{"id":7455,"date":"2018-01-26T14:27:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2018-01-27T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:31:35","slug":"advanced-rhythm-game-stepmania-5-1-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/advanced-rhythm-game-stepmania-5-1-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Rhythm Game StepMania 5.1 Beta Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-icon.png\" alt=\"StepMania icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>StepMania, free dance and rhythm game, reached first beta of new major 5.1 series a day ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Due to the amount of remaining work needed, the scope of changes, and in response to feedback about difficulty with new systems: StepMania 5.1 is now going to be postponed to 5.2, and to bring some of 5.2&#8217;s less invasive and more demanded features to people we&#8217;re going to be backporting things onto 5.0 for version 5.1.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Features planned for 5.1 include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loading songs from profiles on USB drives<\/li>\n<li>PacDrive support<\/li>\n<li>Updated default theme<\/li>\n<li>Profile improvements (including switching stats XML to an SQLite database)<\/li>\n<li>Mouse support for all platforms (may not be used in the default theme &#8211; but available for others)<\/li>\n<li>Stencil-based masking by default instead of zbuffer masking, so masking 3D objects behaves better without resorting to render to texture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the first beta release it brings following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new high-resolution (720P) default theme: Lambda<\/li>\n<li>The DirectInput handler for Windows now supports XInput.<\/li>\n<li>Songs can be loaded from profiles on USB drives.(For Linux, StepMania must run as root to save USB profile scores)<\/li>\n<li>And many other changes, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stepmania\/stepmania\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">see release page for details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/stepmania-playing-1024x609.jpg\" alt=\"StepMania 5.0.6 in Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/stepmania-playing-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/stepmania-playing-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/stepmania-playing.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install StepMania 5.1 Beta in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p><del>The launchpad build farm is kinda busy, my unofficial StepMania binaries are waiting to build for 24 hours. I&#8217;ll updated the tutorial once they are available.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: To install StepMania 5.1 Beta in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04, do following steps one by one:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the command below to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/stepmania<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-ppa-1604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-ppa-1604-600x82.jpg\" alt=\"stepmania-ppa-1604\" width=\"600\" height=\"82\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-ppa-1604-600x82.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-ppa-1604-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stepmania-ppa-1604.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Update package index and install the game:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install stepmania<\/pre>\n<p>Note that minimaid disabled in Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04 due to bug. And please ignore wrong version number in game screen because I forgot to remove old patch in v5.0.12.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the game, simply run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove stepmania<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA via &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility under &#8220;Other Software&#8221; tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StepMania, free dance and rhythm game, reached first beta of new major 5.1 series a day ago. &#8220;Due to the amount of remaining work needed, the scope of changes, and in response to feedback about difficulty with new systems: StepMania 5.1 is now going to be postponed to 5.2, and to bring some of 5.2&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1247,286],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-rhythm-game","tag-stepmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}