About

This is the v4.4 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It includes a few new bug fixes and features.

Please note that this release of Simply Love requires StepMania 5.0.12 (or a custom build from StepMania's 5_1-new branch) to function properly. Older versions of SM5 are not supported. SM5.2 is not supported.

New Features

Allow ScreenShots on Hardware without a SELECT Button

If you are using a traditional DDR cabinet (or only have three MenuButtons per player for some other reason), you should enable ThreeKeyNavigation under Input Options. With that done, you can save screenshots by pressing MenuLeft and MenuRight simultaneously on ScreenEvaluation and ScreenEvaluationSummary.

Bug Fixes

Operator Menu Cleanup / Input Options

The Operator Menu now has an Input Options submenu.

If you are playing StepMania using a physical dance pad of some kind (arcade pad, homepad, etc.) you should check to ensure that your Input Debounce Time is set to 50ms. This can help mitigate "ghost steps" that commonly cause erroneous judgments.

Fix Final Measure of Stream Not Being Counted in MeasureCounter in Some Cases

It was previously possible for the MeasureCounter to not include the last measure of stream in its count in certain circumstances. This has been fixed by @Kauhsa in commit 231552d.

Fix Lua Errors Regarding HideScore

If two players were joined and one or both of those players opted to hide their score during gameplay, Lua errors would occur when the other code that brightened the winning player's score was unable to find the score! Thanks go to @Kauhsa for pointing this out and submitting a pull request to fix it.

Remove Random from MusicWheel

@ianklatzco demonstrated that the engine's Random feature can break input on ScreenSelectMusic fairly easily. For now, I am opting to remove Random from the MusicWheel. See issue #70 for more discussion and potential patches (if you're into that sort of thing).

Misc. Cleanup

A few files have been cleaned up and more comments have been added.

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v4.3 and v4.4, check GitHub's comparison of the two.