make a 4th stream (should take less a minute, unless your computer is really slow) and hope the synching gimmicks don't give them a tantrum.

Wow, you have no idea how to make a quality simfile. I'm not lacking for stepfiles either, but it's always fun to try out new quality files.

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*facepalm*

Hey guys, just a quick update because I revised two of the charts after getting feedback from some fellow step artists.

Marie Antoinette and Zenius -I- Vanisher were updated, fixing some incorrect rhythms and doing away with a good number of unnecessary 16ths. Both songs flow better and are a bit easier than their first drafts.

Links for the updated .sm docs are at the top of the first post, and the pack dl link has been updated to include these fixed charts.

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Good. I hated Marie Antoinette, but I figured that was just my bias since I stepped it a while ago.

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