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

[Ashura96]

Originally Posted by 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

I only have a few, but I got the "fixed" charts (and also changed the text to just english) I'll double check them too.

[Marek92]

i'm getting the following error when i try to run bmp.exe (of bmpconfig, and choose save and start)

'0.667' is not a valid floating point value

any solutions?

[Ultra Violette]

That's caused by Be-Pachi Music not setting the decimal separator properly (since it varies from country to country).

It was fixed before, but I forgot to test it when I made the new BPMConfig utility, which apparently made that bug appear again (Sorry about that). Thank you for telling me about it

Here's an updated BPM.EXE which files that (and a few other bugs I found). Just choose to overwrite an existing BPM.EXE file.
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm.exe - 304 KB

Alternatively, the complete archive including themes can be downloaded here:
RAR format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.064.rar - 3.41 MB
ZIP format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.064.zip - 5.68 MB

[SaxxonPike]

I'd like to assist in getting ZIP support going

[Twilight_Overlord]

I love this simulator! I'm nowhere near an actual iidx machine (If I get into Amherst, I'll be an hour away from TGA). Some comments:

- For some reason, BPM keeps defaulting to Auto-Play+, even though I have used the bpm-config.txt file to try to fix it.
- The option to disable windows key was the best thing to happen to BPM.
- It would be nice to be able to quit a song while it is loading. Many times I have accidentally picked a song (Sakura [A] HS 5.0 uh-oh), and it is annoying to have to wait for the song to load before quitting it.
- This is probably a stretch, but it would be amazing to be able to map two (or more) keyboard keys to a single key. The one problem with iidx on a PC keyboard is lack of space for the fingers, and having a spread set-up would alleviate this quite much.
- I kinda liked it when the song kept playing after the player quit. IMHO, it is better than dead silence on the score screen.

That's all for now. Great job on this sim, and I look forward to the day v1.00 comes.

[Aliases]

Hey, great sim but why when I have my IIDX con polugged in configed correctly and calibrated to make sure and the USB polling is up to 1000 (JKOC<3) can i only press one button then I can't press it again
same with song, firt button I press it sticks next sticks sticks on all buttons what do I do!!!!

[InPhase]

Originally Posted by Aliases

Hey, great sim but why when I have my IIDX con polugged in configed correctly and calibrated to make sure and the USB polling is up to 1000 (JKOC<3) can i only press one button then I can't press it again
same with song, firt button I press it sticks next sticks sticks on all buttons what do I do!!!!

Yup, the update broke the IIDX controller support, lol. Button presses aren't reading correctly.

bpm also crashes on Vista upon exiting (I get that "Be-Pachi Music has stopped working..." window).

[Aliases]

Ay, thanks. Atleast now I know what was wrong Anyone have an old version I can download?

[Ultra Violette]

SaxxonPike:
Thank you for the offer... I can always use all the help I can get

ZIP support seems simple enough to add (from the info you sent me a few days ago), but I noticed that the latest round of songs added to sherl0k's site were in RAR format, so maybe I should go the bundled DLL way now (for unzip/unrar/unlha)?

The tricky part for now would be to get the current cache system to co-operate with ZIP files. I'll work on it tonight



Twilight_Overlord:
Thanks for your feedback. It's appreciated!

Auto-Play+ used to not stick, I probably broke it recently with the other recent things

The 'song stop on quit' was a request from some time ago (to make it more beatmania/IIDX accurate), although I like it to continue playing especially for themes that have silent end-of-song screens (like everything I've made ), so I'll make an option to enable/disable it.

A 'quit while loading' should be easy to implement... That's a good idea! I know I've selected the wrong song too many time as well

Mapping multiple keyboard keys to the same button is definitely doable. I might need to re-do a code section to allow for it though, so it will be in a future release, just not sure about in the next version.



InPhase:
I think I know why that is.... Vista must be very picky about programs shutting down gracefully, and I added some code to make sure BPM exits without errors when closed (which caused that error... The irony! )

I'll fix it though, thank you for letting me know



Aliases:
The sticky buttons are due to poor testing on my part... I used my Pop'n controller and tried the update for not long enough to make sure it was working.

If you don't mind a RAR file download, here's the last version with 100% working controller code, before I replaced it.
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0611.rar

Or for a faster download, here's the EXE file from it.
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm0611.exe

[Aliases]

Alis, this is stompy from the place, hehe, anyway, thanks a BUNCH, I did what you posted but a bit earlier, now I can play flash back 90's OMG also, you have an asus I just bought an acer aspire, it seems a TINY bit offsync was wondering what I should modify the timing too. Thanks yo's

[Ultra Violette]

Ohh I remember you! Long time no see

For the timing offset I'd recommend first trying a setting of around 17 ms or -17 ms, depending if the off-sync-ness is early or late.


[Edit]

And here's a quicky update that fixes the problems... The 'BPM stopped' error message is gone, and controllers work again! Also, pushing Esc during the 'Song Selected' animation will now return to the song select menu, and the 'AutoPlay+ always on' bug is fixed in BPMConfig.


Here's the EXE files to quickly update an existing installation of BPM:
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm.exe - 304 KB
http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpmconfig.exe - 213 KB


And here's the complete archive including the 2 themes:
RAR format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0641.rar - 3.41 MB
ZIP format: http://x-raise.cjb.net/bpm_dl/bpm_v0.0641.zip - 5.68 MB

[poulpou]

thank you

[Twilight_Overlord]

Thanks for the update.

Another idea that came to me in a dream last night:

You know how in Stepmania, you can reduce the playback rate of the song? Implementing something like that in BPM would be pretty amazing as it would allow people to practice hard songs and gradually increase the speed (I'm a pianist, so I swear by this process).

Just a thought.

[brownmanbob]

just thought i would let u know, i've been using ur emulator for awhile and now it doesnt work.. when i try to launch it it says "access violation". and configing the controller is a pain now, like when u click the key then ur suppose to press the key on the controller, but its hard to do because when u click the key it sets it to the mouse click.... anyways thanks

[Sig Nuka]

I don't know if this is a WINE-related issue (I'm using Ubuntu Linux), but if I try to start bpm.exe I get a "Floating point division by zero" error after the text loading screen. Any way this could possibly be fixed (if it even can be fixed)?

Apologies if I'm just wasting my time here trying to play bms / bme files in Linux.