[Tutorial] StepMania 5 - Changing Note Speed on Linux

Hello. Because I spend a few hours[days] on solving my problem. I've decided to share my progress with you guys.
The original tutorial may be found here:

http://kuchikuu.tumblr.com/post/117543031509/stepmania-5-changing-note-speeds

(if you wonder that I copied it from somewhere)

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I've installed Stepmania from ppa for ubuntu.

Tutorial how do install Stepmania can be found here

It installed the game as "sm-ssc"

going to /usr/games/ and checking the sm-ssc file You can see that

 cat /usr/games/sm-ssc



    #!/bin/sh

    if [ ! -d $HOME/.config/sm-ssc ] ; then

    mkdir -p $HOME/.config/sm-ssc

    cd $HOME/.config/sm-ssc

    ln -s /usr/lib/games/sm-ssc/stepmania

    ln -s /usr/lib/games/sm-ssc/GtkModule.so

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Announcers

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BackgroundEffects

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BackgroundTransitions

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BGAnimations

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Characters

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Courses

    cp -a /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Data .

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/NoteSkins

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Scripts

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Songs

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Themes

    fi



    cd $HOME/.config/sm-ssc

    # Such links did not exist before 5~alpha3-1~getdeb3~quantal

    if [ ! -h $HOME/.config/sm-ssc/Announcers ] ; then

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Announcers

    fi

    if [ ! -h $HOME/.config/sm-ssc/BackgroundEffects ] ; then

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BackgroundEffects

    fi

    if [ ! -h $HOME/.config/sm-ssc/BackgroundTransitions ] ; then

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BackgroundTransitions

    fi

    if [ ! -h $HOME/.config/sm-ssc/BGAnimations ] ; then

    ln -s /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/BGAnimations

    fi



    cd $HOME/.config/sm-ssc

    ./stepmania $@

it creates links to ~./config folder. Let's go to the originals...

Now, we know that the main folder is in /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/
But which file should we edit?
I've searched on Google for tips how do to that and almost all of them were for Windows.
They said to go to some Machine profiles or to themes/_fallback/machineblabla
Pointlessly searching for the files, I used LINUX to help me find the file.
I knew that the basic speed is for example c450. And that was my "key word"

Using following command, I was able to find a file that contained the "c450" string.

grep -Ril "c450" /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/

and as a result I got:

/usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Themes/_fallback/Scripts/03 CustomSpeedMods.lua

At first I just used

[s]gedit /usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Themes/_fallback/Scripts/03 CustomSpeedMods.lua[/s]

but it was WRONG. Because of the space. So I used quotes and it was also not good enough because it was READ-ONLY.
Thus... Root comes into the play.

sudo gedit "/usr/share/games/sm-ssc/Themes/_fallback/Scripts/03 CustomSpeedMods.lua"

And now just CTRL+F and find "c450"

 local DefaultMods = StringToModTable("0.5x,1x,1.5x,2x,3x,4x,c750,c1000,c1200,8x,C250,C450,m550")

Bingo!

Mine is already changed as I don't have 5x, 6x and 7x. But it’s an example how to edit such variable

Save the file and it’s ready!

Hope it helped you in some way.

Bye~!

This is irrelevant to any release after SM5 beta 4 because releases since them have a system designed to make this irrelevant.
If you have to edit CustomSpeedMods, you should use a newer release.
Building from source is not difficult, you just have to use the package manager to install the dependencies on this page and cmake, then follow the instructions in Build/README.md.

PPAs for StepMania are very outdated, no one should use these unless they don't care about the new features (such as the custom speed) or new/updated themes.
I'm using Linux too (Ubuntu 14.04) but I compiled StepMania from git. It's not hard, you just have to download the source package and dependencies to build SM, then you just type in a terminal:

./autogen.sh

./configure

make

cp src/stepmania . && cp src/GtkModule.so .

And double-click on the stepmania executable file.

Compiling with autotools is deprecated now because maintaining all the project files across the 3 platforms was too cumbersome. The preferred method for compiling now is to use cmake.
There are instructions for compiling with cmake in Build/README.md. They boil down to this:

cd Build

cmake -G 'Unix Makefiles' .. && cmake ..

make -j8

After the make completes, the executable will be in the stepmania folder.

Oh well, the docs still say with ./autogen.sh, I guess it needs a little update :p

Thanks for the information though, I'll be using cmake instead.