Well, as always happens when I make big changes, a lot of new bugs cropped up when I released revision 48 yesterday. This update squashes all the bugs I found, including one which has been lurking since long before yesterday but which I only just discovered. Also, a little countdown to the end of the music is now shown at the bottom of the main playback view if “Allow music to finish” is ticked and the step chart has finished, but the music still hasn’t finished. Quite a lot of things in total are fixed/changed (even more than in revision 48).
Shortly after making the newest version of StepMania Player, I wanted to try it out on my brother’s computer, which runs Vista (mine runs XP), and it wouldn’t run. More worryingly, though, the “Fix DLL OCX.exe” which I include in the download, designed to fix problems just like this, also failed! So, I’ve fixed the “Fix”.
One of these “Fix” programs is included in my Bleeper Music Maker program too, and so, if anyone has been having trouble getting either that or StepMania Player to run on Vista, this may well have been the problem all along. To those people, I suggest grabbing the latest versions of the programs from their download pages [SMP/BMM] and running “Fix DLL OCX.exe” again (right-click, “Run as administrator”). I haven’t added 1 to the version numbers of the programs because it’s not actually SMP or BMM themselves which have been updated (it’s just the “Fix” programs).
Well, this is a massive update, the main 2 features of which are the proper support for “dance-double” type step charts (2 pads), and the fact that music doesn’t have to be cut off at the end of playback any more (this new option to allow music to finish fully is enabled by default)! Note: The scrolling arrows view, for now, still only shows PAD 1’s arrows (if I mention pads any more, a knife will mysteriously find its way into my skull).
Wow! It’s been a long time since my last video of my Bleeper Music Maker program playing music. This time I DIDN’T make the music - it’s just playing a MIDI which someone else has made and released here.
This is the theme for when you’re fighting Satori (stage 4’s boss) in the 11th Touhou game (Subterranean Animism). I’ve increased the tempo, though, to try to make it sound more lively (my program plays 1-bit music, which is as basic as a waveform can get, and so long notes can sound very boring/tedious/headache-inducing).
My Bleeper Music Maker program is freeware, and you can grab the latest version of it and see more info on it here.
Also, I think I’ll be using this LED display in a lot of videos… if I can find a way to make it look less unstable/juddery on the camcorder. =/
Here’s a second batch of high-resolution randomness. YouTube has made the sync absolutely ridiculously bad, this time, despite me making the video in the same way as the last one. It’s almost like you’re watching a video and listening to a different video’s audio in some clips. =/
This is me trying to play Caramelldansen as I’ve learnt it from memory, to a metronome at 165 BPM.
There are at least 4 very obvious and cringe-worthy mistakes which make me think I shouldn’t be uploading this, but after trying for quite a few hours over 2 days, this was the best I could do. Maybe someday after more practise I’ll try it on a real piano.
Also, my Remi plush fell onto the keys many times during failed attempts but didn’t during this “most successful” one, so I had to force her to. =P
Technical stuff: The keyboard is a Yamaha PSR-E313. Played music can be recorded onto internal memory. While playing this, it was recording, and later I played it back while its headphone output was connected to my soundcard, to have a nice clean recording of just the piano sound without the metronome, key presses, and my sniffing due to hayfever. xD
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