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@macmillan333 macmillan333 released this 02 Jun 00:35
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For beta players

  • There were no ruleset tweaks, so your records on 2.2 beta will continue to be recognized.
  • The tutorial's BGA has been updated.

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Added setlist mode.

A setlist is a named collection of patterns. After selecting a setlist, you need to choose 3 patterns from it, and play through them in one setting, on one HP bar. After finishing all 3 stages, TECHMANIA will choose a 4th pattern for you, and you need to complete it as well to finish the whole setlist.

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To further increase the challenge, you can only use 25% of your HP bar for each stage. This means, if you finish the 1st stage with more than 0% but less than 75% of your total HP, it's still counted as a failure. Likewise, you must finish the 2nd stage with more than 50% HP, and the 3rd stage with more than 25% HP.

TECHMANIA comes with a sample setlist to give you an idea of what setlists are like, but you can create more using the built-in setlist editor.

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It's important to note that setlists only contain identifiers to the patterns in it, not the patterns themselves. Therefore, when distributing a setlist, make sure to tell your players where to download the patterns in it. Likewise, if you open a setlist and see a warning that some patterns are not found, you may need to download them before you can play the setlist.

Other changes

  • The boot sequence now loads setlists, bringing the total number of steps to 4.
  • The main menu has been redesigned.
  • Rulesets' format version has been updated to "3" to allow defining different HP deltas for each setlist stage. Refer to documentation. Existing custom rulesets in older format versions will continue to work; HP deltas for each stage will be the same as playing single patterns.
  • It's now possible for a pattern to specify legacy ruleset overrides for each setlist stage.
  • Replaced the tutorial BGAs with ones made by Stanford J. Calvin (Mirai Akari) from The Big 6 League.

Fixed issues

  • An issue where the game will freeze when loading a pattern if there are certain problems with audio clips in it.
  • An issue where tracks in streaming assets are visible when selecting a track to edit; these tracks are not editable.

Known issues

  • scanCountdownBackground, scanCountdownNumbers and touchClickFeedback in the game UI skin will not display if they use additiveShader. Refer to the "On shaders" section in 2.0's release notes for an explanation.
  • After selecting a track or setlist to edit, sometimes the entire window stops responding to clicks. A workaround is to press Alt+Tab to switch to another application then back to TECHMANIA.
  • The first keystroke to the application will be ignored.

For theme developers

The Theme API has been updated to version 3, adding support for setlists. To keep the release notes from becoming too technical, API changes are listed separately in documentation.

Which files to download

This time everyone is encouraged to download both TECHMANIA.zip and Resources.zip to receive the new setlist and new tutorial BGAs.

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