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--- stepmania:variants [2025/06/18 21:34] – raccoon
+++ stepmania:variants [2025/06/18 21:46] (current) – raccoon
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   sm5-- (forked) -->outfox[Project OutFox]
   itg-. (inspired) .->itgmania
-  sm5-- (forked) -->itgmania[ITGMania]
+  sm5-- (forked) -->itgmania[ITGmania]
   style itg fill:#fdd,stroke:#f77
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 Any one of these forks can play normal StepMania charts on either pad or keyboard just fine, and they’re largely interchangeable for this basic purpose. The differences lie in the community niches they serve.
-==== ITGMania ====
+==== ITGmania ====
 A 5.1 fork for the ‘post-ITG’ community. Content and events therefore cater mostly to dance pad play (and the integrated online leaderboard //GrooveStats// isn’t accessible to keyboard players).
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-Each one of these games has unique features and sub-communities, but my personal preference is ITGMania for general play, both for keyboard and dance pad. I also have NotITG installed for weird modcharts, and OutFox for BMS simfiles with note sounds.
+My personal preference is ITGmania for general play, both for keyboard and dance pad. I also have NotITG installed for weird modcharts, and OutFox for BMS simfiles with note sounds. Despite being a keyboard player from time to time I haven’t tried Etterna very much myself.
 ===== the ITG offset problem =====
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   * keep two entire stepmanias around and only give packs of one type to each one.
   * for any new pack you download that isn't in your preferred offset, open up each song's simfile (.sm, .ssc) and modify the ''#OFFSET'' tag depending on your preference.
-  * use ITGMania, and add a ''pack.ini'' file specifying the correct ''SyncOffset'' to each pack you download that lacks one.
+  * use ITGmania, and add a ''pack.ini'' file specifying the correct ''SyncOffset'' to each pack you download that lacks one.
-The last option is my personal preference. The ''pack.ini'' file is new with the release of ITGMania 1.0.0 (13 Mar 2025) and no other StepMania fork has adopted it yet at the time of writing, but it doesn't require any further fiddling once you've done it, and it isn't as invasive to the original song data as altering the simfiles themselves is.
+The last option is my personal preference. The ''pack.ini'' file is new with the release of ITGmania 1.0.0 (13 Mar 2025) and no other StepMania fork has adopted it yet at the time of writing, but it doesn't require any further fiddling once you've done it, and it isn't as invasive to the original song data as altering the simfiles themselves is.
 The file looks like this:
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 I've commented out several optional fields which you may make use of for display and sorting purposes. The relevant field in our case is ''SyncOffset=NULL'' (or, ''SyncOffset=ITG'').
-To change which ''SyncOffset'' ITGMania //assumes// the pack to be when ''pack.ini'' is not present, you can navigate to Graphics/Sound Options ingame and change the Default Sync Offset setting. This may be useful if you don't want to modify //all// of the packs you download, but you know that you mostly tend to download one type over the other.
+To change which ''SyncOffset'' ITGmania //assumes// the pack to be when ''pack.ini'' is not present, you can navigate to Graphics/Sound Options ingame and change the Default Sync Offset setting. This may be useful if you don't want to modify //all// of the packs you download, but you know that you mostly tend to download one type over the other.
 If you want to determine algorithmically whether a pack is meant to be null or ITG, you may be helped by the tool [[https://github.com/telperion/nine-or-null/releases|+9ms or null?]]