Concerto for MBAACC

• Project website
• Development discussion & support at #modding in Melty Blood Community Server discord.

About

Concerto is a graphical front end for CCCaster. This is a prototyping build used to test basic features for advanced implementation.

To use it, just drop Concerto.exe in the same folder as CCCaster. You need to be using the latest version of CCCaster and your caster executable needs to be named cccaster.v3.0.exe to work.

Other players can connect to your online versus host without Concerto as long as they use the same version of CCCaster.

For best usage don't open CCCaster or MBAA.exe on their own while using this program.

HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE, ENJOY AND EXPECT BUGS

Building

This project requires Python version 3.8

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Building with Pyinstaller

pyinstaller concerto.spec

This will bundle the Concerto.exe executable into the dist/ directory.

"winpty-agent.exe" is sourced from winpty because we target pywinpty version 0.5.7 for back compatibility to Windows 7 SP1. You may build and run Concerto using the latest version of pywinpty and exclude the .exe however the resulting build will only function on Windows 10.

Audio/Visual sources

Art & sound are provided by community members for exclusive use with Concerto.

Visuals

• Arcuied by Bee Chan
• Sion by aBitofbaileys
• Riesbyfe by Onemi
• Kohaku by Kohakudoori
• UI direction in cooperation with okk and M-AS
• Backgrounds sourced from Unsplash

Audio

• Main BGM (menu_bgm) by Tempxa
• Resources BGM (resource_bgm) by softdrinks

Development roadmap

This is a list of priorities attached to suspected version labels.

Version 1.0 (first stable build)

• Lobby functions
• Direct online
• All offline functions
• Basic How to Play guide
• About & credits screens
• CCCaster & Concerto configuration screens

Version 1.1 (first major update)

• In-client game button binding
• Character introductions in Resources
• Mark player for spectating when match begins

Short-term goals

• Ping display in lobby
• Character/moon/win count display in lobby

Long-term goals

• Matchmaking
• Support other Caster-based games (DFCI Transmission, EFZ Revival)

Things to explore

• Frame data in-client
• Spectator mode (find random anon matches to watch)