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Put them together, and the possibilities are nearly limitless. A few other SM AP Is have been utilized in such a way, such as ActorProxy (which can be used to re-render part of the screen, or even the entire screen as an actor), and more prominently, 5.0.x's ActorFrameTexture (a system that allows a texture to be created out of any other actor).Perhaps the most well-known example of such a 'mod file' is TaroNuke's 'Megalovania', which is just as deviously difficult as its source material. The ability to place elements of background animations in the foreground has also been heavily utilized in such simfiles, often in tandem with other forms of scripting. Thus, not only can you manipulate the normal modifiers, you can also re-position screen elements and the notefield itself, and even embed minigames right into songs. In addition to all the stuff In the Groove had in Marathon Mode AND Negative-BPM/Warp shenanigans, a portion of the engine's core is exposed to a Lua API (partially on 3.95, and even more so on 5.0.x), so Lua scripts can be embedded within songs using the background animation system as a backdoor.

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The reason why 90% of charts are full of Fake Difficulty probably starts here when people don't realize this. Then again, even if you can play the game extremely well, it takes some talent to actually make a good stepchart yourself.

High Hopes, Zero Talent: It takes some skill to play the game.

The only qualifier for the songs in the pack is that it's impossible to get 100% of the score.

The Hard Songs Mega Packs (HSMP for short) are intentionally this, full of overly difficult songs, weather they be well done or full of Fake Difficulty.

Judgerank 8 is bearable, Justice is considered impossible by all but a select few that get shunned on every community. It also makes it to where if you lift your foot off the pad during a freeze note (or hit a roll), you will automatically drop the note.

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Justice shrinks it down to 1/5th normal timing window, leaving a timing window of +/- 0.036 of a second to get anything other than a miss (comparable to the Perfect timing windows in DDR). For reference, the difficulty right below it shrinks the timing window down to 1/3 their normal size. Default names for each difficulty level, from hardest to easiest, are: Challenge > Hard > Medium > Easy > Beginner with Edit charts usually being harder than Challenge.Furthermore, it is possible to set AutoplaењњPU to perform 100% Marvelous/Fantastics by modifying AI.ini. Stepmania 3.95, OpenITG, and beyond allows AutoplaењњPU to be accessed during normal gameplay (other versions are used for the attract mode demo only).Used when you want to see a stepchart without having to play it. Autoplay hits all arrows perfectly, but disqualifies you from making new records.

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This includes the use of negative BP Ms or macros that utilizes mods during gameplay. While respected for making the game play different, some builds or computers won't be able to handle it, causing the game to crash instead. Older versions of Stepmania cannot handle rolls and can cause the game to crash.

Attempts to use special features like rolls.

This is actually the hardest to get right (it's an art, the first two are a science). Mashing a button/arrow down at 4 times the BPM of the song is not fun nor some random jumble that doesn't flow with the song.

Overstepping (placing notes that do not exist in the corresponding music), annoying patterns, or haphazardly placed notes.

Even if you're off by 0.1 BPM, it's enough to throw the song off before a minute is up.

People don't offset the music, meaning even if the chart is spot on, the every note will be off by some fraction of a beat.

Fake Difficulty: Given this is open source and people can create simfiles, this is often unintentional.

Then there's increasing the judgement level all the way up to Justice.

Challenge Run: You can increase the rate at which the song is played, increasing the BPM and making it harder.

Boss in Mook Clothing: There are simfiles of popular songs out there from artists like Justin Bieber called dumps that have charts that don't make any sense and are made to be as difficult as possible.