Closed Anders429 closed 2 years ago
After finally getting my hands on some actual .msd
files from back in the day, there also appears to be an unofficial #MSD
tag that creators used to indicate who wrote the file.
It appears that #REMIXER
was also at one time used for tagging creators of .msd
files, interchangable with #MSD
. Back in the ancient days of Stepmania, the code references this here: https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/blob/ffd50d90877bf9066db94cdc705efba2da34c977/stepmania/src/Song.cpp#L262
While the code for reading .msd
files was never in a functional state until the switch to .dwi
, this indicates to me that #REMIXER
was commonly used within the community to indicate who stepped a chart. I think it ought to be supported. Perhaps someday I will find a .msd
file with this tag in the wild, but that day hasn't come yet.
The
msd
file format is aSong
file format that should be supported.It has been referred to as the "granddaddy" of many simfile formats, including
dwi
,sm
,ssc
, and many other derivatives. Its tag format is common among all of these formats. It is basically a subset of the other formats with a few differences, so it shouldn't be that much more work to support it as well.A specification of the
msd
format can be found here (version 2.0β1): https://web.archive.org/web/20070606025338/http://doremi.kalin.to/ddr/msd_format.htmlTags:
#FILE
#TITLE
#ARTIST
#BPM
#GAP
#BACK
#BGM
#SELECT
#SINGLE
#DOUBLE
#COUPLE