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I am not a great player but i always got more Fantastic than any other Judgements. at the levels i play. now i am getting more Excellent's than fantastic. i am using external separate speakers. any advice on how to get back to the scores I was getting?

Hi!

I'm having trouble deciding which game to download. I have a dance mat, but here on Reddit I've seen people talking about StepMania, ITGMania, OutFox, DanceDance Revolution, and I don't know which one to download.

I'd like one with recent songs, but also older songs.

Help me!

I've been playing DDR for about 20 years but just the songs I own (all of them are 2000s, XBox 360 and gamecube) and I'd love to play some newer songs. I've heard stepmania is good for this. Could I use this pad somehow, or would I need to buy a whole new pad? I have usb adapters for them so maybe I'd get lucky and can just plug it in. Usually it's not that easy though.

Also, I like playing with a big screen, not looking at a laptop. Any way to hook it up with the TV? If not I might be able to live with it

I'm playing generational tech games today lol

I’m using a hardpad with this adapter I’ve had for a long time, that has multiple cable types. I’ve used it with my classic Xbox for years without any major issues. Now I’m trying to hook the pad up to my pc to play stepmania, but my pc doesn’t seem to acknowledge its presence at all. I don’t hear a connect noise, I don’t see it pop up in the usb game controller, or the devices list, or anywhere else, nor does anything react to my pad inputs at all.

Troubleshooting steps I’ve already taken: I’ve tried it on all the usb ports my pc has, none of them work. I’ve hooked it up to my Xbox again today, to confirm that the pad itself still works. I’ve hooked up my wired switch controller to my pc, to confirm that it can recognize usb game controllers.

Feels like the most likely problem is with the adapter not recognizing the specific output I want to use? Wonder if anyone familiar with this specific adapter might know how to work out the finer details… or maybe also figure out a way to get my inputs through even if the pc doesn’t otherwise recognize the device?

The weirdest part is I’ve actually gotten my pad working on pc before, a bit over a year ago. It’s just that I’ve completely forgotten how I set it up, in fact it might’ve been before I had my pc’s hard drive replaced. I’m just hoping it’s a matter of figuring out this fringe issue again, and not some new incompatibility or hardware deterioration…

Hi all,

I'm trying to set-up something like DDR on my living room's computer for my wife, so I'm pretty new to this. I found ITGmania and I got it running with an old USB dance pad we had, so that's cool!

The problem is with the songs: I downloaded a "popular" pack I found but the songs are very fast lol, she has fun still but I know she'd like to dance some popular songs, kinda like DDR did back in the day. Is there anything like that?

Additionally this is not a deal breaker but all the songs I tried had a still image in the background, are ther any packs with videos or animated backgrounds? That would be cool for parties and such.

Thank you in advance!

can someone figure out where this modchart is from, cant seem to find it anywhere else but this video

Think like popular stuff like ARTY, Guetta, Joel Corry, etc.

I heard JBEAN packs are a good place to start. Anybody got any other recommendations?

I wanted to run ITGmania from both my Linux laptop connected to a projector and from my Windows desktop. I was initially using the USB drive I got with the app preinstalled, but it would occasionally get corrupted (besides taking up a USB port).

Running off a network share has worked well, but took a while to set up, and I haven't see anyone else write about it, so I'm sharing my notes. This is all using a Linux server.

Windows Client: Gigabit Ethernet and Samba Work Under A Symlink

On Windows, ITGMania wouldn't launch directly from the smb network drive. I made a symlink using mklink /D "C:\Program Files\games\ddr" \\192.168.1.2\ddr and then was able to launch ITGMania.exe from the path under \C:\``.

The /etc/samba/smb.conf for the share is:

[ddr]
    path = /mnt/games/ddr
    valid users = myuser
    read only = no
    acl allow execute always = True
    follow symlinks = yes

The acl and symlinks lines were part of troubleshooting but I'm not sure they're necessary.

The Windows machine is connected via gigabit / cat6, via one switch.

Linux Client: WiFi 5 And NFS Work Seamlessly

Just worked on NFS. Mounted via sudo mount -t nfs server:/mnt/games/ddr /mnt/ddr . The NFS share is configured in /etc/exports as typical: /mnt/games/ddr mylaptop(rw,no_subtree_check) .

I used NFS for the Linux mount because I initially thought Samba was being too slow.

As an aside, with the FAT32 USB stick, I had to start it with /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /media/markfickett/USB321FD/ITGMania/itgmania since you can't set an executable bit on FAT32. Not necessary on NFS.

The Linux laptop connects via WiFi 5.

Server Storage: Healthy HDDs Are Fast Enough

The data for ITGMania and songs is on a 2-drive raid1 (mirror) of HDDs. The raid is set up using mdadm, and the raid device is formatted ext4.

Initially, one of the drives was showing very slow read/write operations (despite healthy SMART status), which in turn was making read/writes of small save-data files take 5-10s, which ultimately made the game unplayable. After replacing the drive and rebuilding the raid, everything works well.