Jake Anderson wrote:
> you sure you guys need the milisecond timing and stuff about people slowly
> stepping on it things like that?

On the most extreme possible settings (300bpm, within 1/32 beat), to get
perfect points one pad can need to be hit within +=6.25 ms, giving a
12.5ms window.  On more reasonable settings, it's more like two to ten
times that, but some of the better players actually approach the limits.
  There's also an unavoidable 1-5ms between each time the console polls
the pad.

As far as people gradually stepping on pads, it does happen
occasionally.  Step-and-hold happens all the time, though, and I think
most of the difficulties in detecting step-and-hold are the same as in
detecting gradual pressure.

-Rick Luddy

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