Mute's Pro Syncing Guide ~ UPDATED 11/02/11

[Sk37ch]

Hey. I am fairly new to all of this. I used to play dancing games a lot and recently decided to get back into it. I have a few very old files that I made a long time ago, and I am trying to ensure that these files are going to be sync when I go to the arcade, along with old Bemaniruler and tournamix stuff that I have on my PC.

But I have OpenITG. How does that apply to this guide? Do I still need to change my global offset in all of the theme folders, or is there another way of doing this? Or do I not need to change anything in terms of the OpenITG global offset to have my files sync with an r21 or r23 machine?

Thanks in advance.

-Anthony

[sudzi781]

OpenITG follows the same process, go to the data folder, open stepmania.ini, and change the GlobalOffsetSeconds line to -.012, nothing needs to be done to the theme folders, and then you can do the waveform syncing as the guide shows.

[Sk37ch]

There is no stepmania.ini file in OpenITG>Data. I tried searching around for a while before I posted here but could not find any information.

[SM MaxX]

Might be better to put it in Static.ini actually; just add the line GlobalOffsetSeconds=-0.012 in there and it should work.

[Sk37ch]

Great. I will definitely do that.

Before I came across this guide, a friend of mine told me to change my Global Offset to -0.016 in Stepmania. The number is not extremely important because I will just follow what this guide says to do. However being that I did not have a stepmania.ini file, I assumed that I was supposed to do this in the themes folder, so every theme configuration file that i came across that had global offset in it, I changed it to -0.016.

My follow-up question is; just for confirmation, should I go back and change all of the global offsets that I originally changed in my themes folders back to 0 after I add the -0.016 global offset in the static.ini file? Or will it even matter after I add the global offset in the static.ini file?

[SM MaxX]

Static.ini overides any other instance of GO so no it won't matter.

[SM MaxX]

Sorry to bump this like a n00b but I just to get this answered:

Say I have a value of -0.020 for the offset, to the third step it should be -0.017, correct? Or am I adding backwards?

[mute]

Say I have a value of -0.020 for the offset, to the third step it should be -0.017, correct?

No.

-0.020 - 0.003 = -0.023

Come on, man. Simple arithmetic.

[SM MaxX]

Well now I know.

[Blinded No More]

OK I have changed the offset to -0.012, but both my ITG/ITG2 files (from Zenius-I-vanisher) AND files from Mute Sims are offsync. What gives?

[RedEnchilada]

Changing the sync will probably throw your in-game timing off, but it adjusts the editor's numbers properly so that when it's perfectly on-sync according to the numbers, it'll be perfectly on-sync on an actual arcade cabinet. That's what I'm getting from the tutorial.

(Ironically, said sync is perfect on my laptop, insofar as I can even tell.)

[Blinded No More]

Changing the sync will probably throw your in-game timing off, but it adjusts the editor's numbers properly so that when it's perfectly on-sync according to the numbers, it'll be perfectly on-sync on an actual arcade cabinet. That's what I'm getting from the tutorial.

(Ironically, said sync is perfect on my laptop, insofar as I can even tell.)

Ah OK, I'll have to try the files on Edit Mode and see if they're onsync. Thanks.

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(Ironically, said sync is perfect on my laptop, insofar as I can even tell.)

Step 1...This has nothing to do with being able to FA the file on your personal computer setup.

[TYLR]

I think he was saying that arcade sync just happens to be perfect on his computer.

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Oh, well nevermind in that case.