Salamander County Public Television
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Now that's not beans.
-Tin
Salamander County Public Television v1.1.1 Update
Gameplay Changes
Donut Production Line: multiple changes to make the game more consistent, especially for speedrunning:
- for the first 50 donuts, roughly every third donut is guaranteed to be a match (non-guaranteed donuts still have a 1/3 chance of being a match)
- for donuts 51-100, roughly every sixth donut is guaranteed to be a match
- it's now easier to score a perfect donut
- combining incorrect donut halves now reduces your lives by 1
Medal Target Changes
The Dog with the Strongest Tongue: reduced bonus from 300 packing peanuts to 250 packing peanuts
Cheese Eater: reduced bonus from 1000 rotations to 500 rotations
Bug Fixes
Game Select: fixed an incorrect control icon for Pineapples Suck
Mitosis Bowling: set the minimum physics refresh rate to 60 fps to make the physics more stable on low-end hardware
Burger Building Bonanza: fixed a bug where pausing the game could cause the next topping to become undroppable
Pineapples Suck: improved performance
Pineapples Suck: fixed a bug where the vacuum sound could overlap when restarting or exiting the level
Defeat the Boss: fixed a bug where the vacuum sound could overlap when restarting or exiting the level
Taco Tom Can Dab: fixed a bug where the notes could become permanently desynced from the music, often when streaming the game on Discord
Taco Tom Can Dab: improved performance
Other Changes
Game select: updated description for Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice's bonus
Defeat the Boss: the credits will only be loaded the first time the level is beaten
Taco Tom Can Dab: adjusted the background video colors
Credits: minor update
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Salamander County Public Television v1.0.6 Update
Bug Fixes
- Game Select: fixed the shadow on the button prompts not scaling properly
- Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice: fixed a bug where the lap complete flag could appear on both lawnmowers at the same time
Other Changes
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: adjusted the background
- Game Over Menu: you can now press Y to skip to the next day when you lose the current day's game before earning a bronze medal
- Game Over Menu: rephrased "You lost. Try again!" as "You lost. Try to get a bronze medal!" when you lose the current day's game before earning a bronze medal
- Game Over Menu: renamed "Continue" to "Continue to Next Day"
- Pause Menu: renamed "Continue" to "Resume"
- Pause Menu: "Back to Menu" appears as "Continue to Next Day" if you play the current day's game again after earning a bronze medal
- Pause Menu: "A/Enter: Select" now appears on the bottom right
SCPTV v1.0.5 Update - Now with In-Game Leaderboards!
Full Changelog
New Features
- In-Game Leaderboard: Press X on the Game Select screen to view the leaderboard for that game. You can select between the top 10 scores globally, the scores closest to you, and the top 10 scores from people in your friends list.
Medal Target Changes
- Introducing the Anti-Eraser: gold target increased from 75 seconds to 80 seconds
- Introducing the Anti-Eraser: bonus target decreased from 80% to 75%
- Taco Tom Can Dab: gold target lowered from 20000 points to 12000 points
- Taco Tom Can Dab: silver target lowered from 10000 points to 8000 points
Bug Fixes
- Game Select: fixed the bonus description for The World's Largest Waffle getting cut off
Other Changes
- Properly Inflating Balloon Animals 101: slightly lowered the volume of the measurement sound
Salamander County Public Television v1.0.4 Update
Full Changelog
Gameplay Changes
- The Joy of Plugging It In: adjusted the socket hitboxes again (the game is now slightly harder than it was in v1.0.3, but still much easier than it was before v1.0.3)
Bug Fixes
- Are Mushrooms Wheels?: fixed a bug introduced in v1.0.2 where the bonus would only be awarded when the car was at 4.20 meters when the game over screen appeared, instead of when the self destruct button was pressed (sorry Tolomeo)
- Defeat the Boss: fixed a bug where losing the level after completing it would reset the high score to 0 and remove the awarded medals
Other Changes
- Main Menu: added a video (#25)
- Main Menu: revised a ticker message
- Main Menu/Whack Chat: minor internal update to the display clock
- Credits: buttons other than Start or Esc no longer skip the credits
Salamander County Public Television v1.0.3 Update
Full Changelog
Gameplay Changes
- The Joy of Plugging It In: adjusted the socket hitboxes and added drag to the plug's velocity to help stabilize it and make it easier to consistently insert the plug into the sockets
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: added drag to the skateboard's velocity to make it slower and easier to control
- Avant-Garde Applesauce Simulator: if there are fewer than 20 apples in the playfield, more apples will be spawned until there are at least 20 apples in the playfield
- Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice: the angle of the lawnmowers at the start is now perfectly aligned (previously, there was a random slight variation for each lawnmower)
Medal Target Changes
- Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice: gold target increased from 100 seconds to 120 seconds
- Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice: silver target increased from 150 seconds to 160 seconds
Bug Fixes
- Whack Chat: fixed a bug where the TTS would play in the Game Select screen if the Whack chat was skipped at a certain point
- That's Beans: reverted the font change from v1.0.2
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: fixed a bug where flipping multiple times awarded too many points
- Defeat the Boss: reverted the font change from v1.0.2 (the increased font size has not been reverted)
Salamander County Public Television v1.0.2 Update
Full Changelog
Gameplay Changes
- Cheese Eater: reduced the opacity of the mouse's legs at high speeds
- Shooting Hoops: adjusted the default values to ones that are more likely to result in made baskets
- Shooting Hoops: slowed down the value adjustments for extra precision
- Brevoortia Water Balloon: adjusted the starting angle of the fish, making it easier to consistently hit the water balloon just by dashing forwards
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: adjusted the controls to make looping and changing direction easier
- Defeat the Boss: increased the font size of the text displayed on the TV
Medal Target Changes
- Introducing the Anti-Eraser: gold target increased from 70 seconds to 75 seconds
- Introducing the Anti-Eraser: silver target increased from 110 seconds to 120 seconds
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: gold target reduced from 25000 pts. to 20000 pts.
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: silver target reduced from 8000 pts. to 7000 pts.
- Skate Shuttle Starcatcher: bonus target reduced from 7000 pts. to 6000 pts.
- Taco Tom Can Dab!: bronze target reduced from 5000 pts. to 4000 pts.
Bug Fixes
- Title Screen: fixed the music not looping
- Whack Chat: fixed dialogue errors on Days 9 and 29
- Whack Chat: fixed TTS not playing for email images
- Whack Chat: fixed Rambicule Ratings sometimes going straight to the final screen (probably, I saw other people have this issue but I couldn't replicate it myself)
- Game Select: fixed Are Mushrooms Wheels? showing the wrong controller button for driving backwards
- All games: fixed the reminder that you can skip a day when losing the current game multiple times in a row not appearing
- Shooting Hoops: fixed the scrolling background breaking after ~10 minutes
- Brevoortia Water Balloon: fixed a collision issue with the wooden pole that caused the AI to sometimes get stuck on it
- Mitosis Bowling: fixed the power meter flickering under certain circumstances
- Burger Building Bonanza: fixed a possible softlock where ingredients stop spawning
- Perfect Popcorn Bowl: fixed the music sometimes not playing
- That's Beans: fixed the bonus not counting when 'bean' appeared on the right side
- That's Beans: fixed the font being different when playing on a non-Windows device, such as a Steam Deck
- Are Mushrooms Wheels?: fixed self-destructing by pressing the space bar sometimes immediately going back to the main menu
- Defeat the Boss: fixed the broken leaderboard (glitched times have been manually deleted, your correct high score will be uploaded when you complete the level again)
- Defeat the Boss: fixed the TV's scanlines not scaling properly to the game's resolution
Other Changes
- All games: when beating a game for the first time, "Continue" is now shown instead of "Back to Menu" at the game over screen until the game is exited
- Game Select: updated the descriptions of The World's Largest Waffle, Handstanding, Avant-Garde Applesauce Simulator, and Skate Shuttle Starcatcher for clarification
- Defeat the Boss: the credits now appear after exiting the level on subsequent playthroughs
Salamander County Public Television is available now!
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