Sine Mora - new PC shmup - Excellence ;)

[jimmy2x2x]

oot and aboot now!

   
$6.75 after coupon (GMG25-UAAHK-6AI9S) at GMG
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/ca/en/pc/games/shooter/sine-mora/

[dextercf]

You afiliated or what?
Game looks cool, checking it out when i Get home..

[BadMouth]

Looks awesome.  I was all psyched up and ready to buy, but it requires you to be logged into steam to play.
Not going to work on my cab. 

[jimmy2x2x]

lol not affiliated!

I bought it and also picked up the skidrow version, no steam required and no guilt.

Lots of control options, mouse, xbox360 pad or 2 sets of predefined keyboard controls - you cant redefine them unfortunately

worth reprogramming your ipac for, it really is an amazing shmup

[BadMouth]

I bought it and also picked up the skidrow version, no steam required and no guilt.

Will do the same then. 

The keyboard issue should be an easy fix with an autohotkey script.

[jimmy2x2x]

Please share your script if you make one, I would like to adapt it for my setup

(I have a long standing issue with reprogramming my ipac on  the fly and my front end)

Thanks

[Howard_Casto]

A  ahk might even be necessary.  I'm getting a copy, let me take a look at it in a week or so. 

[Generic Eric]

I'm in.  Thanks for the heads up.

[BadMouth]

Not sure why, but the skidrow version wouldn't start for me.  I copied the steam version over from my laptop, added the skidrow dll files and it worked perfectly.

Autohotkey works for the menu navigation buttons, but not the fire buttons. 
It must get input directly.
EDIT:  I'm an idiot who was up too late and used CAPS in the authotkey script.

The SFIV keyboard patch stickied in this forum works.
The primary weapon button also works as ENTER when using it.
http://files.arcadecontrols.com/details.php?image_id=3610
Just copy xinput1_3.dll and x360kb.ini to the SineMora folder and you're good to go.
It will automatically show up as an xbox360 controller in the game.

Here is my x360kb.ini file:

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[Options]
UseInitBeep=0
Log=0
BackgroundMode=0
PadCount=1

[PAD1]
Start=P
A=V
B=H
Right Trigger=N
D-Pad Up=up
D-Pad Down=Down
D-Pad Left=Left
D-Pad Right=Right
Not sure why, but pause/back which is mapped to the start button on the xbox controller isn't working for me. 
It doesn't really matter on my cab since I have a dedicated ESC button.
An autohotkey script could be made for that one key if needed.

[jimmy2x2x]

Interesting solution, I did it a different way:

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Run SineMora.exe

z::a
x::s
c::d
5::esc
1::enter

a::z
s::x
d::c
esc::1
enter::5

p::ExitApp


Z,X,C are my 3 fire buttons and 5,1 are credit and start on my panel.

I hold down P to quit any game (A feature of Maximus Arcade) so a tap of this key will kill the AHK script

Works in game and menus, no issues.

How you liking the game?

[dextercf]

Not sure why, but the skidrow version wouldn't start for me.  I copied the steam version over from my laptop, added the skidrow dll files and it worked perfectly.

Did you overwrite/copy the lauch.exe file?

How you liking the game?

The game was slow as ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- on my computer, I played for about 15 minutes (fastforward most of the time) but after a while it was unplayable!
Kinda annoying all the "cut scenes". I just wanted to blast spaceships!

[BadMouth]

Interesting solution, I did it a different way:

Crap, realized this morning that I used CAPS in my ahk script. 
I know better.

The game is beautiful, but I only played it in arcade mode a couple times to test the controls.
I only lasted about 20 seconds each time, but I wasn't really trying to do anything but test the controls.
Seems hard.

Did you overwrite/copy the lauch.exe file?

In the steam version, there wasn't a launcher.exe file.
It did overwrite the two steam dll files.

In the skidrow version, I didn't burn the iso since I don't have an optical drive on the cab.  I just copied the setup files over to a usb and launched setup.
It seemed to install ok and the skid row launcher would allow me to select a language, but would do nothing when I clicked to launch the game.
Also nothing would happen when I clicked sinemora.exe

Not sure if I'll run into any problems with the way I did it since I haven't played it much yet, but it launches just fine from sinemora.exe without having to go through a launcher.

[dextercf]

I mounted the iso as a virtual device, installed and overwrite the launcher and some other files.
Worked like a charm.
(skidrow version)

[Howard_Casto]

The skidrow version is stand-alone..... there's no need to overwrite the original game you purchased from steam. 

[gildahl]

Just tried this on my cab tonight.  Very nice--though the letterboxing makes the window rather small on my 4:3 display. 

I am finding that the trackball is by far my controller of choice on this one.  It almost seems made for it.

[Generic Eric]

$3.39 on steam

[EightBySix]

Just downloaded the free trial for the PS3, looking good.

[BadMouth]

Definitely worth it IMO.
Arcade Mode is crazy hard.

I played through the first few levels of story mode and enjoyed them.
Haven't allowed myself to play lately because I have so many other things to do.
When I start on this game, I just want to keep going.

[Generic Eric]

Interesting solution, I did it a different way:

Code: [Select]

Run SineMora.exe

z::a
x::s
c::d
5::esc
1::enter

a::z
s::x
d::c
esc::1
enter::5

p::ExitApp


Z,X,C are my 3 fire buttons and 5,1 are credit and start on my panel.

I hold down P to quit any game (A feature of Maximus Arcade) so a tap of this key will kill the AHK script

Works in game and menus, no issues.

How you liking the game?

I'm not familiar with the AHK.  Is that what this is? Where do I copy this text to? Any help would be appreciated.

[BadMouth]

I'm not familiar with the AHK.  Is that what this is? Where do I copy this text to? Any help would be appreciated.

Install autohotkey.  Copy and paste the above script into notepad and save it with the extension .ahk (all file types).

Create a shortcut to the ahk script and point your front-end toward that.
or....
If you right click on the script, ahk will give you the option of compiling it to an .exe.
The compiled .exe will also work on computers that don't have ahk installed.

The virtual xbox controllers from the Street Fighter keyboard fix thread is a simpler fix, but you really should learn about ahk.
AHK fixes a lot of weird issues that creep up trying to get various games and emulators to all work on one system.

[Generic Eric]

I got this working.  I just had to try one more thing.  I do have a few q's though.  I let the game play through while we but the kids to bed.  When I came back to play, it said there was an error syncing to the steam cloud.  I exited out and launched again.  Unlocked some boss training modes.  So its working.

I read a few threads about AHK and steam and of course none of them had any official answers.  Does anyone have any input on being banned for using an AHK script on steam?

[Fursphere]

I thought they'd just ban you from online play.  If they banned your account that (could) prevent a user from accessing thousands of dollars in software - grounds for a nice lawsuit (nevermind the EULA and TOS, I doubt they've ever been tested in court).