Preferred rating/difficulty system?

[Brennan47]

What difficulty rating system to you prefer for Stepmania songs? Which system do you use now for your own simfiles? I use Extended ITG and I've used Extended DDR X. I prefer Extended ITG.

Traditional DDR(1 to 10): The system used by DDR before DDR X. 1 is an easy beginner song, 10 is songs like max 300, no ratings above 10.

ITG(1 to 13): Like Traditional DDR, but goes to 13 instead to indicate harder songs. No ratings above 13.

Extended ITG: Like ITG, but allows ratings above 13 for very difficult songs.

DDR X(1 to 20): The new rating scale used in DDR X that goes from 1 to 20. Max 300 is a 15 here.

Extended DDR X: Like DDR X, but allows ratings over 20 for very difficult songs.

Mungyodance(1 to 100+): Basically Extended ITG times 10, an ITG 10 would be a 100. Allows for more precise ratings.

Old Keyboard Scale: Before ITG, 11s and 12s were difficult keyboard songs harder than ITG 11s and 12s.

Other Scales: Pump It Up(1 to 23), IIDX(1 to 12), your own scale that you made up, etc.

[Chewi☆]

DDR X, it's what I use for my simfiles.

[DigiMindAxel]

Even though I'm used to the traditional DDR scale (1-10), I prefer the DDR X scale (1-20).
I use the traditional DDR scale right now for my simfiles, but maybe I'm going to change to the DDR X scale soon.

[KGWrave]

I'm old school. I suppose I still use the old keyboard scale.

[Sodachampion]

ddr traditional for sure

[hooky123]

DDR X, but possibly extended if a song's super-hard.

[MarioMan]

where do you donwload the 1-20 footer graph

[Meseki]

Game Database - DDR & DS - Zenius -I- vanisher.com -5th style- II

The full list of songs in DDR X AC currently known (including old songs), with all of their difficulty ratings.

EDIT: I'm using ITG scale for my simfiles (haven't made something hard enough for extended), but I prefer DDR X scale since it's more accurate for me to say I'm at the level of 14/20 (having beaten 2 15s, which may or may not have been considered a 9/10 with how SN2 ratings were going) than saying I was at 9/10s.

[MdX MaxX]

For me it's a trade-off between Traditional DDR and Extended ITG. I think I used DDR in most of my older sims, but now I use Ext. ITG for anything that should be above a 10.

[MarioMan]

i perrsonally perfer the 1-20 like every one else because it show the real diffculty rating

[TougaKiryuu]

It really depends as far as what rating system I'd go with. The traditional 1-10 is for the most part what I would go with, but on occasions.. you get those charts that are retarded and require a higher rating. Pump's 1-23 just doesn't seem right so for the retard-esque steps I'd have to go with DDRX 1-20.

[MrTM2]

If konami would fix Arrabbiata's heavy rating, all would be fine. And bag's rating. They need to be 14's. And Shades of Grey. Besides those, love 1-20!

[TrueFSX]

I use extended ITG. StepMania 3.9 and 4.0 have lots of hardcoded behavior that wants everything to be in a DDR-type scale. Really, I think of the ITG scale and extensions of it as extended DDR.

[Meseki]

Originally Posted by MrTM2

If konami would fix Arrabbiata's heavy rating, all would be fine. And bag's rating. They need to be 14's. And Shades of Grey. Besides those, love 1-20!

Arrabbiata and bag are fine as they are right now. bag is considerably easier than it looks if you just use a speed mod, and the only way I can think of that someone wouldn't think of Arabbiata as a 15 is if they have never played the song on a pad.
Shades of Gray could probably be a 10, but it isn't too bad as an 11.

[bms348]

Originally Posted by TrueFSX

I use extended ITG. StepMania 3.9 and 4.0 have lots of hardcoded behavior that wants everything to be in a DDR-type scale. Really, I think of the ITG scale and extensions of it as extended DDR.

This. Until StepMania 4.9 comes out and fully supports the 1-20 system, I'll stick with 1-10 for now. And I'm still acclimating to the new system.