Hi all - another small batch of updates

• Added menu music mute button to UI
  
• Fixed problem with menu music mute button and navigating with controller
  
• Fixed problem navigating garage with controller
  
• Fixed problem with drift meter scaling
  
• Miscellaneous minor fixes
  

Another small batch of updates

• Fixes for handling unicode in paths, file names and ID3 tags
  
• Fix for display of Russian characters
  
• Window title bar now reads Riff Racer
  
• New progress bar in-game and during track analysis
  
• Graphical fixes to other progress meters (XP etc.)
  
• Cleaned up icon graphics and menu scaling
  
• Misc minor other graphic fixes and tidy-ups
  

A few small fixes in this update:

• Max volume reduced by 15%.
  
• Volume can be adjusted in game:
  
  
  
  • Users with volume up and down buttons on their keyboard can use those.
    
  • Otherwise: ctrl+alt+'<' decreases volume, ctrl+alt+'>' increases volume.
    
  
  
• The volume configuration screen now snaps to the 10 different volume levels.
  
• The issue applying purchased car packs which required funds to be available (but not used) is fixed.
  
• The unlock all car packs achievement check has been fixed.
  

It's time for Riff Racer to boost through the sync line and into full release!

• Brand new genre colour schemes for pop, jazz / funk / soul and classical.
  
• Updated genre colour schemes for rock, dance & hip-hop / urban.
  
• 25 bundled tracks.
  
• 15 cars and a total of 108 styling packs from Bubblegum & Bluenote, Candy Apple and Carmine to Samurai and Shadow.
  
• Overhauled vehicle / styling pack prices & earn rate for Coins.
  
• Increased the maximum user level to 40 with exponentially more experience required for the higher levels.
  
• Changed the user level background bar on the profile page to show progress to level 40 rather than to the next level.
  
• Handling tweaks and camera changes with a new "high" camera for extra forward visibility.
  
• Camera choice now persists across game sessions.
  
• UI display tidy up improvements including better handling of differing resolutions.
  
• UI navigation improvements.
  
• Sneaky keyboard shortcuts:
  
  
  
  • CTRL-M to mute menu music.
    
  • CTRL-ALT-G for an ultra high-res screen grab to the game directory (these will be overwritten if taken during different game sessions).
    
  • CTRL-H to hide the HUD during a race.
    
  
  

• Fix for 24-bit .flac decode and playback.
  
• Translation fixes.
  
• Fixed DirectX warning.
  
• Fixed incorrect registry paths.
  
• Fix for Drift meter still displayed after the race.
  
• Fix for Xbox controllers not connected as the first user.
  
• Fix for incorrect ghost car used with some challenge types.
  
• Fix for bundled track analysis files not bundled with the game.
  
• Fix for car appearing without wheels.
  
• Fix for crash when navigating through the UI 'too fast'.
  
• Fix for occasional crash accessing physics of a car that has not yet been created.
  
• Fix for possible overflow of user XP and level.
  
• Fix for memory pools overflow.
  
• Various fixes relating to specific music tracks causing crashes.
  
• Recent tracks list fixed bundled tracks not showing.
  
• Recent tracks list a fix so that the list is limited to recent tracks (was all time).
  
• Recent tracks, Bundled tracks and Charts pages navigation fixes.
  
• Fixes for a crash accessing profiles of players without DAT.
  
• Graphical fix for the item purchase button.
  
• Graphical fix for pre and post race overlayed leaderboards.
  
• Fixes for the UI background selection by genre last played.
  
• Made UI background selection persistent between sessions.
  
• Made the camera selection persistent between sessions.
  
• Fixes for bundled track handling.
  
• Misc other fixes including some crashes.
  

Added:

• Drift Meter HUD element (can be toggled on / off)
  
• Manual accelerate / brake controls (can be toggled on / off)
  
• Customisable key controls
  
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
  

Added

• Added new visual effect so that players can tell when the car is in a drift.
  
• Brazilian Portuguese strings added to the game.
  
• Added a new screen to congratulate the player for being the first to race a track.

Fixed

• Reduced likelihood where the player could get too much air from a ramp making them land very close to or on top of barricades, dips or ramps.

Track database reset

Additional changes

• Track browser - press a key to jump directly to that letter in the list
  
• Ghost car score scales down when close to the player
  
• Recent tracks menu lets you sort by difficulty
  
• Free tracks now bundled with game
  

• Improved ramp collision geometry
  
• Decrease size of artist and song title
  
• Matching of similar tracks has been much improved, therefore reducing the number of separate leaderboards and versions of tracks for same songs
  
• Updated dance genre barricade palettes so barricades are more easily seen
  
• "Soundtrack" tag is no longer part of “Classical” genre meaning Classical charts should contain less random tracks
  

• Fix recurring finish lines and cars dropping off the track after the race ended
  
• Fixed issue where camera got too low on a tight loop
  
• Landing hard in a dip now doesn’t make the car come to a complete stop
  
• Fixed finish line animation in Rock genre and surrounding road truss being too high sometimes in rock environment
  
• Fixed issue with file select menu where uppercase file extensions where not displayed
  
• Fixed wild style achievement not unlocking
  
• Fixed possible flac/m4a decode issue
  
• Mega-jump gaps are now shorter for slower tempo songs to address rare instances where the gap would be too large to clear
  
• Fixed issue with shanty-type building's stalks sometimes passing through the track at lower levels
  
• Fixed bug where previous song would play in the front end if the user selected a song with missing id3 info at the end of a race and then cancelled
  
• Fixed crash when song had no iD3 info
  
• Fixed issue where player can be stuck on a black screen for a while when trying to respawn
  
• Fixed ghosts sync issue
  
• Fixed issue where the car would sometimes go through the ramps