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  1. DDR - God way to spend money (unlike whores) by Henry+Pate · · Score: 5, Interesting · on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena

    I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution since the end of may of this year, and I can attest that it is indeed an addictive game, and a fairly fun one at that. When I started I, like so many technically inclined people, had absolutely no rhythm. DDR can be an aid for developing rhythm (most songs are in 4/4 time, there are a few exceptions). Here's a little info for those who haven't played or might be interested:

    DDR is a great way to lose weight, when you get good you'll be sweating from just one song, granted it may be an expensive diet (see below for cheaper ways to play)

    DDR can be basically free: there are a number of projects dedicated to bringing DDR to the PC (Konami released a version...but it isn't better than some of the freely available ones). There is Dance With Intensity, Diet Diet Revolution, and my personal favorite (also a sourceforge project), Stepmania, www.stepmania.com. You can play with the keyboard, but chances are you don't want to burn fat from just your fingers. You can build a dance pad (you even get a fun hardware project doing this!), you can find links and help on the forums on www.ddrfreak.com - ddrfreak also provides a nice little script that will spit out all the steps for a song, and another script that shows all known machine locations in the US! If you are lazy (what?) you can buy Konamix (available at www.redoctane.com or Electronics Boutique, and some other places). It runs on a PS1, so you can use the ps2 to play it. You can get a very good (IMO) dance pad from www.redoctane.com for about $100, the ignition 2.0 pad is excellent. You can go with cheaper ones if you wish, but you'll be very frustrated when your skills improve, the mat sticks to your free, and you flop around like a fish out of water.

    I know people who saw others playing DDR and thought it was easy, wow, you step on a little pad when an arrow hits the template...their views quickly changed when they played the game. For new players it can be very difficult, but once you are over that little peak you can really start to have fun. I enjoy the challenge of playing more difficult songs.

  2. Links to download program and songs by chrisdanford · · Score: 1 · on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena

    StepMania web site
    SourceForge project page

    Songs for download:
    DDRManiaX
    DDR East Invasion

    My apologizes for the sloppy posting. This is my final post :-)

  3. Re:Try it on your PC - StepMania! by moonbender · · Score: 2 · on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena

    Eh, how about promoting your project when you mention it? StepMania Downloading it now. :P

  4. Try it without going to the arcade by chrisdanford · · Score: 1 · on Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101?

    If you want to see what DDR is like or practive your moves before going to the arcade, check out
    StepMania, an open-source DDR simulator for the PC. A SDL port is in the works. If you're interested in helping with the project, please contact me!