Making new theme; need help with custom mods

[Goldenwind]

Starting with ITG2, and making heavy edits from there.
This theme, if it comes together well, may be going on a couple arcade machines.

I've been asking everyone at the arcades what they'd like, and one mentioned this:
- They'd like a Sudden Death mod that fails them if they get anything that's not a Fantastic.

Could someone here point me to where this could be done? I'm very familiar programming (Programmed my own Invincibility mod, etc), but there's so much code I'm not familiar with.

This person says he's seen machines already have it.

[ELRayford]

Re: Making new theme; need help with custom mods

# Song options
 LifeType=2,together
 LifeTypeDefault=
 LifeType,1=mod,bar;name,Bar
 LifeType,2=mod,battery;name,Battery
 
 BarDrain=3,together
 BarDrainDefault=
 BarDrain,1=mod,normal-drain;name,Normal
 BarDrain,2=mod,norecover;name,NoRecover
 BarDrain,3=mod,suddendeath;name,SuddenDeath

[Goldenwind]

Re: Making new theme; need help with custom mods

# Song options
 LifeType=2,together
 LifeTypeDefault=
 LifeType,1=mod,bar;name,Bar
 LifeType,2=mod,battery;name,Battery
 
 BarDrain=3,together
 BarDrainDefault=
 BarDrain,1=mod,normal-drain;name,Normal
 BarDrain,2=mod,norecover;name,NoRecover
 BarDrain,3=mod,suddendeath;name,SuddenDeath

That's default Sudden Death, which at least on the ITG2 theme, penalizes you for misses, mines, and dropped holds. I have this working flawlessly.

What we're looking for is ways to edit what penalizes you, and/or to create multiple versions of the mod with different levels of penalization.

Thank-you for spending time to look into it though.