GH Classic 0.8.8 (work in progress)

Bugs

• Whammy did nothing when bound to a keyboard key

GH Classic 0.8.7 (work in progress)

New

• Gamepads and keyboard once again have a dedicated set of controls for traversing menus separate from in game mappings. This was removed due to inconsistencies with how menus handled buttons but has been reimplemented by request. They can be rebound in input.ini under [menu keyboard] and [menu gamepad]

	Keyboard	Gamepad
Move	Arrows	D-pad, left stick
Select	Space, Enter	A
Back	Esc	B
Yellow	3	Y
Blue	4	X
Orange	5	LB
Start	Tab	Start
Star power	Shift	Back

• Pad mode autostrumming is now available as a keyboard controller option (asjkl players rejoice!)
• Holding up/down now begins scrolling after about half a second rather than 2
• VSync can now be turned off with vsync = false in settings.ini, which in tandem with frame_rate_cap = 0 now truly means as many frames as your gpu can spit out (Hazzah!)

Bugs

• A controller set to guitar mode now gives the proper button mappings expected (A B Y X LB) for a guitar input, this should allow guitars that auto-detect as xinput gamepads (CRKD) to function properly
• Songs would sometimes freeze momentarily as their audio ended
• Game timings would drift when frames run late

GH Classic 0.8.6 (work in progress)

New

• Brought back calibration due to popular demand, right above separate video and audio latency controls

Bugs

• Render engine issues on some AMD cards (fuck off black squares!)
• Frame rate cap defaults to 60, as above 60 can stutter on some setups (existing installs: set frame_rate_cap = 60 in settings.ini)

GH Classic 0.8.5 (work in progress)

THIS IS UNFINISHED. Expect bugs, missing features and things changing between releases.

New

• Local multiplayer is back! Just press start to join as P2 on the Multiplayer screen, and yellow to reorder. Controllers are now matched by GUID from a catalogue of guitar families. Hotplug, replug and last run's seats should be remembered in input.ini, and keyboard controls should ALWAYS be available to P1 as a last resort.
• Face-Off and Pro Face-Off now show all unlocked content from all games including outfits, guitars, venues and setlists
• Controllers screen under Options > Settings, or the pause menu's Settings. Lets you easily check mappings and rebind controls for individual gamepads, guitar controllers, and keyboards. Gamepad mode is now a toggle defaulted on for gamepads, and the help bar shows glyphs for gamepads and keyboard controls now
• PLAY A SHOW Hub Quickplay now starts on a hub where you can pick your character, guitar, and venue more conveniently, with some nifty menu animations.
• Quickplay songs unlocked in any difficulty or note engine are available for everyone
• Added crowns to indicate FCs beside stars on career and quickplay. FCs done in quickplay are kept for progression. Streak counter digits are purple now to indicate a run is still a FC
• Song map tube under the rock meter to see roughly how much longer the song is
• "Unlock all" added to game settings if you don't wanna have to unlock shit

Bugs

• Song caption shows again on restart
• Main menu's Quit readjusted to fit in each theme
• 80s finale flagged as a special encore, as retail does for Play With Me
• Campaign progress counts each song by the hardest difficulty passed instead of starting at 75% after beating a single song on expert
• Score and rock meters in the HUD slide-in at their correct height
• Setlists longer than the song list paper scroll a window at a time
• Track fade-out follows longer highways, so far gems and tails stay lit, and held, let-go and missed sustains survive note speed, highway length or lefty remaking the track

GH Classic 0.8 (work in progress)

THIS IS UNFINISHED. Expect bugs, missing features and things changing between releases.

New

• Brand new campaign hub with per game progress tracking, followed by FC tracking after you've already beaten all core campaign songs on expert
• GH1 note engine is now available to play with in quickplay or its own dedicated campaign, enjoy never hitting another HOPO on purpose again
• Added a strum limit toggle, just in case you really don't want to FC Trogdor (you can also set framerate to 50 limit with the limit on for the theoretically playable PAL experience)
• Added a simple "Classic" logo using the in game marker font underneath each game's logo, plus a redesigned icon
• Added a procedurally generated Zebra rug texture under the setlist wall for GH80s to differentiate from reused GH2 wall textures

Bugs

• Reduced lag spikes worst with next gen lighting enabled due to textures reloading mid-song
• The streak counter would only appear in GH2 HUDs
• Some HUD themes would be missing certain digit glyphs for rok font
• The classic HOPO bug where a note would lock from a wrong fret and carry over even after restarts or practice skips

Compatibility

• Dropped Vulkan version to 1.0 to enable older GPU support since GHC doesn't really use modern features anyways
• The renderer would break a Vulkan rule each frame that most drivers ignored, but may have caused instability on some GPUs

GH Classic 0.7.5 (work in progress)

THIS IS UNFINISHED. Expect bugs, missing features and things changing between releases.

New

• Note Streaks - Toggleable counter mesh appears under the score meter with streak popups at 50, every 100 to 500, then 750, 1000, 1500 and every 1000 after; easy to toggle off in the settings
• HD Fonts - All on-disc fonts have been retraced to make .otf vectors with a new toggle. Note that some number glyphs were missing on the PS2/360 sheets and so have been compressed to match the resolution/compression quality of other PS2/360 fonts.

GH1 Improvements

• Campaign correctly indicates the number of completed songs needed to move onto the next tier/beat the game based on difficulty
• Setlist now uses the correct GH1 pen font
• Fixed a bug where GH1 setlist would scroll an extra line after each section pushing the text off screen by the bottom of the setlist
• Quickplay songs now choose the right default guitar
• Venues now have more accurate light and drum kit animations
• Fixed an issue where some pause screens would show GH2 menus in GH1 campaign
• Results screen now correctly shows GH1 hero images
• Added Continue and More Stats to the GH1 results screen for parity w GH2 songs
• Shop no longer plays GH2 shop gate opening sfx, nor does it prevent UI control until said sfx finished playing
• Fixed an issue where GH1 store guitars loaded in backwards

Menus

• Settings screens cursor wrap when scroll above the first item or below the last item
• Standardized option menu rows across both GH1 and GH2 pause screens
• Confirm and Back sfx now play in pause settings, the lag screen and photo mode
• Fixed a consistency issue where GH80s menus spaced the same fonts further apart

Graphics

• Fixed reflections on scaled meshes
• Geometry is now clipped at the camera to prevent other meshes overlapping the note highway

GH Classic 0.7 (work in progress)

THIS IS UNFINISHED. Expect bugs, missing features and things changing between releases.

Imports

• GH1, GH80s and Xbox 360 GH2 roms load and play inside PS2 GH2 as their own campaigns and quickplay setlists; includes all original UIs, songs, career, store, venues, characters and guitars
• the primary game still requires a base SLUS-21447 GH2 rom, but additional content roms can be added from any region at any time and just bring their content with them
• All campaigns default to their authentic content. Quickplay allows the mixing and matching of characters, guitars, venues, and songs

Xbox 360 graphics

• REQUIRES an xbox 360 rom of GH2!
• Characters, guitar and venue models, textures and art
• Authentic Xbox 360 rendering engine: per pixel lighting, specular and reflections, bloom, depth of field and character shadows

New

• Photo mode: view all the venue's cameras, plus a noclip style free camera (WASD+mouse movement, Q+E roll, shift to go faster)
• Note speed per difficulty (replaces the hyperspeed cheat) and highway length, previewed live on any paused song
• Lefty flip makes your guitarist left-handed
• Graphics options: render scale (50-200%), MSAA, TAA, forcing high LOD models and a perf overlay

Performance and latency

• Smoother frame pacing and no more shader stutter mid-song (thanks FelipeLuis)
• Dropped input latency by roughly 40 ms on Windows, 13 ms on Linux and 30 ms on Mac

GH Classic 0.6 (work in progress)

• PS2 rendering parity: depth of field, spotlight beam smoke, fogged projections, flares, highway fading into the venue, hit glow on the track
• PS2's object culling as a setting (off by default)
• Holding the whammy bar down bends every sustain like in gh3 onward
• Letting go just before a sustain ends no longer cuts your guitar
• Echo and delay sound effects are now accurate
• Main menu lick fades out when you leave the menu
• Window opens widescreen when widescreen is on
• Version number on the main menu, and a prompt at launch when a newer release is out
• Linux builds run on more distros