# 3D Pinball Space Cadet Talking 3.0.32 - Changelog

Creatiel fork based on SpaceCadetPinball Release 2.1.0 by Andrey Muzychenko.

## Version 3.0.32
- Fixed a Windows audio bug inherited from SpaceCadetPinball 2.1.0: lowering MIDI music volume also lowered the entire application volume in the Windows mixer, making voice announcements and sound effects too quiet.
- Windows: replaced native MIDI playback with bundled TiMidity software synthesis.
- Disabled the native MIDI backend to prevent music volume from changing the Windows application mixer volume.
- Music volume is independent of voices and sound effects; no forced change to the user's Windows mixer setting.
- Bundled Freepats instruments and their license notices in Windows packages.
- Linux audio playback remains unchanged.

## Version 3.0.31
- Removed the temporary automatic multiball test and its score-disqualification injection.
- Retained the validated voice-channel protection and effect-channel allocation fixes.
- Replaced the high-score window's salmon background with #6BADF7.

## Version 3.0.30
- Selected a free effect channel explicitly before playback.
- Recycled the oldest effect first when all effect channels are occupied, avoiding No free channels available errors.
- Retained voice protection and the temporary multiball test.

## Version 3.0.29
- Added four reserved channels for Talking voice announcements.
- Effect-channel recycling no longer interrupts voices.
- Busy voice channels are never replaced by a new voice.
- Retained the temporary 20-second multiball test for audio validation.

## Version 3.0.28 (temporary multiball test)
- Triggered normal multiball once per new game after 20 seconds of active-ball simulation time.
- Used the existing release timers, voice callback and music without audio changes.
- Marked injected multiball games as CheatsUsed to exclude them from normal high scores.
- Skipped injection when natural multiball is already running.

## Version 3.0.27
- Skipped newline glyphs in bitmap drawing, removing question marks from multiline messages.
- Blinked the ball-number display for 1.5 seconds on each positive ChangeBallCount call.
- Restored steady visibility automatically after blinking; ball values are unchanged.

## Version 3.0.26
- Rendered the startup welcome with the native bitmap message font.
- Removed the Full Tilt! tab and its unused button-style overrides from About.

## Version 3.0.25
- Fixed score and player-number tinting with the custom table's null-background renderer.
- Applied the startup welcome after initial NewGame so it is not overwritten.

## Version 3.0.24
- Replaced idle credits with four English pages of exactly three lines.
- Credits and startup welcome use the current build version automatically.
- Displayed Welcome only at application startup; gameplay deployment messages remain translated.
- Changed player-number and score digits to green.
- Preserved explicit line breaks in welcome and credits, fitting text to the display.

## Version 3.0.23

### Gameplay
- Added three Tilt modes: Tilt, Tilt soft and No Tilt.
- Tilt soft doubles the warning and Tilt thresholds.
- No Tilt prevents Tilt while retaining the red "Shock !" warning.
- Added configurable Center Post durations: 30, 60, 90, 120 or 180 seconds.
- Added a visible Center Post countdown below the MAXIS logo.
- Cheats Code remains visible but locked until the lifetime high score reaches 18,000,000.
- Easy Mode remains locked until the lifetime high score reaches 30,000,000.
- Unlocking is based on the persistent lifetime high score.
- Removed the 3DPB data preference; CADET.DAT is always prioritised.
- PINBALL.DAT and DEMO.DAT remain available as compatibility fallbacks.

### Talking audio
- Added a welcome voice announcement.
- Added custom voice announcements for Extra Ball, First Service, Center Post and Multiball.
- Added a custom Game Over voice sequence.
- SOUND9 combines its original opening effect with the "Big Bonus!" announcement.
- Added applause when a score qualifies for the High Scores table.
- Added a drum roll followed by applause when a new rank-1 record is achieved.
- Increased the applause and drum-roll levels with peak limiting.
- Reduced original table effects by 9 dB to improve voice clarity.
- Voice notifications, SOUND9 and Game Over remain exempt from this attenuation.
- Original effects that conflicted with Talking announcements were removed or adjusted.

### Right panel and interface
- Replaced the original right-side artwork with a customised Space Shuttle panel.
- Added a pixel-perfect 325x640 native panel layer.
- Added a separate high-resolution shuttle and star-field layer for fullscreen mode.
- Preserved dynamic score, ball-number and message displays above the artwork.
- Added four independently twinkling stars.
- Added an animated warm-white halo to the SPACE CADET title.
- Added six flashing pale-yellow and red shuttle exhaust rays.
- Added a green Extra Ball reserve indicator inside the title arc.
- Added a pink ball-number display and adjusted its vertical alignment.
- Added yellow text to the upper message display.
- Added a coloured High Scores window with eight stored entries.
- Centred and proportionally scaled the High Scores window on the right panel.
- Added the complete build identifier and a Changelog tab to the About dialog.
- Added a Web Projet entry to the Game menu linking to the official project page.
- The game window is minimised when Web Projet is selected so the browser opens in the foreground, including from fullscreen mode.
- Removed the 3DPB data submenu from Options.
- Removed the ImGui Demo and Sprite Viewer developer tools from Help.
- Preserved the familiar expression "Cheats Code" in Latin-alphabet menu languages.

### Text and languages
- Added French accented characters to the original bitmap font.
- Added bitmap glyph support for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
- Added Unicode bitmap glyphs for Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese.
- Added a compact GNU Unifont JP subset containing only required glyphs.
- Added an automatic Unicode font fallback for long messages that do not fit at native bitmap size.
- Long fallback messages use larger, bold, centred text in the display colour.
- Added complete menus and custom-option translations for all 24 supported languages.
- Shortened overly detailed custom menu labels, including the Center Post duration setting.
- Added right-to-left menu presentation for Arabic and Hebrew.
- Preserved the pinball term "Tilt" in every language.

### Controls and system
- Added support for generic SDL joystick devices.
- Generic joystick buttons can be assigned in Game Controls.
- Existing SDL Game Controller support is preserved.
- Prevented multiple simultaneous game instances.
- Added optional Enhanced Scaling (3.0), disabled by default.
- Restored the original dark background around the table.

### Fixed
- Fixed progressive table displacement after repeated nudges.
- Fixed nudge rendering with Enhanced Scaling.
- Removed obsolete slow two-pass scaling implementations.
- Fixed French accents being replaced by unaccented bitmap glyphs.
- Fixed colour and proportions of generated bitmap accents.
- Fixed stale fragments at the right edge of long messages.
- Fixed centring and wrapping of Unicode fallback messages.
- Preserved existing five-entry score tables during migration to eight entries.
- Fixed score-window placement in windowed and fullscreen modes.
- Fixed alignment of the Center Post countdown and shuttle exhaust origin.

### Included custom audio
- WELCOME.WAV
- EXTRABALL.WAV
- FIRSTSERVICE.WAV
- CENTRALBALLBLOCKER.WAV
- MOREBALLS.WAV
- APPLAU.WAV
- DRUM.WAV
- SOUND/SOUND2.WAV
- SOUND/SOUND9.WAV

### Validation summary
- Gameplay remains fluid with Enhanced Scaling enabled or disabled.
- Table nudges return correctly without cropping or right-panel displacement.
- Bitmap and Unicode text were tested across all 24 supported languages.
- French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German accented bitmap glyphs display correctly.
- Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese in-game bitmap text displays correctly.
- Arabic and Hebrew menus display in right-to-left order.
- The eight-entry High Scores table saves new entries correctly.
- High Scores placement and scaling were tested in 1024x768 and fullscreen modes.
- Custom right-panel artwork remains aligned and sharp in fullscreen mode.
- Title halo, twinkling stars and exhaust-ray animations display correctly.
- Extra Ball and Center Post indicators display correctly.
- Talking announcements and customised gameplay sounds are clearly audible.
- Generic joystick bindings were tested with a Thrustmaster Dual Analog 3.2.