Stepmania decided to copy dance mat only UI from arcade machines, without any keyboard backup.
#Where to put stepmania song packs how to
The next problem is how to actually choose those songs. It seems latest version and SSD finally made it tolerable, but seriously, just checking that a few thousand tiny files didn't change shouldn't take this kind of crazy time. Stepmania will take forever to actually start, like literally over 15 minutes. Stepmania UI is atrocious, especially when you have a lot of songsĪll right let's say I have a few thousand songs now. This wouldn't be a huge deal if there was a way to filter that out easily, but there isn't. There's plenty of songs which have very questionable ratings, and are actually a lot harder than other songs at same ratings. There's plenty of songs which are poorly synced. Most of user-made content is decent enough, but it's far too common that there's bullshit songs with ratings like 12-20, which are presumably meant for the keyboard, or maybe arcade machines with safety rail, since it would be unsafe to even try on a soft dance mat, regardless of one's skill level. The songpacks are basically whatever the author decided to throw there, so I'm generally only interested in very small portion of each, but let's say I keep them all, as at this stage I don't know if those songs are any good or not. So I got a bunch of random songpacks, basically keyword matching artists I might like. Stepmania tries to avoid any direct entanglements with all those copyright issues, and unfortunately that means it avoids actually trying to solve the problems. The first problem is that music is totally free online on youtube and such, but Big Copyright would never allow a healthy ecosystem of dance games, because they just love the whale exploitation model of "$5 for 3 songs", and the market is too small for someone to force them to be reasonable.
#Where to put stepmania song packs plus
Supposedly official games exist, but they have like 50 songs per game, plus a few "$5 for 3 songs" DLCs, and mostly only work on some weird-ass consoles.īasically the only option for it is using Stepmania, and downloading some user-made songpacks. In my younger days I did a lot of Dance Dance Revolution, and every now and then I come back to it. Back in 2009 I even wrote a rant about Stepmania, and here's another one.
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