IIDX simulator for the MAC

[-Chef-]

Is there such a thing liek SSRMAX for the MAX OS.X?

I've looked everywhere and I cannot find anything remotely close to SSRMAX or even BM98 for the mac.

[generac]

there is something that i could never get working. i think its called macbeat or something.

just wait for stepmania 4.0

[ultralowincome]

or wait for max osx 10.5. It'll have windows support via Boot Camp, and there are some open source programs out there right now that let you run Win apps on intel macs.

or yeah. wait for 4.0.

[-Chef-]

K i'll wait for stepmania 4.0.
Thanks.

[sherl0k]

Originally Posted by generac

there is something that i could never get working. i think its called macbeat or something.

http://macbeat.at.infoseek.co.jp/down.htm

Looks like this was made back in 2001.

[generac]

that was the os8 verison

there was also some port for osx too, called aqua'n beats. it died mid-2004
http://aquan-beats.matrix.jp/

i have no desire to try to make it work again. i think it ran but couldn't load songs. no clue, i gave up on the piece of crap almost two years ago.

[-Chef-]

I'll just use my virtual PC and run SSRMAX via that cause its a hell of a lot easier than looking for a lost cause mac version >_>.

I try to NOT use Virtual PC cause the second it gets turned on I am subject to viruses and the such.

Macbeat looked promising
;_;

[Zanneth]

Cool! Thanks for the links.

[WiLLiSTER]

Originally Posted by ultralowincome

or wait for max osx 10.5. It'll have windows support via Boot Camp, and there are some open source programs out there right now that let you run Win apps on intel macs.

or yeah. wait for 4.0.

OSX 10.4 also has support for Boot Camp as long as you an intel chip inside.

You would probably want Parallels though.

[Starmony]

Originally Posted by Anti_gilbert

OSX 10.4 also has support for Boot Camp as long as you an intel chip inside.

You would probably want Parallels though.

you need the intel chip for 10.5 too

[Nomi]

Wouldn't it just run now on any Intel-Mac with OS X 10.4 right now? Waiting for 10.5 wouldn't really do much else seeing as how Boot Camp/Parallels can handle anything normally.

If you're on a G4 or whatever though, yeah, there isn't much.

[Starmony]

God, i bought a G5 a month before they announced the intel ones

[dougk_ff7]

Parallels won't emulate any graphics acceleration, so no for gaming. It does work, though. Boot Camp is another option, but that's only beta now (10.5 will have a finished product similar, supposedly). Aqua'n Beats works fine... Just read the post I have in the main simulators thread to get it going (you just have to manually create the directories, and they exist in a really funny spot).

Hopefully, I'll be able to hack Aqua'n Beats enough to allow controller input over USB and move the data directory somewhere a tad more standard... but we'll see.

[dorkylaosguy]

Originally Posted by dougk_ff7

Parallels won't emulate any graphics acceleration, so no for gaming.

yeah. I tried to use parallel when I tried to play SSRMAX but it's just an emulator. not an acual OS.

I use boot camp on my macbook pro and when I play ssrmax it works great. it even find my controller so I can have a portable 2dx on the go

[-K-]

Portable IIDX on the go... as opposed to portable IIDX in only one place? :P

Oh, and I have Aqua 'n' Beats running on this computer. To start, you need to make a directory in the main drive's root (Macintosh HD, or whatever you named it) called BMS_Debug. Inside there, make a folder called BMSMusic. This folder is where you'll put the simfiles. Also inside of the BMS_Debug folder, move the Scheme folder into there. I forget exactly where Scheme is originally, so I can't help there. You can place the application anywhere you please, though.

In other words, it should look something like this:

/ (Macintosh HD)
|\_ BMS_Debug
| |
| |\_ BMSMusic
| |   \_ OMG SONGS
| |
| |\_ Scheme
| |   \_Default Scheme

Hope that helped.