LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
With some fear-generated sweat but GREAT PLEASURE, I am here to announce you this : We have finally made a working, close-to-PC version of the KatzeExtreme Stepmania Theme for the Xbox.
But it is not a "normal" one. It required hexadecimal editing in order to remap the filenames of the files to open.
I have asked XBins for hosting, and we are in the final way to provide you people with a working version of StepmaniaX v5 along with KatzeExtreme as the default theme. I shall soon make a hex patch for the executable.
Meanwhile, check the readme i wrote - it's for the full package.
------------------------------------------
This version of StepmaniaX v5 brought to you by Katze and Cybik
*******************************************************************
Many thanks go to:
XPort (
http://xport.xbox-scene.com ) for successfully having
ported Stepmania to the Xbox
The Stepmania Project (
http://www.stepmania.com ) for having
conceived this resourceful DDR simulator
The whole scene, without which none of this Xbox customizing
would be possible
MS, for having made an uttermost powerful beast of
gaming
MS again, for having made it so easy to hack with
software security holes
Katze (co-author) for having conceived the KatzeExtreme theme
and backport it to Alpha7 for compilance with the Xbox
Cybik (co-author) for hexing into the XBE and cut out some filename
crap to get it to load up files with shorter filenames
And any soul worth of being mentioned in the afromentioned
who has - in practical - contributed to the package.
*******************************************************************
This package contains :
- StepmaniaX v5 (Stepmania >3 - Alpha 7 build ported to Xbox)
of which the default.xbe has been hex-edited
- the KatzeExtreme Stepmania Theme, with shorter filenames
breaking any compatibility with PC versions of Stepmania
- An edited GamePrefs.ini putting the KatzeExtreme theme as
the default theme
- Music Sample : Hikari - Kingdom Hearts Theme, JAP version
NOTES :
- You should be advised that this build MAY (well, i'm pretty
darn sure of it) have alternative keymappings that
put the "A" button as a confirmation (start) button,
and "B" as a cancellation (cancel) button. Thus,
you cannot use them as up-left and up-right arrows
without having a keyboard plugged in to re-map the
key mappings.
- THIS IS ONLY A TEST PACKAGE. The hex edition might give
unhappy results (as fscking your box or getting Jesus
to take you personaly to heavens - if you are religious),
and the theme itself is not of "final quality". As such,
you may not be satisfied with the quality of this package.
Cybik says : Dang, you should be, you have a green cool
skin for your green cool Xbox!!!
**********************************************************
BOTTOM LINE :
I personnaly (jsrlepage) want to apologize to XPort for a remark made prior to this modification. As a programmer, I should have remembered how a hassle it can be to analyse code and successfuly having something complying with all Xbox FatX standards.
I am very sorry for the little misplaced comment... I by no means want to discredit XPort.
