
>>>> GAME MUSIC GEAR MX RC1

>> INTRO 

>  GameMusicGear~MX is an upgrade from the old GameMusicGear.
   It's a multiformat music player designed with video game
   music in mind.

>  It's based on some popular multiformat players like 
   the xmms, winamp and oldplay for the gp32.
   

>> FEATURES

>  GMG_MX uses a new plugin system.  There are three types of 
   plugins.  Input Plugins for audio decoding (like mp3 plugin, 
   spc plugin, etc), Output Plugins to encode audio to another
   format (currently wav and mp3 encoders are available), and 
   the Visual Plugins for music visualization, lyrics display 
   (in the future), etc. Very similar to the winamp plugins.
   
   Each plugin consist of a config file (.plugin) and a module
   file (.prx).  And can be replaced or removed if you want to 
   upgrade or disable a plugin.
   
>  Skin Support - There are two skins available right now, a new
   simple skin, and the nice old skin made by rockMax.
   
>  Mini Visualizer - There are two mini visualizers available, spectrum
   and wave, inspired by the ones found in winamp.
   
>  Chinnese GBK, BMP and TrueType font support, with LATIN and UTF8 support.

>  Zip and Rar files support.

>  In game configuration screen.

>  Control keys configuration - You can configure it through the 
   config menu, or you can do it manually editing the 'keys' file.
   
>  Three levels of audio output amplification, configured in  
   each plugin config file.
   
>>  Plugins contained in this package:

>> INSTALL

Currently there is no support for the 1.5 kernel.  So it will only run in 
3.xx kernel in both FAT and SLIM psp's.  I will try to release a 1.5 kernel 
version in the future.  

To install simply copy the GMGearMX folder to the GAME folder of your
psp.

>> TODO

*   Release several new plugins. (I'm currently working on all the formats 
    supported by the previous version =), but i'm having a hard time with
	one of my favorites, the sexyPSF plugin :().  Please let me know which
	formats would you like to be released first, and i will take a look 
    at them!.
*   Hprm support.
*   10 Band graphic equalizer (I already have a beta version but it needs some tunning :))
*   Fixes and optimizations.

NOTE:  I have tested the app only in the psp SLIM right now, so there might be
    other bugs in the psp FAT.  

>> KNOWN BUGS

*  Some files compressed in rar cant be played.
*  Some midi files wich uses a lot instruments make the app crash.
*  Rewind and FastForward is not very accurate and might work improperly 
   in some plugins.
*  Change between skins when playing a song can cause strange behavior.


>> CREDITS

*   First i would like to thank all the people who made psp homebrew 
    posible.  (And of course to Sony for making a great device like the
	psp).
	
*   GameMusicGear~MX uses the JGE++ (Jas Game Engine++), a very 
    nice game engine by jhkhui.  
    http://code.google.com/p/jge	
	
*   Programmer: Me (theHobbit)
    GUI design and graphics by me and rockMax 

>> GOODBYE

If you have any suggestion or wanna help improve the app
please contact me at gama.coder@gmail.com.

This app was done spending several hours of my free time
and i did it because i really like music and programming
but if you feel a little generous and think the app deserves 
a prop you can make a donation at this link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=gama%2ecoder%40gmail%2ecom&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&lc=MX&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8

Well have a lot of fun!  And enjoy the music!

