Change your renderer to what you had it before or update your graphics card drivers. Do so by hold shift during startup or through your config file.

Not sure if this has already been pointed out and such or if it's really of any importance...
but it seems that when you go to "Collection" tab, if you use the random function prior to selecting a song it will just default to the first song in the list?

Sorry if useless post ^^

Issue: data extraction problem

Description: I've been through a couple of threads related to this: Sorting maps by accuracy (of preferably your highest ranking play for a map).
The general result is that the request is rejected and no further information is given.

So I though, let’s try and get them in a list myself. (Automated ofc). So I preceded to making a copy of the scores.db file and subsequently failing to open it in excel or access. Next I tried opening it in notepad++ which works, yay. On to the issue, the data in the file is encoded to minimize the package size to the servers, which in and of itself is no problem, however I don't have a way of decrypting it(nor am I skilled enough to find the appropriate encryption).

I have no trouble finding out which map a series of scores belong to, since you can use your saved replays to find them (the short code is part of the filename). However finding the % value of a score is what I want, and can't seem to figure out. Once I know how to interpret the % value I can quickly build a list in excel and sort. (If only the number of hit, close, near miss and miss is present I can still reconstruct the % with the formula on the site) On the plus side if even the score is there then I can remove multiple tries on the same song automatically based on total score.

This is all under the assumption that this value is included in the .db file.

Any help is welcome, (direction to somone who can help is also welcome)

DanielHarmsen

danielharmsen wrote:

Issue: data extraction problem

Description: I've been through a couple of threads related to this: Sorting maps by accuracy (of preferably your highest ranking play for a map).
The general result is that the request is rejected and no further information is given.

So I though, let’s try and get them in a list myself. (Automated ofc). So I preceded to making a copy of the scores.db file and subsequently failing to open it in excel or access. Next I tried opening it in notepad++ which works, yay. On to the issue, the data in the file is encoded to minimize the package size to the servers, which in and of itself is no problem, however I don't have a way of decrypting it(nor am I skilled enough to find the appropriate encryption).

I have no trouble finding out which map a series of scores belong to, since you can use your saved replays to find them (the short code is part of the filename). However finding the % value of a score is what I want, and can't seem to figure out. Once I know how to interpret the % value I can quickly build a list in excel and sort. (If only the number of hit, close, near miss and miss is present I can still reconstruct the % with the formula on the site) On the plus side if even the score is there then I can remove multiple tries on the same song automatically based on total score.

This is all under the assumption that this value is included in the .db file.

Any help is welcome, (direction to somone who can help is also welcome)

DanielHarmsen

Actually, this is not encrypted file, but a binary file, you have to program a program (oh god) with a class structure the same as the file (ints to ints, strings to string), and then you can open every score. However, I've been already trying to do similar thing with osu.db, and I (piotrekol, not me to be exact [ HI MOSNTER GIVING NO CREDITS] ) couldn't find the right structure.

You can also seek a file until you come up with escape character (hex 0b iirc), and try to find out to what it belongs (my work around while being still new to programming :33)

You can see whole file, by using any hex editor, it'll be in readable state.

Hello. I have warning on my account (morap for spam in #japanese), but I'm pretty sure, that I was offline. Actually I was offline for few mounth.
Also I regulary get messages on my email for password recovery, but I do not asked for it. What's wrong ?

Not sure. If you weren't online then somehow someone got access to your account or someone accidentally silenced your name without realizing it.

Marcin wrote:

danielharmsen wrote:

Issue: data extraction problem

Description: I've been through a couple of threads related to this: Sorting maps by accuracy (of preferably your highest ranking play for a map).
The general result is that the request is rejected and no further information is given.

So I though, let’s try and get them in a list myself. (Automated ofc). So I preceded to making a copy of the scores.db file and subsequently failing to open it in excel or access. Next I tried opening it in notepad++ which works, yay. On to the issue, the data in the file is encoded to minimize the package size to the servers, which in and of itself is no problem, however I don't have a way of decrypting it(nor am I skilled enough to find the appropriate encryption).

I have no trouble finding out which map a series of scores belong to, since you can use your saved replays to find them (the short code is part of the filename). However finding the % value of a score is what I want, and can't seem to figure out. Once I know how to interpret the % value I can quickly build a list in excel and sort. (If only the number of hit, close, near miss and miss is present I can still reconstruct the % with the formula on the site) On the plus side if even the score is there then I can remove multiple tries on the same song automatically based on total score.

This is all under the assumption that this value is included in the .db file.

Any help is welcome, (direction to somone who can help is also welcome)

DanielHarmsen

Actually, this is not encrypted file, but a binary file, you have to program a program (oh god) with a class structure the same as the file (ints to ints, strings to string), and then you can open every score. However, I've been already trying to do similar thing with osu.db, and I (piotrekol, not me to be exact [ HI MOSNTER GIVING NO CREDITS] ) couldn't find the right structure.

You can also seek a file until you come up with escape character (hex 0b iirc), and try to find out to what it belongs (my work around while being still new to programming :33)

You can see whole file, by using any hex editor, it'll be in readable state.

Mmmnh, I tried using the hexadecimal plugin of notepad, but as you said, the standard structure is not the correct one. At least the black boxes are gone.

I tried a few different settings, but this changed noting. I did notice that the standard structure "loses" data during the interpretation. A lot of the different hex segments translate to a simple dot.

Is there a way to find the structure? You mentioned something with the escape character. The “0b” character in this file is linked to “30 62” section, is this what you were looking for?

Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... riter.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us//librar ... eader.aspx these are classes used for writing / reading the file afaik. (at least, i was using them)
As for the structure - you have to find out on your own, (or ask peppy /me runs) but if you have no clue in programming, I really wonder if you'll do something with it.

Side Pocket wrote:

ohokay wrote:

Issue: Songs take 1 min+ to load

Description: Every song from http://osu.ppy.sh/s/29157 takes 1 minute plus to load but every other beat map loads in ~10 seconds. It used to not do this, then one day it started taking forever to load. Can someone help?

Make sure you aren't running anything too memory demanding in the background.

I could have nothing else opened and it still takes over 1 minute. Is it my computer?

Marcin wrote:

Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... riter.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us//librar ... eader.aspx these are classes used for writing / reading the file afaik. (at least, i was using them)
As for the structure - you have to find out on your own, (or ask peppy /me runs) but if you have no clue in programming, I really wonder if you'll do something with it.

I'm a horrible programmer in anything other than math or basic html... which just gave me an idea. Thanks to the hex plugin, I can get the raw data. Now I can find out for each song which I played only once what the parameters are for hit/nearhit/nearmiss/miss, the kaku/geki and the score from the website. If I assume that the numbers are coded in a simple way(like say 318 is encoded like a 3 a 1 and a 8) then a small number of songs can be used to find the general position and translation of each number. With a small selection of songs finding the patterns should be doable(?right?).

This can then be used to substitute in the original file giving the list of scores for each song/attempt. This can all be done in excel/word/notepad too bad the first part is a ton of work...

Progres edit 1:
I found out what the codings for 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 are (00 00, 01 00, 02 00, 03 00, 04 00, 05 00, 06 00, 07 00, 08 00, 09 00)
The number counting is not simple like I assumed earlier, maybe even simpeler: 11 is 0b 00.
I also discovered the reporting sequence for: hit nearhit nearmiss geki kaku miss (example, perfect run of tutorial 08 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00)
this is followed by a 4 hex set (example: 00 00 00 00) containing the score, followed by the combo.
This could mean that the theoretical maximum number or combo is 65536 (16^4) (this way of encoding does not allow a number to get an additional hex set because of read out problems). And a maximum score of: 4294967296 (16^8), excluding mods.
I also found out that there is a constant number of hex sets after the name until the score is reported.
I think this is the string for a new score entry: d0 08 ff ff ff ff.

Is there a program which can represent the entire file in hex, and start a new line after the new score signal?

Hm, I could try to create a structure for you, but TRY, I'll send you to PM if I happen to make it, but don't expect it anytime soon.

Marcin wrote:

Hm, I could try to create a structure for you, but TRY, I'll send you to PM if I happen to make it, but don't expect it anytime soon.

Thank you very much for the hexadecimal hint, I wouldn't have been able to get this far without it.

I think I've figured out a way to extract/convert the data. I'll update this post when I'm finished. (It's a very cumbersome approach)

I did it

Here's the play by play for those interested: If it does not work at all, it may be because of the difference between you and me in osu name.
Version 2: Added translation for the string in excel, removing 1 step. Also added ability to check for full combo (FC).

1 Locate the scores.db file in your osu directory and make a copy of it.
2 Open the copy in notepad++ and use the hexadecimal plugin (link below) to view the file in its original code. Copy all the columns with numbers except for the address and dump column (first and last one)
3 Paste in word or similar text editor and replace the following: d0 08 ff ff ff ff by ^p d0 08 ff ff ff ff and 0b 20 by 0b 20 ^t (I did this in word, this may differ in other applications, the idea is to create a new paragraph with ^p and insert a tab with ^t)
4 Select all the text in the word file and paste it in cel A3 of the excel file (link below) [This file was made in an excel with the dutch language]
5 Don't freak out, only your highest scoring plays are processed, the rest all show N/A. (You may need to make sure that the table expands properly)
6 You can now use the low->high sort of the accuracy column, or the FC colum (1 stands for FC)
6.5 In some rare instances, scores may give odd numbers here, this is due to an unknown extra string in the db file. Because of this all the data processing is wrong and you can't find this score for that song.
7 Once you found the score of interest, you need to find the song related to it, to do this, go to the Map name column of that score and copy the number/letter sequence present in that cell.
8 Go to the osu directory and use search to find the letter/number sequence. You will get a series of results depending on the number of times you played the song.
9 Open any one of the files while osu is running in the background and presto you have the song you want. Now you only need to look for the correct difficulty and you can start improving it.

Notes:
As mentioned earlier, some song scores will give odd numbers or won't work, I don't know how to fix it, common sense applies.
This method also includes unranked plays & offline plays; I have no way of separating them at the moment.
You can only find songs of which you have replays of and the scores present on your current pc/computer. If you did not copy all these files when you changed to a new device, old score info will be lost and cannot be recovered.

Links:
Excel file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwk3o06prwy0f ... 0sort.xlsx
Notepad plugin: http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet ... I_dll.zip/

Special thanks:
marcin for his tip to use a hexadecimal capable program to read the files.
Piotrekol for a more accurate breakdown of the score structure in scores.db
Also cheers for peppy and his very efficient way of coding the scores.db file.

Umm, can someone tell me if this thing is normal? .___.


because my 'accuracy' is not decreasing nor increasing. o3o or should I say I'm stuck. o3o

- Sorry for my poor grammar.

p/2005158
Refer to deadbeat's post.

Marcin wrote:

https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/2005158
Refer to deadbeat's post.

Thank you sir.

Having problems starting osu. Normal shortcuts on my desktop simply don't work without any kind of error screens and same for osu!.exe in osu folder. Osume.exe, however, gives me the following error message:

Sorry, it seems an error has occured
Please report this on the forums along with as much detail as possible of how it happaned.
Culture "en" is a neutral culture. It cannot be used during formatting and deconstruction(? this part is in russian so i translate as accurately as i can, sorry if got this wrong) and as such it cannot be selected as a current culture for this flow.
Void CheckNeutral(System.Globalization.CultureInfo)

After I got tis message for the first time, i tried reinstalling osu, but it didn't work. I even deleted everything inside the folder, except for "songs", but still getting this message. Everything worked fine yesterday.

UPD: somehow osu runs normally again, no clues of why it happened.

hey um can u change my main menu
backround

I have a question. Why doesn't anyone have a signature in Announcements?

My guess is since they're treated as comments, and therefore they (admins) don't want to clutter forum. (since sometimes they're long)

if i remember, its disabled long time ago... well old time signatures are longer than 150px

Is there any way to point osu! to a songs directory that isn't 'C:\Program Files\osu!\Songs'? My C:\ partition is basically full of osu! songs and I don't want to resize. Cheers.

Afaik there was a argument for config file to make it read other folder, but cannot you just move whole osu! installation? (osu! is portable, that means after you move osu!, nothing in registry will break).

Marcin wrote:

Afaik there was a argument for config file to make it read other folder, but cannot you just move whole osu! installation? (osu! is portable, that means after you move osu!, nothing in registry will break).

Thanks mate, didn't realise it was a portable install.

I don't know what happened, but this thread got unstickied.

peppy is considering decommissioning this thread and having people post their issues in separate threads, so that's possibly why it was unstickied. I want to give it a bit more of a chance though, since questions still have a place.

Edit: Updated the thread to make it less redundant - issues should always go in their own thread, but questions about the technical side of the game can be posted here.

I guess people can ask about issues instead of posting issues. That sounds better.

Still thinking individual threads works better ;x.

I dont know where i should type that so
Issue: Ban for no reason(2600 minutes)
Description: http://cs9408.vk.me/v9408990/1ac1/MvOF8HBaZEU.jpg http://cs9408.vk.me/v9408990/1aca/_G32lCjz97s.jpg
Just typed about 3 messages in #russian, not #osu and get a ban.

Deal with your issue at accounts@ppy.sh

yeah, individual thread please.

Don't know why this thread was sticked in Resolved Issues as it is obsolete now. I unsticked it.