Post #1 · Posted at 2012-09-25 06:16:24am 11.5 years ago
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Okay, so here's the story. I've been playing Stepmania on my mac for about 2 years. When I went to play today, SM wouldn't recognize my pad. This brings me to a few reasons:
~I need to reconfigure my pad
~My pad is broken
~My USB ports are broken
~SM5 is glitched
I was trying to reconfigure my pad in the joy/keymappings and I accidentally changed the keymappings so now SM is unusable. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program and the settings still remain so I can't change them. I went on the stepmania website to get the joy stick font explorer software for mac and it's gone, so I can't start from scratch with getting the buttons recognized.
I don't think my pad is broken because usually it'll glitch up, but it only happens to like one button, not every single one of them. I don't have any tools with me at the moment to open the panels and I haven't been able to troubleshoot it on other consoles.
I think the USB ports might be the problem because I have a flash drive that is not being recognized on my mac, but on other macs and pcs, it's fine. I might have to contact apple about this.
SM5 is glitched... I've always hated stepmania and I really want openitg, but I need to get an external hard drive and install bootcamp first.
So... here's my plan, I think I might end up having to wipe my computer clean of everything stepmania including my simfiles and redownload it all over again. Is there 3.9+ available for mac? I had SM4, but they got rid of it, which makes me mad, but 3.9 doesn't have the rolls and I really hate SM5. If someone has a download of that or SM4 instead, I would really appreciate it.
The next step for me is to troubleshoot my mat. I have to find someone around with a ps2 to test the pad and see if it still works.
And... I should talk to Apple I guess about my USB ports.
Do you guys have any opinions about what the issue could be. I was practically having a panic attack today and I really don't know what to do because this is my only way to play DDR and ITG for now and my only way to play custom ITG songs at all. Please please help me.
~I need to reconfigure my pad
~My pad is broken
~My USB ports are broken
~SM5 is glitched
I was trying to reconfigure my pad in the joy/keymappings and I accidentally changed the keymappings so now SM is unusable. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program and the settings still remain so I can't change them. I went on the stepmania website to get the joy stick font explorer software for mac and it's gone, so I can't start from scratch with getting the buttons recognized.
I don't think my pad is broken because usually it'll glitch up, but it only happens to like one button, not every single one of them. I don't have any tools with me at the moment to open the panels and I haven't been able to troubleshoot it on other consoles.
I think the USB ports might be the problem because I have a flash drive that is not being recognized on my mac, but on other macs and pcs, it's fine. I might have to contact apple about this.
SM5 is glitched... I've always hated stepmania and I really want openitg, but I need to get an external hard drive and install bootcamp first.
So... here's my plan, I think I might end up having to wipe my computer clean of everything stepmania including my simfiles and redownload it all over again. Is there 3.9+ available for mac? I had SM4, but they got rid of it, which makes me mad, but 3.9 doesn't have the rolls and I really hate SM5. If someone has a download of that or SM4 instead, I would really appreciate it.
The next step for me is to troubleshoot my mat. I have to find someone around with a ps2 to test the pad and see if it still works.
And... I should talk to Apple I guess about my USB ports.
Do you guys have any opinions about what the issue could be. I was practically having a panic attack today and I really don't know what to do because this is my only way to play DDR and ITG for now and my only way to play custom ITG songs at all. Please please help me.
Post #2 · Posted at 2012-09-25 06:30:29am 11.5 years ago
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what about going into metrics and manually changing the joystick/key mapping? It's annoying, but if it works, that might solve the issue. As far as the USB port being damaged, do you have an extra port that's available?
Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
Post #3 · Posted at 2012-09-25 06:35:27am 11.5 years ago
Quote: agentmargo
So... here's my plan, I think I might end up having to wipe my computer clean of everything stepmania including my simfiles and redownload it all over again.
Why would you delete your simfiles? It's not like they're a part of the program itself.
I'm not very knowledgeable about Macs, but does OSX have a registry database, like Windows? If you had Windows, you could just go into the Registry, find Stepmania 5, and delete ALL keys related to SM5. Every last one of them. Simply uninstalling a program doesn't get rid of everything, at least not in Windows. The stock uninstaller utility isn't doing you justice apparently, so try to find a 3rd party uninstaller which can do more. You might have a harder time finding one for Macs.
Post #4 · Posted at 2012-09-25 06:38:34am 11.5 years ago
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Quote: KNS-17
what about going into metrics and manually changing the joystick/key mapping? It's annoying, but if it works, that might solve the issue. As far as the USB port being damaged, do you have an extra port that's available?
Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
If you have SM4 for mac, I would just like that. My SM5 software no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall, it won't go back to the default key/joy mappings. Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
And I decided that I won't get rid of my simfiles.
Post #5 · Posted at 2012-09-25 07:24:43am 11.5 years ago
http://www.stepmania.com/forums/showthread.php?28247-StepMania-5-FAQ-amp-Q-A
Q: Where does StepMania 5 store my save data?
A:
Windows: %appdata%/StepMania 5/
Linux: ~/.stepmania5
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/StepMania 5
You are on a Mac, right?
Open up your Finder, go to your home directory (if it's not already there), then Library/Application Support/StepMania 5/Save, and then delete Keymaps.ini
If you have trouble finding that directory, you can just search for "Keymaps.ini" in Finder, since I doubt you have any other file with the same name in your home directory.
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Q: Where does StepMania 5 store my save data?
A:
Windows: %appdata%/StepMania 5/
Linux: ~/.stepmania5
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/StepMania 5
You are on a Mac, right?
Open up your Finder, go to your home directory (if it's not already there), then Library/Application Support/StepMania 5/Save, and then delete Keymaps.ini
If you have trouble finding that directory, you can just search for "Keymaps.ini" in Finder, since I doubt you have any other file with the same name in your home directory.
Post #6 · Posted at 2012-09-25 09:01:14am 11.5 years ago
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Okay, I got the keymaps fixed. And my mat is working again. I think the application needed a major reboot. The only problem I have now is that when I play a song, instead of showing a perfect, great, marvelous, etc, I get some weird meter in the middle of my stepzone that displays random numbers. It's very obnoxious. If you don't get what I'm talking about, I'll try to make a video tomorrow.
Post #7 · Posted at 2012-09-25 09:33:06am 11.5 years ago
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It's not protiming, is it? You can turn that off under song options.
Post #8 · Posted at 2012-09-25 10:41:09pm 11.5 years ago
Quote: agentmargo
Quote: KNS-17
what about going into metrics and manually changing the joystick/key mapping? It's annoying, but if it works, that might solve the issue. As far as the USB port being damaged, do you have an extra port that's available?
Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
If you have SM4 for mac, I would just like that. My SM5 software no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall, it won't go back to the default key/joy mappings. Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
And I decided that I won't get rid of my simfiles.
I'll have him send you the link tomorrow.
Edit: Or apparently i'll do it because he's gone for the day.
http://www.stepmania.com/download.php?file=StepMania4-alpha4.exe
Post #9 · Posted at 2012-09-25 11:28:01pm 11.5 years ago
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Quote: agentmargo
Okay, I got the keymaps fixed. And my mat is working again. I think the application needed a major reboot. The only problem I have now is that when I play a song, instead of showing a perfect, great, marvelous, etc, I get some weird meter in the middle of my stepzone that displays random numbers. It's very obnoxious. If you don't get what I'm talking about, I'll try to make a video tomorrow.
Yeah, you just need to open the Game Options (start twice before playing), turn Protiming off.
Post #10 · Posted at 2012-09-26 02:40:29am 11.5 years ago
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Quote: agentmargo
Quote: KNS-17
what about going into metrics and manually changing the joystick/key mapping? It's annoying, but if it works, that might solve the issue. As far as the USB port being damaged, do you have an extra port that's available?
Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
If you have SM4 for mac, I would just like that. My SM5 software no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall, it won't go back to the default key/joy mappings. Also, if you want SM4, I can find you a link for alpha4, which I used to use before going to SM5.
And I decided that I won't get rid of my simfiles.
I'll have him send you the link tomorrow.
Edit: Or apparently i'll do it because he's gone for the day.
http://www.stepmania.com/download.php?file=StepMania4-alpha4.exe
I'll get to test things again on Thursday hopefully
Post #11 · Posted at 2012-09-26 03:30:33am 11.5 years ago
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oops, forgot you had Mac, my bad. Here's a different link, in case you still need one
http://www.shakesoda.com/sharksoda/stepmania/StepMania-4.0.b10-mac.dmg
This one is for alpha 10, figure that would be better.
http://www.shakesoda.com/sharksoda/stepmania/StepMania-4.0.b10-mac.dmg
This one is for alpha 10, figure that would be better.