BMS stands for Be-Music Source ya dingus, not BeatMania Simulator or BeatMap Simulator or Bounter-Mike: Source or something
A large international discord server.
A large Japanese discord server.
A Korean BMS community.
The (pretty dead) Lunatic Rave 2 subreddit.
Dolphin's complete LR2 guide, from installation to advanced features.
greentea's guide on controller play-styles.
DARQS's guide on controller key setups: buttons, springs, and switches.
beatoraja is an upcoming BMS player based on Java. It is cross-platform, and supports BMSON. While beatoraja does not have any Internet Ranking yet, ChromaIR is currently being developed with plans to be compatible with beatoraja.
LR2 is the standard BMS player, it's over 10 years old and can be quite buggy. It has by far the largest playerbase. Many skins and tools have been made for LR2.
Bemuse is a new BMS player which runs completely in the browser.
BMSSearch is ...
LR2IR is the online leaderboard for LR2. It provides player profiles with rivals, dans, playcounts, and various other statistics, along with rankings for the vast majority of BMS charts.
Mocha IR is an Internet Ranking for beatoraja.
MinIR is an Internet Ranking for beatoraja.
Walkure is a website which aims to estimate difficulty for BMS charts belonging in the Insane table and provide a rating for Insane BMS players.
Stairway is a website which displays any given user’s scores and clear lamps for most scales.
GLAssist is ...
BeMusicSeeker is ...
The LR2 Skin Converter tool let's you convert any LR2 skin to any resolution. This is useful for those who's preferred skin doesn't match their preferred version of LR2.
A patcher to make LR2 run in 1080p.
A 720p version of LR2.
The first big skin made for beatoraja. Check the DESOUT2 website for the latest version.
The only 1080p skin for LR2. If you don't like the anime elements, they should be off by default, otherwise easy to disable.
A futuristic 720p skin for LR2.
Another 720p skin for LR2.
A classic SD skin for LR2. Play skin only. For other versions of this skin see this google drive. Oh and here is snow-wind's version (also + 9th bomb) (warning, this one is also named "REMI-S imo", so it conflicts with v2.40).
Another SD skin for LR2. Play skin only.
A classic SD menu skin for LR2, including song select, result, decide, and sound. Skin select and key config are skinnable too, though this modifies the default skin and can not be undone. The soundset can be used with beatoraja as well.
An LR2 theme by ht51.
A relaxing soundset for LR2. Can be used with beatoraja as well.
Dolphin's BMS creation tutorial series.
A BackGround Animation creation tutorial.
A set of guidelines for making BMS charts.
THULIUM's easy to advanced LR2 skinning tutorials.
Hitkey's tool for calculating the #TOTAL of a chart. The total of a chart is the percentage of normal gauge you get for hitting all notes perfectly. So a total of 80 means you have to get all perfect to get 100% normal gauge.
woslicerII is ... wait there's a woslicerIII? I'll look into this later, until then here's the creator's website.
BMHelper is ...
There won't be anything here for a while because I'm planning on making torrent mirrors for all of these, and that will take some time.
It would be great if I could make all of them have proper folder structure, and convert every WAV to OGG so it takes less space. I might be too though lazy so no promises.
Hitkey's Event List
Explanation of terms and abbreviations used when talking about BMS.
A BMS song is a large collection of keysounds. This tool combines those into a song you can listen to.
BMS Music Station
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dead link, looking into this.
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