Basically a dedicated Record Attack-like experience for speedrunning the game as a continuous chunk rather than ILs. Has several quality of life features.
Benefits include:
* An unambiguous real-time bar across the bottom of the screen, always displaying the current time, ticking up until you reach the ending.
* Disable the console (pausing is still allowed, but the timer will still increment).
* Automatically skip intermissions as if you're holding down the spin button.
* Show centiseconds on HUD automatically, like record attack.
* "Live Event Backups" - a category of run fit for major events like GDQ, where recovery from crashes or chokes makes for better entertainment. Essentially a modified SP savefile, down to using the same basic functions, but has its own filename and tweaked internal layout.
* "spmarathon_start" MainCfg block parameter and "marathonnext" mapheader parameter, allowing for a customised flow (makes this fit for purpose for an eventual SUGOI port).
* Disabling inter-level custom cutscenes by default with a menu option to toggle this (won't show up if the mod doesn't *have* any custom cutscenes), although either way ending cutscenes (vanilla or custom) remain intact since is time is called before them.
* Won't show up if you have a mod that consists of only one level (determined by spmarathon_start's nextlevel; this won't trip if you manually set its marathonnext).
* Unconditional gratitude on the evaluation screen, instead of a negging "Try again..." if you didn't get all the emeralds (which you may not have been aiming for).
* Gorgeous new menu (no new assets required, unless you wanna give it a header later).
Changes which were required for the above but affect other areas of the game include:
* "useBlackRock" MainCFG block parameter, which can be used to disable the presence of the Black Rock or Egg Rock in both the Evaluation screen and the Marathon Run menu (for total conversions with different stories).
* Disabling Continues in NiGHTS mode, to match the most common singleplayer experience post 2.2.4's release (is reverted if useContinues is set to true).
* Hiding the exitmove "powerup" outside of multiplayer. (Okay, this isn't really related, I just saw this bug in action a lot while doing test runs and got annoyed enough to fix it here.)
* The ability to use V_DrawPromptBack (in hardcode only at the moment, but) to draw in terms of pixels rather than rows of text, by providing negative instead of positive inputs).
* A refactoring of redundant game saves smattered across the ending, credits, and evaluation - in addition to saving the game slightly earlier.
* Minor m_menu.c touchups and refactorings here and there.
Built using feedback from the official server's #speedruns channel, among other places.
Please look at the merge request description for a full explanation, since I know the vanilla team has been hashing this out and I don't want to add fuel to the fire without at least presenting a solid case.
(oddly enough, this actually revealed some secret file dependencies previously included via r_things.h! I also needed to include d_player.h in r_skins.h itself it seems)
This _really_ needs to be a UINT8 array instead of
all this bit-shifting nonsense that saves no space,
but at least this way reading the menu structs doesn't
make me want to die.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405336003239477249/641295998395613224/srb20042.gif
* Port MUSICDEFs from Kart.
* Safe to modify without modifying game, so we can put it in music.dta eventually.
* "Title", "AltTitle", "Authors" fields are self-evident.
* "Soundtestpage" and "Soundtestcond" are used to determine which sound test unlockable can play them (set with Unlockable's variable, just like Level Select).
* "Stoppingtime" and "BPM" both accept floats, and are used for presentation stuff on the sound test.
* Ironically, we don't share a single field name with them. Such is the case of differing foci, though, and I expect they'll change their implementation to match (since this is necessary for a sound test).
* Change how S_AddSoundFx works to avoid iterating through all of them, and to allow cv_soundtest to only scroll through defined slots (instead of the infinite wall of thok sounds when scrolling to the left).
* Change V_DrawFixedPatch to allow scaling on two seperate axes.
* Now called "V_DrawStretchyFixedPatch".
* "V_DrawFixedPatch" is a macro to V_DrawStretchyFixedPatch now (same scale on both axes).
* Available to Lua under v.drawStretched!
* Even works in GL!
* Bugfix: Add SR_PLAYER to SOC's menutypes_list.
Stay tuned for the merge request, where I put the onus on the Music Team to finish this off...
Music pausing is now optional.
Sounds may be paused--on by default.
The game itself being paused in off-line mode is now optional.
(showfocuslost now loads from config.)
* `SPR2_NTAG` last vestiges removal.
* Removed need for `getskinfromdescription()` by calculating it once, at Menu load, and storing in `description_t`.
* Fixed nametag colour issues.
* Support widescreen with nametags.
* Fix a metric SHITTON of compiler errors.
* Redefining `x` and `y` within scope of previous `x` and `y` (`M_DrawSetupChoosePlayerMenu`)
* GCC straight up will not let you cast a `const char*` to a `char` (`V_DrawNameTag`)
* Redefining `lines` within the scope of the global.
* Redefining `string` within the function-specific `string`.
* It would be recommended for y'alls to turn ERRORMODE on!
LJ Sonic
