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03-15-2007, 06:33 PM
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#1 | | OMG Its Kon 0_o
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Alright, I was thinking one day at the arcade after a round of ITG, and I said "well In The Groove is basicly stepmania, so how did they get memory cards to work?"
Alright, so back to the main question... Is There any way you can make a USB Flash Drive load custom songs onto Stepmania without saving them to the game itself, or is this not even possible at all? | |
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03-15-2007, 08:07 PM
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#2 | | //EvilToastyBagels
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AdditionalSongFolders=
add the drive directory here. | |
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03-15-2007, 09:01 PM
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#3 | | OMG Its Kon 0_o
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Originally Posted by TougaKiryuu  AdditionalSongFolders=
add the drive directory here. | I dont get what you just said... | |
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03-16-2007, 12:34 AM
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#4 | | //bemanistyle::[Regular]
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Originally Posted by TougaKiryuu AdditionalSongFolders=
add the drive directory here. | C'mon Touga, you need to tell people that don't know, where is that line? | |
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03-16-2007, 04:11 AM
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#5 | | Copious Interruptus
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it's self Explanatory
AdditionalSongFolders in the \data\stepmania.ini file
so if your drive is F:\ and the location of the folder is \songs, it will be like this:
AdditionalSongFolders=F:\songs\
...or
are you talking about a stepmania installation on a flash drive? | |
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03-16-2007, 04:20 PM
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#6 | | LOTS 'N LOTS OF DONGZ
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No he was talking about loading custom songs in, which is the first thing you posted.
All you need to do is set AdditionSongFolders to the same letter that your stick uses when its plugged in. The option is on the 15th line in the .ini, should be fairly easy to spot. | |
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03-16-2007, 04:42 PM
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#7 | | OMG Its Kon 0_o
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Ok you guys are just confusing me more, I am very stupid, and I dont get any of the things you are saying to me, can one of you please make a tutorial for my stupidness, and other epoples stupidness? | |
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03-16-2007, 06:48 PM
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#8 | | //EvilToastyBagels
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Ok *scratches head* do you know the drive letter that your USB memory device mounts to? | |
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03-16-2007, 10:23 PM
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#9 | | g//ay for k//eternal
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Let's see... step by step.
1.- Turn on your PC (LOL)
2.- Wait until Windows is loaded, then go to My PC
3.- Plug your USB flash drive
4.- Look at what drive is it identified as. Look at this image: 
As you can see, Windows recognizes my flash drive as F:
5.- Open Stepmania.ini and in the AdditionalSongFolders= line, add the corresponding route.
So, in my case, if I have a folder called "songs" in the flash, I have to add F:\Songs\
However, I want to know... SM loads the songs from the flash drive each time a "credit" is played? Or SM has to be restarted each time one plugs a flash drive?
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03-16-2007, 11:22 PM
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#10 | | OMG Its Kon 0_o
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Originally Posted by Wan Let's see... step by step.
1.- Turn on your PC (LOL)
2.- Wait until Windows is loaded, then go to My PC
3.- Plug your USB flash drive
4.- Look at what drive is it identified as. Look at this image:
As you can see, Windows recognizes my flash drive as F:
5.- Open Stepmania.ini and in the AdditionalSongFolders= line, add the corresponding route.
So, in my case, if I have a folder called "songs" in the flash, I have to add F:\Songs\
However, I want to know... SM loads the songs from the flash drive each time a "credit" is played? Or SM has to be restarted each time one plugs a flash drive? | THANK YOU! | |
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03-17-2007, 02:24 PM
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#11 | | //EvilToastyBagels
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Ok, here's what your going to do, your gonna make a folder in there called songs, then you're going to open the data folder in the stepmania directory and open stepmania.ini with wordpad or notepad, and where you see this line:
AdditionalSongFolders=
replace it with this:
AdditionalSongFolders=F:\Songs\ | |
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03-17-2007, 07:30 PM
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#12 | | //bemanistyle::[Regular]
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Originally Posted by Wan However, I want to know... SM loads the songs from the flash drive each time a "credit" is played? Or SM has to be restarted each time one plugs a flash drive? | Without even trying it myself, by knowing only how SM works and how it behaves, it would have to be restarted or "Reload Songs/Courses" if you wanted to load songs from a different source. So removal of that device at all would lead to a necessary reload of the list. | |
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03-18-2007, 03:25 PM
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#13 | | //bemanistyle::[User]
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StepMania currently does not support custom songs per game with a flashdrive, so you're out of luck if you don't want to reload after each game. However, I know I and a few other people are working on support for it, so the source may find its way into StepMania within a few versions.
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03-19-2007, 03:51 PM
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#14 | | //bemanistyle::[User]
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Couldn't you just use shortcuts? Like make a shortcut folder to the directory of the USB stick? | |
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03-20-2007, 02:10 PM
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#15 | | g//ayer for k//eternal
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no
shortcuts are .lnk | |
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