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Egg · Basic Member Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Location: Laredo,Texas

Oh God.... I have NO idea what you guys are talking about. I'm VERY VERY frustrated

'cuz I can't get my SM to run.

Ok... I downloaded the SM. (Stupid error comes up saying: A required .DLL file, MSVCP71.DLL, was not found) <-- That drives me NUTS!

I downloaded a Theme and an announcer.

Now I need to download songs and steps..?

Where can I find this stuff to download? Or do I need a code? Please help!

(Plus... how do I put these stuff "Together"?)

Please help... I'm sooo desparate..!
Any other info would help alot!
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AceJay · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Location: Princeton, NJ

Easy, search google for "MSV(whatever).dll" and It'b be somewhere on dll-files.com

DL it there then put it in the C>Program Files>Stepmania>Program folder
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Egg · Basic Member Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Location: Laredo,Texas

C>Program Files>Stepmania>Program folder

I don't have that...^ (I think I changed the name...)

Is that a file that comes when you down stepmania?....

Plus... where would You put the dll file?

Oh forget it... I'll just delete StepMania. That thing made me so mad.... I couldn't get it to run.

I won't use step mania ANYMORE! (Same for DWI)

I'll just buy the dumb DDR for the PC...

*sigh*
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jthrow213 · Basic Member Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Location: Indiana

hi, I'm aware that there's a separate thread for adapter problems, however nobody has responded with answers to anyone there in awhile, and people have been on here giving answers more recently.

Here's the problem:

I think there may be a simple solution to my problem, but I don't know it. I have the blue adapter commonly found on Ebay, I think it's called super dual box? Ok, well, everything tests out fine on the control panel game controllers window, the input works fine on the "test input" function of stepmania, and it EVEN appears that i can push multiple arrows at the same time. However, when i try to play, none of the steps that i make reflect in my dance meter, it just goes straight down and fails me, even if I'm making combos. I tried it using the arrow keys on the keyboard and it works fine that way. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Laundry · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:00 am Post subject:

http://www.dll-files.com

just go to this site and dl all the files that are missing

(i think there r 2 files + one missing for the one that installs packages

)

just put em in the program folda

drummerdude09 · Basic Member Joined: 09 Mar 2005

sorry if this has been answered but i have downloaded songs and when i alphabatize them, they are in a totally different letter catagory. (ie: Break Down!! (GF&DM) is with the songs that start with the letter J)
Any idea on how to fix this?
And also can you change the song names the way they appear on stepmania?
Thanx

AceJay · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Location: Princeton, NJ

Hmm, that's odd.

Check your folders, show me a screenshot. ("Print Screen" button to the right of "F12", then paste in MSPaint or pic software. Save, photobucket, or just send it to me. [email protected])

Otherwise it might be corrupted sm or mp3 files.
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Punkly Daft · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: On a DDR Pad

I'm not sure if this is already posted in this mountain of Q&A, but i want to know how i can get the BPM display to go random, like The legend of Max. I mean the thing that shows you the BPM of the song on the wheel when you select it - it goes like 456, 721, 191, 003, ???, and such...

also, i need to know how can get my song title to be in RED and not the default purple. I need this to finish my latest creation, CHAOS 6.1

could you please help me out?
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AMxJM · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2004

That's an easy effect to do. In your .dwi file, just add the following string:

#DISPLAYBPM:*;
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AlGotzGame · Basic Member Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Earth, welcome

Well this is the rc3 error.

(also I did go to http://www.dll-files.com and installed the .dll back into the program folder and still same error.
Then when you completely unistall rc3 and try to go back to 3.0 final you get

this error. Anyone know where I can rc2 back? Or how to remedy these problems?

~Al
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Punkly Daft · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: On a DDR Pad

Thanx AMxJM!! I don't know why I didn't think of adding a display string...

*clonks himself on the head for being such an imbasil...*

Also, do you know how to get the color of the song titles to change on the display wheel? If i can do that, I'll send you the first distrubted copy of my latest creation: CHAOS 6.1

Thanks again!!!
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Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing"

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AMxJM · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2004

Hm, I'm sort of not sure what you mean there. Do you mean like have the letters in the song title each changing random colors (like on the Roulette option in the default theme) or something?
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Punkly Daft · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: On a DDR Pad

assuming you've played one of the arcade things, the songs are divided into groups, and each group's song titles are of a different color. some are purple. some are yellow. some are red, etc. I want to know how to change the colors of my song title from the default indigo as it appears on the song wheel.
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Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing"

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AMxJM · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2004

Oh, that! There's one of two ways to change what color SM gives the song titles in your group. Either mess around with the metrics.ini file in the theme you're using (I'd go into specifics but I don't exactly have that file handy right now), or rename the group folder so that it comes up in a different position in the alphabetical heirarchy thing (where instead of being, say, the sixth group in a set of seven groups [something to do with how SM determines which group gets what color], it could become the fourth in a set instead). However, with either approach, it may take a bit of trial and error before you get your song titles to have the exact color you want.

I hope that wasn't too confusing.

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Punkly Daft · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: On a DDR Pad

well, i understood what you said, but, uh.... i cant figure out how to do what you're saying... with the Metrics.ini and such... do you want me to send you a copy of the file? maybe then you could help me out a little further...

-PD
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Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing"

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AMxJM · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2004

No need. I have access to metrics.ini at the moment.

So, okay, the song title colors are under a listing marked [SongManager]. It's about 3/4 of the way down in the default theme's metrics. Or, you know, just use the "Find" function. Anyway, once you're there, you'll see something like this:

[SongManager]
NumGroupColors=7
GroupColor1=0.8,0.1,0.6,1 // pink
GroupColor2=0.6,0.4,0.8,1 // purple
GroupColor3=0.0,0.4,0.8,1 // sky blue
GroupColor4=0.0,0.6,0.6,1 // sea green
GroupColor5=0.1,0.7,0.3,1 // green
GroupColor6=0.8,0.6,0.0,1 // orange
GroupColor7=1.0,0.3,0.3,1 // light red
BeginnerColor=0.0,0.9,1,1 // light blue
EasyColor=0.9,0.9,0,1 // yellow
MediumColor=1,0.1,0.1,1 // light red
HardColor=0.2,1,0.2,1 // light green
ChallengeColor=0.2,0.6,1.0,1 // blue
EditColor=0.8,0.8,0.8,1 // gray
ExtraColor=1.0,0.0,0.0,1.0 // red
ExtraColorMeter=10

Nevermind the second half of that (everything from "BeginnerColor" on). The relevant part is everything with "Group" in it. Now, you said yours are indigo, right? I think that might be Group2 up there (assuming you're even using the default theme, I mean). Let's suppose you're wanting a medium blue for your group. You'd change Group2 (or whatever the relevant group is) to something like this:

GroupColor2=0.2,0.6,1.0,1

By the way, that text after the // doesn't really matter. It's just little 'helper' text so that you know what color that looks like.

Does that help?
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Punkly Daft · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: On a DDR Pad

Well, i did what you told me to do and it did what you told me it would...
I guess that's a good sign. However, some songs that were in red while the rest were in pink, are still in red. I want to know how to target the individual song, not the group - but i do appreciate the help very much!
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Oh yeah, alright, don't stop the dancing"

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jthrow213 · Basic Member Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Location: Indiana

AMxJM · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2004