Still Having Problems with CRS.

[Elogotar]

Following directions the best I could I ended up making a txt file in Notepad that looked like this:

#COURSE:City of Evil;
#REPEAT:NO;
#SONG:Rock/Beast and the Harlot:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Burn it Down:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Blinded in Chains:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Bat_Country:Hard;

Then, I saved it as a .crs file to the Courses folder. I still can't get it to work. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

[UnrealArcher]

Originally Posted by Elogotar

Following directions the best I could I ended up making a txt file in Notepad that looked like this:

#COURSE:City of Evil;
#REPEAT:NO;
#SONG:Rock/Beast and the Harlot:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Burn it Down:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Blinded in Chains:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Bat_Country:Hard;

Then, I saved it as a .crs file to the Courses folder. I still can't get it to work. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

I think you might need to add in a #DISPLAYCOURSE tag in there... just make it the same title as #COURSE.

Also, make sure to reload everything from the options menu, and see if that makes it appear.

[SulferDragon]

I just bumped into this thread, and I've been wondering if you could make courses too. So, I went and tried this, it didn't work for me.

So, I have a few questions.

1: When listing the name of the song do you include the subtitle?

2: Do you put the .crs file in the Samples folder within the Courses folder, or just put it in the Courses folder?

3: Where should the #DISPLAYCOURSE tag go?

4: This I'm really confused about... Lemme give an example
#SONG:Rock/Beast and the Harlot:Hard;
Is that___^^__the name of the song folder you have that song placed in?

Here's one I tried to do. Note: All three of those song have a subtitle.
#COURSE:Baten Kaitos Madness!;
#DISPLAYCOURSE:Baten Kaitos Madness!;
#REPEAT:NO;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/The Valedictory Elegy:Hard;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/The True Mirror:Hard;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/Iconoclasm:Challenge;

[Elogotar]

Originally Posted by Elogotar

#COURSE:City of Evil;
#REPEAT:NO;
#SONG:Rock/Beast and the Harlot:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Burn it Down:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Blinded in Chains:Hard;
#SONG:Rock/Bat_Country:Hard;

Yes, rock is the name of the folder that those song folder are in.

[UnrealArcher]

Originally Posted by PhoenixW

I just bumped into this thread, and I've been wondering if you could make courses too. So, I went and tried this, it didn't work for me.

So, I have a few questions.

1: When listing the name of the song do you include the subtitle?

You don't actually list the name of the song itself; you list the name of the folder in the songs directory (ie. if I put 'The legend of MAX' as the song, SM will go looking for the first folder with that name in the entire Songs directory, including subfolders.

Originally Posted by PhoenixW

2: Do you put the .crs file in the Samples folder within the Courses folder, or just put it in the Courses folder?

You can put it in Samples, in the root Courses folder, or even in your own custom folder. It doesn't matter; SM will still find it.

Originally Posted by PhoenixW

3: Where should the #DISPLAYCOURSE tag go?

On a new line right after the #COURSE tag (see below)

#COURSE:PARANOIA BROTHERS (Extreme);
#DISPLAYCOURSE:PARANOIA BROTHERS;
#COMBO:PERFECT;
#COMBOMODE:1;
#LIVES:4;

#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 1st Mix\PARANOiA:MANIAC;
#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 8th Mix -Extreme-\PARANOiA ETERNAL:MANIAC;
#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 8th Mix -Extreme-\PARANOIA survivor:MANIAC;
#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix\PARANOIA MAX (DIRTY MIX):MANIAC;
#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 8th Mix -Extreme-\PARANOIA survivor MAX:MANIAC;

Originally Posted by PhoenixW

4: This I'm really confused about... Lemme give an example
#SONG:Rock/Beast and the Harlot:Hard;
Is that___^^__the name of the song folder you have that song placed in?

That's the name of the subfolder from Songs that the song is in. It allows you to specify exactly where the song you want is. Say, for example, I have two simfiles for PARANOiA ETERNAL; one in the DDR 5th Mix folder and one in the DDR 8th Mix -Extreme- folder. If I just specify

#SONG:PARANOiA ETERNAL:MANIAC;

SM will load up the first one it finds (which is the 5th Mix one). If I want it to use the 8th Mix one, though, I can change the tag so that it read

#SONG:Dance Dance Revolution 8th Mix -Extreme-/PARANOiA ETERNAL:MANIAC;

Then it will look for the PARANOiA ETERNAL folder in the -Extreme- folder only, ignoring the 5th Mix version of the song (you can see this done above in the PARANOiA BROTHERS course).

Originally Posted by PhoenixW

Here's one I tried to do. Note: All three of those song have a subtitle.
#COURSE:Baten Kaitos Madness!;
#DISPLAYCOURSE:Baten Kaitos Madness!;
#REPEAT:NO;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/The Valedictory Elegy:Hard;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/The True Mirror:Hard;
#SONG:VideoGameMusic/Iconoclasm:Challenge;

If The Valedictory Elegy, The True Mirror, and Iconoclasm aren't the folder names for those songs, then it won't find them. Also, try changing the case of Hard and Challenge so it's in all caps; I'm not sure if this is required or not, but all courses I have that work have the case in all caps when specifying the difficulty.

[SulferDragon]

Yes! You are awesome! It's working perfectly.

I'll be doing this for awhile.

[ZanasoBayncuh]

Wouldn't the best advice that could've been given here just say: Look at one that already works and follow suit? *sigh*

My first attempt at course making went perfectly simply because I followed by example, I had working courses from DDR (the Challenge mode marathons, ftw) and started making my own, finding out about new modification tags along the way. Finding out information about things that you want to make based on ones that already work is the best way EVER to find out what you should do.

[Elogotar]

Originally Posted by ZanasoBayncuh

Wouldn't the best advice that could've been given here just say: Look at one that already works and follow suit? *sigh*

My first attempt at course making went perfectly simply because I followed by example, I had working courses from DDR (the Challenge mode marathons, ftw) and started making my own, finding out about new modification tags along the way. Finding out information about things that you want to make based on ones that already work is the best way EVER to find out what you should do.

Well, I didn't realize that file types and such would be a problem. When I opened one of the courses already there and modified it to look exactly like mine, then saved it as a different course, It worked perfect. I sometimes forget how finicky SM can be...