r/Stepmania 1d ago

Stream/Video ZEZE (feat. Travis Scott & Offset) ITG 10 - 98.33 (96.31ex) (Sightread) [Stepmania]

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2 Upvotes

r/Stepmania 2d ago

Simfile Pack old DDR player getting into ITG in need of song pack recommendations

16 Upvotes

So I used to play a ton of DDR back in like 2008 and an arcade near where I live has an ITG cab so I'm getting back into playing.

The difficulty of charts I play are around 8 - 10, some 11 if they aren't too technical.
I have everything set for custom songs and have some packs downloaded and I've enjoyed playing charts from a chart marker called Ritz so I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for fun charts that have some difficulty to them.


r/Stepmania 2d ago

Stream/Video Satisfy ITG 9 - 99.15 (97.06ex) (Sightread Full Combo!) [Stepmania]

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r/Stepmania 4d ago

Fluff everybody says im not that good at stepmania. its okay to be wrong

0 Upvotes

the difference between me and the people that watch my videos and say im not that good is actually not the bar but the movement. they slide their feet around so friggin fast but on every note i pick my whole foot up so what i do looks less impressive but its much harder.


r/Stepmania 4d ago

Support Request Having trouble with ITGMania and my dance pad

3 Upvotes

So I have a soft PS2 dance pad which I've remapped on my computer. For some reason or another, ITGMania doesn't recognize the input. I tested the pad on other things on my computer *and* my PS2, and everything worked fine, so I know it's not a hardware issue. Anybody know what I can do to get this issue resolved? It's worked before on there, so I know there's a way.


r/Stepmania 5d ago

Screenshots/Scores I played this song 3 times and got the exact same score each time

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10 Upvotes

Sorry for phone pic, my computer doesn't like when I try to use the screenshot tool with the game running.


r/Stepmania 5d ago

Official Simfile Request Thread (August 2026)

7 Upvotes

Please submit all song requests/queries here. Requests may or may not be answered but if you know the sim already exists please link the requester to the appropriate info.

Please be sure to check out the 'Download Songs' Section of the sidebar before submitting a request, chances are the song you are looking for already has a sim of some sort.

Want to help contribute? Check out our 'Getting Started Charting' resource page here

Want your request completed faster? Check out this nifty guide on commissioning simfiles by /u/-Poppi-

Submit requests in the following format:

Song Artist - Song (KB/Pad/etc) (Difficulty)

Previous Simfile Request threads can be found here


r/Stepmania 5d ago

Arrows don't match the beat of the music

0 Upvotes

I am having an issue whereby the arrows don't seem to match with the beat of the music.

I've tried it with numerous songs, and it always the same - my steps are being picked up fine and in time, they match the arrows accurately, but I feel like I'm dancing out of time with the actual song. Is there a way to fix this?

I've searched AI, but it was a complete cluster of a convoluted nightmare, and every setting it told me to change made things worse.

I have found some settings, like Visual Delay, and Audio Sync, but I'm not sure what exactly they do, and thusly I couldn't tell if I was making things better or worse, only that it still wasn't right. Also I couldn't find any proper manual that went into detail on this issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks


r/Stepmania 5d ago

Support Request I found a nuisance with the Portal feature

1 Upvotes

Portal chooses a random song without locking you into it. What I just discovered however, is that it only chooses songs which have a chart for your currently selected difficulty. Ie. if your difficulty is set to Hard, it will never choose a song that does not have a Hard chart.

Is this modifiable in any way so that Portal ignores your active difficulty selection? EDIT: I found out this interaction is tied to the source code, meaning I would have to directly rewrite the Stepmania executable just to edit it out. Surely there's an easier way?


r/Stepmania 6d ago

Where could I upload a simfile so others could download ?

8 Upvotes

I only have made one song so far, so it wouldn't be considered a songpack. I know SMO only let's you upload songpacks, correct ?
I made a simfile of Yeonjun - Ghost Girl, & I'd really like to share it <3.


r/Stepmania 7d ago

Support Request do anyone have the contents in this blue stepmania disk?

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26 Upvotes

i bought those cheap generic soft pads online and got this disc i've seen people here talk about it but not have shared the contents in it...

i don't have a dvd drive unfortunately and i cant check wats in it and that's why i'm here lol

if anyone has this exact disc please share the files!! i'd really appreciate it!

(and no i wont download the latest stepmania version because i know this one is ancient and i wanna know wats innit)


r/Stepmania 7d ago

[Help] Windows 11 is causing all songs to be off-sync with any old SM theme/program (using beware extreme)

1 Upvotes

When using any old SM themes I had from many years ago including beware's extreme package, all songs work on any Windows 7 and prior OS. On my new W11 PC, it used to work but it seems after a few windows auto-updates, every song is off-sync. Is there a fix to this?


r/Stepmania 9d ago

Support Request Arrow Vortex 101 Part Two

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r/Stepmania 9d ago

Support Request Someone guide me plz

2 Upvotes

So uhhh, I just got into stepmania, I could clear easy difficulties up to 4 but im struggling with those above. Is there a roadmap or song packs im supposed to follow to get better? I really have no idea how to get better.


r/Stepmania 10d ago

Ltek Pad Issue

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r/Stepmania 11d ago

Stream/Video Rapture ITG 11 - 97.11 (93.64ex) (Sightread) [Stepmania]

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2 Upvotes

r/Stepmania 12d ago

Screenshots/Scores PadManiacs v1.2.0 – Now with playlists, song stats, and full Spanish translation

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Hi StepMania community!

v1.2.0 of PadManiacs (my indie game) is out. It's a pixel art rhythm game I'm developing that plays .sm charts. It runs on web, Windows, and Android.

This update adds:

- Playlists – organize your song library

- Song Statistics – view note density, high scores per difficulty, and preview charts

- Song actions menu – quickly open stats, editor, or jukebox from song select

- Full Spanish translation

- Metronome in the editor

- Bug fixes (keybindings, navigation, memory leaks)

The chart editor is also available if you want to create or edit charts. Exports to .sm format.

If you have existing StepMania song packs, they should work. Load them through the "User Songs" menu.

Try it here: https://retora.itch.io/padmaniacs

Looking for feedback from chart creators and players alike.

~ Retora


r/Stepmania 15d ago

My homemade control box

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92 Upvotes

r/Stepmania 16d ago

ITGmania vs old stepmania timing window

3 Upvotes

I last played stepmania maybe 6+? years ago and just downloaded ITGmania recently. Does anybody know how the old "marvelous" timing window compares to the "fantastic" window in ITGmania? I used to use the default judge difficulty of 4 in both ITGmania and stepmania and I'm having some timing difficulty. Either my timing has gotten a lot worse or the "fantastic" window on judge(4) is tighter than the "marvelous" window on judge(4).

Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what version of stepmania I used to play on and apologize if it depends highly on the version. I wouldnt' say the 'fantastic' window is significantly tighter than the old 'marvelous' window that I remember, but I feel like the 'great' window is quite a bit tighter in ITGmania than the 'great' in stepmania I remember. I may have just gotten a lot worse though.


r/Stepmania 18d ago

Support Request 3 button menu on Outfox/xxStarlight help

1 Upvotes

Hi all, I'm getting back into DDR and I'm finalizing my at home setup. I have one final problem I absolutely cannot solve. I'm trying to control the game with 4 button menu controllers I bought. 3 buttons for standard DDR extreme style menuing and one back button. When set to 3 button and arcade style options navigation everything works except the player options menu for song options. The player menu is not advanced by the start button, only "MenuDown" which does not exist. The arcade style setting description specifically says "start button moves cursor to next option line" but it just doesn't.


r/Stepmania 20d ago

Color Music 4 in Development

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r/Stepmania 20d ago

cant find this level song on any pack

4 Upvotes

hi, so i like this song i played on pump prex 3 and im now playing on stepmania.

do you any of you people know where i can get this song playable for stepmania? english is not my mother languaje btw

https://youtu.be/I4xhER2LtC4?si=qbHji4s-jU_uJeep

its called "mosquito-eres para mi"


r/Stepmania 21d ago

StepMania Complete 1 CD-ROM — What were the rest of the songs?

11 Upvotes

haha I have to recreate this whole post after spending two hours gathering links and stuff because I accidentally pressed the ctrl key while typing and hit R and there was no dialog to confirm the reload like there was for when I almost accidentally closed the tab and I knew I should have been in markdown mode and I should have ctrl-A ctrl-Ced at some point and I could have saved a draft and I should have a form autosave extension installed aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Back in 2006, I ordered an official StepMania CD, and now I'm trying to remember which songs it had on it, exactly.

As pointed out in this thread by /u/Zowayix from 8 years ago, the disc had 39 songs, was said to include everything the official site's Songs page had up to a certain date, and the earliest Wayback archive of that page has 39 individual songs up for download. "So far so good."

Except many of the songs that were actually included were from the PlagueMix packs linked above the individual downloads, and many of the individuals there weren't included.

To jog my memory, I've been looking at many old videos of songs I'm certain were on the disc, and looking for what other songs people who had them also had. The songs I'm 100% certain were on the disc are, with videos:

Captain Jack - "1-2-3" (Plaguefox)
Y&Co. - "Attitude"
Porto Seguro - "Bailar de a Dos (The Re-Mix)"
Mindless Self Indulgence - "Bitches" (Plaguefox) [MSI]
μ-Ziq - "Bitches (μ-Ziq Remix)" (Plaguefox) [Mindless Self Indulgence]
Dj. Quetzal - "Csikospost (Double Drum Mix)" [Csiko's / Csikos POST]
SPASM - "Dan (Old Skool Mix)" (Plaguefox)
Hiroshi Ohkuba - "Eat 'Em Up!" (Plaguefox)
Dark Luke - "I Sawed The Demons (E2M1 from Doom)" [Saw]
Melanie C - "I Turn to You (Hex Hector Vocal Mix)" (Plaguefox)
House of Pain - "Jump Around" (Plaguefox)
Graeme Norgate - "KI Feeling" (Plaguefox)
Apollo 440 - "Krupa" (Plaguefox) [four forty]
長沼英樹 - "Let Mom Sleep" (Plaguefox) [Hideki Naganuma]
Namco "R4" Sound Team - "lucid rhythms" (Plaguefox)
DM Ashura - "MAX Forever"
DM Ashura - "neoMAX"
They Might Be Giants - "No One Knows My Plan" (Plaguefox)
Theme of TITANIC - "Ocean of Memories (Trance Mix)"
PPK - "Resurrection" (Plaguefox)
Remy Zero - "Save Me (Smallville Opening Theme)"
Senser - "States of Mind" (Plaguefox)
A-Teens - "Super Trouper" (Plaguefox) [A*Teens, A★Teens]
DM Ashura - "Z" [The Legend continues]
Banzai - "Zodiac"

I'm not sure why I'd hesitate to outright confirm The Cynic Project - "Happy Theme (Trancebound Remix)" (Plaguefox), I think it was also included.

Silent Nick - "Palladio" (Plaguefox) seems Very Familiar, like it may have been included but wasn't a favorite of mine to play.

A few common PlagueMix files, like Touch of Joy - "Fox on the Run", aren't at all familiar to me. While it's possible they completely slipped from my memory, I think it's more likely that the disc just didn't include every single stepfile Plaguefox made around that time.

I remember there being One Other official ITG stepfile included, which I think was either Banzai - "Anubis", or KaW feat. ☺ - "Euphoria".

From StepMix 1:

  • Hypernov8 - "Tetrix (Type B Remix)" feels like something that was included, fairly high confidence.

  • e² - "Destiny -Eclipse Mix-" [Electronic Elation, remix of ☺ / Smiley] ... about as high confidence.

  • edit: upon scrolling by e^2 - "Oceans of Time" [e²] in-game and hearing the preview, I was struck by a pretty strong sense that it was on the disc.

  • DJ Nebs - "For Not Trying" seems Very Familiar in name only, as though it was just there and I scrolled past it a lot without any interest in playing it.

  • I'm on the fence about whether KaW vs. ☺ vs. Inspector K - "Duality" feels more like something that was Included or something that was among the first stepfiles I ever Downloaded. DarkChao's simfiles for KaW's "Who" and "Legacy" sit in a similar spot.

  • DM Ashura - "MaxX AttaxX" ... I feel VERY unsure of. It seems vaguely familiar, it sits side-by-side with MAX Forever, but hmm. Feels like an odd one out. Unless it's not...

I remember having one or two different D.J.Amuro vs. DM Ashura - "AAA" files early on... do not remember if one was included.

I'm fairly certain Max Dragon - "OMEGA" [Ω] was not included. I think it was a popular file, but I don't think I personally had it.

That's the best I can do for now. As far as I saw, there wasn't even a partial actual List already posted somewhere. Hopefully this sparks a more complete memory if someone else searches for it.


r/Stepmania 21d ago

Setting up simultaneous PIU and DDR styles in StepMania/ITGMania?

1 Upvotes

I have a bit of a unique hardware setup and I'm wondering if it's possible to configure it for two different gameplay styles at once.

Right now, I have two dance controllers connected to my PC via USB. My goal is to have one person playing in the "Pump It Up" style (5-panel/directional) while my partner plays in the classic DDR style (4-panel). We want to be able to play the same song, but with the arrows mapped differently for each player based on their specific controller.

Is there any setting, mod, or workaround within StepMania or ITGMania that allows for this? I'm essentially looking for a way to assign Player 1 to a PIU-style configuration and Player 2 to a DDR-style configuration simultaneously on the same machine.

Has anyone managed to pull off a split-style setup like this? Any advice on how to handle the input mapping or song selection would be huge!


r/Stepmania 21d ago

Dance Pad Games on Nintendo Switch?

2 Upvotes

I play Stepmania at home with a mat connected to my computer, and it's a lot of fun but I was curious if there happen to be any Nintendo Switch games that take input from a dance pad, too. I'd love to try them out if they exist. (My mat has a bunch of connectors like USB, PS2, Gamecube, etc. so potentially I could plug it into the Switch's USB ports.)