Hacking Custom DDR Discs

[emupaul]

I have searched and searched and could not find a custom disc like guitar hero III mods and hacked discs for dance style games.... It would be nice to convert audio and steps from lets say DDR MAX 2 and or 3rd Mix, Extreme 1/2 Etc..and so fourth even step mania songs.... or whatever you desire. Any-good starting points to hack at the disc and start injecting & replacing steps/videos/songs? any good material on this?

I understand hottest party wasnt a true ddr game and lacks arrow mods like in ps2/ps1/arcade version but the steps and audio track should still work just fine since its just a player and a nice skin....

 

[fennec]

Instead of messing with injection maybe porting stepmania would be the best solution ? This has been started but no news about the author :

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Borbzz/StepMania
http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?21,15307,25848

 

[spacholka]

Besides Hottest Party, what other DDR games are there for Wii that work with 3rd party dance pads? My gf is really into this garbage and I want extra bonus points. Thanks.

 

[fennec]

Dance Dance Revolution : Disney Grooves
Dance Dance Revolution : Winx Club

Also gamecube game :
Dance Dance Revolution : Mario Mix

edit: didn't see you were talking about 3rd mat, I'm not sure about two first ones ...

 

[emupaul]

Instead of messing with injection maybe porting stepmania would be the best solution ? This has been started but no news about the author :

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/User:Borbzz/StepMania
http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?21,15307,25848

unless this guy can continue what he worked on...he didn't release any code modification it would be nice if he did....
save some time...

I checked out the svn...

http://svn.stepmania.com/svn/trunk/

however looking though it seems to be 3rd party library hell. alot of stuff from the looks of it would need to be totally rewritten.
however a good thing is that libpng ,lua is ported to wii and may help in the porting process

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Lua_for_Wii

 

[fennec]

I think ffmpeg is also used by mplayerce ?

That would let the following one but this is a lot of work !
libjpeg
libtomcrypt
libtommath
mad-0.15.1b
pcre
vorbis

 

[Mrkinator]

I looked at the disc myself, and its definitely something we wouldn't be able to customize

The audio? Maybe (I think its the same as Brawl's audio), but I doubt we would be able to make the same chart files the game uses (which I don't recall seeing )

 

[SFenton]

I looked at the disc myself, and its definitely something we wouldn't be able to customize

The audio? Maybe (I think its the same as Brawl's audio), but I doubt we would be able to make the same chart files the game uses (which I don't recall seeing )

What's the chart format (if you found it)?

 

[Mrkinator]

I looked at the disc myself, and its definitely something we wouldn't be able to customize

The audio? Maybe (I think its the same as Brawl's audio), but I doubt we would be able to make the same chart files the game uses (which I don't recall seeing )

What's the chart format (if you found it)?

I can't remember, I'll dump my disc again soon.