Simulator File Creation Help Thread

onefinebob · Basic Member Joined: 26 Feb 2004

Here's my question:

Is it possible to change the color of the title on the song wheel? I see that some of them are red automatically...I was wondering if it was possible to make them show up yellow like when you unlock a song on DDRMAX?

Thanks

Fatbaby · Trick Member Joined: 22 May 2003 Location: Cleveland

Ive been making alot of sim files lately, but one of the files I made in particular I'm very happy with, as are the few or so friends that have played it. I did what everyone was surely thinking about doing but noone has yet to do; I made The TMNT theme song a sim file (complete w/ bkrnd movie, and 2 photoshoped images for bg and selection pic.)
Anyway I need to find a good site to upload it to, any suggestions?
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freakstyler · Trick Member Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Location: new jersey

does any1 know of a run down on how to create steps with stepmania. i'm doing it to "yeah" by usher but cant figure out how to make it recognize the song in the song folder.

just tell me how to make stepmania read the song. then i know how to create the steps. i've worked with it on console ddr enough.
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CNLohr · Trick Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Well, there's a right way and a quick way to do this.

The quick way is to simply open up a mix in windows of your songs, duplicate one of the songs in that mix (copy and paste). Then change the mix's name, to "Yeah" or whatever.

Then open that folder, remove the .mp3, and put in yours.

Delete any .DWI files. Then, open notepad (Start Button -> Run... -> Notepad) drag the .SM file into notepad. Change the title of the song to your song, if it has a specific filename for the mp3, remove it. then save.

Open up StepMania, and you should see your song in there. The BPM and Gap are going to be waaaaay off, but you can use SM to help get it better.

CNLohr · Trick Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004

--FYI-- I have posted this in another forum.

Hello, I was annoyed a while ago with a lot of MP3s that ppl were making custom stepcharts of, where the mp3 was of the whole song and the steps only went part of the way through. That and I noticed with a few MP3s Double-Encoding, where they edited an MP3 and re-encoded it, so it sounded horrible.

I decided to write a program that could retain the MP3 data verbatium, and allow you to crop from the beginning or end.

Like if you aren't going to use the last 2 minuts of a song, why bother sending it, and making it appear as a Long version?

I am intending this for SIM editors who are dealing with making steps to files that are already MP3 and don't want to have to decode, cut and then re-encode dealing with the quality loss.

If you want, give it a spin. Please report any problems back to this thread. If you receive an error, please get the Error number and description.

http://cnlohr.net/smonline/files/mp3trim.exe

Thanx

Raligard · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Location: Pennsylvania

I tried to find a way for a n00b like myself to learn how to make my own DWI files here in the DDR Freak Forums. I was successful, but I didn't find everything I needed all in one place. I had to scrape things from all over and put them together like a puzzle. I wrote this tutorial to aid others out there that don't yet know how to create their own DWI Simulation files but would like to learn. The concept and theory is really very easy. The hard part is listening to a song and figuring out where you would like each arrow to go.

Before you begin you will need:

Dance With Intensity ~ Look in the FAQ thread
An MP3 of the song you want, you must own your own music collection
An idea of how you would like to arrange your steps to the music!

Okay, hit this link and you'll be making your first DWI file within a few minutes!! Have fun and enjoy.

http://members.aol.com/gamesandgadgets/dwi_how_to.html
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game3eak · Trick Member Joined: 17 Feb 2004

i may sound really stupid (and if someone has mentioned it i didnt feel like reading through 8 pages) but when i save the notepad do i need to do anything to save it in any way or do i just name it ___.dwi?
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Raligard · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Location: Pennsylvania

Raligard · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Location: Pennsylvania

I am trying to create a 256 x 80 banner for a song I am creating a step file to in DWI. Whenever DWI displays the banner (which is saved in PNG format) it is displayed skewed at a 45 degree angle and looks like shiznit.

I tried combinations of all the following:
Interlaced and Non-interlaced
8 bit color in RGB mode and Indexed color mode
With and Without transparency

No mater which combination of the above settings I use it always fails to draw properly.

Anyone with experience creating these banners know what I could be doing wrong?
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bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

whats the best way to find out the gap and bpm of a song?

Mikeh · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

Fatbaby · Trick Member Joined: 22 May 2003 Location: Cleveland

In regards to 1000 (topic got locked)

-The notes are completely in sync; they're just damned hard to read/hit.
-You will only see a 32nd notes at the tail end of challenge mode mixed in with freeze steps and 24ths.
-the song is passable, Ive gotten a D on it twice. The trick is to skip doing the jumps and slamming the keyboard as hard as you can when that end run surfaces.
- Ill throw the dl link up again for the kids that asked for it...
Thousand
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PerishInFlames · Trick Member Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Location: Massapequa

Mikeh · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject:

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

hey im kinda new to the whole creating simfiles thing and i really dont understand notepad or sm editor... is their a way u can use sm editor or any other program where you can let the music play and randomly insert step files... cuz that would be great and alot easier on me..

Shad · Trick Member Joined: 31 Dec 2003

Okay, I tried to make a little CD Title thing that would spin in the corner, but I screwed up. The CD Title shows up as both the CD Title and the banner. How can I make it use anothe rimage file for the banner?

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out myself.
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Raligard · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Location: Pennsylvania

ssb2mjay · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Carmel, IN

I'm Trying to upload Xstep and I get this error on my program "Run Time error '62' Input past end of the file." What does that mean and what should I do?

Raligard · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Location: Pennsylvania