There is a lot of content one can download for StepMania, from themes to noteskins and the songs themselves. The information below can help the player find whatever is needed.

Songs

Legal simfiles

• The Stepmix songs are available. All of these songs had to get permission from the respective artists for use in the contest.
• FlightMix 4 is a collection of 55 songs, all of them legal.
• Vospi's simfiles include charts for songs that he's written, among others.
• (Japanese) The foonmix team released two full mixes and a "plus" mix. Individual song downloads are also available if you do not want to download many gigabytes of data. As noted, monotune survivor and over the wall of "Z" will not work 100% due to Negative BPM tricks being used. Certain BGAnimations (e.g. Frozen Bond (Live) from foonmix1 , The reviving nightmare (ATMBZK SELF REMIX) from foonmix PLUS) will cause StepMania 5 to bring up many error boxes.
• (Japanese) pop☆candy 2 is a theme and song package. While the included theme won't work with sm-ssc, the songs will. (In addition, the theme has been ported to sm-ssc; see below.)

Other Sources

There are plenty of simfiles out on the internet, but not all of them are legal for everyone. It is up to the individual player to determine whether these files can be downloaded used.

• Bemanistyle has a large collection of user-submitted simfiles, but requires registration to download.
• Zenius-I-Vanisher also hosts a large collection of user-submitted simfiles.
• k//eternal's Dance Anarchy has a number of simfiles meant for pad play.
• Keybeat Online's StepMania Vortex has a few sections for simfiles: Pad charts, 4 key charts, 6 key charts (also known as "solo"), and 7 key charts (meant for playing in sm-ssc and StepMania 5). The pad section is smaller than the two keyboard sections, so this is not a good place to look if you're a beginner. (However, the KBO forums have a nice thread for getting started with Solo, including Solo simfile packs.)
• Renard's Errows 3 (sic)
• cpubasic13's Simfiles
• IcyWorld's Pack Thread is a good place to find simfile packs.
• The Beginner's Songpack Thread on StepManiaOnline.eu is a good place to start if you're a beginner. (Just note that the "Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Christmas Mix" linked is not from an official DDR game.)

Noteskins

Please note that noteskins for older versions of StepMania (3.9, 3.95, 4.0 (XML-based)) will not work on StepMania 5. Noteskins from StepMania 4 alpha versions are mostly compatible with StepMania 5 (only requiring a few changes; we do not guarantee them to work). The same goes for sm-ssc noteskins.

• shakesoda hosts some noteskins that are compatible here.
• Jousway has ported a number of noteskins to sm-ssc, available here.
• StepMania 3.9 default, note, and flat
• ITG Metal and Cel (2D and 3D versions)
• midi-note 3D
• Thirdstyle
• Those looking for more "traditional" arrows may find the KatzeArrows useful. It is recommended to get the Addon version, as the Replacement version will overwrite the default noteskin. That is not a good idea in general.

Themes

Please note that themes for older versions of StepMania (3.9, 3.95, 4.0) will not work on StepMania 5.

sm-ssc themes that rely on the ProductID being "sm-ssc" will have problems running on StepMania 5.

The members of the spinal shark collective have created and ported various themes to StepMania 5:

• moonlight (AJ 187)
• Optical (shakesoda)
• Zenith (Midiman)
• ultralight (AJ 187)
• PROJEKTXV (k//eternal, ported by AJ)

Other themes include:

• NAKET Coder Revolution X (NAKET Team)
• soda☆sweets2 (a port of pop☆candy2)