[AC] StepManiaX produced by Kyle Ward

Something is in the works.

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yes random we literally saw that the first time you posted it

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too bad other people on the thread didn't judging by their responses

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we can read your posts and not respond to the dumb shit you say because it never actually adds to anything in the discussion

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I don't get this. If it was so expensive, why would you burn that money on revivals of all things? I get that they're popular songs to a certain subset of people, but it's not 2001 anymore, and revivals don't give a game an identity. I know 3 things about SMX:

1. The rating system is weird
2. The songlist is a combination of ReRave, DDR, and ITG
3. You buy the pad to play stepmania and cover up the center

If a portion of the sales is really going to licensing, why wouldn't you work on building your own identity? How many songs by up and coming or in house artists could you get get for the price of one of those expensive songs? Look at what Rayark has been doing for the last few years.

I think the update is cool, but I'm not sure if I'd play it over stepmania if I had a pad. I just don't think I should be coming away saying "Oh, SMX is just a pad." That's all.

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I don't have a particular stake in the game regarding SMX, but SWEET FUCKING JESUS what the hell is going on with you all. I don't know much about behind the scenes here and frankly I don't want to, right, but from the way I'm seeing it here most of you here are either kneejerking or trying to bait. Can we all take a moment to breathe when this gets picked up again, yeah? 2020's enough of a mountain of shit as it is.

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I was going to quote the comment about hypocrisy, but I feel that Rock Disband said everything needed regarding my fan made project being nothing more than a fan made project, made to look like Dancing Stage and Dance Dance Revolution (If I can be bothered to finish it)

As for the songs themselves, I don't have an issue with them being in SMX, the thing that gets me is that SMX is not a DDR game, and SMX is not a fan made project, but then we're seeing the flat outline characters with no detail similar to R&P (I think yours looks better btw) and the Silvertear logo is copied to a T, the arrangement of letters for Flash In The Night is the same, your version of Never Gonna Make also has a woman standing in front of a spotlight, and you've done the same motion blue on the title, then Waka Laka's text is orange, with the same brown shaow and white outline (kudos for putting the correct subtitle) then Moving On has the same red gradient.

You can say referencing if that's how you feel about it, the way I feel about it is that most of it is copied, Typical Tropical looks nice, I personally don't think it looks the same.

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I would get frustrated too if I listened to fan feedback and got calls for old DDR songs, put old DDR songs in the game because fans asked for them, and then a bunch of people who probably never even filled out the fucking form decided everybody who called for old DDR songs is wrong and they're right. I'd also get pissed off if a bunch of people kept going "HAHA STEPMANIA FANPACK" and then went "wow... someone with no followers is tweeting about us... how rude are the developers..." Fuck outta here, man.

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I really don't see the issue with pointing out that the charts are similar when they are -- Chewi didn't even give every example in the video. Bye Bye Baby Balloon Wild is similar to the original Heavy chart, Dam Dariram has similarities to both its original Standard and Heavy charts, Music and Police sounds almost identical to the original, to the point that a rename just feels silly, and Stay has a similar chart to the original Heavy. I get that the criticism was a bit sarcastic, but it's valid criticism.


The issue is that people want these songs in DDR with their original cuts/charts revived, not in another game. Or they want something like the Legend Licenses in A20, where the songs sound distinctly new and have mostly original charts.


I literally lurked here for years after I stopped being able to play DDR because this place has such entertaining drama, lmao.

(Although I agree that from what I've seen all rhythm gaming communities have some toxicity, I'm getting into etterna right now and I see it there, I know the osu! community is toxic, and I know the ITG community is just a different shade of what happens in the DDR community).

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I will actually say here I presume Music & Police's rename and re-edit may be due to some weird copyright or something? I can't imagine if there was no legal issues they wouldn't have kept it the same like the other songs they've imported from DDR.

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Also, until the ZIv mods have their own sexual abuse scandal (and there’s nae fuckin’ way that’s happening) we sure as fuck ain’t as toxic as other parts of the MGC.

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Fair point. Not tryna compare you all to Fungah! lol.

I respect the fact that people here pull no punches when calling people out on their bullshit, it's refreshing to see sometimes. This thread being a case in point.

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I don't know if I'm just using [CRAZY TALK] but it seems that since the graphics are meant to be homages, the charts probably are too. Thus I don't really see any issue.


Basically, Konami sucks and they have to take it out on other games.

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Yeah, people don't like being called out :/ I can respect homage or a fun reference here or there, but when you've copied an artist logo to the T, nothing different about it, when it looks like it has just been cut out, copied, and pasted... then it's not really homage or reference is it? then people go whining to twitter, and you have other people commenting saying about royalty free fonts, like there's no other font they could have used, other than the ones used in DDR, right down to the arrangement.

No offense, but I'd take your opinion more seriously, had you not taken a couple of drum'n bass tracks, sped them up, and released them for DDR XX as original music.

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My point would be valid no matter if Satan himself came up and said it.

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Of course you'd think that, you took somebodies music and passed it off as your own, so you're not going to be bothered if somebody copies artwork and passes it off as "homage" are you? :/

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Lemme sob out a couple hundred dollar bills for a company that couldn't give less of a shit for being """stolen""" from in the form of people who are honest fans of them officially licensing the music of some of their games and then being like "hey let's reference where we remember this stuff from". Honestly, I'm so sad for Konami. They must be heartbroken.

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