Notch8

I believe I’ve started something… last time I was up in Monrovia, Anna and I showed Mom Stepmania. I mentioned that it could be set up on THOR, the MythTV based PVR that I built for them. Setup was pretty easy, they are on MythTV 18.1 with Gentoo underneith. So I emerged Stepmania, copied the songs into /usr/share/games/stepmania (make sure you get the permisions right, group needs to be games) and had MythTV scan for games (on the frontend under Utilities / Setup – Setup – Media Setttings – Game Settings) and made the XML file gamelist.xml under /usr/games:

    <gamelist>
        <game>
                <name>Stepmania</name>
                <command>/usr/games/bin/stepmania</command>
                <genre>Dancing</genre>
                <year>2006</year>
        </game>
    </gamelist>

The dancepad from ToysRUs and a USB adapter from Fry’s where identified no problem. Go to Media Library – Play Games – All Games – PC – 2006 – Dancing – Stepmania. On the main Stepmania menu select Options, setup the dancepad keys under Config key/joy and Scan music. After that we where up and well…dancing. Very cool.