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USER’S GUIDE
Table of Contents
Table of Contents .........................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................3
Features..............................................................................................................................................................3
Getting Started..............................................................................................................................................................3
PC System Requirements ..................................................................................................................................3
Installation...........................................................................................................................................................3
Installation of DirectX..........................................................................................................................................3
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................................................4
Game Performance ............................................................................................................................................4
Technical Support .........................................................................................................................................................4
Web Support.......................................................................................................................................................4
Forums................................................................................................................................................................4
Email Support .....................................................................................................................................................4
Adding Songs................................................................................................................................................................5
Song Editor ...................................................................................................................................................................5
Creating New Songs...........................................................................................................................................5
Editing Songs .....................................................................................................................................................5
Options..........................................................................................................................................................................6
Compiling The Sourcecode ..........................................................................................................................................8
Obtaining Sourcecode Using Subversion (SVN)................................................................................................8
Songfile Format.............................................................................................................................................................8
Songfile Header Tags.........................................................................................................................................8
Features
• Special autocorrelation method to detect voice pitch
• Up to 6 players playing at once using many soundcards and external USB cards including Singstar
USB converter
• Support for 2 screens
• Built-in song editor and midi converter
• Configurable sorting options and covers for songs and editions
• Background movies and pictures when singing
• Cache technology to speed up loading covers (useful for system with over 2000 songs!)
• Skin and theme system to let users customize their UltraStar appearance
• Network support to check for never versions and auto-update online profile
Getting Started
PC System Requirements
To play UltraStar, you’ll need the following hardware.
• Pentium II 800 MHz or better processor, 2GHz recommended
• 800 X 600 16 bit color display or better
• Graphics card with OpenGL acceleration
• 128 MB of memory, 512 MB recommended
• 30 megabytes of hard drive space and free space for additional songs
• DirectX 7.0 or better
• DirectX 7.0 compatible soundcard with microphone input
• Microphone
Software Requirements:
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista or 7.
Installation
UltraStar must be installed on your hard drive in order to play. Simply run the UltraStar-0.8.2.exe and you will
be guided through the installation process.
Additional Documentation
Addition documentation is available at the following site: www.ultrastargame.com.
Installation of DirectX
If you already have DirectX 7.0 or better installed on your computer, you can skip this step. If you don’t have
it, go to www.microsoft.com and download the latest install package for DirectX.
Game Performance
The game defaults to having the maximum details possible. You can’t set this lower to increase your game
performance but there are other options that affects performance. In the graphics setup window you can do
the following:
• Resolution Set your video mode to a lower screen resolution.
• Depth On old card setting to 16-bit may increase speed.
• Oscillograph Set it off.
Playing song with background video and singing with many players also decrease performance. Avoiding
this may cause big performance boost.
Technical Support
Should you experience any technical problem concerning the operation of this product, please check Web
Support, Forums and Email Support.
Web Support
Visit these web sites:
http://www.ultrastargame.com
Forums
Visit these forums:
https://www.ultrastargame.com/forum
Email Support
Send email to:
contact@ultrastar.pl
Song Editor
Creating New Songs
To create news songs from midi file, you will have to do the folowing:
• Enter editor from the main menu.
• Choose to convert midi.
• Choose open and type the file name you want to convert, accept.
• Select track with voice. Use cursors to move between tracks and press space to select track. It will
be marked as N.
• If lyrics tracks is available it is recognized by many vertical lines. Select them with space. Press it
two times and the track will be marked as L. If the voice track and the lyrics track is the same one
then press space until it will be marked as N+L.
• Choose to save the file.
• If you used the default "file.mid" file for the midi, you'll get converted file as "file.txt" in the UltraStar
directory
• Copy file as a normal song, get mp3 and finish editing file headers manually
Editing Songs
To edit song, you will need to do the following:
• Go to sing menu.
• Select song you want to edit and press CTRL + “E”.
Editing keys:
• "M" multiplies BPM by 2 also multiplying all notes timings by 2.
• "D" divides BPM by 2 also dividing all notes timings by 2.
• SHIFT + LEFT and SHIFT + RIGHT moves note left or right.
• CTRL + LEFT and CTRL + RIGHT moves the beginning of the note left or right.
• ALT + LEFT and ALT + RIGHT move the end of the note left or right.
• "~" as a helpful key moves the end of the note to the right.
Mastering keys:
• SHIFT + "C" corrects all spaces. Moves at the beginning of the note to the end of the previous one.
Clears duplicates. Add space to the "-" word.
• "C" makes the first word in all sentences to begin with capital letter.
• "T" fixes timings between sentences.
Options
Game:
• Players: (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 6)
Here you can adjust the number of players. Starting from 4 players need second monitor.
Graphics:
• Resolution: (320x240 - 2560x1024)
Sets game resolution. Available options depend on your graphics card and monitor. Requires restart.
Lyrics:
• Font: (Plain / OLine1 / Oline2)
Select font used displaying lyrics when singing.
Themes:
• Theme: (Singstar / [other installed themes])
Theme indicates where your UltraStar button and graphics are located on the screen. More themes
can be installed to personalize your UltraStar. Each change in theme enables different Skins.
Requires restart.
Record:
• Soundcard: ([all available soundcards])
Here you select soundcard for which you want change recording options.
• Left Channel: (0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6)
This option assigns left recording channel to the player. Setting it to “0” disables recording from this
channel. Setting it to “1” tells UltraStar that the first player will use microphone connected to the left
channel of the selected souncard’s input. Numbers from 1 – 6 corresponds to the player numbers.
Try not to assign the same number twice as it may confuse UltraStar and it will analyze sound from
different sources and may not give the best pitch analyzing results.
• Right Channel: (0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6)
Here you assign right channel to the player. It works the same as Left Channel option. Do not
duplicate numbers from left channel too.
Loud Arts 7 UltraStar 0.8.2
Network:
• Version Check: (Off / On)
If Version Check is enabled UltraStar uses internet connection to check for the game updates and if
found any shows result in the main menu.
• Extract precompiled UltraStar to the "bin" subdirectory of the directory where the sources has been
extracted. Make sure there are all required dlls.
Songfile Format
Each song is stored in single text file with “.txt” extension. File structure consists of 2 parts:
• header tags
• song notes and lyrics