StepMania 5.1 Beta 1

The StepMania project is proud to announce the release of StepMania 5.1 Beta 1; this is the first publicly-released beta build based on the "5_1-new" branch (see roadmap update for details), so it is significantly different from the previous alpha builds named "5.1" that were released in 2016.

StepMania 5.1 focuses primarily on internal enhancements, especially for content creators (including but not limited to controller support improvements, support for custom songs in profiles on USB drives, fullscreen improvements on X11, a large number of new modifier effects, and a new image caching system), while preserving compatibility with StepMania 5.0.x content such as themes and noteskins. Speaking of themes, by far the most significant, user-visible change on 5.1 is a new default theme known as Lambda, which features a brighter appearance and a cleaner interface.



Windows, OS X, and source code builds are available now, If you encounter any issues with this release, please do not hesitate to report them on our GitHub issue tracker. Please note that StepMania 5.1 uses a separate folder for user files and profile data than StepMania 5.0, so you may have to migrate content to the new location, or configure alternate locations separate from your user data directory.

For more information, including a detailed changelog and downloads, visit its release page on GitHub.

Some notes

This 5.1 is an iteration of 5.0.12; the "old" 5.1 from 2016 is now called 5.2, and is still being worked on.

The main goal was to ensure existing themes and noteskins for SM5 still worked. Everything I've tested in it (mainly my own themes) have worked just fine, but I'd still encourage you to test all of your other themes out and report any issues, if any.

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Update: There were some issues with the installer originally uploaded (particularly, it did not correctly use "StepMania 5.1" as the installation path, and was calling itself an uninstaller). This has now been fixed. Additionally, a macOS version is now available.

shameless plug-no-jutsu, you made the theme

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let him have this

80% true. I started Lambda after seeing how the old default was starting to look with the old 5.1's changes; they looked a little bolted on. I took the initiative because I thought it would be easier to design a brand new theme around the changes rather than trying to continue modifying the existing default to account for them.

When the 5.2 split happened, one of the coders branched a 5.0 port, so I decided to continue on with it to give 5.1 another showpiece besides NotITG modifiers.

There were outside contributions to some of its coding too, and third-party users actually did agree that it looks cleaner than the 5.0.x default.

So, to understand: This is the latest ver. 5.1? And another team is doing ver. 5.2?

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The DDR A theme doesn't work properly. Select Music puts a large black border around all of the grid jackets, and the grid lags way too much. IDK about other themes with jackets, I'll try to test them out to see if they have the same problem.

Edit: the 2014 theme works, so it's probably just the A theme that's broken

Just nabbed the Mac version for my laptop. I'm getting an error when trying to open the application: "No noteskins found." macOS 10.12.6. There are definitely noteskins, following the correct filepath convention.

Been using 5.1-new in ArchLinux on my dedicab for a while now with no issues though.

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The "No NoteSkins found" error is macOS only, and a temporary fix for it is discussed in this GitHub issue.

The fix (for now) boils down to using your macOS terminal to run the following command:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /path/to/StepMania

...where "/path/to/StepMania" is replaced by a meaningful path to the StepMania folder on your Mac. So, if the StepMania-5.1.0 folder is on your Desktop, you could run

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Desktop/StepMania-5.1.0

Running this command once should fix the bug forever; it is not necessary run the command every time.

Hopefully a proper fix for this issue will be found eventually so that it isn't necessary for macOS users to have to use their terminal to play SM5.

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Ooooooo

still waiting on that >2 player routine mode tho

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Feel free to try test this version, I just did an OSX build and works fine for me.

https://stepmania.objects-us-west-1.dream.io/StepMania-5.1.0-mac.dmg

Perhaps my env is different then Dans.

This release has been pretty smooth so far (besides the OS X issues we know about, and the fact that a bug fix may have inadvertently exposed some coding issues in a somewhat desired theme).

Now, the main attraction of this release is, in my opinion, the additional modifier support.

MrThatKid, who has been porting OpenITG modifier courses to SM5 (and built the Windows build for 5.1 Beta 1), ported additional effects modifiers and commands from OpenITG and NotITG for 5.1. He already has quite a few ports that specifically require it, including his most recent...



And this rather spectacular one.



Consider this the "killer app" to take for a spin too...