[WIP] Pop'n Mania Themes

No, is still in an early phase, appart from the gameplay screen, most of the screens are easy to do, but I just have the intro sequence of screens, when I will finish the gameplay, like the 50% of the theme will be finished when I have more updates I will show it in there, I think it could be playable in one month or two, I'm a bit busy but I think that I can finish the basics in that period of time. Thanks for the interest.

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Some news:

Gameplay screen is done!


Results screen is almost done

Was there ever simfiles for Pop'n Music?

No public mirrors are left, as far as I know. This might work: http://djlain.blog.hexun.com/90617195_d.html

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Yes, they exist, are hard to find ut they exist I think is more related to the format, most of them (if not all) are in wav, and that makes bigger files, also I think is cause too from lack of interest due to simulation. But I'm not sure but you could use SM DWI or BMS in autogen mode would be nice to have a tool to update them to OGG and reduce some space.

Wow where do you even find these graphics? Was it remade?

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He probably remade the graphics

I've got some images from the website, some resources are from Risk, and the others are drawn by me

The result screen is nearly done, I'm just missing some overlays for the fullcombo and extra stage

why dont ya just rip all the textures, its easy as fuck

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Cause I don't have the game, and without the game is not easy to dump

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Another video update

Will this theme only work with pop'n music simfiles, or can you play DDR simfiles with it as well?

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You could play it in dance mode, if that is your question, but the gameplay screen will appear just with the bg, The theme is focused to support pop'n. I could arrange the elements to support dance if there is enough interest from the community on it.

4 panel mode is exactly what I plan to use it for.

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I will add the dance support later, I'm focusing on finish the playable version I've been working on the select music BG a bit:



It just need some decorations and the wheel graphics, I'll try to let that finished this weekend.

Is there any chance to make a Pop'n Music theme based on DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA?

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Will there be a way for the characters to be different than just Ciel and Anne...?

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Beauty theme, I could play popn music a little years ago. I hope play it in stepmania. Good work!

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I don't know to avoid creating more themes, I'm making the gameplay screen themeable. Developing themes need so much time to spent.

Yes, I haven't created the template for the characters, those are placeholders to give the pop'n feeling, but they are not interacting until now, the idea is release at least one of them working at 100% so anyone could replace the graphics and create their favorite characters

Thanks, SM5 is a good simulator, and with the lua implementations it could be the closest experience to original pop'n music games.
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I've forgot to put the latest updates

I've done a select style screen, consolidating most of the popnmusic game modes that stepmania could support:

I need to update it to make it scroll like a circle.

The select music graphics are nearly done:


I've done a fallback system for the songs that doesn't have characters:

I need to check it because is buggy, and sometimes doesn't show

The song options are closest to the pop'n games:

I've made the entire list of ojamas, but I need to check later how to implement them

And like I've said before, the gameplay screen can be skinned like the original games, I think I will make it a theme option to change it manually.


That's all until now, those are updates from like a month ago, but I will add more things later, beatmania and pop'n themes have so much details and are so long to create

Thanks for watching.

Where did you edit these sprites for Anne and Ciel?

1/6/18 Post

I am also working on a Pop'n Music simulation skin called SymphoniXia.



Also this theme is really incomplete, because it's hard to encode it and stylize the graphics and background animations. These images are part of the prototype.





I'm really sorry that the graphics are poor. Also, the backgrounds are from DanceDanceRevolution, because I cannot find a unique background style for this skin. If anyone would like to help me out on this project, I would be excited.

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Honestly I'm quite impressed by this. It's not often you'd see someone making this.

I got from multiple sources, you could check the Pop'n wikia site http://popnmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Characters and the Anne sprites as far as I can remember are from the Satsuki's theme:



About your theme, I think the DDR styles are far from the Pop'n music cartoonish styles, you could try using another game for referencing maybe some Taiko game, has a nearest graphic style in my opinion.

Also about this theme, I haven't worked on it, because I'm finishing my older stepmania theme ports also I was brainstorming how to create the character system, maybe the next week I could try to make the first bersion to check out how it goes. And to give to this theme a little update to release it later.