Gunnar Hero changelog

The first time we heard about the rhythm-based homebrew game Gunnar Hero was around March of this year. It was created by HardHat and the inspiration came from, needless to say, the highly successful title Guitar Hero. We learned today that the developer joined forces with Team Sushi and came up with a new build for the Neo Spring Coding Competition 07.

Team Sushi noted that compared to the previous versions, this is one's the most stable and with a lot of additions such as keyboard re-mapping, high scores, points multipliers, and support for multiple plays per sessions. The complete changelog for this version is as follows:

• Nicer text for list of songs (based on the filename instead of the XML)
• Transparent menu background
• Targa-based vid capturing
• High scores are now saved, so beat your high score
• Multipliers are based on whether there are active notes or active sparks. If not, the multiplier is reset to 1.
• Replay now reset properly, so score is not cumulative
• Nicer sustain bars (but still no points for sustains)
• Added intro keymap instructions

Team Sushi has some important reminders included in the Readme file like installation guide, changelogs for previous builds, and more importantly, a How To for getting songs that you will use with Gunnar Hero v0.20.

Amazing homebrew game Gunnar Hero just got updated and it is currently in v.13. It was created by coder hardhat and inspirations for this one mostly came from video game Guitar Hero. Now if you are still not sure what the heck we are talking about, maybe you can watch the teaser video for the homebrew game that we posted a while ago.

With that out of the way, Gunnar Hero v.13 comes in with a lot of changes that is sure to make you rock out to your heart's delight. Among other many improvements, probably the most important one is that Gunnar Hero doesn't crash anymore when starting the previously posted song packs. Coder hardhat mentioned that the bug is not fully fixed but instead of crashing, Gunnar Hero just exits at times at the end of some songs.

The graphics of the Gunnar Hero has also been improved. You can see in this version that the stage, as well as the speakers, are now more polished than the previous release. Cameras, likewise, received upgrades as well. As if these changes are not enough, hardhat promised that the future releases will include the following:

• Fire effect on correct buttons
• Nicer rendered buttons
• Support sustain notes
• Easy, Medium and Expert levels added to the existing Hard level
• Less crashing
• High scores and Internet high scores
• Selectable skins
• More tolerence of misnamed files
• Much polishing
• Modder's guide

A few days ago, we talked about this PxP Compo entry, a homebrew game called Gunnar Hero from hardhat. You saw the teaser video and most of you seem to be excited about it. Well, parm289 through our forums informed us that hardhat had finally released Gunnar Hero.

Just in case you don't know what the game is all about, Gunnar Hero is a Guitar Hero homebrew spin-off and its features include re-mapable keys, 3D environment for the stage with custom cameras, and it's skinnable (hardhat promises that more skins would be available soon). hardhat also mentions that the game crashes after the summary screen, so don't get surprised when that happens while you're trying this game out. Here's the game's full song list:

• 36 Crazyfists - The Heart and the Shape (exilezx)
• Adolescents - Surfside (shitbuster)
• Alisean - Surfing on the Blocks (Trinexx)
• Brendon Small - Secret Song 13 (sm4k)
• Gitaroo Man - Legendary Theme (Arren Jevleth)
• Goe Goe Spark - HARD (OttawaJammer)
• JerryC - Canon Rock (DaN)
• Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey
• Killswitch Engage - This Fire Burns (exilezx)
• Kirby's Adventure - Yogurt Yard (partack)
• Mattias - Mega Man 2 Remix (gtenkspowrturk)
• Minibosses - Mike Tyson's Punch Out (XnMeX)
• Minibosses - Ninja Gaiden (doctorb)
• The Aquabats - Sequence Erase (KnockoutPackage)
• The Daredevils - Hate You (innerlogic)
• Yngwie Malmsteen - Demon Driver (Tapion013)