Here we are again.

0.12 is ready, this update is pretty big, it also comes with some big news, off we go:

New song: Going my way (DJ Timotei EDIT)

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A new song licensed from the Eurobeat circle Takanashi Kobo, this song has been charted by Yahoo and illustrated by Reixart.

Website and user rankings







Project Heartbeat now has an official website, this includes web based leaderboards and user rankings a la osu, the ranking system's points have been tentatively named pp (for funny reasons).

Do note we want to revisit and probably redo this algorithm eventually, as it didn't perform quite as expected so a bespoke solution is gonna be needed.

You can find the website at ph.eirteam.moe

Steam Deck support



While we weren't among the lucky few to get a devkit, but we managed to get the game ready for Steam Deck anyways through some black magic (and some new Steam SDK releases). It will now use the new text input features of SteamOS 3.0 where available.

Another features include better scaling of the menus in general, particularly for the main menu.

Big picture mode gamepad text input support



When running the game inside Steam Big Picture you can now use the keyboard whenever you have to type something.

Controller overhaul

As part of the aforementioned deck support we have updated how the controller support works.
The selected controller is now the first one we detect an input from, when a controller is being used the mouse gets hidden.

Song search



What took you so long? - Kazuhira Miller, probably

h264 mainlined



After some investigation I discovered that neither my country nor my closest neighbor (France, unfortunately) recognize software patents, thus I've taken the decision to mainline h264 support for PPD migration.

Ordinary songs will continue to use vp9 for the time being, in case we have to remove it, but I don't think we will.

Previously you had to install a plugin, hopefully this simpler solution will make transitioning easier.

Editor shortcut remapping



You can now remap most shortcuts in the editor

Load time improvements



Load times have been greatly improved across the board by removing some 4D chess code I accidentally added, song load is instant most of the time, and audio normalization is cached, so even if the first load isn't instant subsequent loads should be.

GLES2 improvements

Some minor fixes have been made to make GLES2 support better for those that need it.

Rewritten main menu music playback

The code used to playback songs in the main menu has been made more reliable and more performant, now audio normalization is used where available, else it uses a compressor to try and keep volume under control.

Updated localization

Most localization files for catalan and spanish have been updated

Direct Joystick Access fixes

Last update we introduced direct joystick access, which allows controls to behave in a nicer way by combining the two axis of a joystick for detection, this didn't really work well so it was relegated to an optional feature, new changes and bugfixes should make it now better although some issues have been found that prevent it from becoming the default yet.

ShiftJIS support for PPD zips



When downloading PPD charts you may have noticed it sometimes failed to find the data.ini even though it was there.
This was caused because the file names were encoded in an encoding system known as ShiftJIS (JIS stands for Japanese Industry Standard) this encoding is fairly exotic in the west but very common in japan, at least years ago (everyone seems to finally have agreed on UTF-8).
The game will now try converting the raw file name data into ShiftJIS if it fails to decode it as UTF-8, which should be nice.

Editor changes



A bunch of editor changes, courtesy of lino.

Add X/Y snap for grid notes
You can now slide around notes in a straight line by pressing shift while dragging them

Practice mode stats in playtest
The practice mode stats have been added to playtest in the editor

Autoslide option
Added an autoslide option to make slide spacing be correct

More per-song editor settings

More editor settings will now be saved when you save your song:

• Snap to the timeline
  
• Show video
  
• Show BG
  
• Show grid
  
• Snap to grid
  
• Grid resolution
  
• Autoarrange HV separation
  
• Autoarrange diagonal separation
  
• Use stage center for transformations
  
• Angle circles from the inside
  
• Circle size
  
• Circle separation
  
• Advanced circle mode