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1.1 - The Theme Update

1.1-999011043 | Released 07/04/2024 | 7.62 MB / 11.0 MB | Download
  • CUSTOM THEME TEMPLATES! Available here
  • Revamped custom themes / zones page
  • Updated themes, and introduced another (Frets on Fire)
  • Secret built-in song included!
  • (long time coming) Load retail song PAKs (PC AND PS3 ONLY), or even
    ones generated by GHTCP, including default bosses (you can defeat Lou!)
  • .SNG support
  • Updated chorus userscript to work on the new Chorus Encore;
    go here for more information
  • Slightly faster, absurdly smaller Helix MP3 encoder, built with Visual C++
  • Faster audio encoding with alternate handling of inter-process communication
  • Even faster audio decoding using ffmpeg, if it is installed
  • 674 KB qb.pak, 4.46MB global.pak
  • Launcher and tools are now 900 KB
  • Texture fixes and file size optimizations
  • Internal variable naming optimizations
  • Different, better .NET EXE compression and size optimizations
    (going to extreme lengths, literally)
  • Merged mid2chart and (DotNetZip/SharpZipLib) into launcher executable
  • Splitting other external code to more submodules
  • Changed log reporting systems
  • Fix songs ending early sometimes
  • Implemented first run menu to ask for a default controller
    to start playing with, or set to manually choose every time
  • New powerup: Star Power, for self defense
  • BOT WARS! (not entirely) Autoplay autofires powerups and autowhammies
  • Major QB mod releases (a little old): JORSpy, eval
  • New redist required UUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
  • Updater (might become) deprecated as it was hardly used and kind of broken.
    For a while, a future separate application was considered that could switch
    between development builds easier for bug/broken feature testing
    and changes over time.
  • A bunch of stupid fixes for a bunch of stupid bugs:
    • Messed up multitrack normalization in decoder output
    • mid2chart failing to run without reason, sometimes false flagged
    • Graphical errors with highway flashing and open note particles
    • Texture names incorrectly named from decompilation
    • Open note whammy width on lower resolutions
      appearing too big (still not consistent)
All changes

1.0

1.0-999010889 | Released 07/04/2023 | 9.0 MB / 13.0 MB | Download
  • Post-release changes (Nov 17, 2023):
    • Game mode changer menu (and save to config)
    • Proper audio length reader
    • Launch game early while encoding audio but wait
      for it to finish just before loading the song
    • Fix random crash for when co-op is the startup mode
    • Few code optimizations
    • Fixed face-off marker detection
    • Bot launches attacks in battle mode automatically
    • Select to restart in practice mode for keyboard players
    • Setting to play ExpertDoubleGuitar/ExpertDoubleBass
      tracks in charts when available
    • Fixing tiny typos in code (or however it can be
      described as little easy-to-fix mistakes)

  • Decompiled qb.pak and rebuilt it's scripts (QUEENBEE IS DEAD!!maybe)
  • Optimized qb.pak (744KB!)
  • Faster non-DDS texture loading
  • Minimal SoX build only supporting MP3,OGG,OPUS,WAV
  • New pause menu
  • Player model/PAK files eliminated completely
  • Fixed held notes being forcibly cut off upon unpausing
  • Practice mode looping (section looping and A>B looping)
  • Restored console version of highway animation, and reworked for >60 FPS
  • Extras menu with tweaks including:
    • Disable HUD
    • No highway shake
    • Wider range of hyperspeed scales
    • FC Mode
    • Classic cheats such as:
      • Easy expert
      • Precision
      • Performance
      • Large gems (Scalable)
         and many more that were added before.
  • Lefty flip toggle without restarting
  • Fix for too many misses and hits causing highway to go off center
  • Reduced scripts size by allocating blank arrays at runtime
  • Removed more unused scripts
  • Some encoding fixes + new faster encoder
  • Moved almost all user config to INI
  • Audio progress bars
  • Fix 60 FPS based video calibration menu
  • QB mod loader and user config support
  • Changeable CBR for compiled chart audio
  • (Weird) Fix for frame based whammy wibble animation
  • Switched to NSIS for installer
  • Read only version of DotNetZip
  • Co-operative bot star power
  • Properly saving video lag
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1.0-999010723 | Released 10/29/2022 | 10.7 MB / 15.1 MB | Download
  • Post-release changes:
    • Fixed random game hanging when exiting out (THANKS VISUAL C++)
    • Fixed 7Zip registry error
    • Made a non-elevation friendly solution to exit the game when
      the launcher is converting a new song, and avoid
      the "access is denied" error when copying the FSB
    • (can't confirm still) Fixed FormatText null value error
    • Fixed chart offset value not existing returning null
    • Added default.scn.xen as required for zone swapping
      (originally wasn't copied in build creating script)

  • OVERLAPPING STARPOWER!!
  • Open sustains
  • Custom boss battles
  • Opus audio support and fresh update of SoX
  • COMPRESSED GH3 EXE!!!
  • Game size is now 15 MB! (13 MB without the launcher)
  • Unified modifiers plugin (to toggle All Strums, All Taps, etc)
  • Changeable keybinds
  • Background videos (requires Bink encoded video)
  • Open 7Z/RAR files in the launcher if user has
    either file type's extractor installed
  • Chart downloads through Google Drive / chorus
  • Solos are now automatically parsed and scripts
    calculate how many notes belong within the markers
  • Parse solo and event markers in MIDI
  • Compressed DLLs and plugins
  • Zip caching
  • Updater (for release builds and dev builds)
  • Removed an unused hardcoded font
  • No venue models/files needed at all to play
  • Press Select to restart in practice mode (controllers only)
  • Toggleable highway/HUD intro
  • Toggle particles (all, minimal, or none)
  • Better controller entry for keyboard mode
  • Face-off/battle power markers are now supported
  • Various graphical fixes:
    • Particles' velocity and friction are no longer tied to 60 FPS
    • Whammy pixel width now resizes with game
      resolution, which originally depended on 1280x720
    • Fixed leftover starpower particles glitch
  • Hide gems upon hitting and activate
    sustains early (turned off by default)
  • Easily swap zones, highway GFX, highways, and background videos
  • Fixed FPS based battle scripts
  • New zones at Custom Themes / Zones
  • Open FX on multiplayer
  • Frame rate limiter
  • Launcher logging
  • Launcher error reporting
  • currentsong.txt formatting
  • Asynchronous NJ3T (drums,vocals,etc) track merging
All changes
1.0-999010574 | Released 05/07/2022 | 11.7 MB / 23.4 MB | Download
  • Post-release changes:
    • More qb.pak optimization
    • Game can run without ragdoll and skin files
    • Singleplayer doesn't require skeleton files
    • Fixed missing audio encoding DLLs since some
      users don't have them pre-installed
    • Additional audio calibration fix to make the audio play
      ahead of the beginning of gameplay. So, with 200ms, for example,
      the audio starts 200ms earlier than the notes starting
    • Starpower bot uses new beat waiting function and evades
      triggering while hitting a sequence
    • Little launcher fix for Linux users so
      audio encoding script runs correctly

  • Improved chart converter/song PAK writer
    • Better programmed note and starpower arrays (works in 2D arrays)
    • Less messy code (but also still sort of messy)
    • Some tempo related fixes
  • Discord RPC (Separate download) and proper song metadata in PAKs
  • New separate PAK to store user configuration,
    which allows more portable and easy settings
    (and makes it easier for me to push updates :D)
  • Reduced music tools size and made FSB encoding just a little faster
  • Other various encoding related fixes
  • More ultra optimization
  • Fixed open note animation
  • Bot star power/autowhammy (lazy)
  • (Cheap) fix for calibrated audio syncing, so
    gameplay doesn't have to slow down to keep up
  • Function to disable HUD intro (toggleable with disable_intro)
  • Unique file date checker for downloads
  • GH3/WT textures can have PNGs/JPGs stored, yay!
    (warning: may slow down loading to due compression)
  • Solos (have to be inserted in song PAKs manually for the time being)
  • - Removed Herobrine
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1.0-999010389 | Released 11/25/2021 | 12.8 MB / 37.4 MB | Download
  • GAME IS NOW COMPLETELY PORTABLE!!
  • Removed Aspyr registry key check, no longer needing admin rights
  • Removed Massive Ad Client (cheaply, so venues won't work here)
  • No fail setting with graphical change
  • Magically randomly fixed some MIDI error happening on another computer
  • Detect multiple files in a song package,
    ask user which one they want to play
  • Async FSB building, making multitrack encoding faster
  • Removed dbgq.pak and perm_anims.pak
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1.0-999010247 | Released 07/09/2021 | 13.4 MB / 39.9 MB | Download
  • Reimplemented FSP + allowed easier creation, and web downloads
  • More gameplay lock-in
  • Disabling VSync independent of another program
  • Moved GH3+ loader to execute before window creation
  • Rebuilt optimized zones
  • Patch launcher to support .chart Offset value
  • Song cache viewer + write IDs to list
  • Official public release
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1.0-999010010 | Released 07/04/2021 | 15.6 MB / 37.6 MB | Download
  • Song caching + new hashing method
  • New audio and chart converter
  • Replaced game program with better executable
  • Internally patched windowed mode
  • Game fully functional without Soundcheck zone
  • Proper data manipulation through launcher
  • Rebuilt game data (for the infinith time)
  • Dynamic game path
  • Removed zones, models

0.8

Released 01/XX/2018 | 47.6 MB / 174 MB | Download
  • Unknown
  • Inherited changes from 0.7

0.7

Released 12/25/2017 | 54.8 MB / 167 MB | Download
  • Optimized game
  • Removed zones, models
  • Windowed patch through DxWnd/3DAnalyzer
  • Use songlist_editor, Mid2Chart, sox
    for song converter