Reliable StepMania Song Sites + Bemanistyle Help

[marmus]

Hey everyone -

Now, I know that there have been several posts concerning StepMania song troubles and such, and I apologize if I missed a thread with an answer to my query, but anyways, here goes:

I've been scouting the web for reliable SM file resources, and my best one so far has been

DDR Eternal
[ http://www.miryokuteki.com/ddre/download.php ]

I've looked at Udderdude's site, which is excellent other than the fact that the bitrate on the songs absolutely suck (I can see why, it makes it a lot easier and faster to download) but I'm very picky with my sound quality.

Also, I've heard just about 90% of this forum praise www.bemanistyle.com ...however when I try to download things, I'll get a .zip file on average of 40kb... and when I try to open it, it says that the file is invalid or corrupted; and yes, I've tried downloading the files more than once, and yes, I've tried downloading both .DWI and.SM versions of a song.

Basically, this post has three main questions:

1.) How can I try to fix the download problems I'm having with bemanistyle?

2.) If I could actually get something successfully downloaded from bemanistyle, would I find that I have just downloaded the core stepfile, or anything extra?

3.) Does anyone know of any other RELIABLE sites that have official DDR songs (stepfile WITH mp3) or just some well made ones? I've tried all of the sites listed in the links off of the StepMania site, and the only ones that I've found to work are DDR Eternal, and Udderdude's... oh, and Turtle DDR, but I have a 28.8k connection and have yet to find time to do an overnighter, heh...

Sorry so long, but I'd be much obliged if anyone could help me out!

-marmus

[TheDancingBoy]

use www.ddruk.com
They have all the offical mixes and various other things. I think you need to register, and get bittorrent, but everything is there. For non official songs i use bemanistyle or various IRC channels.

[Moogy]

If you have a 28.8k you're not going to be able to get jack shit from Bemanistyle. You need at least broadband. The servers are just too slow for anything else. Try www.ddrmaniax.com and www.ddruk.com. You have to have bittorrent and IRC, though.

[marmus]

Thanks, DDRUK is working out well so far... minus the fact that some of the songs are easier on Heavy than I would have liked, but that's a user error, not a site problem

I have mIRC, but no idea what this Bitorrent thing is - I've heard of it but have no idea what it does... is it like WinZip or WinRar?

[Synthlight]

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

Cheers,

Synthlight

[marmus]

Thanks, Synth... I'll check it out

[drummerboy765]

*removed* good sims, some of them might take a while to download, but i think i managed to dl them when i had dial up so they shouldn't take that long.......

[marmus]

Cool beans, I'll check that out too... looks like I have my nightly download schedule booked for awhile, lol

[Disp0sabl3]

Re: Reliable StepMania Song Sites + Bemanistyle Help

ive found numerous song packages on limewire, some are better then other.....

[Pichu_XP]

Re: Reliable StepMania Song Sites + Bemanistyle Help

3 year bump... for an answered question.