Raspberry Pi Support?

[dj505]

Will there ever be Raspberry Pi support? I've been trying for days to compile the source on my own, but I always run into errors and can't get it to work no matter what I do. I tried PhracturedBue's port, but it freezes on a green screen until I close the window, and when I do I get a segmentation fault.

[zbyte64]

Got it to compile and run with the following instructions: https://gist.github.com/zbyte64/4e2595c6867c1ae9e09b72a5e0bd8a7d

Even after setting performance to potato the game was too laggy to even navigate.

Was using a Raspi 3 B+ with Raspbian June 2017

[SpottyMatt]

I know this is an old issue but it's a high-ranked search result.

StepMania Arcade on Raspberry Pi

You can install a pre-compiled binary of StepMania on a Raspberry Pi, and tune & configure the Raspberry Pi into a StepMania arcade console, with these scripts & instructions: SpottyMatt/raspbian-stepmania-arcade

Pre-Built StepMania Binaries for Raspberry Pi

If you just want to install StepMania but don't want to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated arcade console, you can find pre-built binaries here: SpottyMatt/raspbian-stepmania-deb # Releases (see the README for installation instructions).

Build StepMania on your Raspberry Pi

If you want to compile StepMania (on a Raspberry Pi) yourself - perhaps because you want a different version than what's already been pre-built - you can easily compile it with these instructions: SpottyMatt/raspbian-stepmania-build

Performance

With moderate tradeoffs in graphics quality (it is a ~$35 device, after all), you can probably achieve the following framerates (I did!):

Pi Model	Framerate
3B	45
3B+	49
4B	56

I won't necessarily keep this comment up-to-date; visit the repositories linked above and follow them and/or open issues there if you've got questions.

[caseyjmorris]

I know this is old, but I'm curious if the performance is any better with RPi4

[geefr]

@caseyjmorris Not sure if anyone's tried/published results for the rpi4 but almost certainly yes. The pi4 is more powerful than a lot of low end laptops.

Feel free to try, the repo listed above looks pretty straightforward to me (But would be even cooler if there was a pre-built SD card image available ;) )

[caseyjmorris]

@geefr Ha, well, I would, but I was trying to decide if it made sense to buy one for the purpose or buy something else

[SpottyMatt]

@caseyjmorris : The raspi 3b workflows didn't work out-of-the-box on my Raspi4, and I haven't finished troubleshooting it yet. When I do, I'll update my GitHub repos accordingly but in the meantime if anyone else beats me to it, I certainly won't complain!

[Exovane]

I have successfully compiled and got Stepmania 5.0.12 working on a RPi 4 - 4GB. I also have the PI controlling lighting in the dance pads using dancypi's neopixel library.

If anyone would like a copy of the SD card image (32GB uncompressed) please shoot me a message.

Video 1 is pre-completion (sorry no audio): https://youtu.be/b3QFFofGUg0
Video 2 is the entire system done: https://youtu.be/qrnZ_xPLjh0

[SpottyMatt]

@caseyjmorris , @geefr , @epsimatic:

The toolchains I've built for building, packaging, and installing StepMania on Raspberry Pi now support the Raspberry Pi 4B. Check out SpottyMatt/raspbian-stepmania-arcade and you can probably hit 41 FPS @ 1080p, or 58 FPS if you turn the resolution & quality down a bit.

I have also updated the original comment on this issue to be more-informative.