r/Stepmania

Weighing just 12 kg, it’s easy to carry with you—the perfect choice for business trips, travel, and vacations! You can enjoy music and dancing anytime, anywhere!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on PadManiacs, an open source StepMania clone with pixel art graphics.

Just added experimental local multiplayer! Two players can play the same chart side by side on one screen. Each player has their own score, combo, and health bar. Works with keyboard (customizable bindings) or two gamepads.

I've already tested the keyboard multiplayer, but I don't have any controllers so I haven't been able to test that feature.

It would help me a lot if any of you could test the multiplayer with two controllers and tell me if it works.

Other features:

- Load your own .sm song packs

- Built-in chart editor

- Character system with levels and skills

- Add-on/mod support

- Full mobile support

Game links:

Itch.io link: https://retora.itch.io/padmaniacs

Latest Nightly: https://retoradev.github.io/PadManiacs/

GitHub: https://github.com/RetoraDev/PadManiacs

Thanks in advance

I’m using a hardpad with this adapter I’ve had for a long time, that has multiple cable types. I’ve used it with my classic Xbox for years without any major issues. Now I’m trying to hook the pad up to my pc to play stepmania, but my pc doesn’t seem to acknowledge its presence at all. I don’t hear a connect noise, I don’t see it pop up in the usb game controller, or the devices list, or anywhere else, nor does anything react to my pad inputs at all.

Troubleshooting steps I’ve already taken: I’ve tried it on all the usb ports my pc has, none of them work. I’ve hooked it up to my Xbox again today, to confirm that the pad itself still works. I’ve hooked up my wired switch controller to my pc, to confirm that it can recognize usb game controllers.

Feels like the most likely problem is with the adapter not recognizing the specific output I want to use? Wonder if anyone familiar with this specific adapter might know how to work out the finer details… or maybe also figure out a way to get my inputs through even if the pc doesn’t otherwise recognize the device?

The weirdest part is I’ve actually gotten my pad working on pc before, a bit over a year ago. It’s just that I’ve completely forgotten how I set it up, in fact it might’ve been before I had my pc’s hard drive replaced. I’m just hoping it’s a matter of figuring out this fringe issue again, and not some new incompatibility or hardware deterioration…

I once saw a gameplay video of the song in question when I was a child, and I've been looking for it for years.

Just as the title says, the song is not based on Naoki Maeda's "MAX 300" (which was remixed by DM Ashura as "MAX Forever" to feature many DDR-related samples), but it featured many samples that are related to various BEMANI songs, mainly beatmania IIDX series and DanceDanceRevolution series.

I remember that the song is a some kind of heavy hardcore/hardstyle track with hard-sounding kick drums throughout, and had the sample from "AFRONOVA" (composed by RE-VENGE (Naoki Maeda) for DDR 3rdMIX) and "Ghostbusters" (remixed by DJ Yoshitaka for beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD, but the sample was probably edited to sounded like, or taken from Ray Parker Jr.'s original) at some point.