![]() acceleration: The arrows speed up just before the validation.This can ease the reading of particularly dense sections of titles, and it is called "speedmod". This does not make the game harder, it's the same arrows moving faster but being more spread out on the screen. speed modifies the scrolling speed of the arrows.Hit a second time to enter the special option menu. In this picture I madeĥ2,59% of the maximum score available and was rewarded a B grade (written beside the title of the song). On the bottom left corner you are indicated your best performance so far on this title and this difficulty. Chaos: Number of half time or quarter time arrows.Rolls: a bit like the Holds except you have to tap the arrow continuouslyĪfter that you find the old 3.9 classification, given in percentages.Hands: 3 ou 4 arrows at a time, you have to use your hands!.Mines: you are penalized if you hit those!.Holds: number of Holds, arrows you must maintain a few seconds.Jumps: number of Jumps (two arrows at once).Just below the difficulty of the title is evaluated following a number of criterias: Game depends on the song, the number beside the level is a good indication for this. Even among one difficulty mode the actual trickyness of the If you are 2 players, each can select his own level.Īvailable difficulty modes depend on the selected song. You can choose the level by hitting quickly twice up, or twice down. The Beat per Minute, the length of the track, then the list of difficulty levels available. The left of the screen gives details on the currently selected title. If you hit Control P, you switch to title mode and jump to letter P. You can choose to sort the songīy alphabetical order (Title), your best score (Rank) or grade (Top Grades), the numbers of times you played them (PLayer's Best!),īy artist or even by length or BPM. You can switch the selection mode with up-down-up-down, or switch through them with left right. Sorting mode, as noted on the top right corner. By default the musics are sorted as they can be found on your hard drive. You develop these folders with start to get the list of the songs On the right stands the list of the song folders. In Endless mode you play all the musics from a folder.Īfter this you are headed to the song selection screen. Your score is the time you managed to survive. You only have 4 lives to end these songs, and you lose one when you miss an arrow. Your score is cumulated through the four songs. ![]() Special options are randomly enabled if he does too well!Įxtended is a succession of 4 songs from the same folder. The 2P Rave in particular is funny because it introduces a handicap for the best player of the two: disturbing Stepmania 5 brings a few extra modes in a second screen. When you begin to be skilled, this mode is really fun, and impressive to watch! Versus is where you challenge a friend, and in couple you cooperate to finish the songs.ĭouble mode is played alone on two mats. Solo uses two additional arrows, but few songs are compatible. You can still do it in this screen but without The three last modes are unlocked when you hit "player 2 start". Then you choose between single, solo, versus, couple and double. Obviously this implies you correctly mapped this function in Config key/Joy mappings. ![]() A second player can join there and choose his profileīy pressing Start for the second player. Selection screen from the main screen and the score is not even shown after a game (you can call it with a button).įrom the main screen select game start then you are invited to choose your profile if you have defined some. In an effort of simplicity a lot of screens have been removed, you immediately reach the title Wonderful theme from Shakesoda! Even the controls are changed, you just switch titles with up and down and difficulty As an example here is my favorite, Optical. You will find 4 very good themes on the site of Just put the theme's folder in Stepmania/Themes, then activate it in appearance options.įor the moment, a few themes are available for Stepmania 5. Stepmania is quite tweakable as you can download themes (kind of skins) to change its look. To begin with, read my Dance school section, I give a few direct download titles If you play Stepmania 3.9, look for Stepmania.ini in the Data subfolder. Windows 7 equivalent is C:\Utilisateurs\username\Appdata\Roaming\StepMania 5\Save. Preferences.ini can be found in the hidden folder of Windows C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\StepMania 5\Save. This lets you run different versions of Stepmania without duplicating your big These folders must be placed in the Songs subfolder of Stepmania, unless you use this special trick:Įdit the file Preferences.ini and, beside to Additionnal Song folders =, Songs for DDR are grouped in dedicated folders as "Dance Dance Revolution 1st mix" or "My top songs".
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