DTXMania & Youtube

For those who don't know, DTXMania is a drum simulator based on the rhythm-game series Drummania. It's probably the closest you can get to real drumming in a video game environment (in fact it is actual drumming when played on harder difficulties). In this simulator you can make compile your own drum files to whatever songs you like, then share them so everyone can have a go. For the slightly confused ones, it is a simulator not an actual game per se, so by itself you can't do anything because you won't have any songs to play with (until you surf the net and put them in yourself).

So tonight I was slightly bored so I decided to learn how to make my own simfiles and this is the result. This is the first time I've ever got into this sort of stuff so it took a while, naturally. Overall it's a pretty simple process and was enjoyable.

This is also my first ever upload onto Youtube, and literally 3 seconds after I uploaded it they decided to throw a few pages of copyright infringement notices my way. Somehow they are able to detect whether the material used in a video could be copyright immediately after it is uploaded. Honestly I didn't know that was possible so that was surprising, but anyway the aftermath is that you have to put up with a flood of ads while the video is playing. That's about it I guess unless they decide to step up on the faggotry scale and tell me to take off the audio or something.. I honestly highly doubt it though.

Here's the snippet from my Youtube video description for kicks:

'Weight of the World' by Evanescence, from album The Open Door (2007)

Just something I whipped up tonight, it's my first attempt at a DTX file, so I chose a relatively simple yet cool song to go about it. This is not me playing (if you didn't notice the 'AUTO's), because I don't currently have a drum kit wired up to DTXMania.

Because I don't know how to get Hypercam to record sound (yes, the option is checked, still no sound) I had to throw the MP3 over the recorded video and so we don't get the actual drum sounds from the game. Obviously I'm going to need to fix this next time around. Also, check out the crappy FPS.