Official StepMania Help, Bug, Error, Fix, News thread

[Arimasen]

[Shippo]

[InsaneDane]

I'm probably just being a moron, but never having played the Disney version I have no idea how to actually send the attacks in Magic Dance.

Could somebody tell me what step or combination sends it?

[AMxJM]

It's automatic. There should be a little attack bar that builds up as you dance. As soon as it gets completely filled, you should hear a little sound effect and it should automatically hit your opponent with a random modifier, depending on your character and level.
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[Shippo]

[AMxJM]

So, as I was saying elsewhere (oops... ), I'm having a bit of a "random skip" problem. During gameplay, my computer likes to make Stepmania "skip" a little completely at random sometimes. I had that problem with alpha 24, but it wasn't a real big issue then. It might skip by a split second and cause me to get a Good instead of a Perfect or throw me off for a few beats or something. No biggie. But, the other night, I upgraded to rc2, and I swear it has to be skipping at least one beat ahead when it does that now, making me get Misses instead of Goods. The response when it's not skipping seems to have gone downhill a bit as well, making me Miss/Good on arrows that I've hit once in awhile. Is there some way I can fix this? I've got 191 mb of ram installed at the moment, if that's of note.
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[AMxJM]

I know it's probably not necessary to "bump" a sticky thread, but I would really appreciate it if somebody could help me with the above-mentioned random skipping issue. Heck, someone even at least replying to this thread would be nice, too. Anyway, I've already consulted the FAQ at Stepmania's official site, and it seems to have only reduced the number of times it skips rather than completely eliminating the problem. Anybody? It's really starting to annoy me.
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[Nope™]

Okay is there anyway to decrease the number of times the announcer says something during game play? It seems like he's always saying something; way too much announcing.
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[kyaku]

[Lobster Jesus]

How do you get the unlocks system to work?
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[ghosx]

how do you put stepmania on xbox?

because I want to and is it possible?
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what happened?!?!?!

[Arimasen]

[Shippo]

[Arimasen]

[ghosx]

[ghosx]

[dude1982]

ok im srry to ask this but,... lately ( and actually always has ) my SM is messing up after a couple of plays, such as it crashing down when it gets to the song selection if i open and close SM like 3 times.
Any help or Suggestions?
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[zypher]

recently everytime i try to use stepmania 3.9rc2a and it ends up restarting my computer. i'm wondering if this is a software problem or a stepmania problem. any advice on how to fix this problem would be greatly welcomed either pm or by this forum. thanks in advance.
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[peepsluvr]

I made a thread about the announcers for SM, but no one answered my question:

http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=101099

Someone told me to go here for questions like this. So how can I turn off the announcer only while I am actually playing? I want to keep him on for when he says things like "Dance Dance Revolution" and "First Stage." Is there a line in the programming I can change so that there is no trigger for sounds while I am playing? Or do I have to rename the folders that have the sounds I don't want so that SM can't find them?

[Arimasen]