beware's DDR Extreme simulation - new: r3 beta

For anyone who uses beware's Extreme on an arcade cabinet with support for din's LIT board: here is a patched version of the game executable which fixes a credit text formatting issue, previously it gave the illusion of multiple credits being inserted if multiple coins were required for a credit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cIVlF5xWsRsi2czjlAvJ3FXJNKix0WZL/view?usp=sharing
Original executable was packed with UPX, depacked it with version 4.2.2 as well.

I found an interesting detail on the original beware DDR EXTREME theme that comes with a special StepMania package. How did Beware make it that the timing of the announcer matches the same timing in Dance Dance Revolution? Because usually how the StepMania announcer works is it comes on at random times. But this is the only theme where the announcer is 100% accurate to the original game.

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there is still a lot of interest in beware's extreme. there's reasons i didn't work on it
- RSI as mentioned, although this got a bit better lately
- a lot of other things are competing for my time
- problems with SM 3.9, such as timing accuracy of pauses/stops, and BG video threading/stuttering (would necessiate a port to SM 3.95 to fix, this is probably too ambitious/time consuming for me to take on)
- the fact that i don't know if i can for example add pacdrive support, this may be too difficult. i got a donation from someone and purchased one, and i feel bad about this.
- others sort of "forked" it and unofficially maintain it, afaik, so im not sure if i would be helpful at all.
- a requirement for websites to use SSL or they're now broken

the ongoing posts and interest in this thread are kind of heartwarming for me.

- i may soon look into the fact the download link is broken (i suspect this is SSL related)

- i may do another release within a year or so which focuses on fixing bugs/errors (like those mentioned in posts in the thread)

Hi! I was wondering if there is a fork or mod of this project that allows you to load all your custom song folders instead of the default Extreme songlist. I know the purpose of this project is to have an accurate arcade experience, I know, but it would be nice to have the option, since there is no better Extreme theme than this one.

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If you just want to use custom songs with this theme, I think you can just put them into a folder (or folders) within the Songs folder, like how Stepmania normally works, and delete the folders with the default songs if you don't want them.

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I've tried that before. Due to the custom default sorting in metrics.ini, this is what I initially get:



Which breaks immersion completely. Once you change the sorting (Left+Right), it does show the songs, though. Most likely this could be fixed by changing something in metrics.ini, I just have no idea how to do it.

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