Official Simfile To-Do List

Currently waiting on the new Challenge charts added in Grand Prix Chart Pack vol.2.

1st:
MAKE IT BETTER (S/D14)

2ndMIX:
AM-3P (S/D13)

3rdMIX:
Silent Hill (S13 / D12)

4thMIX:
BABY BABY GIMME YOUR LOVE (S12 / D13)
DROP OUT (S16 / D17)

MAX:
exotic ethnic (S/D15)

EXTREME:
321STARS (S14 / D15)

SuperNOVA:
AA (S/D17)
DanDanDo (S/D16)

SuperNOVA2:
Silver Platform - I wanna get your heart - (S/D13)

Done, thank you.

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Banners for this songs :

1116 (there are in unofficial steps made by users)
Bad Maniacs (there are in unofficial steps made by users)
Big Som Tam
Bye Or Not
Byoushin Wo Kamu
Ima Koko Kono Shunkan
Mikazuki Connect
Quaver
Sahara (there are in unofficial steps made by users)
Shippuujinrai
Saiph
Steps For Victory

Been biting my tongue for a long while, but something about the way simfiles are handled here that is bothering me.

Seems like at least one pack of songs for older mixes (pre-X-difficulty-scale) (MAYBE more? I need to check carefully) have been given the DDR X difficulty scale ratings. DDR SuperNOVA AC's simfiles being one example off the top of my head.

I really hope I don't come off as a total cuntwaffle or anything. Again, this has been bugging me for a LONG while, but shouldn't they have the difficulty ratings and scales of the song they were released from, which seemed to be the modus operandi for practically forever?

If I’m understanding your complaint correctly, all songs with X Scale ratings in the simfiles have one officially, with a couple exceptions. Like, Un Deux Trois has an X Scale rating for its Beginner - Expert charts but the Challenge chart is Xbox only so it was given a custom one for uniformity. Otherwise all SN1 songs with an X Scale rating have them because they were present in DDR X AC.

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Reasonable question.

Unfortunately, with this logic, you come across the problem where songs have been given new charts, especially as of late, with X-scale ratings. That would mean you'd need to unofficially convert them to the classic scale, which seems arbitrary to me. If I had it my way, all of the official files would get X-scale ratings, mainly taken from Omnimix.

Times have changed. It's no longer ye olden days of DDRUK. Official simfiles now are much more accurate to arcade data than the manual conversions in the past.

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IDK it feels kind of hollow a reason - times changing = people still like to play and simulate older mixes, Not to mention that I could makek an argument for accuracy with regards to the songs being presented the way they are for the respective mixes - people still probably want to get the simfiles as they were. Maybe there should be packs with songs using the scale they had upon release, and packs where the songs all have their DDR X scale adjustment...

I'd also say that a data preservation argument could be made - not everything gets archived by the likes of archive.org even in this day and age.

It’s not a bad idea since the DDRUK downloads are gone now. There is a thread here where someone went back and restored the old ratings if you want that, but it’s not as high profile as the hosted simfiles for sure.

From a coding stand point, how difficult would it be to make the simfiles here generate a .sm file with the respective difficulty level on the fly? I know next to nothing about this kind of stuff, maybe no one had the idea or maybe it’s just an unreasonable question. But like instead of having the one listed set of difficulties on the page, list classic and modern for any simfile that has both. Then since the zips are generated on the fly already have part of that process be to put the correct rating into the .sm file when someone clicks the classic or modern zip button. Songs released from DDR X and onwards would only have one button, songs that never appeared in DDR X or later would only have one as well. The mainline songs would get priority for this, but eventually it could include songs shared in X2 and Hottest Party 3, and songs that were in Universe 3 and X2, and what not.

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