How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

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  • icontrolyourworld
    Enjoy life!
    FFR Simfile Author
    • Oct 2007
    • 4193

    #1

    How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

    Q: How do i use StepmaniaOnline?

    1.) Go to http://www.stepmaniaonline.com/ register your name at the forums on that site then download either 3.95 or 4.0 stepmania (preferably 3.95).

    You can download 3.95 here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GVWJZWQ2

    2.) Then get some megapacks and put it in your 4.0 or 3.95 songs folder. You can download megapacks at these websites:






    Get the main stuff like:
    Community Keyboard Megapack - Volume 1-3 (2nd link)
    Xoon 1-3 (1st link)
    Keyboard Megapack, 1.5, and 2. (2nd link)
    Hard **** 1 and 2 (3rd link)
    Hard songs 1-7 (1st link)
    Midare 1-4 (1st link)

    3.) Then start stepmaniaonline, and go to Options>Network Options> and type smonline.us

    4.) Then go to Options>Profile options> and make sure your name matches the one you signed up at the forums with.

    5.) Then go and play the game like you normally would offline.

    6.) To enter advanced/novice hit ctrl+enter. The same goes for entering rooms and selecting songs. Once you're in a room you can change your mods by pressing up, and you can sort songs by title/group/difficulty/etc. by pressing left and right at the same time.

    7.) OK, when you enter a room you'll see your name and some one elses name (maybe a lot of people) at the top of the screen. The person who is furthest to the left is the "host" and only they may pick songs to be played. When they pick a song, if you have what they are wanting to play, SMO will automatically take you the the song selected with the same title. If it doesn't take you to the song and it says you lack it in the chat box, you need to go get the song in order to play it. (In other words you can't transfer songs over SMO like you would on MSN) Also if anyone else lacks the song, the song cannot be played. Unless that person leaves.

    8.) Once you/everyone have/has the song and everyone is ready to play, the host will then start the song and everyone will be playing the song. You will not see the other dudes arrows, only their names listed from top to bottom (winning to losing) will be displayed.

    9.) Once the song is over everyone gets their grade and you may see the other peoples grades by hitting up or down on your keyboard.

    10.) then the process repeats. from 8

    You CAN Host.) You can host songs by creating a room of your own and selecting songs with ctrl+enter.
    HOST SPECIALTIES: You can type this/these if you want someone out of your room:
    /kick "username"
    /ban "username"
    Quotations are necessary, and so is the "/".

    You can also pm people:
    To PM people type:
    /msg "username" put text here.


    good 'nuff?

    PS i'm fishing for a sticky
    Last edited by icontrolyourworld; 10-31-2009, 08:28 PM.
  • icontrolyourworld
    Enjoy life!
    FFR Simfile Author
    • Oct 2007
    • 4193

    #2
    Re: How to use StepmaniaOnline. (FAQ)

    also i'm surprised no one has written a tutorial for this yet

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    • MinaciousGrace
      FFR Player
      • Dec 2007
      • 4278

      #3
      Re: How to use StepmaniaOnline. (FAQ)

      it's not an FAQ if there aren't any questions

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      • icontrolyourworld
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        FFR Simfile Author
        • Oct 2007
        • 4193

        #4
        Re: How to use StepmaniaOnline. (FAQ)

        oops i ment it as frequently asked question without an S.

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        • TC_Halogen
          Rhythm game specialist.
          FFR Simfile Author
          FFR Music Producer
          • Feb 2008
          • 19376

          #5
          Re: How to use StepmaniaOnline. (FAQ)

          Mention as the first step that you have to get an account at the SMO forums so that they don't have to get to Step 4 to realize that they don't have an account. You may also want to name some of the more popular packs so that they don't lack when they go online for the first time.

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          • mnnicol
            U mirin'?
            • Jun 2007
            • 4262

            #6
            Re: How to use StepmaniaOnline. (FAQ)

            lol SMO. Nobody was on it when I last went on
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            • icontrolyourworld
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              FFR Simfile Author
              • Oct 2007
              • 4193

              #7
              Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

              People are usually on when i'm on.

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              • Bynary Fission
                Retired One-Hander
                • Jan 2008
                • 2437

                #8
                Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

                Oh yeah, this may be a bit off topic, but if this thread becomes successful then a few troubleshooting tips might be helpful, especially since a lot of newbies to SMO will view this thread. People new to SMO might be quite new to Stepmania in general, and that would probably prevent a lot of questions from arising regarding SMO in the future.
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                • Izzy
                  Snek
                  FFR Simfile Author
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 9195

                  #9
                  Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

                  Well theres been multiple of these on SMO forums, but no one ever read them and still asked the same questions on how to use smo.

                  Most new people do not read stickies.

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                  • Devilution
                    doin' just fine
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 822

                    #10
                    Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

                    problem - When I go to network options and try to connect to smonline.us it freezes, or after a few minutes will say "connection to server has been dropped".

                    Anyone know what could possibly be wrong? I figure it's my firewall but I have stepmania set as an exception already, so I dunno.

                    P.S I have my profile set to Devilution, which is my smonline forum account name, if that matters.

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                    • Plan_Bsk81127
                      snooches
                      FFR Simfile Author
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 6420

                      #11
                      Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

                      You could also mention as a host how to kick players out of the room.

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                      • icontrolyourworld
                        Enjoy life!
                        FFR Simfile Author
                        • Oct 2007
                        • 4193

                        #12
                        Re: How to use/get StepmaniaOnline.

                        Originally posted by Devilution
                        problem - When I go to network options and try to connect to smonline.us it freezes, or after a few minutes will say "connection to server has been dropped".

                        Anyone know what could possibly be wrong? I figure it's my firewall but I have stepmania set as an exception already, so I dunno.

                        P.S I have my profile set to Devilution, which is my smonline forum account name, if that matters.
                        It could be that the SMO server is down. If it's down wait a few minutes and it might be back up.

                        You might have to restart your SM to be able to connect again, so restart StepMania, try connecting again, and if it's still down try again later in the day, or another day.

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