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(c)2001-2002, StepMania team
http://www.stepmania.com
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Readme Table of Contents
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11. Song and Notes File Formats
12. Game and Style File Formats
13. Building StepMania from Source Code
14. Version History
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1. About StepMania
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StepMania is a music/rhythm game. The goal of the game is to play the notes on the screen in time with the music.
StepMania game system is capable of playing games similar to the popular arcade dance and music games, such as Dance Dance Revolution, Pump It Up, BeatMania, Guitar Freaks, Drum Manaia, Para Para Paradise, EZ 2 Dancer, and more.
StepMania game system is capable of playing many game types. Currently, it supports games Dance Dance Revolution, Pump It Up, BeatMania, Guitar Freaks, Drum Manaia, Para Para Paradise, EZ 2 Dancer, and more.
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2. Minimum Requirements
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12. Game and Style File Formats
12. .SM File Format
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Separating the game from the code
To come...
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13. Building StepMania from Source Code
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If you're interested in helping in any capacity, please join the StepMania developers mailing list.
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14. Version History
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------------------------Version 3.00 beta 1------------------
NEW FEATURE: Roulette
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
------------------------Version 2.90-------------------------
CHANGE: Ogg Vorbis music support re-enabled
NEW FEATURE: Game 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: Less jitter while dancing on slower computers
------------------------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-------------------------
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