Spin Rhythm XD news & patch notes

Hey there Spinners, are you ready for a new collab?

RIFT OF THE NECRODANCER x SPIN RHYTHM XD

A new track has been added as part of our crossover collaboration with RIFT OF THE NECRODANCER.

• MATRIARCH by Jules Conroy, featuring RIFT's signature thumping style and some screaming metal guitars, this tune was a blast to chart.

In exchange for Matriarch, The RIFT team chose The Magician by seejay to include in their game.

SRXD will be on sale as part of a bundle with Rift! If you haven't played it yet, it's absolutely insane. Featuring 3 lane tapping and holding gameplay, each note type is a different undead enemy who behaves in a unique way. It's a ton of fun and will push your note reading skills to the limit. Go check it out if you haven't already.

NEW SKIN

We got Cadence as a character skin with guitar accessory, and Shath made a sweet RIFT style Jim vs Cadence battle background for Matriarch.

NEW B-SIDES TRACK

Along with Matriarch, we also have another Spin Rhythm B-Sides track in this update. Thanks to everyone for their awesome submissions for the remix of My Museum by Maxo. The winner was blyenn with their frantic and fast-paced reimagining of Maxo's track.

PATCH NOTES

PS4 and PS5 are scheduled for 5pm. Nintendo Switch should be in around 1 week from now.

• Fixed a bug with Windows 11 breaking MIDI support.

• Added RemiXD level for PROPER RHYTHM - charted by Schroeder

• Added QR code links to Prism Bucket and Dry Dreams

Spin ya later... also...

WE'VE ANNOUNCED A NEW GAME!

LIGMANAUTS is an online co-op platformer that the team has been tinkering away at for a little while now. It'll be playable at The Game Expo (TGX) in Melbourne this weekend, so if you happen to be there in person please come check it out and say hey to the team!

In the meantime, please sign up to the Discord (https://discord.gg/fPEkcWgEYN) and be on the lookout for any private betas in the coming months

Hey there Spinners, we have an exciting update for you today!

INDIE PACK DLC LAUNCH!

Our third DLC is now available! Take a road trip through a distant, heartfelt past with the Indie Pack DLC. We’ve brought together 7 bittersweet tracks from Indie rock artists including Mei Semones, Hachiku, Blanco Tranco and more. These have been hand picked by our programmer Steve who has created a truly excellent and spinnable setlist with a unique style.

UNBEATABLE x SRXD

Two new tracks have been added as part of our crossover collaboration with UNBEATABLE, a stylish, rocking new rhythm action game where music is illegal and you do crimes!

• PROPER RHYTHM by peak divide, the first song you play in the game through their tutorial and it’s a straight breakbeat banger. Just wiggle your wheel and jam the beats, and with practice, that’s all there is to it.

• FOREVER NOW by peak divide & Rachel Lake, an indie rocker with emotional vocals and a catchy synth melody you’ll find yourself bobbing your head to.

The UNBEATABLE team will be picking up Twist Sound by 2 Mello and Beyond the Heart (Broken Heart Mix) by Lena Raine from our OST Vol. 1 for their setlist, so be sure to check them out when the game releases on December 9th!

LYRICS!

To coincide with the launch of our new Indie Pack DLC, we’ve developed a sweet new feature: LYRICS!

If you’ve ever wanted to sing along to Time or Hypersphere while you spin, we now have a 3D element that displays the lyrics to you phrase by phrase! It interacts with the background elements and follows your flight path, so it’s more dynamic than you’d expect!

Our goated Community Manager TheWay123 has done the hard work to craft lyrics for 34 out of the now 77 total base game tracks, including the new UNBEATABLE tracks. We've also got Raise the Black Flag, Twist Sound, Believe, This Is It and more. Go ahead and play through the base game and see which ones have them!

Lyrics can be toggled off as well, if you’d rather focus on gameplay. 

You can now create lyrics yourself for your own custom tracks in the in-game editor’s Lyric Editor mode! TheWay123 has written a useful guide on how to prepare lyrics and how to place them in your customs, following the standard guidelines established for consistency throughout the game!

MISCELLANEOUS

As we’re developing the mobile version, we’ve been creating features that are then backported to the PC experience; we’ve added a new Track Info Display option (in Options > Track + HUD) that displays the song name, artist, and cover art in the upper left corner, called Overlay. This is reminiscent of the way we used to present metadata before our visual revamp with Update 17, so some of you might prefer it or even feel some nostalgia from it for the early access days! Note that this option is currently unavailable in VR.

Spin you soon.

Hey Spinners, are you feeling cranky?

We're dropping another rhythm game crossover / collab with the extremely spinny and cute Beatblock which just released today in Early Access!

If you love to spin you will love Beatblock, it's full of insane custom visuals for each level, a sick soundtrack and a killer sense of flow.

We have added the cute as heck Cranky as a Spin skin, and the extremely hectic chiptune track Rhythmic Shield by Trina Lydia.

Here's the cute new skin!

Patch notes

• Fixed a leaderboard scoring issue caused by floating point number inaccuracies

• Added "cursor snapping" feature in level editor (toggleable!) This will snap your cursor to beat lines in the editor.

We've got a few more rhythm game collabs coming up, stay tuned!

May your spin be true.

UPDATE 1.4.1

Halloween skins!

Two new tracks!

• 2 new tracks! We now officially have 70 tracks in the game! - We're bringing a bit of hyperpop and J-funk to Spin with 'tapestry' by Braden Ross and 'Radio' by S087.
• New RemiXD difficulty charts! - Daydream by MrCringe - Second Wind by Dama - Spin Cycle (NETCAVY Remix) by jane - The Magician (Eraser Remix) by NOIN

Endless mode

Editor update mockups

• Track info
• Note editing
• Flight path
• Hotkeys and help (links to editor guide and Discord)

Bugs

• Fixed a bug with hold note re-grab inconsistency - if you missed the start of a hold note it would only register if you re-grabbed it at the initial position (which could be incorrect)
• Fixed a bug where if you skip through the result sequence it could stay displaying a slightly smaller score than what was actually achieved.

UPDATE 1.4

Give-it-a-Spin 2 winner skins!

• CrookyCumbles - ⁠Tooth and Paw Wheel
• Icondor - ⁠The Chemical Factory Wheel
• Icondor - ⁠Comets Track Texture
• BananaBoiJeff - ⁠Paw Print Track Texture v2
• BananaBoiJeff - ⁠Fire Track Edge
• WL | Eraser - ⁠Ice shards Track Edge
• Ani - ⁠Keyboard Note Skin
• hot anime catboy - ⁠Building Blocks Note Skin

Two new tracks from B-Sides competition!

Features

• Added Final Boss RemiXD difficulty - good luck!
• Improved tutorial! - Mouse glyphs now show with move, taps, holds and scratches
• Improved practice mode! - Every single track section has been named and will display in the timeline - Track sections are now used as practice sections allowing for better looping - Score percentage is now clearly displayed in the timeline
• Removed Songwhip links (the service has been discontinued) and replaced with other links
• Improved customs editor! Tracks can now be cut short at the beginning and end - Now less audio file editing is necessary with annoying silences or long tails - A fade in / out will automatically be generated - This features works per-difficulty, allowing easy / normal to be cut short if desired

Polish

• Added artist credit for Hommarju (Dying Scarlet)
• It is now possible to bind "Spin Wheel" to vertical mouse (or SDVX controller) axes
• Editor: It is now possible to change the colour of a hold note from its tail
• Sharpened the font in practice mode section names
• Editor: Hold note tails now count as a "last note location" when placing subsequent notes
• Vibration pulse will now be felt when changing vibration intensity in options
• Options menu now exits slightly more smoothly when selected during gameplay
• Better scrolling in the level editor! - Scroll wheel now zooms in / out on the timeline instead of scrolling forward / backward - Scroll wheel will still scroll forward / backward the timeline when mouse is placed over wheel / track - Function is the same as it always was in the clip editor - Scrolling the timeline now moves more quickly if you are zoomed out
• Cue point names are now visible in the editor on mouse over
• It is now possible to jump between BPM markers and time signatures using left / right arrow keys
• Added Gavi Guy to credits for Japanese translation
• Up and down arrow keys are now more useable with drop down boxes
• Random track select button is back! (located in track filter panel)

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where multiplayer would not work with gamepads on MacOS
• Fixed a bug where remote play would not work in multiplayer with gamepads
• Fixed a bug where scrolling through tracks using mouse wheel could cause repeated SFX
• Fixed a bug where "Claim XP" button would not appear on PlayStation until restarting
• Fixed a graphical bug with Ginger Lizard's background
• Fixed a graphical bug with Dying Scarlet's background
• Fixed a bug with Dying Scarlet leaderboards (PlayStation)
• Fixed a bug where gamepad vibration wasn't working in the practice window
• Fixed an editor bug where 'ctrl + a' would select all notes across all difficultes
• Fixed a bug where exiting from credits / input mapping submenus would have bad UI selection
• Fixed a bug with CTM controls and overspinning
• Fixed a bug where a soft lock could occur when undoing after deleting a time signature marker
• Fixed a bug where copying and pasting from note editor fields would also copy and pate notes
• Fixed a bug where mouse wheel would scroll the editor timeline when game was unfocused
• VR: Fixed a bug where practice mode loop sections did not work

UPDATE 1.3

VR Mode

Chillhop DLC

Check out the official playlist on Spotify!

Tracks

• Playtime - L'Indecis
• Khaleesi - Misha, cocabona
• Takin' You For a Ride - Pandrezz
• Yo - The Kount
• Good Friends - Yasper
• Drifter - Brock Berrigan, saib.
• Early Morning - Ruck P
• 17 - Ian Ewing
• Green Tea - Eli Way
• Looking for the Sun - L'Indecis, Moods

Skins

• "Studio" wheel skin
• Chillhop menu palette
• Track edge "XLR"
• Track edge material "Vintage"
• Chillhop raccoon skins for UI assistants

PlayStation 4+5 version!

Two new tracks!

• Second Wind - L'Indecis
• Daydream - Eli Way

• Dying Scarlet
• Come to Me
• Sector 5
• Time

Improved UI stuff

• Input mapping has been improved with combined keyboard / mouse on one page.
• Some more important input options have been moved out to the main settings menu tab
• 'Hold to move' option has been added for gyro controls

Track select menu changes

• ‘Track filter’ now has its own tab
• Added scratch notes to ‘performance progress’ tab

Practice mode changes

• Each section now shows accuracy as well as total score progress
• Practice mode sections for each track are now based on cue points
• If no cue points are present defaults to evenly spaced sections as before

Tutorial polish

Track editor

Demo update!

What's next?!

VR trailer is live!

VR tease and PS5 port update

CHILLHOP DLC

ENTER THE MERCANTILE DIMENSION

https://shop.superspin.digital/

• the SPEENPAD 2.0, available in 5 variations!
• shirts, hoodies, and hats!
• pins, stickers, and posters!

BUG FIX

• Fixed a bug where the customs create button would not work if customs were hidden via filter

Version 1.25

FEATURES

• Two new tracks - Dying Scarlet and Come to Me by Akira Complex - We hope you enjoy these two very cool, contrasting tracks
• Dynamic background system - We had big ideas initially for a dynamic, fully customisable background system, and while we never reached those goals, we have added a new (toggleable!) system which adds a lot of colour and energy to tracks. - All tracks now contain a light and dark background variant. These are blended at various strengths depending on which notes you hit - Most backgrounds have been polished and redone to a degree.
• “Festive Spirit” skins added to Supporter Pack from 12 Dec to 12 Jan - Enjoy an exclusive Christmassy UI skin and a Santa hat for Jimmy and Lady, available to everyone over the period, but will remain available to those with the supporter pack
• Keyboard and MIDI devices can now be split for multiplayer! - That’s right, go head to head with just 1 set of MIDI decks, or even a single keyboard

POLISH

• Added spin flash effect for better feedback when spins are hit
• Spin tap effect (the spinning square) has been returned to its former glorious brightness level
• Calibration now mentions milliseconds in all languages
• Gamepad haptic feedback has been improved
• Graphic EQ now looks a bit brighter and more shiny (toggleable)
• Particles have been returned to their pre-Switch optimisation state - more numerous and beautiful
• Improved the world reaction to tap notes - these now decrease in height more smoothly
• Tutorial will now show proper inputs for MIDI devices ("tap wheel" and "tap beat")
• Added a way to disable scroll wheel (mainly for customs charters) - check input > mouse > enable scroll wheel

BUGS

• Fixed a bug where “Clean Finish” achievement was not triggering correctly
• Fixed a bug where all players in multiplayer would start their wheels in the same place

SWITCH VERSION!

STEAM VERSION 1.2 FEATURES

Local multiplayer!

• An essential Switch feature, we have added up to 4 player head to head on PC to scratch the itch before we attempt to implement proper online multiplayer lobbies.
• Players can each select their input, meaning one can play MIDI controls, one gamepad, one keyboard and mouse and so on. Currently it’s not possible to play two players on a single controller.
• Players can play on whatever difficulty level they choose and the tracks will dynamically cut themselves to match the shortest track - there are some bugs with the more complicated cut tracks such as Ginger Lizard, but it’s about 98% seamless.

New track unlock system!

• Levelling up will now give you a key which can be used to unlock tracks directly.
• Tracks are grouped in tiers, and unlocking a single track from one tier will allow access to the next.
• Players can now unlock the tracks they enjoy more quickly.

6 new RemiXD tracks!

• cold rock it by ★MrCringe★
• Your Pain by CrookyCumbles
• Lights, Camera Action by Edge
• Engine Start by Loosiano
• Velours by Programmatic
• Coming Too by swago

Monstercat DLC!

• Our first actual DLC is here! It contains 10 awesome hand-picked tracks including nostalgic beats, Monstercat classics and some hidden gems that match the gameplay of SRXD perfectly.
• You’ll also get a Monstercat wheel skin, a cute giant Monstercat helmet for Jimmy and Lady, as well as a track edge inspired by audio gear ‘Hi-Fi’, with a matching track edge colour ‘Veridian’. Oh, and a Monstercat menu palette inspired by the branding colours of Monstercat Uncaged and Instinct.
• Monstercat DLC has its own full-game leaderboard separate from the base game tracks.
• Access the DLC from the main menu or the Steam store page.

• Cheat Codes - Nitro Fun
• CRAZY - Tokyo Machine
• Into the Light - Notaker, Karra
• Shut My Mouth - Koven
• THE DROP - Gammer
• Blue Shadows - Xilent
• Overkill - RIOT
• U Got Me - Bossfight
• How We Win - FWLR
• It's All Over - Shockone

POLISH

• Players can now hover over the custom colour profile title and use ctrl + c and v to copy and paste a hex code of the colour profile - try pasting: 4D36E2;4AC9B0;FFCC42;2C9B8D;473CE2;FFFFFF;000000 for the Monstercat wheel colours we used in the DLC trailer.
• Players can also do this with individual wheel / note colours
• Every track in the game has been scanned for a LUFS value (loudness over time) and then given a volume offset. All music should now be perceived at the same volume - meaning Time (very soft) and Ghost Ship (very loud) should have such a ridiculous disparity in volume.
• Removed the option to “restart track” when level editing (this could cause some dangerous save-destroying behaviour)
• Removed the option to “create track” when level editing (for the same reason as above)
• Track previews have all been redone to be the most exciting part of the song on all difficulties
• Track previews fade in and out more smoothly
• Added a “preview volume” button for lowering track volume in level select (can be set to 100%, 50% and 0%) - just above the play button
• Practice mode button is now available in the “performance progress” side panel
• Customs (creating, editing and all other controls) are now accessible from their own side panel
• Highlighting the heart icon (favourites) will now bring up the artist QR code
• Rebalanced default audio levels to fit with new LUFS system
• Fixed some incorrect spelling and naming in the credits

BUGS

• Fixed a bug where Korean and Russian exit prompt text would not show up
• Fixed a bug where the main menu DLC panels wouldn’t accept mouse hover as a highlight
• Fixed a bug where tutorial glyphs would not properly display in tutorials
• Fixed a bug where customisation settings were not remembered between sessions

Gamescom!

Switch port

Steam update

Demo!

SRXD Supporter Pack!

• Exclusive track "Dry Dreams" by Daverwob (RemiXD difficulty by TheWay123)
• Note skins
• Track edge skins
• "Sunset Strip" and "Deep Grey" UI palettes
• Character skins for Jim Rhythm and LadyJ
• Gold wheel material overlay
• Potentially more things in the future!

VERSION 1.1 FEATURES

• Two new tracks! - Engine Start by modus and Lights, Camera, Action by Meganeko - These unlock at level 8 and level 18
• New RemiXD difficulty tracks! - Beyond The Heart by Dama - This Is It by HyperDash - Raise The Black Flag by Steven of Astora
• New “Achievements” panel menu in level select - a way to gain XP for completing achievements!
• Custom note colour profiles! - Save up to 6 custom note colour sets in accessibility options - Please note the “default” button will select default game colours (profile 1), if you want a particular custom profile to reset to default colours, choose that profiles colours individually and hit default
• Give-it-a-spin winner skins are now available in game! These were designed by our Discord community members. - Snake Pit track skin by Slipsy - Circuitboard track skin by BananaBoiJeff - Chronos Wheel by Edge
• Revamped Skins menu - Note skins can be applied to all notes independently - High-contrast notes are now a note style instead of an accessibility option - New “slim” note style - New track edges
• Better feedback when equipping skins - the camera will zoom in to the appropriate track element
• Improved damage feedback / audio effects for better clarity of when / why a note was missed - Notes now scroll past the wheel when missed, making it more obvious what was missed (this is configurable in the options menu) - Only bass frequencies will be removed when missing notes, and only very slightly - The big X on the wheel has been replaced with a more subtle exploding 3D effect - A DJ scratch effect will play when missing a note, based on the audio of the current track (can be turned on or off with “disable audio feedback effects” in audio options)

POLISH

• Final Boss now unlocks at level 30 instead of 31
• Searching for “create” now works in all languages, including searching for the language-specific version of “create”
• Fixed a backspin on Ginger Lizard (Normal)
• Editor: spin note tails will now always display a thick line in the timeline when cut off early
• Slightly chunkier HUD font
• Added sliders for clarity when editing some options

BUGS

• Spin Superstar now unlocks at level 30 instead of 31
• Performance progress will now save past 10 scores (including personal best scores)
• Searching for a charter name will now properly show RemiXD charts in search results
• Re-added missing notes to Go Outside (Easy)
• Calibration value per device no longer resets when restarting levels
• Fixed a bug where judgements from previous plays could appear when restarting tracks
• Fixed a bug where searching with a difficulty filter enabled would cause the play button to break
• Fixed a bug where changing accuracy bar settings wouldn’t properly update on the HUD
• Fixed a bug where ‘Up Next’ did not work for tracks that had not been unlocked while search or filter were active
• Fixed a bug where using translation keys in custom names could force certain strings to appear in the name field
• Fixed a bug where letting go of a beat hold with a release and the missing the release would still allow a Full Combo
• Fixed a bug where missing a hold note release could still award points - they now properly count as misses and break FCs
• Editor: fixed bugs involving O and Shift + O function (select only beats / only notes)
• Editor: change timeline subdivision hotkey now displays the correct key

Version 1.05

FEATURES

• New track! Cold Rock it by 2 Mello - a sick breakbeats / drum and bass tune with a smooth “secret ending”. This tune unlocks at level 8.
• Editor update! - Scroll the timeline with the mouse wheel! (modifiers such as alt and shift work too) - Zoom in and out with Ctrl + mouse wheel! - Change timeline subdivisions with + and - keys; no more messing with time signatures! Your current selected subdivision level is shown on the editor left panel, and this hotkey can be remapped - All keyboard keys can now be held for a stacking effect (to avoid repetitive tasks ie moving notes) - Track turns are enabled for level editors! > Change to the flight path using the button on the left panel, or the tilde key ~ > WSAD and QE to set and adjust a flight path F to extend and Shift + F to retract > Shift + arrows to select multiple, Ctrl + arrows to move, also delete, copy and paste work {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35782014/5f8dfdfdddd0912884b3ae2951850f968c2e521b.gif
• P and Shift + P can be used in the clip info editor to slow down time
• Arrow keys are now supported for granular movement (with snapping!) in the clip info editor
• New calibration tool! - You can now tap along to a tap note string to more accurately set your calibration - Separate audio / visual calibration is available {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35782014/588940e3f34aef558e85dec2763114d1400307b2.gif
• All wheel options are now testable in the options menu by clicking on the wheel “practice area”
• 4 New RemiXD levels! I See Lite (Swago), The Kraken (TreXDer), Revenger (HyperDash) and Air On Line (Pick)

POLISH

• Experience a fancy new 3D spinning menu logo
• New taskbar icon!
• Added a popup window explaining RemiXD difficulty on first unlock
• Options sliders now operate as left = lower, right = higher (instead of the current touch-screen style)
• Added a few new options menu tooltips
• Polished the beat hold release effect to better match its look pre-particle refactor update
• Wheel sensitivity (previously a very small number) is now properly displayed in input settings
• Editor: timeline subdivisions are now only shown on editable area
• Editor: All drop down options can now be scrolled and activated using arrow keys and return key - this allows for fast checking of background / colour combinations
• Editor: clip info editor fields can now be “tabbed” through (using arrow keys)
• Editor: the layout of the left panel has been improved with some redundant data removed
• Editor: hotkeys are displayed more clearly now (with modifier keys coming before hotkeys)
• Editor: you can now change the colour of hold notes by pressing C with any tail note selected

BUGS

• Fixed a bug where changing track speed override could look buggy
• Fixed a bug where entering practice mode and hitting N would jump ahead 2 sections instead of 1
• Fixed a bug where when deleting a track with a difficulty filter active, the chart focus would jump to the top of the list (it now jumps to the next chart in the list)
• Fixed a bug where “Green House” UI skin could have no highlight colour
• Fixed a bug where “Up To 11 Minutes” achievement could be completed with “no fail mode” turned on
• Fixed a bug where the HUD would disappear after failing a track and then entering the options menu
• Fixed “Don’t Give Up” achievement not popping
• Fixed a bug where editor timeline subdivisions would not display when zoomed out beyond a certain distance
• Fixed a bug where tabbing through difficulties in the note editor didn’t register very small f-step movements
• Fixed a bug where using options sliders could cause a memory leak
• Fixed a bug where using G in practice mode would ignore the set looping sections
• Fixed broken leaderboards (One Esk Nineteen Hard, Expert)
• Fixed broken leaderboards (The Kraken all difficulties - the tempo map was redone)
• Fixed a bug where enabling “rotating joystick controls” would break other inputs
• Fixed a bug where a glow effect was showing on one side of the wheel
• Fixed a bug where entering practice mode while in edit mode would maintain the editor overlay
• Fixed percentage display rounding up (it now truncates correctly)

Version 1.01

FEATURES

• Added No-fail mode in accessibility options! - Want to slam through a track that is too difficult for you? This mode allows you to play with full visual effects (rather than the muted practice mode background), and your leaderboard score will be locked to the score you achieved at the point of failure.
• Added gamepad control styles! - Default - A balanced, more instantaneous response - Legacy - Pre-1.0 feeling with some wheel inertia - Rotate Stick - The wheel is controlled by rotating the analogue stick - it’s back!
• Removed Burst Compilation - This might have far ramifications (it’s supposed to make code execute more smoothly) - but it seems to have reduced stuttering and crashing issues for many people. Let us know if you feel any difference
• Locked tracks now require a button press (instead of an automatic animation) - this is also skippable
• Added Whirlpool RemiXD level by Programmatic. Play this chart by completing the XD difficulty for Whirlpool
• Added tooltips! Hover over certain options to reveal explanatory text - more of these coming soon

POLISH

• Some XD difficulties have been adjusted to better reflect their challenge level - Lovesick is now 26 - Beyond The Heart is now 24 - Ghost Ship is now 23 - Time is now 22
• Adjusted SRTB artist links (in hamburger menu) to only recognise Songwhip URLs (we don’t want to be responsible for people embedding dodgy links)
• You can now speed up all menu animations properly when using gamepads
• Background music will now be lowered when calibrating

BUGS

• Not a fix, but we noticed a bug with track speed override where it wouldn’t properly enable unless you swapped to and from another track. We couldn’t reliably reproduce this, so if you find a way to please let us know.
• Fixed a bug where filtering by difficulty range could still put you into difficulties that should have been filtered out.

UPDATE 20 - Version 1.0

FEATURES

• New tracks! We added 4 new tracks to reach 60 tracks (if you count the tutorial!) - we had another full track planned (Second Wind by L'indecis), it's licensed and the levels are made, but we wanted to save it as a free track update for the release of the Chillhop DLC so players could get a taste of that style of music.
• New UI - it's shinier, more user-friendly (works on all inputs properly!) and has a ton of cool skins for you to unlock and equip.
• Improved gamepad controls! Wheel speed increases per-difficulty with improved note tracking.
• New handy track list side panel which can be enabled or disabled, and can display your performance progress, leaderboards, unlocks or whichever info you prefer.
• New mascots! Meet Jim Rhythm and LadyJ, interdimensional... DJs? Subspace MCs? Who knows, they just up the vibe and groove to whatever track you have selected.
• Level up system - play levels and beat your high scores to gain XP, level up and unlock new songs, new wheel skins, UI skins and more. Currently it takes around 15 XD difficulty levels to unlock all the songs, or completion of all of the Normal difficulty levels (and a couple of Hards).
• Up Next system on the results screen (replaces random track selection). Keep your flow as SRXD suggests the next track to play around your current difficulty range, no more need to quit out and pick a track to play.
• RemiXD levels! We've been running RemiXD competition for a while now. Discord members create and vote for tough as nails versions of official tracks. These unlock when you beat the XD level, and have been added to the game as the ultimate challenge.
• Better practice mode! Click and drag to loop multiple sections, have greater control over playback speed and more.
• More options, better options! You can now change accessibility features, wheel skins and more while you play or practice, no more need to quit out to main menu.
• Better search and filter! Scroll to the top of the list to reveal the search bar (or use the CTRL + F shortcut - or whatever shortcut you want to bind). The filter button appears while searching, and has more and better filter options including custom difficulty ranges.
• Integrated customs! No more separate track list and separate edit mode overlay (access edit mode via the hamburger menu on the top right hand side of a selected track).
• Artist links per-track! We used Songwhip (an awesome free service) to create artists links to each track, making their music easier to find on your favourite platform. Access via the hamburger menu on a selected track.
• A new tutorial system! Learn how to play in real time, no more stuffy unplayable slideshow presentations. Also enjoy fun challenges at the end of each tutorial like the old days - don't worry, you can't fail these.
• Lifetime stat tracking! Lots of useless and trivial info such as total notes of each type, total time playing, total points etc.
• A couple of new achievements! And removed some old ones (like the ones that required random song selection.

REMOVED FEATURES

• SpinFM - we removed this since it was a bit of a dead feature.
• Daily challenge - other than achievement hunting, no one was really using this so we piffed it.
• Random track select - this has been replaced with the Up Next feature.

Wow! So many cool new features, what else do you plan to do?

• Endless mode - play a mashup of short sections of every track as the difficulty and speed slowly increase. The tech is there and working, it just needs to be implemented properly. We think this would make a really fun mode for both beginners and hardcore players.
• Better editor - we want to include mouse controls and cutting levels for Easy / Normal, as well as some other quality of life fixes (like swing tempo support, proper triplet charting without fiddly time signature stuff and so on).
• VR - sure why not? Maybe with console release.
• A whole lot of menu SFX we didn't implement in time.

What about other platforms? Where's the Switch version?

Where's the DLC?

UPDATE 19 - THREE NEW TRACKS

1.0 UI Update

• Whirlpool and Water Elemental will take you on an intense journey through an underwater soundscape. Their detailed sound design and intricate rhythm lend themselves perfectly to Spin Rhythm XD’s mechanics.

• Fixed a number of track twist issues at track speed 40
• Taps now check the wheel position on the current frame and the previous frame (to improve accuracy in certain situations)

• Fixed a bug where the game could crash due to certain backgrounds loading incorrectly

• Updated scoring timing windows - Good - 79ms - Great - 59ms - Perfect - 38ms - Perfect+ - 16ms - Release timing remains slightly more lenient than the above values
• Removed Superb Full Combo (SFC)
• Combined Superb and Great into one bracket
• Anything below Great is now Early / Late
• New Perfect+ display options (customise menu) - Choose between Rainbow, Bright and None Set this in the “customise” menu to make Perfect+ stand out more or less to your liking - “None” will remove the + and only show “Perfect” (when either Perfect or Perfect+ are hit)

• Updated calibration wording to be a little clearer in its instruction
• Note / beat stack dithering effect now supports two notes instead of one
• Fixed dithering issue with “Your Pain” background elements
• Using custom backgrounds will no longer affect the practice background
• Removed some annoying features when placing notes in custom editing - Match note stacks no longer appear when placing two match notes on the same tick - Placing a spinner on a spinner will no longer jump to the next note tail - Placing a scratch on a scratch will no longer jump to the next note tail

• Fixed the broken recently wiped leaderboards including - Inject XD - Beyond The Heart XD - I See Lite XD - Robo Trio XD - Reach You XD - Twist Sound XD - VOLT XD - Believe XD - BUBBLES XD
• Fixed a backspin in The Magician Expert
• Fixed a backspin in Mimic Expert
• Fixed a backspin in Colorblind Easy
• Fixed a bug where the custom menu UI could become transparent
• Fixed a bug in custom editing with the D function where selection could malfunction after using playback with notes selected
• Fixed a bug in custom editing where selecting would take multiple attempts to be successful
• Fixed a bug where using a combination of Prism Bucket and 2 Minutes backgrounds could soft lock a chart permanently
• Fixed a bug where combined beat / match stacks did not take wheel position into account
• Fixed an issue with No Limits background
• Fixed Daily Leaderboard
• Removed our beloved Steve from the top of multiple leaderboards

HOTFIX 22

• Re-added option to enable note clearing on hit
• Removed “video latency” text near calibration tool
• Fixed a bug where leaderboard ties weren’t displaying perfect+ totals as tiebreakers
• Fixed some bad colour swapping in some redone charts (sorry, some of these may have been reset again). - Beyond The Heart XD - Bubbles XD - Velours XD - My Museum XD - Robo Trio XD - Reach You XD - Twist Sound XD - VOLT XD - Believe XD
• Fixed some extreme track turns at higher speeds in many XD tracks (thanks to Edge for finding these and the bad colour changes above).
• Fixed some jank sliders (super close together) in Inject XD. Took the opportunity to remove all the level’s jank and made it play like an actually fun 23

UPDATE 18 - SCORE / CALIBRATION UPDATE

Updated scoring system

• Updated scoring thresholds (D, C, B, A, S etc.) to better reflect the actual performance of the player
• Multiplier now increases faster, meaning missing some notes won't be disproportionately more penalising than others in certain situations
• Added more grades of scoring (Perfect+ > Perfect > Superb > Great > Good > Okay > Miss) to differentiate top players in the absence of a ms accuracy ranking
• Updated results screen stats

Updated calibration tool

• Added negative values
• Added independent values for different input devices

Updated the way hold notes feel and work

• You can now push against the edge a little without breaking the hold note
• If you fall off, you can jump back on and only lose a little bit of score
• If you release the tap (or beat hold) you can press again to continue the note
• All very short hold notes have had their curves changed to be tighter
• Shortened very tight releases (and beat holds) that require another tap (or beat) too quickly
• A general polish pass on all H / Ex / XD charts for hold notes and beat holds
• Editor: Pressing 4 on a hold note will now create a tailless hold note. Pressing 4 again will create the tail one tick away from the start note
• Editor: When placing a duplicate start of a hold, spin, beat hold or scratch, the timeline will jump to the ending tail note.

• Added a much nicer looking accuracy bar
• PFC star has a more noticeable set of animations (going from PFC to FC to miss)
• PFC star now shows what level of perfect (PFC / FC etc.) you are currently achieving
• ‘Loop Section’ has been turned off by default in practice mode
• Added an option to disable audio calibration warning popups (and a checkbox in audio options to re-enable them)
• Match notes, tap notes and hold releases are now clearer when stacked on top of beats
• Re-added the starry blue simple background
• Updated achievement translations for Chinese (S), Russian and Korean
• Fixed a Portuguese judgement text overlap issue
• Re-rated Lovesick XD to 25
• Re-rated The Kraken Ex to 20
• Re-rated Dance With Silence XD to 27 and increased difficulty towards the end

• Fixed a bug where “grab wheel” didn’t work when using motion controls
• Fixed a bug where increasing audio calibration value past 400ms would break audio
• Fixed a bug where pasting notes in the level editor would create match note stacks
• Fixed a bug where default HUD distance was displayed incorrectly in the options menu
• Fixed a bug where practice mode gamepad hotkeys weren’t being displayed correctly
• Fixed a bug in the customs menu where streak over 4 digits (1000+) overflowed incorrectly

UPDATE 17 - 50 Tracks!

Three new tracks!

• The Kraken by Teminite - another of his pirate dubstep masterpieces, with one of the strangest and most addictive drops you’ll hear
• No Limits by modus and Loudar - Spanish EDM artist modus brings his signature style of finely detailed production and rhythmic precision to SRXD
• One Esk Nineteen by Praxis Axis - a dark, heavy-hitting 6 minute epic with samples of Balinese monkey chanting. This is like nothing you've heard before and makes for a very challenging and fun rhythm game level

Graphical overhaul

• All notes are now rendered in 3D and have an updated look
• The audio spectrum is now circular, and has been combined with the gates that the ship flies through
• Track angle / ship distance / note speed has been slightly adjusted for balance
• Background object / track collisions are now handled with a dithering shader. If you find any weird collisions that are broken please let us know
• Beats have an updated effect
• New scratch note look (colour flashing can be disabled in the accessibility menu)
• Plus many more smaller things

Track turns

• Some of these might be wack, please let us know if you find any that don't work
• Track turns can be disabled in the accessibility options menu for that classic gameplay feel

Difficulty update!

• Taps have been added to Easy in simple streams
• Scratches have been removed from Easy
• Motion, note density and colour swapping have overall been lowered
• The early Normal levels have been made slightly easier to ensure a clean transition between difficulties
• Tutorials have been updated to align with this new design

New "Customise" tab in options menu

• Placement of the accuracy bar
• Placement of the judgement text (“perfect” etc.)
• Placement of the track time remaining bar
• An alternate HUD layout (angled instead of rounded)
• Distance of HUD elements to the track

Other features

• Editor keys are now fully customisable (enable these with a toggle at the bottom of the keyboard mapping screen
• An accuracy bar has been added to allow players to see how precisely they are hitting taps, beat and releases
• A new accessibility menu custom colour “highlights” which allows players to change the colour of the elements on the side of the track and wheel
• Bloom slider! Protect your eyes from overuse of bloom with our handy new bloom slider. Those with fancy monitors are encouraged to turn it up
• Custom levels can now have custom backgrounds! (set these in the left panel when in the note editor). Mix and match a background and a colour palette from any of the 50 base game backgrounds to make some truly interesting and unique backgrounds

• Added the full sax solo to Believe (Hard). You Hard players deserve it.
• Fixed some out of place notes in Arcana Engine (Hard / Expert)
• DJ Hero Controller input has been deprecated
• Improved design of contrasting notes (accessibility option)
• All scrolling windows / dropdowns now work properly with scroll wheels (no more slow scrolling)
• Added feedback for spin notes (particle burst coming out of the wheel portals)
• Improved hold note behaviour when charting - Note tails are generated closer to the hold note start - Pressing 4 a bunch of times will extend the tail note - Pressing Alt + 4 will extend the tail out by 1 beat (or create a longer hold note to begin with) - When placing new holds in the middle of existing holds, the auto generated tail (to the left) is now a single tick behind - Hold note tails will no longer erase other notes when auto generated, they will just be made slightly shorter by default
• Spins now fade slightly at the end of their tail for clarity when followed by another spin
• All Editor notes are now a few pixels fatter (which should help with charters working in higher resolutions)
• Release notes have their own look, and are thus clearer in the editor timeline
• Wider note tails (spin, scratch enders) are wider and can no longer be pointlessly moved around
• Hold note tail motion is now visible in the timeline
• When switching between note editor and clip info editor, the current time will match
• Editor hotkey list has been cleaned up, with spacing added and common actions grouped
• Editor hotkey list has been updated to include all hotkeys!
• Editor hotkeys will now update themselves when you update your bindings
• Editor tabs (chart info, hotkeys) now open and close independently
• New hotkey! Use O and Alt + O when a group of notes is selected to remove the beats only or remove the notes only from the selection
• Placing notes no longer erases beats (and vice versa)
• Placing new notes on existing notes will erase the existing note
• Placing two match notes will now mirror and colour swap allowing quick creation of match note stacks
• More note stacks now show up as errors (including match note / tap stacks of the same colour)
• Clip info editor and note editor layouts have been cleaned up to look a little nicer
• Editor controls and functions have been cleaned up - All note tails (releases, and hold notes) are now cycled through in one direction, beat releases and hold releases now change type when moving in the same direction - Alt is now exclusively used for “large movements” (now Ctrl + Alt + move does 1 beat movements) - Ctrl + left / right no longer cycles through note types, it cycles note tail types instead of Alt (as this made no sense) - this means you can select large groups of hold notes or beat notes with tails and change them all at once to release / regular note tails without butchering the start notes, which is pretty neat - Alt + left / right now does a large movement left / right (this was previously Shift which made no sense)

• Fixed a bug where low quality backgrounds could clip through the track
• Fixed a bug where cleared tap notes could be snapped to multiple times
• Fixed a bug where short spins would not align to the next note
• Fixed a bug where replacing a beat hold start with another beat would cause a broken note
• Fixed a bug where Switch Pro glyphs were invisible in the tutorial
• Fixed a bug where very short hold notes with releases could trigger the release before the hold was even pressed

Twisty track!

Two new tracks

Easier easies

New audio streaming technology

Graphical upgrade

UPDATE 16 - 2 New Tracks, Search Feature!

• 2 New Tracks! - Your Pain by Koven - we’ve wanted a Koven track in the game since licensing “Shut My Mouth” for the Monstercat DLC. It’s just so damn catchy, with intense vocals and some killer drops - Ghost Ship by Teminite - short and sweet, a real earworm with some savage drops, from his latest album Raise The Black Flag
• Search feature - Located near the filtering button is a new search bar, simply start typing to search from track name, artist, feat. and subtitle fields - If a result contains less than 20 tracks, the tracklist wrapping effect is disabled - You can search for “create” to quickly find the option to create a new chart - Random is removed when searching {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35782014/44bf75a78e7ae84d5e7f2b460b3821db6b2d28b1.gif

• Reset leaderboards for I See Lite XD, Metropole XD and This Is It XD as it was not possible to beat the top scores due to level data changing (a lower maximum available score from a previous update)
• Many optimisations to reduce stuttering (and DSP errors) - Many of the DSP errors experienced by users weren’t actually audio related, they were frame rate stutters that caused audio desync
• Removed mipmapping on track art (sharper tracks, some artifacting)
• Fixed some un-equalised match note strings in Hot Pursuit (Hard)
• Fixed some out of time tap notes in Body Fl0ating (Hard)
• Improved customs loading speed and memory usage (by at least 50%)
• Improved Korean video latency translation issue
• Fixed an issue with Razor Sharp crystals colliding with note path
• Slightly reduced the background reaction effect intensity of tap notes and right spins
• Fixed a layout issue with extremely long track names in pause menu / results screen
• Completing all expert / XD difficulties should now reward players with achievements for completing all normal / hard levels

• Fixed a bug where users would experience a black screen on startup, requiring restart
• Fixed a bug where sometimes custom audio would not show up without a restart
• Fixed a crash related to the background of I See Lite
• Fixed a but with the date format when looking at past daily leaderboards
• Fixed a bug where entering practice mode then restarting a track would clear metadata

Small Update - A New Track

• New track! Pirate Afterparty from Raise The Black Flag with a sweet underwater background - We also licensed 3 other tunes from the album to put in future updates (Ghost Ship, The Kraken and Raise The Black Flag)
• 2 new options menu tick boxes to allow leaderboard submissions for base game and customs (these were actually slipped in with a hotfix a few weeks ago)

• Updated French translations (consistency of “custom” word usage)
• Improved speed and quality of custom menu scrolling
• Updated Unity versions to hopefully reduce the number of DSP / garbage collector related crashes some users are experiencing

• Fixed “321 Go” animation and audio sometimes being cut off when a track is loading

UPDATE 15 - Achievements!

• Added 42 achievements!
• Added Steam leaderboards for custom tracks
• New track - Prism Bucket

• Tap notes now have a simpler look
• Added a slight texture to the target zone of the wheel for clarity
• Edit Mode (customs) now has as many speed settings as practice mode

• DSP icon will no longer show before the track countdown is complete

UPDATE 14 - 2 New Tracks

• 2 new tracks! - Dance With Silence by Camellia - Show Me Love by Aimee Francis
• Improved custom colour system

• Fixed Metropole (XD) inconsistent lift off note pattern in the chorus
• Adjusted a difficult hold note pattern early on in Mimic (Normal)
• Fixed a same direction spin before and after scratch zone in Mimic (Expert)
• Removed a lift off note at the end of Spin Cycle (Hard)
• Fixed a same direction spin before and after scratch zone in Believe (XD)
• Changed the look of spin notes to be slightly clearer

• Fixed beat hold / scratch zone particles being off-center
• Fixed a bug where extremely long scratch zones would slowly lower frame rates

HOTFIX 21

• Fixed a bug where changing the track speed override slider would move the menu background around
• Fixed a bug where simple background could carry over to the main menu
• Fixed vertical cut off issues in a few translation strings in Russian and Chinese
• Fixed a bug where the GO (of 3 2 1 GO) animation would enter strangely and shift to the right
• Fixed a bug where 3 2 1 GO animation was out of time
• Fixed a bug where sometimes New Game background objects would fail to load
• Cleaned up a few broken Chinese translation strings, and updated a few others
• Inactive options menu objects (framerate bar with VSync enabled, show only favourites option with no favourites) now look much darker and un-interactable
• Fixed a bug where saturation and lightness sliders (custom colour menu) looked solid instead of gradated
• Fixed a consistency issue with track name capitalisation
• Fixed a bug where a charts info (bottom left) could contain no track art and difficulty would display 00
• Fixed a bug where stacking too many hit sounds in close proximity would make audio out of sync
• Fixed a translation issue with SpinFM “join” button
• Fixed an issue where track pads (Steam, PS4 controller) weren’t working
• Increased the window for DSP issue reporting (this would over-report when there wasn’t any perceivable DSP issue)