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Oh my God...just imagining it made me weak...hope you have medication for that or at least a check-up... I see...so some system files are also "upgraded" (so to speak) to allow more songs...got it! So even with "ALPACORE" fix sir, you mean it will still come to a point that a certain limit will still be reached, i.e. it's not infinite?

Whoa, 1.2K+ songs...that's a lot! How many songs is the "limit" of the game? Hole in the bottom of your foot?!? You had an accident? Or was it just an idiomatic expression/joke (sorry - living somewhere across the world, our senses of humor may be different lol) I just downloaded the other "Mixes" and starting to get to work on creating these extra "Update Packs." Luckily, DDR X onwards are available in these forums for download (as well as other sites from the Internet).

Ah okay hahaha...okay I'll see if I can. Ohhh...I didn't realize that the "start" command has switches. New learning for me. NIce name...ALPACORE. That's the name of one of the A20 songs right sir? Is that your favorite song? Noted on this!

Ahahaha! I'll go try Bemanitools and if the end-user experience is the same (but less resources), I'll switch the script to make use of Bemanitools.

Whoa...Luv to Me Disco Mix? First time I'm seeing this. Also Lovin' You...different renditions. What "mix" did these appear?

I see... Well, perhaps it's because when this thread all started, everyone was talking about "use Spice Tools" and at that time I was just new to all of this arcade data stuff So that's why. Some arcade data dump has Bemanitools...other have Spicetools. Interesting...I'll give it a try. Had I known I would have just used Bemanitools. I've been curious as to why I keep on seeing a certain "ddr12-16.bat" script in the data dump. Something new for me to try then!

Oh, I see....I never knew. But, can Bemanitools be used with Butterfly? I honestly haven't given Bemanitools a chance. They (Bemanitools and Spice) look the same though. Are they created by the same person? Yes please sir, so that I can see how the process goes. I have never seen one before (well I did see how the real DDR A/A20 boots up, but I'm curious how it all happens with this arcade data dump).

I will do my best. The process of adding songs is actually easy, given that everything is readily available. What makes the process arduous is "finding" them, AND in the form that DDR A/A20 is compatible with. Clarification: Song by E-rotic? The title is "Song?" I am familiar with Luv to Me and Dam Dariram, though.

Awesome! Yeah, I realized (again) we're talking about an arcade cabinet...unlike a PC that has a mouse and keyboard, usage of scripts is the best approach then. Basically when you turn on the machine, all those scripts should contain whatever needs to be done "mouseless-ly" and "keyboardless-ly."

Oh that's a cool trick I didn't know! I guess this is what you have been looking for, for your arcade cabinet!

I realized, then, that the simplest way to run butterfly silently is to just double-click the JAR file itself...I noticed that, at times when I accidentally double-click butterfly JAR file instead of the .bat file...the application (butterfly) just keeps running in the background in the form of javaw.exe. And there's no way to exit it until you do so via Task Manager or Resource Monitor.

Yes, I realized that too hahaha!

Thanks for the tip/share @tw3nz0r! Interesting...how would you "exit" butterfly then if it is silent? Or by "silent" do you mean sir that the cmd window is still there but it's just blank? Won't it affect the database sir (I remember in our previous conversation, I tried to "silence" butterfly and the logs weren't updating to the database)? On hindsight, I realized this is on an arcade cabinet and not a general-use PC. There's no need to figure out how to exit butterfly...you just shut down the machine.

Great to hear that! I'm happy for you, especially you are using those L-TEK pads my gosh I'm so jealous hahaha...

I score higher than you on AETHER (on the official arcade cabinet) but I have never tried it on LIFE4...I think I would have failed if ever hahaha! Paranoia Survivor Max is a classic. It's pretty old but it still manages to bring a lot of "new-gen" players to their knees - especially the Challenge Chart, hehehe.

Wow, I wish I could have bought one before COVID-19...oh well. I have another DDR friend who made his own home dance pad (this was way before my other friend purchased from L-TEK). I contracted him to make one for me instead. Here's his video on YouTube: @tw3nz0r @kanor @B4SH-T @bman

Wow you have an L-TEK Pad? The one from Poland, right? One of my friends purchased one and luckily for him, he received it before the COVID-19 pandemic...are those good quality pads? Did you buy the bar that comes with it, or you just improvised? EDIT: not bad score on AETHER eh.

Hey Everyone, Sorry I've been out for a couple of days. I have just finished reading the thread. Indeed everyone, stay tuned! On another note: Reminder, butterfly is a Java application (it was programmed/coded using Java) so everyone should have Java installed on their systems (at least Java 8). Otherwise, the butterfly server will not launch and some of the other "automated" events that are programmed to happen in "ddr.exe" as a part of the "DDR A20 Update Pack" will not function. You'll end up with a "broken" game. Just to share, I have received an update notification for Java 8 on my PC and it's Update 261, dated July 14, 2020. Now I'm not sure about those who have encountered crashes in the last few pages have updated their Java 8 to Update 261, and we haven't tested as well, nor narrowed down or confirmed, if this is the cause of crashes (shouldn't be though). I'm updating Java 8 on my system and will test. UPDATE: the latest update to Java 8 does not cause any issues when I tested. It should work fine with butterfly.

You're Korean sir?

Wow! Long Versions!

Oh you mean sir that there's a limitation to the number of songs you can add and you were able to overcome it? I didn't know there was such a limitation...but that is a great find from your end! I'm impressed! 🙂 Congrats once again!

Wow, congrats sir! 👍

Strange...Java has always been the requirement of butterfly anyway (it's a Java application).

Got it now, thanks sir!

Link no longer available, sir.