This has a lot of advantages over the old ways. Some of the initial ones are that
you can log a list of all screenmessages and their respective number and another
is that it would be fairly easy to add a reverse lookup, so you could get the name
of a ScreenMessage for log use by getting the ScreenMessage number.
members are loaded--they'll see resets, score finalization, etc. It
also results in smaller code, due to a g++ bug that causes constructors
to be emitted several times.
Three options:
yes, to go directly to it without asking. This is faster for people who use
the song options menu frequently
no, to skip it completely; probably useful for coin mode where the song
opts menu may be inappropriate
ask, to ask, for people (like me) who use that menu very infrequently
but still want it available