What are Reddit's favorite Rhythm Game Apps?
osu!
Flash Flash Revolution
StepMania
Frets on Fire
Phase Shift
opsu!
Cytus
Rocksmith
Geometry Dash
Top Reddit reviews mentioning Rhythm Game Apps:
https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2017-03-18-introducing-to-you-spotlights
TLDR: The best/most noteworthy maps of a month are picked and put into a ranking. The more points you gather in these maps, the high your ranking is in the ranking charts: https://osu.ppy.sh/p/chart
Toy is basically farming supporter as the top scorer is rewarded by 1 month supp
its ok its only malware just install it anyways
(real talk make sure you are getting your osu from here https://osu.ppy.sh/home/download and if you are its most likely a false positive, though peppy did burn down a church while filming so he is probably capable of this too, you never know)
Play osu! with mouse and Hidden mod and you'll learn to track well without thinking too much about it.
There is one hotkey that will be useful for your situation: target champions only (something like that). Look for it and set it to a convenient key. It prevents you from targeting (autos & abilities) anything that's not a champion. I play locked so I personally have it set to space bar and use it almost every trade/fight to avoid casting on a minion as you describe.
Fun fact! September 2021 also marks 4 years of Project Loved! The first ever iteration of Project Loved (formerly Loved: Captain's Pick) was started in September of 2017! https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2017-09-25-introducing-the-loved-captains-pick
Thank you everyone for helping us keep this going for 4 years, here's to many more. 🥂
People who REALLY want to play nowadays but can't find any machines near them will sometimes buy functional metal pads that you'd see on the actual machines, and then hook them up to arcade emulators, or something like StepMania. If you want to just play something that looks just like DDR but don't necessarily care for using your feet and are fine with using your fingers, then you can play StepMania with your keyboard. I downloaded a few songpacks and I have a lot of fun with it! It's a great time killer.
The stepmania subreddit is also relatively active too, and is a great place to read up on where to start and what songpacks to get. /r/stepmania
The news post states that participants must "[not have] violated the osu! community rules in the past 12 months". You can be certain that this is going to be thoroughly checked before allowing someone to play, or this rule would make no sense. If you got silenced or restricted recently and you were applying to play for the world cup, it means you've broken the rules in the past 12 months and you received a punishment for it. It's that simple.
Here's a link to the post: https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2018-07-25-MWC4K-2018-registrations-open
Of course none of the people affected are going to find a "proper reason" for it. Nobody wants to admit they broke the rules and tried to hide it. They're just lying - they know why they were restricted/silenced but they won't tell you because they care about their image. Maybe they even think that they can stir up drama to force staff to give them what they know they don't deserve.
Honestly, these tryhard attempts at drama are getting tiring. There's always some big lash about it every year for every tournament, where players pretend they didn't do anything and peppy has to personally intervene and shut them up. Almost every time it turns out that the people instigating drama were lying (with a few exceptions where mistakes are made, which would have been cleared if the person even bothered contacting support).
It's the same for you. Either you know what you've done, and you're trying to cause an uproar hoping that the community voice will allow you to get away with what you did, or you're actually confused and you should contact support (which they expect you to, by the way) to clear things up. In both cases, posting on reddit is not the way to go. You're just making things worse for absolutely everyone.
I know it's lacking a bit cringe-wise but I think the overwhelming sadness of the situation makes up for it.
Fortunately it seems he was aware of his self-destruction and has stopped playing the game in hopes of a happier life.
Not sure if that website is the original mayflash I'm thinking of but they (mayflash) used to be the better brand of Video game usb adapters for pc. I assume they still are but there are more premium brands with nicer aesthetic designs these days. As for your dance pad I don't think mayflash designed or built it this website is just selling these products in wholesale.
As for buying another, You can try this redditor if your lucky they still have it https://www.reddit.com/r/Stepmania/comments/41q13v/help_with_mayflash_tx4000_pads/cz49hzp/
or you could try this one although it's not specifically for your pad but for the tx1000,2000,3000 models so it may work for yours or at worst you'll need to re arrange the pin out on the cable coming out of your pad to make it work.
and lastly it looks like you can make your own if you have some basic wiring skills. no soldering required. https://www.stepmania.com/forums/input-adapters-and-controllers/show/5493
I think it's mostly moved to phase shift. While the website looks terrible, the game is extremely well thought out and works great with all the instruments from rockband(360 wired versions) and even keyboard if you want.
Sort of, I play opsu! an open source osu! client that runs on linux (I would play on windows, but I only have Linux boxes atm). I've only played original osu! a little bit, but opsu! seems to be a pretty faithful implementation except it's much harder to fail a beatmap. A hear osu! is going open source soon, so a linux port should be coming soon.
You should look into some of the fan clones of the game for PCs
https://code.google.com/p/fofix/ Fofix - Loads of songs reasonable fan support to getting things working.
http://www.dwsk.co.uk/ Phase Shift - Even more songs, compatible as I understand with all the ones from Fofix and not as good a range of support.
Well worth it if you like to expand your collection. My other half has digitised 100s of their songs for both games to play on their eDrum.
8.56 actually (didn't expect to find this in comments section lol)
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And it's probably still 8 star in fallback client
I mean, why are we even reigniting dramas ? I thought that we didn't do that anymore since the Cookiezi askfm thingies.
He even apologized : http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?p=4384015#post4384015
I mean, yeah, he may be a dick, but I don't see the point of ruining one's achievement because of his personnality. I hate jhlee since this drama (and a lot of other koreans who were revealed to be toxic such as ABCD♪) but they still are really good players and I don't see the point of saying they don't deserve it.
here is a helpful picture dictionary on ffr (scroll down to the gifs)
the only thing it doesnt cover is chordjacks because they're relatively new to the meta (in the west at least), but they're basically patterns with repeated chords (jumps, hands, quads). an example of a chordjack file is the lost dedicated from the pack fullerene shift. here is a picture example from said file
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Where the fuck did these people get their osu!.exes from??????
Everything on https://osu.ppy.sh/home/download and https://github.com/ppy/osu/releases is safe, has always been safe, and will always be safe.
Hello /r/all, this post is a screenshot of the results screen of a very awesome score in the free online rhythm game osu!. The title means:
WhiteCat - the player in question.
BABYMETAL - Road of Resistance [Rebellion] - the song, and difficulty played.
+HR - the game modifiers used in this play. HR (Hard Rock) makes the approach circles faster, inverts the map vertically, minimizes the perfect hit range and makes the circles smaller for a more difficult experience.
99.70% - the play's accuracy. Note that this is the one and only FC with hardrock, but at this time I'm writing this only 3 people have higher accuracy FC's with no game modifiers.
FC - rhythm game lingo for "full combo".
959pp - the score's rating by the game's performance points system. This is 12 points higher than the second rated score.
Here's a video of the play - uploaded by WhiteCat himself
I see a lot of people suggesting DDR, and I wanted to throw out there is a PC freeware version which uses community-made step files if the console ones aren't doing it for you. If you're so inclined you can make step files for songs of your choice as well! Stepmania
Get phase shift for the PC it's free updated regularly and you can download all of the guitar hero, Rockband, frets on fire and custom ones. (If you know where to look/torrent)
it's a staple at our parties. Also works with keyboards and drums runs at about 300fps on my old media centre pc
GH3 was the last game on PC that I know of but I'm pretty sure the port was awful. That said, there's a Rock Band/Guitar Hero clone for PC called Phase Shift that's free. You can use any usb controllers (or wireless 360 stuff if you have the dongle) or just hold your keyboard like a guitar.
Phase Shift is your answer people. It is already better than both GH and RB. And if you don't like the arcade style then we always have Rocksmith.
^^^Phase ^^^Shift ^^^and ^^^FoF ^^^is ^^^probably ^^^the ^^^reason ^^^why ^^^they ^^^don't ^^^want ^^^it ^^^on ^^^PC.
Judge 3 is way too lenient compared to the arcade. If you want something that's close to ITG, you'll have to use judge 4.
SM Judge 4 / ITG
Marv: 22.5 ms / 21.5 ms
Perfect: 45 ms / 43 ms
Great: 90 ms / 102 ms
Good: 135 ms / 135 ms
Bad: 180 ms / 180 ms
so you can see Judge 4 is pretty close.
If you want DDR timing windows, in addition to selecting judge 4, you'll have to go to the folder where SM is installed, go to Save/Preferences.ini and change the following lines from:
TimingWindowSecondsW1=0.022500
TimingWindowSecondsW2=0.045000
TimingWindowSecondsW3=0.090000
TimingWindowSecondsW4=0.135000
TimingWindowSecondsW5=0.180000
to
TimingWindowSecondsW1=0.016667
TimingWindowSecondsW2=0.033333
TimingWindowSecondsW3=0.091667
TimingWindowSecondsW4=0.141667
TimingWindowSecondsW5=0.225000
This is further explained in https://www.stepmania.com/forums/general-questions/show/586 Keep in mind that if you're trying to AAA stuff, the DDR timing window for a perfect is much smaller than it is in judge 3, or even judge 4.
there is flash flash revolution, which is exactly a flash version of ddr
on the other hand, you can install etterna on a usb drive, download some songs and play it at school, its pretty light so it can probably run even on your toaster
If you want to play osu!, use the open-source replacement opsu!, which runs natively on Linux (as well as on Windows, macOS, and Android).
The official client has some, uh, serious issues.
There looks to be some weird delay in that video. Random google result that looks more like what I remember from playing. (I was a super casual player for not very long, and not near whatever difficulty they're playing on.) Osu! is free fwiw, you can try it out yourself.
It's a combination of memorization and reflexes, like most rhythm games. DDR, Beat Saber, etc.
There's this game called osu!, where people click circles to the beat. It's free to play and has a incredibly high skill ceiling, which drew a lot of people to play it for years. You can download it here: https://osu.ppy.sh/home
...and here is a website for bounties: https://www.osustuff.org/bounties/ not much compared to the 4k, but it's something, right?
Stepmania! It's an DDR emulator basically, but with a bunch more functionality. Easy to find the old songpacks on the high seas as well. There's a few different USB pads out there, not sure who's making them nowadays.
for anyone who dosen't know what it is because I sure as hell had to look it up.
also wut... > This guide assumes that your PC is running in Japanese locale. If you have not switched your locale to Japanese yet
Would love more raspberry pi rythym games, seriously a shame that Stepmania dosen't work on the pi. I'd love to try this game, though I think I'd get a bit lost in translation.
Its free and essentially is rock band without the flashy background, you can play any song you can find on the internet and allows you to create your own.
Plus it works with all controllers and even PC keyboard
Iv been using it since last summer to get use out of my 360 guitars and I love it, it runs at 400fps on my ageing media centre PC
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=145215
get this theme because any other version of sm than this is garbage except 3.95 but that's old
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=133223
here's a massive list of good packs
also nobody actually plays other than 4k and 6k (6k is usually called solo)
You should rig up some multiplayer Frets on Fire sessions in the break room.
YOU THOUGHT WE WERE LOUD BEFORE, JIM, HOW DO YOU LIKE US NOW‽ <guitar solo>
I believe this already exists. Frets on Fire is open source. You can check it out here You can download the source from the sourceforge project pages. I played many hours of this game when I was younger.
Ever hear of Frets on Fire? It's a PC remake of Guitar Hero. You hold the keyboard like this to play.
It looks silly, but it works.
It happened earlier in February, You can read about it here.
Basically, recalculated pp for different angled jumps, buffed pp for fast streams, nerfed pp for spaced streams, accuracy = big pp, more pp for flashlight mod on longer maps, and probably more i missed
Phase Shift is the best free Guitar Hero clone IMO. You could also try FoFiX, a fork of Frets on Fire with extra features, although you'll want to download a custom theme, and its performance isn't great. Phase Shift and FoFiX use the same song format.
Stepmania is way better than osu!mania if you only play 4k
Here is a thread referencing all major Stepmania map packs
And if you're looking for easier packs, you can get the DDR packs here
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=114321
>Double setup: Having two keys bound to each column, and when a very fast jack or trill comes up using some configuration that alternates keys for that column, allowing it to be hit twice as slow as intended. Considered cheating if not explicitly stated as part of the playing style.
>you're bs: An allegation that the player is widening his windows/using double setup/using a bot/completely faking scores. Usually not true (unless it's really obvious, e.g. person comes out from nowhere with scores that make no sense and no stepfile choice/knowledge you'd expect from a long time player) and can be countered by an 'im not bs' video that shows the hash of the executible and stepmania being booted up, the lines in stepmania.ini showing the sizes of the judgment windows, a clock and fingertaps during play and that the judge/life settings within stepmania are 4/4.
so unless you want to be considered a cheater/be called bs its up to you, if you just play for fun and dont care about scores then do w/e you want ;)
I used to play a rhythm game called osu! and I found a beatmap for Chase Me during summer 2017 and really liked the song, so I found more Dreamcatcher maps which eventually lead to looking up their YouTube channel for all their music and been a fan ever since.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - It just holds a special place in my heart ever since i watched it when i was kid. Reading the books for the first time recently made me appreciate Tolkiens works even more. Not much of an animated movie watcher but if i had to choose it'll probably be Spirited Away or WALL·E.
Through osu!. For people that don't know osu!, it's a free to play rythm game where anyone can upload any song to create a "beatmap" for others to play. Over the years I came across a few kpop songs that way but nothing really stuck with me. At the time I didn't know anything about the genre. That changed when I played a beatmap of 24k - Superfly in May 2017. I just loved how unapologetic hard it went for a pop song. Looked it up on YouTube and I was so impressed with the choreo, which made me want to check out their other releases as well. After that the algorithm did its job. By the end of the year there was no going back for me lol.
I am content with how my favorite groups currently are, so I have no clue. Collaborations on the other hand...maybe interesting for a future question.
I assume hitlocking is the same as notelocking
This was most likely caused by the sliderbug fix
This can be seen on Ceptin's "fake pass" on Count down 321, at 2:16, he notelocks and misses the entire pattern, but in the old stable build, he only missed a few times, the end result is 53xmiss vs the 27xmiss the scores shows
Another alternative is Phase Shift although development has either slowed down immensely or stopped altogether.
It's pretty nice and is very flexible. I've had trouble with hit detection in FoFiX in the past but PS really feels like a proper rhythm game. It can also be modded to look almost 100% like any GH/RB game.
I propose that instead of a markdown file, you use a midi file. One of the advantages is that almost all GH clones use it and you can make it compatible with the thousands of songs out there.
http://fretsonfire.wikidot.com/creating-songs-with-midi-files
The most up to date, feature filled and open source clone at the moment is Phase Shift: http://www.dwsk.co.uk/index_phase_shift.html
Phase Shift it's a good alternative to Frets On Fire which stop developement a few years go. Sadly Phase Shift hasn't been update seens a year too, but it's basically an spiritual succesor to FoF, plus it has multiplayer.
Homepage to Phase Shift.
Phase Shift is a free Guitar Hero clone for PC (and the successor in some sense to Frets on Fire), and I'm pretty sure you can find all the charts from Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
For anyone curious this is Phaseshift with a Rockband 3 theme installed with all rockband songs and a ton of customs. Game is completely free and you can get it here.
This is actually not console exclusive, so you make a good point. You can convert any of those files into a playable track in PhaseShift (a PC Rock Band clone) by using the tool here.
You just need to be able to connect your Rock Band controllers to your PC or use your keyboard or whatever.
This took me a good 3 days to script up and finish. It wasn't designed for the traditional Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, but for a PC clone of them called Phase Shift, which you can get here. when you install it you can get the song from my google sheet here, and put it into the music folder in the phase shift install directory. I wish I could put the song on a console version of Rockband or Guitar hero, but I lack the knowledge to make that work at this point.
The PS3 Guitar controller is nothing more than a standard HID compliant gamepad. Plug in the USB and go.
Also, Phase Shift is a much better game, both graphically and mechanics-wise than FOF, and still plays FOF legacy songs. You can get songs for PS here, from C3, the group of modders who kept making customs for Rockband after Harmonix discontinued support.
scroll down/ctrl+f "keyboard dumps" and click show spoiler for a ton of hard shit: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=133223
also check out the packs under normal 4 key as well because packs like nuclear blast and jumpstream of fighters are there too
>just place different 32nd jumps after one another to some 260bpm sharpnel track
This will result in a very bad keyboard file, there is actually quite a lot of theory behind making them and you can't just put down anything you want and get a good quality simfile. Just take a look at this review document for BOAT 2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16ucHZMYkyiuNQkOZ9arzEhonnWKCmG9AuLQIvYyiyZQ/edit
If you want to learn how to chart for keyboard, this thread should give you a good idea of the basics. http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=82080
Keyboard community is mostly focused at FFR forums in terms of simfile releases, for chatting most kb players hang out in discord groups, there are a lot of them. I don't know much about the pad community. Anyway most packs are hosted on SMO, so that might be a good place to look for DDR-A and stuff.
Hello !
Simfiles, you can find a lot here : http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=133223
For the mods, you can try to use something like 3x, 30% Mini with another noteskin, for example wafles4.
For the practise mode, you can disable Fail in the options, or play in edit mode !
An Asian kid from my grade in highschool was in the Top 500 global players on http://www.flashflashrevolution.com.
He used to play in the library/lab during lunch, and even though he was quiet and kind of weird, everybody who watched him play was impressed. The keyboards were loud as shit too, so he could only do it during certain times.
I don't really want to spend the time to sync something 24 minutes long, but at the very least I can recommend you sync with DDReam if you aren't already, it has a bunch of tools to assist with syncing a file.
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=123423
FFR is Flash Flash Revolution, an old flash game that worked like DDR with a keyboard before that became an actual thing.
FRR is free rune removal, as people have already said.
Try this theme, it's becoming increasingly popular and includes a NPS counter/graph: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=141588
Just drop it into your "Themes" folder, fire it up as a theme from one of the options menus (Appearance, I think?), and then when you're getting ready to play a song, enter the Player Options and select "NPS Graph" or what have you.
Here's an old guide, but it's still relevant:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=72047
Stepmania 5 specific guide:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Song-on-Stepmania
The most important part in making your own song is getting the bpm right. If you don't get this part right, it just won't feel good to play. So, make sure you take time to get that down first.
http://stepmaniaonline.net/index.php?page=downloads
Pretty much every pack in existence. If you're still looking for a community based around the game, http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/ is probably the most active one left.
This would be an awesome take on Flash Flash Revolution or StepMania -- using the steps that you take in the song to take someone through scenery on a little adventure
FFR is still around, as a side note.
If anyone wants to know the game he is playing is Stepmania which is free here http://www.stepmania.com/
and the website at 2:40 is FlashFlashRevolution which can be found here
Frets on Fire X a Guitar Hero/Rock Band FOSS clone. Although, I did not play it for a long time, I don't know where you can find songs for it these days (the original, but dead, project had a few included).
That is what I am talking about, the only available stems available are compressed into lossy format(not to mention downsampled) for an open source game called Frets on Fire. They combine everything into four tracks and compress them to get the best sound for the smallest filesize. Which unfortunately looks like they went for a bitrate of 128Kbps.
I thought those were the best quality you could get until I extracted them from the game myself. Which is why I am taking time to make sure people get the best quality.
Every time a fanart contest ends and game gets a new set of seasonal backgrounds, an announcement appears on osu.ppy.sh about it with links to every BG that got into game. Here's the latest one: https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2021-08-23-summer-tf-fanart-contest-results
Guessing you'll make your wallpaper a slideshow or something of these BGs, I highly recommend digging up older seasonal BGs for some variety.
pretty sure gifts are always anonymous (cause I've only seen screenshots of received emails where it says "the gifter has chosen to remain anonymous")
as for the duration - https://osu.ppy.sh/home/support
As a small Miku fan, I completely agree. That's a shit game, the concerts are too expensive and not worth it, there are better things to spend your money on like osu!, the superior rythm game.
I mean, we had monthly highlights but they changed to seasonal ones. Note the first two links (line 4) https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2019-10-05-beatmap-spotlights-summer-2019
Are you actually having problems? Do you actually want help?
I'll drop this regardless;
>Please try logging out of the game, then logging out of the website, using the new design accessible here https://osu.ppy.sh/home
>After logging out of both, please wait a few minutes. Then log back into the website, then into the client.
>If that doesn't work, please contact
My local machine has Lone Digger on it (it's an easy 11). I'll try and ask around if someone has the simfile.
As for Highscore, Gpop made a great simfile for it in "original pad simfiles 2"
link here
have fun with it!
I recommend you try out Phase Shift ! Supports almost all of the classic Rock Band and GH PS/Xbox peripherals and also has a tool that let's you use the setlists from the actual previous games. It hasn't been updated in years but nothing else I've tried comes close. It combines the visuals of Clone Hero with the functionality of FoF.
PS3 emulation is still very experimental so I doubt that it will run on an emulator. You can try running older Guitar Hero/Rock Band games on a PS2 emulator pretty decently if you just want to play guitar games.
You can also try playing Phase Shift. It's the best Guitar Hero clone right now and has a decent sized songlist.
I would kill for a new version, even though it'll never happen for many reasons. However, download http://www.dwsk.co.uk/ Phase Shift the guitar hero clone for PC, and search around on Google for downloadable songs (either Phase Shift or Frets on Fire versions will work). I've just recently got into it, and a few days ago found every Metallica album, including all of Hardwired and even Beyond Magnetic. It's really fun, even if it's not as good as GH Metallica was.
i was actually thinking about having a go at it, so yeah, i'll pm you if i end up finishing it i guess. i'll be doing it for phase shift because that's what i play on but you can convert it for gh3 easy enough
Phase Shift is the best one, it even supports playing online against other people. The included songs aren't very good though, and you'll have to download some songs from elsewhere. You can find nearly all guiar hero/rock band songs for it online, as well as custom songs made by the community.
It's funny you should mention those songs as C3 recently released all of Metropolis Part 2 and an Octavarium chart. If you want to play them, assuming you have a half decent PC, download Phase Shift (It's totally free) and install it. If you plug in your USB dongle for your Guitar, it should work right away. After that, go here and search for Dream Theater at the top. Make sure to download the Phase Shift versions (Clicking the box in the PSh column) and extract the rar files to the Phase Shift Music folder which should be in the Program Files folder for the game. You can even download a Rock Band 3 theme to make it look like Rock Band. The songs are charted really well, so it's almost as good as a proper DT Track Pack. C3 also put out all of Images and Words too, so if you're a DT fan, make sure to check those out too.
If you need any help, just ask.
If you want to create something similar, but yet individual and new, go on!
Yet, the best "Guitar Hero" like Game is Phase Shift - http://www.dwsk.co.uk/
You can add themes (Guitar Hero / Rock Band Themes) and add custom songs (Every GH , Every RB with DLC's and other custom songs) and even play online, if you own the same tracks as your opponents.
Check it out, it's really cool. It supports nearly every device made for GH/RB-Series
Skip to the end of this, it has a lot of definitions. This is more for keyboard, but you never specified and /u/KonKitty already gave some good pad definitions.
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=115282
And if you haven't seen this link, check out the pad section in particular.
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=133223
There might be some easy metal/rock songs in there also. I mainly play 4k on keyboard, so I'm not as familiar with pad packs. Good luck and keep practicing!
Well, that's just how Stepmania works, you download packs and play them.
You could also try out FFR, there is a "Most Popular Songs" section on the daily stats page.
Put the image in the file's folder. If you name it "Song Name-bg.png" and "Song Name-banner.png" it'll automatically add them. If you want to use a different image name, then you need to specify that in the SM file (open it in Notepad).
Hey sorry for the very late reply here, I think I can find both of those. Please don't think your post is being ignored :D
Szycag is one of the most popular VS marathon files, it's 9 minutes and stepped by MrTea. It's in FFR Community Pack Spring 2012.
Masodik Galamb (4:16 long) is in FFR Community Pack 4 stepped by mi40, there are also a bunch of other VS and Aphex Twin songs in the pack
- Yolomania packs, there are four volumes
- Nuclear Blast JS Awesome Bomb Filez (particularly 4 and 5), organized and released by icontrol*yourworld*
- hi19hi19 Pack 3 - Popcorn Blast JS Buttery Snack Filez by hi19hi19, really popular and experienced user. Every file has at least one jumpstream-oriented chart
If you're making your own files, I highly recommend using ddream studio in lieu of the built-in editor. It's leagues ahead in essentially every way.
Here's a link to a forum post with some tips and tricks to get the most out of it along with a download link for the program and a video tutorial on getting started.
Best of luck with your file :)
I might make one in the future but keep in mind there's several different ways to go about it and I would just be showing my method.
Right now this is probably the best you've got.
I like to use ddreamstudio for syncing and the Stepmania 5 editor for putting notes down.
If you have specific questions about making simfiles you can ask me.
Not a dev, just someone that's been playing casually for the past 10 years plus a few months. Keyboard is more than likely a bigger scene than pad. Pads for windows are generally pretty hard to find (decent ones, at least) and are often issue-laden with setting up, which is why you see so many people asking about them. The pad file packs are also a really great way to get your skill off the ground when playing with a keyboard.
For longevity, stepmania was released in 2001 and an extremely similar game, flashflashrevolution was released in late 2002 and is still going fairly strong.
I'm heading to bed, but I'll be happy to answer any other questions you have when I get up. :)
edit: I should mention that /r/stepmania is a fairly small community for the game. If you head over to FFR, there's a significantly larger community there.
How has nobody mentioned Flash Flash Revolution? This was an OG web browser game from around 2005. I still have my account from '07. Give it a whirl! DDR is still the best rhythm game out there! (Everything from Supernova 2 and before)
It's from Vocaloid Project Pad Pack 3rd. That pack has a ton of fun songs to play imo. I found it in this thread on flashflashrevolution.
As for flair, I think that's something the moderators set manually so you could message them about it.
Hey. :)
I assume that the defunct hosts for the files were from StepMania Share and that StepMania FTP? It seems really hard to find the file anywhere else, sadly.
Perhaps you saw this video already, but this is likely the simfile you were looking for, ne? Doesn't look like that guy is terribly active though... A really unnecessarily long and boring thing to do would be to try recreating it based off this video.
Perhaps the best bet, though it may be a bit awkward, would be to contact Xanox100 personally and see where you can go from there. He seems to be sort of active on the FFR forums, but I guess you can go from there.
Good luck!
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com
It's like Dance Dance Revolution, but you use your fingers instead. You can rebind the keys to whatever you like (Mine are bound to QWOP).
It may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it is fun and helps me with my finger dexterity.
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=133223
This thread should be the first place you ever look when you want new packs to play.
You're gonna run into weird quality issues if you just download random packs from the SMO Downloads page since they're only loosely categorized and not sortable.
7k is different from 4k, 7k is more about reading playing complex patterns while 4k is more about "raw" speed and endurance (not so straightforward obviously, but it's kinda it)
You can stick to 4k if you want. There are some 4k specific maps (most popular 4k mappers are Lein and Spy I think), you can also look for Stepmania client ( I never really tried it but it's most popular 4k) and try FFR
I found when I was in marathon training, I got worse at the high BPM songs. I had the endurance to not get tired, but lost the speed to hit the notes. Fast twitch muscles are really necessary to hit 16th notes for songs like Fascination or the Max's. Squats, leg press, and calf exercises make it so much easier.
IMO the best to train reading a chart while playing with your fingers is http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/FFR_the_Game.php? The charts there are crazy. Probably start with songs tagged as difficult (similar to a 9 footer) and work your way from there.
I would register with FFR's forums, and post a thread in here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/forumdisplay.php?f=21
You'd have a way better chance of getting results from that, than in here.
They have a song in Flash flash revolution which actually introduced me to this band. It's a game like DDR but for your keyboard.
Edit link: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/ffrndanotherway.swf
I saw a couple of pony-related images/references, but I didn't really pay much attention to them. Then I saw this and watched the first episode. I've been a brony ever since, and I've even gotten a couple of friends into the series. [](/b10)
It's been ages since I touched it, but take a look at Frets on Fire, it's a Guitar Hero "clone" where you can use your keyboard as the guitar (also supports guitar controllers according to the website, but that I haven't tried).
It's not exactly the same, but there is Audiosurf. It's sort of a racing game where the tracks are generated by music. Also, Frets on Fire. It's a Guitar Hero clone for PC.
I miss those games a lot. A year or so ago I tried getting into Frets on Fire on the PC. It is (or was, dunno) a pretty decent free Guitar Hero-type game in which people could make their own songs/levels. It was awesome. I might actually look it up again now that I'm thinking about it. You can use a guitar controller if you can find a way to connect it to your PC.
Edit: Link - Frets on Fire
Edit2: Looks like it was abandoned 7 years ago :/. Will still probably download it. Note though - now that I remember you'll need a program to map the buttons of your guitar controller to keyboard strokes to play the game with one.
I was thinking the other week how awesome Guitar Hero would be in VR with a first person view and the notes hovering over the crowd (I play real guitar, but I prefer the more simple arcadish feel of Guitar Hero/Rock Band - vs the more serious learning of Rocksmith - I'll stick with tabs). A big appeal of guitar hero was it gave you the illusion of being a rock God with fairly simple and rewarding mechanics, so I image VR could take it to a whole new level.
I wonder how hard it would be to modify Frets on Fire to accomplish this? The big problem I see is there is no real graphical crowd or band like the official releases so that would need to be added (and would probably be quite a bit of work)
You can try JoyToKey. It's a little clunky in some games, but in others it works well (for example using the Guitar Hero guitar controller to play Frets On Fire..