Official StepMania Help, Bug, Error, Fix, News thread

[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

Yes, I see these threads ALL over the place, and considering that people on these boards along with me have good StepMania knowledge then the lessening of those OMG IT WON'T WORK THREADS will lessen up. People tend to just post a new topic when something doesn't work and I hope to discourage that by doing this.
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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

First I'll do Oni Courses:

An Oni course is rather simple if you have all the file names and the way to write the mods down right, I'll show an example Oni Course and if you do it right, then it WILL work, if not, you messed up on the name, the mods, etc:

Legend Road:

[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

OKAY, now characters are a word of mention, so I'll do what I can here:

Okay, first things first, you need the bones files to even RUN the characters (un zip that to Characters in the StepMania folder.) Next comes the characters themselves. Well here's a pic of them at their best:

http://www.savageddr.com/characters/SS.jpg Image Linked not posted

Still want to do them? Ok then, here's what comes next, grab any of these characters:

BY THE WAY, these are all from Savage DDR...why not join their forum boards

, anways:

Lorni & Kangrejo

UhLaLa from Space Channel 5 (2 models)

Master Chief from Halo

Those are just three but give you a good taste of characters. Any issues, post them and I'll try to answer it.

Ok, quick overview, get the bones, extract them to the folder, get the characters, extract THOSE to the SAME folder as the bones (which should be Characters in the SM main folder.) I'm not sure which Alpha runs what but try them on the latest, they'd probably work there.

2-9-04 - Character FAQ started
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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Well how do you get them to work in the NEW version?

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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

The newest, 3.9
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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

I think it's Alpha 10, but I'm not sure. Pretty sure though.
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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

Ok, I'll tackle profiles:

People who hook their pads up to SM sometimes want to keep their Finger Records different from their feet records right? Well here's how to set-up profiles.

Navigate your way to the options screen (or just hit Sc and scroll on down to "Profile Options" (it's between "Sound Options" and "Reload Courses/Songs")

Open the profile screen, then scroll down to Create:New, and hit enter.

Name the name of the profile, such as your name or your nickname, or whatever, then hit ok.

Now, I would do this, make two profiles, one that says <name>PAD and <name>FNGR, or whatever you want, as long as you know what's what, just my opinion, but that way with two profiles it makes it easy to know which is what and yes, this does work if you follow these rules.

Here's a picture showing what I mean:

See how there are two separate profiles? Well here's a way to work it, have it so when you play pad SM, make that player 2, and finger SM, make that player one. If you don't mind going in and switching them everytime you switch between pad and finger, go ahead, it's what works for you. Don't worry about Card Dir Player1/2 for now, that's nothing
that works and as you can see, not supported yet.

When you go to delelte a profile (they hold all you scores and everything) scroll down to delete then scroll over to the profile you want to delete then hit enter and yes, SM will crash, but once reloaded, it will have been deleted. Only will it crash when there is only one profile left and you delete it.

Any errors, post and I will correct them, as usual.
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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

You haven't said anything related to my question yet.

If you don't know, tell me. Jeez.
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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

[S4U] Evo · Trick Member Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: El Paso, Tx

great FAQ but shouldnt you put everything in ONE post instead of having to read through multiple ones to find out the question you have?

just a suggestion

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tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Well the new DDR mixes don't have characters (darn Konami) so since my version is the new SM it probably won't use them since the newer DDR's don't. I need to get a skin or something.
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[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Well I updated a few weeks ago, the characters won't work. Do I need to get a newer version or something?

Edit: I had accidentally installed an old version, I got the newest version, and it works fine

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Yasser · Trick Member Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Location: St. Louis

Okay, I put that code exactly in for Legend Road and nothing showed up....what the hell is wrong with this thing heeeelllppp
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Go see Pulp Fiction. Now.

[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

OH SNAP!

I downloaded 3.0 Final and tried doing a stepfile for a song (ELO's "Turn to Stone") but whenever I try and save the stepfile, play the song in the stepfile editing mode, or try and play the song, the thing crashes out, reporting an access violation error. (Highlighted line, something like "byte ptr 0x00000000".)

This happened on two computers with considerably different hardware! Help!!!

Rook 3 · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

Okay, this Isn't a detrimental error as far as I can tell, but every time I run Alpha 12, I get a "Card Error" on the left player side and a "Insert Card" message on the right player side.

Any idea what these messages mean?

Rook

[DMB]dman.exe · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2003

Alrighty, Alpha, make all your DWIs, with XStep, not from the notepad, makes things easier and more dependable.

Rook3, the error is probably a theme metric mishap, remove all profiles (if you have any) reset your theme to default, exit SM, reload and play. If you still get the error, try better describing it.

Hope that helps.
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