About

This is the v5.1.2 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It's mostly geared around supporting the upcoming Stamina RPG 6 tournament as well as being the first release compatible with ITGmania.

With ITGmania, you no longer require the GrooveStats Launcher for internet connectivity. For more information on ITGmania, you can check out the website and/or the release notes for the initial release here. ITGmania does come with this version of Simply Love already included so you don't have to download it yourself.

Supported Versions of StepMania

Simply Love v5.1.2 is compatible with current releases from the official StepMania/ITGmania project.

Compatible Releases
✅ StepMania 5.0.12
✅ StepMania 5.1-b2
✅ StepMania 5.3-a4.13.0 (OutFox) (preliminary support)
✅ ITGmania 0.5.1 - Make sure you download the ITGmania specific version below.

If you are able to compile StepMania's source code yourself, the 5_1-new branch is supported. The wiki has instructions for compiling.

If you are able to compile ITGMania's source code yourself, you can check out the instructions for compiling.

Incompatible
❌ Forks of SM5 (e.g. starworlds)
❌ Older versions of StepMania (e.g. StepMania 3.9)
❌ Forks of older versions of StepMania (e.g. OpenITG, NotITG)
❌ SM5.2

If you have trouble installing or running StepMania, particularly on macOS, this Troubleshooting Readme may help.

Installing Simply Love

If you are upgrading from a previous version of Simply Love, fully delete the old Simply Love folder first.

Do not merge the new folder into the old.

Full install instructions are in the Installing Simply Love README. It's worth looking at!

Changes

Column Cues

Oftentimes after a long enough break (or at the start of a song), players can be caught offguard from either unexpected mines, or not knowing where the next note starts. This PR gives you an indicator of the column where these might occur after a sufficiently long break (currently 1.5s).

Context 1: Jim
Context 2: https://clips.twitch.tv/SavageThankfulPanKlappa-0ycH5qvMEGMWlSTz
Context 3: https://clips.twitch.tv/BlightedAbstemiousElephantItsBoshyTime-J3Dhrf7-TNmx9v0Q

If the column is teal, it's a tap note, and if it's red it's a mine.

No phones were harmed in the making of this PR.

This feature was ported from Digital Dance.

Expanded the Emoji Set for Simply Love

Simply Love now supports an expanded emoji set!

👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

Unified judgment fonts between ITG and FA+ mode

The last release introduced the option to emulate the FA+ window from ITG mode, but all the judgment fonts weren't then updated to support that. This release upgrades every judgment font to be work with this FA+ emulation, as well as adding those that were FA+ mode exclusive.

Bug Fixes/Other

• Made ScoreBox toggleable and make it work for Course mode
• Updated Japanese translations (courtesy of @0b5vr)
• Add option to hide the FA+ pane in Scren Eval
• Allow player to switch to casual mode from ITG/FA+
• Fix bug with Autoplay and EX Scoring
• Prevent bug with ScoreBox that would cause the game to freeze

ITGmania Specific Features

For more information on what the ITGmania engine supports you can check out the GitHub repository here. We still highlight some of the user visible features below:

Load New Songs From Song Select

This feature is useful for Stamina RPG unlocks as well as when wanting to add song packs mid-session. Note that this only loads new songs and doesn't reload deleted/modified songs. As a result, the game loads the new songs really fast.

Fast Profile Switching From Song Select

Quickly change profiles without needing to back out to the title menu from within the song wheel. This also helps in unjoining a player if they were accidentally joined.

View Downloads

ITGmania supports auto-downloading Stamina RPG 6 unlocks. This release has an in-game downloads viewer to check the progress of any downloads during your game session.

Bug Fixes/Other

• StepMania 5 Mine fix applied (courtesy of @DinsFire64)
• Held misses tracked in the engine for pad debugging
• Fixed overlapping hold bug
• Player-specific Visual Delay option
• Player-specific option to disable timing windows
• Supports both pitch dependent and independent rate mod options

Contributors

@teejusb - Porting Column Cues, Expanding Emoji Set, Stamina RPG 6 support

@natano - ITGmania support

@Hayoreo - Initial implementation of Column Cues

@jenxness - Supporting fast profile switching

hunter and @mutesauce - Providing spritesheets for some of the Judgment fonts update

@0b5vr - Japanese Translation Update

@Valentina16 - Italian Translation Update

Thanks to all who contributed to this release!

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v5.1.2 and v5.1.1, check GitHub's comparison of the two.

A full summary of the ITGmania specific changes can be found here