Request: StepMania for N900
 

Hi,

anyone can port StepMania for N900?
This is open source :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Looking for it too :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

looks good id be intrested in n900 port :-)

can you not brainstorm it??

:-)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

anyone could try compile it? :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Do they have bluetooth dance pads? :D

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

well you can use wii-mote with n900 so dont wii's dance pads work the same way?

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Don't know about the dance pads but pyDDR could be easier to get running than Stepmania which requires OpenGL IIRC. Some people even play these things with keyboard though. :P

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

It's only fun with the dance pads ;) The Wii Dance Pads are wired AFAIK. Maybe a N800/N810 in USB host mode and a modified BlueMaemo that then connects via Bluetooth to the N900 which runs Stepmania and outputs to the TV could work? But it depends on the latency that this "Bluetooth in between" introduces.

Also, you would need both a N8x0 and a N900 to get things going. Given that you can have Stepmania on a CD (and use it on a PC) and you have to take the dance mat with you anyway means that there's no real reason to have it on the tablet (you could place the Windows binary of Stepmania + some songs in your MyDocs folder and hook up the dance mat + N900 to a Windows PC, though).

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Ok, got pydance running on the N810 here. Will try on the N900 and then upload a tarball for all you keyboard nerds ;)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Here you go:

http://khan.thpinfo.com/~thp/tmp/pydance-maemo.tgz

What you need to get it running:

sudo gainroot
apt-get install python-pygame

Then copy the downloaded file to your device and do:

cd MyDocs
tar xzvf pydance-maemo.tgz
cd pydance-1.1.0
python pydance.py

The keyboard bindings are as follows: Enter and Backspace to navigate the menus, and your dance pad is the square with "q" in the upper left corner and "c" in the lower right corner (i.e. "a" is left, "w" is up, "x" is down and "d" is right).

Only one song included (from the website). You can put more songs into "songs/", but be sure to decode the .ogg file to .wav and change the filename in the .dance file, because pygame (at least on the N810, and I guess also on the N900) does not support ogg :/

Enjoy. If people like it, I might do a proper .deb later and upload to Extras-Devel. But now back to some serious learning... ;)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

wow, very nice, thx :)
ogg support: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/ogg-support/

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

hmm, laggy, and not working with sm songs (mp3)

edit: after restart, not laggy, but we need convert songs to wav :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Decode them to .wav on your computer, copy it to your device and then make sure that the .sm and .dwi files have the .mp3 extensions changed to .wav. When (if) pygame/SDL get proper OGG/MP3 support in the Maemo package, this is going to be much easier ;)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

working with wav+sm files :) , playable, but not very good

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Any Screenshots? :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Verry laggy on my device, can't play any song ?

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

I've got my USB dance mat working with the N800's "host mode" and a powered USB hub (didn't work without the hub - YMMV).

One also needs the "joydev" kernel module from this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=13324

The stock pygame on Diablo does not have OGG/MP3 support and also no joystick support it seems. Maybe a pygame package recompiled with joystick support and more audio formats could help. Didn't have more time to investigate further today...

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Another update: Re-compiled libsdl-mixer1.2 with OGG support; re-compiled pygame with joystick support. Converted MP3-based stepfiles to OGG, and played some songs on the N800 with the USB dance mat - works fine! Might post instructions and packages in a few days in case anyone is interested.

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

hmmm, nice news, I cant wait :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

A short update with the current status what's still blocking a release:

• Attila is packaging "joydev.ko" for Diablo for easy installation
• The Diablo Community SSU hopefully provides OGG support in SDL-mixer

After that, I need to package pydance and provide a nice way of "importing" songs (converting them from MP3 to OGG) into the game.

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

What's new ?
I'm very interested

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Nothing yet - still waiting for the joydev.ko module to get packaged and for the Community SSU to provide OGG support.

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Update and video:

http://thpmaemo.blogspot.com/2010/05...dance-mat.html

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

I need fully working N900 version! :)

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Well, I've got it loaded on my N900, I've loaded ogg support (which is working nicely) but I just can't figure out what keys to press to get it to start. Seems like it is looking for Escape and for Tab (or perhaps some other mapping). Got any suggestions?

Also, any suggestions on porting Stepmania dances?

Final thought: : is anyone looking at creating an accelerometer based joystick? That might be a fun way to play.

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

Think of the "qweasdzxc" part of your keyboard as the dance mat. Go back with "up+left" (q) and forward with "up+right" (e).

You want my pydance-oggify.sh script that should be ran in a directory with Stepmania songs. What it does is simply convert all mp3 files to ogg and then change the "mp3" file extension in the .sm file to "ogg". It also removes .avi files (background animations), as these take up space and aren't supported in pydance AFAIK. After this conversion, you can use the stepmania songs in pyDance.

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...ance-oggify.sh

Should not be too difficult to implement. The only problem is that you can't do "UP+DOWN" moves simultaneously. (The "axis problem")

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

I had the qweasdzxc part. What I was missing was the 'start' button. That is, I could get to the point of selecting Forkbomb. Then, if I hit enter I'd get the list of options I could change. Hitting enter again would take me back to it. The only way I've found to be able to start the game is to use Ctrl-E

I did try installing Accelemymote, but pydance did not recognize Accelemymote as a joystick. I know that Accelemymote is still in early testing which might be why.

I suspect that you could create special motions to be similar to up+down or left+right, something like some of the motions in Bounce.

I'm going to try to oggify some of my Stepmania files. However, based on Forkbomb, I suspect that until I can find a better input device for my N900 than the builtin keyboard, I'm going to find it very frustrating.

I'm curious about other people's experiences.

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

I tried porting this awhile back but it did not have support for opengl ES.. The developers on the forum said it would need a rewritten video driver. Did you compile it without open gl?

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

I ran pydance-oggify.sh and came up with a
BUTTERFLY.dwi
and
BUTTERFLY.ogg
(From DDR mix 1)

I can play the ogg file in Media player, but when I try to play it in pydance I get


Playing /home/user/pydance-1.1.0/songs/BUTTERFLY.dwi
BUTTERFLY by SMILE.dk
Not a supported file type: /home/user/pydance-1.1.0/songs/BUTTERFLY.ogg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pydance.py", line 208, in <module>
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
File "pydance.py", line 198, in main
menudriver.do(screen, (songs, crs, screen))
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/menudriver.py", line 269, in do
me.display()
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/menus.py", line 185, in display
ev = self.items[curitem].activate(ev)
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/menus.py", line 58, in activate
text, subtext = self.callbacks[ev](*self.args)
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/menudriver.py", line 158, in wrap_ctr
Obj(*args)
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/gameselect.py", line 207, in __init__
self.loop()
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/gameselect.py", line 230, in loop
VALUES[1][indices[1]])))
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/songselect.py", line 245, in __init__
self.loop()
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/songselect.py", line 341, in loop
self._configs, self._config, self._game)
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/dance.py", line 342, in play
if dance(screen, songdata, players, prevscr, first, game):
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/dance.py", line 437, in dance
song.filename + _(" could not be found."))
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/error.py", line 12, in __init__
text = fontfx.shadow("Error!", 60, [255, 255, 255], offset = 2)
File "/home/user/pydance-1.1.0/fontfx.py", line 85, in shadow
t1 = font.render(text, True, color)
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'render'

Re: Request: StepMania for N900
 

This might be of interest for fans of dance games:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=61408