Ddr Pack Stepmania

Posted on 23-04-2021 by admin

The main websites about Dance Dance Revolution. A very complete list of DDR related websites can be found in the Stepmania Directory. In particular you will find tons of original simfiles, themes and noteskins for Stepmania there. Plus, Amanda warns you every week about the newest releases on Bemanistyle, ddrplace and Stepmania.com.

Looking for StepMania packs with great classics and newer dancey tunes without all of the bloated junk you'll typically find in packs online? Here are 3 packs I put together that'll get any DDR / Stepmania party going! Earth, Wind & Fire, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Calvin Harris, Drake & much more! I got Stepmania working on my modded originial Xbox like 6 years ago, and at the time I just downloaded a.torrent file that had 1300 songs, mostly songpacks that were on the DDR arcade games. I'd like to update that library to some more of the arcade games and maybe some other fun songs.

Ddr Song Pack Stepmania

Buying hardware

This is where you start... I focus on the European market, which of course I know best. Below are mainly remainders of the info in Playing on a PC. I am always grateful for good info about merchant websites.
http://www.fl-games.com: It's the way to go if you are after the ultra cheap soft mat at 12€, or if you need a Playstation 2 to USB adaptator.
http://www.mayflash.eu or http://www.futuremax.eu/fr/ : If you seek an upper level mat, you have very few options in Europe, to my knowledge. Things are getting worse
Dance Pad Mania is an US website offering two different soft mats.
Precision Dance Pads is another US shop, with this time very high rated solid mats.

Finding tracks

Your quest for DDR title will be time consuming, but exciting as you discover the HUGE variety of available songs. Begin with the Dance school section of this website. You will find a few downloadable titles. This will not take you anywhere far though... There is two category of DDR files :
Official packs are the PCs counterparts of the Dance Dance Revolution games released in arcade or console(also spin offs like Dancing Stage). All of them have been converted to Stepmania and Dance With Intensity, this represents a huge pile of ddr files.
Then you have the originals files. Made by fans, they cover an incredible variety of musics. Dozens are released everyday! This is what you sould look at if you want 'hits' songs.

http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/index.php features both officials and originals simfiles. No need to register to download at a more than satisfying speed. Great! Go to Games, DDR & DS, simfiles.
http://www.stepmaniaonline.eu/: in addition to host Stepmania's multiplayer games, Stepmania Online offers you most official packs and a lot of unofficials, direct download.
http://www.stepmaniadownloadsource.com/ has most of the officials songs packs including DDR first mix to eigth mix. You will also find a lot of themes (only for 3.9 I guess) and announcers.
http://www.bemanistyle.com/ is the website gathering the most simfiles, unofficials tracks produced by the DDR communauty. Head to Simulation then search simfiles, if you are lucky you will find a dwi of your favorite song! The database is impressive, think about a dozen thousands of titles. Fallout of this, it takes days to go through the entire list looking for attractive songs.
Be also warned that the quality of the files ranges from wonderful to unplayable : there is a good deal of heavy only files, sometimes the folders are a mess, and often the synchro is spoiled... you are gonna dig to find the simfiles you dream of! Luckily there is a rating system which will let you make a first sort. You can also read this website: it offers every week a selection of the best bemanistyle simfiles.
For the records, bemani is the name of the division 'musical games' of Konami.
http://www.ddrplace.com/: Same kind as Benami, much less titles though. You will find a DDR tutorial which claims it can rise you up to the heavy level in one week, worth a try?
http://www.ddrencore.com/: The site is back in early 2011 with a new design allowing us to listen the tracks on the website! Every single simfile is suited to dancepad and has several difficulty levels to please the player whatever his skills.
http://www.dwiextreme.com/: website of a group of DDR fans involved in the creation of quality DDR tracks. They release packs of songs regularly. Techno is their style of music, the likes of David Morales and Moto Blanco.
http://www.stepmania.com/: the official website includes a section Songs/User Submitted with at least a thousand titles, same spirit as Bemanistyle.
Stepmania Directory/Downloads gathers a lot of original simfiles packs, very convenient!
http://www.latelier240.fr/ddr.php: Hey, a french website! :p It gathers 11 collections of a score songs. What I appreciate most is that each pack's content is fully detailed with the difficulty levels available. The songs adapted in these packs are incredible but a lot are fun outdated french songs, like introduction songs from old animation series. Non french people won't understand these :D There remains a good deal of well made international hits.

Communauty websites

Once you gathered the necessary equipment you maybe will want to know more about DDR and to keep in touch with the latest news. zenius-i-vanisher and bemanistyle are great for that, but you should also check these websites:

http://www.ddruk.com was THE english-speaking reference website. It had all the official packages in direct download. One day they changed the server and the songs were gone for ever... Still the website follows the DDR news and has an active forum
http://www.stepmania.com: all you need about the reference DDR simulation software.
http://www.stepmaniaonline.com/: Stepmania multiplayer is closely linked to Stepmania Online, which maintains the servers for Online play. There is a ladder to rank the players just like in Starcraft! The european version has taken the lead recently, see below.
http://www.stepmaniaonline.eu/: The US version of Stepmania Online has closed, now the DDR players meet there for competitive (or leisure...) online play!
http://www.ddrfreak.com/: ddrfreak is a big american website about Dance Dance Revolution. It covers all the news, and you will find in Tips and tricks materials to rise your level of play. Also a complete list of DDR versions along with the songlist for each, and stepcharts : you can print the arrow succession on official songs !
http://stepmaniathings.com/: gathers tons of themes, noteskins, and announcers for Stepmania.
http://www.ddronlinecommunity.com/: Official Konami website about DDR, obviously you won't find a word on Stepmania there but rather news about the official releases (Dance Dance Revolution and Dancing Stage), score tables, videos and forum.
PumpHaven : a forum about Pump it up, a musical game very close to DDR except there are five arrows: a center arrow and four diagonals.

French speaking websites:Orgames , Azur Games, DDRBordeaux, NTss Tss and Powa.
French DDR teams: Initial, Dance or Die, slippershurricane, Ryhtm'n'Rogues.