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**DeNitro** · 07-04-2006, 06:22 PM

PSP Revolution v0.3 has been released! Visit this thread

PSP Revolution v0.2 released

After a long break mainly due to work scheduling and other events, Devin923 and I just finished working on PSP Revolution 0.2

The feedback and responses we got to the first release through the forums and e-mail were Great. We're hoping players enjoy the changes and additions in this update as much as the first.

Highlights in this version include theme support, tighter timing on the arrow syncs, letter grades, smoother graphics, OGG support, and all of the tested crash bugs/incompatibilities are fixed.

With the shear number of songs and stepfiles that exist, it's very difficult to do thorough testing, but all the songs we've been doing testing with are playing excellent now.

Since the game is based around music, we definitely recommend using ear/headphones for the best experience.

This version has a different folder tree than the last, so it's recommended to backup your old song folder from your memory stick, removing 0.1, and installing 0.2 fresh.

The songs included in this version are different than the songs that were included in this version, so remember to copy them into version 0.2 before you delete them if you want to keep the original songs!

Additional songs can be downloaded from sites such as http://www.bemanistyle.com and http://www.stepmania.com
Some songs/packs may be in .smzip format and can still be extracted using Winzip or Winrar.

Changelog:
7/04/06 - 0.2

(NEW)
-Added theme support for loading custom graphics
-Added an options menu to the song select screen (accessible by pressing SQUARE)
-Arrow Speed Modifiers available in the song options menu (see above)
-Preliminary support for song Freezes (Like in Sandstorm)
-OGG Music files are now supported
-JPG Background files are now supported
-Beginner "feet" color added
-Music preview plays for selected song at song select screen
-Marathon songs are now supported
-Letter grades are now awarded at the song score screen

(CHANGE)
-Song difficulty selection is now sorted easiest(left) to hardest(right)
-Holds are now active a little longer after button release
-Song select screen now scrolls the list with more than 18 entries
-Missed steps now are now counted as soon as they go out of "boo" range
-Combo numbers are now outlined for more definition
-Top arrows are lit up to match the song's beat
-Game now runs at the default CPU speed (222mhz) (reduces battery usage)
-Graphics mode now 32-bit
-Combo counter during gameplay now displays up to 4 digits
-Putting the PSP into suspend mode during a song will return game to main menu when resumed
-MP3's (along with OGG's) are now streamed from the Memory Stick during play
-Speed improvement when flipping through song lists
-Much improved error handling throughout the game
-Support for a wider variety of song banners (will rotate/resize them into place)

(FIX)
-Increased Song Compatibility
-Changed how arrows are synced
-Arrow's should no longer "drift" slightly out of sync during the duration of a song
-Fixed reading of interlaced PNG files which would previously crash song select screen
-Fixed rare cases of broken hold notes
-Fixed rare case of songs missing the first couple of steps
-Fixed bug where holds very close to a step on same column being hit with the step hit
-Fixed missing difficulty text during game and score screen
-Pressing several buttons at once no longer crashes song select screen
-No longer need to change the folder name for v2.0+ Eboot Loaders
-Fixed a small memory leak which could cause crashes after numerous songs are played.
-Fixed a bug where arrows would stop coming up during gameplay
-Other minor bug fixes

Have Fun and please let us know what you think!!

--DeNitro

~Edit by Mysticales: Another thread to aide this one, all custom themes should be posted here.
[Official] PSPRevolution Themes - Stepmania & Custom This way its organized. =)

Also online Stepmania with tracking, great community to play with on the PC etc is at www.stepmaniaonline.com who I hope will help come and post feedback for the PSP version! =D

**Vanden** · 07-04-2006, 06:23 PM

cool downloading now

**pspfan** · 07-04-2006, 06:50 PM

Wow. Been a while since an update. Good job.

**stewie** · 07-04-2006, 06:50 PM

WOOT!! i thought this would never be updated

**Cronos1388** · 07-04-2006, 06:51 PM

holy crap holy crap.

About time lol.

**Soulphalanx** · 07-04-2006, 06:52 PM

Sweet!!!!

07-04-2006, 06:53 PM

Oh hell yes! Downloading now.

**Macca** · 07-04-2006, 06:53 PM

YAY!!! i love this game!!!!

**Dee** · 07-04-2006, 06:54 PM

playing it now..woot woot!!!Whoa Orchid from killer instinc.

07-04-2006, 06:58 PM

Doesn't work on 2.60..now i'm sad.

**Slasher** · 07-04-2006, 06:59 PM

I was beginning to wonder where you went

**gmansixfo** · 07-04-2006, 06:59 PM

too bad i suck at this game

ill stick to stepmania

**Mysticales** · 07-04-2006, 07:07 PM

Yeaaa im happy. =D

**FrozenIpaq** · 07-04-2006, 07:42 PM

Way to come back with a bang, these changes are outstanding (sooo many!). Super Premium Membership should be awarded for this...too bad we don't have one of those yet

**soccerPMN** · 07-04-2006, 07:43 PM

Awesome job!

**Dee** · 07-04-2006, 07:44 PM

hey how du u add more songs to it???

**Soulphalanx** · 07-04-2006, 08:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrozenIpaq

Way to come back with a bang, these changes are outstanding (sooo many!). Super Premium Membership should be awarded for this...too bad we don't have one of those yet

300th club

**FrozenIpaq** · 07-04-2006, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulphalanx

300th club

ROFL...well...umm... I"ll think about that one. I don't think DeNitro would be interested in that, if he is (or Devin923), then they can send me a PM just saying - Hey Ipaq, give me super uber premium membership dude!

**Emp_bomb** · 07-04-2006, 08:12 PM

THIS IS soooooo sweeeeeeeet!!!!!

Tatum · 07-04-2006, 08:31 PM

Great work! I'm having a lot of fun with this!

**BrokenWing** · 07-04-2006, 08:37 PM

Wow, haven't seen you in a long time DeNitro (Might be able to tell by my sig) Great to see you back in the psp homebrew community again =)

I like the opening and menu music. It's good and makes it feel like a more complete game.

By the way, I know how to make more songs for this but I don't know how to shorten an mps's length. Anyone know of a program I could use?

The speed Increase is nice to have. Especially for those really fast songs to slow down (Pacman theme from Ridge Racer anyone?) And Increase for slower songs too.

So Far the only problem I've had is that it didn't load when I put the old song's into this one. So I used home to return to the xmb and it loaded after that. Works great other than that small glitch/whatever you wanna call it =)

One other thing, maybe we can have a way to change the button needed to press for returning to the menu? May be helpful to allow the user to choose L and R or Select and Start for that. Don't mean to sound picky or anything, just trying to help.

**Redbluefire** · 07-04-2006, 08:40 PM

Devin + DeNitro win all the internets!

That's right... both of them! :P

**chris@chris.chris** · 07-04-2006, 08:40 PM

can someone megaupload it 4 me cause im on my psp and dl.qj doesnt work

**Mister Chief** · 07-04-2006, 09:09 PM

Yay!!!!!!!

**DeNitro** · 07-04-2006, 09:58 PM

Thanks for the great responses

Devin923's out of town for the week on vacation so I don't have a way to reach him, but I'm sure he'd want to thank you guys too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulphalanx

300th club

I've been away too long, what does this mean?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrokenWing

Wow, haven't seen you in a long time DeNitro (Might be able to tell by my sig) Great to see you back in the psp homebrew community again =)

Thanks BrokenWing =)
I use a program called GoldWave to do audio editing, with it you can cut/crop parts an audio file, and if you cut the end, you can even fade out the new end so it sounds more natural. You can get a free trial for it at there website here

Quote:

Originally Posted by shindee

hey how du u add more songs to it???

To add new songs, download a song or pack from one of the links in the first post, and then copy them to the "x:\psp\game\__SCE__P SPR\ Songs" folder just as you would with the Stepmania songs folder, where x is your psp. If it's an individual song, you may have to create a new pack folder first to put your new songs in within that folder.
If others are having trouble with adding new songs, I may make a step by step tutorial with a sample song, let me know.

Thanks again for all the great comments =)

--DeNitro

**BrokenWing** · 07-04-2006, 10:02 PM

Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow and get started in making songs. Although No-one expect anything from me for a while...it's a hard week indeed...moving week...lol

**cwirsing** · 07-04-2006, 10:16 PM

When ever I try to pick a song past drop the bomb system f mix it freezes right when I go ove that song. It is from the ddr 8th mix pack.

ShiroiYami · 07-04-2006, 10:24 PM

You guys are incredible!
Its great that you have ported stepmania back in a time when it was difficult to even get mp3's running in homebrew applications. Ive been playing PSPRevolution since you released it and it has always been great portable fun! I just had one question:
Since you set it up for people to create their own themes, will you start a Post or website to have people submit their themes.

Ive played my songs and this release is so much smoother because i dont have to go through my songs incase they freez due to the .png size problem in release 0.1.

Thanks Guys, and I hope you the best of luck in future projects

**Mr.Game** · 07-04-2006, 10:44 PM

This is great. psprevolution is one of my favorite homebrew out. This just makes it better

pherk · 07-04-2006, 10:46 PM

Hopefully many more releases with more features will come since it it is the summer.

07-04-2006, 06:22 PM	#1
DeNitro Developer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 195 Trader Feedback: 0	PSP Revolution v0.2 PSP Revolution v0.3 has been released! Visit this thread PSP Revolution v0.2 released After a long break mainly due to work scheduling and other events, Devin923 and I just finished working on PSP Revolution 0.2 The feedback and responses we got to the first release through the forums and e-mail were Great. We're hoping players enjoy the changes and additions in this update as much as the first. Highlights in this version include theme support, tighter timing on the arrow syncs, letter grades, smoother graphics, OGG support, and all of the tested crash bugs/incompatibilities are fixed. With the shear number of songs and stepfiles that exist, it's very difficult to do thorough testing, but all the songs we've been doing testing with are playing excellent now. Since the game is based around music, we definitely recommend using ear/headphones for the best experience. This version has a different folder tree than the last, so it's recommended to backup your old song folder from your memory stick, removing 0.1, and installing 0.2 fresh. The songs included in this version are different than the songs that were included in this version, so remember to copy them into version 0.2 before you delete them if you want to keep the original songs! Additional songs can be downloaded from sites such as http://www.bemanistyle.com and http://www.stepmania.com Some songs/packs may be in .smzip format and can still be extracted using Winzip or Winrar. Changelog: 7/04/06 - 0.2 (NEW) -Added theme support for loading custom graphics -Added an options menu to the song select screen (accessible by pressing SQUARE) -Arrow Speed Modifiers available in the song options menu (see above) -Preliminary support for song Freezes (Like in Sandstorm) -OGG Music files are now supported -JPG Background files are now supported -Beginner "feet" color added -Music preview plays for selected song at song select screen -Marathon songs are now supported -Letter grades are now awarded at the song score screen (CHANGE) -Song difficulty selection is now sorted easiest(left) to hardest(right) -Holds are now active a little longer after button release -Song select screen now scrolls the list with more than 18 entries -Missed steps now are now counted as soon as they go out of "boo" range -Combo numbers are now outlined for more definition -Top arrows are lit up to match the song's beat -Game now runs at the default CPU speed (222mhz) (reduces battery usage) -Graphics mode now 32-bit -Combo counter during gameplay now displays up to 4 digits -Putting the PSP into suspend mode during a song will return game to main menu when resumed -MP3's (along with OGG's) are now streamed from the Memory Stick during play -Speed improvement when flipping through song lists -Much improved error handling throughout the game -Support for a wider variety of song banners (will rotate/resize them into place) (FIX) -Increased Song Compatibility -Changed how arrows are synced -Arrow's should no longer "drift" slightly out of sync during the duration of a song -Fixed reading of interlaced PNG files which would previously crash song select screen -Fixed rare cases of broken hold notes -Fixed rare case of songs missing the first couple of steps -Fixed bug where holds very close to a step on same column being hit with the step hit -Fixed missing difficulty text during game and score screen -Pressing several buttons at once no longer crashes song select screen -No longer need to change the folder name for v2.0+ Eboot Loaders -Fixed a small memory leak which could cause crashes after numerous songs are played. -Fixed a bug where arrows would stop coming up during gameplay -Other minor bug fixes Have Fun and please let us know what you think!! --DeNitro ~Edit by Mysticales: Another thread to aide this one, all custom themes should be posted here. [Official] PSPRevolution Themes - Stepmania & Custom This way its organized. =) Also online Stepmania with tracking, great community to play with on the PC etc is at www.stepmaniaonline.com who I hope will help come and post feedback for the PSP version! =D Last edited by Hardrive; 11-22-2006 at 07:41 AM..

07-04-2006, 06:23 PM	#2
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Dee Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hacks City Firmware:3.40OE Posts: 748 Trader Feedback: 0	hey how du u add more songs to it???

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Tatum Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12 Trader Feedback: 0	Great work! I'm having a lot of fun with this!

07-04-2006, 08:37 PM	#21
BrokenWing Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Paris, Tennessee Age:17 Posts: 816 Trader Feedback: 0	Wow, haven't seen you in a long time DeNitro (Might be able to tell by my sig) Great to see you back in the psp homebrew community again =) I like the opening and menu music. It's good and makes it feel like a more complete game. By the way, I know how to make more songs for this but I don't know how to shorten an mps's length. Anyone know of a program I could use? The speed Increase is nice to have. Especially for those really fast songs to slow down (Pacman theme from Ridge Racer anyone?) And Increase for slower songs too. So Far the only problem I've had is that it didn't load when I put the old song's into this one. So I used home to return to the xmb and it loaded after that. Works great other than that small glitch/whatever you wanna call it =) One other thing, maybe we can have a way to change the button needed to press for returning to the menu? May be helpful to allow the user to choose L and R or Select and Start for that. Don't mean to sound picky or anything, just trying to help. __________________ [url]http://card.mygamercard.net/BrokenWing+Mike.png[/url] Last edited by BrokenWing; 07-04-2006 at 09:57 PM.. Reason: Feedback

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BrokenWing Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Paris, Tennessee Age:17 Posts: 816 Trader Feedback: 0	Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow and get started in making songs. Although No-one expect anything from me for a while...it's a hard week indeed...moving week...lol __________________ [url]http://card.mygamercard.net/BrokenWing+Mike.png[/url]

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cwirsing Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Illinois Posts: 897 Trader Feedback: 0	When ever I try to pick a song past drop the bomb system f mix it freezes right when I go ove that song. It is from the ddr 8th mix pack.

07-04-2006, 10:24 PM	#28
ShiroiYami Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1 Trader Feedback: 0	Big fan, first time post-er. You guys are incredible! Its great that you have ported stepmania back in a time when it was difficult to even get mp3's running in homebrew applications. Ive been playing PSPRevolution since you released it and it has always been great portable fun! I just had one question: Since you set it up for people to create their own themes, will you start a Post or website to have people submit their themes. Ive played my songs and this release is so much smoother because i dont have to go through my songs incase they freez due to the .png size problem in release 0.1. Thanks Guys, and I hope you the best of luck in future projects

07-04-2006, 10:44 PM	#29
Mr.Game Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 338 Trader Feedback: 0	This is great. psprevolution is one of my favorite homebrew out. This just makes it better

07-04-2006, 10:46 PM	#30
pherk Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15 Trader Feedback: 0	Hopefully many more releases with more features will come since it it is the summer.