What is SDVX?
SDVX is an arcade rhytm game by KONAMI from Japan. It's played on special controllers.
What makes SDVX so special?
The whole selling point of the game are lasers, which are those blu/red lines. To play them you need to turn the left/right (blu/red) knobs on the board. Note that the game only cares about the directions of turning not speed.
You can't play BTs (big square buttons) and FXs (small rectangle buttons) with the same hand youre turning a knob with, it's just not physically possible. The whole game is built around this idea.
Since the button are kinda big, charts (levels, songs) can have pattern that require you to use more than 1 hand per button. Such as during intense drills (spams), or other tricky patterns
How do I play? Software
You can play officially only on cabinets. Those are only in the US and Japan
Other than that you have three options:
The cracked software from a cab. (found on torrents) // If you love bloat
KShootMania // I dont reccomend this one
How to get skins and charts on USC?
You use this web
I personally use the nightfall skin, it's the only properly polished one.
You can also get community created charts from https://ksm.dev, these can be used in USC and KShootMania
How to make your own charts?
You need to use KShootMania's editor.
How do I play? Hardware
You can play sdvx on keyboard. But its half the experience.
I STRONGLY reccomend getting a controller to play. (Buying or Building it) guide
If you're buying a controller, just buy the FAUCETWO
Building your own controller is not cheaper, trust me.