[THEMES] Takuya's Dance Dance Revolution Themes

[Xavious]

Originally Posted by Chewphoria

Takuya, how do you get CDTitles to appear in your DS Fever theme?

They aren't supposed to because Dancing Stage doesn't use CD titles. You could probably put the metric back in to show them again but that would ruin the point of the theme looking like the original game.


It's possible to find the PS2 Bios through searching with Google, however I would be cautious with some places that may hold fake files but I did find a good one with a little searching. I have recently deleted my PS2 emulation because I found it never worked well enough on my PC anyway, and since I own a PS2 I didn't really need it (it was mostly curiosity), however I did forget that it was possible to rip graphics through emulation.

[jmpoder]

Originally Posted by Takuya20

If you go back to the thread (I don't remember the page)... there's the entire conversation about how to get PS2 graphics....

omg! i went back in the thread just to see where it was that and I found a link to ddruk and there are some instructions, i hope les3454 read this because i spend like an hour searching

DDREX2 PS2 Graphics Ripped - DDR:UK -- Dance Dance Revolution and Dancing Stage fansite based in the UK!

back in the thread i love your themes takuya and I know someone already ask you this but are you going to release the annoncer with your sn2 theme? because I used bemedia ripper and the announcer was speeded up, it sounds like alvin and the chipmunks

[TakuyaMAXX]

The announcer is still the same, but not that louder as SN1. I have plans to remake the announcer, but for now I'm focussed on the theme itself to think about announcer or arrows.
Talking about arrows, still there's no answer to my request of help with them.... they still present several problems, but works closer to fine. Until I have them fixed a release will not be possible.

Dancing Stage EuroMIX2 WIP
- All game screens are 100% working.
- Select difficulty isn't implemented yet, but that is irrelevant for the game functionality.
- Just finding some stuff to fix.

I hope to release during the next couple of weeks the first DSEM2 theme.

[cusicat]

@TAKUYA: is it possible to disable the dancing characters automatically if the song chosen has an exclusive video on it?

[hydrar]

Could we have any new progress screenshots of euromix 2 when you feel its ready to present.

[Chewi☆]

Originally Posted by Xavious

They aren't supposed to because Dancing Stage doesn't use CD titles. You could probably put the metric back in to show them again but that would ruin the point of the theme looking like the original game.

K, i'll just use a different theme then.

[TakuyaMAXX]

Well adding them to the select music screen isn't too difficult... just change the follow line in the metrics file:
Actual: CDTitleOnCommand=hidden,1
Desired: CDTitleOnCommand=hidden,0

As you can see changing hidden,1 to hidden,0 makes CD titles visible in Dancing Stage themes.

[hooky -i- vanisher]

Originally Posted by cusicat

@TAKUYA: is it possible to disable the dancing characters automatically if the song chosen has an exclusive video on it?

That's SM's responsibility.

Anyway, no.

[Xavious]

Originally Posted by les3454

That's SM's responsibility.

Anyway, no.

Correct, and its something SM could really do with incorporating now videos are becoming more readily available for simulation. I sometimes like having the dancing characters around, but having to enter options every time I want to disable them for certain songs does get tedious sometimes. It would be nice if, as has been suggested in the past, SM files could have a "#SHOWDANCINGCHARACTER:NO" option for songs with videos or something.

And thanks Takuya for explaining the CDTitle metric to Chewphoria. I knew it was possible but I lack knowledge of the metric files to explain it properly.

Also, I thought you had given up European themes such as EM2 for now because 3.9 couldn't handle it properly, and you were hoping to develop it for 4.0 instead? Or are you just going to do what you can with 3.9 for now?

[TakuyaMAXX]

I'm developing EM2 right now... and when done, the other DS mixes will have their chance.
I guess that EM2 is ready for a Rev 1.0 release, but not too far from completition.
The time to have final version for most of my themes is the goal I have for the 2008.

[dieKatze88]

In responce to the dancing characters issue.

If SM let us adjust the locations of the characters in [ScreenGameplay] like it used to back in the early alphas, we could just do this:

(This is in terms of C++/Java, not written in SM branches)

if (Song == "Yoursonghere" || Song == "Yourothersonghere"..etc)
{
NextScreen = "ScreenGamplayNoChar" (which has the characters shoved way below the screen, or better yet, hidden,1
}
else
{
NextScreen = "ScreenGameplayStage"
}

But seeing as that option has been moved to [DancingCharacters] thats a nogo.

[Oni-91]

Originally Posted by Takuya20

I'm developing EM2 right now... and when done, the other DS mixes will have their chance.
I guess that EM2 is ready for a Rev 1.0 release, but not too far from completition.
The time to have final version for most of my themes is the goal I have for the 2008.

Great news. Also, now that we've seen the UNI2 interface, and I know the songwheel could be managed on SM, would a UNI2 theme be possible in the future?

[Azaman]

Originally Posted by Oni-91

Great news. Also, now that we've seen the UNI2 interface, and I know the songwheel could be managed on SM, would a UNI2 theme be possible in the future?

As you are aware i had previously tried doing the original Universe i got far into the theme, i got the wheel exactly like the game but just needed to update graphics and move around a few things. Then my computer got whipped and all files were lost but about 4 days ago i started trying to do the Universe 2 Theme and so far iv got the wheel exactly where it should be and to make it look there are banners moving around i replaced the

MusicWheelItem section.png

and the

MusicWheelItem song.png

picture into a default banner instead of a little rectangular box that highlights the song. In about a week or 2 ill put up some screens.

Oh and Takuya, awesome SuperNOVA 2 theme and before as you said that any other DS theme would be open for making after you've completed Euro Mix 2 i was wondering how bout DS Fusion? The song wheel is possible and the theme its self is just so great =] But its totally up to you

Thanks

[Oni-91]

One thing I've noticed about the difference between DS MegaMix and DS Fusion : the credits.

MegaMix is easy-ish (just a load of cascading arrows to Feeling's Won't Fade), but Fever looks quite difficult. It's like how the SM default credits are, but background videos are shown instead of bgs. Also, sometimes, the screens that display these go down 2 columns. And it's to a trance remix of Kind Lady that I haven't heard anywhere else before...finally, there's a special Christmas one for the entire of December, to the long version of Silent Hill.

[Corootai_dolphin]

Originally Posted by Oni-91

One thing I've noticed about the difference between DS MegaMix and DS Fusion : the credits.

MegaMix is easy-ish (just a load of cascading arrows to Feeling's Won't Fade), but Fever looks quite difficult. It's like how the SM default credits are, but background videos are shown instead of bgs. Also, sometimes, the screens that display these go down 2 columns. And it's to a trance remix of Kind Lady that I haven't heard anywhere else before...finally, there's a special Christmas one for the entire of December, to the long version of Silent Hill.

yeah the us ver. of max2 ends just like that with kind lady and backgound vids.