Homebrew Suggestion [REQUEST] UltraStar Deluxe (open source karaoke)

[lordelan]

Most of you should know what UltraStar is. It's just like an open source SingStar for PC (mainly) allowing the community to provide setting files for MP3s and that's it.
In other words: I look for a proper MP3 of Penny Lane by The Beatles, get the config text file for it and start singing it just like I would on SingStar.

UltraStar Deluxe is somehow a better version of (the old) UltraStar so it would make more sense to port Deluxe directly:

https://github.com/UltraStar-Deluxe/USDX

Since Let's Sing 2018 is working very well with my old Wii USB microphones I thought this might work as well. Dunno if that's a libnx issue in the first place or should already work.

Most of the songs in Let's Sing are horrible while everyone's free to pick which songs he want in UltraStar.

This would make my girlfriend so happy and while I'm pretty sure not to be the only male member with a girlfriend here I think many other would like to have this as well.*

Oh, here's a picture of Liam:

* (in rare cases there are some men enjoying singing games as well)

 

[peteruk]

My family love these types of games and would make them very happy if this came to fruition.

Voted yes

 

[lordelan]

Yeah. Got the new Let's Sing 2019 and it has got shitty songs once again. It sucks to be dependent what they choose to be a good selection.

 

[peteruk]

Yeah. Got the new Let's Sing 2019 and it has got shitty songs once again. It sucks to be dependent what they choose to be a good selection.

totally agree, not even any decent DLC at this point either

doesn't appear anybody is interested in porting ultrastar either which is a real shame

 

[hippy dave]

I'd love to say that your main problem was putting that ugly face in your first post and scaring people off, but a bigger technical issue is that it's written in pascal, which isn't a supported language on the Switch at this point (and I've never personally seen pascal ported to console homebrew).

 

[linuxares]

This not a bad idea actually, the Switch is kind of a great system for this kind of product.

 

[lordelan]

that it's written in pascal

Oh you're right. Didn't even notice in the first place lol.
Unfortunately (but obviously) the original UltraStar (which Deluxe is a fork from) is written in Pascal as well. Such a shame.

I can't let you say a word against Liam Gallagher though.

 

[hippy dave]

Actually I just looked at the FreePascal homepage and it apparently already supports GBA, DS and Wii, so perhaps it's not out of the question that someone would add Switch support to it at some point. Whether that would be enough to get USD running I don't know.

 

[lordelan]

Actually I just looked at the FreePascal homepage and it apparently already supports GBA, DS and Wii, so perhaps it's not out of the question that someone would add Switch support to it at some point. Whether that would be enough to get USD running I don't know.

GBA? What the f*ck?
Didn't know about a Wii port though. That'll do the job in my living room until a Switch port appears if ever.
I still wonder how they ported a Pascal project to those platforms. Didn't know that was possible.

Edit: This seems to be the Wii repo -> https://sourceforge.net/p/ultrastarwii/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

 

[hippy dave]

I still wonder how they ported a Pascal project to those platforms. Didn't know that was possible.

Yeah that's what I was saying is that they made FreePascal, which is the compiler used to build USD, support those consoles. Someone would have to adapt the compiler to Switch, before anyone could port USD. I'm glad ultrastar got a wii port for you too.

 

[thmo_]

I found this while browsing around and looking for other UltraStar-like stuff:
https://github.com/performous/performous

It's written in C++. Not sure how hard it would be to port to Switch, but maybe someone picks it up

Edit: Looked at it a bit more indepth. It uses sdl2, has been ported to various desktop systems, is actively being developed on. This looks really decent. It has way more features too it seems (instruments and dance stuff, ie. GuitarHero and StepMania clone too!).
I'm actually hoping somebody picks this up now haha

 

[lordelan]

I found this while browsing around and looking for other UltraStar-like stuff:
https://github.com/performous/performous

It's written in C++. Not sure how hard it would be to port to Switch, but maybe someone picks it up

Edit: Looked at it a bit more indepth. It uses sdl2, has been ported to various desktop systems, is actively being developed on. This looks really decent. It has way more features too it seems (instruments and dance stuff, ie. GuitarHero and StepMania clone too!).
I'm actually hoping somebody picks this up now haha

Good find! But videos on YouTube are many years old lol:

 

[thmo_]

Good find! But videos on YouTube are many years old lol:

Yeah the videos are really old lol ^^
But the game is still being developed on probably looks a bit different now (hopefully).

 

[Dstr8ction]

Well here we have a UltraStar-like game which is fully compatible to USDX songs:
https://github.com/Vocaluxe/Vocaluxe

Give it a try if youre not already using it. I made much better experience with it than with the original USDX.
Also its written in C# rather than Pascal.

 

[lordelan]

Well here we have a UltraStar-like game which is fully compatible to USDX songs:
https://github.com/Vocaluxe/Vocaluxe

Give it a try if youre not already using it. I made much better experience with it than with the original USDX.
Also its written in C# rather than Pascal.

Promising. Last commit only 22 days ago and with C# we're at least step closer lol. Thx for pointing that out. I wish we could make homebrews with C# in general. It's the only language I'm pretty good with.

Songs can be downloaded here (txt files):
http://usdb.animux.de/

I'm going to play around with it on Windows to get into it.

 

[thmo_]

I believe Performous is still our best bet just because it's written with C++ and SDL (it also takes file formats from UltraStart it seems and various others). Makes porting definitley easier, since sadly there's no C# compiler for the Switch. Vocalux does seem to rely on the .NET Framework too, so no real chance on porting that.
I just saw that the last commit to Performous was 6 days ago and they do have a Discord. Imma try looking around if they maybe have thought about porting it to consoles

 

[lordelan]

I believe Performous is still our best bet just because it's written with C++ and SDL (it also takes file formats from UltraStart it seems and various others). Makes porting definitley easier, since sadly there's no C# compiler for the Switch. Vocalux does seem to rely on the .NET Framework too, so no real chance on porting that.
I just saw that the last commit to Performous was 6 days ago and they do have a Discord. Imma try looking around if they maybe have thought about porting it to consoles

Alright, report back when you've got news.

 

[Bedel]

This would make my girlfriend so happy and while I'm pretty sure not to be the only male member with a girlfriend here I think many other would like to have this as well.

You know you don't need to be a girl to enjoy this kind of game, right?
Jk, I know you didn't want to express it that way, but it's horrible xD Maybe you'd want to correct it.

 

[lordelan]

You know you don't need to be a girl to enjoy this kind of game, right?
Jk, I know you didn't want to express it that way, but it's horrible xD Maybe you'd want to correct it.

Haha no I don't wanna correct it.
Although I'm enjoying it myself I've got quite a large circle of friends (is this the right term for that in english?) and we've had plenty Sing(It)Star evenings in our life and guess what?
All girls/women enjoyed it while all boys/men refused to participate.

 

[Bedel]

Haha no I don't wanna correct it.
Although I'm enjoying it myself I've got quite a large circle of friends (is this the right term for that in english?) and we've had plenty Sing(It)Star evenings in our life and guess what?
All girls/women enjoyed it while all boys/men refused to participate.

That still doesn't meam only women can enjoy it. That only mean your friends are quite sexist. Glad that's not my case, and that yours is the first one I know.