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------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 6----------------
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BUG FIX: Fix pump doubles offset.
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NEW FEATURE: Support for #DIFFICULTY in KSF.
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CHANGE: Allow starting without a keyboard or mouse.
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NEW FEATURE: Support for "artist - title - difficulty" titles in KSF.
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BUG FIX: Fix repeating announcer when you get a 100*n combo and break it
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at the 100*n+1st step.
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BUG FIX: When skipping the evaluation screen, stop spinning the grade
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so it can be seen during fade out.
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NEW FEATURE: Backspace and delete can be used (in addition to space) to
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remove key mappings.
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NEW FEATURE: The caution screen can be backed out of.
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CHANGE: A game that doesn't have any note skins installed is now invisible on
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the Select Game screen. This can be used to selectively disable a game.
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CHANGE: Graphics and sounds now more compressed more for a smaller download.
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CHANGE: The "Difficulty Banner" (displayed while dancing) is now a graphic
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that can be overwritten by themes.
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CHANGE: An invalid character in a DWI file is now a warning, not a Fatal Error.
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BUG FIX: Fixed "blinky arrows".
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CHANGE: Note Skin format has changed. Now supports MAX-style holds.
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OPTIMIZATION: Improved font alignment. Scaled fonts now appear less blurry.
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BUG FIX: Random Movies no longer upside down.
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NEW FEATURE: Extra stage top and bottom bars now reversed
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NEW FEATURE: Most graphical elements can be positioned per theme using
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metrics.ini in the theme folder. See the theme section of the readme for
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more info.
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BUG FIX: Autoplay no longer misses the first step if it lies on beat 0.
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NEW FEATURE: Support for holds notes in KSF.
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CHANGE: KSF title discovery will use song foler name if KSF file contains
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foreign characters.
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BUG FIX: Stepping before start of a note at beat 0 no longer results in a BAD.
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BUG FIX: Editor now works with dance-couple note patterns
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BUG FIX: Lead-in/lead-out time added to Play and Record in editor.
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CHANGE: Song specific Background Animations removed. It will be replaced with
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a more powerful system soon.
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CHANGE: BGAnimations are now chose randomly from all animations rather than
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from a specific group ("trance", "techno", etc).
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NEW FEATURE: "Show Danger" toggle in game options to enable/disable
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flashing danger message.
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CHANGE: "Event Mode" option renamed to "Unlimited Arcade Stages".
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NEW FEATURE: Graphic Option "MovieDecodeMS". Controls how many milliseconds
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the program will sleep each frame to allow the movie background movie
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decoding thread to catch up. Increase this number if movies are dropping
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frames. Decrease this number to decrease the priority of movie decoding.
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CHANGE: "SongFolders" renamed to "AdditionalSongFolders".
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BUG FIX: AdditionalSongFolers no longer creates duplicate entries on program
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load.
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CHANGE: RandomMovies now start playing on the note and stop playing on the
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last note.
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CHANGE: Background Movies now start playing at beat 0, and the movie should
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synchronize with the notes (BMR's Colors, etc).
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OPTIMIZATION: New deferred rendering architecture uses more CPU in order to
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create more efficient operations for the graphics card.
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BUG FIX: Select Group no longer crashes with > 15 groups.
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CHANGE: Last edited song is selected upon entering Edit Menu.
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BUG FIX: "Indirect BPM changes" (track 08) work again. This was causing
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"0 BPM" segments to be added to songs like MAX300.
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BUG FIX: Fixed life meter stream alignment (I hope!)
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NEW FEATURE: Graphic option "UseBGIfNoBanner" causes the song background to be
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used if the banner is missing. Turning this option ON may results in short
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freezes when switching music on the SelectMusic screen.
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BUG FIX: Music no longer cuts off if notes end before music.
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BUG FIX: "100 Combo" no longer repeats if combo breaks on 100.
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BUG FIX: "Japanese driver in training sign" next to song title now only shown
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if song has notes with meter <= 2.
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BUG FIX: Sort order icon on Select Music screen now accurately displays the
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sort.
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BUG FIX: "Best" sort now correctly sorts the songs in decending order by the
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number of times played.
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CHANGE: Music sort change can now be done with L+R+Start, or U,D,U,D (for
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people with soft pads that find L+R+Start to be difficult)
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BUG FIX: Player2 can now navigate menus when playing Double.
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BUG FIX: Fixed glitches caused by timer expiring after selection was made.
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BUG FIX: Timer expiration while group is in focus will start roulette.
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BUG FIX: Timer expiration while in Roulette spinning now resets the timer to
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force a selection.
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BUG FIX: OnlyDedicatedMenuButtons option now correctly saves on exit.
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BUG FIX: Announcer now says "danger comments" at the appropriate time.
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------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 5----------------
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OPTIMIZATION: Much faster song loading.
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BUG FIX: New hashing algorithm prevents multiple songs from hashing to the same
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cache file.
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BUG FIX: "Select Group" screen now only displays songs and groups available in
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the current style (instead of all songs).
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BUG FIX: Opening a "(NEW)" sequence in Edit/Record/Synch mode with a style
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over 4 panels (such as dance-solo or ez2-single) now works.
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BUG FIX: Oni life meter finished.
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NEW FEATURE: Theme support. See readme for more info.
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BUG FIX: Stop times now read correctly again in BMSs.
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BUG FIX: #SOLO steps in DWIs now read correctly.
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OPTIMIZATION: Startup time greatly reduced thanks to hiding the log window and
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SM parsing optimizations
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CHANGE: Display resolution and max texture size sliders re-enabled
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NEW FEATURE: Refresh rate slider
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NEW FEATURE: 0.5x, 0.75x scroll speed
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NEW FEATURE: Song rates up to 1.5X
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NEW FEATURE: Effect Mini
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CHANGE: Now hold L&R while pressing start to change sort on Select Music
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CHANGE: Combo display now draws behind notes
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BUG FIX: Stage counter reset after fail (thanks Andy)
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BUG FIX: Roulette chooses from only last preferred group
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BUG FIX: Fail End of Song setting doesn't get stuck at end of song.
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CHANGE: Back button must now be held for 1/2 a second to prevent accidental presses.
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BUG FIX: No more slowdown when song background showing song background (I think).
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BUG FIX: Fixed clipping problems related to scroll speed
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BUG FIX: Hold notes no longer jitter at certain scroll speeds
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NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F8 = toggle AutoPlay
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NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F9 = decrease offset, F10 = increase offset,
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NEW FEATURE: During gameplay: F11 = decrease BPM of current segment, F12 =
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increase BPM of current segment.
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NEW FEATURE: After changing Offset or BPM during gameplay, I prompt will appear
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at the end of the stage or course asking if you want to save changes.
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Chosing cancel will revert to the pre-modified values.
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CHANGE: Life meters graphics are now part of the theme system
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CHANGE: New Song Option: Choose Oni life battery or normal life meter
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BUG FIX: Life Bar no-recover and sudden death options now work.
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BUG FIX: Select Difficulty arrow no longer messed up on early input
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BUG FIX: Fixed scoring inaccuracies in Oni
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NEW FEATURE: Endless, next to Oni Nonstop
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BUG FIX: Inaccurate earned Chaos radar values fixed
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BUG FIX: Score multiplier now based on note number and not current combo size.
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This change causes higher, but MAX2-accurate scores.
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NEW FEATURE: KSF file reading. Just drop the KSF folders into a group folder.
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NEW FEATURE: Pump It Up support
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NEW FEATURE: Life Difficulty option - this option determines how much the life
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meter changes when steps are judged. This option corresponds to Difficulty in
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DDR Arcade machines.
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CHANGE: Old difficulty option renamed to Judge Difficulty.
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NEW FEATURE: MenuInput option. Setting this option to "USE ONLY DEDICATED MENU
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BUTTONS" will allow the menus to be controlled only by the buttons mapped to
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MenuLeft, MenuRight, etc. This is useful if you have a controller with
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buttons that can be dedicated to controlling the menus (like a DDR arcade
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cabinet). Also, using only dedicated menu buttons will allow you to enter
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codes at the Select Music screen using the dance panels.
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NEW FEATURE: Random background movies. Put a bunch of movies in RandomMovies and
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change the BackgroundMode setting in Game Options to "RANDOM MOVIES".
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CHANGE: Made folders for DWI-style CDTitles and DWI-style Music.
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BUG FIX: Fixed more HoldNote drawing ugliness.
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BUG FIX: Hidden and Sudden now work with Reverse.
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BUG FIX: Group names are now correct when using the SongFolders option
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BUG FIX: No longer crashes in Select Group with > 15 groups
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NEW FEATURE: PlayerOptions and SongOptions displays on the Select Music screen.
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BUG FIX: Extra stage actually works! Props to Bruno for all of his help with this.
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You can manually specify extra stage 1 and 2 by creating a .CRS files in the
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group folder called extra1.crs and extra2.crs. These courses must contain
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exactly one valid song. Don't forget to specify modifiers - see the CRS File
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Format section in the readme for more information. If a CRS file is not found
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or is invalid, the program will choose approprite Song/Notes/Options.
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BUG FIX: Browsing past a song that don't have notes for some Difficulties will not
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change your preferred difficulty.
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BUG FIX: TurnMirror, TurnLeft, and TurnShuffle now work. TurnRight does the same
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thing is as TurnLeft temporarily.
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NEW FEATURE: Demonstration plays after sitting idle at title screen.
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CHANGE: Note Skins can now control both the tap tween colors and hold tween colors
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with the files "(ButtonName) Tap.colors" and "(ButtonName) Tap.colors".
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CHANGE: Tap colors now interpolated for smoother color animation.
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CHANGE: Tweaked Drunk for a more interesting effect.
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------------------------Version 3.00 beta 4------------------
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BUG FIX: Fixed crash entering Config Joy/Key (duh!)
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BUG FIX: Smarter bannner/backgroung/cdtitle discovery
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NEW FEATURE: Supports reading CDTitles from the .\CDTitles folder (compatible
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with DWI). Song makers are not encouraged to use this feature and instead should
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put the CDTitle graphic in the song folder. Having a separate CDTitles folder
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breaks the principle that all files needed to play a song should reside in the
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song folder.
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BUG FIX: Fixed "D3DCreateTextureFromFile" error. This happend a lot on a Voodoo3
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and Win98.
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BUG FIX: Fixed "Divide by 0"/"Access Violoation" when loading a song - I think.
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OPTIMIZATION: Faster loading at "Nth Stage" screen.
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------------------------Version 3.00 beta 3------------------
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BUG FIX: Fixed crash BemaniRuler's "Connected"
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BUG FIX: #BPMCHANGE in DWI files now read fractional values (BemaniRuler's Naturally)
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BUG FIX: Dizzy works correctly again
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BUG FIX: Subtitle extraction now works for "Dub-I-Dub" and "SP-Trip Machine"
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BUG FIX: No longer crashes on Titles starting with '('
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BUG FIX: Earlier scrolling for songs that have early notes (BMR's A)
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BUG FIX: Inserted blank time for songs that have note right at end of song (AM-3P)
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OPTIMIZATION: Faster loading of gameplay screen
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BUG FIX: Sample music no longer studders on Select Music screen
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BUG FIX: "Shaky" artifacts no longer appear while holding a hold note
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CHANGE: Re-added support for movie visualizations (by popular demand).
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NEW FEATURE: Movie backgrounds. Either specify with the "#MOVIEBACKGROUND" tag,
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or the first movie file in the song directory will be used. Works with
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BemaniRuler's background movies. Background movie will not play will not play
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if BackgroundMode is set to "OFF".
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NEW FEATURE: Song-specific animations. Place all animations in a folder called
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"BGAnimations" within the song folder. See "13. The .SM file format" and
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"14. Background Animations" in README-FIRST.txt for details.
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CHANGE: Appearance Options now available from Title Menu. Here you can choose
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the announcer and note skin.
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------------------------Version 3.00 beta 2------------------
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BUG FIX: Fixed crash when loading MAX2 files from ddrei.com
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CHANGE: "JudgeWindow" option name changed to "Difficulty"
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CHANGE: Initial difficulty made easier
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BUG FIX: Song loading now smarter about how it picks banners, backgrounds,
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and CDTitles. See readme "6. How StepMania Loads Songs" for details.
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BUG FIX: #BPMS in SM files now read fractional values
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NEW FEATURE: Background brightness (Game Options)
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BUG FIX: BemaniRuler songs (like Pulse) now loaded correctly
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BUG FIX: Stationary arrows don't press unless note is a hit
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BUG FIX: Size of combo text capped to a reasonable level
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BUG FIX: Song background now stretched correctly when used in a background animation
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OPTIMIZATION: Reduced lag while starting music sample (Select Music screen)
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NEW FEATURE: Menu Timer - accessable from Game Options
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BUG FIX: Changes saved in editor now show up immediately (instead of after restart)
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------------------------Version 3.00 beta 1------------------
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NEW FEATURE: Roulette
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NEW FEATURE: AutoPlay (selectable from Game Options screen)
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NEW FEATURE: Read Delight BMS 0.5 (hold notes, freezes, and new BPM changes supported)
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NEW FEATURE: Editor - edit, record, playback, and synchronize from one screen
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NEW FEATURE: Oni Nonstop Challenge (not finished)
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NEW FEATURE: "Judge Window" option to adjust difficulty of step judging
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NEW FEATURE: Song data cache for faster loading.
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NEW FEATURE: Groove Radar
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NEW FEATURE: Dark Mode (selectable from Player Options screen)
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NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Nonstop Challenge (Oni)
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NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Pump It Up support
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NEW FEATURE (partially complete): Background Animations (defaut animations go in
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BGAnimations dir)
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------------------------Version 2.90-------------------------
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CHANGE: Ogg Vorbis music support re-enabled
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NEW FEATURE: Note Skins (selectable from Player Options screen)
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------------------------Version 2.50-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: New multi game compatible .sm file format.
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CHANGE: "Graphic Detail" presets
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BUG FIX: Installer DirectX check now works
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NEW FEATURE: Aracde and Free Play game modes
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------------------------Version 1.90-------------------------
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OPTIMIZATION: Major speedup to BitmapText loading
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CHANGE: Menus changes to accomodate MAX-style menus
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CHANGE: Now compiles in Visual C++.Net
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OPTIMIZATION: Max texture size and texture color options are now supported.
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BUG FIX: Scaled sprite alignment (no more transparent strip along the edge of
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"danger" static)
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NEW FEATURE: Repeating input
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NEW FEATURE: Select Group menu
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NEW FEATURE: Edit / Record / Playback
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NEW FEATURE: Support for DWI solo notes in DWI reader
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------------------------Version 1.65-------------------------
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BUG FIX: Statistics now save and load correctly
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BUG FIX: Better framerate during gameplay
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------------------------Version 1.64-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: Group banners on Select Music screen. Just put a banner in the group
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folder.
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BUG FIX: Hacked around a Savage texture loading bug.
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CHANGE: Added "hold NEXT for options" after choosing a song. Most people don't know
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about this feature!
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CHANGE: Faster song loading
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CHANGE: more accurate synching at song rates other than 100%
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CHANGE: Assist tick calibrated automatically by detecting sound card play latency
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CHANGE: Lowered wait time between menus
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CHANGE: Improved loading time of sounds
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BUG FIX: Improved quality of sounds while dancing
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BUG FIX: Fixed DWI parsing error that often caused the last note to not appear
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NEW FEATURE: More resolution presets in GameOptions menu
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------------------------Version 1.63-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: Effects "drunk", "dizzy", "space"
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CHANGE: Song sort by group now has collapsible sections
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BUG FIX: Prefs, songs, and default mappings now load if StepMania.ini doesn't exist
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BUG FIX: Pad 2 can now be used to navigate the title screen
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BUG FIX: Crash if change sort while a section item was selected
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BUG FIX: BPM changes to 0 when section is selected
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BUG FIX: Pixel/Texel alignment bug causing a strip of color along right and bottom
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edges moving between menus.
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BUG FIX: Graphical glitches on Results screen
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BUG FIX: Hold Steps now look better when Scroll Speed is > 1
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BUG FIX: Wrong Ghost Arrow graphic being used
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BUG FIX: Boost/Scroll Speed interaction is now like MAX
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BUG FIX: DWI's with newlines before semicolon are no longer corrupt when saving
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using Synchronize
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BUG FIX: #516498 - Installing Stepmania Deletes records
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BUG FIX: #517003 - Joystick mappings not flushed
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BUG FIX: Multiple NEXT presses not allowed on Caution screen
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NEW FEATURE: Skip Caution toggle
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NEW FEATURE: Announcer toggle
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BUG FIX: Arrows no longer jump back to time = 0 on fail or cleared
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BUG FIX: #523621 - Turning on effects in Double (1.62)
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BUG FIX: #521941 - Using pad to select songs acts weird
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------------------------Version 1.62-------------------------
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CHANGE: Can now press NEXT to skip Caution screen.
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BUG FIX: Crash at "No music" prompt.
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NEW FEATURE: Synchronize while dancing with '+', '-', "PgUp", "pgDn"
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BUG FIX: DWI parsing no longer crashes on line with only a space
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------------------------Version 1.61-------------------------
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BUG FIX: Players' Best crowns not displaying.
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BUG FIX: #506751 - "Assist" Ticks off-beat
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BUG FIX: Crash switching sort
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NEW FEATURE: Synchronize mode! Can write BMS and DWI formats.
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------------------------Version 1.60-------------------------
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BUG FIX: Inefficient use of memory in Select Music screen
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OPTIMIZATION: No noticable loading time in Select Music
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CHANGE: New grade graphics (thanks Parasyte!)
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BUG FIX: 511184 - Battle mode not working
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BUG FIX: 510557 - Result *** overlays result letter
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BUG FIX: 510556 - Sound stops at Options Screen
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BUG FIX: NG percentage is "-1%" if no Hold Steps
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BUG FIX: #507861 - Multiple Enter on Song Wheel
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BUG FIX: #507391 - Song Options menu fade errors
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BUG FIX: #506820 - Select Style Versus Images
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BUG FIX: #506746 - Difficulty Mix-Ups in Song Select
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BUG FIX: #506597 - Empty Sort Crash
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BUG FIX: #511543/#511186 - Visualizations not shown correctly
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------------------------Version 1.59-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: More texture loading hints (DITHER, NO_MIP_MAPS) for increased
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quality and faster loading time.
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BUG FIX: #506274 Crash changing song after sorting.
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BUG FIX: #506343 TextureColor=32 Auto-Reset
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CHANGE: SMLauncher integrated with the main StepMania executable. Now the
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pretty error screen will appear automatically.
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NEW FEATURE: Added Low-Medium-High detail prompt to installer.
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NEW FEATURE: Song sort order is now rememebered.
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OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Sort Order switch.
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OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Group expand/collapse.
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CHANGE: Song Sort groups that begin with a number now appear under the "NUM"
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group.
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BUG FIX: "Player's Best" is now sorted by num times played decending
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BUG FIX: #506835 - PREV from Song Select Fade Glitch
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BUG FIX: #506827 - Song Selected Graphic Errors
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------------------------Version 1.58-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: SMLauncher generates friendly error messages.
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CHAGNE: Removed "NG" from Results screen.
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BUG FIX: Statistics are now working, honest!
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BUG FIX: 511544 - Grade Results Sometimes pops up NO DATA
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OPTIMIZATION: Improved animation of and optimized drawing of rolling score display.
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OPTIMIZATION: Toned down motion blur effect in "Failed" for increased performance.
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BUG FIX: Fixed matrix stack bug that caused some shadows not to draw
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OPTIMIZATION: Major optimization of BitmapText. Now about 2x faster.
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NEW FEATURE: F4-F8: Toggle Fullscreen, Change Resolution, Change Display Color,
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Change Texture Color, Toggle Statistics
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NEW FEATURE: Remebers last selected Steps
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NEW FEATURE: Stage number saved to .ini file.
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BUG FIX: Default key buttons don't work if .ini file not present on startup
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CHANGE: Hold Arrows are now drawn last to first, like in DDR MAX.
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NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows allow you to not hold the button for a second without
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NG'ing them.
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CHANGE: Regular Arrows on the same line as a Hold Arrow now appear green.
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NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows now turn gray player doesn't hold the button.
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BUG FIX: #510980 Danger is a static box, not text
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------------------------Version 1.57-------------------------
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NEW FEATURE: smzip package installer and manager
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CHANGE: Installer now uninstalls previous version.
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BUG FIX: Package Manager now converts all non-HTTP-friendly characters to '_' when
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exporting.
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CHANGE: Much better texture loading algorithm. Texture quality and loading time of
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non-power of 2 texture improved greatly.
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CHANGE: New 5th Mix theme graphics. Thanks thingmabobr!
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BUG FIX: #507170 Speed Problem (Got rid of "pauses" caused by buffered writing to
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log)
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BUG FIX: #506309 Installer doesn't overwrite files
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BUG FIX: #511187 old banners are shown diagonal
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------------------------Version 1.56-------------------------
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BUG FIX: 506314 Fixed "Hall of mirrors" on nVidia cards (actually, just a work
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around for a driver bug)
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CHANGE: Couple and Solo now appear in Select Style
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CHANGE: New Title Menu options (but you can choose them yet :-)
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BUG FIX: Fixed jibberish at the top of Arial Bold font by shifting all letters
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up one pixel
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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-------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
+2
-504
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ Table of Contents
|
||||
19. Creating a Theme
|
||||
20. How StepMania Loads Textures
|
||||
21. Building StepMania from CVS Source
|
||||
22. Version History
|
||||
23. Thanks
|
||||
22. Thanks
|
||||
|
||||
************************************************************
|
||||
1. About StepMania
|
||||
@@ -1115,509 +1114,8 @@ creates your home directory and is required for things to start working.
|
||||
|
||||
* Done! Enjoy staying on the bleeding edge of StepMania releases!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
************************************************************
|
||||
22. Version History
|
||||
************************************************************
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------CVS after 3.00 beta 6----------------
|
||||
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.
|
||||
|
||||
------------------------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
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||||
NEW FEATURE: Support for DWI solo notes in DWI reader
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||||
|
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------------------------Version 1.65-------------------------
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||||
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.
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||||
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-------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
************************************************************
|
||||
23. Thanks
|
||||
22. Thanks
|
||||
************************************************************
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks to:
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user