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Like, at all. It just won't respond to when I use my keyboard.

I use a Mac with OSX 10.9.4
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Hopefully it's just a case of the keymaps file being malformed. It occasionally happens for unknown reasons.
Find your Keymaps.ini file, and if it's empty, delete it. If it's not empty, post it somewhere before deleting it, knowing what's inside might help figure out the problem.
After it's deleted, a new one should be created the next time you run stepmania, which will hopefully work.
I think on OS X it's somewhere in here: ~/Library/Preferences/StepMania 5/
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Nope, didn't work :(
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So if it's blank, try pasting this into it:

[dance]

1_Back=Joy1_B10
1_Coin=
1_Down=Joy2_B2:Key_s
1_EffectDown=
1_EffectUp=
1_Left=Joy2_B3:Key_a
1_MenuDown=Key_v
1_MenuLeft=Key_c
1_MenuRight=Key_,
1_MenuUp=Key_m
1_Operator=Key_delete
1_Right=Joy2_B4:Key_;
1_Select=
1_Start=Joy2_B6:Key_enter
1_Up=Joy2_B1:Key_l
1_UpLeft=
1_UpRight=
2_Back=:Key_q
2_Coin=
2_Down=Joy1_B2:Key_r
2_EffectDown=
2_EffectUp=
2_Left=Joy1_B3:Key_e
2_MenuDown=:Key_f
2_MenuLeft=:Key_d
2_MenuRight=:Key_k
2_MenuUp=:Key_j
2_Operator=
2_Right=Joy1_B4:Key_i
2_Select=:Key_b
2_Start=Joy1_B6:Key_space
2_Up=Joy1_B1:Key_u
2_UpLeft=
2_UpRight=

That will hopefully map left to E, right to I, up to U, down to R, and start to space for Player 2.
< cybik> til Kyzentun fixes bugs for breakfast
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< maxvg1> shakesoda: then why do i still play lol
<@shakesoda> because you're an ITG player. And thus, a masochist
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<@shakesoda> Kyzentun: I think you might need to put down the meshes for a bit
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Oh, turns out it wasn't empty but I just had to open it with textedit. Here are its contents:

[dance]
1_Back=
1_Coin=
1_Down=
1_EffectDown=
1_EffectUp=
1_Left=
1_MenuDown=
1_MenuLeft=
1_MenuRight=
1_MenuUp=
1_Operator=
1_Right=
1_Select=
1_Start=
1_Up=
1_UpLeft=
1_UpRight=
2_Back=
2_Coin=
2_Down=
2_EffectDown=
2_EffectUp=
2_Left=
2_MenuDown=
2_MenuLeft=
2_MenuRight=
2_MenuUp=
2_Operator=
2_Right=
2_Select=
2_Start=
2_Up=
2_UpLeft=
2_UpRight=
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So try pasting in my keymappings and see what happens.
< cybik> til Kyzentun fixes bugs for breakfast
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< maxvg1> shakesoda: then why do i still play lol
<@shakesoda> because you're an ITG player. And thus, a masochist
--
<@shakesoda> Kyzentun: I think you might need to put down the meshes for a bit
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Yes, that worked. Thank you very much! :)
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I have the same issue, but it still wont work after Copy/Paste, I save and it defaults to blank controls. Im on a MacBook Pro running El Capitan.
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