Frets On Fire (a guitar hero clone) Development Test 15

Yea, the download's fine now.

I'll try this out.

Okay, here's just a few last things to change.

1. The help.html file needs a tagline, it currently has the one from WinMerge.
2. A few times in the help file, it mentions FretsOnFire Portable which should be changed to Frets On Fire Portable.
3. It recreate the Data directory fine now, and only takes a few seconds to copy the first time, so that's good.

However, we need to figure something out as when it copies it from DefaultData, you've now doubled your 40 megs of Data, now you have 80 megs, and 40 are not needed. We need to think of a solution for that.

Edit: I found a sweet version of the logo in the data directory, here's the appicon.ico, use that instead.

Development Test 8 works great. 7-Zip extracted the files fairly fast. I'd say put 7-Zip in App\7-zip just to making it easier to identify as it is its own application.

There's a broken link in the help.html. The icon looks the same, just worse. It looks like someone was gnawing at the top and the button of it.

Looks really great, good work! Ready for release by me.

On firefox, the download doesn't work

the page just doesn't load

but i got it to work on IE

You're resident project nagger is back with a much greater fury than before:

SOMEBODY SCREWED UP THIS PROJECT BIG TIME!!!

When I tried to run Frets On Fire Portable 1.5.4.4 DT9 off my thumbdrive, it
refused to run with VERY GOOD REASON: GOOD CHUNKS OF THE GAME'S PROGRAM FILES
WERE MISSING!

Obviously, the current test version of FoF 1.5.4.4 DT9 is using version 1.1.314
unmodded due to it's simple file structure... I'm going to list off files that
are obviously missing that are required for the game. I'll make comments to
what each file is, when possible. Please be aware that I'm making an educated
guess on some of the files... so I can be wrong what they are, but they're
still fairly important.

To shorten the path name, I'll be using '~' to represent the address:

x:\PortableApps\FretsOnFirePortable\App\fretsonfire

Files that are missing are:

=============================== START OF LIST ==================================

>>> MAIN DATA FILES (REQUIRED) >> MOD FILES (Considered Optional)>> SONG FILES (REQUIRED) >> TRANSLATION FILES (Considered Optional)

I tried a few things and accuricy is always 0%.

BTW do i hear something from what i play or does it just means clicking on correct time at predefined music without audio feedback from the player?

I extracted the FoF mascot from the data dir and modified the SVG to remove the borders. It's now ready here in PNG format. To be used in the splash screen for when this goes live.

On several occasions when I select the a song I got a Microsoft visual c++ error on fretsonfire.exe. Windows 2000Pro.

Unsure what caused that. I might need a new install.

[Edit] Hmm I reinstalled and got again an error. I might want to try the official version to see if the runtime error also shows up there.

Ok. for info, I am running on a school Windows XP computer from My Documents. (I don't have my flashdrive on hand) It started up fine. However, I go to settings. I did not change any settings, but since there is no back button, I hit apply new settngs. (Personally, I think settings should apply without restarting or being able to do extra settings before resetting) On reset, I got an error message. It runs just fine from the EXE file, resetting for settings doesn't work though. I tried this again, and the settings reset still didn't work

The log file says...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 24, in ?
File "pygame\__init__.pyo", line 75, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 12, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 24, in ?
File "pygame\__init__.pyo", line 75, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 12, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 24, in ?
File "pygame\__init__.pyo", line 75, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 12, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 24, in ?
File "pygame\__init__.pyo", line 75, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 12, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 24, in ?
File "pygame\__init__.pyo", line 75, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 12, in ?
File "pygame\base.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 166, in __init__
File "Svg.pyo", line 77, in __init__
File "Svg.pyo", line 240, in __init__
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GMatrix33'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "FretsOnFire.py", line 64, in ?
File "GameEngine.pyo", line 166, in __init__
File "Svg.pyo", line 77, in __init__
File "Svg.pyo", line 240, in __init__
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GMatrix33'

On the upside... The 7-Zip stuff seems to be working on Windows ME & XP Home SP2.

The Downside... it's a one-shot wonder & changing major settings (like video options or toggling mods) causes a complete breakdown in the system, resulting in a runtime error similar to the the log posted above me.

I'm still holding on to DT4 as the version for its stability. Even if it takes up more space, it's the one version that I can easily expand & update manually.

Grabbing DT 13 now & I'll test it later tonight to see if I can break it! (//queue evil laugh)

I'll pump out my findings, if any, tomorrow evening.

Hey powerjuce, great work, he's the last bit of changes:

• In the help.html file, I'd reword it a bit so you don't have any issues with the Guitar Hero creators. If you do mention Guitar Hero, I'd trademark it. But don't say so you can play Guitar Hero on the go, maybe so you can play a Guitar Hero styled game on the go. Follow?
• Change the portable home page to /developmenttest to /fretsonfireportable in the help.html before you forget.
• Just change the AppSource.txt to only read: "The source code for the base application in this package is available from the portable applications home page mentioned in the help.html file."
• Change the ;Website: at the top of the source to the actual future http://PortableApps.com/FretsOnFirePortable link.
• Change !define WEBSITE to the new homepage alias.
• Change the CompanyName to PortableApps.com. (capital).
• We're getting rid of splash fade, so like 80 change the 200 to 0.
• Change the website in the Readme.
• For all the DLL's and stuff in DefaultData, why not keep them in the ProgramDirectory by default install, so we save some space, as they are program binaries.

That's basicially it, I wanna see this release. Awesome Job!

After first tring to launch the game i got an error.
it's in the log file.

(D) Initializing audio.
(D) Audio configuration: (44100, -16, 1)
(D) Initializing video.
(D) Enabling high priority timer.
(D) 0 joysticks found.
(N) Loading Data.star1 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\star1.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.star1 in 0.010 seconds
(W) Frame buffer object support disabled in configuration.
(N) Loading Data.star2 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\star2.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.star2 in 0.000 seconds
(N) Loading Data.left synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\left.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.left in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading Data.right synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\right.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.right in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading Data.ball1 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\ball1.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.ball1 in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading Data.ball2 synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\ball2.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.ball2 in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading Data.loadingImage synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\loading.svg'.
(N) Loaded Data.loadingImage in 0.000 seconds
(N) Loading Data.font asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.bigFont asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.screwUpSounds asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.acceptSound asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.cancelSound asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.selectSound1 asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.selectSound2 asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.selectSound3 asynchronously
(N) Loading Data.startSound asynchronously
(D) Ready.
(N) Loading MainMenu.background synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\keyboard.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.background in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading MainMenu.guy synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\pose.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.guy in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loading MainMenu.logo synchronously
(D) Loading SVG file 'data\logo.svg'.
(N) Loaded MainMenu.logo in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.font in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.bigFont in 0.000 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.screwUpSounds in 0.160 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.acceptSound in 0.030 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.cancelSound in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound1 in 0.020 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound2 in 0.010 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.selectSound3 in 0.020 seconds
(N) Loaded Data.startSound in 0.020 seconds
(D) View: Push: MainMenu
(D) View: Push: Menu
(E) OpenGL.GL.GLerror: [Errno 1284] stack underflow
(N) [Errno 1284] stack underflow
(D) View: Push: MessageScreen

at the bottom of the log is the error hope this helps

Can you install mods? Like rf-mod, or any other "big mod" which changes data files?
I assume you can install mods which you place in "mods" folder normally, but how about bigger mods? I will try, and see..

EDIT: It works! To replace data files, you replace them in "~\FretsOnFirePortable\Data\data", not in "~\FretsOnFirePortable\App\DefaultData\data", which was my original thought. So well.. Thats good Now I only need to copy over my song folder.. And oh, I have a suggestion. Could you in some way put all the songs in a separate folder? If you have 50 songs the "~\FretsOnFirePortable\App\fretsonfire" folder is going to be pretty full, if you copy in many folders.. Or is it the right folder?

EDIT2: Not working. The cassettes are wertical, they hook into each other, and when choosing difficult level, the screen stays red and do nothing. and I have tried two times, same result.

Are you the actual creator of Frets On Fire by any chance?

Is there a way to add your own songs? If so, which folder? If not, why?

Does anybody elses sound mess up after a while playing the program?
Way too much static.
I just exit the program, start over and it's fine again.
Might just this computer though.

Nice program btw, kinda hard to make your own songs though.
Especially when they have to be .ogg files, all mine are wma or mp3.