ITG makes you better at DDR?

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

I used to not be able to pass Max 300, now I can AA it. O:
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Shippo · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:

I feel ITG has made me better at DDR...I can now 'AA' Max 300 and could pass MaxX and PSMO...so yeah...maybe its just me?...oh well, to each his own, right?

djzmudpony · Trick Member Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Location: Edison, NJ

Okay, since everyone else is posting, I might as well speak of my new accomplishments.

Prior to playing ITG, I could only pass LoM with C's and an occasional B. The whole problem was the stamina issue. Usually around the 50th measure, my legs would start dying on me (note that I save the raping for my fiance) and by the last run, I'd be out of it.

Now, I land solid A's (almost an AA!) on LoM . Without a doubt, the two minute songs in ITG have increased my stamina greatly.
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Rancidfish · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:08 am Post subject:

Before I played ITG, I could pass PARANOiA Survivor and I could barely pass MAX 300.

Now, I passed MAX 300, MaxX Unlimited, and PSMO...
...back to back...
...on double.

ITG helps with the stamina just a bit, I'd reckon.
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Snapps50 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Dec 2004

You don't need 20+ people to answer a specific question.

"Will ITG make you better at DDR?"

Yes.

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject:

Uh, no. It's different for everyone. I know of at least two people that have SUCKED at DDR because of ITG/ITG2.

Like one of our members on the team used to SDG everything and because of ITG/ITG2, he gets like 30s and on the offbeat songs he gets 100+.
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RadMooseKiller · Trick Member Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Location: Northeast Ohio

before i played ITG, i played DDR 1x no bar. once i started playing ITG, i played 3x for everything up to 150 BPM, and used the bar for everything. when i played DDR after playing ITG for 2 months, i did the same; used speed mods to make the scroll rate around 450 BPM. but on DDR that seemed really fast, and hard to read. is it just me, or is the scroll rate on DDR much faster than ITG?
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Snapps50 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Dec 2004

DDR's speed is infact faster than what it should be with speed mods. I am pretty sure if it states its on 2x it will actually speed the rate up by two times, making it a double speed. On ITG, since it is Stepmania and that the screen is also I think a bit larger, it scrolls at a different rate up yet at the same time doubles what it should be.

I don't know.

Why am I even posting here.

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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:26 am Post subject:

I think it's the different frame rates that they scroll at. Speed mods are speed mods. They multiply based on the rate you set it to to do so. Math is math, it's calculated correctly.

I think it's cause DDR's frame rate runs more smoothly.
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RMBO · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:

In the Groove 2 is sick

. Ever since I started playing ITG2, my DDR play has gone way up because it takes way more stamina to play the longer songs of ITG2. Period. Just the other day I double A'd Angelic mix in the teens... (18) I think? I had never gotten that kind of score on that kind of song before. I wonder what kind of songs their going to have on ITG3

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patrickstar2o6 · Trick Member Joined: 26 Aug 2005

Uh i think it really helps, i am fat and ITG is a good way to build stamina since the songs are longer and harder, i play heavy and uh It does help, i think that you are over confident that you can beat anything so probably thats why you got an A or maybe you are too used to ITG now, oh yeah and i beat Trip Machine Climax, a song i couldnt beat but it was on 4th mix : )

RMBO · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject:

Is is true that ITG has fewer frames per second than DDR

? I knew there was a reason why speeding things up made songs so much easier on ITG...
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Kyrandian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR

ITG and DDR both run at ~60 fps, but ITG looks much smoother for whatever reason.

claw · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject:

The ITG screen is WAY larger on a dedicated cabinet. That could be the reason. Also, ITG increased my stamina TONS. Before, I could barely past Max300: sometimes C, mostly fail. Today I played it 3rd song, A'd it, wasn't even tired.

Also I played a nonstop that was this:

1. Rhythm and Police (H)
2. Cartoon Heroes (H)
3. Little B!tch (H)
4. Max300 (H)

and beat it easily.

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ThemsAllTook · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Location: Virginia, USA

From what I hear, on dedicated cabinets it runs at 75 frames per second. Makes quite a difference.

J. S. Mill · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject:

Of course it helps your DDR, they are transient skills.
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