Thank You Stepmania Team

In 2006 I found highly addicting game from internet. Or should I say: I saw how good my friend was on it, always taking high milestones and achieving them.
That game was Stepmania!

My life was very sad. Running away from my home in age of twelve years old. (Actually came back to home because I realized doing something very wrong) But I had very good reason to go off: Bullying in school. I could not take it any more. It was so sad time, I had no good friends in high-school, not even in elementary.
But everything changed very quickly in 2006. In trade school I met my first best friends and we had lot of fun, like nowadays.

Still I had problems. Console gaming problems. Suddenly my life was like this.

1. I wake up at 7.30 AM
2. Shower
3. Gears up, and to back to school
4. Coming home at 4:00 PM
5. Started playing Halo 3
6. Ordering kebab with frenches
7. Playing to 4:00 AM
(Repeat)

Until that day 1.1.2009 world was taken me to hell. Psychosis.
Everything was against me(*), I was so scared.
Ok, lets discus that some other time.


Two years ago I bought something magnificent. Dance Pads. Two of them.
In a one year track count had seemed to be over 700. That means 700 / 365 = ~2 tracks per day.
I gained lot of fitness, lot of activity, lot of creativity and lot of bravery.
And now I must thank you, my dearest Stepmania developing team (+ forum too ;)
Without you I would not exist in this state of being.

Once more thank you.
Made a bit of donation for stepmania servers, hopefully those will be soon available.

And oh, I almost forgot, Happy Stepping year 2014! :D

*Not feeling like that anymore. I recovered mostly in spring 2011

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I'm glad that StepMania has helped to improve your life, mate!

Wow. I think that's the biggest donation we've ever gotten.

Thanks for sharing your story, too. With all the endless community drama it's pretty easy to forget the positive impact the game has had on people.

Did you know about the DWI site to lower the MP3 music and short videos, this site no longer exists

Hopefully stable version of Stepmania 5 will be available soon.

Just getting tired of 3.9 which is not saving scores if you wont pass 50% off accuracy.

Decided to use 3.9 until today. Gonna install Direct X 9 due .dll issue.

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Did you know about the DWI site to lower the MP3 music and short videos, this site no longer exists

You mean this site?:

http://www.dwiextreme.com/

You should probably just use SM5. We pretty much completely don't support 3.9 anymore, even though 5 isn't marked as stable it should be fine to use, and the more people use it the more we can make sure any important issues are resolved.

Actually installed SM5 on last Sunday. But there was a .dll issue that I resolved on this topic: http://beta.stepmania.com/forums/general-questions/show/27
Maybe this issue is more frequent on totally formatted PC's

Hello! This post inspired me to give thanks as well! I took up Stepmania with the release of Tapmania for iPhone just a year ago , and man has it given me nostalgia. Every time I play Stepmania i remember being with my friends at an arcade playing DDR and making step groups and such. There used to be many people involved in playing DDR and the arcade would be packed with players that would travel from far cities. I thank the developers of Stepmania for keeping this trend alive and well. I hope to see Stepmania grow and become stronger. Much respect -Melloiguana