What's the easiest DDR sim to use?

yalborap · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2003

Just curious. And also, where can I get some stepfiles for DDR songs, and how would I hook up a ddr pad?

timor · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2003

I recommend http://www.stepmania.com . StepMania.

About getting simfiles, there's a sticky thread up above this one that has a bunch of good links. Here are two to get you started:

http://rydia.net/udder/ddr/
http://www.ddrstyling.it/

About the pad, I'll let someone else answer. Enjoy!

yalborap · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2003

K. So, do I just load the step file one place, and the song, another place, that's it? Or is there some hard setup required? And dose it use the buttons(Triangle,square,circle,X) when the pad's in. If it does, I'll just figure out a switch.

timor · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Dunno about the pad, to be honest, I go play DDR for real, then I come and just chill and play SM with the keyboard =D

To install songs, just go to the StepMania folder in C:\Program Files, then go to Songs, then make a folder for whatever mix the song you're adding is in...into this folder you put all of your songs..so, if you wanted to put, say, Sandstorm, it would look like this

Stepmania --> Songs --> 6th Mix --> Sandstorm (and then within this would be the mp3, dwi, background, etc)

This, and other issues, are clearly outlined in the Getting Started Tutorial and FAQ on www.stepmania.com

yalborap · Trick Member Joined: 01 Sep 2003

K. Just a dowloading to the right spot thing, then.

timor · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2003

Well, I wouldn't download them right into the Songs folder, cuz they're zipped, so you're gonna have to unzip em anyway...but whatever way you choose is fine.

C-SPAM · Basic Member Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Location: "Heck"

DWI is for users who:

Have low end systems
Are more interesting in playing simfiles than making them
Don't want to use too much space

SM is for users who:

Have high end systems or fast video cards
Want to play with modifiers not in DDR
Want to contribute ideas for improving the program(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=37892&atid=421369)
Have simfiles that are off-sync with the music and want to correct them or want to make simfiles themselves
Have found and want to use characters (Don't ask me where to find them, I have been explicitly instructed not to tell anyone)

Links to simfiles are listed at http://www.stepmania.com/stepmania/links.php.

Information concerning pad configurations is in the DDR Simulator FAQ.
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PlatinumHawke · Trick Member Joined: 18 Mar 2002

Bemanixgamer · Trick Member Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: San Francisco

a good pad that you might find to like is from buynshop, search for VG-DDR-PC pad w/converter. Just mod it a little on the outside of the pad so it won't move around so much, mods only costed me 5 bucks, so it's cool =D

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

This is the ol' DWI vs SM thread that I don't like having for reasons SPAM has posted where he obviously favors SM.

The simulators are both free, download them and try for yourself.
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