StepMania

So I recently purchased USB Dance Pad. Kraft is giving these away for $10 shipping. I doubt shipping cost that much. It was less than a few lbs, so $5 UPS grounds top. Anyway, my way of looking at it was $10 for a cheap USB dance pad. Not that I like DDR or anything, I thought it might motivate me to exercise a bit. Haha.

So I was searching for DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) games on the PC and found this: StepMania. The interface is exactly like DDR, but is user customizable, meaning if you have an mp3, you can make your own dance track. The software itself doesn’t come with any songs, but they provide some downloads here. Also you can visit your favorite BitTorrent site and find ALL 8 DDR mixes. There’s a bunch of anime ones too.

Configuring the game wasn’t that hard. The gamepad is detected as joystick with 11 buttons so you just have to enter the configuration page and modify the key settings. The dance pad itself is okay for $10 worth. The buttons aren’t as responsive as I would’ve liked (or maybe I just suck) and it keeps slipping. As you can imagine, I’d did horribly. The best score I got, out of pure luck was a C on BOOM BOOM DOLLAR. Everything else I tried I either got a E or Failed, mostly failed.

The maximum resolution this game runs at is 1280×1024, good enough for most monitors, but I had hoped it’d run @ 1920×1280 since that’s my screen’s native resoltuion.

Anyway, if you’re a DDR fan, you should give it a try.

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