DTXMania 0.54 English README Written by Meow http://www.gdamania.net/ DTXMania official website: http://www.donburi.to/~from/dtxmania/ __________________________________________________ _____________________ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -Windows 98/Me/2000/XP -Graphics Card with 8MB RAM (32MB recommended) supporting 3D HAL. -DirectX 7.0 or above __________________________________________________ _____________________ SUPPORTED GAME CONTROLLERS -Computer Keyboards (duh) -Electronic drum sets (requires a MIDI to USB adaptor) -YAMAHA DTXPRESS series -ROLAND V-Drums series -Other electronic drum kits with MIDI out -BAFO/Pacific Digital drum controller -KONAMI/Topway PS2 drum contoller (requires a PS to USB convertor) __________________________________________________ _____________________ INSTALLATION 1. Unzip all the files in DTXMania054.zip into any folder. 2. Click on DTXMania.exe to run the program. __________________________________________________ _____________________ HOW TO INSERT SIMFILES 1. Unzip your GDA/DTX folder into the "DTXFiles" folder. To create subfolders (if you wish to organize your songs), create a folder called "DTXFiles.XXX " . e.g. c:\DTXMania054\DTXFiles\DTXFiles.1st Mix You can also create sub-subfolders in the same way. __________________________________________________ _____________________ IN-GAME CONFIGURATION (A ROUGH TRANSLATION) AVI: Turns the DTX videos ON/OFF (if available). BGA: Turns DTX background animation ON/OFF (if available). FillIn: Drum FillIn (the flashing notes) ON/OFF. 9 Lane Mode: Show or hide Hi-hat Open or Ride Bell notes. Sound Monitor(Drums): Balances the drum sounds with the music if ON. Sound Monitor(Guitar): Balances the guitar sounds with the music if ON. DebugInfo: Shows the Frame Rate, BPM and song time when playing. Can also be toggled ON/OFF by pressing the "Delete" key in-game. Adjust Wave: Helps sync the music to the notes. Try changing it if all your GDAs are off-sync. VSyncWait: Helps to sync video with the song. NoSyncSleep: Leave this on. PreviewWait: Lag time between highlighting a song and when the preview music is played. SessionMode: Leave this alone. LoadWait: Leave this alone. BGAlpha: Wallpaper Tranparency level. 0=transparent. 255=solid. StageFailed: When ON, the song will end when the life-bar reaches zero. BGMSound: Background music ON/OFF. HitSound: Drum Sounds ON/OFF. AudienceSound: Audience cheer after FillIn or Guitar Bonus ON/OFF. __________________________________________________ _____________________ TROUBLESHOOTING I get a DirectDraw error when opening DTXMania -Your DirectX is out of date. Download and install the latest version. All the GDAs I download are offsync -Try changing Configuration> AdjustWaves ON or OFF and see if there's any difference. -Change the permance setting of your Audio device. This is especially noticable in Windows XP. -Edit the GDA using GDA Creator and change the position of when the music begins. The GDA i unzipped does not appear in the game -The GDA filename is in Japanese. Try renaming it to something in English. -The set.def is incorrect. Some GDAs will have a file called set.def inside the song folder. Open it in notepad and see if the filename matches the GDA/DTX name in the folder. Song Titles show up as weird symbols -Your computer cannot display Japanese. In order to do so, go to Control Panel > Regional Settings > Advanced and set "Language for non-unicode programs" to Japanese. In-game performance is slow/laggy -Close all unnecessary external programs (MSN, IE etc) -Switch Configuration > Fill In to OFF -Update your graphics driver or get a new display card. There is no music when playing the song. -You don't have the sound codec. Download and install the latest version of Windows Media Player. -The GDA did not come with the music. Check to see if the mp3/wav file came with the GDA. If not, then you will have to look for the music yourself and put it in. -Open the GDA/DTX file in Notepad and look at the line #WAVXX *****.wav/xa where XX may be any number or letter. Make sure ***** matches the name of your wav or xa file. Videos do not play - Only DTX files can play videos, and not all of them will include a video - make sure AVI is set to ON. - Try playing the AVI in Windows Media Player. If it says codec not found, then you will have to download the codec. Usually the codec required is DivX. __________________________________________________ _____________________ - DTXMania Staff - Programming: FROM Graphics: Nori Graphics: Gaou Q&A support: y.yagi