KKI presents
beat man - THE THEME
created in 2006 for stepmania 4.0 cvs
updated in 2007 because it's abandontheme
meant for the beatmania gametype.

contents:
* why did I abandon this
* why you shouldn't use it
* what can you stand to learn from it

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why did I abandon this

* beatmania support in SM4 is broken.
* I want to tie up as many loose theming ends as I can before I go
* it didn't get far anyways

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why you shouldn't use it

* it's not meant for end users.
* IT'S NOT MEANT FOR END USERS THIS MEANS YOU
IF YOU GIVE ME BUG REPORTS I WILL IGNORE THEM BECAUSE THIS THEME IS NOT DONE
AND WILL NEVER BE DONE (at least by my own hand)

* SERIOUSLY THIS THEME IS NOT FOR END USERS I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD

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what can you stand to learn from it

* how to make custom Lua functions, if you didn't see my MAX2
* how to grab the timing preferences, if you didn't see my additions to
NAKET Coder Revolution: Bleeding Heart Liberal (and let's face it, nobody
fucking uses SM4 except myself anyways so they didn't; go back to using your
k//eternal themes on 3.9/3.9 Plus, squares)
* how to make custom fonts that aren't the generic complete ASCII page
(protip: space should NEVER be the last character, because StepMania likes
to ignore that.)
* AJ keeps a messy dev folder

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please note that this was all done BEFORE the ripping tools were made/made
public, so I was grabbing screenshots from Happy Sky running on my PC.

Nowadays you'd be dumb not to use the rip tools if making a ripped theme.

-AJ 187 of what was KKI.