About

This is the v5.9.0 release of Simply Love for ITGmania. This release is add support for the upcoming Stamina RPG 10 event among many other notable changes. It also introduces the experimental online lobbies, updating GrooveStats and tournament support, improving the Sort Menu and Player Options flow, and fixing a wide range of bugs across song search, practice mode, prompts, and screen transitions.

Supported Versions of ITGmania

The current release of Simply Love is compatible with ITGmania versions 1.3.0 or newer.

For new installations we currently recommend grabbing the ITGmania + Simply Love bundle over at the www.itgmania.com.

Compatible Releases
✅ ITGmania 1.3.0+

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 1.3.0)
❌ 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

@teejusb - Stamina RPG 10 theme update
@teejusb - Online Lobby bugfixes/performance improvements
@CrashCringle12 - Routine mode support
@CrashCringle12 - Series support
@aeubanks - Use information from the engine for most things (everything besides GS hash) instead of obtaining that information via Lua chart parsing
@aryla - Added support for the sort menu in course mode
@bwaggone - Added density graph to practice mode
@SugoiFactory - Add per song density graph breakdown in Course Mode
@aeubanks - Don't plot pump holds on the histogram
@amotosouoc - Fix GrooveStats saving BackgroundFilter, HideLookahead, and some Judgment fonts
@nabulator - Japanese font/languages update

Contributors

Specific contributors have been tagged appropriately above already.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release!

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v5.9.0 and v5.8.0, check GitHub's comparison of the two.