Stepmania forums
but there's one problem and that's the arcade cabinet lights.Ī Background on the problem with Light Output and SM:īeware's Extreme, being based on SM 3.9 has one significant problem: SM 3.9 has a lot of problems with light output. This gets me most of the way there, the game on-screen looks like the real Arcade DDR, it plays like the real Arcade DDR, and I can manage my own custom song lists. ^astute DDR players will notice that is the Extreme song selection interface but that's (and a few others) are not tracks available on Extreme Most user created track files only included very high difficulty versions and are missing the light/standard level variants, so be wary of that if you're new to this Zenius-i-vanisher (or ZIV) also hosts a pretty comprehensive database of song files that you can use: įor User Files I highly recommend checking out the "SpeirMix" collections, they're very well done and similar quality to the originally Konami tracks. The benefit of course is that it also supports the ability to load up any StepMania or Open ITG songs. It's a nearly perfect recreation of DDR Extreme. I found someone who calls themselves Beware who had made a complete "Simulation" of DDR Extreme using the StepMania v3.9 Source Code. The Ultimate goal is to have a DDR machine that looks and plays like the original arcade version but is capable of offering thousands of songs to choose from and allows me to easily add or remove songs as I like.įrom what I understand there's no way to do this with the original System 573 hardware (maybe there is some solution on SOWS but I'm not privy to it) Many people like to run Open In the Groove (the software that runs the dance machines of the same name) which is based on StepMania and is an open source knock-off of Dance Dance Revolution.
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But I wanted to load new songs on the game, play the entire DDR song catalog and more. $600 and a month of work later I had a machine that looked and played like new. The cab needed a lot of work but I got it for cheap money so I didn't mind fixing it up. but was converted to a bootleg copy of Extreme. I believe it had originally shipped as a 5th Mix in Japan. It's a traditional 2-player "SD" Japanese cab (Commonly referred to as an "Extreme cab"). (also mini-rant: when someone asked on Reddit two years ago about a StepMania port on Wii, there was one idiot that at least didn't get up-voted that said that there was absolutely no way that StepMania would be able to run on the Wii.A few years ago I bought one of my all time favorite arcade games, Dance Dance Revolution. Sadly 2 or 3 songs even got corrupted between PC transfers, one of which is an unknown remix of (green) Brinstar from Super Metroid that I got from BemaniStyle before that site had major data loss sometime in the mid-2000s. The main reason I care about being able to run it in an emulator is for a much more elegant solution to being cross-platform and/or platform independent considering that I've still got 2000+ StepMania songs from 15+ years ago originating from an old Win98SE PC that ran on a 533MHz Celeron. My only guess is that people specifically wanted handheld versions and saw no need for home-console versions when the PC version exists. Why you might ask? Because AFAIK this should by far be the only version of StepMania that runs on a platform with very active emulator development that isn't natively a mere 272p or 192p since, for some crazy reason, there never was an adequately-functional Wii homebrew port/recreation (which still kind of burns me up) despite there being two recreations for the DS (DsDsR and DDS) and one port and one recreation for the PSP (PSPMania and PSPR). Slight necro-posting, but I just want to thank OP very much for making this StepMania port despite not actually owning a Switch. You can find for example a few packs of songs on Stepmania Online or Otaku's Dream Website here. You can install songs by simply putting them in a subfolder of your Songs-folder in the directory you installed Stepmania to. Then, run the game from the hbmenu using hbl.īe sure to run it as an app, it won't work as an applet (you may get a black screen and/or crashes). Įxtract the archive in the /switch folder on your SD Card. You can download the latest release here on github.
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It is customizable with user-made add-ons such as themes, and provides an integrated editor for creating your own simfiles. It supports common key-based rhythm game formats (including 4-panel and 5-panel dance games among others), as well as Switch controllers (joycons recommended for their individual buttons), keyboard and dance pad controllers (ex: Gamecube ones with adapter).
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StepMania is a free and open source, cross-platform rhythm game.