In The Groove dance routines fall into five difficulties: Novice, Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert. The Novice difficulty is for people just trying out dance games for the first time, while the Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties are for those who are familiar with the genre. The Expert difficulty is for gamers who are well-versed in dance games; it provides a new challenge for even the best players out there.

Where can I buy music from In The Groove's musicians?

Many of the musicians featured in the In The Groove series have websites where you can find out more about their music and even purchase their albums. Try searching on Google (http://www.google.com) for the name of the artist.

What is a USB memory card?

In The Groove uses USB storage devices as memory cards to keep track of user stats, options, and more. For a more thorough explanation, please see the USB / Edits section of this FAQ.

Does In The Groove for PlayStation 2 support USB memory cards?

No, though future releases on the PlayStation 2 may.

What USB devices work with In The Groove?

See USB Memory Cards - Compatibility.

I have a question about creating step edits.

See USB Memory Cards - Step Edits.

Can I bring StepMania simfiles from home and play the songs on In The Groove?

No. In The Groove is not designed to accept new song or graphic data. The only data read is player stats, options, and Edits for songs that are already on the In The Groove machine.

How do I access the Edits I’ve brought on my USB memory card in-game?

Available Edits will show up at the bottom of the difficulty list on the Music Selection screen. Edit steps appear in white text, and show the name of the edit in place of a difficulty name. On the Music Selection screen, switch to your Edit by pressing Down, Down on the dance pad several times.

Do I need to do anything to the USB drive before using it in the arcade?

You don't need to do anything. The game will automatically create all the files and folders it needs.

I would like my music to be in the next In The Groove. Where do I submit it?

See our online Music Submission form.

I have a Mac and Safari won't load my Stats.xml file.

Unfortunately, Safari won't load XML stylesheets. Stats.xml will load in either Camino or Firefox on the Mac though.

How accurate is the calorie counting in ITG?

It's not very accurate in In The Groove 1 and 2. Players have reported that it overestimates calories by 2x in many cases. We'll try to improve this in future releases.

What is StepMania's relationship to ITG?

StepMania (http://www.stepmania.com) is an open source game engine and game. Roxor employs some of the StepMania creators and the majority of improvements to StepMania today are developed by Roxor employees for use in In The Groove. Roxor donates much of their work back to the StepMania engine as a way of saying "thanks".

As a product, In The Groove offers many features beyond the StepMania game. ITG offers high-quality legal licensed music, professionally created steps and graphics, and comes in a variety of versions on a variety of platforms (arcade conversion kit, arcade dedicated cabinet, Playstation 2, PC/Mac).