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Stepmania/ffr history thread
Hey guys, I decided I wanted to compile in a thread, and possibly later, have some sort of a scripted story reading of the history behind stepmania and ffr posted to youtube. We're a very historied community, going as far back as 2002 and there have been events, mindset shifts, metagame shifts, community members that come and go, stories for days, cheaters, liars, drama, and many many good things that persevere throughout that keep this game alive and thriving, such as community projects, packs, website developers, the forums in general, our connections with each other, and our passion for smashing arrows. I feel it'd be a darn shame if we let some notably large events, successful and/or failed projects, players, and contributors become nothing more than a thought of the past. This thread, though I may not see it to its completion, I want to kick things off with a lot of my findings throughout the digging i've done in the forums, and any help i've received from directly asking you guys, what things were like. Most importantly, I feel this is a very good opportunity to work together as a community to help put our history into a consumable manner for other people who are new, or us oldies that want some nostalgia.
I personally feel from my observations through searching the forums, that we are not a dying community, we are not a dying game, and in fact we have more activity than ever. So without further adieu, here's everything that I've compiled so far, in spoilers because it's big: I have found this story from an old timer named Tyra over on zenius I Vanisher that I found interesting!
https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=8382&page=1
The earliest DDR simfiles pre-dated Stepmania by a few years. BM98 came out in 1998, and gave birth to the .BMS format. The progam could be skinned to play DDR, but this wasn't really a thing people ever bothered to do, since Beatmania was several times more popular than DDR, and it made no sense to create songs that only used 4 lanes of notes. Delight Delight Reduplication came out in 1999. It was given a DDR skin later that year, and custom DDR charts for it came out right around the end of 1999. It used also used BMS , but also MSD files. The release of Delight Delight co-incided with the release of both official and bootleg home DDR controllers onto the market, and so all of a sudden, DDR could be played at home, and re-skinning BMS simulators to play 4-lane DDR songs made complete sense. The earliest custom simfiles were definately in 1999, but were almost certainly just shoddy "conversions" of custom Beatmania simfiles, with 2 lanes of notes either deleted, or moved into other lanes. There's no way to tell who made them or what they were, because all of the websites that hosted them are long gone. The first arcade simfiles I remember seeing were early 2000. There was no Youtube, so people would usually only put them together for songs they wanted to memorise, either for PA or freestyle routines. The music and steps could be copied from the Playstation games, but Japanese fans didn't really bother - they just played them on the Playstation, unless they had some specific reason to play the chart in a simulator. The first real concerted effort to publish a "complete pack" was in 2002, when we put the original DDRUK arcade packs together. I'm sure that people collected sets of MSD files before this, and people probably had complete arcade-perfect collections, but they were never shared in public. There's no way of knowing, because the internet was a different pace back then. Instead of having online services like Facebook and ZIV giving everyone a portal to communicate on the internet, everyone pretty much just had an EMail address, and a small website on a service like lycos or geocities. Geocities was huge in Japan (it actually still exists), and pretty much everyone had one. The only way to find simfiles was if somebody hosted their simfiles on their Geocities site, and then made an effort to join a Webring. A webring was essentialy a massive HTML page of links to sites with similar interests. In this case, there would be a dozen or so webrings dedicated to people who liked Beatmania, and a maybe a handful of those pages would post their own DDR .MSD files. You really had to trawl through them to find stuff, and the vast majority of sites that were around in 2002 have now been deleted, to free up space on the Geocities server. The DDRUK packs came about when Lawrence wanted to create a full set of files for Dance With Intensity, and contacted me at first, because I'd collected a full set of .MSD files for all of the DDR games that existed at that point. The thing is, I have no idea where any of those MSD files came from. Everyone just threw together MSD files for the particular songs they wanted to play at home, and you had to really search them out. In my search, I definitely did find websites that had huge collections of songs, but nothing I'd consider complete. I'd like to say that the DDRUK pack was the first publicly available 'complete' arcade pack, but I doubt it's true. Just like I had a complete set of .MSD files, there had to be others out there who had done the same, and like me, they had no means or reason to publish them on the internet. Some Japanese guys probably did, and we just never happened to find them. The same applies for Original packs. There was probably a Japanese guy out there who put one together, and put it on his Geocities site, but because it was impossible for anything to get popular back then, it's impossible to say anything about early custom simfile packs, and impossible to go looking for information on them, because all of those Geocities sites actually pre-date archive.org. Here are the earliest landmark simfile collections I can remember : Bemaniruler (2002) The first simfile artist to achieve any sort of recognition in the community. BMR's popularity co-incided with the IDMusic chat room and DDRFreak forums being opened, which was when BMR started experimenting in putting out simfiles that were far more experimental and difficult than anything DDR itself offered at the time. What was unique about BMR was that although he did crazy shit like a 16-foot song in 2002, or a song that was 10 minutes long, his songs were actually fun and could just about be completed by people playing at home on soft mats. Bemaniruler never really released simfile packs, but it was very common to see all of his files bundled together in a .LHZ file. DWI Extreme / DDR4Ever (2003) Two very early (pre-Stepmania) song packs that attempted to create an entire DDR game's worth of songs. Both used a combination of licensed songs (usually Dancemania songs that Konami passed up), and crossover songs from other Bemani games. Foonmix (2004) Foonmix only pre-dates In The Groove by a few months, but it was the first successful attempt to create an entire DDR game in Stepmania, with completely original graphics, sound, songs and BGA videos. Most of the artists collaborating to Foonmix were successful BMS makers, so this pack really is the most representative of what early (pre-Stepmania) simfiles were like. One huge difference between Japanese simfiles and western simfiles is how complete they were. It was very rare to find anyone outside of Japan who would compose the music, make the simfile, and also animate a background video. - It's also worth noting that when I say "pre-Stepmania", I mean before Stepmania became popular. Stepmania was unpopular for a long time, because it required a 3D video card in order to run, wheras Dance With Intensity could run from pretty much any PC or laptop of the time. I think it was around the time that Frieza joined the team that the project really took off, and became the de-facto simulator of choice. I have also saved this from arch0wl that kind of continues off the story from Tyra (kinda) but it's still interesting since I think arch0wl was very influential or just generally well known (hi arch!) Quote:
One other thing I found interesting, is that IzzySM has been a very good man in keeping his website up and available to download stuff from, with timestamps! mad props!
This is a list of packs hosted by izzysm currently available to be download from his website at http://www.izzy.nu/
it contains an idea of what your stepmania folder would be most likely to contain up to the point of the time it has been uploaded, and dates back as far as 10-11-2005 with one of the oldest stepmania specific packs of all time, keyboard mega pack. Keyboard Mega Pack 2005-10-11 Keyboard Mega Pack 2 2005-10-11 Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 1 2005-10-11 Keyboard Collaboration I 2005-10-11 P()G()'s Keyboard Mega Pack 2005-10-11 In The Groove (With Video) 2005-10-11 In The Groove 2 2005-10-11 In The Groove 2005-10-11 DDRExtreme.co.uk presents ChristmasMix 2005-11-03 Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 2 2005-12-10 Keyboard Collaboration II 2005-12-10 Fresh Flock of Fantastic Files F4 2005-12-10 Fabulously Fresh Flock of Fantastic Files F5 2005-12-10 PIMP pack- 2nd edition...getting closer to perfection 2006-03-02 Video Game MegaPack 2006-07-01 Keyboard Collaboration III 2006-07-01 Keys of Flames 2006-07-01 Smiley pack 2006-07-01 xclusivemegapack 2006-07-01 SmO 2006-07-01 SM Evoution PacK 2006-07-01 Skor's Selection of High Quality Simfiles 2006-07-01 Solo Sims (30) 2006-12-30 Bemani.se Megapack 2007-02-07 CMDKDF Pack 2007-02-10 linus ¿ Megapack! 2007-02-26 Puritanical Penis Pack 2007-02-26 SMGpack 2007-02-27 Video Game MegaPack 2 2007-03-16 Keyboard Mega Pack 1.5 2007-03-16 In The Groove 2 (Official) 2007-05-28 In The Groove 1 (Official) 2007-05-28 ODIpack 2007-06-01 Ace Megapack 2007-06-11 Long Version Favorites Mix 2007-06-11 Puritanical Penis Pack II 2007-06-11 Super Keyboard Song Pack 2007-06-11 Super Simfile Song Pack 2007-06-11 Ultimate Simfile Pack 2007-06-11 Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 3 2007-06-11 SMGpack 2 2007-07-22 In The Groove 1 (Official) 2007-10-07 In The Groove 2 (Official) 2007-10-07 SMG Community Revival Pack 2007-10-07 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 1 2007-11-14 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 2 2007-11-22 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 3 2008-01-15 ODIPack 2 2008-02-01 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 4 2008-03-08 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 5 2008-05-31 In The Groove 3 (With Video) 2008-06-01 In The Groove 3 2008-06-01 Astronomic Metal Collection 2008-09-12 Archmage and Dark0wl Hammer of Thor UltraHyperMegaPack 2008-09-12 Midare Megapack (a collection of opening themes, feat. M SQUAD & co.) 2008-09-28 Pokemon Pack 2008-10-05 Pokemon Pack 2 2008-10-05 Tikle's Pack 2008-10-05 Midare & Knoobish Megapack 2 2008-10-05 Video Game MegaPack 3 2008-10-05 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 6 2008-10-06 Anime Songs 2008-10-19 Official PPS pack 2008-10-19 Beyond Legends 2008-10-19 Essential Sim Collection 2008-10-19 Huasos kuliaos Megapack 2008-10-19 Japanese Collaboration Mix 2008-10-19 LOL Megapack 2008-10-19 Otakus Dream 1st Anime Mix 2008-10-19 Otakus Dream 2nd Anime Mix 2008-10-19 Otakus Dream 4th Anime Mix 2008-10-19 Otakus Dream 3rd Anime Mix 2008-10-19 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 7 2008-11-12 Izzy's 8-Arrowed Pack Volume 1 2008-11-22 Ace Megapack Songlist 2009-02-08 Anime Songs Songlist 2009-02-08 Linus Megapack 2 2009-03-02 Pop Candy 2009-03-02 Pop Candy 2 2009-03-02 Linus Megapack 2 Songlist 2009-03-02 Pop Candy Songlist 2009-03-02 Pop Candy 2 Songlist 2009-03-02 Swedish Summer Pack Songlist 2009-03-02 In The Groove 3 (With Video) Songlist 2009-03-02 In The Groove 3 Songlist 2009-03-02 Swedish Summer Pack 2009-03-02 In The Groove 3 (With Video) 2009-03-02 In The Groove 3 2009-03-02 Stepmania France Megapack 2009-06-21 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 8 2009-07-02 Stepmania.nu Competition Pack 2009-07-09 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 9 2009-10-18 Definitive Keyboard Megapack 2010-02-24 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 10 2010-03-22 KOMBO Minipack 2010-03-24 KOMBO Minipack 2 2010-04-21 Astronomic Metal Collection 2 2010-07-10 Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 4 2010-07-10 Dark Chanchellors Pack 2010-07-10 Flash Flash Revolution Community Pack 2 2010-07-10 GLoVEs Stepmania Gym 2010-07-10 Kirby Pack 2 2010-07-10 Light Chancellors Pack 2 2010-07-10 Light Chancellors Pack 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream 1st Touhou Mix 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream 5th Anime Mix 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream Instrumental Mix 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream Japan Mix 1st 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream Japan Mix 2nd 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream Mix 2010-07-10 Parallel Rotation Minipack 2010-07-10 Patashu Solo Beginner Pack 2010-07-10 Rebound Vibrajacking Pack 2010-07-10 Red Fraction Pack 2010-07-10 Roar176 The Anniversary 2010-07-10 Roar176s Very Danger 2010-07-10 Subjectivemania Collab Pack 2010-07-10 TG09 2010-07-10 The Kirby Pack 2010-07-10 Touhou Pad Pack Rebirth 2010-07-10 Touhou Pad Pack 2010-07-10 UEMP 2010-07-10 Xiao's Solo Beginner Pack II 2010-07-10 Xiao's Solo Beginner Pack III 2010-07-10 Xiao's Solo Beginner Pack 2010-07-10 Xoon 2010-07-10 Xoon 2 2010-07-10 Xoon 3 2010-07-10 Xoon 4 Blue Version 2010-07-10 Xoon 4 Red Version 2010-07-10 Xoon 5 -The Transition- 2010-07-10 Xoon Drama Pack 2 2010-07-10 Xoon Drama Pack 2010-07-10 Xoon Finale 2010-07-10 Flash Flash Revolution Community Pack 2010-07-10 Otakus Dream Japan Mix 2nd Pad 2010-07-18 Otakus Dream 1st Hentai Mix-WS 2010-07-18 Guitar Hero Mega Pack 2010-07-18 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 11 2010-07-20 IcyWorld MiniPack 2010-07-24 Nuclear Blast JS Awesome Bomb Filez 2010-07-24 DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown 2010-07-24 KBU 2010-07-24 Mystery Pack 2 2010-07-24 Tachyon Alpha 2010-07-24 Tachyon Beta 2010-07-24 KOMBO Minipack 3 2010-07-27 Midare Megapack 3 2010-07-28 Rynker's Hard Techno 3 2010-07-28 Midare Megapack 4 2010-07-28 Otakus Dream 2nd Video Game Mix 2010-07-28 Midare Megapack 5 2010-07-28 Piano Minipack of Elegance 2010-07-28 Rebound Vibrajacking Pack Finale 2010-07-28 Rebound Vibrajacking Pack II 2010-07-28 Rebound Vibrajacking Pack III 2010-07-28 Roar176s Freezes 2010-07-28 TG10 2010-07-28 Xoon MAD Pack 2010-07-28 GLoVE NEW-BLOOD ALLSTAR 2010-07-28 Kommisars 8-Bit STREM Pack 2010-07-28 Kommisars Kawaii Desu Pack 2010-07-28 Alice 4th Complete Step.part1 2010-07-31 Alice 4th Complete Step.part2 2010-07-31 SMOC 4th 2010-07-31 Mina Minimegapack 2010-08-01 Rebound Dump Collection Megapack 2010-08-02 Nuclear Blast JS Awesome Bomb Filez 2 2010-08-13 Sanji_70A3 Pack 2010-08-13 Subjectivemania Collab Pack II 2010-08-14 Melon Collaboration Pack 2010-08-14 Stepmania Factory Pack II 2012-04-08 Stepmania Factory Pack 2012-05-04 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 12 2012-08-10 No C-MODE Pack 2012-08-11 Metal Challenge Pack 2 RELOAD 2012-08-11 No C-MODE Pack Songlist 2012-08-11 Hellowen's One 2013-07-14 My personal digging through ffr forums, and generally the internet to find cool stuff, many titles and dates!:
informations to gather
What is X-Step? ~2003 era and generally what programs were common programs that people used or suggested others to use throughout the years? IVKAS style (IV=4 key auto scratch) What were the SMG, ODI, otakus dream, dragonsfury, thirdstyle, keybeatonline, bluexoon, stepmaniaonline old eu and new, dwi, bemanistyle, zenius i vanisher, smoc, +more communities like? about? time active? I'd like to get some input on very notable community members, players, devolopers, and content creators including for ffr and sm, including people who organized packs, made influencial simfiles, godly players, godly cheaters, themers, and generally anything you find interesting! I also hate to put it so bluntly, but ffr has had some very spectacularly over the top drama, i might have missed some threads, and those aren't really important community changing events most of the time, but they make for good reads. Learn from the past etc. Share them if you remember/have them Some additional info would be nice for what is good recent history (2017+) and any lackluster years i may have overlooked (2013) December 1997 beatmania source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatmania 11-18-1998 dance dance revolution source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...on_video_games Delight Delight Reduplication came out in 1999 9-21-2001 Stepmania source https://sourceforge.net/projects/stepmania/ 12-??-2001 to 2003 Dancing with intensity DWI source http://dwi.ddruk.com/history.php http://dwi.ddruk.com/downloads.php 2002-2003 Bemaniruler era "simfiles" source file created dates for his .dwi files and recounts from arch0wl and tyra 10-23-2002 Flash Flash revolution source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/ 11-29-2002 DWI or SM http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...thread.php?t=9 3-6-2003 Stepmania CVS 2003 03 06 source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...read.php?t=585 the 3-6-2003 comes from the file download at the sourceforge link in this thread, there's also this http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...33&postcount=4 "the versions go stepmania300final StepMania-CVS-20030306 stepmaniaCVS20030528" from izz.nu there's also earlier versions: stepmania095 stepmania164 stepmania164src 5-6-2003 What program can i use to make dwi files? PLZ HELP http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ead.php?t=1069 mentions of xstep simfile editor for .sm and .dwi files 8-9-2003 Stepmania 3.9 alpha 1 came out??? source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...81&postcount=1 also 3rd post mentions mines ayyy DWI Extreme / DDR4Ever (2003) source recounts from arch0wl and tyra 10-19-2003 Arch0wl's DWI making FAQ (better than nestlequiks ohsnap) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ead.php?t=3868 12-2-2003 BEST PLAYERS? vvolkov0073 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ead.php?t=5028 12-15-2003 Reliable StepMania Song Sites + Bemanistyle Help http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ead.php?t=5426 Foonmix (2004) source recounts from tyra 8-30-2004 Arcade release in the groove source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Groove_(video_game) 9-21-2004 stepmania 3.9-alpha24a source http://www.izzy.nu/ kbmp and ckmp are largely what appear to be compilations of what were the best files up to their release including files from bemaniruler ~2002 up to their releases in 2004 and 2005. 10-14-2004 Keyboard Megapack discussion topic source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=16325 12-18-2004 the OFFICIAL top SM player list(s) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=19143 2-14-2005 Youtube is a registered domain, and 4-23-2005 youtube gets its first video. 3-1-2005 Nestlekwik's guide on how to edit .dwi files using notepad http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...94&postcount=3 5-16-2005 Keyboard Collaboration I announced source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=26015 mentions of ckmp1 and kbmp1 6-14-2005 Keyboard Collaboration I released http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=27291 6-17-2005 NA PS2 release in the groove source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Groove_(video_game) 6-20-2005 Stepmania 3.95 (stepmania online) source date created file for 3.95 launcher there was probably stepmania online sooner than this 08-16-2005 Keyboard Collaboration II [submissions] http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 09-16-2005 Fresh Flock of Fantastic Files (F4) source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 10-11-2005 video game megapack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 10-24-2005 Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 2 source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=33483 10-27-2005 Stepmania 3.9 New versions were released relatively quickly at first, culminating in version 3.9 in 2005 source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StepMania source (date created file for stepmania 3.9 launcher final release) 11-2-2005 FFR Dumbass of the Year 2005 - Nominations! http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=33931 2006 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=53198 2007 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=85740 12-10-2005 Fabulously Fresh Flock of Fantastic Files F5 source http://izzysm.mine.nu/ 11-1-2005 Guitar Hero for PS2 released 11-1-2006 Guitar Hero 2 for Ps2 and X360 10-28-2007 Guitar Hero 3 for Mac Ps2 +4 more source: https://www.giantbomb.com/guitar-hero/3025-289/games/ 2 mass ban events 2006 and 2011 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...9&postcount=32 4-13-2006 Omg... did insane... -Nima http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=41078 ~04-20-2006 SS 1-27 (There are people stealing your simfiles!) Sweetsims holystorm basically took files from ffr and bemaniastyle and other at the time simfile databases and made 27 bad packs. this thread is a funny read actually source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...light=stealing 5-3-2006 Top 10 nowadays? http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=41847 05-9-2006 Keyboard Collaboration III source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 5-13-2006 StepMania 4.0 CVS Work In Progress Revision https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 6-13-2006 through 1-3-2008 StepMania 4.0 CVS (20060613) through (20080103) 4-5-2007 StepMania 4.0 CVS Alpha 4 and Beta 6 https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 6-26-2006 Arch0wl Quasar 49p AAA 1.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR1XAgH3HY0 08-31-2006 Complete Mega Death Kill Dragonforce Pack (CMDKDF pack) source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 10-5-2006 Puritanical Penis Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 10-15-2006 DDreamstudio is announced ~jyris1 ending on 8-5-2009 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=51802 11-17-2006 Puritanical Catfish Pack II [submissions] source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 01-1-2007 Best of SS Mega Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 01-14-2007 SMG Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 03-11-2007 Puritanical Penis Pack II source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 07-21-2007 SMGpack 2 source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 09-25-2007 Red Fraction [submissions] source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 09-16-2007 OSU released source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osu! 10-1-2007 SMGroove Community Revival Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 11-16-2007 A real guide on how to make a good simfile -ducky285 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=82080 1-3-2008 BBOY's 4.0 CVS Mod v1.1 https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 1-20-2008 Jimerax A list of links for major released simfile packs This will be a very good source for history stuff geez http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=85955 3-19-2008 ATTENTION EVERYONE: Start posting on the official Stepmania forum. http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=89760 4-6-2008 FFR Community Pack http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=90815 08-6-2008 The VideoGame MegaPack 3 source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 08-11-2008 FFR Community Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 2nd post Last edited by moches; 08-11-2008 at 05:52 PM.. 9-4-2008 QED Drama http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=99042 10-6-2008 - 8-10-2012 Hard Songs Megapack Volume 1-12 source http://www.izzy.nu/ 1-4-2009 OMG... did insaner... MrRubix bs's some scores on SM http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=104652 02-9-2009 Dark Chanchellors Pack source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=106257 03-7-2009 FFR Community Pack II [submissions] source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 5-10-2009 FFR Community Pack III [submissions] source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=pack 7-21-2009 I'm made of fire http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=110729 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6LoC9KUVtI 7-25-2009 Crowdpleaser DOMINATED http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=110838 9-13-2009 New Hacked Scores thread http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=112296 These were all some notable pack strings before ffr went down. Flash Flash Revolution The website was shut down on 12-21-2009, and brought back online on 10-9-2010 "Major upgrades and moving things around. We should be back online later today. Merry Christmas!" https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Flash_Flash_Revolution 10/9/2010 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=114379 Official "Hey Look The Site Is Back" Thread 10/13/2010 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=114486 hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods .... 1-8-2010 to 12-14-2012 icyworlds hosts A list of all Major Simfile Packs for StepMania http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=115269 http://www.keybeat.net/forums/showthread.php?t=675 Originally I made my list so people would have the packs on Stepmania Online, that was my initial reason for making this list. xnix took over, then gundam, and now we have a magnificently mantained list by stepmaniaonline.net staff There has been, and likely always will be community members who will host some sort of downloads page for stepmania content and songpacks. This is a fantastic community and I'm so happy and lucky to be a part of it! I maintained this list of downloads shortly following FFRs shut down, and some time after it came back, and got tired of doing it, it's exhausting and mad props goes out to everyone that helps keep this game accessible! 2-15-2010 sm ssc 1.0 Public Beta 1 released source https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 12-9-2010 Passing away of Steve aka Jellygod http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=116013 with all due respect, this is a tragic moment as jellygod had touched many peoples hearts, and was a cool dude by many peoples accounts. 11-2-2010 In this thread we talk about rhythm gaming histories MrRubix and many others share their stories post 29 kommisar has probably the most informational post Quote:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?t=115062& 11-3-2010 DOMINATED MrRubix http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=115110 2 mass ban events 2006 and 2011 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...9&postcount=32 1-1-2011 Patashu's Stepping Guide for 2011 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=116627 4-27-2011 So let's talk about QED stepfiles. (Let's talk about StepMania actually.) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=118553 4-28-2011 A new beginning for our SM community. http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=118572 4-28-2011 so I want to code a ddream replacement since its website died -patashu http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=118564 5-29-2011 Stepmania 5 Preview 1 source https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 5-30-2011 sm ssc renamed to sm5 source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StepMania 8-11-2011 Moches is a god let's try dividing Stepmania chart trends into eras this will be a great thread for sourcing some history http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=120009 12-18-2011 Suspicious Scores thread (Formerly Hacked Scores) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=121645 3-6-2012 to 3-16-2012 KONY 2012 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=122937 3-18-2012 A Challenge for DossarLX ODI http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=123101 3-20-2012 MrRubix was BS for years!! http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...postcount=1029 3-23-2012 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...postcount=1171 4-10-2012 Stepmania 5 Tournament edition http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=123449 6-26-2012 Why are people hanging on to 3.9/3.95? twistedphoenix http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=124571 9-28-2012 Stepmaniaonline is back http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=126281 10-08-2012 OsuMania source https://osu.ppy.sh/help/wiki/Game_Modes/osu!mania 11-24-2012 Stepmania Terminology Thread (KBO repost) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=127628 10-30-2012 Actual art plageurism -darkshark http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=127005 10-31-2012 I wasn't done with you yet, DS (Actual art plageurism continued) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=127042 3-3-2013 Rhythm Simulation Guide - 4k/6k Notecharting -stargroup100 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=129254 3-4-2013 The Future of Stepmania http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=129268 6-4-2013 Stepping Stones of Stepmania (Submissions Open!) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...highlight=mi40 1-18-2014 Renard Queenston is a sex offender http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=134748 1-26-2014 Who is the best rhythm gamer you've seen in your rhythm gaming career? http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=134927 6-11-2014 StepMania Fun Facts post 30 has some great info, and halogen has been around for so long and has lots of input! http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...8&&page=2evans Quote:
2015 the stepmania chronarticles https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...zZY_e5zetB3nmQ 3-31-2015 Stepmania 5.0.9 released http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=141481 4-9-2015 Scores Purge of 2015 http://ffr.wikia.com/wiki/Scores_Purge_of_2015 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=141576 04-16-2015 What Keeps you using 3.95? kyzentun http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=141638 4-30-2015 Requesting: Stepmania history 2008 - 2015 http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...34#post4310134 2008 to 2015 recounted by kraezymann pretty accurately http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...34&postcount=4 8-2-2015 SM Leaderboards (waffles) http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=142490 11-1-2015 Jhlee drama source: let me summarize here, it wasn't cool. it happened and no one is happy about it. 1-8-2016 So apparently people are mad that Stepmania was on AGDQ http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=143611 4-17-2016 How often does anyone play this game anymore? http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=144230 soul evans chronicles 7-23-2016 Soul's Aspiring D7 SM score progression thread~ http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=144912 7-25-2016 When you just play and have pain in your fore arms... http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ght=soul+evans 8-3-2016 I feel like it's the end for my arms http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ght=soul+evans 9-11-2016 bullshit http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?p=4473726 8-12-2017 Is it too late to redeem myself? http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?p=4578596 8-13-2016 Stepmania 5.0.12 source https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 08-19-2016 Etterna source http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=145215 9-15-2016 Rhythm gamer murdered by sister because it was "too noisy" http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=145497 this news is grusome 9-22-2016 Make Stepmania Great Again http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=145553 2-18-2017 "The Museum of DDR Simfile History" http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=146729 This thread is nice since you'll be able to find a lot of dwi era simfiles saved by shuey, whatagod! Thanks also to foxfire/smo for hosting these! Chord Cohesion removal 08-22-2009 mention http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=111713 ~5-12-2017 Public opinion poll on Etterna Chord cohesion removal http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=147522 ~5-18-2017 minacious grace explains convincingly why it's better not to have chord cohesion http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...1&postcount=50 12-16-2017 Stepmaniathings is back guys btw http://stepmaniathings.com/files/ 1-24-2018 Stepmania 5.1 Beta 1 https://jose.heysora.net/SMBuilds/ 6/30/2018 - 12/14/2018 Queenashy http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...user=queenashy 12-16-2017 Stepmaniathings is back guys btw http://stepmaniathings.com/files/ Added 4/28/18 VIDEOS GUYS YOOOOO Quote:
One last thing I want to leave a note on, considering my past record with losing interest with substantiating something this massive (the list of major simfile packs) I anticipate I may lose interest in maintaining/updating this kind of a thread in the near future. So I want to leave this with you guys, if you find it interesting! I also don't think that I'd be able to write out a nice storyline including some major highlights of our community, if someone were interested and tallented/invested enough to do so, I'd be glad to read it out for youtube I think it's majorly awesome how much we've grown on the shoulders of giants, going from single download simfiles, to community packs, to minipacks led oftentimes by a single person in conjunction with community packs (the current state of things); how we've always had someone who volunteers to host stepmania related packs and themes/noteskins; how we've always stuck together (in some sense) throughout the most trying of times (ffr going down); how we've constantly admired the best players, the best content creators, and pushed skill over the years to an absurd level (always going higher still even); how ffr and sm have always been seperate but together entities (we're all in the same boat in a sense); and just everything, I love you guys! Another interesting fact is the internet in general has grown A LOT since 2002! This is probably a nice time for all you veterans who have been around 10+ years to share your stories too hope you all find something interesting here, and have a good time! Edit for more stuff: @IcyWorld there was drama about mi40/anaru for botting heterochromia iridis in the 9th tourney round 8 d7 ApocolypseAp found this, props to him! I think that these scores are from about 2006 Quote:
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