[shakesoda]

Originally Posted by Izzy

It seems like to me that the only real way to move forward for a new smo is to update the smo protocol and kill all backwards compatibility. If this happens I feel like the game client will need a forced updater that checks for the current version to get online.

I dunno about a forced updater but it'd at least need a way to say "go update the damn game!"

It needs to be able to pass the .sm file as a hash to check for exactly the same files because right now it only uses the song title and subtitle.

This is actually built into the engine, SMO just doesn't use it.

If it ever comes to it you could probably convince houkounchi to host the new smo and just redirect to smo.net and sm.com etc..

Yeah, something like that would be viable, probably.