SM LAN Beta Testers Wanted

[CNLohr]

Hello All! A side effect from the development of SMOnline was SMLAN, and Insted of working our butt off to develop SMOnline, and then find thousands of bugs, we've decided to release parts of SMOnline as SMLAN.

SMLAN's primary purpose is to Sync up multiple computers over a LAN. This makes it possible for many more than two, or four people to play at once. Right now the server supports 32 Players MAX.

It works over the internet, only thing is you need to be in contact with the other person to ask what songs to play, and if you play courses, make sure they are the same length.

If you want to use this, you must use StepMania Alpha16. In the near future, the protocol for SMLAN (and SMOnline) may change, so none of this is set in stone.

If this interests you and you would like to download a copy to test yourself, please visit

http://cnlohr.net/smonline/lan and download 16WayV6.exe.

Then download StepManiaLauncher into your StepMania Program folder. Then if you wanna watch the players playing on the server (like for a realtime scoreboard) download PRESMOnline.exe, and run that.

There are more detailed instructions on the site.

Please post any questions in this thread.

[[DMB]ziggy4719]

It would be cool if the combos were set up liek the dm/gf session ones...Your friend is green and your blue that would be cool. I wish i had two computers
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[CNLohr]

SMLAN can be played online. Just you have to tell your friend your IP address, you have to either not be behind a firewall or open up ports 8765 and 8766, and be incommuncication with them, so you can tell them which courses you want to play, what songs you want to play.

They have to connect to your IP address.

[bboyflames]

for smlan do both computers need to have the song in order to play it or just the person hews hostin?

[bboyflames]

im not exacly sure how it works i havent tried it yet..but i have a few questions..like hew controls everything first player second? and do both of you have to select the song or does the first player just do it..and when i make a game and join it is it supose to start stepmania normally or take me to the song selection etc..if sum1 could clear this up that would be much appreciated thanx..

[CNLohr]

SMLAN was designed for the LAN party Scene, All players who are playing must select the same song or course to play, and SMLAN's primary purpose is to sync the songs togeather. The reason for this is so it's trivial for something like someone on one comp to be playing a song doubles, and someone on the other comp to be playing versus and on another comp to play battle. If two people do not have the same songs, it'll wait for both people to select a song, and they'll both play different songs.

BUT since you'd already be at a lan party, why does it matter. You could just send the other person the file.

ALSO, if you get your song database from DDRUK and have most of the standard set of games, it wouldn't matter either, you could just chat over AIM.

But remember, this is just the precursor to SMOnline, which is going to be a much better system for online play.

[CryptopsyBodom]

[bboyflames]

alright im hopin sum1 can help me im trying to face my friend over lan ok..heres what happenin i start the server on the first pc using 16wayv6 the i join my own server and can see myself on the list..then i tell my friend to open up the stepmania online starter and he enters ip the joins..i then can see his ip..so so far so good.i then select versus and he selects versus...i decide to be first hes second..we then select same song..it loada and then when im first player my controls are alright but while hes second player on the other computer he is failing as if noone was playin at all whats the deal what am i doing wrong my purpose was to face him but it aint working a guide would be much appreciated thanxyou..

[CryptopsyBodom]

[CNLohr]

SMLAN was only designed for Synchronizing gameplay, like so you could have 3,4,5,6+ people all playing at once. You're not actually doing anyhting wrong, just as of now, you can only see how well everyone is doing if you run PRESMOnline and are watching it, on a diff compy or you can SM in a window.

It also lets you play courses across the internet and watch how both players are doing.

[bboyflames]

oh.. ic..nothing im really interested in right now..bu7t keep up the good work..i hope one day sometime soon.their will actually be an online versus system that would be cool..

[Exo.]

great work

[sl4ck0ff]

muhahahah u ppl said stepmania online wouldnt be good or it would be useless for the encoding and crap but its happening lol
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[CNLohr]

Encoding? what are ppl talking about encoding?

[Tashi]

i ran the server and played on one computer using a cable internet connecttion, and my friend, after spending an hour dling alpha 16 was able to connect and play using his dialup connection, everything ran great, but we couldnt get presmonline.exe to display correctly on his computer, will it only run correcly on the host computer?
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[Tashi]

im kinda nervous about giving my IP out, does the server support using services like the ones available at www.dyndns.org? and if it doesnt, will there be support for it?
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[CNLohr]

Simply hiding behind a name doesn't stop anyone from finding your IP. If you use windows or linux, you can find an IP from a name by saying ping [the address].

If someone's address is me.noip.org or whatever you can say ping me.noip.org and it'll display their IP.