[RELEASE] VDrum - Drum kit simulator

[Xsjado7]

Hey everyone, this is my first game/app iv coded in C

heres the readme:

----VDrum 2.0 by Xsjado(Blade_punk)

---Intro
VDrum is an open source drum
kit simulator game for PSP.
It is unlike other drum apps/games
currently out in that each drum
is controlled by a different button
and is not set up on a time line
like PSPRythm and PSPKick.

---Controls
-In-Game:
Square/Left - Snare
Triangle/Up - Tom 1
Circle/Right - Floortom
Cross/Down - Bass
R - Hihat/Ride
L -Crash/Splash
Start - Activate Menu
Select - Play Guitar Loop
Analog stick Up - Open Hats/Ride Bell
Analog Stick Down - Close Hats/Ride

-In-Menu:
Up - Navigate Up
Down - Navigate Down
Left - Change Option
Right - Change Option

---Sounds
While the sounds may not
be the best, you can quite
easily replace them with your
own. Just simply go to the
vdrum/sounds directory
and overwrite the files with
new ones. The same can be
done with the images.
just go to vdrum/images and
edit what you want.

---Changelog
1.0-1.5
*Added the ability to change crash cymbal to a splash aswell
*Added the hit effect, shows which drum your currently hitting

1.5-1.7
*Added the ability to play a guitar loop while your playing
*Added ride, bass and rimshot, removed 2nd tom
*Redid all the graphix with help from ChristianDeluxe
*Changed hihat, snare and bass sounds
*Added combinations picture
*Added an snd0.at3

1.7-2.0
*Completely rewritten from scratch
*Added an all new menu to organize things/chucked combinations
*Added the option to use the ride bell
*Added the option to open the hats every certain amount of hits - specify in menu

---Credits
Xsjado(Blade_punk) - Coding .etc
ChristianDeluxe - Background/Drum Pictures
Ro0kie42 - Ideas/Testing .etc
Hibbyware - Code help .etc
... and a lot of other people from psp-hacks, qj and other places

Report any and all bugs to my MSN/Hotmail:

blade_punk_@hotmail.com

----I welcome any help/ideas for future releases

...so thats it

Christmas is coming early boys, 2.0 is here!

here are the links:

VDrum 1.0

VDrum 1.5

VDrum 1.7

VDrum 2.0
**Source code included

Known bugs:
*Holding the analog stick in a certain direction for a few seconds will freeze the game
*Pressing start a heap of times will freeze the game
*Not having all the images/sounds in the correct folders will freeze the game


i would like to thank ro0kie42 for getting 1.7 on the front page, Christian Deluxe for pictures and a few other things and everyone else who has posted ideas and such

heres a quick controls guide i posted on another site so people can get the hang of fills and such

i set up the controls so its kinda like a real kit by having the directional buttons and the X, [], O and ^ used in unison for rolls and such. i set it up as best i could and as you play more, the controls become quite easy yo use. you can do a simple solo/fill by doing 4 hits on each drum so do: [], LEFT, [], LEFT for four hits on the snare then ^, UP, ^, UP for four hits on the first tom, then O, RIGHT, O, RIGHT for four hits on the second tom and finally X, DOWN, X, DOWN for four hits on the floortom. You can finish on a crash with L aswell. its pretty easy to do. using R which is your hihat you can make simple beats with the snare and bass, i just use the first tom as a bass.

i personally use this for hours a day sometimess

[amirulrudy12]

can it be use by 3.71m33?

[Xsjado7]

yup, thats what iv got

[waywardson]

haha this is pretty fun lol i just killed 20 min playing around with this lol hahah lost track of time lol...but i guess that might be cause im a drumer and i was trying to play some song from rush on it haha ...anyways cool appp man

[sicknsore]

Hey nice job .. im into drumming as well and this is a great application.. i need more practice on the hihats to work with the snare and the floortom tho.. trying to play march of the pigs, damn never thought its gonna be hard on psp haha its fun ..

Edit: The hits effect are really useful thanks

[Xsjado7]

awsome, great to hear you like it guys. what do you think of how the controls? they're not to bad for fills i reckon but i dont think this is going to get much attention from non drummers.

i just updated it to 1.5 not a big change. i had a bit of a muck up sound wise not being able to find the cymbals i wanted so its only got one new cymbal but its better than nothing. check out the first post for updated readme and link.

[sicknsore]

yeah this will be fun for non drummers too i guess.. about the control, i was thinking maybe you could switch the R button (cymbals) to the face buttons (X) and the floortom to the R button, since you're hitting more cymbals than floortom, but thats just me tho and im not so sure about it haha.. off course there's some limitation on the psp button map but still you did a good job..

[Xsjado7]

yeah, i originally had the snare on the L button and it wasnt to bad but with the toms and snare set up it kind of fells like a kit if you get what i mean. how you can easily change drum by them being next to each other and they cycle round easy. lol i dont know what im on about. anyone got any ideas or suggestions that i could add in future releases?
-= Double Post =-
im going to change the sounds for 2.0. some people(or should i say one person) are saying they are not very good. i dont think they are as good as they could be either so im going to head out on a search lol
i plan on adding in a menu for next release i just gotta figuere out how to program it. lol

[CristianDeluxe]

Hi, sorry for my bad English

Xsjado7 i love VDrum, it's perfect for improvise rims in street with friends.

I've created an VDrum "mini-mod" for 1.0 and 1.5. New skins and sounds.

V1.0


V1.5




You can download it from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58749965...eluxe.rar.html

Some Questions:

It's no possible to bind each button as a sound?, ej up for one sound, triangle for other... I need more sounds!!

Sound's file names can be changed better if they have names like "R-Sound.wav", "Circle-Sound.wav", etc... Same as for PNG Files

Maybe in a future version we'll can have "drumkits"? and VDrum will can open different drumkits?

Only some ideas!!

Regards and thanks for VDrum!
Cristian

[Xsjado7]

dude, your a legend. i had been looking for a good picture for a while but resorted to paint and thanks for the ideas. i had a similiar request for the different button set up by someone else on another forum. i have the controls set up the way they are because i fell that they are the easiest way to play. its easy to do fills and beats but i might look into assigning your own buttons. thats a big might due to the fact that i have only recently started programming in C and are still getting used to it. check your PM inbox

[dcae]

*BUMP*
i hope VDrum gets updated..
I really love this homebrew..
well i wish i could help in someway too lol..

[ro0kie42]

this is sweet. we need the bass drum though!

[dcae]

@ro0kie42
i think the sound of the bass is better on CristianDeluxe's Mod..

@Xsjado7
uhm may i suggest that we use the analog stick to change the open/close hihats or off/on of snare, etc instead of the combination buttons? coz its really hard to change it using the combination buttons...

[Xsjado7]

hey guys,
im currently working on 2.0 but im not working on it very much at the moment since i got a new kit and school work. i dont have much left to do though, great to hear you guys like it

@dcae
yes i plan on using the analog stick to open/close hats and swap between hats and ride. also how did you find this? it was buried so deep under all those pages of topics lol

[dcae]

lol i found VDrum 1.0 on dl.qj on its first release but not the 1.5 one..
so i wonder if there is an update on it and then *poof* i found this using the search button hehe..

Well its great that this homebrew is still being updated..

Btw I have another idea.. can VDrum be made like PSP revolution? Like the ones you see in the Arcades? it could be cool..

EDIT:
here check this..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrumMania

[jantunes]

VDrum is the best piece of app ever. I'm following the development since v1.0. I'm not a drummer but I still spend hours a week with this.
Continue developing this!

[GmDude66]

Screenshots would be nice dude :/

[Wii-Tarded]

can it be used for 3.71 OFW?

[dcae]

yes it can be used on 3.71..
I'm using it on my slim 3.71 m33-2..

[Wii-Tarded]

im using 3.71OFW and whenever i start it in the game thingy it says that and error has occured.

please explain

[dcae]

oops i didn't saw OFW.. sorry..
but i think its possible though because it works on 3.71 m33-2..
i dunno.. sorry..

[Wii-Tarded]

ill prob jus buy a battery and do pandoras to downgrade.

[dcae]

yeah good idea.. downgrade..lol

[Xsjado7]

hey everyone, i havent been on very much lately and i havent got much work done on 2.0 yet but its not really far away in turms of development, not time. the thing is that iv just started playing in the band at my youth and at school i have a few performances/practices coming up so i was wondering if everyone wanted me to release what i have at the moment or to wait for me to finish 2.0. i have no idea how far away 2.0 is but what i have so far is - open and close hats with analog stick, all new graphix and all new sounds but i can also the ability to play guitar loops/tracks in the background, add the rimshot sound and maybe screenshots if it works under 3.xxCFW pretty easily. in 2.0 im planning on implementing a menu so you can get rid of all the mucking around with button combinations. so what does everyone want? a half done update right now or a more full update that could be a while away?

[dcae]

wow.. nice job Xsjado! ^^
i'll wait for the v.2.0..
but still i can't wait to try it.. lol

[.A.J.]

First of all I'd like to thank you for this fun program of yours. I too am a drummer and it is a blast to mess around with VDrum.

I'd like a version 1.75 with the current adjustments released if you don't mind (mainly for the analog nub change). I can understand if you don't want to release it though.

As for future options an adjustable metronome (click track) would be a dream come true. Another sweet thing would be a record function. Please keep in mind that I know not of programming and therefore have no clue how difficult and/or possibly unrealistic my ideas are.

Anyhow, thanks a bunch for this.

[dcae]

yep.. a version 1.75 release might be good too..*wink*

EDIT:
btw Xsjado7, why a menu instead of the analog stick?
can it be done on the analog stick? like:
up analog - open or close the hihats
left analog - on and off the snare
right analog - crash or splash cymbals

its like, when the snare is on, making the analog to the left would make it off and making it to the left again would make it on again.. something like that..

and is it possible that you can add a loop of the hihats?
and a menu for adjusting the tempo?

Like .A.J., I have no clue how difficult and/or possible unrealistic these ideas are...

[ro0kie42]

release NAO!

but in all seriousness, what you have done sounds like a v2.0 already (and i really like this program. i just spent and hour on it hahaha.)

[Xsjado7]

hey everyone, 1.7 is finished, you can find the download link on the first page. i havent hadd time to test this so its kind of beta'ish lol so if you could report any bugs that would be great. the only bug i know is that if you hold the analog stick right, up or down for a few seconds he game will freeze. hope you guys enjoy it!

[ro0kie42]

wow thanks!

edit: i just played it. i like it a lot (still), but the sounds aren't that loud; my psp is on full blast and it's not as loud as i like it. i think i'm going to use audacity and up the volume a bit.