StepMania/Walkthrough: Difference between revisions

Depending on whether you downloaded and installed StepMania 3.95 or StepMania 4.0, your start ups will vary...but the premise will still be about the same. I <B>HIGHLY SUGGEST</B> downloading StepMania 3.95 as it is not an alpha release, and the majority of the themes and note skins you will find will be StepMania 3.95 compatible, but will tend to crash or make StepMania very unstable on StepMania 4.0. Stepmania should load up successfully and full-screen itself, to which you should be brought to the start screen (or intro screen depending on which StepMania version, just hit "enter" until you get to the menu screen) and you should have a selection of available options to choose from. Considering the fact this is your first run, you probably didn't add any song files to your StepMania set-list yet, so don't bother selecting "game start" yet. A good start would be going to the StepMania options, and fiddling around with the settings a bit. Go to "config / joy mappings", and give yourself some spread out options so you can see which keys might suit you best. You can store up to 2 custom key mappings, and the third automatically sets up as "left", "right", "up", and "down". Try out a few things, if you are using a dance pad occasionally, have your first set up be your joy paddings (to change a key press "Enter" and then press your desired key), and then in the second region maybe assign yourself a spread chart (like {{kbd|A}} {{kbd|S}} {{kbd|K}} {{kbd|L}}), and the third region will be for your one handed set up (a lot of times newbies will find it easier to play one handed than spread, but will change over later down the road to keep getting better). In the end, it should look something like this:  

Although the default theme you have at the moment only has two "C-mods", themes such as the [[Cyberia Style]] have many different C and X modifications to choose from, but for right now...try either C200 or C400 (C400 will help you a lot more in the long run). Play your song, and if you think it is too fast, lower the Cmod, or if you think it is too slow (HIGHLY doubt it if you just started playing), then you will need to download a theme that supports more consistent modifications. If you like your selection, play through all the stages it allows you to, and then enter in your name. Now it will permanently lock these settings in (unless you change them in the options menu and play that way for another whole session).  

If you just downloaded this game, you need to learn where and what combinations can be done with the settings you are playing on. I highly suggest going to the sites listed to find some easy simfiles for you to get the hang of (if you decide to go to bluexoon, go to "Songs" and then "packs", where you will see a few "ITG DDR packs" that you can play with). Absolute newbies should try playing dance pad files on the keyboard to get the sense of how to play the game, and then find their way to some more challenging files in the sites listed to enhance their skills.  

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