From 409d2f9b0c126d88dce6e74953b01e360e85600c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Danford Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:50:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] move end-user documentation into Manual/ --- stepmania/Docs/ChangeLog.txt | 952 ----------------------------------- stepmania/NEWS | 780 ---------------------------- stepmania/stepmania.nsi | 15 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1743 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 stepmania/Docs/ChangeLog.txt delete mode 100644 stepmania/NEWS diff --git a/stepmania/Docs/ChangeLog.txt b/stepmania/Docs/ChangeLog.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 59b41adab7..0000000000 --- a/stepmania/Docs/ChangeLog.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,952 +0,0 @@ -* 3.9 rc1 -Fixed movie frame semaphore timeout. -Fixed stretched images becoming slightly transparent. -Fixed MP3 sync for cut MP3s (TM4 Discow Moscow). -Fixed ScreenRaveOptions text. -Fixed image scaling causing slight transparency. -Fixed slow "random vanish". -Fixed some MPEG4 movies skipping frames and not looping cleanly. -Windows: Intel 82845G reverted back to D3D. -OSX: Fixed "Illegal instruction" on G3s. -Added OSC3 "Sabishii Kute Loneliness" translit. -Added kanji for Foonmix songs. - -* Alpha 24 -Fixed music sample not starting when a song is selected quickly. -Fixed swapped NG/OK scoring. -Fixed double-width slash character. -Fixed loading half-doubles from KSFs. -Fixed legacy songs not finishing with the song background. -Fixed character rendering artifacts when a freeze segment lies on beat 0. -Fixed screen overlay graphics not being reloaded on theme change. -Fixed joystick mapping problems. -Windows: DirectSound underrun fixes. -Windows: Fixed refresh rate setting in D3D. -Windows: Fixed crash when fullscreen D3D window loses focus. -Windows: Use OpenGL for Intel 82845G. -Linux: Fixed GTK window not being centered. -Added OSC3 Red Sun translit. -Player 2 Back button now defaults to NumLock instead of Insert. -More options are saved to the profile. - -* Alpha 23 -Fixed garbled mono sounds. -Fixed graphics being reset after exiting menus that don't affect graphics. -Fixed fail mode being used in Oni mode. -Fixed "by Unknown artist" autogen Oni courses. -Fixed codes on ScreenTitleMenu when UseDedicatedMenuButtons is on. -Fixed autogen course scoring. -Fixed "MemoryCardOsMountPointP#" in Windows. -Fixed extra stage music wheel entry not always being in a section. -Fixed TM5 "GO", "Lady Madonna" wheel sorting due to extra spaces before titles. -Fixed profile options being saved in jukebox mode. -Fixed score shown on the music wheel in Oni mode. -Fixed TexCoordArrayFromRect crash. -Fixed CourseEntryDisplay::LoadFromTrailEntry crash. -Fixed course editor saving crash. -Windows: Fixed apostrophe inserting a quote in text entry. -Windows: Improved DirectSound underrun recovery. -OSX: Fixed some banners not being displayed. -Disabled timer header for options screens that have no timer. -Always load song banners as 32bpp, to speed up the music wheel. -Allow selection of both 1280x960 (for CRTs) and 1280x1024 (for LCDs). -Fixed OSC1 "Love Hina" title. -Added OSC2 "Dejiko to Gema" translit and correct "Assami" -> "Asami". -Added OSC3 "E-Paksa", Naofumi Hataya, "ukifune" kanji and translits. - -* Alpha 22 -Fixed menu timer running song roulette on course selection. -Fixed OnCommand being played twice when song BGA layers first gain focus. -Fixed options screen not always importing course difficulty. -Fixed secondary Pump controller auto-mapping. -Fixed negative DP scores (good attacks) being graded E instead of D. -Fixed ScreenSelectStyle tween-out. -Fixed course sort crashes. -Fixed missing graphics on rankings screen. -Fixed error reason not being displayed on failure opening SM/DWI/BMS files. -Fixed editor crash in "Show Steps Statistics" on 16-foot and higher songs. -Fixed scrollbar flickering. -FFMpeg 0.4.9 is now required (previously 0.4.8). -Linux: Fixed libjpeg searching. -Linux: ALSA device can be changed via the SoundDevice option in StepMania.ini. -Stats are now rendered with XSL. -Title menu accepts MenuLeft and MenuRight. -NoteSkin step metrics are now controllable per-judgement. -When no profile is loaded in event mode, save scores with name "EVNT". -Added translits: tsuyoizo hoshi no senshi, Guri Guri, Miyagawa Akira. -Added "Yuujou" kanji. -Adjusted "hoshi no umi kaze no yume" translit. -When in "SM options navigation", pressing start in the options menus only moves - to the "exit" row, instead of going directly to the next screen. This ensures - that both players have a chance to set options. -Theme change: _shared fonts in "Numbers" are now named "_numbers". (This is to - differentiate them from the _shared fonts in Fonts.) .redir files need updating. - -* Alpha 21 -Fixed edits causing malformed DWI tags to be written. -Fixed course selection music in SMMAX2. -Fixed paletted textures. -Fixed some OpenBSD compilation issues. -Fixed difficulty changes not always visible in the course display. -Fixed crashes on song reload. -Fixed edits causing malformed DWI tags to be written. -Fixed doubles premium. -Fixed blending artifacts on paletted images. -Fixed player options menu if START is pressed quickly. -Fixed "Foo BG.png" not always detected as a background. -Fixed song graphic search aborting early. -Disabled memory card reading by default. -Optimized Catalog.xml writing. -Changing course difficulties no longer retweens the course entry list. -Linux: Fixed crash in 2.6 when NPTL is not in use. -Linux: Fixed crash when trying to read directories with -r+x permissions. -Linux: Fixed crash when reading from directories without read permissions. -Linux: Fixed signal handling in 2.6 kernels when LinuxThreads is in use. -Linux: Fixed linking against libjpeg. -Editor: Fixed spurious assist ticks at start of Play. -Editor: Fixed "m" not rewinding the sample music. -Editor: Fixed crash when a button is held during the lead-in while recording. -SMMAX2: Fixed course selection music. -Added TournaMix 5 transliterations. -Theme changes: - file "ScreenGameplay extra life frame" -> "ScreenGameplayExtra life frame" - file "ScreenGameplay score score frame" -> "ScreenGameplayExtra score frame" - all "arcade" files and metrics -> "regular" - metrics "ScreenGameplay::LifeFrameExtra*" are now "ScreenGameplayExtra::LifeFrame"; same for all gameplay extra stage metrics - metric "CDTitleSpinSeconds" -> "CDTitleFrontCommand" and "CDTitleBackCommand". - -* Alpha 20 -Fixed image loading crashes. -Fixed GIF loading. -Fixed crash after failed image loads. -Fixed missing images in ScreenSelectMusic. -Fixed assertion failure in easy course mode. -Fixed profile step totals. -Fixed OpenGL crashes in X11R6.7.0. -Fixed toasties not always showing. -Fixed cursor not moving if p2 is on beginner when p1 moves to page 2 during difficulty selection. -Fixed statistics for the current game not being saved if Alt-F4 is pressed mid-game. -Fixed difficulty icon placement in reverse course songs. -Fixed "Exception: CryptAcquireContext" error. -Stats.html is no longer written by default. -Editor: Fixed assertion failure playing long songs. -Steps and calories still count after failing a stage. -ScreenSelectCourse is now based on ScreenSelectMusic. -Added Yuki Matsuoka kanji. -Added Oni course autogen by artist. -Courses now support the #COURSETRANSLIT tag; works identically to .SM #TITLETRANSLIT. - -* Alpha 19b -Fixed loading images with incorrect file extensions. -Fixed CDTitle rendering regression. -Fixed songs not being reselected correctly from the sort menu. -Fixed missing ScreenEditCoursesMenu metrics. -Fixed editor menu and course editor not wrapping. -Fixed stage screen back transition being skipped. -Optimized Catalog.xml writing. - -* Alpha 19 -Unknown audio types in songs is no longer a fatal error. -Incorrect DifficultyIcon state count is no longer a fatal error. -Fixed DifficultyIcon staying hidden when no song is selected. -Fixed "volume not ready" dialogs. -Fixed song scores not being found. -Fixed music wheel speed regression. -Fixed some fading banners. -Fixed machine high score index when players both get the same high score. -Fixed floating tails in reverse boomerang. -Fixed hold heads cycling through all note types while held. -Fixed timer on character selection. -Fixed character rendering in How To Play. -Fixed profile deletion not deleting edits. -Fixed character model rendering artifacts when a freeze segment lies on beat 0. -Fixed BPM/offset changing during gameplay. -Added "Save Stats" option (available under "Other Options"). -Added "easy" course mode (opposite to difficult courses). -Stomp is easier in dance-double. -Improvements to planted and twister transforms. -Latency improvements in ALSA for Linux 2.4 kernels. -Removed SaveToProfile option; it hasn't done anything for a while (options are always saved to profile). - -* Alpha 18 -Fixed "FilenameDB::AddFile()" crash. -Fixed evaluation grade announcer not playing. -Fixed "-0.002582" crashes in gameplay and editor. -Fixed game data not being found correctly when launched from SMPackage. -Fixed model rendering glitches. -Fixed menu timer having a shadow even though MenuTimer::OnCommand says not to. -Added "kono omoi o tsutaetai" and "Ai (Chuu Seishin)" kanji. -Editor: Fixed crash when reverting and the selected notes weren't found. -Editor: Fixed reverting goes to the wrong song if the selected song has a blank description. -OSX: Changes to try to fix skipping on older machines. - -* Alpha 17 -Fixed reversed NG and OK grading weights. -Fixed "iCpuSkill= fStartBeat' failed". -Added separate screenshot sound. -High score saving fixes. -Fixed cdtitles. -Fixed options menu explanation tweening. -Added SMZIP package support. - -* Alpha 9 -Fixed DWI writing assertion failure. -Fixed NoteDisplay::SetActiveFrame crash. -Fixed "intro.wav" being used as song music. -Fixed autogen hold notes. -Fixed song options screen on 2P side. -Added echo, planted, stomp, twister transforms. -Nerfed Quick transform. -Fixed movie background case-sensitivity. -Fixed "noholds" crash. -Fixed START on music scroll and credits screen. -Fixed demo play being counted to Players' Best. -Fixed crash when pressing left/right when on "EXIT" in options. -Fixed BeginnerHelper "Model::LoadMilkshapeAscii Could not open ''". -Hopefully fixed weird newlines in SMs for real. -Don't allow TwoPlayerRecovery in Oni. -Don't allow stalling the music select timer indefinitely. -Changed pump->dance autogen. -Allow "#FFFF80FF", "#FFFF80" in color metrics (vs. 1.0,1.0,0.5,1.0). -Linux: fixed backtraces on 2.6 kernels. -Linux: Fixed crash handler compile on RedHat. -Mac: Fixed support for OS X 10.2.7 and above. -Mac: Removed libraries/frameworks from installer. (They are now included in the application package.) -Fixed Back Ji Young translit. -Added translits: Tsugaru Kaikyou no Onna, Black Cat, Dream Possession, - Deluxe, Aaron Kwok, The Strong Jaeger, ~Ai no Big Band~, Renai Revolution - 21, Deluxe, Kaniyuuutsu, Oni no Ran, This Is Unmei, Michyo, Amuro Namie, - Dal Ah Dal Ah, "Heaven of Hoodlums" Haruka Kanata, Midsummer's Night - Midsummer's Dream, Hanabi (Lange Remix), Hyakugojyuuichi, Dicky Cheung, - Yoo Seung Jun, Journey to the West, Full Moon o Sagashite (Smile), - Leon Lai, KOTOKO & Hiromi Sato, Syunikiss, M-FLO loves Crystal Kay. - -* Alpha 8 -Fixed hidden not turning off. -Fixed '0' crashing the editor (again). -Fixed some movies not looping. -Fixed "new record" always showing in evaluation. -Fixed default NoteSkin being hidden. -Fixed BACK from the Select Game menu going to the options menu. -Fixed changing to life bar from song options menu in Oni mode. -Fixed small options screen memleak. -Fixed saved steps in the editor disappearing. -Fixed auto selection of last edited steps after saving in editor. -Fixed lyrics with changed music rates. -Fixed How To Play crash in non-Dance games. -Fixed crash when pressing keys for a game that don't exist in the play style (eg. Solo buttons in single play). -Improved DWI/SM file error recovery. -Added support for up to 6 joysticks. -Added screen centering adjustment. -Added input test screen. -Added auto-mappings for NTPAD and PSXPAD. -Added option for silent attract sequence. -Readd sound volume menu option. -Default sound volume set to full. -Linux: don't show debug info to output unless ShowLogOutput pref is enabled. -ALSA: Many fixes. -ALSA: Now supports hardware mixing. -ALSA: Lower latency sound when running on a new 2.6 Linux kernel. -ALSA: Modularized; binaries compiled with ALSA will work on systems without ALSA installed. -Added 4th note, 8th note, beamed 8th note, beamed 16th note, flat, natural sharp and double-width forward slash glyphs. -Added TM4+ glyphs. -Added name entry announcer. -Don't show the danger animation if failure is disabled. -Only lock and fail in fail-end-of-song if both players are failing at the same time. -Tweaked "Failed halfway" announcer. -Always show the default noteskin first. -Autogen improved for converting to note types with fewer columns. -Removed delay after choosing in editor menus. -Select course screen shows high scores on the music wheel. -Don't write empty lines to stats.html. -Fail-end-of-song fails after the current song in course play. -Maintain precise sync through corruptions in Oggs. (Can't do that with MP3!) -Don't fail if songs refer to images that can't be loaded. - -* Alpha 7 -Fixed style and difficulty selection announcers. -Fixed characters not showing up. -Fixed editor record misalignment. -Screenshots moved back to PrntScrn (also cmd-F12 for Macs). -Screenshots are now saved in a "Screenshots" subdirectory. -Finish playing sounds before quitting from the main menu. -Options menus now (almost) completely themable. -Several modifier fixes (drunk, tornado, etc). -Fixed "press start again for more options" showing in the editor. -Fixed second controllers with secondary auto-mappings automapping incorrectly. -Fix SuddenHidden. -More editor sync fixes. -Only auto-map joysticks if attached joysticks change. -Added subtitle to editor. -Fixed movie flushing; fixes odd 1-frame videos. -Write #FILE tag to DWIs. -Fixed assertion failure with joysticks with more than one hat. -Sped up select music screen. - -* Alpha 6 -Fixed "fabs(fOffBy)<10" crash. -Fixed gray arrows in perspective modes. -Fixed options screen crashes when playing on the second palyer side. -Fixed stats.html quoting. -Fixed pump center button not working. -Fixed second extra stage glitch when playing in a song group with only long songs. -Fixed slow saving in the editor. -Fixed slow doubles autogen. -Fixed Perfects having a base score of 10 instead of 9 when Marvelous is always on (not set to "course only"). -Fixed OK being worth 3 DP instead of 2 DP when Marvelous is set to "course only" and we're not playing a course. -Fixed danger animation throwing off background movie sync. -Fixed input mapping axis problems. -Fixed display glitches in evaluation when playing songs with no steps. -Improved quality music rate changing. -Added title menu switch game code (LRLLRRLR). -Added "hallway" and "distant" mods. -Added double-width ? and !. -Magic Dance is playable without character models. -Refuse to run in Linux unless at least SDL 1.2.6 is installed (since we won't work). -Movie sync fixes. -OSX: Handle vsync. -Theme change: Removed ScreenSelectStyle5th; use ScreenStyleMaster instead. -Theme change: ScreenSelectStyle and ScreenSelectDifficulty graphics are now eg "icon1.png", "picture2.png", "icon2.png", not "icon single.png". - -* Alpha 5 -Fixed low-quality banners. -Fixed lines in hold notes again (hopefully). -Fixed options menu crashes. -Fixed movie sync issues and crashes. -Fixed editor help menu running off the screen. -Fixed default sort glitches. -Fixed bad performance in 9x. -Fixed mini. -Fixed music rate options glitches. -Fixed showcourse/noshowcourse (Caprice). -Fixed dancing character speed. -Fixed player's best showing unplayable songs. -Fixed rare crash while quitting from the editor. -Fixed unusual concentration of mines after hold notes. -Fixed Jenny Rom bug: fix songs with '=' in the pathname not being loaded from cache. -Added SM 3.0 scores file reading. -Added tempo compress/expand in the editor. -Added basic profiles support. -Added translits for Tentaikansoku's artist, Kouji Kondou, and Otome no Michi. -Moved ShowStats to graphic options menu. -Removed IgnoreJoyAxes; no longer needed. -Improved lyrics effect. -Harder Brake. -Scoring fixes while using transformations. - -* Alpha 4 -Fix different taps when on the same row as a hold start. -Fix deleting notes in the editor. -Fix "Marvelous" showing with mines when marvelous grading is disabled. -Fix some editor sync issues. -Fix black lines in hold notes. -Fix "reload songs" erasing scores. -Fix mine crashes. -Fix dancing characters not resetting between songs in a course. -Fix glitches in the select group screen. -Fix multiple Steps assigned the same difficulty when loading from BMS files. -Fix SM file not being written in the editor if the song has a DWI file with an extension in caps. -Add tipsy, split, alternate, blind. -Add generated "stats.html". -Add beginner helper. -Add a dancing character to the how to play screen. -Add F5/F6 to switch Steps in editor. -Add announcers "gameplay oni fail", "gameplay oni fail halfway" and "gameplay combo overflow". -Add FFMpeg-based movie decoding. -Add left+right+start to move back in options menus when in arcade-style navigation. -Add some more Korean characters. -Don't clear area before recording in the editor. -Require a combo before regaining life after bottoming out. -Always load fonts in 16bpp. -Fixed course writing errors. - -* Alpha 3 -Fixed courses crashing. -Fixed extra stage crash. -Fixed errors reading sounds causing a crash. -Fixed Caprice. -Fixed duplicate 'jukeboxmenu right' elements. -Fixed grading when using transforms. - -* Alpha 2 -Somewhat fixed "NORMAL/DIFFICULT" not working on course player options screen (it would default to what 2P was set to regardless of player being present or not). -Added 5th mix scoring option (somewhat buggy). -Added mines transform (somewhat buggy). -Show offset change when using autosync/changing offset during a song. It shows on the "Save changes" screen. -Added cleared extra stages/failed extra stages unlock options. -Added experimental course editor. -Music wheel now goes to first available song when you pass a long version song and have one stage left. -Various other bugfixes. - -* Alpha 1 -Fixed Oni mode overriding chosen life meter choice. -Fixed some select music screen speed issues. - -* 2003-08-03 -Slightly optimized wheel loading times. -Added progressive stage lifebar. -Fixed stage counter not updating when long versions are a final stage. -Fixed memory leaks regarding unlock screen. -Lifebar difficulty now goes up to 16. - -* 2003-07-31 -Fixed song options screen crashing in course mdoe. -Fixed cache directory not being created correctly. -Fixed music wheel crashes. -Fixed #DISPLAYTITLE file ignoring being case-sensitive. -Fixed odd image detection problems . -Fixed timer stalling during roulette. -Fixed negative chaos values. -Fixed rotated banners during courses. -Added progressive lifebar motion. -Added random caprice courses. -Sound quality experiment. -Added JUSTICE. - -* 2003-07-28 -Fixed fallback banner not always showing. -Fixed banner crashes. -Fixed scoring when using transforms. -Fixed hold notes not losing life if you release them during a freeze that lies at the exact start of the hold. -Fixed autosync in non-1x music rates. -Fixed fail adjustment after changing difficulty in the player options menu. -Fixed problems with unbuffered input devices. -Fixed not recording AAAA over AAA. -Added controller config screen tweening. -Added "courses only" option for marvelous judgement. -Added Taku Iwazaki, Hideki Naganuma, Blümchen. -Challenge notes no longer make a song red. -Adjusted difficult course behavior for random songs. -Setting a background brightness of 0 disables backgrounds completely. -SMPackage: Allow disabling comments. -SMPackage: Uninstall packages before installing new ones. -Evaluation radar fixes. -Never use files listed in (otherwise unused) #DISPLAYTITLE/#DISPLAYARTIST DWI fields as song banners. - -* 2003-07-15 -Fixed "OFF" not working in player options menus. -"Cancel all codes" code maintains default note skin. -Fixed theme metrics not reloading after 42 days of gameplay. -Fixed animations becoming cohppy after several days of play. -Fixed Pump pad-related crashes. -Fixed cosmetic banner problems while selecting course. -Fixed color key in fading rotated banners. -Fixed ampersands in the loading screen showing up as underlines. -Fixed banners fading out and in after changing sort. -Fixed sample music playing after changing sort. -Added Maaya Sakamoto. -Added "e=mc² mix". -Added threaded input. - -* 2003-07-09 -Fixed crash on extra stage. -Fixed invalid glyph when showing negative scores in eval. -Fixed CDTitle backsides. -Fixed ScreenStage/lyric crash. -Fixed player settings being reset if you back out of the player options menu. -Fixed player options menu items not showing on the 2p side. -SMMAX2: Fixed menu music looping and graphics alignment. -Support up to 32 buttons per joystick. -Allow configuring bit depth for movies. -Cope with broken drivers that don't support GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT_1_5_5_5_REV. - -* 2003-07-07 -Default score for non-Oni courses is 573000, not 573. -Always use 16-bit textures for movies (faster). -Show easy icon for songs with 1-foot light steps. -Fixed NoteFieldPositioning crash. -Fixed ranking course alignment. -Fixed extra stage difficulty. -Fixed crashes after editing. -Fixed lyric crash. -Fixed DWI writing losing some 96th notes. -TM4: Added Lee Jung Hyun, Tamaki Nami, Tomoe Shinohara, soramimi keeki, - The Peace, tentaikansoku. -Added a special case "Sana" translit for White Lovers. - -DWI reading: Implement `192nds', <46> jumps, and <4!46!6> hold jumps. -<4006> (containing 0s) is still treated as 192nds, for backwards -compatibility. - -DWI writing: Implement <2468> jumps. - -Themes: -The ScreenEvaluation graphics "bar actual", "bars possible", "bonus frame", -"grade frame", "percent frame", "survived frame", "win", and "win frame"; -and the ScreenSelectMusic graphics "difficulty frame", "meter frame" and -"score frame" have been split into separate graphics for each player. - -* 2003-06-30 -Fixed "save changes?" not reverting. -Fixed editor creating duplicate notes. -Fixed "hh:mm.ss" time display (was showing "hh:mm.00".) Switch at an hour, not 100 minutes. -Fixed default fail type sometimes not working. -Fixed default note skin not working. -Fixed autoplay weirdness in editor. -Fixed crash with very long hold notes. -Fixed radar weirdness with corrupt songs. -Fixed endless crash. -Fixed random banner. -Fixed keys getting stuck if we lose focus while they're depressed. -Fixed losing the last buffer of sound from a sample. -Fixed difficulty display being shown when not on a song. -Added sorts by meter. -Added more TM4 kanji. -Added Pokèmon -> Pokémon. -Retain the difficulty specified in extra1/extra2.crs. -Improve fallback if we can't set up an OpenGL window. -Movie optimizations. -Theme change: MusicSortDisplay icons are now in separate files. -Scoring fixes. -Implement "Right" transform. -Return to the select course screen after name entry in event mode. -Allow ISO-8859-1 in DWIs. -Don't show all sorts with left-right-start; hit up-down-up-down to get the full list. - -* 2003-06-23 -Fixed music wheel sort bugs. -Fixed OKs being worth 3 in course mode even when marvelous is off. -Fixed editor changes remain when exiting without saving. -Fixed Jukebox text. -Fixed S3 ProSavage crashes. -Fixed alt key sticking after alt-enter. -Fixed Hiroko Kasahara kanji. -Fixed missing instructions screen. -Fixed overriding fail mode after it's been changed by the user. -Fixed scoring problems with nonstop courses. -Movie optimization experimentation (report any changes). -Added song credit editing to the editor. -Added TM4 translits. -Play menu music when in SORT sort. -Removed fade between random movies (decoding two movies is too slow). -Removed "Use BG if no banner". -SMPackage: compress files aren't already compressed. -SMPackage: add comments. - -* 2003-06-18 -Fixed more GL_NO_ERROR problems. -Fixed tween crash in MAX3000. -Fixed "continue holding" text not tweening off (again). -Fixed doubles jukebox. -Fixed alt-enter stopping music in demonstration. -Fixed assist tick turning off between songs in a course. -Fixed scoring rounding error. -Fixed losing keyboard input when changing graphics settings. -Fixed expand. -Note quantize fixes. -More #DISPLAYBPM fixes. -Make MAX3 work (subtle timing fixes). -Banner cache for group and course banners. -Add option screen scrolling. -Add icon for SMMAX2. -Add TM4#1 kanji. -Add note selection to the player options menu. -Add new music wheel sorts. -Add Alt-F7/F8 for finer BPM adjustment. -Add group select tweening. -Detect oversize banners and rotated banners that aren't exactly square. -Rewrite input code (again). -Handle group banners in the parent dir. - -* 2003-06-11 -Fixed not flushing GL error state. -Oha, Tokimeki Memorial translation fixes. -Choose default settings based on video card and system memory. -Default hold note window increased. -Fixed combo announcer. -Fixed game types being available when they shouldn't. -Fixed lyric position in reverse. -Add banner caching. -Fixed #SELECTABLE and #DISPLAYBPM writing. -Changed screenshots to print screen. -Added kanji for "home version" and "Four Seasons". -Fixed autoplay in the editor causing all presses to be "marvelous". -Fixed "1.0x" not working in courses. -Added alt-F11, F12 to change beat 0 offset in 1ms increments. -Changed nonstop scoring: all nonstop courses sum to 100mil points. -Fixed OK being counted as a perfect in course mode, instead of a marvelous. -Don't save song changes after gameplay by default. -Added various Korean characters. -Stop sample music when entering play or record mode. - -* 2003-05-31 -Fixed C200 and 8.0 scroll speed options loading backwards. -Fixed movies not working in D3D. -Fixed hidden, sudden, etc. with changed scroll speeds. -Fixed "continue holding BACK" text not fading out on end of song. -Fixed course contents not masking correctly. -Fixed some Voodoos not being detected as such. -Fixed time spacing being very slow in TM3 Stoic. -Fixed alt+tabbing crash on Voodoo3. -Fixed CDTitles. -Changed 1280x1024 to 1280x960. -Fixed group banners not named "banner" not being seen by the select course screen. -Hopefully fixed a crash loading paletted images. -Fixed changing note skins in the editor. -Removed limit of 1200 songs in the music screen. -Only show an easy icon for songs that have beginner steps. -Add some Korean characters. -Add .3x and .5x music rate (sounds bad at the moment). - -* 2003-05-28 -Don't force note skin to "note" in the editor, since not all note types have a note skin by that name. -Fixed occasional assertion failure during the demonstration and jukebox. -Fixed BPM not being updated correctly in the select music screen. -Fixed some tweens not always finishing cleanly. -Fixed select screen announcer playing too early. -Fixed not counting hold scores when autoplay is on. -Fixed lyrics during courses. -Scale course names during records display. -Fixed "show transliterations" option being backwards. -Add auto-conversion from EUC-JP for KSFs (no fonts yet). -Added Pump half-doubles. -Don't auto-classify images containing "-char". -Graphics auto-adjustment for very slow cards. -Possibly fixed some fullscreen toggling issues. -Fixed crash pressing 0 in the editor. -Disable banner preloading by default. -Automatic configuration for some adapters. -Maximum number of random backgrounds is configurable. - -* 2003-04-20 -Fix crash when lyrics are too close together. -Fix the options menu when entered via the operator key. -Fix options menu crash. -Fix stage screen for course mdoes. -Fix select style comment. -Fix demonstration crash. -Fix difficulty display in course selection after changing difficulty. -Fix scrollbar oddness when there are exactly 13 items onscreen. -Add a theme metric editor. -Update editor info after each keypress, so changes don't appear lagged. -Stop the clock for dead players. -Add temporary workaround for strange nVidia driver problem. -Improve UI for options that go off the edge of the screen. -Rotations in metrics are now specified in degrees, not radians. -How To Play screen. -New dither algorithm. -Add missing kanji. -Move data and INI files into data/. -Only show a song as difficult if it's difficult in the current play mode. -Fixed name entry/credits crash. -Fixed CDTitle rotation speed. -Fixed CDTitles not being loaded on first play. -Fixed course selection screen crash. -Fixed blink. -Fixed P2 lifebar not tweening. -Fixed endless mode banner display. -Fixed MISS. -Fixed judge difficulty setting. -Fixed option to not show the song options screen. -Fixed long/marathon balloons. -Fixed rate changing rounding error that caused .9 to actually play at .8. -Don't cache banners by default. -Fixed diagonal banners in BGAs. - -* 2003-03-27 -Fixed missing credits. -Added lyric support. -Sample music fixes. -Transitions are themable. -Song options screen is optional. -Movie optimizations. -Handle movies with capitalized extensions. -Editor fixes when in custom play rates. -Added "Skippy" transform. -Fixed "aoi" glyph. -New banner for Random. -Don't throw if a movie fails to load. -Windows: Fixed loading window in taskbar in 9x. -Added skip window. -Added missing "kuru" kanji. -Crowd cheer at beginning of gameplay. -Jumps are now graded on the score that completes the row, not the minimum score of the row. -Jumps count as 2 toward combo, but 1 toward judgement totals. -Perfect or better increments combo in oni. -OK worth 3 in course modes. -Maybe fix some sound skips. -Fixed the null sound driver busy looping. -Numbers starting with a decimal point are still in the NUM folder. -Scoring changes. -Hold note life fills instantly instead of gradually. -Texture usage and loading optimizations. -Lots of theme changes. -Nonstop courses can be made more difficult; use the same codes as selecting a song. - -* 2003-03-06 -Fixed SaveMachineScoresToDisk crash. -Fixed "Each Tomorrow" translation. -Fixed course title not showing on ranking screen. -Fixed files in global CDTitles directories. -Fixed title sorting. -Fixed default difficulty selection. -Fixed difficulty icon positioning when reverse changes during a course. -Fixed sounds playing twice in difficulty select. -Fixed rate changing in the editor. -Reset options when backing out of a song. -"Ignore JoyAxes" also ignores Z axes. -Added long and marathon balloons. -Joystick fixes. -Try not to repeat songs in random courses. -Try not to show courses that can't be played. -Handle banners that are exactly 320x240. -Don't accept button presses in name entry after pressing start. -Course kanji fixes. -Little removes HoldNotes that don't start on a beat. -Allow showing dance points instead of percentage in oni. -Write #BEGINNER to DWIs (hope this is OK). -Write #CDTITLE to DWIs. -Added Tokimeki Memorial translations. -Don't throw if songs are missing #BPMS. -Guess titles from directory names if #TITLE is missing. -Don't change the sample position of songs that actually have a sample start of 0. -GLDirect bug workarounds. -Remove song length limits. - -* 2003-02-21 -Fixed corrupt Joint Premium image. -Fixed autosync. -Fixed movies breaking if we change video modes while one is playing. -Fixed Aoi Shoudou, Door of Magic, Sanae Shintani. -Fixed Omega glyph asymmetry. -Fixed course final evaluation stage count. -Fixed name entry in Pump mode. -Fixed edit menu default selection. -Fixed oni percentage updating after holds. -Fixed battery count when over 4 lives (going from "5" to 3 bars is weird). -Fixed eval radar overflow. -Fixed SMMAX2 menu backgrounds/ -Removed toggle for using translits when characters are missing (useless). -Both hollow and filled star and heart glyphs. -Scoring fixes. -Course enhancements and fixes. -Added new transforms. -Added "L'amour et la liberté". -F9 works in the course menu (but only for song titles, not for course titles). -Style select icon cleanup. -NG time for holds changed from 180ms to 120ms. -Note skins can now be selected per-player on the player options screen. -Oni life meter fixed. -Some shadow fixes. -Separate course and song translations. -Fixes for guessed sample music start. -Subst songs even if they already have a translit line; too many songs have hacked titles with transliterations that need to be substituted. -Use DirectInput for joysticks; hopefully this will fix some of the converter problems people are having. - -* 2003-02-12 -Fixed handling of corrupted music files (was causing the radar glitch). -Fixed edit sample fade-out. -Fixed Dancing Pompokolin. -Fixed options menu when in arcade input style. -Fixed extra stage selection. -Synchronization tweaks. -Don't accept a held START for 750 ms after selecting a song (but you can release it and re-press it to get it immediately). -Name entry honors the timer preference. -Judge window default tweaks. -Added Hypnotic Crisis and a few Señoritas (and others; won't list them all here). -Added several course translations. -Allow changing sorts when in EX selection mode. -Super-shuffle fixes. -Might have fixed that extra "OTHER" thing. -Fading banner transparency with colorkeyed images fixed. -Translations are in a separate file. -Translations can be toggled in the Appearance Options menu, or press F9 in the Select Music screen. -If we don't have all characters for a translation, fall back on the transliteration. -Don't translate a song field at all if there's already a transliteration. -Different color for the extra stage that will lead to EX2. -Fail mode can be set in Machine Options. -Game options screen can be disabled. - -* 2003-02-09 -Fixed assertion failure under GLDirect. -Fixed ignoring commented-out lines in SM/DWIs. -Fixed restoring from a maximize. -Fixed crash when BACK is pressed while roulette is spinning. -Fixed score breakage when BACK is held in the final eval screen. -Fixed songs with beginner steps being marked easy. -Fixed not writing autogen notes to DWIs. -Fixed extra stage selection (challenge == hard). -Fixed score overflow for songs with meter > 10. -Fixed BGANIMATIONS at beat 0 being shown early (includes movies). -Fixed editor tick timing. -Typo song title "Aio Shoudou" is recognized. -Yozora no Mukou corrected. -Handle "Doors of Magic" (along with "Door of Magic"). -Large ID3V2 tags don't make mp3s not work. -No OK if a hold tap wasn't pressed (oops). -New editor menu. -Editor optimizations for songs with an absurd number of bpm changes/stops. -Editor crash fixes. -New jukebox mode. -F6 to save screenshot. -Separate options menu. -Allow user-selected extra stage. -Default texture depth is 16-bit (try 32-bit; it loads faster and looks much better). -Ignore beginner steps for difficulty sort. -Music wheel can be set to have sections for ABC only. -Stop playing with the video mode when in a window. -Misc. course fixes. -Challenge is good enough for an extra stage. -Turn off autofail by default for beginner/easy; turn off failure completely for beginner first stage. -Check the alternative song folders for extra stage courses. -NoteSkin format change (don't count on it not changing again). -Handle alternate difficulty names (easy vs basic vs light, etc) in course files. -Don't make the gain-life song between Oni courses if we didn't actually gain any life. -Added a 24-pixel font, so the group select screen kanji don't look ugly. - diff --git a/stepmania/NEWS b/stepmania/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index f9f9d9d463..0000000000 --- a/stepmania/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,780 +0,0 @@ ------------------------ Version 3.02 --------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: Added 0.25x scroll speed -CHANGE: Reorganized options on Player Options screen -NEW FEATURE: New modifier: Acceleration-Land -NEW FEATURE: New modifier: Acceleration-Expand -NEW FEATURE: New modifier: Acceleration-Boomerang -CHANGE: Tweaked Acceleration-Wave for more of a challenge -CHANGE: Changed format NoteSkin tap graphic format. Existing NoteSkins will - need to update the tap graphic. -NEW FEATURE: New Edit menus with ability to delete Notes patterns and new - options for importing existing patterns into a new Notes pattern. -NEW FEATURE: Jukebox mode. Like demonstration, but plays entire songs - and loops. -NEW FEATURE: Print screen to save screenshot. Saved in "Screenshots" - as "screenshotXXXX.bmp". -CHANGE: Reorganization of options screens. -NEW FEATURE: Option for user-selectable extra stage. -CHANGE: Documentation now in HTML format. -CHANGE: Overhauled NoteSkin format. See README-FIRST.html for details. -BUG FIX: Super-shuffle fixed (now doesn't add extra notes). -NEW FEATURE: Added WIDE transform (changes notes on beats to jumps). -NEW FEATURE: Added BIG transform (strategically inserts 8ths). -NEW FEATURE: Added QUICK transform (strategically inserts 16ths). -NEW FEATURE: Added SKIPPY transform. -NEW FEATURE: Added HALLWAY, DISTANCE and INCOMING perspectives. -NEW FEATURE: Added tipsy, split, alternate, blind. -BUG FIX: Fixed song seeking in editor at non 1x music rates -NEW FEATURE: More complete controls for BackgroundChanges in editor -NEW FEATURE: Shift+P in editor for "play current beat until end" -NEW FEATURE: Select between Normal and Difficult in course modes -CHANGE: Nonstop and Oni scoring and combo counter behave exactly like DDREX -CHANGE: HoldNote life snaps to full when button is pressed (instead of - refilling slowly) ala DDR -NEW FEATURE: Toggle for Autogen of missing steps -NEW FEATURE: Toggle for Autogen of group Nonstop and Endless Courses -OPTIMIZATION: Turned off compression when exporting packages, which makes - exporting significantly faster. -NEW FEATURE: Convert a theme from the 3.0 naming convention to the 4.0 - naming convention using "Analyze Theme" in smpackage.exe. -NEW FEATURE: Check for redundant and possibly mis-named theme elements using - "Analyze Theme" in smpackage.exe. -NEW FEATURE: Set default player and song options in stepmania.ini using - DefaultModifiers. -NEW FEATURE: Courses can be organized into group folders. See - README-FIRST.html for details. -NEW FEATURE: Switch current theme from TitleMenu with L,L,L,R,R,R,L,R. -NEW FEATURE: Switch current announcer from TitleMenu with L,L,R,R,L,R,L,R. -NEW FEATURE: New parameters for background changes: rate, fade old, loop, - rewind. -CHANGE: Background playback speed scaled by song rate, so movies stay in - sync (although syncing isn't very accurate at some song rates). -NEW FEATURE: Automatic mapping of joysticks. -NEW FEATURE: #DISPLAYBPM tag for SM and DWI files. -NEW FEATURE: Korean characters in KSF files are converted correctly -NEW FEATURE: Music rates .3x and .5x -NEW FEATURE: Pump half-doubles -NEW FEATURE: Song lyrics -BUG FIX: Sort songs starting with a decimal point in the NUM folder -NEW FEATURE: Courses can be made more difficult; use the same codes as selecting a song -NEW FEATURE: Beginner difficulty -NEW FEATURE: Music wheel can be set to have sections for ABC only -NEW FEATURE: Note skins can now be selected per-player on the player options screen -CHANGE: "Challenge" steps are good enough for an extra stage. -NEW FEATURE: Turn off autofail by default for beginner/easy; turn off failure - completely for beginner first stage. -BUG FIX: Check the alternative song folders for extra stage courses. -BUG FIX: Don't make the gain-life song between Oni courses if we didn't - actually gain any life. -NEW FEATURE: Added long and marathon balloons. -Try not to repeat songs in random courses. -CHANGE: Little removes HoldNotes that don't start on a beat. -NEW FEATURE: Allow showing dance points instead of percentage in oni. -NEW FEATURE: Write #BEGINNER, #FILE and #CDTITLE to DWIs. Implement - <2468> jumps. -NEW FEATURE: DWI reading: Implement `192nds', <46> jumps, and <4!46!6> hold - jumps. <4006> (containing 0s) is still treated as 192nds, for - backwards compatibility. -NEW FEATURE: Guess titles from directory names if #TITLE is missing. -NEW FEATURE: Remove song length limits. -NEW FEATURE: Added lyrics support. -NEW FEATURE: Song options screen is optional. -CHANGE: Jumps are now graded on the score that completes the row, not the - minimum score of the row. -NEW FEATURE: Added a theme metric editor. -NEW FEATURE: How To Play screen. -NEW FEATURE: Maximum number of random backgrounds is configurable. -CHANGE: Changed 1280x1024 to 1280x960. -CHANGE: Removed limit of 1200 songs in the music screen. -NEW FEATURE: Added banner caching. -CHANGE: Changed nonstop scoring: all nonstop courses sum to 100mil points. -NEW FEATURE: Add option screen scrolling. -NEW FEATURE: Add steps selection to the player options menu. -NEW FEATURE: Add new music wheel sorts. -NEW FEATURE: Handle group banners in the parent dir. -NEW FEATURE: Return to the select course screen after name entry in event mode. -NEW FEATURE: Allow configuring bit depth for movies. -NEW FEATURE: "Courses only" option for marvelous judgement. -CHANGE: Challenge notes no longer make a song red. -NEW FEATURE: Setting a background brightness of 0 disables backgrounds - completely. -NEW FEATURE: SMPackage: Allow disabling comments -NEW FEATURE: SMPackage: Uninstall packages before installing new ones -NEW FEATURE: Never use files listed in (otherwise unused) #DISPLAYTITLE - and #DISPLAYARTIST DWI fields as song banners, nor images - containing "-char". -NEW FEATURE: Added progressive lifebar motion. -NEW FEATURE: Added random caprice courses. -NEW FEATURE: Added JUSTICE. -NEW FEATURE: Added generated "stats.html" -NEW FEATURE: Added beginner helper -NEW FEATURE: Added dancing character to the how to play screen -NEW FEATURE: Added announcers "gameplay oni fail", "gameplay oni fail halfway" and "gameplay combo overflow" -NEW FEATURE: Added FFMpeg-based movie decoding. -NEW FEATURE: Added left+right+start to move back in options menus when in arcade-style navigation -CHANGE: Require a combo before regaining life after bottoming out -NEW FEATURE: Added profiles support -CHANGE: Removed IgnoreJoyAxes; no longer needed -NEW FEATURE: Added title menu switch game code (LRLLRRLR) -CHANGE: Improved DWI/SM file error recovery. -NEW FEATURE: Support for up to 6 joysticks and 32 buttons per joystick. -NEW FEATURE: Screen centering adjustment. -NEW FEATURE: Added input test screen. -NEW FEATURE: Added option for silent attract sequence. -NEW FEATURE: Name entry announcer. -CHANGE: Don't show the danger animation if failure is disabled. -CHANGE: Only lock and fail in fail-end-of-song if both players are failing - at the same time. -CHANGE: Fail-end-of-song fails after the current song in course play. -NEW FEATURE: Editor: Added alt-F11, F12 to change offset in 1ms increments -NEW FEATURE: Editor: Added F5/F6 to switch steps -NEW FEATURE: Editor: Added Alt-F7/F8 for finer BPM adjustment -CHANGE: Editor: Don't clear area before recording -NEW FEATURE: Editor: Added subtitle and song credit editing - ------------------------ Version 3.01 --------------------------- -CHANGE: Simplified NoteSkin tap graphic format. Old NoteSkins will need to - update the tap graphic. -NEW FEATURE: AutoSync status now shown during gameplay with icon -NEW FEATURE: Added autogen icon to select music -NEW FEATURE: Toggle for easter eggs in Machine Options -NEW FEATURE: Marvelous step timing togglable in Machine Options -NEW FEATURE: Grade AAAA (all marvelous) -CHANGE: Only show ScreenHowToPlay if at least one player chose easy -NEW FEATURE: New High Score screen -NEW FEATURE: Full "attract" sequence -NEW FEATURE: .SM files can now contain UTF-8 text. -NEW FEATURE: New alignment tags for bitmap fonts. -NEW FEATURE: Bitmap fonts now support full Unicode mapping. -CHANGE: Internal precision increased; 32nd notes are no longer rounded. -NEW FEATURE: Added "RANDOM" to music select. -CHANGE: Loading optimizations. -NEW FEATURE: Caution and group select screens can now be disabled. -CHANGE: Input, renderer and sound subsystems rewritten. -BUG FIX: Music scrollbar fixed. -CHANGE: Faster music wheel sort changing and scrolling. -CHANGE: Ignore invalid KSFs. -NEW FEATURE: DWI SAMPLESTART and SAMPLELENGTH in milliseconds is now - supported. -CHANGE: Courses are no longer limited to 300 songs. -CHANGE: The radar display is improved. -NEW FEATURE: The Caution and Select Group screens can now be disabled. -CHANGE: OKs now count as a step in score calculation. -CHANGE: Maximum number of hold steps removed. -BUG FIX: Fixed "autogen doesn't generate patterns for all difficulties for - some songs" -BUG FIX: Fixed incorrect "show" value in "show!hold" being written in DWIs -BUG FIX: Fixed "song ends early after adding an edit then playing" -BUG FIX: Oni score now displays a % sign after the score. -BUG FIX: An E Grade is now properly awarded to a player who fails a song - when two players are playing. -BUG FIX: Modifiers applied to a single song in an .CRS file are no longer - applied to the following songs. - -------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 6rc2---------------- -BUG FIX: Crash handler works better in full screen. -BUG FIX: Crash handler restarts correctly. -BUG FIX: Fixed choosing song filenames when saving. -BUG FIX: Fix Endless crash when a song folder has over 99 minutes of songs. -BUG FIX: Can no longer keep a hold lit if it's missed completely. -BUG FIX: No NG or NG penalty in Oni if a hold is missed completely. -CHANGE: Name changed to "beta 7" to avoid confusion with the numerous beta 6 - release candidates. -BUG FIX: Courses now work with AdditionalSongFolders and DWIPath. -BUG FIX: Fixed writing solo patterns to DWI file. -CHANGE: Group names: Pump It Up (PiU), ParaParaParadise (PPP), Dancing Stage - (DS) are now shortened. -BUG FIX: Statistics for singles no longer show up under doubles -CHANGE: Added separate difficulty icons for smaniac, challenge, and battle. -CHANGE: Faster transition between songs in Oni. -CHANGE: Default setting for "Ignore Joy Axes" is now ON. -BUG FIX: Para demonstation no longer crashes. -BUG FIX: DWI reader now reads fractional BPM and FREEZE index values (e.g. - Alya Part 2). -BUG FIX: Fixed ez2 real style spacing -CHANGE: #SAMPLESTART tag now written in DWI files -CHANGE: Editor now snaps while recording -OPTIMIZATION: More efficient texture memory usage -BUG FIX: Text entry now supports puntuation while holding Shift -CHANGE: AutoGen now only generated dance->pump and pump->dance to cut - down on initial load time -CHANGE: Texure cache disabled because of performance problems on low memory - systems. If you have >= 128MB memory, you may want re-enable it by - setting UnloadTextureDelaySeconds=1800. -BUG FIX: Fixed super shuffle generating impossible HoldNote patterns - -------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 6---------------- -CHANGE: Missing a jump with the Oni life meter now subtracts only 1 life. -CHANGE: Judge difficulty strictness increased slightly. -CHANGE: Initial sort order now sorts by meter of Easy notes, ala MAX. -BUG FIX: DWI music sample info now read correctly - again. -NEW FEATURE: Precise adjustment of timing window for each grade via the - stepmania.ini file (see JudgeWindowPerfectPercent, JudgeWindowGreatPercent, - etc). -OPTIMIZATION: Better texture caching algorithm for faster loading of menus. -NEW FEATURE: Ez2SelectStyle ScrollingList Contents now Metric Configurable. -NEW FEATURE: PPP and PUMP use Ez2SelectStyle Menus to become more - arcade-accurate. -NEW FEATURE: Ez2SelectStyle Menu Background Animations Metric Configurable -NEW FEATURE: ParaParaParadise Support -NEW FEATURE: Added transliteration support for song titles, subtitles & artist - names. Tags are #TITLETRANSLIT, #SUBTITLETRANSLIT & #ARTISTTRANSLIT - respectively. The transliterations of the title and subtitle are used when - sorting and grouping songs, so non-latin songs can be placed correctly -NEW FEATURE: DWI tree loading via "DWIPath". -NEW FEATURE: Pump couples support. -BUG FIX: Editor no longer crashes if you try to drag a hold note up - before beat 0. -CHANGE: Hold head now drawn in place tap note graphic when a Hold starts - on the same row. -CHANGE: Added bright ghost flash on hold note score of OK. -CHANGE: Font format new easier to export for font creators. See README - for details. -NEW FEATURE: Option Icons. -NEW FEATURE: Best sort now shows only top 30 songs. -NEW FEATURE: Option codes on the Select Music and Select Course screens - Codes are defined in the metrics.ini file and thus can be edited and - changed per-theme. The "Dedicated Menu Buttons" option does not - have to be enabled to use codes. -NEW FEATURE: SuperShuffle shuffles each individual note row. This - makes for a completely different note pattern every time. -CHANGE: Boost is now a separate option and can be combined with other - effects. -NEW FEATURE: New Effects: Backwards and Tornado. -NEW FEATURE: More informative crash dialog. -BUG FIX: Fix editor saving files with an extra space at the end - of the filename. -NEW FEATURE: #SELECTABLE:YES, NO, ROULETTE. -NEW FEATURE: Added assist tick toggle to editor. -NEW FEATURE: Added editing of text fields to editor. -CHANGE: Improved the appearance of hidden/sudden. -CHANGE: After changing sort to "BEST", focus will be changed to the - the most-played song. -CHANGE: Texture Hints have been removed in favor of smarter, automatic - texture format chooser. -CHANGE: New Nullsoft NSIS installer. -CHANGE: NG no longer breaks combo. -NEW FEATURE: Hidden easter egg. You have to be "perfect" to find it. - And cheaters never prosper! -NEW FEATURE: If a song is missing Notes of a certain NotesType, Notes of - the missing type will be generated from the existing types. For - example, this will allow any pump song to be played in the dance - game mode, and vice versa. -NEW FEATURE: Package Exporter now can export Announcers, BGAnimations, - Courses, NoteSkins, RandomMovies, Themes, and Visualizations. -NEW FEATURE: Package Exporter now has two options: "Export As One", and - "Export As Individual". Export As One will create a package of all - selected items, and Export As Individual will create packages for each - of the selected items. -CHANGE: Renamed "Skins" folder to "NoteSkins" to avoid confusion with DWI - and KIU. -NEW FEATURE: F6 during gameplay to toggle assist tick. -CHANGE: While AutoPlay is ON, life will not change and score/dance points - will not accumulate. -NEW FEATURE: Song list can handle any number of groups. -BUG FIX: Fix joystick Y axis. -NEW FEATURE: Add level 8 judge difficulty. -CHANGE: While AutoPlay is on, life, score, and dance points will not - accumulate. -CHANGE: DWI save support added to editor. -NEW FEATURE: Editor can edit BackgroundChanges. Use the 'B' key. -NEW FEATURE: Delayed escape/back key is now optional. -CHANGE: Slow-motion is now ~ instead of LShift. -BUG FIX: Fix pump doubles offset. -NEW FEATURE: Support for #DIFFICULTY in KSF. -CHANGE: Allow starting without a keyboard or mouse. -NEW FEATURE: Support for "artist - title - difficulty" titles in KSF. -BUG FIX: Fix repeating announcer when you get a 100*n combo and break it - at the 100*n+1st step. -BUG FIX: When skipping the evaluation screen, stop spinning the grade - so it can be seen during fade out. -NEW FEATURE: Backspace and delete can be used (in addition to space) to - remove key mappings. -NEW FEATURE: The caution screen can be backed out of. -CHANGE: A game that doesn't have any note skins installed is now invisible on - the Select Game screen. This can be used to selectively disable a game. -CHANGE: Graphics and sounds now more compressed more for a smaller download. -CHANGE: The "Difficulty Banner" (displayed while dancing) is now a graphic - that can be overwritten by themes. -CHANGE: An invalid character in a DWI file is now a warning, not a Fatal Error. -BUG FIX: Fixed "blinky arrows". -CHANGE: Note Skin format has changed. Now supports MAX-style holds. -OPTIMIZATION: Improved font alignment. Scaled fonts now appear less blurry. -BUG FIX: Random Movies no longer upside down. -NEW FEATURE: Extra stage top and bottom bars now reversed -NEW FEATURE: Most graphical elements can be positioned per theme using - metrics.ini in the theme folder. See the theme section of the readme for - more info. -BUG FIX: Autoplay no longer misses the first step if it lies on beat 0. -NEW FEATURE: Support for holds notes in KSF. -CHANGE: KSF title discovery will use song foler name if KSF file contains - foreign characters. -BUG FIX: Stepping before start of a note at beat 0 no longer results in a BAD. -BUG FIX: Editor now works with dance-couple note patterns -BUG FIX: Lead-in/lead-out time added to Play and Record in editor. -CHANGE: Song specific Background Animations removed. It will be replaced with - a more powerful system soon. -CHANGE: BGAnimations are now chose randomly from all animations rather than - from a specific group ("trance", "techno", etc). -NEW FEATURE: "Show Danger" toggle in game options to enable/disable - flashing danger message. -CHANGE: "Event Mode" option renamed to "Unlimited Arcade Stages". -NEW FEATURE: Graphic Option "MovieDecodeMS". Controls how many milliseconds - the program will sleep each frame to allow the movie background movie - decoding thread to catch up. Increase this number if movies are - dropping frames. Decrease this number to decrease the priority of - movie decoding. -CHANGE: "SongFolders" renamed to "AdditionalSongFolders". -BUG FIX: AdditionalSongFolers no longer creates duplicate entries on program - load. -CHANGE: RandomMovies now start playing on the note and stop playing on the - last note. -CHANGE: Background Movies now start playing at beat 0, and the movie should - synchronize with the notes (BMR's Colors, etc). -OPTIMIZATION: New deferred rendering architecture uses more CPU in order to - create more efficient operations for the graphics card. -BUG FIX: Select Group no longer crashes with > 15 groups. -CHANGE: Last edited song is selected upon entering Edit Menu. -BUG FIX: "Indirect BPM changes" (track 08) work again. This was causing - "0 BPM" segments to be added to songs like MAX300. -BUG FIX: Fixed life meter stream alignment (I hope!) -NEW FEATURE: Graphic option "UseBGIfNoBanner" causes the song background to be - used if the banner is missing. Turning this option ON may results in - short freezes when switching music on the SelectMusic screen. -BUG FIX: Music no longer cuts off if notes end before music. -BUG FIX: "100 Combo" no longer repeats if combo breaks on 100. -BUG FIX: "Japanese driver in training sign" next to song title now only shown - if song has notes with meter <= 2. -BUG FIX: Sort order icon on Select Music screen now accurately displays the - sort. -BUG FIX: "Best" sort now correctly sorts the songs in decending order by the - number of times played. -CHANGE: Music sort change can now be done with L+R+Start, or U,D,U,D (for - people with soft pads that find L+R+Start to be difficult) -BUG FIX: Player2 can now navigate menus when playing Double. -BUG FIX: Fixed glitches caused by timer expiring after selection was made. -BUG FIX: Timer expiration while group is in focus will start roulette. -BUG FIX: Timer expiration while in Roulette spinning now resets the timer to - force a selection. -BUG FIX: OnlyDedicatedMenuButtons option now correctly saves on exit. -BUG FIX: Announcer now says "danger comments" at the appropriate time. -BUG FIX: Song titles on the Select Group screen are now cropped. - -------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 5---------------- -OPTIMIZATION: Much faster song loading. -BUG FIX: New hashing algorithm prevents multiple songs from hashing to the same - cache file. -BUG FIX: "Select Group" screen now only displays songs and groups available in - the current style (instead of all songs). -BUG FIX: Opening a "(NEW)" sequence in Edit/Record/Synch mode with a style - over 4 panels (such as dance-solo or ez2-single) now works. -BUG FIX: Oni life meter finished. -NEW FEATURE: Theme support. See readme for more info. -BUG FIX: Stop times now read correctly again in BMSs. -BUG FIX: #SOLO steps in DWIs now read correctly. -OPTIMIZATION: Startup time greatly reduced thanks to hiding the log window and - SM parsing optimizations -CHANGE: Display resolution and max texture size sliders re-enabled -NEW FEATURE: Refresh rate slider -NEW FEATURE: 0.5x, 0.75x scroll speed -NEW FEATURE: Song rates up to 1.5X -NEW FEATURE: Effect Mini -CHANGE: Now hold L&R while pressing start to change sort on Select Music -CHANGE: Combo display now draws behind notes -BUG FIX: Stage counter reset after fail (thanks Andy) -BUG FIX: Roulette chooses from only last preferred group -BUG FIX: Fail End of Song setting doesn't get stuck at end of song. -CHANGE: Back button must now be held for 1/2 a second to prevent accidental presses. -BUG FIX: No more slowdown when song background showing song background (I think). -BUG FIX: Fixed clipping problems related to scroll speed -BUG FIX: Hold notes no longer jitter at certain scroll speeds -NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F8 = toggle AutoPlay -NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F9 = decrease offset, F10 = increase offset, -NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F11 = decrease BPM of current segment, F12 = - increase BPM of current segment. -NEW FEATURE: After changing Offset or BPM during gameplay, I prompt will appear - at the end of the stage or course asking if you want to save changes. - Chosing cancel will revert to the pre-modified values. -CHANGE: Life meters graphics are now part of the theme system -CHANGE: New Song Option: Choose Oni life battery or normal life meter -BUG FIX: Life Bar no-recover and sudden death options now work. -BUG FIX: Select Difficulty arrow no longer messed up on early input -BUG FIX: Fixed scoring inaccuracies in Oni -NEW FEATURE: Endless, next to Oni Nonstop -BUG FIX: Inaccurate earned Chaos radar values fixed -BUG FIX: Score multiplier now based on note number and not current combo size. - This change causes higher, but MAX2-accurate scores. -NEW FEATURE: KSF file reading. Just drop the KSF folders into a group folder. -NEW FEATURE: Pump It Up support -NEW FEATURE: Life Difficulty option - this option determines how much the life - meter changes when steps are judged. This option corresponds to Difficulty in - DDR Arcade machines. -CHANGE: Old difficulty option renamed to Judge Difficulty. -NEW FEATURE: MenuInput option. Setting this option to "USE ONLY DEDICATED MENU - BUTTONS" will allow the menus to be controlled only by the buttons mapped to - MenuLeft, MenuRight, etc. This is useful if you have a controller with - buttons that can be dedicated to controlling the menus (like a DDR arcade - cabinet). Also, using only dedicated menu buttons will allow you to enter - codes at the Select Music screen using the dance panels. -NEW FEATURE: Random background movies. Put a bunch of movies in RandomMovies and - change the BackgroundMode setting in Game Options to "RANDOM MOVIES". -CHANGE: Made folders for DWI-style CDTitles and DWI-style Music. -BUG FIX: Fixed more HoldNote drawing ugliness. -BUG FIX: Hidden and Sudden now work with Reverse. -BUG FIX: Group names are now correct when using the SongFolders option -BUG FIX: No longer crashes in Select Group with > 15 groups -NEW FEATURE: PlayerOptions and SongOptions displays on the Select Music screen. -BUG FIX: Extra stage actually works! Props to Bruno for all of his help with this. - You can manually specify extra stage 1 and 2 by creating a .CRS files in the - group folder called extra1.crs and extra2.crs. These courses must contain - exactly one valid song. Don't forget to specify modifiers - see the CRS File - Format section in the readme for more information. If a CRS file is not found - or is invalid, the program will choose approprite Song/Notes/Options. -BUG FIX: Browsing past a song that don't have notes for some Difficulties will not - change your preferred difficulty. -BUG FIX: TurnMirror, TurnLeft, and TurnShuffle now work. TurnRight does the same - thing is as TurnLeft temporarily. -NEW FEATURE: Demonstration plays after sitting idle at title screen. -CHANGE: Note Skins can now control both the tap tween colors and hold tween colors - with the files "(ButtonName) Tap.colors" and "(ButtonName) Tap.colors". -CHANGE: Tap colors now interpolated for smoother color animation. -CHANGE: Tweaked Drunk for a more interesting effect. - -------------------------Version 3.00 beta 4------------------ -BUG FIX: Fixed crash entering Config Joy/Key (duh!) -BUG FIX: Smarter bannner/backgroung/cdtitle discovery -NEW FEATURE: Supports reading CDTitles from the .\CDTitles folder (compatible - with DWI). Song makers are not encouraged to use this feature and instead should - put the CDTitle graphic in the song folder. Having a separate CDTitles folder - breaks the principle that all files needed to play a song should reside in the - song folder. -BUG FIX: Fixed "D3DCreateTextureFromFile" error. This happend a lot on a Voodoo3 - and Win98. -BUG FIX: Fixed "Divide by 0"/"Access Violoation" when loading a song - I think. -OPTIMIZATION: Faster loading at "Nth Stage" screen. - -------------------------Version 3.00 beta 3------------------ -BUG FIX: Fixed crash BemaniRuler's "Connected" -BUG FIX: #BPMCHANGE in DWI files now read fractional values (BemaniRuler's Naturally) -BUG FIX: Dizzy works correctly again -BUG FIX: Subtitle extraction now works for "Dub-I-Dub" and "SP-Trip Machine" -BUG FIX: No longer crashes on Titles starting with '(' -BUG FIX: Earlier scrolling for songs that have early notes (BMR's A) -BUG FIX: Inserted blank time for songs that have note right at end of song (AM-3P) -OPTIMIZATION: Faster loading of gameplay screen -BUG FIX: Sample music no longer studders on Select Music screen -BUG FIX: "Shaky" artifacts no longer appear while holding a hold note -CHANGE: Re-added support for movie visualizations (by popular demand). -NEW FEATURE: Movie backgrounds. Either specify with the "#MOVIEBACKGROUND" tag, - or the first movie file in the song directory will be used. Works with - BemaniRuler's background movies. Background movie will not play will not play - if BackgroundMode is set to "OFF". -NEW FEATURE: Song-specific animations. Place all animations in a folder called - "BGAnimations" within the song folder. See "13. The .SM file format" and - "14. Background Animations" in README-FIRST.txt for details. -CHANGE: Appearance Options now available from Title Menu. Here you can choose - the announcer and note skin. - -------------------------Version 3.00 beta 2------------------ -BUG FIX: Fixed crash when loading MAX2 files from ddrei.com -CHANGE: "JudgeWindow" option name changed to "Difficulty" -CHANGE: Initial difficulty made easier -BUG FIX: Song loading now smarter about how it picks banners, backgrounds, - and CDTitles. See readme "6. How StepMania Loads Songs" for details. -BUG FIX: #BPMS in SM files now read fractional values -NEW FEATURE: Background brightness (Game Options) -BUG FIX: BemaniRuler songs (like Pulse) now loaded correctly -BUG FIX: Stationary arrows don't press unless note is a hit -BUG FIX: Size of combo text capped to a reasonable level -BUG FIX: Song background now stretched correctly when used in a background animation -OPTIMIZATION: Reduced lag while starting music sample (Select Music screen) -NEW FEATURE: Menu Timer - accessable from Game Options -BUG FIX: Changes saved in editor now show up immediately (instead of after restart) - -------------------------Version 3.00 beta 1------------------ -NEW FEATURE: Roulette -NEW FEATURE: AutoPlay (selectable from Game Options screen) -NEW FEATURE: Read Delight BMS 0.5 (hold notes, freezes, and new BPM changes supported) -NEW FEATURE: Editor - edit, record, playback, and synchronize from one screen -NEW FEATURE: Oni Nonstop Challenge (not finished) -NEW FEATURE: "Judge Window" option to adjust difficulty of step judging -NEW FEATURE: Song data cache for faster loading. -NEW FEATURE: Groove Radar -NEW FEATURE: Dark Mode (selectable from Player Options screen) -NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Nonstop Challenge (Oni) -NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Pump It Up support -NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Background Animations (defaut animations go in - BGAnimations dir) - -------------------------Version 2.90------------------------- -CHANGE: Ogg Vorbis music support re-enabled -NEW FEATURE: Note Skins (selectable from Player Options screen) - -------------------------Version 2.50------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: New multi game compatible .sm file format. -CHANGE: "Graphic Detail" presets -BUG FIX: Installer DirectX check now works -NEW FEATURE: Aracde and Free Play game modes - -------------------------Version 1.90------------------------- -OPTIMIZATION: Major speedup to BitmapText loading -CHANGE: Menus changes to accomodate MAX-style menus -CHANGE: Now compiles in Visual C++.Net -OPTIMIZATION: Max texture size and texture color options are now supported. -BUG FIX: Scaled sprite alignment (no more transparent strip along the edge of - "danger" static) -NEW FEATURE: Repeating input -NEW FEATURE: Select Group menu -NEW FEATURE: Edit / Record / Playback -NEW FEATURE: Support for DWI solo notes in DWI reader - -------------------------Version 1.65------------------------- -BUG FIX: Statistics now save and load correctly -BUG FIX: Better framerate during gameplay - -------------------------Version 1.64------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: Group banners on Select Music screen. Just put a banner in the group - folder. -BUG FIX: Hacked around a Savage texture loading bug. -CHANGE: Added "hold NEXT for options" after choosing a song. Most people don't know - about this feature! -CHANGE: Faster song loading -CHANGE: more accurate synching at song rates other than 100% -CHANGE: Assist tick calibrated automatically by detecting sound card play latency -CHANGE: Lowered wait time between menus -CHANGE: Improved loading time of sounds -BUG FIX: Improved quality of sounds while dancing -BUG FIX: Fixed DWI parsing error that often caused the last note to not appear -NEW FEATURE: More resolution presets in GameOptions menu - -------------------------Version 1.63------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: Effects "drunk", "dizzy", "space" -CHANGE: Song sort by group now has collapsible sections -BUG FIX: Prefs, songs, and default mappings now load if StepMania.ini doesn't exist -BUG FIX: Pad 2 can now be used to navigate the title screen -BUG FIX: Crash if change sort while a section item was selected -BUG FIX: BPM changes to 0 when section is selected -BUG FIX: Pixel/Texel alignment bug causing a strip of color along right and bottom - edges moving between menus. -BUG FIX: Graphical glitches on Results screen -BUG FIX: Hold Steps now look better when Scroll Speed is > 1 -BUG FIX: Wrong Ghost Arrow graphic being used -BUG FIX: Boost/Scroll Speed interaction is now like MAX -BUG FIX: DWI's with newlines before semicolon are no longer corrupt when saving - using Synchronize -BUG FIX: #516498 - Installing Stepmania Deletes records -BUG FIX: #517003 - Joystick mappings not flushed -BUG FIX: Multiple NEXT presses not allowed on Caution screen -NEW FEATURE: Skip Caution toggle -NEW FEATURE: Announcer toggle -BUG FIX: Arrows no longer jump back to time = 0 on fail or cleared -BUG FIX: #523621 - Turning on effects in Double (1.62) -BUG FIX: #521941 - Using pad to select songs acts weird - -------------------------Version 1.62------------------------- -CHANGE: Can now press NEXT to skip Caution screen. -BUG FIX: Crash at "No music" prompt. -NEW FEATURE: Synchronize while dancing with '+', '-', "PgUp", "pgDn" -BUG FIX: DWI parsing no longer crashes on line with only a space - -------------------------Version 1.61------------------------- -BUG FIX: Players' Best crowns not displaying. -BUG FIX: #506751 - "Assist" Ticks off-beat -BUG FIX: Crash switching sort -NEW FEATURE: Synchronize mode! Can write BMS and DWI formats. - -------------------------Version 1.60------------------------- -BUG FIX: Inefficient use of memory in Select Music screen -OPTIMIZATION: No noticable loading time in Select Music -CHANGE: New grade graphics (thanks Parasyte!) -BUG FIX: 511184 - Battle mode not working -BUG FIX: 510557 - Result *** overlays result letter -BUG FIX: 510556 - Sound stops at Options Screen -BUG FIX: NG percentage is "-1%" if no Hold Steps -BUG FIX: #507861 - Multiple Enter on Song Wheel -BUG FIX: #507391 - Song Options menu fade errors -BUG FIX: #506820 - Select Style Versus Images -BUG FIX: #506746 - Difficulty Mix-Ups in Song Select -BUG FIX: #506597 - Empty Sort Crash -BUG FIX: #511543/#511186 - Visualizations not shown correctly - -------------------------Version 1.59------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: More texture loading hints (DITHER, NO_MIP_MAPS) for increased - quality and faster loading time. -BUG FIX: #506274 Crash changing song after sorting. -BUG FIX: #506343 TextureColor=32 Auto-Reset -CHANGE: SMLauncher integrated with the main StepMania executable. Now the - pretty error screen will appear automatically. -NEW FEATURE: Added Low-Medium-High detail prompt to installer. -NEW FEATURE: Song sort order is now rememebered. -OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Sort Order switch. -OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Group expand/collapse. -CHANGE: Song Sort groups that begin with a number now appear under the "NUM" - group. -BUG FIX: "Player's Best" is now sorted by num times played decending -BUG FIX: #506835 - PREV from Song Select Fade Glitch -BUG FIX: #506827 - Song Selected Graphic Errors - -------------------------Version 1.58------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: SMLauncher generates friendly error messages. -CHAGNE: Removed "NG" from Results screen. -BUG FIX: Statistics are now working, honest! -BUG FIX: 511544 - Grade Results Sometimes pops up NO DATA -OPTIMIZATION: Improved animation of and optimized drawing of rolling score display. -OPTIMIZATION: Toned down motion blur effect in "Failed" for increased performance. -BUG FIX: Fixed matrix stack bug that caused some shadows not to draw -OPTIMIZATION: Major optimization of BitmapText. Now about 2x faster. -NEW FEATURE: F4-F8: Toggle Fullscreen, Change Resolution, Change Display Color, - Change Texture Color, Toggle Statistics -NEW FEATURE: Remebers last selected Steps -NEW FEATURE: Stage number saved to .ini file. -BUG FIX: Default key buttons don't work if .ini file not present on startup -CHANGE: Hold Arrows are now drawn last to first, like in DDR MAX. -NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows allow you to not hold the button for a second without - NG'ing them. -CHANGE: Regular Arrows on the same line as a Hold Arrow now appear green. -NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows now turn gray player doesn't hold the button. -BUG FIX: #510980 Danger is a static box, not text - -------------------------Version 1.57------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: smzip package installer and manager -CHANGE: Installer now uninstalls previous version. -BUG FIX: Package Manager now converts all non-HTTP-friendly characters to '_' when - exporting. -CHANGE: Much better texture loading algorithm. Texture quality and loading time of - non-power of 2 texture improved greatly. -CHANGE: New 5th Mix theme graphics. Thanks thingmabobr! -BUG FIX: #507170 Speed Problem (Got rid of "pauses" caused by buffered writing to - log) -BUG FIX: #506309 Installer doesn't overwrite files -BUG FIX: #511187 old banners are shown diagonal - -------------------------Version 1.56------------------------- -BUG FIX: 506314 Fixed "Hall of mirrors" on nVidia cards (actually, just a work - around for a driver bug) -CHANGE: Couple and Solo now appear in Select Style -CHANGE: New Title Menu options (but you can choose them yet :-) -BUG FIX: Fixed jibberish at the top of Arial Bold font by shifting all letters - up one pixel -BUG FIX: 505896 Menu Problems [unreadable/illegible font?] -BUG FIX: Ugly textures with Voodoo3 -BUG FIX: Ignore Joystick D-pad now works again. -BUG FIX: Installer-created icon "Open Songs Folder" now fixed for OSes that had - problems. -BUG FIX: BMS parse crash fixed. -BUG FIX: Player2 couldn't press up to select different steps -BUG FIX: Player2's side in StepsSelector no longer has multiple bouncing difficulty - icons -BUG FIX: 507380 Multiple FAILED with Esc presses -BUG FIX: 507860 - Esc in No Fail Mode = lock up -CHANGE: Improved response time to user input when change sort in SelectMusic -BUG FIX: Announcer no longer makes dancing comments while FAILED is showing. -OPTIMIZATION: Added texture alpha hints - significantly improved texture quality - for 16-bit textures. - -------------------------Version 1.55------------------------- -BUG FIX: "4nd Stage" is now "4th Stage" -BUG FIX: 496315 ragescreen.cpp error for 16bit-only cards -BUG FIX: 500342 - wave volume changes to 100% on startup -BUG FIX: Fixed "visualization movie files go here" trying to be loaded as a texture -BUG FIX: Mini banner now tweens on and off screen -BUG FIX: MusicWheel now tweens off screen and Music comment plays -BUG FIX: Stage count not incremented until song is passed -CHANGE: Added longer delay before song start -CHANGE: Assist tick now louder and timing improved -CHANGE: cleaned up debug messages -OPTIMIZATION: Improved texture loading time -CHANGE: Maximize button no longer toggles fullscreen. -CHANGE: MusicWheel response to user input is improved -OPTIMIZATION: Preview in SelectMusic now uses banner instead of background for faster - loading -NEW FEATURE: Change resolution, display color depth, texture color depth, and toggle - texture filtering -NEW FEATURE: Check at startup time that all required theme elements are present -NEW FEATURE: installer -NEW FEATURE: motion blur "Failed" effect -NEW FEATURE: MusicWheel remembers previously selected song. -BUG FIX: Back from Result screen no longer leads to black screen -CHANGE: All documentation is now in "Docs" folder -CHANGE: New "Danger" animation - -------------------------Version 1.50------------------------- -Bug fix: No longer crashes on foreign chars in BMS files. Please report all songs that - still cause a crash. -Change: Added sepatate background movie property to Song. Now status backgrounds will - display in SelectMusic if the Song has a movie background. -Change: Asset directory structure has completely changed in preparation for theme support. -Optimization: BitmapText is now ~80% faster. -New Feature: 5th Mix style SelectMusic and auto-generated text banners. Loads 100x faster - than the previous SelectSong screen. -Change: Error messages in Release builds no longer show source file line and number. -Bug Fix: Fade transition now fades all the way to black (doesn't leave a "hazy" screen). -Bug Fix: Multiple joysticks now work again. - --------------------------Version 0.97------------------------- -Bug fix: Songs with same title no longer change positions while scrolling. -Bug fix: Wrong group name for DWI files in the Songs folder. -Bug fix: Fixed a problem that caused the music to become out of sync if many sound - effect are played. This was causing the song to become out of sync near the end. - Note that this change makes the music much more accurate, and some BMS files may - be out of sync if they appeared in sync before. -Bug fix: Dancing waits 2 seconds before starting music playback. This allows some - slower systems to catch up. -Bug fix: Little now works correctly. It is accessible from the PlayerOptions menu. -Optimization: Lower priority for movie decoding, which is a major speed boost on - slower computers. -Change: Freeze arrow scoring now matches DDR MAX. The start of a freeze arrow is judged - as other steps are (perfect, great, good, etc). Missing the start of a freeze will - should break your combo, but NG'ing the freeze arrow will not. -New feature: Basic song statistics tracking. Times played, top score, top combo, and - top grade are shown on SelectSong screen. -New feature: Assist tick, accessible from the SongOptions menu. -New feature: Music Rate, accessible from the SongOptions menu. You can speed up or - slow down the rate of music playback. Great for practicing hard step patterns. -New feature: Freeze arrow scores are now shown on the Results screen. -Change: Arrow ghost now appear different depending on the combo length (roughly matches - DDR MAX). -Change: Added some animation to the Results screen. -Change: Revamped input mapping to allow assignment and clearing of specific slots. - --------------------------Version 0.96b------------------------- -Change: Removed background movies showing in SelectSong (this was causing crashes). -Bug fix: No longer crashes when loading Max300 from DWI support directory. -Bug fix: Timing is now correct for freeze in Max300. -Bug fix: Freeze arrows now are correct in Mirror/Left/Right/Shuffle. - --------------------------Version 0.96------------------------- -Merry Christmas! -Changed the song directory structure to be backward compatible with 0.90 and 0.91. - --------------------------Version 0.95------------------------- -Bug fix: Sounds files with commas now load -Bug fix: Freezes in Telephone Operator are now correct -Bug fix: Nonsense help messages fixed -Bug fix: D3D init failure now opens browser to correct troubleshooting page -Optimization: Drawing of freeze arrows is much more efficient -Optimization: In SelectSong, only one preview graphic is drawn. This saves fill rate - and leaves room for group/sort/BPM text. -Change: DWI files now use the DWI directory structure. StepMania also automatically - crop and rotate the song banner. BMS files still reside in the Songs folder. -Change: Now hold Next to get to PlayerOptions and SongOptions menus (Previously, you - would hold Next to bypass these menus). -New feautre: FPS counter. Can toggle from GameOptions. -New feature: Disable joystick d-pad (for DirectPad Pro and NTPad). -New Feature: Song background movies -New Feature: random visualization movies -New feature: song groups by folder -New feature: song sorting by Title, BPM, and Artist -New: Caution screen to hide texture load time -New: Logo appears between screens as a keepalive indicator - --------------------------Version 0.91------------------------- -Bug fix: Good and Boo arrows not being drawn. - - --------------------------Version 0.90------------------------- - - --------------------------Version 0.50------------------------- - - diff --git a/stepmania/stepmania.nsi b/stepmania/stepmania.nsi index b01fed1441..add4ecc6b0 100644 --- a/stepmania/stepmania.nsi +++ b/stepmania/stepmania.nsi @@ -271,17 +271,12 @@ Section "Main Section" SecMain File "Themes\instructions.txt" File /r "Themes\default" - CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\Docs" - SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\Docs" - File "Docs\ChangeLog.txt" - CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\Data" SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\Data" File "Data\*.*" - - SetOutPath "$INSTDIR" - File "README-FIRST.html" - File "NEWS" + + CreateDirectory "$INSTDIR\Manual" + File /r "Manual" !endif !ifdef INSTALL_TYPE_INTERNAL_PCKS @@ -324,7 +319,7 @@ Section "Main Section" SecMain !endif CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\View Statistics.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Program\tools.exe" "--machine-profile-stats" CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\${PRODUCT_NAME} Tools.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Program\tools.exe" - CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\${PRODUCT_NAME} Documentation.lnk" "$INSTDIR\README-FIRST.html" + CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\${PRODUCT_NAME} Manual.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Manual\index.html" CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\Uninstall ${PRODUCT_NAME_VER}.lnk" "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe" CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${PRODUCT_ID}\Go to the ${PRODUCT_NAME} web site.lnk" "${PRODUCT_URL}" !ifdef MAKE_UPDATES_SHORTCUT @@ -646,8 +641,6 @@ Section "Uninstall" RMDir "$INSTDIR\Save\MachineProfile" Delete "$INSTDIR\Licenses.txt" - Delete "$INSTDIR\README-FIRST.html" - Delete "$INSTDIR\NEWS" Delete "$INSTDIR\log.txt" Delete "$INSTDIR\info.txt" Delete "$INSTDIR\crashinfo.txt"