Stepmania 5 alpha 3

hey, guys, I'm new here..
I have a problem about the scoring system for stepmania 5 alpha 3 version,
how can I edit the scoring system into like DDR X3 (for example : 999,750 / 1,000,000)?
and how to modify the colour appearance of combo?
For example, when you hit the note with "perfect" rating and the number will be turned to yellow colour or the number will turn to green when you are hitting the note with "great" score. I have seen a lot of situation that the combo counting can only displaying in green colour from BEGINNING even though you play the chart with "perfect" score............
these are the problems encountered so far, please give some ideas if anyone knows about this, thanks


And you can check out my videos if you are interesting about the DDR games as well:
1) Look To The Sky (True Color Mix) [EDIT]

2) I Need You ( InsideOut Door Mix) [EDIT] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYQF-n6-KsE
3) Long Train Runnin' [EDIT] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTD2UvFlTnU
4) Dream On Dreamer [EDIT] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VP4LirR9c

SM5 disabled custom scoring as it crashed during alpha 2. PIU Delta can work around it but still not perfect.

as for combo color change, try using waiei theme.

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oh, thanks for the reply =)
but there are a lot of videos that showed the perfect score system, are they using the stepmania 5?
I saw one of them can run like this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OGW5EFx-gU

seems like he used SM5 alpha 1. that's where the custom scoring system still worked.

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OK, I got it, thanks for answering all these anyway

SM5 BETA 1 is out anyway.

But the scoring in SM 5 Beta 1 does not exist.

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the beta is probably super-unstable, just stick to what works well (like alpha3) for now

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Glancing through the changelog, it doesn't look like it should be more unstable than alpha 3; most of the update appears to be fixing bugs.
Is it just me, or has the front page not updated for several months?

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I see,then can you guys help me look at this one, it's actually the information taken from stepmania 5 preview 4 about the DDR X2 theme

4.Find Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Application Data\StepMania 5\Save (WinXP for ex.)
find Preferences.ini and edit the following terms with the settings below. (for SN2 Grading)


PercentScoreWeightHeld=100
PercentScoreWeightHitMine=0
PercentScoreWeightLetGo=0
PercentScoreWeightMiss=0
PercentScoreWeightW1=100
PercentScoreWeightW2=98
PercentScoreWeightW3=49
PercentScoreWeightW4=0
PercentScoreWeightW5=0

Are you guys found this ever? I couldn't find Preferences.ini, can anyone guide me about this, thanks^^

Create "portable.ini" file inside StepMania5 main folder. Here's instruction:

- open notepad.
- select "Save As", expand "Select as Type", select "All Files (*.*)"
- expand "Encoding", select "UTF-8"
- in "File Name", type "portable.ini"
- place it inside StepMania5 main folder.
- open your SM5. In Main menu, exit the game.
- open SM5 main folder. You will see extra folders like Cache, Save etc. displayed. "Preference.ini" is inside Save Folder.

thanks @razorblade

sorry for asking so many questions, but here it's the another problem, I don't know you guys either have encountered this kind of problem or not....

When I managed to play a song, I got 18 PERFECTs, the rest is MARVELOUS, so my score is supposed to be 999,820, is that right?
but the result only came out with 992,030, what is that problem actually? http://imageshack.us/f/822/20121228005932.jpg/
Somehow, the score can be calculated accurately for some certain songs~~~~ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/831/20121228020126.jpg/