How to make Banners and Backgrounds the Oldie way for Stepmania

This is not the best way if you want to eb professional but it gets the job done.

Banners

The banner minimum has to be (L)256x(W)80 the maximun is this 5(256x80) and that is an approximate.

The image shows you what you need ot make a banner:

 

For the backgrounds hopefully this will fit the minimum should be 640x480 and this is for stepmania 3.9 SM5 can use a little wider and bigger and HD type of images are allowed.

Here are some examples:

 

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 these are minimums

Music files: mp3; wav; ogg

I use the internet for this one I go on Youtube of a site that has music and I use Audacity or NCH Software to edit and cut the music down to a DDR Length or just download previews of songs before they come out. 

If the song is above 2 minutes long then I cut it to 2 minutes to step for stepmania. Similar to IIDX GAMES because it's more difficult then the DDR that is out there.

BPM Reader :Mix Meister BPM Analyzer

DWI File (Dance With Intensity Metafile)/SM (Stepmania Metafile) 

I use for WINXP Stependous because it reads files better, and I use XStep (for the Win 7,8,Vista) to make sure the sync is universally sound to my files and it is synced properly with the song.  And out the sing info for StepMania before starting up Stepmania Program.

Then you step them on stepmania and you're done with the stepfile.