diff --git a/stepmania/NEWS b/stepmania/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d34defed29 --- /dev/null +++ b/stepmania/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,497 @@ +------------------------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 +NEW FEATURE: Support for DWI solo notes in DWI reader + +------------------------Version 1.65------------------------- +BUG FIX: Statistics now save and load correctly +BUG FIX: Better framerate during gameplay + +------------------------Version 1.64------------------------- +NEW FEATURE: Group banners on Select Music screen. Just put a banner in the group + folder. +BUG FIX: Hacked around a Savage texture loading bug. +CHANGE: Added "hold NEXT for options" after choosing a song. Most people don't know + about this feature! +CHANGE: Faster song loading +CHANGE: more accurate synching at song rates other than 100% +CHANGE: Assist tick calibrated automatically by detecting sound card play latency +CHANGE: Lowered wait time between menus +CHANGE: Improved loading time of sounds +BUG FIX: Improved quality of sounds while dancing +BUG FIX: Fixed DWI parsing error that often caused the last note to not appear +NEW FEATURE: More resolution presets in GameOptions menu + +------------------------Version 1.63------------------------- +NEW FEATURE: Effects "drunk", "dizzy", "space" +CHANGE: Song sort by group now has collapsible sections +BUG FIX: Prefs, songs, and default mappings now load if StepMania.ini doesn't exist +BUG FIX: Pad 2 can now be used to navigate the title screen +BUG FIX: Crash if change sort while a section item was selected +BUG FIX: BPM changes to 0 when section is selected +BUG FIX: Pixel/Texel alignment bug causing a strip of color along right and bottom + edges moving between menus. +BUG FIX: Graphical glitches on Results screen +BUG FIX: Hold Steps now look better when Scroll Speed is > 1 +BUG FIX: Wrong Ghost Arrow graphic being used +BUG FIX: Boost/Scroll Speed interaction is now like MAX +BUG FIX: DWI's with newlines before semicolon are no longer corrupt when saving + using Synchronize +BUG FIX: #516498 - Installing Stepmania Deletes records +BUG FIX: #517003 - Joystick mappings not flushed +BUG FIX: Multiple NEXT presses not allowed on Caution screen +NEW FEATURE: Skip Caution toggle +NEW FEATURE: Announcer toggle +BUG FIX: Arrows no longer jump back to time = 0 on fail or cleared +BUG FIX: #523621 - Turning on effects in Double (1.62) +BUG FIX: #521941 - Using pad to select songs acts weird + +------------------------Version 1.62------------------------- +CHANGE: Can now press NEXT to skip Caution screen. +BUG FIX: Crash at "No music" prompt. +NEW FEATURE: Synchronize while dancing with '+', '-', "PgUp", "pgDn" +BUG FIX: DWI parsing no longer crashes on line with only a space + +------------------------Version 1.61------------------------- +BUG FIX: Players' Best crowns not displaying. +BUG FIX: #506751 - "Assist" Ticks off-beat +BUG FIX: Crash switching sort +NEW FEATURE: Synchronize mode! Can write BMS and DWI formats. + +------------------------Version 1.60------------------------- +BUG FIX: Inefficient use of memory in Select Music screen +OPTIMIZATION: No noticable loading time in Select Music +CHANGE: New grade graphics (thanks Parasyte!) +BUG FIX: 511184 - Battle mode not working +BUG FIX: 510557 - Result *** overlays result letter +BUG FIX: 510556 - Sound stops at Options Screen +BUG FIX: NG percentage is "-1%" if no Hold Steps +BUG FIX: #507861 - Multiple Enter on Song Wheel +BUG FIX: #507391 - Song Options menu fade errors +BUG FIX: #506820 - Select Style Versus Images +BUG FIX: #506746 - Difficulty Mix-Ups in Song Select +BUG FIX: #506597 - Empty Sort Crash +BUG FIX: #511543/#511186 - Visualizations not shown correctly + +------------------------Version 1.59------------------------- +NEW FEATURE: More texture loading hints (DITHER, NO_MIP_MAPS) for increased + quality and faster loading time. +BUG FIX: #506274 Crash changing song after sorting. +BUG FIX: #506343 TextureColor=32 Auto-Reset +CHANGE: SMLauncher integrated with the main StepMania executable. Now the + pretty error screen will appear automatically. +NEW FEATURE: Added Low-Medium-High detail prompt to installer. +NEW FEATURE: Song sort order is now rememebered. +OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Sort Order switch. +OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Group expand/collapse. +CHANGE: Song Sort groups that begin with a number now appear under the "NUM" + group. +BUG FIX: "Player's Best" is now sorted by num times played decending +BUG FIX: #506835 - PREV from Song Select Fade Glitch +BUG FIX: #506827 - Song Selected Graphic Errors + +------------------------Version 1.58------------------------- +NEW FEATURE: SMLauncher generates friendly error messages. +CHAGNE: Removed "NG" from Results screen. +BUG FIX: Statistics are now working, honest! +BUG FIX: 511544 - Grade Results Sometimes pops up NO DATA +OPTIMIZATION: Improved animation of and optimized drawing of rolling score display. +OPTIMIZATION: Toned down motion blur effect in "Failed" for increased performance. +BUG FIX: Fixed matrix stack bug that caused some shadows not to draw +OPTIMIZATION: Major optimization of BitmapText. Now about 2x faster. +NEW FEATURE: F4-F8: Toggle Fullscreen, Change Resolution, Change Display Color, + Change Texture Color, Toggle Statistics +NEW FEATURE: Remebers last selected Steps +NEW FEATURE: Stage number saved to .ini file. +BUG FIX: Default key buttons don't work if .ini file not present on startup +CHANGE: Hold Arrows are now drawn last to first, like in DDR MAX. +NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows allow you to not hold the button for a second without + NG'ing them. +CHANGE: Regular Arrows on the same line as a Hold Arrow now appear green. +NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows now turn gray player doesn't hold the button. +BUG FIX: #510980 Danger is a static box, not text + +------------------------Version 1.57------------------------- +NEW FEATURE: smzip package installer and manager +CHANGE: Installer now uninstalls previous version. +BUG FIX: Package Manager now converts all non-HTTP-friendly characters to '_' when + exporting. +CHANGE: Much better texture loading algorithm. Texture quality and loading time of + non-power of 2 texture improved greatly. +CHANGE: New 5th Mix theme graphics. Thanks thingmabobr! +BUG FIX: #507170 Speed Problem (Got rid of "pauses" caused by buffered writing to + log) +BUG FIX: #506309 Installer doesn't overwrite files +BUG FIX: #511187 old banners are shown diagonal + +------------------------Version 1.56------------------------- +BUG FIX: 506314 Fixed "Hall of mirrors" on nVidia cards (actually, just a work + around for a driver bug) +CHANGE: Couple and Solo now appear in Select Style +CHANGE: New Title Menu options (but you can choose them yet :-) +BUG FIX: Fixed jibberish at the top of Arial Bold font by shifting all letters + up one pixel +BUG FIX: 505896 Menu Problems [unreadable/illegible font?] +BUG FIX: Ugly textures with Voodoo3 +BUG FIX: Ignore Joystick D-pad now works again. +BUG FIX: Installer-created icon "Open Songs Folder" now fixed for OSes that had + problems. +BUG FIX: BMS parse crash fixed. +BUG FIX: Player2 couldn't press up to select different steps +BUG FIX: Player2's side in StepsSelector no longer has multiple bouncing difficulty + icons +BUG FIX: 507380 Multiple FAILED with Esc presses +BUG FIX: 507860 - Esc in No Fail Mode = lock up +CHANGE: Improved response time to user input when change sort in SelectMusic +BUG FIX: Announcer no longer makes dancing comments while FAILED is showing. +OPTIMIZATION: Added texture alpha hints - significantly improved texture quality + for 16-bit textures. + +------------------------Version 1.55------------------------- +BUG FIX: "4nd Stage" is now "4th Stage" +BUG FIX: 496315 ragescreen.cpp error for 16bit-only cards +BUG FIX: 500342 - wave volume changes to 100% on startup +BUG FIX: Fixed "visualization movie files go here" trying to be loaded as a texture +BUG FIX: Mini banner now tweens on and off screen +BUG FIX: MusicWheel now tweens off screen and Music comment plays +BUG FIX: Stage count not incremented until song is passed +CHANGE: Added longer delay before song start +CHANGE: Assist tick now louder and timing improved +CHANGE: cleaned up debug messages +OPTIMIZATION: Improved texture loading time +CHANGE: Maximize button no longer toggles fullscreen. +CHANGE: MusicWheel response to user input is improved +OPTIMIZATION: Preview in SelectMusic now uses banner instead of background for faster + loading +NEW FEATURE: Change resolution, display color depth, texture color depth, and toggle + texture filtering +NEW FEATURE: Check at startup time that all required theme elements are present +NEW FEATURE: installer +NEW FEATURE: motion blur "Failed" effect +NEW FEATURE: MusicWheel remembers previously selected song. +BUG FIX: Back from Result screen no longer leads to black screen +CHANGE: All documentation is now in "Docs" folder +CHANGE: New "Danger" animation + +------------------------Version 1.50------------------------- +Bug fix: No longer crashes on foreign chars in BMS files. Please report all songs that + still cause a crash. +Change: Added sepatate background movie property to Song. Now status backgrounds will + display in SelectMusic if the Song has a movie background. +Change: Asset directory structure has completely changed in preparation for theme support. +Optimization: BitmapText is now ~80% faster. +New Feature: 5th Mix style SelectMusic and auto-generated text banners. Loads 100x faster + than the previous SelectSong screen. +Change: Error messages in Release builds no longer show source file line and number. +Bug Fix: Fade transition now fades all the way to black (doesn't leave a "hazy" screen). +Bug Fix: Multiple joysticks now work again. + +-------------------------Version 0.97------------------------- +Bug fix: Songs with same title no longer change positions while scrolling. +Bug fix: Wrong group name for DWI files in the Songs folder. +Bug fix: Fixed a problem that caused the music to become out of sync if many sound + effect are played. This was causing the song to become out of sync near the end. + Note that this change makes the music much more accurate, and some BMS files may + be out of sync if they appeared in sync before. +Bug fix: Dancing waits 2 seconds before starting music playback. This allows some + slower systems to catch up. +Bug fix: Little now works correctly. It is accessible from the PlayerOptions menu. +Optimization: Lower priority for movie decoding, which is a major speed boost on + slower computers. +Change: Freeze arrow scoring now matches DDR MAX. The start of a freeze arrow is judged + as other steps are (perfect, great, good, etc).  Missing the start of a freeze will + should break your combo, but NG'ing the freeze arrow will not. +New feature: Basic song statistics tracking. Times played, top score, top combo, and + top grade are shown on SelectSong screen. +New feature: Assist tick, accessible from the SongOptions menu. +New feature: Music Rate, accessible from the SongOptions menu. You can speed up or + slow down the rate of music playback. Great for practicing hard step patterns. +New feature: Freeze arrow scores are now shown on the Results screen. +Change: Arrow ghost now appear different depending on the combo length (roughly matches + DDR MAX). +Change: Added some animation to the Results screen. +Change: Revamped input mapping to allow assignment and clearing of specific slots. + +-------------------------Version 0.96b------------------------- +Change: Removed background movies showing in SelectSong (this was causing crashes). +Bug fix: No longer crashes when loading Max300 from DWI support directory. +Bug fix: Timing is now correct for freeze in Max300. +Bug fix: Freeze arrows now are correct in Mirror/Left/Right/Shuffle. + +-------------------------Version 0.96------------------------- +Merry Christmas! +Changed the song directory structure to be backward compatible with 0.90 and 0.91. + +-------------------------Version 0.95------------------------- +Bug fix: Sounds files with commas now load +Bug fix: Freezes in Telephone Operator are now correct +Bug fix: Nonsense help messages fixed +Bug fix: D3D init failure now opens browser to correct troubleshooting page +Optimization: Drawing of freeze arrows is much more efficient +Optimization: In SelectSong, only one preview graphic is drawn. This saves fill rate + and leaves room for group/sort/BPM text. +Change: DWI files now use the DWI directory structure. StepMania also automatically + crop and rotate the song banner. BMS files still reside in the Songs folder. +Change: Now hold Next to get to PlayerOptions and SongOptions menus (Previously, you + would hold Next to bypass these menus). +New feautre: FPS counter. Can toggle from GameOptions. +New feature: Disable joystick d-pad (for DirectPad Pro and NTPad). +New Feature: Song background movies +New Feature: random visualization movies +New feature: song groups by folder +New feature: song sorting by Title, BPM, and Artist +New: Caution screen to hide texture load time +New: Logo appears between screens as a keepalive indicator + +-------------------------Version 0.91------------------------- +Bug fix: Good and Boo arrows not being drawn. + + +-------------------------Version 0.90------------------------- + + +-------------------------Version 0.50------------------------- + + diff --git a/stepmania/README-FIRST.TXT b/stepmania/README-FIRST.TXT index 967d89d381..6298912142 100644 --- a/stepmania/README-FIRST.TXT +++ b/stepmania/README-FIRST.TXT @@ -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 -NEW FEATURE: Support for DWI solo notes in DWI reader - -------------------------Version 1.65------------------------- -BUG FIX: Statistics now save and load correctly -BUG FIX: Better framerate during gameplay - -------------------------Version 1.64------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: Group banners on Select Music screen. Just put a banner in the group - folder. -BUG FIX: Hacked around a Savage texture loading bug. -CHANGE: Added "hold NEXT for options" after choosing a song. Most people don't know - about this feature! -CHANGE: Faster song loading -CHANGE: more accurate synching at song rates other than 100% -CHANGE: Assist tick calibrated automatically by detecting sound card play latency -CHANGE: Lowered wait time between menus -CHANGE: Improved loading time of sounds -BUG FIX: Improved quality of sounds while dancing -BUG FIX: Fixed DWI parsing error that often caused the last note to not appear -NEW FEATURE: More resolution presets in GameOptions menu - -------------------------Version 1.63------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: Effects "drunk", "dizzy", "space" -CHANGE: Song sort by group now has collapsible sections -BUG FIX: Prefs, songs, and default mappings now load if StepMania.ini doesn't exist -BUG FIX: Pad 2 can now be used to navigate the title screen -BUG FIX: Crash if change sort while a section item was selected -BUG FIX: BPM changes to 0 when section is selected -BUG FIX: Pixel/Texel alignment bug causing a strip of color along right and bottom - edges moving between menus. -BUG FIX: Graphical glitches on Results screen -BUG FIX: Hold Steps now look better when Scroll Speed is > 1 -BUG FIX: Wrong Ghost Arrow graphic being used -BUG FIX: Boost/Scroll Speed interaction is now like MAX -BUG FIX: DWI's with newlines before semicolon are no longer corrupt when saving - using Synchronize -BUG FIX: #516498 - Installing Stepmania Deletes records -BUG FIX: #517003 - Joystick mappings not flushed -BUG FIX: Multiple NEXT presses not allowed on Caution screen -NEW FEATURE: Skip Caution toggle -NEW FEATURE: Announcer toggle -BUG FIX: Arrows no longer jump back to time = 0 on fail or cleared -BUG FIX: #523621 - Turning on effects in Double (1.62) -BUG FIX: #521941 - Using pad to select songs acts weird - -------------------------Version 1.62------------------------- -CHANGE: Can now press NEXT to skip Caution screen. -BUG FIX: Crash at "No music" prompt. -NEW FEATURE: Synchronize while dancing with '+', '-', "PgUp", "pgDn" -BUG FIX: DWI parsing no longer crashes on line with only a space - -------------------------Version 1.61------------------------- -BUG FIX: Players' Best crowns not displaying. -BUG FIX: #506751 - "Assist" Ticks off-beat -BUG FIX: Crash switching sort -NEW FEATURE: Synchronize mode! Can write BMS and DWI formats. - -------------------------Version 1.60------------------------- -BUG FIX: Inefficient use of memory in Select Music screen -OPTIMIZATION: No noticable loading time in Select Music -CHANGE: New grade graphics (thanks Parasyte!) -BUG FIX: 511184 - Battle mode not working -BUG FIX: 510557 - Result *** overlays result letter -BUG FIX: 510556 - Sound stops at Options Screen -BUG FIX: NG percentage is "-1%" if no Hold Steps -BUG FIX: #507861 - Multiple Enter on Song Wheel -BUG FIX: #507391 - Song Options menu fade errors -BUG FIX: #506820 - Select Style Versus Images -BUG FIX: #506746 - Difficulty Mix-Ups in Song Select -BUG FIX: #506597 - Empty Sort Crash -BUG FIX: #511543/#511186 - Visualizations not shown correctly - -------------------------Version 1.59------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: More texture loading hints (DITHER, NO_MIP_MAPS) for increased - quality and faster loading time. -BUG FIX: #506274 Crash changing song after sorting. -BUG FIX: #506343 TextureColor=32 Auto-Reset -CHANGE: SMLauncher integrated with the main StepMania executable. Now the - pretty error screen will appear automatically. -NEW FEATURE: Added Low-Medium-High detail prompt to installer. -NEW FEATURE: Song sort order is now rememebered. -OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Sort Order switch. -OPTIMIZATION: Instantaneous Song Group expand/collapse. -CHANGE: Song Sort groups that begin with a number now appear under the "NUM" - group. -BUG FIX: "Player's Best" is now sorted by num times played decending -BUG FIX: #506835 - PREV from Song Select Fade Glitch -BUG FIX: #506827 - Song Selected Graphic Errors - -------------------------Version 1.58------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: SMLauncher generates friendly error messages. -CHAGNE: Removed "NG" from Results screen. -BUG FIX: Statistics are now working, honest! -BUG FIX: 511544 - Grade Results Sometimes pops up NO DATA -OPTIMIZATION: Improved animation of and optimized drawing of rolling score display. -OPTIMIZATION: Toned down motion blur effect in "Failed" for increased performance. -BUG FIX: Fixed matrix stack bug that caused some shadows not to draw -OPTIMIZATION: Major optimization of BitmapText. Now about 2x faster. -NEW FEATURE: F4-F8: Toggle Fullscreen, Change Resolution, Change Display Color, - Change Texture Color, Toggle Statistics -NEW FEATURE: Remebers last selected Steps -NEW FEATURE: Stage number saved to .ini file. -BUG FIX: Default key buttons don't work if .ini file not present on startup -CHANGE: Hold Arrows are now drawn last to first, like in DDR MAX. -NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows allow you to not hold the button for a second without - NG'ing them. -CHANGE: Regular Arrows on the same line as a Hold Arrow now appear green. -NEW FEATURE: Hold Arrows now turn gray player doesn't hold the button. -BUG FIX: #510980 Danger is a static box, not text - -------------------------Version 1.57------------------------- -NEW FEATURE: smzip package installer and manager -CHANGE: Installer now uninstalls previous version. -BUG FIX: Package Manager now converts all non-HTTP-friendly characters to '_' when - exporting. -CHANGE: Much better texture loading algorithm. Texture quality and loading time of - non-power of 2 texture improved greatly. -CHANGE: New 5th Mix theme graphics. Thanks thingmabobr! -BUG FIX: #507170 Speed Problem (Got rid of "pauses" caused by buffered writing to - log) -BUG FIX: #506309 Installer doesn't overwrite files -BUG FIX: #511187 old banners are shown diagonal - -------------------------Version 1.56------------------------- -BUG FIX: 506314 Fixed "Hall of mirrors" on nVidia cards (actually, just a work - around for a driver bug) -CHANGE: Couple and Solo now appear in Select Style -CHANGE: New Title Menu options (but you can choose them yet :-) -BUG FIX: Fixed jibberish at the top of Arial Bold font by shifting all letters - up one pixel -BUG FIX: 505896 Menu Problems [unreadable/illegible font?] -BUG FIX: Ugly textures with Voodoo3 -BUG FIX: Ignore Joystick D-pad now works again. -BUG FIX: Installer-created icon "Open Songs Folder" now fixed for OSes that had - problems. -BUG FIX: BMS parse crash fixed. -BUG FIX: Player2 couldn't press up to select different steps -BUG FIX: Player2's side in StepsSelector no longer has multiple bouncing difficulty - icons -BUG FIX: 507380 Multiple FAILED with Esc presses -BUG FIX: 507860 - Esc in No Fail Mode = lock up -CHANGE: Improved response time to user input when change sort in SelectMusic -BUG FIX: Announcer no longer makes dancing comments while FAILED is showing. -OPTIMIZATION: Added texture alpha hints - significantly improved texture quality - for 16-bit textures. - -------------------------Version 1.55------------------------- -BUG FIX: "4nd Stage" is now "4th Stage" -BUG FIX: 496315 ragescreen.cpp error for 16bit-only cards -BUG FIX: 500342 - wave volume changes to 100% on startup -BUG FIX: Fixed "visualization movie files go here" trying to be loaded as a texture -BUG FIX: Mini banner now tweens on and off screen -BUG FIX: MusicWheel now tweens off screen and Music comment plays -BUG FIX: Stage count not incremented until song is passed -CHANGE: Added longer delay before song start -CHANGE: Assist tick now louder and timing improved -CHANGE: cleaned up debug messages -OPTIMIZATION: Improved texture loading time -CHANGE: Maximize button no longer toggles fullscreen. -CHANGE: MusicWheel response to user input is improved -OPTIMIZATION: Preview in SelectMusic now uses banner instead of background for faster - loading -NEW FEATURE: Change resolution, display color depth, texture color depth, and toggle - texture filtering -NEW FEATURE: Check at startup time that all required theme elements are present -NEW FEATURE: installer -NEW FEATURE: motion blur "Failed" effect -NEW FEATURE: MusicWheel remembers previously selected song. -BUG FIX: Back from Result screen no longer leads to black screen -CHANGE: All documentation is now in "Docs" folder -CHANGE: New "Danger" animation - -------------------------Version 1.50------------------------- -Bug fix: No longer crashes on foreign chars in BMS files. Please report all songs that - still cause a crash. -Change: Added sepatate background movie property to Song. Now status backgrounds will - display in SelectMusic if the Song has a movie background. -Change: Asset directory structure has completely changed in preparation for theme support. -Optimization: BitmapText is now ~80% faster. -New Feature: 5th Mix style SelectMusic and auto-generated text banners. Loads 100x faster - than the previous SelectSong screen. -Change: Error messages in Release builds no longer show source file line and number. -Bug Fix: Fade transition now fades all the way to black (doesn't leave a "hazy" screen). -Bug Fix: Multiple joysticks now work again. - --------------------------Version 0.97------------------------- -Bug fix: Songs with same title no longer change positions while scrolling. -Bug fix: Wrong group name for DWI files in the Songs folder. -Bug fix: Fixed a problem that caused the music to become out of sync if many sound - effect are played. This was causing the song to become out of sync near the end. - Note that this change makes the music much more accurate, and some BMS files may - be out of sync if they appeared in sync before. -Bug fix: Dancing waits 2 seconds before starting music playback. This allows some - slower systems to catch up. -Bug fix: Little now works correctly. It is accessible from the PlayerOptions menu. -Optimization: Lower priority for movie decoding, which is a major speed boost on - slower computers. -Change: Freeze arrow scoring now matches DDR MAX. The start of a freeze arrow is judged - as other steps are (perfect, great, good, etc).  Missing the start of a freeze will - should break your combo, but NG'ing the freeze arrow will not. -New feature: Basic song statistics tracking. Times played, top score, top combo, and - top grade are shown on SelectSong screen. -New feature: Assist tick, accessible from the SongOptions menu. -New feature: Music Rate, accessible from the SongOptions menu. You can speed up or - slow down the rate of music playback. Great for practicing hard step patterns. -New feature: Freeze arrow scores are now shown on the Results screen. -Change: Arrow ghost now appear different depending on the combo length (roughly matches - DDR MAX). -Change: Added some animation to the Results screen. -Change: Revamped input mapping to allow assignment and clearing of specific slots. - --------------------------Version 0.96b------------------------- -Change: Removed background movies showing in SelectSong (this was causing crashes). -Bug fix: No longer crashes when loading Max300 from DWI support directory. -Bug fix: Timing is now correct for freeze in Max300. -Bug fix: Freeze arrows now are correct in Mirror/Left/Right/Shuffle. - --------------------------Version 0.96------------------------- -Merry Christmas! -Changed the song directory structure to be backward compatible with 0.90 and 0.91. - --------------------------Version 0.95------------------------- -Bug fix: Sounds files with commas now load -Bug fix: Freezes in Telephone Operator are now correct -Bug fix: Nonsense help messages fixed -Bug fix: D3D init failure now opens browser to correct troubleshooting page -Optimization: Drawing of freeze arrows is much more efficient -Optimization: In SelectSong, only one preview graphic is drawn. This saves fill rate - and leaves room for group/sort/BPM text. -Change: DWI files now use the DWI directory structure. StepMania also automatically - crop and rotate the song banner. BMS files still reside in the Songs folder. -Change: Now hold Next to get to PlayerOptions and SongOptions menus (Previously, you - would hold Next to bypass these menus). -New feautre: FPS counter. Can toggle from GameOptions. -New feature: Disable joystick d-pad (for DirectPad Pro and NTPad). -New Feature: Song background movies -New Feature: random visualization movies -New feature: song groups by folder -New feature: song sorting by Title, BPM, and Artist -New: Caution screen to hide texture load time -New: Logo appears between screens as a keepalive indicator - --------------------------Version 0.91------------------------- -Bug fix: Good and Boo arrows not being drawn. - - --------------------------Version 0.90------------------------- - - --------------------------Version 0.50------------------------- - -************************************************************ -23. Thanks +22. Thanks ************************************************************ Thanks to: