::Pocket DDR:: Stepmania Mobile

MY VIDEO PLAYING POCKET DDR ON MY NOKIA N70 [A MUST SEE!!]
BY: SUNDAEMCDICK

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version 0.1.0 pre-alpha
by Robot2037
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( 1 ) DISCLAIMER
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POCKET DDR IS FREEWARE APPLICATION AND CANNOT BE PROVIDED FOR MONEY. THE AUTHOR
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY IMPROPER AND DANGEROUS USE OF THE PROGRAM AND IS NOT
IN ANY WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY USING OF APPLICATION. POCKET DDR
DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY SONGS, GRAPHICS OR OTHER COPYRIGHTED MATHERIALS, ALSO ANY
COPYRIGHTED MATHERIALS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED AND CANNOT BE DISTRIBUTED WITH THE
APPLICATION.
IT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO DECOMPILE THE APPLICATION AND RESOURCES, CHANGE
THE CONTENT OF JAR OR ALTER THE PROGRAM IN ANY OTHER WAY WITHOUT THE PERMISSION
OF AUTHOR.

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( 2 ) VERSION HISTORY
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v. 0.1.0 pre-alpha - released November, 26th 2006
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This is the first public release of Pocket DDR. It is really early version, most of
the features and functions are not supported at this moment. Development was intent
on basic game engine, which should be nearly complete at this moment. More features
will come in next releases.

Supported features:
- Basic Game Engine and GamePlay
- Jumps, Holds, Mines

Suported Notes:
- 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/8

Supported Song Modifiers:
- Note Speed: 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x

Unsupported features:
- Roulette and Random at Song Selection Screen
- Screenshot at Result Screen
- Note Skin and Theme customization from external files
- Controls Customization
- RMS Saving
- Most of the Graphics is still missing

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( 3 ) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Mobile Phone
- MIDP 2.0
- MMAPI (Mobile Media API)
- JSR-75 (File Connection API)
- Memory Card support
- Free Space for storing songs
- Enough memory and performance to run application

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( 4 ) WORKING DEVICES
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- Nokia N93*
- Nokia N91*
- Nokia N80 (tested)
- Nokia N73 (tested)
- Nokia E6x*
- Nokia E50*
- Nokia 5500 (tested)
- Nokia 3250*
- Nokia N90 (tested)
- Nokia N72*
- Nokia N70 (tested)
- Nokia 6681 (tested)
- Nokia 6680 (tested)
- Nokia 6630*

* theese devices weren’t tested, but it’s suspected that application will work
successfully

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( 5 ) HOW TO PLAY
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Pocket DDR is music based game. Music notes are represented by arrows, which are going
in the rythm of music upwards from the bottom of the screen. When note meets the
receptor (gray arrow) it is exact time to press coresponding key for currrent note.
There are several time intervals to determine accurancy of key press, each note is
evaluated separately depending on time interval when you pressed this note. There
are 6 types of note scoring:

Fantastic - best
Excellent
Great
Decent
Way Off
Miss - worst

You percentage score depends on the scoring, if you want to complete song at 100%
you have to make only Fantastic scoring for every note.
Also life is dependant on your accurancy, if your life is depleted, you fail. Life is
represented by the life bar located on the left side of the screen.

Possible note events:
Regular note - regular note is represented by simpe arrow
Hold - hold is long arrow with something like a tail, you have to keep pressed
the key until the note ends
Jump - jump are two or more notes going in the same time, you have to press both
keys at once
Mine - don’t tap the mine, it will explode and your life will be decreased

Note types are represented by colors:
Red - 1/1 note
Blue - 1/2 note
Green - 1/4 note
Violet - 1/3 note
Yellow - 1/8 note

Controls:
2 - Up note
4 - Left note
6 - Right note
8 - Down note

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( 6 ) SONGS STRUCTURE
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Song are located in external files on the phone memory card in E:/Pocket DDR/Songs/
where E: represent the memory card drive. Each song have to be in separated directory
which name is same like the song data files names. Remeber that song name and directory
names are case sensivive!
Each song data are consisted of .MP3 file and .SDF file. MP3 file contains music track
and SDF file contains other song data like a stepcharts, graphics etc.

E.g. if you song is named “Cool Song” the files have to be located in theese paths:
E:/Pocket DDR/Songs/Cool Song/Cool Song.mp3
E:/Pocket DDR/Songs/Cool Song/Cool Song.sdf

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( 7 ) CREATING SONGS
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The .SDF file format is .SM file converted into binary form, also song graphics is
packed into this file. You can easily convert .SM files into .SDF by using SM2SDF
convertor and make your own songs. There are some conditions which have to be adhere:

- song images must be .PNG format
- background image size must be 352×416 pixels
- banner image size must be 256×80 pixels
- all files (.SM file, background and banner file) must be in same directory

Then you can begin the conversion by simple command from command line:
SM2SDF.EXE [.SM file name] [/optional switches]

e.g. if you have the song “Cool Song” it will look like this:
SM2SDF.EXE Cool Song.sm

If your song is not compiled successfully, there can be some problems:
- unsupported note type
- unsupported pattern lenght
- unsupported song event (like a Roll etc.)
- wrong background or banner image size

It is recommended to use some png optimizer like a PNGOUT to decrease size of PNG files.

( 9 ) LINKS
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http://www.stepmania.com - All you need to know about stepmania. you can download the stepmania application for your PC so you can convert .SM to .SDF files

http://www.ddrsd.com- DDR San Diego, they provide Songs from all mixes of Original DDR arcade songs.

NOTE: no songs are included in the installer,so i’ve created some songs to download, in order to play POCKET DDR!

IF YOU LIKE THIS GAME,
HIT THE BUTTON THAT LOOK LIKE THIS ->
ON THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF THIS POST TO THANK ME, THANK YOU!

Download :

Pocket_DDR_sundaemcdick_v.0.1.0.rar (864 KB)