DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2/X/X2/X3 scoring and grading system
Add an option to Score and Grade your results after songs in the most current DanceDanceRevolution method further explained in the following link: http://aaronin.jp/ss9.html
The scoring system will stay as it is..
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Nicholas NRG commented
I mistakenly thought I read a response to my comment late, and now I'm realizing it actually came before my response. I already wrote all this stuff, so I might as well post it anyways. ^^;
Most players by now are more familiar with the current DDR scoring system used in DDR 2014. Since that game has online leaderboards, and most YouTube videos of DDR records use scores given by that game, players could see what kind of score they would potentially get on the DDR leaderboards by practicing on BeatX. It's also much easier to know which grading you will get by just looking at the score. Anything lower than 700,000 is a D, and losing all your health is obviously an E or an F. 700,000+ is a C, 800,000+ is a B, 900,000+ is an A, 950,000+ is AA, 990,000+ is a AAA (you can also get this by getting all Perfects and NO Marvelous, you can also get greats and under and still get AAA by making up for them with more Marvelous steps), 999,000+ is a perfect full combo (the traditional "no greats or lower" AAA from older DDR games) and 1,000,000 is a Marvelous full combo with no Perfects or lower. If you get a AAA, the lowest judgement you receive is signified with a colored ring on top of the grading, so if a AAA has a white or yellow ring you know that it would be a legit AAA in older mixes. It's very comprehensive and easy get used to, whereas the current scoring system can't be used to determine the final grading, you have to look at the judgements received instead and calculate percentages, which is more complex. Lower difficulties have lower score requirements for gradings as seen in the page I linked. Those don't have to be implemented, but casual players of lower difficulties might be less discouraged by getting those gradings instead. Is there not a way to have the leaderboards converted to a new scoring system? Don't the amount of Perfects, greats... etc get uploaded along with the final score?
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Nicholas NRG commented
The scoring system used in the latest DDR games is favorable to the older system because it is very comprehensible and makes much more sense, essentially working as a percentage of sorts. It makes a lot more sense to get a B with a score of 800,000 on Expert, and an A with the same score on Basic, because the reduced amount of notes means that the scoring should be more forgiving since the reduced amount of arrows makes it harder to compensate for bad judgements, and the resulting grade can be discouraging despite having done considerably well for a beginner. The score of 990,000 required in order to get a AAA also makes sense because it is the result of getting all Perfects, since back then there was no Marvelous, so you can compensate for a few greats with many Marvelous and get a AAA after all. However, AAA's with greats or lower could be graded as AA's for BeatX, if you want to keep the classic style. In short terms, the new scoring system is perfectly consistent, and perfectly complements your judgements, difficulty, the amount of steps in a song, the resulting grade, and overall tells you just exactly how well you did in a particular stepchart. You can also easily compare your performance to records in actual recent DDR machines. Bonus scores are confusing, and there should be an option to turn them off or just be removed all together.
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The game scoring system is based on this
http://aaronin.jp/taren/scoring/ss3.html
I just don't see any reason why to change this and dump all the leaderboards
Yet i'm open to any reasoning as i just don't know much about the various scoring systems..
Could you please describe in more detail what is wrong with the ddr4?
M.
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Nicholas NRG commented
This scoring system just seems to make a lot more sense than the one currently used in the app. The score, percentage and grade don't complement each other at all. SN2's system fixes this with a more comprehensive scoring system.