v1.1.0.4261-PTB

This is a preview release for the clone hero v1.1 release, this is mainly to sanity check things so we can resolve any potential major issues before the final build goes out.

Changelog since v1.0:

• Fixes for server stability
• Fix for rescan custom content not working
• Add message when no servers are available
• Fix crash with Loading phrases
• Fix album art not supporting transparency
• Fix issues with scoring logic
• Fix crash when streaming assets folder doesn't exist
• Fix missing font characters in some cases
• Fix practice hud not following the highway placement offset
• Fix crash on some midi files
• Fix drum action menu not showing on the score screen in 5 lane input mode
• Reduce frequency of song comparing messages online
• Fix game stuttering when whammy sfx are enabled
• Improve quality of of some main menu backgrounds
• Add audio stall detection and correction logic to help resolve some audio issues at runtime
• Upgrade to unity 2022.3.11f1
• Fix bugs with online song validation in several situations
• Fix control mapper ignoring controller triggers
• Improve game memory usage by enabling audio sample channel recycling, and reducing the per sfx max channels by half
• Fix servers sometimes not actually using the set maxConnections in some cases
• Improved robustness of audio system with more error checking and logging
• Fix issues with main menu background switching
• Simplify sustain scoring calculations to resolve some stability issues in edge cases
• Fix sustain scoring issue with dropless sustains
• Fix 6-fret lefty flip rendering being the incorrect layout
• Resolved bugs when loading songs on systems with mixed file system case sensitivity
• Fix hitching in the song list when scrolling through songs from loading song previews
• Fix exceptions with custom content thumbnails
• Improve logging on game server
• Upgrade server to use .net 7 runtime
• Fix audio desync when pausing under certain situations
• Audio fadeout management has been rewritten to be more robust
• Fix many cases when the game may have leaked memory in edge cases
• New .sng song single file container format, this format aims to be a simple easy to use cross-game container for songs moving forwards.
• Updated credits with many missing names
• Add toggleable practice mode lyrics, defaulting to enabled
• Add support for [coda] form the coda event for .chart files
• Fix create profile causing the keyboard key used to activate it to be placed into the profile name
• Implement multiplayer stem muting logic, using volume and panning to give the player an idea who has missed.
• Fix versus mode results showing default winner text in some cases
• Fix menu song causing an infinite loop if no songs where able to be loaded
• Fix menu song showing a random song even if it wasn't able to load after going back from the song list
• Fix song previews not playing after going back from a song to the song list
• Fix scroll not working in song path manager
• Remove unity gaming services
• Remove unity analytics
• Fix bugs with video background getting out of sync when unpausing
• Fix android crash when accessing filesystem
• Fix issues with scrolling text objects being cutt-off
• Fix text blurriness at lower resolutions
• Fix drums hit detection issue with ion drumkits
• Updated icons
• Updated Translations
• Slight improvements and optimizations to song list when sorting and filtering
• Fix no ghosting logic not detecting some cases that should be considered ghosting
• Improved audio quality of built in songs
• Fix control mapper button UX issues, and weird highlighting and color inconsistencies
• Fix handing of folders within song folders, no longer will a folder within a chart prevent it from being scanned as a song

V1.0.0.4080

Clone hero v1.0 update is here!

(November 29, 2022)

If you need help setting up v1 coming from an older version check out our Migration instructions article, or if you need further help check out this great video from Acai covering the full process of installation and some of the great new features in v1!

Also if you missed our release announcement video for v1 check it out here!

Changelog

• Add drum instrument
• Add pro-drums instrument
• Add midi input for drums
• Add Brutal mode modifier
• Add Double Notes modifier
• Add Precision mode modifier
• Add no ghosting modifier
• Add dropless sustains modifier
• Add Whammy SFX to guitar/bass on songs with stems
• Add Song Path Manager in settings
• Add Monitor switcher in settings
• Add Color Profiles
• Add Color Profiles Editor
• Add Public Online Servers
• Add Versus Mode
• Improve Practice Mode UI
• Add 15 new songs
• Performance optimizations for song scanning 5x faster!
• Performance optimizations to custom content scanning
• Performance optimizations for song list export 10x faster!
• Performance optimizations for lyrics display
• Add hosted Online servers with server browser
• Add song list filtering
• 17 built in songs!
• Visual improvements
• Much much more!

V0.23.2.2

Clone Hero V.23.2.2

(November 25, 2019)

This is mainly to fix the slight performance issue introduced with scanning in v.23.2.1, but there are some other changes as well. Check out the full log on the download page.

Changelog

• Fix scanning hang after the game enumerates file system by optimizing string comparisons.
• Add back in v.23.2 build tags, and add back in v.22 build tags in the past build tag list.
• Fix sorting after song is played
• Remove midifix reference in badsongs
• Add more state logging for scanning
• Fix typos
• Actually remember to include the readme.txt in the build this time

V0.23.2.1

Clone Hero V.23.2.1

(November 07, 2019)

This is mainly to fix the song scanning issues, but there are some other changes as well. Check out the full log on the download page.

Clone Hero will also be featured in Awesome Games Done Quick 2020, currently scheduled for Saturday, January 11th. Starring Frosted as a player, Matt and srylain will also be attending the event and fully representing the game, check out the GoFundMe!

Changelog

• Updated translations.
• Fix cache scannning issue.
• Fix menu music playing while scanning.
• Fix controllers not able to leave search box
• Remove hashcache path logging in the online menu.
• Fix availability sorting issues.
• Updated build tags...

V0.23.2.0

Clone Hero V.23.2

(November 06, 2019)

This is a pretty large bugfix build which is why it took so long 🙂 There is over 62 bug fixes and changes in this build. Tons of bug fixes, as well as various visual polish and improvements.

Yes those hopo bugs have been fixed, as well as those pesky online connection bugs! Check out the full log on the download page.

Changelog

• Updated to unity 2018.4.12f1
• Fixed adding songs to local setlist not including song speed
• Update translations
• Add Pirate English, Italian, and Simplified Chinese
• Add more charter icons and sources.
• Upgrade rewired to 1.1.29.1
• Fixed crash with song scanning in some cases.
• Changed the default audio buffersize to be a multiple of the device recomended size to fix linux issues.
• Add hebrew fallback fonts.
• Fixed letters with accents being sorted seperately from the non-accented letters.
• Fixed issue where custom backgrounds could not be disabled.
• Fix configured backgrounds being reset on scanning custom content.
• Fix modchart modifiers causing None entry to show incorrectly
• Spaces are now generated between '=' when writing INI files.
• Fix up cache issue with writing over values.
• Fix cache from writing every INI after a song length was updated.
• Fix cache to generate INI's from .chart again
• Show reset popup when using 'Get Hardware Latency' in pause menu.
• Fix missing credits tooltip text, and resize tooltip button
• Fix scaling of tooltip buttons in pause menu.
• Fix pause menu volume settings not having a selection background.
• Fix hardware latency not updating the audio latency slider.
• Fix hardware latency box highlight state not being reset correctly.
• Rewrite frame based animator class to reduce the number of allocations made during gameplay.
• Fix pressing Ctrl+Backspace when searching.
• Reduce album art loading time to 300ms from 1 second.
• Re-skinned online menu, Added monospace font for console.
• Fix bug causing high score popup to always show.
• Fix idle main menu crash.
• Fix song list preview audio playing when not in focus.
• Removed style tags from internal song searching comparisons.
• Removed style tags from current song export.
• Fix issue where current song export doesn't get cleared when quitting a song.
• Fix being unable to enter Online menu when Quitting from in-game.
• Fix <14> being invisible.
• Change Taps to work the same in Practice as they do normally.
• Fix setlist scaling issues on ultra wide aspect ratios.
• Added available song sorting for online play.
• Fix issues with the menu fade effects.
• Changed end of song stats background to have alternating row colors for better readability
• Improve net state while scene changing, should help with difficulty and part selection desync issues.
• Fix practice restart timing issues when entering with a set Song Speed.
• Fix issues with stats carrying over when online.
• Add per player stars calculations.
• Add better logging for 'can't load song' error.
• Better disconnection handling.
• Re-implement Show Full Playlist feature.
• Changed sorting so when sorting by Song and searching it will only search by song name.
• Fixed bug causing available charts between players online to be out of sync.
• Fix 'Server is full' bug when connecting to a PC with different region or locale settings, and added better logging about why you couldn't connect.
• Fix issue where holding Green on a header wouldn't start a setlist, before you had to have a song selected.
• Fix issue where current song export didn't get cleared when quitting a song.
• Fix being able to hit HOPOs out of order.
• Fix issue where global video backgrounds would not loop.
• Fix scaling issues in settings menu.
• Visual tweaks for stars in the setlist and end of song screen.
• Fix hopo bug causing issues when trying to strum back into the following HOPOs.
• Fixed bugs causing scaling issues in the song list, and re-enabled list scaler.
• Fix game freeze with sustains if chart resolution is under 25.
• Fix 6-fret lefty flip in practice mode.
• Fix menu music playing during player selection.
• Fix main menu when backing out of the song list during the audio fadeout period.
• Fix graphical glitches with full combo text on the end of song screen.

V0.23.1.0

Clone Hero V.23.1 : The Online Build

(September 29, 2019)

Important: This build has a lot of coming features, fixes and changes that may have introduced uncaught bugs. While a lot of testing has been done to ensure nothing critical and system-breaking makes it to this release, we want you to understand that some stuff may have been missed. Feel free to report any bugs you can spot over in the #bug-reports Discord channel!

Most notably, your profiles will get reset and this is not a bug: this is due to the profile saving using a different format than before and needing to be recreated. However, your scores will not get reset, as scores are not profile specific.

As well, for players not using Windows (64-bit), please be patient as other versions are still under testing phase. They will be released in future v0.23.x releases!

This build introduces the long-awaited online mode and includes the release song Troopers of the Stars, made by none other than DragonForce! A huge thanks for their support: it’s been a pleasure to cooperate! Please support the band, as they are currently on tour!

• DragonForce’s shows
• Check out their album!
• Herman Li’s Twitch channel
• DragonForce’s Twitter

Changelog

• Changed strumming logic to only hit any note in the hit window (when strumming) if you don't currently have a combo
• Online multiplayer (it will be buggy) and server settings
• New UI overhaul (menus, graphics, art, etc)
• Added 3 seconds to the end of a song so songs don't instantly end anymore
• Disabled pausing after a song is over
• Changing speed in Practice resets percentages
• An insanely hard to find Easter Egg, and one that isn't so insane. Maybe try applying some Force to it.
• Added a few things to the Credits
• Fixed tons of bugs
• Profile and cache formats were changed, so they must be recreated
• Collapsible headers in the song list
• Headers stay collapsed while changing sort filters
• Pressing TAB while searching for a song will change the search filter
• Revamped Stats Screen and menus
• Modchart sorting filter
• Song list updates when playing a song while using the Percentage/Stars Earned/Play Count sort filters
• Changed HOPO/Tap Open notes to not autoplay anymore
• Added bugs

V0.22.5.0

Clone Hero V.22.5

(June 16, 2019)

This release fixes numerous bugs, and has a few smaller tweaks and improvements.

Update: New android builds have been uploaded to fix the bassinitfail error.

Changelog

• Updated to Unity 2018.4.2f1, fixes the maximize to fullscreen bug.
• Fixed bug causing playlist button tips to not show correctly.
• Fixed bug in screenshot code causing a memory leak.
• Tweak how background scaling works again.
• Fixed issues with multiple players resulting in automatically playing songs when entering the setlist.
• Prevent setlist navigation when holding down the Confirm button, prevents incorrect songs being selected sometimes.
• Added ability to hold green to start setlist.
• Increased setlist action hold time to 500ms from 200ms. (This applies to any action that requires holding a button to trigger)
• Added method to speed up setlist scroll by holding down strum bar.
• Fixed credit lines overflowing off screen.
• Fixed credits not exiting when the text scrolls off screen.
• Fixed bug allowing setlists to be created in practice mode, resulting in countless bugs.
• Fixed bug with certain linux drivers reporting compute shaders being supported, but failing to load compute shaders. The game now falls back to a cpu implementation in this case.
• Screenshot directory now created on game startup, instead of at the end of a song.
• Fixed timestamp on save screenshot filenames to be in local time.
• Disabled SP lightning in practice mode.
• Fixed bug causing playlists to load duplicate items if duplicate songs are enabled.
• Fixed bot profiles displaying new PB notification.
• Setlist popup is now positioned to show the number of songs when retracted.
• Song scanning now only detects song backgrounds with "video" in the name as having song video backgrounds.
• Tweaked Open Note gem, and sustain textures, hopefully will help with some readability issues that have been reported.
• Added tip text for setlist hold actions.
• Added new charter icons and sources.
• Several optimizations for new personal best popup to try and prevent stuttering.
• Fixed bug with game not writing out badsong.txt data for misnamed .chart files.
• Fixed remaining issues with Turkish language midi parsing.
• Added Turkish language translation.
• Updated translations.
• Fixed bug in .chart lyric event parsing causing any event containing the word "lyric" to be considered a lyric event. Now only checks the first word.
• Fixed display bug with bot profile color not being applied in some situations.
• Strip unity style tags out of song metadata when writing out currentsong.txt
• Fixed visual positioning of note tails on 3 and 4 player note highways.
• Fixed issues with video background metadata in cache.
• Added the ability to hold select to open the screenshot folder.
• Implemented load-time lyric font atlas generation, to optimize runtime support for full unicode range(as long as glyphs are available in our fonts)
• Updated screenshot format version to v4
• Fixed handling of case-sensitivity with duplicate song paths. Will no longer produce duplicate songs in this case.
• Added warning to badsongs.txt about video formats which aren't supported on all platforms.
• Added warning to badsongs.txt for charts that are not encoded as correct UTF-8. Songs that do not display some characters correctly in-game likely have this issue.
• Fixed issue where video backgrounds not named video.* would get loaded.
• Fixed issue where the song cache wasn't getting updated when song backgrounds were added or deleted.
• Fixed issue with open note glow being the incorrect color with sp.
• Fixed issue with open note glow disappearing with open extended sustains.

V0.22.4.0

Clone Hero V.22.4

(April 08, 2019)

This release fixes the frozen menu issues of v.22.3 as well as attempting to fix more midi issues with the Turkish language localization.

Changelog

• Fixed visual glitch with PB notification.
• Fixed menu freeze during transitions between menus.
• Fixed issues on setlist causing songs to be selected automatically.
• Fixed issue where quickplay was selected after leaving pratice song select.
• Fixed issue with the build update notification still being broken.
• Added ability to sort by if a chart has video backgrounds.
• Fixed culture issues with midi parser.

V0.22.3.0

Clone Hero V.22.3

(April 06, 2019)

Bugfix release with a few quality of life fixes, all known bugs with v.22 have been fixed. Lead guitar bug is finally fixed, as well as the setlist loading bug. Also includes a better font for Korean, Japanese, and Chinese characters. Direct download links are now back as well!

update: This build has a bug with controllers sometimes freezing menu navigation with certain controllers. If you have issues please revert back to v.22.2

Changelog

• Fixed missing lead guitar part on midi files.
• Added NotoSans CJK fonts for missing characters.
• Fixed gaining SP when holding whammy.
• Fixed stick whammy on gamepad mode.
• Practice mode progress bar now shows overall practice session progress rather than indivudal section progress.
• Fix typo's and display issues with credits.
• Added more charter icons.
• Fixed lag spike with new personal best notification.
• Fixed whammy render bug on older android hardware.
• Fixed setlist display of 7 stars.
• Fixed open note glow displaying in modchart sustains.
• Add ability to enable aprilfools prank with YBOOBYYO cheat.
• Add visual flash when taking a screenshot.
• Fix setlist loading bug.
• Fix album art not fully taking up the area in the song info box.
• Add ability to hold green button to start a setlist, and automatically add the song to it.

V0.22.2.0

Clone Hero V.22.2

(April 02, 2019)

First v.22 bugfix release. This update is HIGHLY recommended as if fixes the score saving bug causing expert to save as an easy score.

Changelog

• Fix missing badsongs.txt in some cases.
• Fixed the score saving bug where difficulties would be saved in reverse.
• Fix bug in update check script.
• Add support for relative paths in settings.ini song paths
• Clean up some log spam from the cheat system.
• Updated translations and credits.
• Set default whammy calibration for xbox 360 guitars.
• Added more icons and sources.
• Disable held sustains for certain modchart modes due to feedback.
• Fixed mac build
• Fixed linux build not being executable by default.