Be-Pachi Music!! My continued attempt at a BMS Player / BM simulator

[Ultra Violette]

USSR:
When is that happening? If it's while a song is playing, what song did you select (or is it happening to all songs)?


SX6:
CPU speed might be a factor. How fast is your CPU?

But try this... It's a new theme I made for my Asus Eee PC (has a smaller screen and a slower CPU). This new theme has a smaller BGA window to help speed up frame rate.

Download and extract to BPM's "Themes" folder:
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/Themes..._Power_Eee.zip


Ashura96:
The slow loading would be Windows accessing its page file multiple times due to not enough free RAM being present. But it's odd that it's not happening when you used the previous version. I'll see if I broke something somewhere

And I made the bad decision to use older sound loading routines, which seem to load each WAV file 2 times for some reason. I'll work on a new WAV load routine for the next version and also add in an "adjust sound quality" to further reduce RAM usage.

[SX6]

i dont know my CPU but i know its high enough...i think
i will try the theme and see how it works
edit:the games still lags even with the new theme if you have a video playing

[Atmos]

Ah, the links to the DistorteD theme are down...can anyone who has it re-upload it?

Edit: Nevermind, I should look before I open my mouth.

[Ultra Violette]

SX6:
I have a few ideas on how to fix the lag (most probably AVI frame skipping).... I'll work on that tonight.

In the meantime, try the updated EXE's below, along with these options on BPMConfig's Display window:
- Check 'Hide Explosions'
- Un-check 'Alpha-Blend Key Flashes'
- Un-check 'Animate Key Flashes'

Using those should provide a significant boost in frame rate on slower computers, even with an AVI playing.


Atmos:
That link's probably buried deep in this or another thread... I should probably put that theme link in the first post



[Edit]

And here's a quick update that should help with frame rate on slower CPU's.

I replaced the 'Alpha-Blend Note Explosions' option with a 'Hide Explosions' option, which seems to help with lag problems.


For a fast update, download the update in the ZIP file below, and extract to the folder where Be-Pachi Music is installed. Choose to overwrite both bpm.exe and bpmconfig.exe.
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_exe.zip

Alternatively, the full program+themes can be downloaded.
RAR version: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0611.rar - 3.45 MB
ZIP version: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0611.zip - 5.72 MB

[SX6]

still lags no matter what. and its the game play that slows down. the video plays fine

[DialBM]

it works with less lag than the older one to me

also I like the new game interface C:

[Ultra Violette]

Dial:
Thank you (and sorry for the delay in replying )



And... one more update for the year!

It addresses these:
- BMS Cache creation routine re-written, now much faster than before
- Starting to migrate the code away from DirectX (eventually toward SDL). The old DXInput routines are removed, replaced with my own code.
- Implemented 'Easy' modifier, and added a new 'Easy+' mod, which starts game play with 500%, and allows the meter to fill up to 999%.
- Added an option to disable the Windows key & combinations during game play.
- Numerous bugs fixed.


[Bug-fix edit]

Apparently I didn't test the newly added program code very well, as it broke the key configuration screens. So here's a fixed version, which also fixes the drop in frame rate caused by the same added code.

(links to old versions removed, use the newer version below!)



[And another update edit]

I fixed some more bugs, one of them being the S-Random modifier, so it's enabled and working like it should. Also interestingly, the addition of things made the file size shrink by almost 50 KB. Nice

So here's the last BPM update for 2008!

RAR format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0622.rar - 3.41 MB
ZIP format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0622.zip - 5.68 MB

[Ultra Violette]

And the first update of the new year

Version 0.063 adds in new modifiers (S.Random+ and H.Random), and fixes a crash caused by selecting a deleted song when 'Auto Cache Update' is disabled.

Unfortunately, as with most other modifiers, these new ones still aren't selectable in game (yet), so use BPMConfig until then.


Updated download links:
RAR format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.063.rar - 3.42 MB
ZIP format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.063.zip - 5.68 MB

[sherl0k]

Alis, we miss you on popn!

[starfox444]

Can someone repost the links to the themes here? I would look through myself but jesus christ its 39 pages.

[RS7]

sorry for not looking thru this entire thread... but i think an improvement would be to be able to look at both 5key and 7key songs all together... thats the only thing i have to say about this otherwise its a great bm player...

[Ultra Violette]

I meant to post a reply to this sooner


sherl0k:
Sorry for yet another long absence... I just wanted to get some things done
I'll definitely come back though, I just need a little more time.


starfox444:
Here's the 2 themes that I know of.

ttp://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/f90/bepachimusic-theme-iidx13-distorted-wip-19720/ - shinnohara's DistorteD theme
ttp://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/f90/bepachi-theme-dj-troopers-26229/ - Surge's DJ TROOPERS theme

And maybe now's a good time for me to add those links to the first post of this thread


RS7:
Thank you! I'll try to add that in the next version.

[starfox444]

Thanks

[Ashura96]

Hm, Highlighting the song Marie Antionette (from IIDX16) causes Be-Pachi music to crash

The error is: Index Out of Bounds (169)

Is it an error with the bme files?

[Ultra Violette]

Sounds like a bug

I haven't noticed that error yet, although I've only DL'ed a few of the IIDX16 songs. Do you have all the IIDX16 songs in a folder, or just a few? If all, then I'll get downloading and try again with all

It could be the .BME files, but no idea yet.

I'm wondering if the lack of #PLAYLEVEL lines might be an issue (although it shouldn't be).

I'll do some exploring though... thanks for pointing that out