Thank You Stepmania Team

To think about it, I first played DDR at a friend's party as he had a dancemat, and StepMania installed on a pc.
I was pretty wasted but didn't fail to realize the huge potential this game had. I searched the internet for DDR machines. Turned out there are no DDR/ITG arcade machines in hungary and never were (only PIU), so I searched for like-minded people, clubs, other options.
Next day I went to a DDR club which just had formed a week ago.
Turned out that quality people are interested in DDR and a few of them are still very good friends of mine.
Met my future GF there.
In a few months I moved away from home, had a job and was in a long-term relationship.

So if I think about it SM pretty much improved my life too.

Chris Danford must have hidden some magic in the source code.

I remember SM4 CVS was the hot shit then, but it was so buggy we used vanilla 3.9

That's a really inspirational story, SnowEevee. It's great to hear that you're doing well! Good stuff from everyone else here too. :)

SM, Bemani games, and FlashFlashRevolution are all so intertwined in my own history, I can't even separate them in my thoughts. These games and the communities have given me memories I'll never forget, and to me, that's one of few things that gives my life meaning. I don't know how I could thank our volunteers enough, but I might as well start here. Thank you. Cheers, everyone.

I've only recently found out that Stepmania 5 was released, I was using Stepmania 3.9 a long time ago, made me dust off my dance pads and start playing again.

i started playing stepmania on keyboard about over a half year ago . i can even make A on some 14 difficulty songs. but i want to create something in stepmania, so i tried to make some stepcharts.... and failed horribly. there are almost none gimmick files for stepmaia 5, and even less notebar noteskin compatible(you know, that waving in megalovania where you need to look at actual direction ofthe arrow) and i want to create gimmick files just like that, i would make a big contribution to stepmania comunity, but there is a little catch. i have no idea on how to create gimmick files. can someone give me a link to some tutorials on how to do it?