u/kimchifist

I last played stepmania maybe 6+? years ago and just downloaded ITGmania recently. Does anybody know how the old "marvelous" timing window compares to the "fantastic" window in ITGmania? I used to use the default judge difficulty of 4 in both ITGmania and stepmania and I'm having some timing difficulty. Either my timing has gotten a lot worse or the "fantastic" window on judge(4) is tighter than the "marvelous" window on judge(4).

Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what version of stepmania I used to play on and apologize if it depends highly on the version. I wouldnt' say the 'fantastic' window is significantly tighter than the old 'marvelous' window that I remember, but I feel like the 'great' window is quite a bit tighter in ITGmania than the 'great' in stepmania I remember. I may have just gotten a lot worse though.

I've played this game so many times and I've never seen these damn things (Star Ocean: The Second Story). Every other rare item I've seen countless times. On emulator I just tried ~10,000 times at level 10 machinery with Precis without any success. I've done far fewer attempts at levels 1-9, maybe several hundred each, but I've found very little information on these elusive boots...it seems like almost nobody has gotten them. I've done about 30,000 total attempts but I estimate only about 1/3 successfully created an item. I didn't use orchestra because that would take so much longer and I believe that only affects whether the creation is successful or not. I can easily get all of Opera's rare KM's and weapons through machinery without orchestra.

Have any of you gotten these and if so, do you remember anything about that playthrough? I really think there is some restriction that is preventing me from getting them because nothing in the game is remotely close to being this rare.

-- Spoiler Warning -- ZvZ is so volatile that it's so hard to really be super confident in anybody except for JvZ back in the day.