Drummania / Guitarfreaks simulators

[Meow]

Simulators
Here are a list of simulators for Drummania / Guitarfreaks for PC. All the sims are avaiable for download at GDAmania.

DTXMania (Recommended). The most powerful and good looking sim. It can play GDA, DTX, BMS and MIDI files. The program is also skinnable. However, it has an extra purple lane (floor tom). Updated occasionally.
- Version 061 is recommended because it doesn't have the left cymbal lane.
- Version 054 is the most stable version, but has less options.
- All simfiles over at GDAmania are designed to work with DTXMania.
- A brief setup guide for DTXMania can be found here.


Sessionstream
Another good looking sim. Supports GDA files only. It's unique in that it has Non-stop mode, and it's interface is designed for sessioning (as the name suggests).

Drummania eXtreme
Written by BillOB, it's designed to mimic the arcade experience. It supports GDA and DTX files, and works with all controllers. Interface is not as polished but its still under development.

Digiband
Another simulator that wanted to go commercial at one point. Development process unknown as the website seems to be down at the moment.

Bandjam
Used to be the most popular sim, but has fallen by the wayside after development ceased. Supports GDAs only.

Here are the common simfile types for DMGF sims.
GDA: 6 lanes like Drummania. Cannot support video/animation.
DTX: 7 lanes because of additional floor tom. Also supports open hihat and ride cymbal notes. Supports video/animation
BMS: 7+1 lane file format used in IIDX sims, but can also be played in DTXMania.
MIDI: Standard MIDI files can be played in DTXMania. The drum part is extracted from file, but its playability depends on the MIDI file.

[chibiskuld]

hehehehehe.... about that website not working...

The domain digiband.org was domain sniped by some Indian based company. You can now find digiband at DigiBand by: Seijinohki Soft or alternatively at DigiBand by: Seijinohki Soft . We just reached our RC1 and I've been hacking windows XP to boot just digiband for a cabinet. I still haven't had any REAL submissions for music. I'm looking to bring on 30 songs. The software itself however will continue to always remain opensource and free to use with DTX and GDA files.

[RyoSaebahunter]

Can we play DTXmania without the additional floor tom ? with only 6 pads on the screen ?

[SPEEDY CAT]

Looking at Digiband, I really like the ability to sort out my songs by folder. Is there any way to do this with DTXmania or am I gonna have to just deal with the different grading system of Digiband for the sake of not having to scroll forever to find the song I'm looking for?

[Jinx]

You can place songs in folders in DTXMania. Just name the folders with the following prefix so that the system recognizes them as folders of songs rather than song folders:

DTXFiles.xxxxx with the x's as whatever you want the folder's displayed name in-game to be.

If you have the HDD space, I'd recommend you also make a few folders with songs of similar difficulty because the game also lets you do Random Song by folder as well.

If you haven't played one of the more recent DM AC mixes, the games offer these sortings:

Default (not exactly sure how they come up with the default, but it always starts with newer songs and works down the list into older mixes, however it seems like certain series of songs and harder songs end up higher on the list.

Alphabetical: B follows A, C follows B, I really hope this one was self-explanatory.

Difficulty Level: Sorts by Basic, Advanced, and Extreme.

Difficulty #: Sorts by numerical difficulty.

Release Mix: Usually what my DTXMania is defaulted into.

Long Songs Only: Self-explanatory

Random Songs: Offers different ways of choosing random songs, such as random long songs only, random regular songs only, random new songs only, and random existing songs only.

Secret: Sorts by songs that are unlockable on that mix. On DTXMania, you could just stick in the e-Amuse songs if you didn't want to give them their own category in Release Mix sorting like the AC does. Encore songs could go here too, I guess.

[Bolowongji]

hey guys,

i was just wondering if it was possible to hook up a drummania pc to your drumkit and tv like the playstation setup.

I have a feeling it's quite difficult since no one ever seems to mention it as an option. haha

[Billkwando]

Originally Posted by Jinx

You can place songs in folders in DTXMania. Just name the folders with the following prefix so that the system recognizes them as folders of songs rather than song folders:

DTXFiles.xxxxx with the x's as whatever you want the folder's displayed name in-game to be.

If you have the HDD space, I'd recommend you also make a few folders with songs of similar difficulty because the game also lets you do Random Song by folder as well.

If you haven't played one of the more recent DM AC mixes, the games offer these sortings:

Default (not exactly sure how they come up with the default, but it always starts with newer songs and works down the list into older mixes, however it seems like certain series of songs and harder songs end up higher on the list.

Alphabetical: B follows A, C follows B, I really hope this one was self-explanatory.

Difficulty Level: Sorts by Basic, Advanced, and Extreme.

Difficulty #: Sorts by numerical difficulty.

Release Mix: Usually what my DTXMania is defaulted into.

Long Songs Only: Self-explanatory

Random Songs: Offers different ways of choosing random songs, such as random long songs only, random regular songs only, random new songs only, and random existing songs only.

Secret: Sorts by songs that are unlockable on that mix. On DTXMania, you could just stick in the e-Amuse songs if you didn't want to give them their own category in Release Mix sorting like the AC does. Encore songs could go here too, I guess.

I hate to be a necrodouche, but I've had this post open on my computer for 2 weeks trying to figure it out on my own, and I finally gave up.

What do you have to actually do to get the game to sort? (I'm gussing it's explained in Japanese somewhere)

[Jinx]

Erm, it doesn't actually /sort/ per se, but it will arrange your songs into folders if you name the category folders "DTXFiles.xxx" with the x's as your category name (i.e. Long Songs, 3rd Mix, etc...). If you want it to feel like a true sorting, you'd have to duplicate the songs so that you can completely fill each category with the necessary songs, hence I usually only use the mix-sorted folders and the Long Songs separate. Make sure your spelling and capitalization is exactly like that; I think I remember someone else was having a problem with this at one point because it wasn't capitalized properly, so I always just do it like that. You can also add a file to the category folders that can change the actual sorting (so that 10th Mix doesn't sort before 1st Mix), give the folder a folder image, and change the font color of the text.

Erm, don't ask me how to do it, I haven't done it myself in forever and I don't have the original I made when I did. Sorry I can't offer that one up, but I think I remember it being a set.dat file specifically for the folder somehow.

If you can't get it to work after that, just PM me or something.

[Billkwando]

Originally Posted by Jinx

Erm, it doesn't actually /sort/ per se, but it will arrange your songs into folders if you name the category folders "DTXFiles.xxx" with the x's as your category name (i.e. Long Songs, 3rd Mix, etc...). If you want it to feel like a true sorting, you'd have to duplicate the songs so that you can completely fill each category with the necessary songs, hence I usually only use the mix-sorted folders and the Long Songs separate. Make sure your spelling and capitalization is exactly like that; I think I remember someone else was having a problem with this at one point because it wasn't capitalized properly, so I always just do it like that. You can also add a file to the category folders that can change the actual sorting (so that 10th Mix doesn't sort before 1st Mix), give the folder a folder image, and change the font color of the text.


Erm, don't ask me how to do it, I haven't done it myself in forever and I don't have the original I made when I did. Sorry I can't offer that one up, but I think I remember it being a set.dat file specifically for the folder somehow.

If you can't get it to work after that, just PM me or something.

hahahahahahahaha

I'm glad I finally asked! I thought you were saying there was a sort command in game, like IIDX has. I was thinking it was something like tapping the hi-hat twice for the difficulty. D'oh!

Are there any other commands on the song screen? I see the stuff in Japanese and it's taunting me. I see it says you can hit bass pedal 2x. Doesn't that change the speed?


Edit: I still have to credit you/link this thread on my page. I just got tired and lazy cos I'd been putting the page together for like 3 hours when I wrote the part about the folders. I really appreciiate it though, cos if it weren't for you all my songs would still be swimming around in one giant folder.

[Jinx]

As far as I know, the current DTXMania songlist commands are Speed Increase (Bass, Bass); Difficulty Change (HH, HH), Assign Auto (HT, HH, HT, HT). Basically, all of the ones exist from the majority of the games except the new method used in V4 and up. Oh, and I think I remember there being one where the Floor Tom could be used to put in a code, but I've never used it and have since forgotten what it was and what it did. :P

set.def / box.def file specifications

Those are the details on getting the box.def files working so that you can sort folders as well.

[Billkwando]

Originally Posted by Jinx

As far as I know, the current DTXMania songlist commands are Speed Increase (Bass, Bass); Difficulty Change (HH, HH), Assign Auto (HT, HH, HT, HT). Basically, all of the ones exist from the majority of the games except the new method used in V4 and up. Oh, and I think I remember there being one where the Floor Tom could be used to put in a code, but I've never used it and have since forgotten what it was and what it did. :P

set.def / box.def file specifications

Those are the details on getting the box.def files working so that you can sort folders as well.

Awesome! Thanks for the pointers.

What's "Assign Auto"?




I'm in the middle of trying to make my first DTX file, btw. I have no faq or readme or anything and I have no idea what I'm doing.....it's hilarious.

[Jinx]

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You know, like Auto Bass, Auto Hi Hat, Auto Cymbal... you assign the auto play to certain parts.

[Billkwando]

Originally Posted by Jinx

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You know, like Auto Bass, Auto Hi Hat, Auto Cymbal... you assign the auto play to certain parts.

Ha! I was over-complicating it. Sorry.

[BloonanA]

i've been trying other simulators other than DTXmania but,,,err...still,....somehow it doesnt work..

like for example, SessionStream,,,err..i tried to enter the normalmode, survival,and etc but it doesn't move to another window or actually do anything.....but the option and the config are working just fine,....soo..yeah.....>.>...i'm stuck with DTXmania forever...hehehehe...

[☆DANNY☆]

Hi guys, kind of a noobish question, but how can i turn off the player 2 side on guitar session so that it just displays the player 1 side with the notes as they should be?