![]() ![]() 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. 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"). Standard/Medium=Red (SM 3.A few years ago I bought one of my all time favorite arcade games, Dance Dance Revolution.Beginner/Novice=Light blue (SM 3.9)/Purple (SM5).The more "foot" icons you see - the harder. This way, you don't need to re-boot the game every time you want to change the level of difficulty you play. When you are looking through songs, you change change the difficulty of the song (if that specific songs will allow you to) by simply pressing up or down on your arrows. If a song is 5 or more minutes long, it will be considered a "Marathon" and will count as 3 stages, which means on a normal 3-song set, this will be the only song you can play. Songs longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds will not load on machines unless you use the ogg length patch which will trick the machine into thinking your song is 1:45 long and will make it playable.ĭifferent difficulties are available in different slots. If a song is 2:30-4:59 long, it will be considered a "Long Version" and will count as 2 stages. Most DDR standard songs are around 1:30 - 2:00 long. Any song or audio file, as long as it's an mp3, ogg, or wav, can be turned into a song in StepMania. This wiki is intended to be an informational SM wiki, so no fanon content, and putting a separate page about every SM song would cause this wiki to have more than 10,000 pages. WARNING: Do not add separate pages about each SM song on this wiki. ![]()
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