patches: these can be applied on the SM source, 3.9 final or CVS compatible, they change stepmania behavior to be more like ddr (extreme)

gamemanager:
correct X positions for arrows in game - directly under the life meters.

marvelousghost:
in EX, even if marvelous is not used, there are white explosions for marvelous accurate steps.

musicwheel:
music wheel entries fading out to black away from the center.
use color "GroupSectionColor" from the metrics, for group sections

musicwheelitem:
fix a bug in SM, revealed by the musicwheel patch.

notefield:
the "up" column must have the notes drawn the other way around so in case of overlapping, the tips of the arrows are visible, not the rear ends.

screenevaluation:
show the blocky max combo digits. show 3 digit columns if possible.

vividnotes:
100% exact note colors behavior for vivid and solo notes, like DDR, to be used with special noteskin

notedisplay:
fix frame rounding bug (works for 16 and 64 color frames)
support "ddrvivid", vivid note colors exactly like ddr

banner, fadingbanner, screenselectmusic:
show ABC banner in ABC sort modes
show "genre" (group) scrolling banner 
scroll position based on timestamp to fix randomly changing position between banners

screenselectmusic:
let the last song's music play when browsing sections, instead of common menu music

gamesoundmanager:
fix random call in "play random sound from dir" for better randomness

musicwheelitem:
in ABC sort modes, font + zoomX/Y and X factor

gamestate, dancingcharacters:
allow beginner helper while having dancing characters set to off

beginnerhelperspeed:
make beginner helper animate at correct speed instead of too fast (assuming the available bones files)

musicwheel:
if a song/course is selected and start is pressed, make wheel entries except current song dark

background:
do not show danger if beginnerhelper shows

ScoreKeeperMAX2, StageStats: if little mod is enabled, make score and grade only half as good. this makes the little mod "safe". this is somewhat like arcade (in reality it isn't half; its the ratio of 4th notes / all notes in the original chart)

songmanager: remove word filters para para paradise, beatmania, so the long name shows in the wheel

screenoptions: show correct line highlight graphics for player 1, 2, and both

difficultymeter: symmetric feet indicators in song selection screen

RageSoundDriver_WaveOut: made waveout latency shorter (2048 sample blocks)

ScreenOptions: draw cursor over underlines to allow underlines graphic to be dark.

songmanager: red song entries can be overriden with theme: Other/songinfo.ini, [songname] RedEntry=(0 or 1)

ScreenSelectMusic, DifficultyMeter, DifficultyMeter.h: glowing feet can be overridden with theme: Other/songinfo.ini, [songname] GlowFeet=(0 or 1)

gradedisplay, screenevaluation: exact ddr like grades settle animations. needs custom grades graphic. AAAA grade is not shown.

screenmanager: show credits indicators like ddr (if not in home mode). also event mode in the center (posX 320)

screenevaluation: show percentage bar for oni eval screen (and can be used for EM2 theme). needs "percentbar" metrics

screenevaluation: disable the display "it's a new record" in eval screen for machine records - only personal record

musicwheel: if the default sort is a mode which is not in the cycle list, make the next mode "group" (not "title")

screeninstructions: show for difficulties up to standard, not up to light

randomnumber.h, gradedisplay,gamesoundmanager,musicwheel: implemented "randomnumber" define which should be used to get 0 <= random < n

screenselectmusic,musicwheel: "random" song entry behavior like ddr (starts random song instead of using roulette effect)

screengameplay: add new commands: DifficultyP#StageOncommand, used to update the cropping for scroll direction, during a course.

screenselectmusic: oni: don't allow entering mods or changing difficulty by pressing codes

screenselectmusic,musicwheel,gameconstantsandtypes,songutil: added optional "defaultlist" feature; sort mode which shows
songs from a fixed list in the metrics. also gives ddr style random/roulette behavior.

screenselectmusic, screenselectmusic.h, musicwheel.h: BPM display "scroll" animation like DDR

arroweffects: make arrows show on integer Y coordinates, like ddr. also makes arrows look sharper/better.

screenselectstyle: pad/char sprites like ddr, and the proper characters for p1 and p2.

screengameplay: do not increase number of played songs of dead player (for oni). show "1st", "2nd", etc in nonstop game screen

screengameplay: added code for flashing red behind lifemeters in oni mode

musicwheel: correct sort modes like ex: "by artist" is omitted. "by BPM" has no sections. scrollbar thumb is smaller.

background: make fade last 0.5 sec, not 1 sec.

background: workaround for the bg video rewind glitch (showing one bad frame right after a change)

changed Y position of ready/go graphics to be in the center of the note field area. made "go" graphic stretched to correct width

screenoptionsmaster: difficulties without the feet

screenplayeroptions: added difficultyicon

screengameplay: solo behavior: if one player chooses solo, both have it. also "solo flat" noteskin.

playeroptions: fixed/improved the "mods string" routines, made a "gameplay" version of the string which hides some mods like ddr

playeroptions: patched "next option in list" routines to allow for exact "code" behavior, needs metrics

optioniconrow: make ddr's options appear in the correct columns

screenoptions: alternative metrics for option icons which allow them to appear in the optionicon row area. hide underlines on a player's current line.

optionicon: allow an option icon to be represented by a picture, "optionicon option (name)"

grooveradar, ragedisplay_ogl: render groove radar to look like on ddr (1 pixel thick, and fixed non anti aliased rendering looking wrong)

scorekeepermax2, player: count freeze jumps as 1 instead of 2, like ddr - scores are now exactly like ddr (multiple fixes)

musicwheel: onilist, nonstoplist: define the entries in the wheel - order and color of entries, using metrics

courseentrydisplay: show song entries using the difficulty color, like ddr. show "? ? ?" like ddr. Use "CourseEntryDisplay difficulty" instead of common font.

musicwheel: tween course's song list when changing difficulty, like ddr

musicwheelitem: if course or group text is made narrower to fit, also make it less high, like ddr

difficultymeter: let feet glow according to metrics command

screenselectmusic: - show radar/meter effect for "random" entry - always show the difficultyicon (also on non song entries)

musicwheel: fixed bug: the preferred difficulty filter in the random song selection did not work.

screenranking: correct layout for oni scores

course: fix IsRanking() compare loop bug

screengameplay: fail immideate always for (nonstop) courses (also if event mode)

screenranking: show listed nonstop courses with all "shown difficulties", show listed oni courses with only normal difficulty.

screenevaluation: don't commit score if failed nonstop course, or if event mode

prefsmanager, screenmanager, screenevaluation, screenoptionsmasterprefs, screenoptionsmaster: added arcade style event mode.

screenevaluation: groove bars must be divided by number of songs for nonstop courses. calculate positions of song small banners. code for AAA flashing groove banners.

songmanager: allow newlines in group entries. allow the home version kanji in group entries.

musicwheelitem: allow metrics for proper zooming and aligning of text of group entries

lifemeterbar: allow hot to show 4 strips and normal or extra stage 2.

screenselectmusic: in course, the course name must show in the "stage" area.

percentagedisplay: animating oni dance points

screengameplay: (oni) course stage number must show 2 digits

lifemeterbar: fixed beginnerhelpers Z buffer issue

bpmdisplay: "random" bpm must have "extra color". don't do 0.5 sec fade.

screenevaluation: font for playeroptions.

playeroptions: in the gameplay string, show speedmod as x2, not 2x

screengameplay: don't show the difficultyicons in demonstration mode

screenevaluation: flashing stages number if you cleared an oni course.

musicwheelitem: showing grades: turn AAAA into AAA, and use AAAA grade for "no" icon.

screenselectmusic: sorticon sort change command

musicwheel: times related to sort order changing as metrics

screenevaluation: summary announcer plays in last stage's eval screen

screengameplay, player.h: play gameplay comment hot when life is above 0.75, not 1. (like ddr)

combo: the combo in ddr extreme has no shadow.

menutimer: don't do warning animation/sounds in eval screens (15 or 40 secs)

grooveradar: made base tween on/off metrics commands.

gamestate: make "HasEarnedExtraStage" available as LUA command

screenevaluation.h: max 7 song banners. extreme can show 6 (5 stages+extra), can it show 7?

textbanner, songmanager: if "card.png" is in a song dir, use it as it's textbanner. load it on init to cache it.

screenevaluation, gradedisplay: emulate grades glow effect with alpha/addition blend and a second layer so it works on d3d

lightsmanager, lightsmanager.h:
made to be more like extreme arcade.
