About
This is the v5.6.0 release of Simply Love for ITGmania. It's mostly geared around supporting the upcoming ITL Online 2025 Event with a couple of notable features and bugfixes. It's overall a fairly small release, but that's because the underlying ITGmania release is way bigger. This release requires the ITGmania v1.0.0 update as well.
Supported Versions of ITGmania
The current release of Simply Love is compatible with ITGmania versions 1.0.0 or newer.
For new installations we currently recommend grabbing the ITGmania + Simply Love bundle over at the www.itgmania.com.
Compatible Releases
✅ ITGmania 1.0.0+
If you are able to compile ITGMania's source code yourself, you can check out the instructions for compiling.
Incompatible
❌ Older versions of ITGmania (any version prior to 1.0.0)
❌ StepMania 5 (SM5)
❌ 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 ITGmania, 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
ITL Online 2025
This Simply Love release has support for the upcoming ITL Online 2025 tournament.
GrooveStats QR Code Login
This feature has been a long time coming! You can now log into GrooveStats using QR codes, so you no longer need to manually set up your API key. This feature also works with Guest profiles, Local Profiles, and even when the Select Profile screen is disabled. There are three options for its usage, with Sometimes being the default.
Always- Always display the QR Login screen.Sometimes- Only display the QR Login screen if needed for the profiles (if either player doesn't already have an ApiKey set).Never- Disable QR Login entirely.
Practice Mode
@bwaggone put in a lot of effort both ITGmania side and themeside to get this feature out. Historically this was possible but only if a player was playing on P1 (P2 would crash). The feature is now player agnostic and leverages the existing edit mode playback to enable practicing a song from the music selection screen.
Sort Menu changes
As more and more features get added, the Sort Menu has grown in size. @CrashCringle12 added Subcategories to the Sort Menu in order to condense it a bit. In addition there is now Playlist support, which is essentially a text file that can be shared around such that people can play a predefined set of songs.
Translations
For some reason this release got a lot of contributions for localization efforts! This is always great to see as the set of strings are always changing and it's hard to update all the text.
@rehtlaw - German Translation
@JustMoneko - Polish Translation
@nabulator - Japanese Translation + General localization effort
@TheBreak1 - Russian Translation
Other Assorted Changes
- @sukibaby - Use GetLastSeconds in the song wheel. Now both Step Statistics and Music Selection will display the same duration for a song
- @sukibaby - Change default speed mod to M250
- @sukibaby - Remove EndOfSong failtype
- @SugoiFactory - Added support for mid-set summaries
- @SugoiFactory - Fixed (?) Column Cue bug in course mode
- @CrashCringle12 - Reset DefaultLocalProfile so late joiners will get the Guest profile instead of the last used profile
- @CrashCringle12 - Added a pad for favoriting songs on the Evaluation Screen (do a spin)
- @CrashCringle12 - Fixed softlock when switching profiles with AutoStyle
- @phantom10111 - Fixed scores being accidentally submitted to GrooveStats for FailOffBeginner/FirstStageEasy
- @aeubanks - Fixed bug with overlapping panes in Doubles
- @mutesauce - A bunch of new menu music for select visual themes
Contributors
Specific contributors have been tagged appropriately above already. Below are the major contributors.
@teejusb - Lead + QR Login + ITL 2025 support
@bwaggone - Practice Mode
@CrashCringle12 - Subcategories in the Sort Menu, Playlist Support, Couples primer
@rehtlaw - German Translation
@JustMoneko - Polish Translation
@nabulator - Japanese Translation + General localization effort
@TheBreak1 - Russian Translation
Thanks to all who contributed to this release!
Change Summary
For a full summary of changes between v5.6.0 and v5.5.0, check GitHub's comparison of the two.
A full summary of the ITGmania specific changes can be found here