- Unfortunately, the way this system previously worked, the unlock was given to you for free if you accidentially opened two copies of the game at once.
- Instead, open the file in r+ mode, shimmy along 5 bytes, and write a `true` to be read later.
- Far more memory safe than rewriting the entire gamedata out on crash.
ALSO:
- crashflags has been split into boolean evercrashed and UINT8 musicflags.
- We don't need to track if the LAST session was a crash, at least not right now.
- Opens the floor up to other music like Loser Club happening on the Challenges menu.
M_UpdateMenuCMD only needs to be called once per tick per player.
It was being called for every event, which really mangled the repeat
delays as more attached controllers sent axis events.
- Combine multiple adjacent saves
- Generally could happen during game ticking, combined via gamedata->deferredstate
- DEFINITELY happened in splitscreen PWR handling, adjust those loops directly
- Write "dirty" state via gamedata->crashflags on everything except safe, intentful unloads
- Add UC_CRASH, which unlocks dependent on the above "dirty" state being present at gamedata load
- We can use this for something more useful and less funny later.
- Play "O_LOSERC" on the menu, starting with the Challenges screen, if a UC_CRASH condition has been met.
- Online menu is inaccessible until unlocked.
- Unlike most unlocks, the fact that it's not enabled is very clearly signposted.
- This is because the previous entry in the series barely had any offline content at all, so the fact you'll have to work for it will catch a lot of people by surprise.
- Has a message that straight up tells you you need experience in Grand Prix mode.
- Has no affect in TESTERS builds, for which this is the only method of play available.
- Drawn over the top of basically everything when enabled.
- Update song credit on
- Menu music update (can sometimes clear it)
- Intermission begin
- Vote begin
- Return to title (by clearing it)
- Splits M_SetupDifficultyOptions out of M_SetupDifficultySelect.
- Permits Encore to be handled on Difficulty menu if unlocked after a Match Race.
- Fixes an issue where the in-game Pause menu could be accessed in the menu
- The prevMenu that was set was overriden with in-game Pause.
- The assumption made - that the levelsearch/levellist struct would not be touched - is pretty transparently violated.
- I made it go back to the Difficulty select instead of fixing the issue because:
- Match Race is more dependent on the rules you configure for that particular round
- This mode of play will be modified in future to not be literally offline MP with things like voting, but instead return to the menu
- It was easier relative to the amount of work to properly restore (this is the biggest reason)
- Permits IT_ARROWS routines to distinguish between a rightward input and an A-button input.
- Only M_ChangeCvar needed to change to accomodate this - every other example of IT_ARROWS already acommodates this
If Playing(), does nothing.
- If NULL, cycle between Cascade Cave as is traditional.
- If ".", stop music. (will one day be used for sound test)
- Any other case, call S_ChangeMusicInternal on the string directly
Notable menu sets:
- All Extra menus, excepting the Replay Hut, use "EXTRAS"
- Replay Hut uses "REPLAY"
- All online menus use "NETMD2".
- I know we wanted to do something with switching between "NETMDE" and "NETMD2". I would prefer a more consistent API for transferring song position across between tracks be implemented before implementing this.
- Known bug: Music restarts when exiting from failed connection screen
- Known bug: Music goes back to Cascade Cave when selecting "GO" for server creation
- Wontfix as we want that button to go directly to the voting screen, which we can do in a voting revamp branch
- Data Erase, Profile Erase: "SHWDN2"
- Not in the spec but I think it's both funny and a valuable tell for the most "dangerous" menu to play with.
- Also shifts the background to SKINCOLOR_BLACK
- restoreMenu, M_SpecificMenuRestore
- From any Cup Select, Level Select, or Time Attack context (including non-net replay playback), return to the relevant "core menu"
- From any server OR server connection failure, return to the Online EGGA CHANNEL top-level menu
- From netreplay, head to replay hut without incorrect gamestate/fade cope
- Interruption for Challenges unlock sequence now happens on all menu returns, not just post-titlescreen
- M_StartControlPanel
- Integrate with above
- Handle menu re-initialisation properly under more contexts
- D_ClearState
- Split out from D_StartTitle
- Can be used alongside M_StartControlPanel to restore menu state from any play session in a way just as reliable as D_StartTitle was
- Fix starting the playback mini-menu
- Fix playback mini-menu input not being natively horizontal
- Fix playback mini-menu having been written before r_splitscreen refactor
- Move heinous modifying-menu-data-in-the-drawer behaviour to an actual dedicated ticker
Initialises Time Attack menu
- Check for replay file's existence before showing related options
- Parity with pre-newmenus behaviour
- Replay/guest-save functionality not yet (re)implemented
- Handles mutli-gametype timeattack level select listings more thoroughly
