beatoraja-english-guide VS unnamed-sdvx-clone

8 note lanes can be hard to read for anyone just starting out on IIDX. I would also suggest giving BMS, osu!mania 7k, or even DJMAX and EZ2ON 6k/8k a try at home to start the reading brain training.

I also second Beatoraja and Lunatic Rave 2. Beatoraja is more modern, but can be fucky to set up if you don't know exactly how Windows locale shit works. LR2 is old as fuck and pretty jank, but it's been the standard for over a decade for a reason! You need to get your own songs for them though, they don't come with any defaults. However, the scene for them is MASSIVE so you will literally never run out of songs for them once you do find them.

p.s. bms is very accessible and the community is super helpful as can be seen here: https://github.com/wcko87/beatoraja-english-guide/wiki

It's all explained on this link : https://github.com/wcko87/beatoraja-english-guide/wiki

BMS (beatoraja)

You would have to install multiple programs. First, install LR2(http://www.dream-pro.info/\~lavalse/LR2IR/search.cgi?mode=download) or Beatoraja(https://github.com/wcko87/beatoraja-english-guide/wiki). These programs are use d to actually play BMS.

and if you google "BMS starter packs" there are a few good ones out there, including some listed on the github page for beatoraja :https://github.com/wcko87/beatoraja-english-guide/wiki/Downloading-Songs

and mostly play the unnamend sdvx clone: https://github.com/Drewol/unnamed-sdvx-clone

the skin has to display the username associated with the score instead of the username specific to the skin, in your case ask the developers to do this, it has been possible since june 9th of this year

Here are two popular simulators, K-Shoot MANIA (KSM) and Unnamed SDVX clone

Custom 暁 - Photon Maiden song chart made by qop Unnamed Sound Voltex Clone

USC exists fyi, works with keyboard and controllers

You downloaded the wrong thing from the Github link. Here's a direct link to the zip.

Type git clone https://github.com/Drewol/unnamed-sdvx-clone.git and press enter. This will download the game source code and assets from GitHub.

To start for players that don't have the money to buy a subscription and about $500-600 USD total for all of the song packs, most people will play simulators like K-ShootMania and USC. You can play plenty of custom songs from the community, and songs people replicate/convert from the arcade to be played on sims where you can download here. Grey area discussions aside, this is a good way to play SDVX and where most of us started because of accessibility.