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Title: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on August 18, 2007, 03:00:55 PM
Suppose I'll start this one up again...
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Wewt?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on August 18, 2007, 04:42:21 PM
Very close to an AA.
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 19, 2007, 08:26:42 PM
I passed Bad Boy Bass [h]. Yay, that song had been pwning me hardcore earlier.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on August 20, 2007, 02:32:01 PM
Very close to an AA.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02826.jpg)

Oh man, and I thought I was the only one who had that file! I'm going to have to see how I can do on it now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on August 20, 2007, 03:43:19 PM
Wrecked except for the completely dumb miss.  This is one of my best MA scores.
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 20, 2007, 03:52:24 PM
Stupid misses are gay, they happen WAY too often to me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on August 21, 2007, 02:14:16 PM
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on August 21, 2007, 05:12:51 PM
good score, pobeli.. I think I'm as good as I'll ever be. :\
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 22, 2007, 03:56:01 AM
Got a few 100% judgment scores on DJ MAX Portable 2.  That game wins.

good score, pobeli.. I think I'm as good as I'll ever be. :\

Nah, you're not; you just hit a plateau.  You'll hit a ton of those, believe me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 22, 2007, 02:42:51 PM
The problem is that they get longer and harder to improve from, I've hit a plateau right now, and I've been unable to get any better for months :/ It's getting to the point that my hands are physically making things harder, I can't do things like long jacks, or jumpjacks well, because to get that speed required, I have to lock my writs and basically vibrate my whole ram :/ Also, my fingers only seem to be able to move so fast, and any faster and it turns into me just hitting them at the same time (kills my left hand when there are left hand drills, since it's quite a bit weaker/slower than my right.) I'll be SO happy if I break this plateau, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on August 22, 2007, 02:46:46 PM
Exactly, it seems like my fingers just don't have the speed... It might help if my arrow reading skills got a little better...

is it just me, or does it seem like it's harder to read notes while dancing to a chart than doing it on the keyboard? I know it's the exact same chart, but for some reason it just seems harder to read.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 22, 2007, 02:55:45 PM
Happens to me too, lol. It has to do with the fact that you haven't trained your feet to react the same way you've trained your fingers to, I think. In any case, try forcing yourself to read faster speeds when playing. This tends to make your reaction speed increase, so you may be able to get your fingers to speed up that way. I mean, I read C700, and used to read C800 (when I quit playing for a while, I couldn't read C800 any more, and had to move down, and haven't had a reason to force myself to read faster yet.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on August 22, 2007, 03:32:47 PM
Yeah, I'm starting to think 600 is too slow, I'm thinking about booting it up to 650 or something, but i don't want to bother with the metrics :x
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on August 22, 2007, 05:52:58 PM
I've got something like 65 speedmods defined right now.

I'd post the good scores I got today but you guys probably wouldn't recognize the files.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on August 22, 2007, 08:16:50 PM
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old scores, i'm not half as good as this anymore.  however, i wasn't really all that great to begin with.  and i felt like spamming stepmania scores like the old days.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on August 22, 2007, 10:59:38 PM
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on August 23, 2007, 12:49:24 AM
That's the lolstupid beginner steps, right? Where the entire end of the sim is a huge jumpstream?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 23, 2007, 12:57:34 AM
is it just me, or does it seem like it's harder to read notes while dancing to a chart than doing it on the keyboard?

Hell yes it is.  I use C700 on both index and spread now yet keep it around 400-450 bpm on foot.  I can read higher speeds when I rape the bar (I max out at roughly 600-650 when I cling to the thing) but I prefer to stay in my no-bar comfort zone since I enjoy playing without the bar more than with it if possible.

If a chart is kind of cluttered I'll usually put the speed up around 500-550 and slap hallway on.  It's awesome how it spreads the arrows apart yet gives the illusion of a slower speed.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 23, 2007, 02:16:21 AM
Never tried hallway.. Must be because I have no place near here to reliably play on an arcade machine, and I don't have a way to connect my pad to my comp yet (which will be completely made of win whenever I get the adapter. I hate having a tiny amount of songs to chose from.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 01, 2007, 10:40:46 PM
Was hoping Bloodrush for my 7th 12 pass and was hoping Pandy for my first 13, but ended failing on both :(. I would've passed Bloodrush if I didn't screw up the 32nds...it wasn't even tiring.

Anyways I got two accomplishments today:

Temple of boom Expert. Upped from a 97 to 98. 2nd time playing it on pad:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00002-1.jpg)

Passed a new 11. I've passed every 11 now. Just four 12s left and all 13s...
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 03, 2007, 02:02:27 AM
Pass all 7k on IIDX DistorteD CS

AAA Waxing and Wanding 7k (AAA on a 10 yay)
AAA at least half of 7k
A/fail tripping contact remix [a] lol
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 03, 2007, 04:15:43 AM
Pass all 7k on IIDX DistorteD CS

AAA Waxing and Wanding 7k (AAA on a 10 yay)
AAA at least half of 7k
A/fail tripping contact remix [a] lol

I have a question. For locked songs on JP CS releases, do they unlock after playing x amount of songs or something else? Preferably how do I unlock the extra stage songs for normal play.

I'm not gonna be getting HS after all, i'm gonna be getting DD.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 05, 2007, 01:37:55 AM
You don't have to unlock anything from AC. You unlock pretty much all of the songs by either playing some arcade mode or by playing them in whatever expert course the're in. Only exception is Drunk Monky. To get that, AA Light Motion, Super Highway and Attack the Music. Drunk Monky shows up in Extra Stage.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 05, 2007, 07:15:25 PM
you have distorted   /envy

well i just got 9th and ive been enjoying that

A quasar [h]  pretty damn fun to be honest

(not to mention genre FORKTRONICA, which is the best thing ever.  macho gang is awesomely fucked up, and the video for rottel the mercury involves fishing....)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 05, 2007, 07:28:32 PM
The only ones i'd get are Distorted, Happy Sky, and Red.


Doesn't seem like many songs that I would play on any other styles that I cant get on 11-13.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 07, 2007, 12:20:02 AM
8th and 9th both have a ton of songs you can't play elsewhere.

Anyway,

B/pass Kachofusetsu [a]
A/pass Harmony and Lovely [a]
6 EX away from A on Type Mars [a] (I did pass though)
Almost AAA Nijiiro [a]

I love DistorteD so much. 3 new 11's in one day hooray. Too bad the 12's are all ridiculous.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 09, 2007, 06:25:08 AM
UGH, why is DDR virtually nonexistent in Maryland. ;_;

Anyhoo, last time I went to the movies (and saw Shoot 'Em Up -- fucking awesome, go see it RIGHT NOW) I played SuperNOVA and was amazed that I only got two pad misses in CSFILSM. <_<

I also managed to nearly pull the incredibly loose bar out of the pad a couple of weeks ago while playing MaxX Unlimited heavy.  Sharde was a witness to that catastrophe.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on September 09, 2007, 04:21:05 PM
Haha, almost removed the bar? nice.

Also, wow, the general gaming thread is actually longer for once..
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 09, 2007, 11:28:33 PM
Haha, almost removed the bar? nice.

The fact that I was leaning against the said bar when it came up made it considerably less nice, haha. XD

The bar still stays in there, even if you tug on it from above, but when it comes out about half-way it will go back a LOT farther (probably a foot back) and it doesn't feel secure at all.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on September 10, 2007, 12:21:39 AM
I've been playing alot of doubles lately...

I got 7 greats on Little Boy [Heavy].  I used to play off and on, but now that I've started playing doubles with bar...it's all goood.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 10, 2007, 01:22:44 AM
I used to play off and on, but now that I've started playing doubles with bar...it's all goood.

I don't know why, but it takes far less energy for me to rape the bar on doubles than it does on singles...it's also easier to do crossovers with the bar on doubles as well.

Well, as long as the machine isn't trying to kill you, that is. XD
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on September 10, 2007, 01:41:12 AM
I don't know why, but it takes far less energy for me to rape the bar on doubles than it does on singles...it's also easier to do crossovers with the bar on doubles as well.

Well, as long as the machine isn't trying to kill you, that is. XD

HELL YES, crossovers are fun as all hell (points to rhythm and police  8)).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 10, 2007, 01:54:19 AM
RHYTHM AND POLICE IS AMAZING. :O  That's easily one of the best doubles charts in the game.

Thanks for reminding me about it, I'm totally going to throw that on my memory stick so that I get back to Ohio (and back to the ITG2 r23 upgradicab that I've been missing lately).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 15, 2007, 05:15:42 PM
I kinda got pinky scratching 8ths/16ths at moderate/high speeds down, after a couple weeks without playing.

Passed In my eyes [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on September 16, 2007, 03:08:55 PM
ARGH

This was my first run on it, so it was totally sightread. My eyes were watering by the end, because it's a LOT of 8th streams with jumps sruck in the middle of 16th streams, at 174 BPM.
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Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 16, 2007, 09:12:51 PM
B spin the disk [a]  (bobbias, you said this was hard D:)

78% fail negeki no ki [h] B

A bloody tears [a]

i have more, but ive just delved into distorted and there are a TON of great songs, too many for me to keep track of right away.

*edit*

waxing and wanding [h] A (too easy to be a 10, more like a 9)

ganymede [h] C (this song was hard to pass, low bpm is low)

tripping contact [h] C (all of the buttons on the iidx controller, scratch included, at the same time, multiple times, i love it)

quasar [a] C fail (im still at that "i can pass a decent bit of 10's but 11's rape me" wall)

umm ill edit with more when i sit down with my game on listing off anything an accomplishment for myself, being a new game for me, i have quite a few.

*edit* pass AA [h] with a C, why this isn't an 11...only konami knows.

pass solid state squad [h] (forgot score D:  was a C or a B)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on September 16, 2007, 11:01:44 PM
Hey, the scratches totally pwn me. My pinkey scratching technique is like this "scratch, scratch, fail fail fail fail fail fail"
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 17, 2007, 03:52:16 PM
Spin the disc [a] is more or less the same as [h]. I passed [a] literally right after [h].

Got a B first try also, I think I have a mid level B but idk.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 18, 2007, 12:08:15 AM
There are three things amazing to me about this:

1. It was sightread
2. It's the highest combo i've gotten on any one song in the game
3. I was close to my first 2000 combo on one song

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot261.jpg)

It was funny because about 3/4 of the way through I started to realize "omg I have 1500 combo".
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 18, 2007, 01:07:47 AM
Oh and I finally did a video of me playing IIDX that's actually of good quality:

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 18, 2007, 02:07:16 AM
Getting closer to passing Concertino in Blue [a]

C pass  Go Beyond [a] hahaha

The only 10 I have left to hard clear is AA 7k.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on September 18, 2007, 06:13:03 PM
ummm, uhhh, i got 9 greats on witch doctor (LOL ddr).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 19, 2007, 01:09:44 AM
I passed Ensyther's RISLIM challenge on an R23 ITG2 machine while I was in Canadia.  'tis fun.

Also, Mungyodance (http://www.mungyodance.com/) 3 is awesome so far. :D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 19, 2007, 01:26:01 AM
Where the hell do you see news for 3? 2 has been out for awhile with 2 add-on packs but there's no news of a 3 O_O.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 19, 2007, 04:30:00 AM
1) Renard kind of quietly announced it in his LJ: http://renard-v.livejournal.com/11982.html (http://renard-v.livejournal.com/11982.html)
2) He was the Canadian that pyroko, Jinxie, and I were visiting.
3) I'm writing steps for it. :)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 19, 2007, 05:48:19 AM
ohh i feel like superman

pass negeki no ki [h] with a C

i believe this is my second 11

*edit* however, if it weren't for the stupidly fast 1234567654321234567654321234567 scales near the end, it would be a moderately hard 10 =/

*edit* shit son, negeki no ki [h] with a B

1562ex score
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 21, 2007, 09:16:03 AM
Get a video I wanna see this chart.

And go for waxing and wanding [a] if you haven't yet.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 21, 2007, 04:40:43 PM
If you just want to see the chart (statically, of course -- not in action) then go here: http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hibroad/score/index.html (http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hibroad/score/index.html).  It takes a while to load, but it has every chart, 1st style to GOLD as well as the CS exclusives.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 22, 2007, 01:39:48 AM
Get a video I wanna see this chart.

And go for waxing and wanding [a] if you haven't yet.

hahaha what. waxing and wanding [a] is very hard. the ending alone is enough.

kachoufusetsu (byakko) is the easy cardinal gate another.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 22, 2007, 05:02:22 AM
Get a video I wanna see this chart.

And go for waxing and wanding [a] if you haven't yet.

if i could get ahold of a camera, i would, however, the song is way out of my league.

i think ive passed two 11* songs total....so yea, i need lots of practice before i can begin to play that song and not fail the instant notes start coming down.

*edit* make that 3 11's

pass D.C. Fish [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 25, 2007, 10:54:24 PM
DC Fish [a] is an excellent entry level 11. Harmony and Lovely [a] might be another good one for you. The only obstacle will be the drumroll section and the ending a bit, but it's slower so it should be doable.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 27, 2007, 01:45:52 PM
pass type mars [a]

grade: B

starting to make a little more progress on the 11's

main problem is my left hand, still having problems using it properly when the note chart gets a bit left hand heavy.

*edit* i just realized the post where eggman said he passed go beyond [a].  may i have your cyborg hands?  at the 60% mark in that song (and i guess the beginning of the song also) my hands cease to function, and i stare at the screen blankly as if im a zombie.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on September 28, 2007, 02:06:42 AM
Got Supernova 2 when it came out on wednesday.

First in the world to AAA Trip Machine Phoenix (with proof at least).

More stuff to come.


i just realized the post where eggman said he passed go beyond [a].  may i have your cyborg hands?  at the 60% mark in that song (and i guess the beginning of the song also) my hands cease to function, and i stare at the screen blankly as if im a zombie.

Seriously. It's like Vertex Beta but with chords.

Also, good job eggman, IIRC, you've only been playing for a couple years (I think you said that you made simfiles of IIDX songs long before you started playing IIDX)?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on September 28, 2007, 02:34:59 AM
*edit* i just realized the post where eggman said he passed go beyond [a].

Holy shit, I missed that too. O_O

Awesome job, Eggman!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on September 28, 2007, 10:54:36 PM
several accomplishments

little little princess [h] [random] A

pass love is eternity [a] (another 11 for me)

and pass scripted connection A mix [h]

the only 10* on hyper i have yet to pass(on 12th style) is moon child, and frankly, it can die

*edit* somehow i managed to get an A on ganymede [h]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on September 29, 2007, 02:19:06 AM
I actually drop to 2% at the hard part but I FC the stuff after it so I hit 80-84%.

I've played IIDX since 4th Style but never seriously. I didn't own my own stuff until 9th Style CS.

I'll probably have some new scores soon. Work has left me tired and slow.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 05, 2007, 04:32:40 PM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/HPIM0316.jpg?t=1191612726)


The timing issue in SN1 with this chart (timing windows overlapped, causing goods almosts, or boos when you were on time, and greats for being slightly off) was fixed for SN2.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 06, 2007, 05:19:16 PM
AA moon [h]

its a AA, i don't see em often, hence my posting it as an accomplishment.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 08, 2007, 12:22:42 AM
I passed 5.1.1 [a] on Music speed 1. Switching to ac style view really helped.


This is good news for me :D.

EDIT: Now on speed 2.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 08, 2007, 06:41:32 PM
i can't see how 5.1.1. is possible without hs5 + sudden+/towel
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 08, 2007, 06:49:37 PM
Yeah, why are you moving from slower to faster, when it's mind-bogglingly slow to begin with.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 08, 2007, 09:50:22 PM
AC style seems to stretch out the notes, making everything seem about HS1 higher than normal.

I've managed to pass it up to Music Speed 4. For some reason I get killed on MS5.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 08, 2007, 11:23:56 PM
AC is meant for widescreen TVs and I really don't recommend using it on non-ws TVs. Unless you enjoy seeing little tiny bars.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 09, 2007, 01:21:45 AM
AC is meant for widescreen TVs and I really don't recommend using it on non-ws TVs. Unless you enjoy seeing little tiny bars.

I only use it on slower songs. Kind of a pain switching back and forth but BMUS in general is a pain.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 09, 2007, 10:58:55 PM
A/pass Ganymede [a]
A/pass Bleeding Luv [a]

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 10, 2007, 11:46:38 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK

78% MR. T [A]


GOD I WANT TO FUCKING KILL MYSELF NOW I'M SO PISSED.


Oh and AAA Nothin' ain't stoppin us [n]...who cares.


Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 11, 2007, 04:56:40 PM
pass harmony and lovely [a] with a B

and while i was playing it, durring the "lulz vladgd flatline" part i was thinking to myself "eggman said this was a good song to play for starting out 11's, but this part makes it almost feel like a 12"  anyway, somehow i got lucky and had 84% of my groove guage at the end, another fluke pass by me.

also, why is the remix to tripping contact an 11, when tripping contact itself is a 12.  i don't understand this, as i usually exit out of the song on the remix due to it just being too much bullshit for me to comprehend, while on tripping contact, its a nice challenging song until the end, which i fail at 40% and end up with a nice B.

im pretty determined that it was a screwup since the names are the same save for some letters at the end of the remix.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 11, 2007, 08:07:33 PM
-Passed Mr. T (Take me higher) [a] with an A. First 10 passed!
-Passed Snow [a] with a C. Those 16th chords are bs :(.
-Passed Bad Boy Bass! [a] with a B. Almost an A.

I think Attitude [a] and V [h] are what I should focus on now, since the remaining [a]s are out of my league...

EDIT: 4 EX from an A on era (nostal mix) [a] :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 13, 2007, 02:38:23 PM
Passed Attitude [a] with an A.

All 8*s on [a] in BMUS cleared. 6 charts in BMUS left to beat.

Improved scores:
-B on e-motion [a]
-AA on Holic [h]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 14, 2007, 02:43:34 AM
I played on an AMAZING ITG2 r21 dedicab today (Cyberden, in Columbia, MD).  The left pad needs fixed (up arrow spontaneously died recently, I guess) but the right pad was ORGASMIC.  I could literally do finger-plants.  The only gripe I have is the menu timer.

Thank goodness I don't have to put up with the Arundel Mills SuperNOVA upgrade cabinet anymore...that machine sucks balls.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 14, 2007, 11:16:52 AM
Oh yeah, that's another thing the US has way more of: Arcades with DDR/ITG/PIU/Beatmania/Popn. Canada has like, NOTHING compared to the US for rhythm gaming :S
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 14, 2007, 11:40:06 AM
in terms of iidx, i think the state of michigan has two machines, and they are fairly far away from where im at ;_:

*edit*

Oh yeah, that's another thing the US has way more of: Arcades with DDR/ITG/PIU/Beatmania/Popn. countries that arent japan have like, NOTHING compared to the japan for rhythm gaming :S

fixd
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 14, 2007, 01:16:27 PM
Oh yeah, that's another thing the US has way more of: Arcades with [...]/Beatmania/Popn.

Yeah, okay...

If you find a Beatmania or Pop'n machine anywhere near Odenton, let me know.  And when it comes to DDR, PIU, and ITG, there are only something like 8 machines in my entire state and the closest DDR and PIU to me suck balls (though Cyberden's ITG2 admittedly makes up for it, even if its menu timer is on).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 14, 2007, 02:06:01 PM
Ok, according to DDR Freak canada has 281 locations. The US on the other hand, has 2341. California online has 385.

I have never seen a popnmusic or beatmania machine in person.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 14, 2007, 02:49:49 PM
in terms of iidx, i think the state of michigan has two machines, and they are fairly far away from where im at ;_:

*edit*

fixd

Actually, i've heard most of Japan's arcades are gambling machines or prize machines. They do have rhythm game places but you have to know where they are and they're in limited quantities.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 14, 2007, 02:50:45 PM
Toronto has more Bemani in one city than the entirety of the Midwest.

Bemani stuff is almost entirely centered in certain areas. I've got...3 DDR machines now and 2 PIU machines. Maybe 1 ITG2.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 14, 2007, 06:56:34 PM
Well, considering that the US still happens to have like, 8.3 times the number of machines that canada does, and the fact that I've been to toronto all of, 3, 4 times in my life? It's not like I have easy access to the machines that ARE there. But numerically, the US beats canada by quite a bit. Especially consdering the size of canada. Some provinces have no locations on DDRFreak's location thing. nice holding shift for eight seconds and turning off the shorcut and forgettin how to stop this is REALLY annoying
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 14, 2007, 09:09:38 PM
Yeah, but seriously, don't act like you're some disadvantaged person who never gets anything. I have to drive 6 hours to get anything more than what I've had for the last 4 years. It's literally across the entire country from here to get to the really cool stuff.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 14, 2007, 09:23:35 PM
Bobbias, in the end you're gonna have to import bemani games to get arcade ports or drive to these distant places :/.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 15, 2007, 08:57:43 AM
yea, sure we have "more" bemani, but that doesn't mean i can walk into town and play an iidx machine.  its like $80 in gas to get to the westland (or whatever town it was in) iidx machine, and id rather use that money for another koc.  and don't even get me started on pop'n, the gas for that would be more than enough for me to get a djdao platinum edition.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 15, 2007, 11:42:20 AM
I'm just saying that overall, there's more of a chance to be close enough to an arcade that has one in the states than in canada. Which sucks. I realize that many of you guys happen to be in some of the places in the states where there aren't many, but I was saying numerically, the US has more and more people have ready access to the arcades.

I realize that I'm gonna be stuck buying imports etc. (Unless I make boatloads of cash somehow and buy my own arcade machine, rofl. Honestly, if I make enough money after I've settled down a bit, I'm going to buy a DDR arcade machine, just like some people buy pool tables and such. Actually, most arcade machines would be cheaper than a good pool table.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 15, 2007, 02:22:15 PM
I realize that I'm gonna be stuck buying imports etc.

You act as though none of us are "stuck" buying imports. :/

Get over it.  Just because the US has more machines doesn't mean that, like vlad said, we can just walk down the street and play IIDX.  The numbers don't mean anything because for most of us it's a prohibitively long drive to get to any alternative Bemani.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on October 15, 2007, 03:40:46 PM
In california, I can't think of a single place with an ITG machine. Only rhythm action games in this state I know of are entirely DDR. Srs.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 15, 2007, 05:01:10 PM
for some relevant content

PASS MOON CHILD [h] B

pass lovely storm [a]

so another 11* under my belt, and every hyper difficulty song on iidx 12 is passed
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 15, 2007, 05:22:35 PM
You act as though none of us are "stuck" buying imports. :/

Get over it.  Just because the US has more machines doesn't mean that, like vlad said, we can just walk down the street and play IIDX.  The numbers don't mean anything because for most of us it's a prohibitively long drive to get to any alternative Bemani.

Importing is better anyways. Arcade ports+less money+CS exclusives (usually)=great deal.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 15, 2007, 05:24:42 PM
Well, the CS exclusives are cool, but I can't stand how few songs they have. I'd much rather more of a selection in any given difficulty range than 2 or 3 songs... Even if they are CS exclusive.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 15, 2007, 05:26:53 PM
beats having to pay every time you want to play a game.

if i had an asc with sanwa keys, i wouldn't want to play at an arcade.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 15, 2007, 07:25:38 PM
Debate aside...YES FINALLY!!!

PASSED V [h]!

2nd 10 :D.

That also means I have now passed every song on [h] on BMUS. Just gotta pass 2 9*s and all the 10*s on [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 15, 2007, 07:34:29 PM
PASSED V [h]!

Nice job! :D

So, wait, you passed Colors [h] before you passed V [h]?  Interesting.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 15, 2007, 07:38:43 PM
I did, but Colors [h] is a 9 and is a bit more straightforward than V.

Well, the CS exclusives are cool, but I can't stand how few songs they have. I'd much rather more of a selection in any given difficulty range than 2 or 3 songs... Even if they are CS exclusive.

I think Go Beyond is enough itself XD. Distorted has 17 CS exclusives, along with some new charts. That's about as much as a license listing in a US DDR default songlist.

As for others...Happy Sky had 13, Red had 9, 10th had 7, and from there it slowly lowers, but those were early mixes so it's not surprising.

It's a lot better than what DDR gets for CS exclusives, or virtually any music game for that matter (except DJ MAX Portable 2, which was basically nothing but exclusives).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 15, 2007, 07:46:05 PM
you seem to be making progress faster than me, won't be too long before you surpass my skill ;_;

my progress with 11's has been slow and painful, and it doesn't seem to be speeding up any time soon
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 15, 2007, 08:00:11 PM
Home versions also always have steady timing. RED AC had terrible timing that was different for almost every song.

Also, you're going to be sitting with 11's for a long time. There's no quick way to do it. I usually end up passing half of the 11's in any given style, and then the other half all might as well be 12's.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 15, 2007, 08:24:32 PM
you seem to be making progress faster than me, won't be too long before you surpass my skill ;_;

my progress with 11's has been slow and painful, and it doesn't seem to be speeding up any time soon

Keep in mind I had about a year of O2 experience under my belt before ever getting to try IIDX.

11s on the other hand are probably where i'll get beat down.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 15, 2007, 11:22:17 PM
O2 helps with reading the patterns, but not with learning the controller, and how to play some stuff. And scratching makes it pretty different as well. I've had well over a year's worth of O2 experience (I used to pwn you at one time MilkChan... God I miss those days), and it's not helped me much with IIDX.

Even with say, 80 songs in a game, if 40 of them are below say, a 6, that makes half the game way too easy for me to even play, which cuts the number of songs I'll even play to 40. I'm used to having around 600-1200 songs in stepmania, and anything with less than 600 songs or so makes me feel practically trapped by the selection.

Which reminds me. I need to download stepmania again. Fuck I hate having to reformat.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 16, 2007, 12:49:41 AM
You're totally missing the point.

Easy songs are for improving scores. I can do 11s but I still always play everything on Light 7 once.

Also, play them for the music and just because hell, the patterns could be fun.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 16, 2007, 01:14:53 AM
O2 helps with reading the patterns, but not with learning the controller, and how to play some stuff. And scratching makes it pretty different as well. I've had well over a year's worth of O2 experience (I used to pwn you at one time MilkChan... God I miss those days), and it's not helped me much with IIDX.

Even with say, 80 songs in a game, if 40 of them are below say, a 6, that makes half the game way too easy for me to even play, which cuts the number of songs I'll even play to 40. I'm used to having around 600-1200 songs in stepmania, and anything with less than 600 songs or so makes me feel practically trapped by the selection.

Which reminds me. I need to download stepmania again. Fuck I hate having to reformat.

Also remember I was passing 30s at that time. It helps with finger speed and coordination. I did have trouble adjusting and finding a finger setup that worked for me on IIDX, and I did hit a few walls (5k wall on 321 Stars, 5* on [n] wall, 6 and 7* wall on [h]/[a]), but I got over them whether with practice or a long time without playing at all.

You're totally missing the point.

Easy songs are for improving scores. I can do 11s but I still always play everything on Light 7 once.

Also, play them for the music and just because hell, the patterns could be fun.

If you were referring to me, I would but the BMUS songlist is kinda lacking in the music department, minus a few good songs (TaQ's songs and Nemesis come to mind). Then there are some good songs, but they're just too dull :/. I like songs that are fun yet still challenging or have something I can drastically improve on (mostly stuff in the 6-8 range...when Gold CS comes out, i'll be whoring Vanessa [n] for the scratches XD).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 16, 2007, 01:48:14 AM
Well, I hate playing stuff that's too easy for me, I get board and tend to do worse than I should because it's not catching enough attention. I rarely get AAAs in stepmania because I get board and don't force myself to work at getting better timing. I'm rather particular with how I play rhythm games. :/

My biggest problem in IIDX right now is getting better at scratching. Stuff like Spin the Disk is an absolute nightmare for me, and if I concentrate on just scratching, I miss pretty much every note in the song. (and still fail miserably at the scratching).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 16, 2007, 06:13:53 AM
scratching comes to you over time

the more you play, the less scratching sucks

*edit*

full combo AA quasar [h]

sweet jesus
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 16, 2007, 03:10:36 PM
Still, man, it seems that I just suck at scratching a lot more than I should. I mean, I can do pretty well on songs that don't really require scratching. I could pass Genome Screams [h] if it weren't for some of the weird combinations in the one spot (1+3, 2+4, 3+5 4+6, 5+7 rolls). All the other rolls I can do fine, but those are what stand between me and a pretty decent score.Sadly, I have a better chance of passing [h] than either other difficulty. It's about the only 7k in that difficulty area I haven't passed, I think.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 16, 2007, 07:39:12 PM
full combo AA quasar [h]

sweet jesus

On DistorteD CS? I dunno why, but a lot of people say that Quasar is really easy on it for some reason. I actually A'd the Another for the first time ever.

Odd note: when looking at DistorteD or Happy Sky's stats for which keys I time the best, I time scratching the best.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 16, 2007, 07:59:52 PM
yea, distorted cs, beats playing it on 9th.  and considering i did full combo it with a AA, and this is me we are talking about, yea, its easy.  and i can B the another, fail, but aside from one part near the end, ill pass it soon enough.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 16, 2007, 11:28:12 PM
Rofl, scratching is your best timing? wow. That's really odd. I'd say that my best would probably be either key 5 or key 7. Something on my right hand anyway...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 17, 2007, 03:35:06 PM
I'm also told that my scratch technique is extremely smooth in motion.

Ha, my first 12 was One or Eight, which has lots of scratching. One of my favorite 11's, Just a Little Smile [a] is full of scratches and is apparently really hard for other people. Sweet Lab [a] is maybe my second favorite song ever, second only to Watch Out!! [a] from GOLD, which has the most scratches of any song in IIDX.

God I love scratching. DistorteD CS doesn't have enough scratching songs ;_;

It has Caldera though...which makes up for it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 17, 2007, 03:40:29 PM
Damn, well, once you have scratching down well, it's just a matter of practice to play hard key combinations and patterns. With scratching, you need to sorta develop a technique, which I think is probably harder than learning to hit the right key at the right time, there's more technique involved in properly hitting the scratch and being able to still hit other keys and such at the same time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 17, 2007, 05:18:48 PM
I'm also told that my scratch technique is extremely smooth in motion.

Ha, my first 12 was One or Eight, which has lots of scratching. One of my favorite 11's, Just a Little Smile [a] is full of scratches and is apparently really hard for other people. Sweet Lab [a] is maybe my second favorite song ever, second only to Watch Out!! [a] from GOLD, which has the most scratches of any song in IIDX.

God I love scratching. DistorteD CS doesn't have enough scratching songs ;_;

It has Caldera though...which makes up for it.

I bet you're really good at Setsugekka [a] then :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 18, 2007, 04:37:02 AM
I've had 68% and 72% as my highest. I'd love to have it repeated. As amazing as 10th is, I time it weird.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on October 21, 2007, 03:25:30 PM
pass karma [a] B

and here is something lol worthy

i can't seem to pass smoke [h]

its an 8*

smoke [h] and sakura [h] are the only hyper songs ive yet to pass on distorted.....yea.....
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 29, 2007, 04:26:22 AM
Beat guitar hero III on hard.

Jesus christ last 2 songs.. fuck.

I regularly play on expert but I went thru on hard for that specific reason. DWDTG and TTFAF is fucking what the fuck.

my fucking wrist hurts

fuck
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on October 30, 2007, 03:27:20 AM
I passed Raining Blood on expert :3

Jesus christ this game is significantly harder than the second one D:

Through the Fire and the Flames is just retarded, I can't even get past the stupid beginning part on expert, although if I play it in faceoff I get upwards of 80%.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 30, 2007, 05:10:43 AM
Word. Fire and flames, tried it in practice mode full speed.. fuck my ass. I got 85%.. ridiculous shit.

That song is only good for battling your friends that are also good. Its great for a laugh.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 30, 2007, 09:01:27 AM
Christ, I didn't know we had other people on here who actually played GH seriously, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 30, 2007, 01:41:54 PM
I love guitar hero haha. We have it in our break room at my job, really. Which is awesome. 1 wired SG, 1 wireless explorer, the ps2, and all GH games to date.

classy!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on October 30, 2007, 01:53:50 PM
I whore it. Also: Yeah, in face off, I pulled an 83 on it, but I can't get past the beginning by myself, that part is just stupid. I figure I could spam my way though the rest though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on October 31, 2007, 10:01:46 PM
Doublepost: 100% Reptilia expert.

>:V
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on November 01, 2007, 03:08:06 AM
Beat guitar hero III on expert.
Lou took me a good 4 attempts.
Raining Blood only once [second time playing the song, the first time i just laughed. at the mosh part]
Then i went on to play through fire and flames as the credits rolled. I think i did really well, i wish it would have displayed the stats.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on November 02, 2007, 02:56:39 AM
I 5-starred Cliffs of Dover, that has to be one of the funnest songs in the entire game.

Also: How on earth do you not manage to screw up the hammer-ons at the beginning of Through the Fire and the Flames? I spent a good half-hour on it in practice, and am able to FC it on slow, but I put it up a notch and play fullspeed, and somehow can't manage to even get going. :<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 05, 2007, 08:22:32 PM
I didn't played for three months and I lost my stepmania powers!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02917.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 05, 2007, 10:12:40 PM
Fuck you.


Also, apparently GH3 blows for the PS2 (POS2?). In co-op mode any time anything interesting happened, the input would begin to lag badly. Enough to make stuff like this nearly impossible:

Code: [Select]
x-x-|x-x-
----|----
--x-|--x-
--x-|--x-
----|----

It lags enough to barely register when I hit the 2 extra notes. And the wireless controller is even worse. I played some of the stuff for F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. on both controllers and found that both had lag when I played, but it was much worse with the wireless. Oh, and when loading one of the bonus songs the loading animation on the guy's arm got all fucked up and garbled. That's not exactly a good sign either.

I'm lucky this was my brother's money and not mine or I'd be really pissed.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on November 06, 2007, 03:18:14 AM
I've really had no problems with my PS2 version, besides some funny graphical glitches and load times being slightly longer than expected. The responsivity problems I've heard people reporting are generally nullified whenever I use my wired guitars, I dislike the new wireless one anyways.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 06, 2007, 12:44:00 PM
I'm not a fan of the wireless either (I like the strum bar, but not the frets), however, the lag I'm talking about affects both the wireless and wired controllers. It's less so on the wired, but still noticeable for me. (Not so much for my brother, because he hasn't been playing music games like me, and still doesn't believe me when I say that there is still some lag.)

Honestly, after 5 years of Stepmania, along with O2Jam, DJMax, and IIDX, I think I can tell when there's lag on the input.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on November 06, 2007, 03:07:01 PM
If there is lag, it's not enough to make me actually miss notes, because GH doesn't have a timing system like other rhythm games (Which I like, because I have godawful timing).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 06, 2007, 03:34:38 PM
Well I can usually do a lot better than I'm doing now. If I had a fliptop and shit I'd see if I could transfer the GH3 chart for F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. over and see if I could do better, but I can almost guarantee than I could. I get about 20% through the song on expert in GH3 and I'm sure I could get further. Have you ever played stepmania on someone else's computer that couldn't handle it and had laggy input? I have, and it felt the exact same.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 07, 2007, 07:26:58 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02940.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 07, 2007, 10:18:52 AM
I hate you.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 07, 2007, 02:24:04 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02986.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02992.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 09, 2007, 09:03:39 PM
And you don't play IIDX why?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 10, 2007, 10:28:36 AM
I play 6-arrow stepmania on the side... that's gotta count for something.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 10, 2007, 02:19:56 PM
I hate you more.

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/?action-view&current=screen00044-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00041-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00033-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00022.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00021-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00012.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on November 10, 2007, 03:28:13 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen02992.jpg)

Wtf a AAA on tophs OML oni? How the fuck. Dude, I must suck at this game hardcore now, cause I can barely get a B on that song.
Also, whats "Mirror"?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 10, 2007, 05:30:17 PM
Mirror reverses the notes from side to side.  So, left arrows become right, right become left, up become down, and down become up.

Also,

1.4x rate

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen03133.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 10, 2007, 10:01:31 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00153.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00173-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00135-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00093.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00055-1.jpg)

sup S.net?

also, all of you have improved quite a bit. Bobbias seems to have more MA. Vlad is finally AAAing stuff on spread, and Pobeli is...odi, in all respects.

Great job!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 11, 2007, 02:56:35 AM
Seriously Pobeli you should invest in some IIDX so you can own.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on November 11, 2007, 06:58:33 AM
Looking at these scores makes me die a little inside.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 11, 2007, 08:41:58 AM
Looking at these scores makes me die a little inside.

It's alright dude! Just play stepmania for the fun of it! You'll get better, I'm sure!

Your e-penis isn't nessicarily determined by your stepmania scores, or any other music game scores, if that's what you're thinking.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 11, 2007, 02:39:55 PM
WEll, my MA is pretty much stuck at 10:1 and I still have a hard time being consistent (almost all my scores have more greats and shit than they should) and my left hand is weak, so anything with left hand drills wrecks my score.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 11, 2007, 04:02:44 PM
It's alright dude! Just play stepmania for the fun of it! You'll get better, I'm sure!

Lies.

Stepmania is like a job, except it's more serious, because you don't get paid, so all the rewards come from the playing itself.  And the posting of your scores on websites.

You have to treat it like a sport, or learning an instrument, or like exercising.  You dedicate your life to it.  You spend the first hour of playing warming up, then you work on your speed or timing for a couple of hours.  And when your arms are too tired to take any more, you take a break, and a shower, and then you rest for a while and start over again.  And you do that every day.

Stepmania is serious business.

And before anyone asks, yeah, I'm passing my classes and keeping my GPA-related scholarships, and I have a smidgen of a social life.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 11, 2007, 05:04:00 PM
K.


Anyways AAA'd Mobo*Moga [h].

My best AAA so far :D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 11, 2007, 09:32:04 PM
Lies.

Stepmania is like a job, except it's more serious, because you don't get paid, so all the rewards come from the playing itself.  And the posting of your scores on websites.

You have to treat it like a sport, or learning an instrument, or like exercising.  You dedicate your life to it.  You spend the first hour of playing warming up, then you work on your speed or timing for a couple of hours.  And when your arms are too tired to take any more, you take a break, and a shower, and then you rest for a while and start over again.  And you do that every day.

Stepmania is serious business.

FUCK YEAH SEAKING
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 11, 2007, 10:30:22 PM
1.2x rate... probably a record for now.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/Elirin/stuff/screen03192.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 12, 2007, 07:05:37 AM
That CB must have pissed you off, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 12, 2007, 07:21:48 AM
It did, 7 notes from the end. :(
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 12, 2007, 07:29:24 AM
Ouch. I still don't get how you can be that fast though. I mean, my left hand can't do drills of 16ths at like, 180 BPM, probably not even at 160 BPM, so anything much faster than about 200 BPM and my left hand can't do it period. (And that's streams, not drills)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 12, 2007, 01:01:05 PM
TOML is jumpstream, not trills.

So, way harder.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 12, 2007, 03:33:29 PM
I was talking in general. And I didn't mean trills, I mean drills , like 4242424242 not 424 424 424 424.

I was saying that as far as just using my left hand goes, I can't go too quickly. Drills are really hard to keep going using only my left hand, which means that stream, even if it's faster, is easier because it's only using my left hand in bursts, which allows me to move it somewhat quicker than if I was simply doing drills.

I can do stuff like Ride on the Light, and Never Gonna Come Back Down (Both of which have jumpstreams and such at high speeds, IIRC) well, but anything above 16ths at 200 PBM is pretty much impossible for me for some reason. My hands just don't move fast enough.

Oh, and I have my first 5* on GH3 expert: Paranoid. I'll update with more info later, when I feel like going to scorehero.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 13, 2007, 11:04:46 PM
My timing got a bit better.

Some new random AAAs on [n] and upped my Spin the disc [h/a] scores from Bs to As. Also improved my Colors [h] from a B to an A.

Finally ordered distorted and it should be shipping soon. I should start getting some DD scores up by next month (thank god BMUS is getting extremely boring).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 15, 2007, 07:49:59 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00232-2.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00234-1.jpg)

Both done in a row

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on November 15, 2007, 10:01:01 PM
My finger speed took a dramatic turn for the better.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00003.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 15, 2007, 11:12:08 PM
Jesus fuck. A2P, you scare me so much. And damn Annon (I refuse to acknowledge the new name!)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 15, 2007, 11:25:26 PM
Nice job, Kevbo!

And Bobbias...you wanna see a scary score?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00249-1.jpg)
;)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2007, 12:03:30 AM
In reverse chronological order, lol. I think these are pretty decent for myself.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00068.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00066-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00067.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00062.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00058-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00051.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on November 16, 2007, 12:05:26 AM
Nice Job on Guassian Blur!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2007, 12:16:39 AM
WEWT!! I JUST got this. PWNS my old score of just over 90 mill. All the CBs are form the 32nds. And a good portion of the greats, though I got a few on that jack section with jumps there.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00078.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on November 16, 2007, 02:24:48 AM
And damn Annon (I refuse to acknowledge the new name!)

Don't worry, as a file maker, I'll always be annon. I just went with Aldrasio because if you search it on Google, you won't come up with anything that doesn't tie back to me specifically (I just did it now, and the 6th result was this site). "annon" just doesn't have that quality.

Also, http://hs.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=5791384862

Video of me playing SSB. The numerical score wasn't as good as the one I posted because I had slightly better MA paired with about twice as many CB's.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2007, 04:43:59 PM
I can't do the damned 16th stream near the end (that really long one) otherwise I'd be passing the oni chart on that song :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Pobeli on November 19, 2007, 01:45:12 PM


Uploaded 6 videos today including 2 6-arrow ones.  This is probably the best one.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 20, 2007, 01:51:39 PM
2 words: JESUS FUCK
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 26, 2007, 10:20:47 PM
WOW, hahaha, I just full perfect comboed Mr. Larpus Crazy on PIU Exceed for PSP out of freaking nowhere.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 27, 2007, 10:27:00 AM
Long post ahead! Some of these scores were absolutely unbelievable. Especially the dragonforce one. Also, Spec, I'm coming VERY close to getting a AAA on Into The Inferno. My timing overall has REALLY improved, as well as my overall speed. I'm liking this.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00079.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00084.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00098.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00104.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00105.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00107.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00124-2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00127.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00132.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00135.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00137.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00140.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00144-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00146.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00147-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00149-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00150.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00152.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00156.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00158.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00164.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00165.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00166.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00168-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00170.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00172-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on November 27, 2007, 03:46:51 PM
A A [a]
A LAB [a] FINALLY
AA Kamikaze [a]
FC AAA Rok Da World [a]
FC AAA Move Me [a] (that is way harder than you might think)
AAA Harmony [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 01, 2007, 03:37:41 PM
Best scores so far:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00009-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00010-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00012-1.jpg)

About time a AAA'd this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00013-1.jpg)

About time I FC'd this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00016.jpg)

I'm never going to AA this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00014-1.jpg)

I swear my keyboard was just fucking with me when I played these:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00007-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00008-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 01, 2007, 04:22:57 PM
So I can pass Monolith Expert consistently without much of a problem now.  I also started double and triple starring things a lot more often all of a sudden.  Am I getting better yet?

I also came to the conclusion that Hardcore Symphony Expert is the worst chart in ITG2.  If you disagree, you're wrong.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 01, 2007, 07:32:03 PM
I've had an AAA on Over The Frail Dream for a while now, but it is kinda tough to get that first one on. Took me quite a while to get it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 03, 2007, 03:54:42 AM
On the Jordan (http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=252.0) file I just made:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00017.jpg)

Again, my keyboard doesn't like FCing fast songs :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 04, 2007, 09:42:44 PM
Damn, nice work.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 06, 2007, 07:13:04 PM
FUCK YES.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00019.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 06, 2007, 11:10:44 PM
I hate you.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 08, 2007, 02:44:12 PM
WOOOO! Just beat battle vs Lou on expert in GH3. Go me! Only been playing the guitar hero series for 1 month. I'd say thats an accomplishment! :D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 08, 2007, 10:35:47 PM
fucking goddamn. I just full combo'd the 32nds in that jordan sim, but I had 3 fucking CBs in different parts of it, all of which were avoidable. Goddamn, I hate when that shit happens.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 09, 2007, 10:23:13 AM
I also came to the conclusion that Hardcore Symphony Expert is the worst chart in ITG2.  If you disagree, you're wrong.

I disagree. The correct answer is Vertex^2.

Anyways...AAAAs!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/mythologyAAAA.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00001-2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00007-3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00004-1.jpg)

and some other good scores

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00330-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00331.jpg)
^index
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00326.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00325.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00305.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 09, 2007, 01:45:51 PM
Jesus, how the hell do you get the MA to get those AAAA's?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 09, 2007, 02:20:46 PM
practice and rhythm
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 09, 2007, 04:09:21 PM
Random AAA's:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00020.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00021.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00023-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00024-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00027-2.jpg)

1.2x:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00025-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00026-1.jpg)

I finally passed it:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00030.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 09, 2007, 05:48:22 PM
I disagree. The correct answer is Vertex^2.

No, see, at least Vertex^2 is rated high enough that its bullshititude is somewhat justified, not to mention that it really isn't that hard.  Hardcore Symphony is just a horrible chart.  They have a ridiculous amount of jumps, placed in ways that force you to contort your body to hit them.  Fuck that.

As for V^2, I would have passed that last night had the I/O board on that upgradicab not decided to completely stuff up in the middle of a stream.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 09, 2007, 06:07:02 PM
Poooooor Ian, always havin that nigga I/O error mess up his game. :(

Nice scores, Kevin! I'm totally digging the Blur pass.

(Yeah I'm calling people by first names, what? :P)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on December 09, 2007, 06:09:52 PM
Yeah, but do you know my first name?! :O
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 09, 2007, 06:20:10 PM
Yeah, but do you know my first name?! :O

Judas. Your first name is Judas. Fucking Jesus killer, you!

I jest, I jest.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on December 09, 2007, 06:21:14 PM
HOW DID YOU KNOW?!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 09, 2007, 07:54:35 PM
Poooooor Ian, always havin that nigga I/O error mess up his game. :(

I know; it's terrible what my oppressors are doing to me. :(

(Yeah I'm calling people by first names, what? :P)

S'okay, you're allowed. :3

For the record, I don't mind being called Ian.  It's my name, after all. ;)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 09, 2007, 10:18:21 PM
Lol, I've got a lot of practice, and I'm pretty sure I've got better rhythm than any other person I know in person. (I've been playing stepmania for about 5, maybe 6 years, I'm not exactly sure, lol. At least 5 though.)

I mean, I just simply can't be as consistant as I'd like to be. Sometimes I get great MA in a section of a song, but then something comes up and my MA goes to shit again. I mean, some parts of a song I probably have a 20:1 MA to PA ratio, but then I get some parts that I can't seem to keep getting marvelous, and get a crapload of perfs. I've never been all that good at keeping on time, even though I know when I should be. Hell, I've gotten a toasty in Tokyo Style Speedcore where I didn't get a single perfect, but almost immediately after that I got a fucking great out of nowhere. It just seems that even though I should be able to keep on time, my fingers just don't want to.

Also, we should make a thread for telling people about simfiles. I'm seeing a lot of sims that I don't know being posted, and I'd like to be abloe to get them, and find other sim makers that are good. It's really hard to just browse bemanistyle and find good sims.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 10, 2007, 02:20:04 AM
I usually get between 15:1 and 20:1 on solid streams, but then I get between 8:1 and 12:1 otherwise. My MA is getting a lot better with my increasing finger speed (I got a 400-something combo on Reality, but I fucked up at the end and ended up not getting a PR).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 10, 2007, 12:36:12 PM
Damn, I managed about a 120 combo on reality, but that was on the easier part, I still can't do those fast rolls. I can't seem to get my fingers any faster, especially my left hand.

EDIT for W00T:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00295.jpg)

Seriously, how the hell did I do that? Normally 140 BPM is slow enough for me to have a hard time keeping on time with it. Also, FUCK that FUCKING GREAT.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 10, 2007, 02:00:13 PM
I'd brag about my MA ratio...but I'd feel like a jackass. :(
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 10, 2007, 09:26:33 PM
On the Monolith (http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=265.0) file I just made:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/screen00032-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on December 11, 2007, 03:51:06 PM
So I got Rock Band for Christmas (along with every downloadable song so far so I have 82 songs right now haha) and on the first day of playing, down strumming on my guitar died. So while I wait for my replacement, I decided to still try and beat Expert Guitar Solo tour.

And yeah, I ended up 5 starring Green Grass and High Tides Expert (the last song on guitar solo tour) with only up strumming and the solo frets (which are the best addition to the game ever).

I thought that was pretty cool.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 11, 2007, 04:06:10 PM
Lol, nice work.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 12, 2007, 12:17:15 AM
Beat the IIDX08 course on BMUS on Heavy/Another.

Stupid Snow [a] kept causing me to fail...that chart is bullshit :(. Oh well, just one course left.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 12, 2007, 12:06:00 PM
Yeah, Snow [a] is pretty intense.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 12, 2007, 05:30:14 PM
Yeah that part caused me to fall to about 22% on the course.


So far on the IIDX10 course I can get up to the end of Holic [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on December 12, 2007, 05:53:01 PM
That's probably where you'll stay for a long long time. I can't even normally pass Holic [a]. The ending is just dumb.

What else is in that course? Nemesis [a], V [a] and Colors [a]? Yeah have fun with that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 12, 2007, 10:58:56 PM
The ending is just dumb.

Agreed. Seriously. I hate that ending.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 13, 2007, 05:28:31 PM
That's probably where you'll stay for a long long time. I can't even normally pass Holic [a]. The ending is just dumb.

What else is in that course? Nemesis [a], V [a] and Colors [a]? Yeah have fun with that.


Yeah it's Summer vacation [h], Nemesis [a], Holic [a], Colors [a] and V [a] (in that order).

I would just like to get to Colors [a], even though if I do I can probably make it to V [a].

And my dad should be getting my swap magic within the next few days. I going out to visit him the 22nd and he has my copy of dd already, so i'll be able to get it then.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 13, 2007, 09:09:04 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/AwesomeNo2.jpg)

fuckin yes. #2
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 13, 2007, 11:16:41 PM
Gah, that's one thing I hate about DDR VS stepmania. I like my marvelous always on.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Alice on December 15, 2007, 11:13:00 PM
(http://kuroneko.spectere.net/images/sm/butterfly_beginner_A.jpg)

am i doin it rite? :o
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 16, 2007, 12:27:39 AM
28th IIDX AAA: Dancin into the night [h].

Nothing special but it's a new AAA nonetheless.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Alice on December 16, 2007, 11:48:00 AM
(http://kuroneko.spectere.net/images/sm/haveyouneverbeenmellow_beginner_A.jpg)

i tihkn im geting hte hang of this :)))
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 16, 2007, 02:49:04 PM
Rofl, an MA like that and 1 CB and you get an A? Wow, that system is flawed.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 16, 2007, 06:17:06 PM
Kuro: did you do those on pad or keyboard?  Regardless, nice start!  Most people don't have that kind of accuracy when they first start playing.

One thing that you might want to enable is "event mode."  I forgot where it is in the options menu (coin options, I think?) but it prevents you from having to keep going back into the song selection screen after three/four songs.

Rofl, an MA like that and 1 CB and you get an A? Wow, that system is flawed.

There's only 52 steps. :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Alice on December 16, 2007, 06:22:23 PM
Oh, so THAT's how you make it not take you back to the menu xD

I got my adapter from Play-Asia yesterday, so I'm using my pad (it's soft and absorbent!).  I've now gotten A on everything in the 1st Mix that has a beginner setting, except That's the Way and PARANOiA which are both B.  I tried a couple at the next-to-lowest difficulty but I don't think I'm enough of an SM Jedi to pull any of that off yet.  Also does anyone use characters lolz.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 16, 2007, 06:40:10 PM
Heh, I never used characters. :P

Also, as you get used to reading the arrows and stepping to them a bit more you'll probably find yourself suddenly able to mid-level light charts.  DDR is weird like that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 17, 2007, 04:18:34 AM
When I began playing DDR on a pad/arcade, I played beginner, and was bored to tears. Played a couple rounds of light, and did OK (bad timing, but decent combo and overall score considering I was just beginning) and managed to pass MAX 300 Light after like, a grand total of maybe 10 rounds on it spread over a long time. (I think I played twice on the machine that I passed MAX 300 on, and a number of other times before that, but nothing close to recent even back then)

It's pretty easy to get the hang of, if you don't stand in the middle of the pad, like the retarded beginner dancer does. If you do, you're pretty much bound to fail anything beyond, oh, beginner?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 17, 2007, 06:11:41 AM
Actually, I was messing around and managed to do an easy 7 while centering myself after every step.  I nearly failed several times and found it to be ridiculously tiring, but it is possible. :P

Also, the beginner helper on DDR is just a bad joke.  Novice mode on ITG is the way a n00b mode should be.  c120 is a very managable reading speed, not to mention that it is designed to help you get used to timing your steps (using their traffic light system and the "way early" and "way late" timings, etc).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 17, 2007, 06:34:55 AM
That's cool, I've never played an ITG machine, so I wouldn't know, and C120 is decent for a beginner, though I'd prefer something like C360 now, on pad.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 17, 2007, 06:45:09 PM
Well, yeah...a beginner isn't going to be able to read c360, though.  I remember how hard it was to react to 300bpm the first time I tried MAX 300. XD

As far as pad reading speeds go, I'm most comfortable around 400-450 with no bar, 550-600 with.  The perspective mods are surprisingly useful because they keep the arrows spaced yet give the illusion of slowing them down.  For instance, I typically play Vertex^2 on 1.5x hallway.  I can still read the 555bpm section but have an easier time reading the slower segments.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 18, 2007, 12:00:35 AM
Well, I tried MAX300 both 1x and 1.5x, and despite needing the bar at 1.5x, my score was a lot better. Now, I play most songs on pad at 320-450 maybe (the numbers are estimated around where my comfort zone is.)

I really wish I had more of a selection on SuperNova. It has a whole bunch of crappy songs, and only a couple good ones. I mean, it has Doll, Love Love Shine, Xepher, No. 13 and Murmur Twins, but it has all sorts of crap in with those. I mean, Dance Dance has the worst steps I've ever played in my life.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 18, 2007, 12:07:54 AM
I've pretty much gotten used to reading at 400bpm with no bar.  Most of my MAX 300 AAs were 1.5x no bar.  The fact that I played that chart hundreds of times kind of makes it very familiar to me as well. :P

What kills me about SuperNOVA is that Konami has a bad tendency to take a pretty good song and trim out all of the good parts.  The IIDX crossovers are a great example of this.  They take out the best parts of some of those songs!  Xepher is probably the only crossover made during SuperNOVA's time that I can tolerate for that reason.  Most of the early crossovers (pretty much up to Extreme) are pretty good, as is DoLL, but they really dropped the ball on No. 13, Murmur Twins, AA, etc.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Alice on December 18, 2007, 12:27:15 AM
I really hate the way they hacked at It's Raining Men.  Seriously, if that song were COMPLETE, it would be way better xD
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 18, 2007, 12:41:42 AM
Doll is one of my favorite songs on that. And Love Love Shine. LLS gave me a lot of trouble at first, it's a really tricky chart to learn at first. Murmur Twins is alright, but lots of the notes just kinda feel out of place. No. 13 and Xepher's charts are a pain for me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 18, 2007, 06:32:56 AM
I really hate the way they hacked at It's Raining Men.  Seriously, if that song were COMPLETE, it would be way better xD

Eh, cutting them down to 1:30-1:45 isn't so bad.  It's Raining Men is a pretty decent cut as far as that stuff goes.

If you've ever played the songs "AA" or "No. 13" on beatmania IIDX, then played them on DDR SuperNOVA, however, you'd want to cry.  Those cuts are particularly bad.

Doll is one of my favorite songs on that. And Love Love Shine. LLS gave me a lot of trouble at first, it's a really tricky chart to learn at first. Murmur Twins is alright, but lots of the notes just kinda feel out of place. No. 13 and Xepher's charts are a pain for me.

I found No. 13 to be rather boring.  Xepher is a lot of fun for me, though.  It's DDR-like in that they didn't step EVERYTHING yet ITG-like in the fact that Konami actually got a little brave and decided to use 16th notes heavily.  I'd say it's the perfect mix between the two styles.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on December 19, 2007, 03:11:52 AM
I like AA's cut on Supernova because AA just repeats itself anyway.

Dragon Blade's the worst cut. It's missing the last entire 20 seconds.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 20, 2007, 10:06:41 PM
Gj playing pad kuro!

Some scores:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00370.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00250-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 22, 2007, 01:44:20 AM
Fuck! I just got a 96% on that "Hard rain" part of the song Raining blood on guitar hero 3, and no camera to at least take a SS of it! AGH this sucks!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on December 24, 2007, 03:55:26 PM
Fuck! I just got a 96% on that "Hard rain" part of the song Raining blood on guitar hero 3, and no camera to at least take a SS of it! AGH this sucks!

I believe you. :)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on December 24, 2007, 04:11:56 PM
What, is that the retarded section towards the beginning?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 25, 2007, 11:32:34 PM
I passed Beast and the Harlot on expert just now. My main problem was overstrumming during the main rift. I didn't have much of a problem with the solos aside from that stupid triplet strum section during solo D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 26, 2007, 11:20:44 PM
What, is that the retarded section towards the beginning?
Yes it is. And I was mistaken of the name of it. It was the "Mosh 1" part, not hard rain.
And I only got a minimum of 70% on that part, cause I remember my score being everything over 70% hit. But I don't think that was the 96% part. Cause it went "hard rain" 96% then "Mosh 1" Somewhere in the high 70's to low 80's, I know that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 27, 2007, 08:54:47 PM
Knights of Cydonia: 93%, 339 streak, 227747 pts, 4 stars, first time passing it. I was having trouble with the "Galloping Triplets" part, then I realized I could 2-hand tap it. This is my new favorite song.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: iCeCuBEz on December 28, 2007, 12:03:57 AM
seems good to me

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z73/masamursha/screen00703.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 28, 2007, 12:32:39 AM
Knights of Cydonia: 93%, 339 streak, 227747 pts, 4 stars, first time passing it. I was having trouble with the "Galloping Triplets" part, then I realized I could 2-hand tap it. This is my new favorite song.
Yes that song is VERY fun.
Only thing that confuses me is that I got a 270k score with 94% notes hit, and I still only 4 star it?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on December 28, 2007, 12:41:39 AM
Yes that song is VERY fun.
Only thing that confuses me is that I got a 270k score with 94% notes hit, and I still only 4 star it?

According to ScoreHero, the cutoff is around 299k.

EDIT: 299217, exactly. That site is very useful.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 28, 2007, 07:48:28 AM
According to ScoreHero, the cutoff is around 299k.

EDIT: 299217, exactly. That site is very useful.

Damn right it is. My brother has me checking the cutoffs all the time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on December 28, 2007, 08:03:42 PM
May not sound like much, but I just cleared Hitch Hiker [a] with an A on BMUS.

Gotta admit, it's a fun game  ;D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 28, 2007, 09:14:02 PM
May not sound like much, but I just cleared Hitch Hiker [a] with an A on BMUS.

Gotta admit, it's a fun game  ;D.

Until you get bored of the terrible lack of selection...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 29, 2007, 09:04:17 AM
Doublepost for W00t:

Passed Reality with an A finally, and passed Salieri Strikes Back Oni, finally. I'll have scores when I'm unlazy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on December 30, 2007, 07:01:06 PM
According to ScoreHero, the cutoff is around 299k.

EDIT: 299217, exactly. That site is very useful.

Facepalm. I'll have to try it again later on then, I've got a high score of something like 298xxx -_-
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 31, 2007, 12:15:38 PM
Look at the 9* cutoffs, lmao. now THAT is when you're a guitar god.

Through the Fire and the Flames 9* cutoff: 1,214,010
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on December 31, 2007, 05:07:46 PM
5-starred Knights of Cydonia and One, on expert.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 01, 2008, 01:41:22 AM
No one has 9*'d any song on any difficulty. I think the highest is 8.7, but I'd have to check all of the difficulties of all the games to check.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 01, 2008, 02:52:10 AM
Well, I dunno how they got the cutoffs, but either way, that's just plain insane. If anyone 9*s something, we'll have a true guitar god.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 01, 2008, 04:11:36 AM
I read in one of the FAQs that they found some way to calculate the cutoffs based on ratios of the lowest possible score (4* is double the base score, I'm not sure what the rest is).

Also, I got a better KoC score, but still about 60k below 5*.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on January 01, 2008, 02:23:03 PM
I suck at GH

on the other hand:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00019-1.jpg)

EDIT: is no one impressed with this :'(
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 05, 2008, 11:16:15 AM
Well Distorted is definitely different from BMUS for sure. It took me awhile to get the hang of everything...the rival management, how dans and courses work (which I still sometimes forget to set my speed BEFORE the song starts) and so on. Timing
I think is ever so slightly tighter than BMUS, I only have 2 AAAs so far in DD and they're on easy songs (level 2s) and songs like era [h] I can (EX) AA in BMUS but only A in DD. And the 9s and 10s in this game are ridiculously tough. I haven't managed to clear a single 10 and only a handful of 9s from the ones i've played so far.

Other than that i'm officially ranked 7-kyu!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 05, 2008, 12:02:23 PM
The letter grades in BM US are actually two up from what they would be in the JP releases.  Basically, if you get an A in BM US, you'd get a C in IIDX JP.  If you get an A in IIDX JP, you'd get a AAA in BM US.

According to BM US, I can AAA V [7k].  Damn, I'm good.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 05, 2008, 12:44:15 PM
The letter grades in BM US are actually two up from what they would be in the JP releases.  Basically, if you get an A in BM US, you'd get a C in IIDX JP.  If you get an A in IIDX JP, you'd get a AAA in BM US.

According to BM US, I can AAA V [7k].  Damn, I'm good.

I know which is why I put (EX) next to AA in that comment.

Anyways doesn't matter I just played era for cardinal gate and got my best score on it so far.

Oh and i've cleared 2 10s on DD now, Ganymede [h] and Contract [h] (border cleared Contract 8)). I want to clear at least one of them in Standard so I can get the cardinal gate for free mode.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 05, 2008, 03:09:42 PM
I know which is why I put (EX) next to AA in that comment.

Ah, okay.  I wasn't sure what you meant by that. :>
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 05, 2008, 05:45:28 PM
Jesus. How can people be so damn on time? lol. Just thinking about the scores I get compared to when I need in IIDX JP makes my head hurt.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 05, 2008, 07:38:17 PM
Beat 6-dan. Took 2 tries because Apocalypse [h] sucks. I might be able to beat 7-dan if I work on a certain part in Solid state squad [h]. How do I unlock 9/10 dans and Kaiden? Do I have to beat 8-dan to unlock 9/10, then 10-dan to unlock Kaiden?

Also, passed Kachoufuusetsu (Byakko) [h] with a C.

Only 10s i've passed so far are Cardinal gate ones >_>. There is one i'm working on though, Why did you go away [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on January 05, 2008, 10:24:00 PM
nice iidx scores guys

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00032.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on January 06, 2008, 01:52:43 AM
Beat 6-dan. Took 2 tries because Apocalypse [h] sucks. I might be able to beat 7-dan if I work on a certain part in Solid state squad [h]. How do I unlock 9/10 dans and Kaiden? Do I have to beat 8-dan to unlock 9/10, then 10-dan to unlock Kaiden?

Also, passed Kachoufuusetsu (Byakko) [h] with a C.

Only 10s i've passed so far are Cardinal gate ones >_>. There is one i'm working on though, Why did you go away [a].

Yes. You have to pass each one to get the next now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 07, 2008, 01:29:25 AM
Passed Mei [h] with a C.
Passed Karma [h] with near FC (720+ combo) and AA.

Also upped my quell [h] score to an A.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on January 07, 2008, 04:11:48 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't play IIDX here.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 07, 2008, 05:35:30 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't play IIDX here.

Don't worry. Neither do I.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on January 07, 2008, 06:56:57 AM
On an unrelated note, I got a 410k on One. >:V
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 07, 2008, 09:14:19 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't play IIDX here.

I used to feel that way until I got BMUS. Too bad I hate games with barely any song selection :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 07, 2008, 11:09:10 AM
I used to feel that way until I got BMUS. Too bad I hate games with barely any song selection :/


Hurry up and import thennnn :O. Just don't get distorted songs are tough :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 07, 2008, 12:10:08 PM
Still don't have swap magic or a flip top :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 07, 2008, 10:18:34 PM
Well today was a good day. Got a bunch of random AAAs on stuff on [n] during courses. Passed 3 new 10s, Zenius-I-Vanisher [a], Go beyond [h], and The dirty of loudness [h]. I raised Mei [h] to a B and got a AA on waxing and wanding [h] WHILE FAILING WITH 78%.

Working on my first 11 also, DC fish [a]. One of the times I played I finished with 78% and it's somewhat consistent.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on January 08, 2008, 01:06:00 AM
DC Fish is an excellent 11 to try for. Type Mars is also not totally impossible.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 08, 2008, 01:49:36 AM
Type mars raped me on hyper for whatever reason in an expert course.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 08, 2008, 02:51:01 AM
Not too shabby score here. I'm getting better, albeit slowly. This run felt shitty though, because stepmania has been kinda laggy and crappy lately. It felt like it wasn't registering some of my button mashing (lol.) I can't prove anything, but it still beats my older scores on that, so I'm happy.

(http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5752/screen00478hn1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 09, 2008, 12:01:56 AM
Nothing good today except FUCKING 76% ON NEMESIS [a] ARGH!

It's coming down to that or dc fish as my first 11...I wish they were both in the same game though :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on January 09, 2008, 07:49:09 AM
I can consistently beat One on hard on GH3 now :O
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 09, 2008, 06:51:12 PM
I popped in GH2 for the first time in weeks, expecting that GH3 had completely fucked with my timing. I was wrong. Granted, I wasn't getting 5 stars on everything, but I was doing pretty damn good. I 4-starred Misirlou and Jessica.

EDIT: I managed to pass Psychobilly Freakout thanks to star power. I'm still terrible at pulloff runs.

EDIT2: Freya has the worst Hard and Expert charts ever.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 10, 2008, 08:41:07 PM
Haven't updated in a couple days, but i've of course passed more 10s.

Smoke [a], Sakura [h], stoic [h], and Moon [a] are what I remember off the top of my head.

And i'm 7-dan now! Almost 8 too...I keep dying on the last stage about 200 or so notes from the end :(.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ridge on January 10, 2008, 09:07:58 PM
i passed butterfly beginner today ^__________^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 10, 2008, 09:54:51 PM
i passed butterfly beginner today ^__________^;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

shitttt, ill need judge and ini to verify such an achievement.

also milkchan tells me i should be 8 dan

so fabulous [a] is no longer passable by me (blame the month of december of me not playing iidx) and i can not pass 8 dan

quantum teleportation [a] however is almost passable  56% fail first try.  maby ill get a little better at reading that sonbitch soonish.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ridge on January 10, 2008, 11:33:58 PM
i don't no how 2 get dose i play on da dance groove machine do i need 2 hack it with an disk?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 11, 2008, 12:06:40 AM
i don't no how 2 get dose i play on da dance groove machine do i need 2 hack it with an disk?

butter knife, but you were close
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on January 11, 2008, 12:19:05 AM
5-starred Before I Forget with 346,734.

yay
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 11, 2008, 01:39:01 AM
shitttt, ill need judge and ini to verify such an achievement.

also milkchan tells me i should be 8 dan

so fabulous [a] is no longer passable by me (blame the month of december of me not playing iidx) and i can not pass 8 dan

quantum teleportation [a] however is almost passable  56% fail first try.  maby ill get a little better at reading that sonbitch soonish.

Considering you have 4 11s to my whopping 0...you should be 8 dan. I'm pissed because I died this time right before the easy part at the end of quantum teleportation in 8 dan...getting so close >_<.

Also...72% Nageki no ki [h]...fuck 11s are annoying.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 11, 2008, 08:12:35 PM
Hey passed first 11 Nageki no ki [h] yay.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 12, 2008, 07:32:54 PM
uhh passed all dans and sub dans that isnt 8th

so fabulous [a] is scarier than quantum teleportation [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ridge on January 12, 2008, 07:35:31 PM


yay i pass vook on camera
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 13, 2008, 02:30:50 AM
uhh passed all dans and sub dans that isnt 8th

so fabulous [a] is scarier than quantum teleportation [a]

quantum measures 73-78 are why I can't beat 8 dan.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 13, 2008, 03:24:44 PM
6 starred My Name is Jonas and Bulls on Parade.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on January 13, 2008, 06:20:22 PM
All these people playing guitar hero, if you're playing it on 360, GAMERTAGS PEOPLE! I need more good people to play with damn it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 13, 2008, 06:50:09 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quantum teleportation [a]

first play: fail, 56%
second play: fail 14%
third play: fail 78%

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

i doubt i can replicate what i just did, i somehow managed to do awesome at the end, then i got nervous, and fucked up a bit and failed.

fuuukckkkckckfkkcnkdvnaklvnklvklanfklvanfklfnkln

I FUCKED UP ON THE EASY STUFF AT THE END

TWICE

AOSFVNANOFANNOFN JESUS GOENGOEGNOEGNOENOEME MOSES GVOEGNONOENGEG CORN EFEOMGFVOEMOGMOGMM OMEOMEGOMGEOMGEOM


brb crying
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 13, 2008, 07:04:59 PM
I just 4-starred Beast and the Harlot. Somehow, the verse riff became really easy overnight.

Also, no gamertag for me. I'm on the PS2. I might eventually get a 360 since I know it's a good system.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 13, 2008, 10:09:17 PM
Yeah, I'm stuck on the PS2 as well :/ with me, it's all about being poor. though. I'd have a 360 if only for Gears of War, GH3, and Halo3, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on January 14, 2008, 01:44:45 PM
Top-ten score on Pro for Audiosurf, Fury of the Storm, using Mono Ninja. >:V
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 14, 2008, 02:08:03 PM
I never got to try that song... :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on January 14, 2008, 02:28:20 PM
Edit your hosts file, add this to the end of it:

72.167.39.116 www.audio-surf.com

Edit: Pulled a top 10 in Fury of the Storm too. >: V
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 14, 2008, 02:54:07 PM
Alright, now I'll get to actually build some skill, I'd only gotten to play for about 2 hours, if that, before.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on January 14, 2008, 11:24:08 PM
I promptly was kicked off of those high scores, but I have the top for MSWGO and Pendulum's Slam (on the medium difficulty)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 15, 2008, 12:16:47 AM
pass 8 dan biatch
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on January 15, 2008, 12:51:38 AM
They've really upped the dan courses these days. I could do 10 dan on 8th Style probably but now I struggle with 9 Dan.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 15, 2008, 02:44:16 AM
FC'd Zenius -I- Vanisher [h]...no AAA though :(. Raised my score on Nageki [h] from a B to an A and raised my score on quasar [h] from A to AA.

Also, passed my 2nd 11, Harmony and lovely [a] and my 3rd 11, D.C. Fish [a] (I got an A :D)

I seem to be progressing fairly nicely :).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 15, 2008, 03:25:07 AM
i can't pass mint another on 9th dan XD (the first song)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 15, 2008, 04:39:35 AM
What is this X dan system? I get the idea that i's a way to gage your skill, and probably unlock songs, but how does it work?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 15, 2008, 05:04:18 AM
its like a 4 song course, getting harder as you play the higher dans.

an example, 8th dan is

stoic [a]
broadbanded [a]
so fabulous  [a]
quantum teleportation [a]

you have a health bar which works like hard, only it seems you lose/gain health like the standard health bar.  and the bar stays the same through each song.  so like when i finished so fabulous, i started quantum teleportation with only 10% of my life bar. 

ohh and to me, so fabulous [a] (a 10 that i have passed) is harder than quantum teleportation [a] (an 11 that i haven't passed)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 15, 2008, 05:43:59 AM
Ouch, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 15, 2008, 06:05:54 PM
Single play dan has 4 songs, double has 3.

There are 3 types of dans, Kyu, Dan, and Kaiden.

Kyu courses are the lowest ranking dans. 7-Kyu is the lowest, with songs of level 1, with songs on Beginner and Normal difficulties...simple enough. The highest is 1-Kyu, with simple level 5 and 6 songs. In doubles, 5-Kyu is the lowest kyu rank course. These courses are colored light green in the game.

Dan courses are the standard level in dan mode. 1-Dan is barely different from 1-Kyu, which is one step below it. 1-Dan contains easy 6s. The default dans are colored blue and range from 1-Dan to 8-Dan. The dans progress a bit more than the kyus do with each step up.

Dans 9 and 10 are colored red and are basically the boss dans. 8-Dan is a mix of hard 10s and easy/mid 11s, while 9-Dan would be tougher 11s. 10-Dan contains 11s and 12s. These dans are unlocked after beating 8-Dan.

Kaiden was introduced in Distorted as basically the god course. It's colored gold in dan mode. This contains all 12s and basically the hardest 12s in the game. It's unlocked after completing 10-Dan. To give an example of how hard this course is, here's the Kaiden course for Distorted CS:

quell [a]
Nageki no ki [a]
Go beyond [a]
Mei [a]

All of those songs are the hardest to pass in the game.

Anyways the dans from lowest to highest would be:

7-Kyu (Single play only), 6-Kyu (Single play only), 5-Kyu, 4-Kyu, 3-Kyu, 2-Kyu, 1-Kyu, 1-Dan, 2-Dan, 3-Dan, 4-Dan, 5-Dan, 6-Dan, 7-Dan, 8-Dan, 9-Dan, 10-Dan, Kaiden.

That should clear it up pretty well.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 15, 2008, 07:24:04 PM
On a similar subject YES FINALLY BEAT 8-DAN!!! 60% was my score.

EDIT: Lol I died on 9-Dan's 2nd stage. I fell to 2% from mint and barely lasted on the 2nd stage.

The 2nd stage is Kauchoufuusetsu (Byakko) [a]. Good luck vlad...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 15, 2008, 09:36:25 PM
yea umm, while you make progress, im going to stay at the wall ive been stuck at for 6 months now.  enjoy passing your 11's

/cry
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 15, 2008, 10:54:42 PM
Lol, yeah, that reminds me of playing him in O2Jam. When he first started, He sucked. Quite a bit, actually, lol. (I did too, when I started, however the hell long ago that was.) But then, by the time he was playing on his own server, and I was playing with him, he had surpassed my ability by quite a bit. I was barely working on playing some decently hard 20+ songs, and trying to play something more than the easy 30's, and he was working on like 45's and shit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 15, 2008, 11:25:05 PM
Lol, yeah, that reminds me of playing him in O2Jam. When he first started, He sucked. Quite a bit, actually, lol. (I did too, when I started, however the hell long ago that was.) But then, by the time he was playing on his own server, and I was playing with him, he had surpassed my ability by quite a bit. I was barely working on playing some decently hard 20+ songs, and trying to play something more than the easy 30's, and he was working on like 45's and shit.

My last good accomplishments were passing End of fight HX, 50 goods on Nostalgia HX, and FC with 27 goods on %5. I haven't played much since.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 15, 2008, 11:34:37 PM
I'm trying to get back into it, but the new system they have at the pump haven server keeps not working, and my game's menu music is all screwed up. I had it set to override all fullscreen games to 75 FPS, instead of 60, and forgot that I had it on, and the first time I loaded the game up, it's menu music was all choppy, and now it's always choppy.

By choppy, I mean it's like taking a song, and chopping it up into like, half second slices, and rearranging them.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 15, 2008, 11:54:01 PM
Randomly 5-starred You Really Got Me. I got a lot better at runs overnight. I also played TTFATF in practice and got 7% more notes than usual, but still failed it when I tried it in Career.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 15, 2008, 11:59:43 PM
I got something like 81% notes hit on expert playing Pro Face Off. Not bad, all things considered.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 16, 2008, 04:37:46 PM
So for some videos I did last night:

IIDX DistorteD Standard mode part 1:


IIDX DistorteD Standard mode part 2 (Extra stage Byakko):


Mei [h]- B:


Nageki no ki [h]- A:


Harmony and lovely [a] (Easy clear)- B:



Now for today, I popped BMUS in and decided hey maybe 5.1.1 [a] will be easier if I towel.

And first try toweling I did HS4 and random and FINALLY FUCKING BEAT IT! Passed twice with random then tried without and did 10k better, getting a BMUS AA! So now all 10s (on 1-12 system, not BMUS 1-10 system) in BMUS are passed (there's only 3 though rofl).

5.1.1 [a]- A:


Also I passed Nemesis [a] with a border clear, making that my 4th 11 passed and all "9s" in BMUS passed!

EDIT: And passed IIDX10 on "Heavy" in Expert mode. All expert BMUS courses on Heavy are cleared :D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 17, 2008, 03:14:20 AM
What's with people and adding all sorts of unrelated tags.. Seriously, I hate when people do that. Though it's not as bad as dumping a bunch of garbage onto the bottom of the video's description.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 17, 2008, 03:57:26 AM
What's with people and adding all sorts of unrelated tags.. Seriously, I hate when people do that. Though it's not as bad as dumping a bunch of garbage onto the bottom of the video's description.

I always add ddr itg piu and guitar hero to every video. It's habit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 17, 2008, 04:24:07 AM
Yeah, I just hate people who really go insane with them, because they fuck up searches and shit, you're looking for one thing and you get all these junk videos with nothing to do with what you're searching for.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 17, 2008, 02:10:13 PM
Yeah, I just hate people who really go insane with them, because they fuck up searches and shit, you're looking for one thing and you get all these junk videos with nothing to do with what you're searching for.

Well luckily I don't. Every tag is either music game related or contains keywords of stuff in the video (ie: cardinal gate konami bemani etc.).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 18, 2008, 04:11:15 AM
Well, i still don't like the concept, because it kinda clutters search results sometimes, but it's not enough to make me think less of you, because it's still understandable at the level of tags you use.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on January 19, 2008, 10:19:04 AM
Well, i still don't like the concept, because it kinda clutters search results sometimes, but it's not enough to make me think less of you, because it's still understandable at the level of tags you use.

Say I'm new to music games, and I'm searching for DDR because it's th eonly game I know. While scrolling down the results screen from a search, I find ITG...then discover drummania and IIDX.

I dunno, it's a senario where adding different tags can actually be helpful.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on January 19, 2008, 03:58:11 PM
5* Even Flow on a 360 demo station at Best Buy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 20, 2008, 02:25:25 AM
To some extent, that's why I understood why he did it, but sometimes, when I search DDR, I just want DDR. if I search for DDR Xepher, I'm likely to get a bunch of IIDX videos as well, and maybe even ab O2Jam video or 2 thanks to the Xepher remix on some unofficial servers.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 20, 2008, 03:04:32 PM
Passed my 5th 11 which was a Cardinal Gate [a] last night, Contract...I got a C lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 20, 2008, 03:06:24 PM
To some extent, that's why I understood why he did it, but sometimes, when I search DDR, I just want DDR. if I search for DDR Xepher, I'm likely to get a bunch of IIDX videos as well, and maybe even ab O2Jam video or 2 thanks to the Xepher remix on some unofficial servers.

That's how some people discover these things. If you don't want the extra videos don't click them. Simple. Some people may see this weird black screen tons of keys game with V and wonder "what the hell is that?" then click and think it looks cool and want to learn more.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 21, 2008, 03:09:13 AM
I hit the 50th AAA milestone: Zenius -I- Vanisher [h], my best AAA so far.

Passed The hope of tomorrow [a] also. First new 10 on DD in about a week.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 21, 2008, 03:52:28 AM
I see your point, and I understand it, but I'm saying there are times where I'd like to find videos ONLY of DDR. I wish the youtube search was smarter, like google's so i could add clauses like "ddr xepher -o2jam -iidx"
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 21, 2008, 05:16:50 AM
I see your point, and I understand it, but I'm saying there are times where I'd like to find videos ONLY of DDR. I wish the youtube search was smarter, like google's so i could add clauses like "ddr xepher -o2jam -iidx"

Umm...you DO realize you can use google video for that right? Youtube myspace and other various video sites are included in google video's searches.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 21, 2008, 05:48:22 AM
I'm not used to doing that. I don't bother with google's video search since if I'm on there, I'm only looking for videos hosted on the old google video service. I should get in the habit of using that search though, since you could use the advanced search.. But still, it'd be that much easier if they replaced the crappy search on youtube with a variant of the google search algorithm, and added in that extra functionality.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: iCeCuBEz on January 22, 2008, 03:09:34 AM
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z73/masamursha/screen00727.jpg)
lol im bad at this file
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 22, 2008, 04:37:40 AM
Who the hell ARE you? Seriously, lol.

Anyway:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot054.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot052.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot050.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot023.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot012.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot010.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot006.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/O2Jam%20new%20scores/ScreenShot003.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: iCeCuBEz on January 24, 2008, 02:37:21 AM
bad
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z73/masamursha/screen00734.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 24, 2008, 04:31:19 AM
finally, an accomplishment to sort of compete to milk chan

quantum teleportation [a]

96% pass

B

642 just greats
446 greats
363 goods
18 bad
33 poor

just needed to slow down, realize quantum teleportation isn't a fast song AT ALL, the hard part at the end isn't that bad, and not get nervous near the end.  almost passed harmony and lovley again. due to the same state of mind.

and yes, so fabulous is still harder ;o

and ill post an image off from my ancient camera later

*edit*  100% pass biatch
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on January 24, 2008, 06:28:13 PM
High A/pass Sun Field [a]

That's pretty much it for new scores. I should really just go throw my scores into VJArmy finally before GOLD comes out in a few months.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on January 24, 2008, 11:48:59 PM
I got a chance to play drummania a few days ago... I got an 'S' on Monster Tree Expert :)

I've also began to upload my BMUS scores into VJ army, turns out that I still can't even pull off a AAA in the JP scoring system (even on L7 songs), oh well, that won't stop me from playing some more.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 25, 2008, 03:37:25 AM
Hey Bobbias I passed Fantazindy HX.

Also fuck now im stuck at a shitty wall of chord streams that i'll never get past.

Probably getting HS next...hopefully i'll get SOME new 10s and an 11 or two in (I have 9 10s left in DD and they're all fuck me in the ass annoying hard).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 25, 2008, 10:08:42 AM
Hey Bobbias I passed Fantazindy HX.

Also fuck now im stuck at a shitty wall of chord streams that i'll never get past.

Nice work. What sort of chord streams? I've found that the 2 things that kill me quickly right now are A) Double streams, like in Happy Crazy Brahms, that AAA chart that's a 48, and a couple others, and B) Holds + awkward streams, or symmetrical hold+note patterns, like in Croatian Rhapsody HX.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 25, 2008, 02:43:15 PM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot005.jpg)
Screenshot of it.

And i'm talking about in IIDX. But i'm not great at them in O2Jam either. The ones you listed are my problem too.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 25, 2008, 03:03:13 PM
Wow, kinda surprising, since you can pass stuff that pwns me hardcore. I thought you might have gotten better at those sorts of things...

Man, if only I could get good enough to pass Red Sign HX. On a good day, I can get past the 180 BPM section, but I get killed by the insane stream+hold section after.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 26, 2008, 08:35:33 AM
classic stepmaniazzzzzzzzzz

this had to be a stupidly close AA, and it was a total fluke, the song is like made of bullshit (which is oddly fun) jackhammers and random notes that don't appear to go to anything.

(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8914/screen00358dz4.jpg)

its one of those scores like my 24 greats quasar 1.5 score that i only get once, and never again.  i still end up playing the game roughly 30 minutes a month, so i still play, but for the most part stepmania has been over (as far as popularity is concerned, as far as i know) for a while now.

good time killer, so i will continue to have it not uninstalled taking up 2.35gb of space on my hdd.

*edit* seems i can still manage to pull an A out of my ass on the song after all this time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 26, 2008, 10:05:15 AM
Played ITG yesterday and passed 2 new 12s:

-81 on Bloodrush Expert first pass
-76 on Determinator Expert first pass

Funny thing is Determinator was in the set right after Bloodrush and I only tried it once and passed fairly easily.

Still haven't passed any 13s yet LOL.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 26, 2008, 08:30:11 PM
-81 on Bloodrush Expert first pass
-76 on Determinator Expert first pass

Damn...nice.

Still haven't passed any 13s yet LOL.

If you can pass Bloodrush, you can pass Summer.  I can almost pass Summer and I can't come close to passing Bloodrush.

Give Vertex^2 a shot, too...it's pretty easy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 27, 2008, 02:17:29 AM
I used to whore Determinator a lot when I played DDR/ITG frequently and i've only tried Bloodrush 3 times.

I guess i'll give Summer another shot next time I go in 4 months XD.


EDIT: Andromeda II is a great song can't wait to play it on Gold CS.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on January 31, 2008, 06:06:42 PM
I cleared 'Attitude' with a B (got the score after I entered the numbers into VJarmy). It's my 1st 7 that I've cleared, yay  ;D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 02, 2008, 10:14:07 AM
tripping contact (teranoid natsack remix)[h] A

another 10* A out of the blue

*edit*

odd

why did you go away [a] A

guess that makes two
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 02, 2008, 02:50:54 PM
I cleared 'Attitude' with a B (got the score after I entered the numbers into VJarmy). It's my 1st 7 that I've cleared, yay  ;D

Weird. It was the last 7* on BMUS I cleared.

It's actually an 8 on the 1-12 system IIRC.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Kulli on February 02, 2008, 03:05:55 PM
I just AAA'd Death Moon Edit using a pad
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on February 02, 2008, 03:40:54 PM
Weird. It was the last 7* on BMUS I cleared.

It's actually an 8 on the 1-12 system IIRC.

I can't even clear some of the 6*'s yet (like fly through the night [h], the shining polaris [h] or jelly kiss [h]). I'm working on those songs and Bad Boy Bass [h] as my next clears.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 02, 2008, 04:24:16 PM
I cleared 'Attitude' with a B (got the score after I entered the numbers into VJarmy). It's my 1st 7 that I've cleared, yay  ;D
I CANNOT beat that song :<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 06, 2008, 02:23:26 PM
as easy as it is, its a nice fun song to play when i don't feel like destroying my arms(the way i play + long streams = lactic acid buildup = tired forearms) with some of the keyboard killing sims(IM LOOKING AT YOU 0x1311).

(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5020/screen00495ls7.jpg)

also, im starting to get "slightly" better at some of the fucked up patterns i see in [random] on iidx

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on February 09, 2008, 04:19:04 PM
I finally passed Hangar 18, and oddly enough, it was a 4-star. Then the same thing happened with Free Bird.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 10, 2008, 07:11:20 PM
wut

pass another 11*

the strong jaeger remix [a] (sorry, can't read moon)

*edit literally several minutes later*

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!T!T!TTTT!TT!!T!T!T@T#Y$YTGB

so im all giddy for passing that jaeger remix, decide to play scripted connection h mix [a] (11* biatch)

passssssssssssSSSssSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssSSSSsssssssssssss

wwwwhhhaaaattttttttttttttttttttttthheefuuuucckkkkkkkk

vladgd levels up

+2 skill on owning 11* songs

song dropped something, song dropped can of dr pepper
vladgd puts dr pepper in his bag

*edit*

ollolololollo

sync [a]
grade: A
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 10, 2008, 07:41:32 PM
DOUBLE POST FOR IMPOSSIBLE
fff
ggg
b
ensns
ns
nsnndsdndsnhdsn
hdsh
h


aurora [a]

MOTHERFUCKIN 80% pass

wwwww00tttt00ttttt

well that was a highly progressive iidx session, time to hit them showers
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 10, 2008, 10:10:25 PM
well that was a highly progressive iidx session, time to hit them showers

/me slaps vlad's ass.

Good game!

This is probably the worst post I've made in the history of s.net.  Cherish it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 10, 2008, 10:25:27 PM
This is probably the worst post I've made in the history of s.net.  Cherish it.

it made those 11's worth passing
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 10, 2008, 11:25:11 PM
Haha, nice.

In related news, I finally passed Presto [h] in BMUS. That song was bugging me because I could get close, but never quite make it, so I'm happy bout the pass.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 11, 2008, 01:46:32 AM
im trembling right now

one more game of iidx before sleep, played some 9's on random, got my ass kicked, hand got tired due to the amount of dexterity those patterns where taking out on my right hand, and thumb in particular.  decided to play one more lovely [a], got my ass kicked, but i forsee myself passing it within a year.  then i go to a certain 11* song that i figure was doable.

pass xepher [a]

BOOYAH!

almost had a heart attack near the end, would have physically injured myself if i had failed.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 11, 2008, 01:55:41 AM
pass xepher [a]

Jesus. O.O  Nice!

In related news, I finally passed Presto [h] in BMUS. That song was bugging me because I could get close, but never quite make it, so I'm happy bout the pass.

Noice! :)  Presto is wicked fun.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 11, 2008, 03:14:37 AM
Once you get into being able to play it, yes. I love the patterns at the start, and I definitely see myself improving a bit, despite having not played in months, lol. I need to get my right thumb into play, and (drastically) improve my scratching, lol. Anything with more than 1 or 2 scratches in a row owns me.

Also, I wish I could pass Genome Screams [h], those patterns kick my ass :/

Also, why did they have to make Era [h]'s ending such bullshit?

And lastly: I wish I had my memory card back... it sucks not having [a] :/  Damn my brother lending out GH and the memory card....

EDIT: It was Era, not Sync...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 11, 2008, 05:50:28 AM
Yeah, the ending of era (nostalmix) [h] doesn't make any bloody sense.  I honestly don't think the second key on the "jumps" have any keysound assigned to them, it doesn't seem to make any difference if I "forget" to do them (aside from the very obvious lifebar impact).  Oh well.  I can AA that on the JP styles now, so I don't care. :P  It was annoying before I could consistently pass it, though.

Fuck, now I wanna play IIDX...argh.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 11, 2008, 06:50:23 AM
I just hate when it gives you the 2 right side blues (keys 4 and 6 counting from the left) in chords/jumps, if it wasn't for that part there and a couple other notes in that section, I could probably pass it. I can't manage to hit those at all though, and when I try, it fucks up my hand location then I pretty much miss everything else there.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 11, 2008, 07:59:07 AM
Those used to give me trouble on era, but I've gotten used to them over time.  It just takes a lot of practice.  There isn't a whole lot of room for error with IIDX (talk about something that didn't really needed to be said ;)).

Trust me, the second you find yourself able to do that without thinking about it, you'll have a BM:US AAA on it without a whole lot of effort.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 11, 2008, 09:27:43 AM
Lol, if only I had a BMUS AAA. I've got plenty of AA's on stuff, but my timing is still bad. Honestly, I have no idea how people can be so dead on to be able to get AAA's on the arcade versions... I know BMUS's timing is lax in comparison, but christ, that game is hard to time :/ Not to mention songs like Summer Vacation, which is way harder to time than it has any right to be, lol. Triplets are much harder than you'd think they should be :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 11, 2008, 09:32:05 AM
Hey, no one said it was easy. ;P

The timing on BM:US feels a bit weird to me and I have a number of things that would be considered AAA's on it (read: JP IIDX A's, AA's, and AAA's), yet seem to have a hard time getting them.  I can consistently get an A on V [h] yet can't seem to pull that off in BM US...it's strange.

Then again, I can count the amount of times I've played BM:US on one hand, so that might be part of the problem. :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 12, 2008, 01:11:19 AM
Oh man today kicked ass.

-Cleared all the 8s in distorted and need to do the 9s now (breathless [a] is probably the one 9 i'll have trouble with).
-I AAA'd one of the 8s, Wana (the good-cool drum n rock song) [h].
-Passed 4 new 10s!

-So fabulous [a]
-This is love [a]
-Leaving [a]
-tripping contact (teranoid & mc natsack remix) [h]

So now I have 4 10s left to pass in DD and one [h] (Solid state squad...fucking stupid ending).

EDIT: LOL LATE I forgot a 10, Vanishing point [a].

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 14, 2008, 02:11:20 AM
Some IIDX videos I made tonight:

stoic [h]- B:


Nageki no ki [h]- A (Updated better quality):


Outer limits [a] (Alternative)- A:


Contract (Suzaku) [a]- B:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 14, 2008, 11:31:41 AM
You scare me. A lot.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on February 14, 2008, 01:46:12 PM
I uh...finally passed a ten-footer on didder... ::)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on February 14, 2008, 02:39:35 PM
I really need to play IIDX more. I have yet to recapture my skill from when I passed Colors [a] and stuff like Go Berzerk [a]. I just don't have the stamina.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 14, 2008, 02:47:45 PM
I need to play IIDX more so I can pass something above, what, a 6, I think.

If it was a 6, it was an easy one though... I need my damn memory card back :'(
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 14, 2008, 04:53:33 PM
I uh...finally passed a ten-footer on didder... ::)

*applause* :D

Nice one!  Which was was it?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 14, 2008, 05:40:08 PM
I need to play IIDX more so I can pass something above, what, a 6, I think.

If it was a 6, it was an easy one though... I need my damn memory card back :'(

Mobo moga [h].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 14, 2008, 05:53:05 PM
FFFfffFFfFFffFfFFffffffagdsgasgagsagsagsagasgasgasgas

ffffllllluuuukkkkkeeeepappppaaaasssssss


quasar [a]

score: B

end health: 100%

fffaaaayeeaajjajjjgjgjjgjgjjjhhhhhh
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on February 14, 2008, 08:09:19 PM
*applause* :D

Nice one!  Which was was it?


Sakura.  :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on February 14, 2008, 08:35:36 PM
I finally passed One, with 4 stars. I find that strange because Fast Solo A (the assload of 32nds) was the only spot where I used Star Power.

Now I need to beat fucking Raining Blood. I have the Pull-off speed, but I don't have the necessary accuracy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on February 14, 2008, 09:10:37 PM
Mobo moga [h].

Ahhh, my bar stays at 100% right up until the end in that song, it's so annoying! gahhhh
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 14, 2008, 11:07:14 PM
Haha, yeah, that ending is retarded.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 14, 2008, 11:14:25 PM
Me and vlad both passed Quasar [a] with Bs. I passed with random and 94% though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 14, 2008, 11:29:04 PM
Me and vlad both passed Quasar [a] with Bs. I passed with random and 94% though.

/respect knuckles

*edit* ok this is pathetic

my skill on 1p side = most 10's, quite a few 11's

my skill on 2p side = I FUCKING FAILED PRETTY PUSHER [n]   AND I TRIED TO PASS IT

its literally like learning to play iidx all over again, but HARDER because i know i can just plug the controller back to the 1p slot, thus not making any progress.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 18, 2008, 06:22:03 AM
I know what you mean. D:  I can't play at all on 2P side.  I think I can do some 5's, tops.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on February 18, 2008, 10:43:32 AM
I can do fairly well either way. I've passed a few 8's right side. I started on 5 key where everything was right side originally anyway so I suppose I still carry over from them. One of my friends hadn't played right side since Beatmania 6th + Core and when we were at the GOLD test location, he tried right side and ended up AA'ing Harmony & Lovely 7k just fine. I was mad because I was 2 points off from AAAing it ;_;

I want GOLD CS SO MUCH. I don't know why but DistorteD CS just doesn't do enough for me. I should really get my timing back by filling in the rest of my L7 scores though. I need to have an overall AAA 100% pass on L7 at least.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: TimJing on February 18, 2008, 11:07:36 AM
I beat Knights of Cydonia on Expert in GH3. This is notable because the only other Expert song I've managed to beat is My Name Is Jonas, and KoC is a pretty hard song.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on February 18, 2008, 07:21:53 PM
KoC is actually relatively easy to pass as long as you can strum well. The only part that gave me grief was Galloping Triplets because my hand kept cramping up.

If you can pass KoC, I suggest starting Expert career.

Anyways, I made it halfway through Mosh 1 today without SP. I guess that's an accomplishment.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 18, 2008, 10:43:29 PM
Cleared Sun field [a], kinda easy for an 11 IMO...
76% on Holic [a]...FUCK.
AA'd quell [h]...finally (with 747 combo too smile.gif).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on February 19, 2008, 06:42:42 AM
Man, if you pass Holic [a], I'm claiming bs. I've been trying to pass it for literally years and that ending STILL drops me to 2%.

I tried playing for the first time in 3 months. -200 EX on nearly everything I played.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 19, 2008, 10:11:43 PM
popped in ye ole 8th style, only to pass two songs ive been wanting to pass since i started playing in 2005.

kakumei [h]
spica [h]

im not getting any better, but these songs just felt damn good to beat

*edit*  this is why i like having multiple styles of iidx to play with, i get better on say 12th, then even better on 13th, go back to 8th and pass shit that used to be impossible.

rainbow flyer [a]

red nikita [a]

symbolic [a]

a [h]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 19, 2008, 11:09:32 PM
Well, it gives you more songs to play, and that means that you get different patterns to deal with. When you get better at those patterns, you come back to something you couldn't beat before, and because you improved with different patterns, some of the improvement also carried over to the stuff you had trouble with earlier.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 19, 2008, 11:23:20 PM
PASSED QUANTUM TELEPORTATION [A] FINALLY!

Got a C and border clear but I don't care I bitch that son of a bitch.

And I got an A on quasar [a] non-ran BUT FAILED WITH 62% :(.

AND my next Cardinal Gate another clear is gonna be Ganymede. Out of nowhere I can actually somewhat do it now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 20, 2008, 12:50:19 AM
Eggman, this is for you ;)...

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/02-19-08_2121.jpg)

First time passing. Passed right after it with a higher score but worse JG count.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on February 20, 2008, 01:43:03 AM
fuck youuuuuuuuuuu

My IIDX controller died and my old JP controller's so old it's nearly unplayable.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 20, 2008, 07:17:57 AM
That blows. Also, fuck you Milk Chan for getting so much better than me in every rhythm game we both play :<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 20, 2008, 04:38:44 PM
im just going at my own pace here....

captivate [a]

another easy ish 11* pass by me

and to the guy that said pollinosis should be a 10* on bemanistyle, i want to slap him, hard.  that song should be a fucking 12.

i guess im not at an 11* wall anymore, i would think 12 or so 11* passes makes me past that per say.  so "i can pass 11's, but not most of them"

so its kind of a wall, but its more of a steep incline than a wall now.

*edit* uhh and passed scripted connection h [a] again, so i think i can sort of consistantly do the ending fairly well now.  and considering milk chan had problems with quantum teleportation, id think he would have problems with this one ;o

also, who the fuck has problems with quantum teleportation only to pass holic, go back to bizzaro world sir

and and and i need to somehow work my left thumb into play.  i figure, if i can't do that, i WONT get any better, period.  songs with heavy left hand patterns = i lose.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on February 20, 2008, 07:10:25 PM
Whoo, just 5* Beast and the Harlot.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 20, 2008, 11:32:54 PM
I need to get more songs to play, I've noticed that I can pass a good portion of BMUS 6s and stuff, but after 6, the songs get insane.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 21, 2008, 02:43:10 PM
I need to get more songs to play, I've noticed that I can pass a good portion of BMUS 6s and stuff, but after 6, the songs get insane.

flip top + dvd's + swap magic + internets = more iidx

this internets can mean one of two ways to get iidx, THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 21, 2008, 03:58:18 PM
Personally, I'd prefer to get a setup to play IIDX simulators on my comp, but IIDX simulation is a VERY closed community, and hard to get into from what I've seen so far. Also, I may get a filptop + swap magic soon, whenever I actually cash my check from christmas, lol. But before that, I need to get my GF something (and I think it'll be rather expensive, so I don't know how much money I'll have left.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 21, 2008, 04:56:21 PM
I need to get more songs to play, I've noticed that I can pass a good portion of BMUS 6s and stuff, but after 6, the songs get insane.

BMUS 7*s are hell...trust me. Once you get past the low level 7s it's a pretty steady skill increase until you pass basically every 7 except in my eyes [a] and mo2 step [a]...then it sucks again.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 21, 2008, 04:58:16 PM
umm, lol

i can pass negeki [h] like the true 10*(it may say its an 11, but believe me, it is not) song it is again

i guess scales are progress, somewhat
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 21, 2008, 05:03:24 PM
Well, I need to unlock [a] again before I have access to anything half decent to play... that's not fun to try when you have no memory card :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 21, 2008, 05:29:40 PM
ive been posting too much today

red zone [a]

pass

now i have to catch the fuck back up to milk chan, its like climbing mount everest 
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 22, 2008, 12:13:27 AM
ive been posting too much today

red zone [a]

pass

now i have to catch the fuck back up to milk chan, its like climbing mount everest 

You have more 11s passed than me (I have 11...you have 13 now?) so I need to catch up to you. Yet you also have more styles than I do so i'm more limited.

Also midway to AA on Nageki no ki [h].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 22, 2008, 08:33:42 PM
lets see

72% fail on contract [a]  starting to get into the groove of the thing

60something % on tripping contact [a], just need to do the last measure and its all gravy

soon as i pop due tomorrow in training modeand get myself to do the end drill, that is as good as passable

and the ending scale on the moonspeak 11* which is in the cardinal gate that i can't seem to figure the name of...60something% fail, just need to get the ending piano thing and that should be okiedokie.

so no real "progress" but a good bit of almost progress, two 11's and two 12's within passing range is pretty tight
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 22, 2008, 11:01:05 PM
It's Byakko for short. The name is Kachoufusetsu or Hanchou (?) Fusetsu. Depends on how you want to translate it.

Also, you should all agree with me on this. Onoken would be an awesome artist to get licensed for some CS IIDX goodness (K8107 and bbblow ftw?)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on February 22, 2008, 11:32:31 PM
It's just Kachoufusetsu. A lot of people thought it was Hana Chou Fusetsu but that isn't what they were going for. It's named after a Japanese poem or something.

And what the hell the ending of tripping contact [a] is WAY harder than anything Kachoufusetsu [a] has. I passed Kachou a looooong time ago and I don't even get close to getting through tripping contact's ending.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 22, 2008, 11:47:50 PM
Is it 花鳥敷設, or 花鳥付設? (neither of which make much sense to me, since fusetsu either means annex/affiliated structure, or construction/laying (of a raod)).
The first part is always romanized as kachou. While 花 can be read hana, that isn't always the case, since some kanji have different readings when combined in different ways.

Either way, there you go, a bit better explanation of the romanization. Hana Chou Fusetsu would be an incorrect romanization.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on February 23, 2008, 01:21:21 AM
I have 1 song left to pass in GH80's, and 9 songs left to 5*. I missed Radar Love by ~5,000 points just now. That song is so hard to 5* it's unbelievable.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: TimJing on February 23, 2008, 10:28:43 AM
KoC is actually relatively easy to pass as long as you can strum well. The only part that gave me grief was Galloping Triplets because my hand kept cramping up.

If you can pass KoC, I suggest starting Expert career.

Anyways, I made it halfway through Mosh 1 today without SP. I guess that's an accomplishment.

Yeah, I had to practice Galloping Triplets a few times before I got it. And I did start Expert career, it's really not all that hard. It just sounds a lot harder than it is (I guess until I start getting to the last venue, christ)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on February 23, 2008, 11:25:32 PM
The last two get significantly harder.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 24, 2008, 04:32:06 AM


There's my Holic [a] video. Suck my dick.


And here's a Sakura [h] video. I always feel retarded when it comes to the timing of that song:


I don't know why so many people have trouble with Holic [a]'s ending. Really, it's more or less the same pattern. Think of it like Nemesis [a]'s long repetitve pattern right after the break in the music. Just practice it in training mode and you should be fine.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on February 24, 2008, 09:57:15 AM
ITG stuffz:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/PsalmPilotSDE.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00027.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00005-3.jpg)
(first 11 pass)

SM stuffz:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00055-2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00058.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/crowsghost2cb.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 24, 2008, 06:14:18 PM
Hmm, anywhere I could get that last sim you have there?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: flaffl on February 24, 2008, 09:42:36 PM
(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7246/quasar1point5wtfinsanexu6.jpg)
^^^ that's me
lol j/k

ps how does i enjoys the dance likely the sunlight
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on March 01, 2008, 12:37:34 AM
I popped in GH1 for the first time in over a year today, and beat every song in Expert Career on my first try except for Texas Flood, and even then it was only because of an accidental activation. The charts in GH1 seem a lot easier than the later ones, even with the horrible HO/PO system.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 01, 2008, 02:32:19 AM
Well.. yeah. I basically raped that game, compared to what I was getting in GH2 at the time I played it. (We borrowed it from a friend, we only own GH2 and 3). I nearly crapped myself at how easy (and how bad, in some cases) the charts were. Some of them just really felt out of place.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 02, 2008, 08:32:27 PM
O2Jam is fun. I forgot how much fun it was. I'm gonna start playing that a little bit until I get IIDX Red.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 03, 2008, 03:12:11 AM
Yes, O2Jam is still fun. Unfortunately, I'm not a huge fan of how Turkyslam is running the server, song selection wise. He's left in too many of the shitty official songs simply because they were Official, and because they have all 3 difficulty levels. There are quite a few custom songs with only 1 or 2 difficulties that are really fun that he doesn't have because either they don't have all the difficulties, of they aren't keysounded. The way I see O2Jam, we should chuck out the craptacular songs that are Official, but suck ass; and use some of the custom songs that are fun, but maybe not as complete, or keysounded. I have more fun with most custom songs, regardless of the number of difficulties complete or keysounding, than I do with A) just about every single crappy chinese/korean balladand B) all the shitty useless completely un-fun Officials.

I want For Fruits Basket and True Light (The DNAngel song) damnit :/ (And I don't know where to get either of them now either, since he used to host all the files directly, but now has an ingame FTP server setup)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 05, 2008, 05:06:08 PM
Made some O2Jam videos:

Daydreaming HX4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=27BCywjF78U)
Air- Trance Code HX3 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NiHPlWkDR2I)
Ondo HX6 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HZqniHfT8As)
V [IIDX Version] HX4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nrcktz721X4)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 09, 2008, 12:40:36 AM
AHAHAHA shit. I got ridiculously better at O2Jam this last week. Here's one screenshot and the best for now, i'll get the others later:

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot027.jpg)
Finally beat this tonight. And it only took 1 1/2 years of on and off playing! It's actually kinda fun ironically.

Also I passed KanKan HD HX as well a few days ago, but I forgot to upload that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 09, 2008, 09:53:10 AM
Ass. I've been playing for more than that, and still suck.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 09, 2008, 03:07:07 PM
Yeah I just started playing again last week and been practicing a lot with Volcano and quasar HX since they help with chord streams, so now they're not too big an issue for me anymore.

Anyways shitload of O2 pics coming, all stuff done in this last week...

Fantazindy HX cleared:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot005-1.jpg)

KanKan HD cleared:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot015.jpg)

[SHD]%5 result screen. Awful miss count but a low good count:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot017.jpg)

Volcano, closest to and FC i've come:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot021.jpg)

[SHD]Canon, good CA:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot022.jpg)

Festival of ghost 2 NX, alright score:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot024.jpg)

Fire NX, first 2000+ combo on an O2Jam song:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot025.jpg)

Air- Trance Code FC:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot026.jpg)

Earth Quake, 2nd pass. Lower combo but better CA:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot028.jpg)

fffff, first pass:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot029.jpg)

%10, closest to an FC i've gotten:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/ScreenShot030.jpg)

Anyways that's it. Almost had another hard song passed, Fate of 60 years and I would've passed if I didn't stop at one point to put my headphones back on lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 09, 2008, 03:10:14 PM
Christ man. I need to play more to work up my reaction time, and finger strength (which is a HUGE factor for me). I'm doing bad at both O2Jam and Stepmania right now because I lost a lot of finger strength (which helps me with speed and consistency/combo.) My timing is pretty decent, but I can never keep a good combo, and fast still pwns me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on March 09, 2008, 04:49:21 PM
Nothing special, just had a really good hour session of GH. Every song I played I swear I beat my high by at least 50k if not more. I was just very 'in the zone' as I'm sure you're all familiar with.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 09, 2008, 05:31:45 PM
So, my brother and I own Rock Band now. We don't have the guitar or drums, or mic, but we have the game.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on March 09, 2008, 05:34:00 PM
I was thinking about buying it because you [supposedly] can use the GH guitar on it. Can anyone confirm this? =p Don't wanna waste my money.

My friend owns the whole setup with everything, so maybe I could just take like the mic or something so we can play over live. I sing well :D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Ulti on March 11, 2008, 06:14:36 PM
You can.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 18, 2008, 12:28:02 AM
Alright Bobbias seems pissed at my O2Jam shit enough so it's time to move back to IIDX shit so vladgd can get pissed at me again (lol jk).

Bought IIDX Red last Saturday. I should hopefully have it by later this week since it said it takes 3-7 business days and it's being shipped from LA to Tucson, so it should be here by Thursday or Friday.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 18, 2008, 12:42:32 AM
actually after not playing for over a week, i suck ass at iidx now.  so i don't really care how good you get son.

like, i can't pass xepher [a] anymore, i suck that much, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 18, 2008, 12:51:42 AM
I was thinking about buying it because you [supposedly] can use the GH guitar on it. Can anyone confirm this? =p Don't wanna waste my money.

The only platform that can't use the GH guitar is the PS3, due to Activision making a huge deal out of controller compatibility. ::)

My friend owns the whole setup with everything, so maybe I could just take like the mic or something so we can play over live. I sing well :D

I believe you can also use a 360 headset with RB360.  I haven't had a chance to try it yet (the only song I'd be able to do guitar/voice or drum/voice is probably In Bloom so it's not too high on my priority list, heh), so don't quote me on that just yet. :>
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 20, 2008, 12:24:07 AM
Well Red came really quick. Wasn't expecting till later this week but it came yesterday :). So far i've just been messing around with it trying to unlock the stuff first. 8-dan is a bit easier but Gigadelic [h] is unnecessary. I passed first try though. 9-dan is definitely easier although I can't pass, I made it to the final stage (Genocide [a]). But man Red has a good revival list.

-AAA'd The Cube [a].
-FC'd ULTIM/\TE [h] first try.
-Passed Key [a], first 11 in Red.
-Passed Be Quiet [a], yet another 11.


EDIT: After popping in Distorted, despite my timing having gone down the drain, I passed Mint [a] :D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 20, 2008, 01:55:36 AM
MINT [a] is a really bad chart. I think I passed with an A once and now I usually get 52% or something.

I tried playing on my new controller today and was kinda eh. Couldn't re-AAA Dawn 7k or anything. I'll try out RED tomorrow. I don't think I ever passed Secret of Love [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 20, 2008, 02:24:55 PM
I got to the final stage (waxing and wanding [a]) on DD 9-dan. Tri chords suck but at least I can make it that far now.

Sucks because I might've passed since I had 80% finishing the first stage but kinda blanked out on the 2nd and went down to around 30% and stayed there basically.

Also I don't know if it's just me but Red has even more lenient timing than DD...even though it evens out because the songs are shit hard, I can barely pass any of the 8+s on [a] and there's even one 7 on [a] I can't pass (tell me more).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 20, 2008, 02:43:02 PM
I really have to wonder why the timing in IIDX is always changing.. That, and why it's always fuckhard compared to pretty much any other rhythm game.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 21, 2008, 04:20:04 AM
I forgot I had my timing set to -2 after I played on a big screen and switched to a small screen lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 21, 2008, 06:19:41 AM
Lol, well, It doesn't change the fact that the timing difficulty is different between different versions. I want to know why konami hasn't just said "ok, the next  couple IIDX releases will be at this timing, and after a couple, we'll re-evaluate the timing depending on the current player abilities to keep the challenge up"
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 21, 2008, 07:06:11 PM
Lol, well, It doesn't change the fact that the timing difficulty is different between different versions.

Erm...no, it really isn't.  At all. :/  I can switch between any of the styles I have without issue (and regularly do within a single play session).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on March 21, 2008, 07:09:21 PM
I FINALLY cleared fly through the night [h] and snow [h]  ;D ;D ;D ;D </excessive use of smilies>
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 21, 2008, 08:42:04 PM
Erm...no, it really isn't.  At all. :/  I can switch between any of the styles I have without issue (and regularly do within a single play session).

Hmm, I thought there was... Oh well, I was wrong.

I still want to know why IIDX timing is so hard though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on March 21, 2008, 10:54:50 PM
Hmm, I thought there was... Oh well, I was wrong.

I still want to know why IIDX timing is so hard though.

To make a game with lasting appeal that's insanely hard/impossible to truly master.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 21, 2008, 11:45:27 PM
Timing in the arcade is different on almost every mix because it shifts operating systems and whatnot. When they switched to Windows for 9th Style, it was NOT pretty. It was totally off. RED AC had different timing on different songs even. It just wasn't good.

CS IIDX has pretty much the same timing on every game since 7th Style. 6th had tighter windows. Pop'n's the game with different timing windows on each CS game (or even on different songs. Even has harder lifebars on some songs). That stuff gets ridiculous sometimes.

A lot of what makes people think the timing changes is because of the lane flares that happen when you hit a note correctly. 8th Style in particular has really tall lane flares that cover up some of the notes a bit. I guess that affects some people.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 22, 2008, 01:58:52 AM
Yeah, I've found that the lens flare (or in o2jam, the animation :/) can sometimes really be a problem. If it obscures too much, I have a hard time timing things well.

What were they using before windows on their arcades?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 22, 2008, 07:38:07 AM
A lot of what makes people think the timing changes is because of the lane flares that happen when you hit a note correctly. 8th Style in particular has really tall lane flares that cover up some of the notes a bit. I guess that affects some people.

it sure as hell effects me, after playing 12th style(and then 13th, and 9th), i find it really hard to even think about playing 8th again.  i mean, i knew i couldn't read notes too well when i started the game with 8th, but it was only after i played another style that i could be positive it was the note flares obscuring my vision of the notes.  my skill got drastically better when i started playing 12th, but thats a different story.

played some 13th, still worse than i was some month ago.  i did end up improving several scores, but nothing major enough to remember.

*edit* hey something decent

go beyond [h] A

also, i just realised that i can activate sudden plus by hitting the start button twice

slowpoke.jpg
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 22, 2008, 01:43:11 PM
What were they using before windows on their arcades?

A proprietary system.  They wound up switching to, IIRC, a P4 with a GeForce 4 MX.  I think that's one of the reasons that 9th style and up looks noticeably better.

They're now using Windows XP Embedded.  The timing issues were pretty much Konami's fault, as far as I can tell.  I haven't actually played on a IIDX cab, but I heard that the later styles were pretty on.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 22, 2008, 03:57:00 PM
Cool. Though I wonder why they made the switch? I know windows Embedded is specifically made to me stripped down and run on lots of stuff, but I can't help but think that linux might have worked faster, and been smaller, lol. Any info on their proprietary system out there? I'm kinda interested in what they were running before windows.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 22, 2008, 05:41:28 PM
I passed Distorted's 9 dan. WHOO! Finished with 52% on Mint, 50 on Byakko, 20 on Tripping contact, and I don't know what on waxing and wanding. I knew if I could get past that mess of trichords before the long pause I could beat it.

And a few days ago I passed Scoprion Fire 7k. Shouldn't be too long till I get my first 12 passed :D.

I've also learned the pain of the Slake [a] Expert course. Even with level 1 game dfifficulty and easy on I can't pass the final stage. Gambol [a] sucks so much I wish there was another way to unlock it.


EDIT: I didn't know Kecak [a] was an 11 but I passed it with a B first try...just seems too easy to be an 11 IMO. And passed Wonder bullfighter [a] today.



Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 22, 2008, 10:53:05 PM
Though I wonder why they made the switch? I know windows Embedded is specifically made to me stripped down and run on lots of stuff, but I can't help but think that linux might have worked faster, and been smaller, lol.

A lot of people always assume that, but by the time you add support for all of the hardware, X, solid graphics/sound APIs, audio/video codecs etc, it's going to be at least as large as a Windows Embedded installation.  Not to mention that the Linux ATI and nVidia drivers were nowhere near as stable as the Windows drivers at the time.  Even now they don't compare.  Windows is also much better documented than most open source projects are.

Also, I'm not sure you realize just how small Windows Embedded is.  There is a good reason that most PC hardware arcade games are based on it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 23, 2008, 12:42:27 AM
Yeah, that's why I said I can't help but think. I was acknowledging that I may not know everything to do with it. I don't know how small Windows Embedded is. I can understand why they made the switch a bit more, now, but I still don't quite know why, because if they'd developed their own OS, they probably knew as much about their own OS as they would about windows... I could understand if windows was more stable than their Os or something, or had better support (DirectX?) for some of the stuff they did.

I'm just saying that I'm kinda interested in what they were thinking and such. I'm also interested in the actual OS they were using.



I'd honestly like to work on a basic operating system, but since I don't have the knowledge, I'd certainly like to learn more about the more obscure OS's out there.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 23, 2008, 01:38:37 AM
Given that the graphical flair increased between 8th and 9th, the most likely reason is that Konami wanted to upgrade the hardware but didn't want to put significant amounts of capital into writing software for the hardware. Since just about any modern processor can easily run an OS and have plenty of power to spare, they probably just chose to license the OS rather than reinvent the wheel and have to do it again the next time they stepped up the hardware.

That would be the most logical reason, not to mention nVidia's reluctance to give out their hardware specs (IIDX uses nVidia's driver package). Another added bonus would be the ablity to use just about any available hardware in the system (ie if the GF4MX becomes unavailable they can easily step it up to an FX5200 or whatever without worry).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 23, 2008, 02:46:29 AM
This also makes me wonder when IIDX will switch to 4th gen hardware. They've ran on the 3rd gen since 9th so uhh...7 styles? That's the most any IIDX has run on the same gen of hardware, with the 2nd gen being shortest with only 3 styles and 1st gen with 6 styles including substream.

Im guessing they MIGHT switch now that vista has been around for awhile and there's blu ray. Maybe they wanted to do a rounded number so IIDX 16 will be the 4th gen switch.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 23, 2008, 03:24:35 AM
Blu-Ray wouldn't really affect anything since IIDX has always used hard drives for its data.  As for Vista, its audio system would allow for a bit less latency but that's about all it would give them.  It would take some extra work, if anything, due to the changes in the driver model, etc.  I doubt they'd spring for that right away.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 23, 2008, 03:27:50 AM
i would really not like to buy a jps3 just to be able to play new iterations of iidx (and new iidx controller or adapter, gatdamn)

then again, if they did something like...release a blue ray edition of iidx with say...every iidx song from 1-15th style...i guess i would have to get myself a jps3.

but from the looks of things, they will keep on the ps2 train till after 15th style.

*edit*

sweet jesus, i managed to pass so fabulous [a] again
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 23, 2008, 03:55:45 PM
i would really not like to buy a jps3 just to be able to play new iterations of iidx (and new iidx controller or adapter, gatdamn)

then again, if they did something like...release a blue ray edition of iidx with say...every iidx song from 1-15th style...i guess i would have to get myself a jps3.

but from the looks of things, they will keep on the ps2 train till after 15th style.

*edit*

sweet jesus, i managed to pass so fabulous [a] again

You can buy a usps3. PS3s are region free. You just can't play JPS2 games on a PS3 but if you have a modded ps2 it shouldnt really be a problem.

As for So fabulous good job. I haven't played it normally since I passed it once, but I went back and did 8-Dan to see how well I would do and I almost comboed through the roll in So fabulous. Crazy.

Also I forgot to upload these pics:
Mint [a] clear-
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/DSCF0046.jpg)

9-Dan clear-
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/DSCF0049.jpg)

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 23, 2008, 07:27:42 PM
How the hell do you pass Mint with that many non-greats?

Konami will sooner cancel IIDX entirely than go to the PS3 I think. The series doesn't make enough money to justify the development costs at all. Also, they'd have to make either USB IIDX controllers or bluetooth IIDX controllers, neither of which will happen just on the basis that Konami wouldn't do that much work. They never even released the US controllers in Japan. Anyone that thinks they'd remake tons of and tons of peripherals and have you buy a new one (especially ASC people ouch) is just wrong.

Also, I'm well aware of adapters and whatnot. None of them work. They either don't work with IIDX at all or have lag that totally kills it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 23, 2008, 08:53:07 PM
How the hell do you pass Mint with that many non-greats?

I forgot my timing was still on -2 for a big screen tv I played on earlier, and it was why I kept getting so many goods and is why I thought my timing got awful on DD.

I actually got a B when I played it in 9-Dan.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 23, 2008, 09:20:01 PM
How the hell did you get so good so fast? Seriously, you're insane with these music games :/

Konami should maybe get lass lazy.. Seriously...

Also, I'm trying to learn to write my own OS. Thank god it's easy to find tutorials, despite it being such a "black art" as it was referred to in one of those tutorials. Hopefully I'll learn a few things from this. But most likely, I'll get stuck on some retarded bug and say fuck it before I ever get it working.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 24, 2008, 12:19:25 PM
there was a time, i was better than milkchan.  that time is passed, and now i hate milkchan, and i want him to set himself on fire.

while i wait for that, i managed to pass quasar [a] again

this means, i don't utterly suck at the game, and im not as rusty as i had assumed.

still, milkchan, seriously, i could use a philly cheesesteak.

and mint [a] is impossible, and SSS [a] concertino in blue [a] is easier

and, waxing and wanding [a] grade B, fail

the chords at the end of the song are lame and need to die
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 24, 2008, 12:36:55 PM
Wait, how does saving a considerable amount of money and developer time make Konami lazy?

I'd rather them spend more time making a damn good game than reinventing the wheel.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 24, 2008, 06:06:08 PM
there was a time, i was better than milkchan.  that time is passed, and now i hate milkchan, and i want him to set himself on fire.

while i wait for that, i managed to pass quasar [a] again

this means, i don't utterly suck at the game, and im not as rusty as i had assumed.

still, milkchan, seriously, i could use a philly cheesesteak.

and mint [a] is impossible, and SSS [a] concertino in blue [a] is easier

and, waxing and wanding [a] grade B, fail

the chords at the end of the song are lame and need to die


I passed quasar non-ran [a] with an A.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 25, 2008, 01:35:44 AM
K got sum gud shit right now:

--33 EX AAA waxing and wanding [h]
--52 EX AAA Byakko [h]
-Random clear Broadbanded [a]
-Random clear Byakko [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 26, 2008, 05:27:04 PM
Well, apparently I hadn't passed Mint [a]

But now I have, as well as a couple of new 12 passes

Low-mid B pass Mint [a] (like...140k I think? I didn't write the score down yet so I don't know EX)
low B pass Solid State Squad [a]
Kinda mid C pass Due Tomorrow [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on March 27, 2008, 04:17:07 PM
4 Star Devil Went Down to Gerogia SOLO, 2 days ago. I really need to get a new videocamera and videotape thses. Ugh.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 27, 2008, 10:31:50 PM
Passed Holic [h] and Voltage [h] earlier today. Finally.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on March 27, 2008, 10:39:59 PM
Passed Holic [h] and Voltage [h] earlier today. Finally.

Nice Job.  I'm no where near close to passing Holic [h], but I think I can get Voltage in a few more weeks.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 29, 2008, 12:48:58 AM
Holic [h] is fun, yet I still can't FC it :/. If you can pass Voltage [h] as well, go for Voltage [a]...it's more or less the same chart and I remember passing it right after I passed Voltage [h] (literally).


And my first 12 is down to Colors [a] or Kagonotori [a]...goddamnit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 29, 2008, 01:27:12 AM
Still re-unlocking [a] right now. I haven't played much until recently because my memory card is out on loan and my brother doesn't seem to be doing much to get it (or GH) back right now. (I've bothered him a bunch of times about it though).

Also: I hate Love Is Dreaminess [h]. That chart always pisses me off.

I'm running on a borrowed memory card right now (My GF's, since she doesn't have a PS2 at the moment). (Her sister pawned it off on her in one of those "we pay you now, hold it as collateral and you slowly pay us back" deals, but missed a payment and lost it.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 30, 2008, 05:05:09 PM
s-random + 9* = difficulty of an 11 i guess it depends on the song, it made 321 stars a bit easier to play for me, but mainly it makes shit harder.

gives me more variety of stuff to play to possibly get better
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on April 01, 2008, 08:42:08 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00042-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 01, 2008, 11:32:55 AM
Jesus, how do you get 2 greats but all Marvelous (screw ITG terms) aside from that?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 02, 2008, 01:26:11 AM
So fabulous! [a] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHaLQqWivU)
waxing and wanding [h] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TYB2bNgFU)

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 02, 2008, 01:44:13 AM
I hate you.

Also, there's no way in hell I'm going to pass Holic [a] any time soon, lol. Those mini-jacks give me nightmares :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on April 02, 2008, 03:52:02 AM
Your left hand is weak and you rush a bit too much during doubles + scratching.

My best accomplishment as of late is to almost FC Colors 7k. Had 2 or 3 misses near the end. 179k I think for score. I rush on the rolls too much.

I also re-passed One or Eight [a] with 84% instead of border clear.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 02, 2008, 04:37:34 AM
Nice work. My left hand is quite weak, lol.

How the hell do you strengthen your left hand? I've pretty much hit a brick wall in this game. I've passed every song on Easy and Normal, and I've only got a couple missing on Hyper, but I can only do the easier songs on Another. My left hand is weak, I'm stuck at scratching (I can do some basic stuff, but any song that's even decently difficult with scratches = me screwed).

There anything (aside from playing every day and getting sick and tired of these songs till I hate this game) that I can do to help myself get better?

EDIT: Woo, passed the Shining Polaris [a]. 84%, and a B, but a pass nonetheless!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on April 03, 2008, 10:02:24 PM
i doubt i will ever quit this game, its just the perfect way to kill small bits of time

as for this sim, it was one of those songs that ive always wanted to AAA, but never been able to do.

(http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8417/screen00497dw0.jpg)

the best ive done was 6 greats, twice.  but im not as good as i used to be (4 greats on another planet oni, i mean what the fuck, thats something i can never duplicate) but at least i am still somewhat decent.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 03, 2008, 10:54:51 PM
k, so I just fired up IIDX DD AC and decided to start playing again.  Now, I haven't really played at all in 6-8 months.

So what do I do?  Simple: I played a set consisting of Presto [h], Quasar [h], Karma [h], Little Little Princess [h], and Mei [h].

Why is this an accomplishment?  Well, my wrists survived the onslaught.  Barely.  IT...IT BURNS!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 03, 2008, 11:04:59 PM
Haha, wow, talk about punishment.

After 2 plays in a row, this is what I got vlad:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00621.jpg)

I haven't played this song in years, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 03, 2008, 11:56:29 PM
Haha, wow, talk about punishment.

u guys r scrubz dats an ez set yo


So today...should I?

-Pass Ganymede [a] Random (-16 EX A)
-Pass Shoot 'em all [a] Random
-A Karma [a]
-AA Karma [h] (-11 EX AAA :()
-A Heavenly Sun [a] almost AA
-A Harmony and Lovely [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 04, 2008, 12:05:09 AM
I got a 76% (I think, 74% or 76%) fail (B I think...) on Genome Screams [a]. So close :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 04, 2008, 12:39:27 AM
I got a 76% (I think, 74% or 76%) fail (B I think...) on Genome Screams [a]. So close :/

That'll be your first 9 on BMUS and on the normal 1-12 scale. Weird, can't you like...not even pass all the 7s yet? I didn't pass that until I passed all the [h] 7*s and some [a] 7*s.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 04, 2008, 12:49:03 AM
u guys r scrubz dats an ez set yo

It is kind of easy, actually...

I'm still stuck at the point where I can do about half of the 10s.  I think getting more consistent with Xepher [h] would be a good start for now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 04, 2008, 01:07:36 AM
[a] is a lot easier than the others, lol. I can do the double scales better than the single note scales, for some reason.

Plus, the thing that's really a problem for me is scratching. I can do the easy stuff, but anything with semi-frequent scratching kicks my ass.

Also, Era [a] is ridiculously fun. But I'm not going to pass that any time in the next millennium :/

Oh, and anyone who says 5.1.1. [a] is a different song should listen to the background music in the easier versions more... It bugs me when people say it's a totally different song, and stuff like that. You just play like, 90% of the sounds, in the [a] chart. (and what the hell was konami thinking there? lol, 1 on all other difficulties and a 9 on [a]? lol)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 04, 2008, 01:30:05 AM
Picky, picky.

5.1.1. [a] (and [h] in 10th style and newer) is a different arrangement of the same song, similar to some other another charts.  The reason people say that it sounds like a different song is because of how radically different it sounds as a whole compared to the other charts.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on April 04, 2008, 01:49:34 AM
u guys r scrubz dats an ez set yo


So today...should I?

-Pass Ganymede [a] Random (-16 EX A)
-Pass Shoot 'em all [a] Random
-A Karma [a]
-AA Karma [h] (-11 EX AAA :()
-A Heavenly Sun [a] almost AA
-A Harmony and Lovely [a]

Shoot Em All is extremely ha, oh it was on Random. I swear that song is a billion times harder non-ran.

As for 511, the older version is a different length.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 04, 2008, 02:07:41 AM
Ahh, I wasn't aware of the differences there, but I remember seeing it listed as one of those songs that becomes something different (like era [a]) in the [a] chart, but it doesn't. I can understand the confusion now that I know about the different arrangements.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 04, 2008, 02:59:09 AM
Shoot Em All is extremely ha, oh it was on Random. I swear that song is a billion times harder non-ran.

As for 511, the older version is a different length.

Stop puttin me down bitch it was hard with random i've been trying for weeks.

And 5.1.1 was updated. Now it's 1/6/10.

IIRC there wasn't an Another difficulty for 5.1.1 when it was first released, so that explains the difference kinda.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 04, 2008, 03:25:12 AM
Kinda, except that they didn't need to give it an [a], lol. Which brings me to my gripe about how there are not enough songs with [a] charts in BMUS :/ There aren't enough songs period, in that game, let alone the ones that have [a] charts.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 04, 2008, 09:08:47 AM
Kinda, except that they didn't need to give it an [a], lol. Which brings me to my gripe about how there are not enough songs with [a] charts in BMUS :/ There aren't enough songs period, in that game, let alone the ones that have [a] charts.

You're at that point where it's boring now.

You need to import or you're gonna lose all interest.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 04, 2008, 04:53:37 PM
It is kind of easy, actually...

I'm still stuck at the point where I can do about half of the 10s.  I think getting more consistent with Xepher [h] would be a good start for now.

Do a set of nothing but Key [a] and finish it without your arms falling off and you are my hero.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 04, 2008, 10:33:24 PM
As soon as I clear a path to my TV I'll start playing more.  IIDX AC works (but definitely not well) and DScaler lags too much for me to play 2DIX. D:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 05, 2008, 09:20:51 PM
Passed Voltage [a]! Finally. Thanks to towling, and some practice on In My Eyes [a] that milk chan suggested. I passed it a couple times full speed in practice, but didn't manage to pass that one in the real song yet. I'm getting better at it though.

God I hate the 7* wall :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 05, 2008, 10:24:45 PM
I PASSED MY FIRST 12!!!

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/04-05-08_1804.jpg)

It was between this on random or V [a] random, both of which I got 78% on. It took 3 long hours to pull it off but I finally did it!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 05, 2008, 10:50:31 PM
Shit, nice. :o
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 06, 2008, 12:22:33 AM
I've passed Mobo Moga [a] and Voltage [a] Tonight. :P I'm slowly breaking that damn 7* wall. Toweling does help. But I've gotta move own 1 speed modifier.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 06, 2008, 12:23:58 AM
Non-ran clear Ganymede [a].

A'd Concertino in blue [h]


Still trying to decide what my 2nd 12 will be...im thinking erasermotor phantom.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 06, 2008, 12:30:13 AM
Blah, Capitan Morgan's White Rum doesn't make me good at IIDX, lol. I suck terribly now.

My GF and I split a mickey of that stuff tonight. I drank just enough to get that tunnel vision feeling and stuff. I'm not drunk, but I'm just right before it, lol.

Consequently, my playing has suffered.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 10, 2008, 02:28:47 AM
Yesterday...:
-Cleared Caldera [a], both ran and non-ran.
-Cleared The dirty of loudness [a].
-76% fail Shoot em all [a] non-ran.
-AAA -10 waxing and wanding [h] (forgot to save score, so now its at -23 :/).

Today:
-AA Why did you go away [a].
-B Mint [a]
-Upped my Go beyond [h] A, Harmony and lovely [a] A (almost a AA now), and Quantum teleportation [a] B.
-Can consistently pass quasar [a] non-ran.
-First 11 AA: dc fish [a].
-First 11 Hard clear: Nageki no ki [h].



And yes I try and play at least once a day for an hour or two.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 10, 2008, 03:45:09 AM
Jesus christ.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 11, 2008, 12:16:57 AM
Cleared my 2nd 12!

V [a] non-ran: A

I'll get the replay vid up soon. Just 1 song left to clear in BMUS...



Also on another note, Concertino in blue [a] random...72% fail.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on April 11, 2008, 12:58:25 AM
Cleared the cube [a] with a C  8)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 11, 2008, 01:44:18 AM
Cleared the cube [a] with a C  8)

Haha if it said C on BMUS it means you got a D.


But if it said B then yeah you got a C lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 11, 2008, 06:53:37 PM
I think I can clear The Cube [a] with an A (BMUS), probably close to a BMUS AA.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on April 11, 2008, 08:04:26 PM
Haha if it said C on BMUS it means you got a D.


But if it said B then yeah you got a C lol.

it's a C in japanese (I entered iton VJ army and got the Japanese rating).

It was my first time playing but I think I can get a much higher score (the patterns arent too bad and it's kind of repetitive).l
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 12, 2008, 12:31:14 AM
Yeah, it's pretty repetitive, but I love it. It's easily one of my favourite charts, fun wise. I probably have like, a low JP A.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 12, 2008, 12:43:09 AM
Yeah, it's pretty repetitive, but I love it. It's easily one of my favourite charts, fun wise. I probably have like, a low JP A.

I have a AAA olol.

EDIT: V [a] video:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 13, 2008, 05:05:53 PM
Mint [a]:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on April 13, 2008, 05:38:00 PM
I played ITG today for the first time in a few months. I passed my Earth Quake chart, although I felt close to a heart attack afterward.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 14, 2008, 08:06:21 AM
Upped my score on Digital Mind [a] to a BMUS AA :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on April 14, 2008, 11:04:42 PM
A/pass (80%) Please Don't Go [a] FINALLY. I had 78% a few times in the past.
A/pass Holic [a] barely dropped below 80% what
A/repass MINT [a] I still hate this chart
B/pass Inazuma [a]
A/pass Rakuen [a] because apparently I hadn't passed it before?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 15, 2008, 08:51:24 AM
Getting Happy Sky later today provided nothing goes wrong.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on April 15, 2008, 10:12:18 PM
One damn great on Oasis medium with 10 excelents....so close to a tri star T_T.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 16, 2008, 02:43:01 AM
Got HS today. I didn't really notice a difference in timing like everyone made it sound...AA'd a 10 for ES (Happy Angel [a]). But anyways played a few of the 11s and passed a bunch first try:

-Xepher [a]
-Pollinosis [a]
-100% minimoo-g [a]
-Lovely Storm [a]
-Scripted connection H [a]
-Aurora [a]

I think that's all of them. Almost passed Inazuma [a] (74% with an A) and The strong Jaeger remix [a] (72% with an A, almost AA).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 16, 2008, 07:22:23 AM
Woo, passed Presto [h] and [a]!

I am ever so slowly getting better. I will beat this damn 7* wall yet!

EDIT: 70% fail on Spin The Disk [a].. Getting better.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on April 18, 2008, 06:23:53 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/A2P/screen00107.jpg)

woo
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 20, 2008, 02:06:04 PM
Oh I forgot to post HS accomplishments. Nothing much, can't pass any of the 12s since they're all shit tough, but i've passed every 11 except Just a little smile [a] and most are A'd and one is AA'd (Lovely storm [a]).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on April 24, 2008, 05:12:17 PM
abyss -the heavens remix- [a] A
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 24, 2008, 11:25:30 PM
First Happy Sky videos:

Dawn [a]- AA:


Holic [a]- A (hand view):
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 26, 2008, 01:57:30 AM
Ok redid the Holic video with an overview of my hands:

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on April 29, 2008, 06:27:15 AM
i set my timing to +1

in the sky [h]

i went from a B to a....


AA

WHAT THE FUCK

thats like my third AA EVER and it was on a 10* song

im trippin balls right now, i look at the tv, and i still can't quite believe it

702 just greats
272 greats
82 goods
15 bads
9 poors

*edit*  k i set it back to +0 because after playing that song, the timing didn't feel awesome anymore.

in the sky [a] 76% fail

its a 12

i failed by 4%

wut

*edit*

man i really got my hopes up, now  i kind of want to quit iidx.

fail in the sky [a] at 34%

fail pollinosis [a] with an E (yes, i was trying to pass it)

failed xepher, scripted h, lovley storm, aurora [a], all 11's i have passed, and i should be able to pass

failed some 10's

accuracy still sucks

I HAVEN'T MADE GOOD PROGRESS SINCE FREAKIN OCTOBER

maby id be a better pop'n player
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on April 29, 2008, 07:54:32 AM
Pop'n has even more brutal walls than IIDX. I swear to god there are songs I can't even begin to understand and I can pass 40s (difficulty goes up to a rare 43).

As for me, I passed Thrasher Expert Guitar and Bass in Rock Band. CRAZY. Look up videos of them on youtube.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 29, 2008, 01:07:22 PM
I so want to try Popn :/

That's probably all of 3 Popn arcades in all of Canada :/

Also, I'm slowly getting better. Still nothing new to pass, but I am improving.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 29, 2008, 08:19:42 PM
That's probably all of 3 Popn arcades in all of Canada :/

You say that as if there are many more in the US.

You pretty much have to play IIDX/Pop'n at home unless you're in Japan (or very lucky).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 29, 2008, 08:48:06 PM
Need I remind you that the US has more people, and more arcades overall? There are likely a few more in the US than in Canada. Plus, Canada is a bigger country. Sure, it's almost negligible, but by pure numbers, you're more likely to find a Popn in the US :/

Plus, I was just complaining anyway. I'd love to try an arcade, but I'll likely never get a chance to.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on April 29, 2008, 09:46:43 PM
You say that as if there are many more in the US.

You pretty much have to play IIDX/Pop'n at home unless you're in Japan (or very lucky).

Unless you live 45 minutes away from this place (ps. I do  8), but I've never been...I keep putting it off)

(http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1391/tgaup2.jpg)

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 29, 2008, 10:18:25 PM
Need I remind you that the US has more people, and more arcades overall? There are likely a few more in the US than in Canada. Plus, Canada is a bigger country. Sure, it's almost negligible, but by pure numbers, you're more likely to find a Popn in the US :/

Yeah, you're right.  I'll just drive to TGA...oh wait, it's eight hours away.

Maybe I'll play Drum Mania (err, Percussion Freaks) instead!  There's a machine right over in Virginia!  Oh wait...that's three and a half hours away.

Ah well, at least I have an awesome r21 ITG2 dedicab (at a location that happens to be an awesome gaming center) a half hour away from me.  I'm awesome.

Plus, I was just complaining anyway. I'd love to try an arcade, but I'll likely never get a chance to.

Same.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 29, 2008, 10:59:05 PM
There might be one in Toronto, but if there isn't, the closest one is likely 3 or 4 hours away. And that's a conservative estimate :/ Seriously, Canada is fucking big. It took 22 hours in a van to drive from Ontario to PEI. That's not even halfway across Canada... (and that's in-car time, not the entire time.)

But yeah, unless you live in someplace like Toronto, or other large cities, you've basically got no chance of ever playing an IIDX/Popn/obscure bemani arcade machine.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 30, 2008, 07:21:48 AM
Major cities have absolutely nothing to do with it.  I live within 45 minutes of both Baltimore and Washington DC and I have a hard time finding a DDR machine in good shape (read: I haven't found a DDR machine in good shape, only that ITG2 machine), let alone any other Bemani.  In Ohio I had several good machines to choose from, both DDR and ITG2, and I didn't have to drive to Pittsburgh or Cleveland to play on them.

Seriously, if you start driving you'd realize that it's no big deal whatsoever for you to make the two hour trip to Toronto when you want to play.  I fail to see why you keep complaining about being so far away from IIDX/Pop'n AC machines when you're closer to them than most of the people here (and yes, even 3-4 hours is closer than most people are to machines like that -- they are extremely rare in North America).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 30, 2008, 05:11:05 PM
Yeah, but think about this: Until I get my G2, I need to have someone with 4 years driving experience in the car at all times. Not to mention the fact that I'm A) nervous doing highway driving, because I've barely done any, and B) I don't have my own car to drive places. Kinda makes it impossible to make that trip, even if I was willing (which I more or less am).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on April 30, 2008, 05:36:41 PM
Passed V [a] for the second time. Slightly higher A than last time.


Oh and did some Expert courses. Passed ASAP [a] and Ryu [a] and now I just need to unlock Furious2 and Tempest.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on April 30, 2008, 08:17:48 PM
Yeah, but think about this: Until I get my G2, I need to have someone with 4 years driving experience in the car at all times. Not to mention the fact that I'm A) nervous doing highway driving, because I've barely done any, and B) I don't have my own car to drive places.

And most people here would need to take a vacation to make any sort of road trip like that.  What's your point?

The point is, it's fairly close and accessible to you after you get your license (and if I recall, distance is the very thing you were complaining about in the first place).  Most people here aren't that lucky.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on May 01, 2008, 12:45:55 AM
I found a IIDX 6th Style AC in a small town outside of vegas.

Im cool.



Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on May 10, 2008, 10:48:27 PM
Passed my 3rd 12: due tomorrow [a]- C.


I really hope theres some easier 12s out there besides the crap thats on dd and hs cause those are all really hard.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on May 30, 2008, 10:54:40 PM
Hey guys change this topic title to ITT: Milk Chan owns up IIDX lolol


Cleared my 4th 12: Colors [a] with a B.

All BMUS SP is cleared now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: LunarKeys on May 31, 2008, 03:43:51 AM
I used to post in this thread!

Unfortunately, I am in backwards Texas, where the only Supernova 2 is two bucks a round and the best machine in the area is an old Extreme in Gameworks. (set at $1.30 for five songs, which is pretty cool) No ITG, no Pump (except for the Exceed 2 in Austin while I was living there), so I haven't really been getting better.

Still, I spent two months in Austin competing against one particularly stubborn guy on the Supernova and managed to put up several good scores.

(no bar)

Be Lovin - 4 greats
Happy Angel - 7 greats
Healing Vision (Angelic Mix) - 15 greats
PARANOiA Survivor - 96.5 million AA
Legend of Max - 95.7 million AA
Max 300 - 97.2 million AA

After this summer, I'm buying a JP PS2 and IIDX 10th through GOLD, as well as JP Extreme and SN2 (if I can find them, at least), then getting into the IIDX thing. At the moment, I'm barely passing 7s and would like to pass a 10 or two by the end of the year.


Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on May 31, 2008, 03:49:28 AM
Unfortunately, I am in backwards Texas, where the only Supernova 2 is two bucks a round and the best machine in the area is an old Extreme in Gameworks. (set at $1.30 for five songs, which is pretty cool) No ITG, no Pump (except for the Exceed 2 in Austin while I was living there), so I haven't really been getting better.

Eh, sadly you're doing better than I am.  The only good machine near me is an ITG2 dedicab, but the place is supposedly shutting down tomorrow, so I kinda got raped in the ass with a machete. :(

We do have a DDR SuperNOVA upgrade and PIU NX cab, but holy hell do they suck.  The SuperNOVA machine is just...awful.  It's just...unspeakably terrible.  Let's just say, having the bar nearly come out while doing Unlimmy doubles was a traumatic experience for me -- and probably Sharde, for that matter, since he was standing behind me at the time.

The PIU NX has sticky buttons liek wut.  I have a hard time passing hard charts on that game, let alone crazy charts.  Very eww.

(no bar)

Are you still incapable of playing with the bar? :P

scores

Frackin' nice!

You've improved a ton since that one time you were in Oh-hay-oh and we sexed hung out.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: LunarKeys on May 31, 2008, 05:30:43 AM
Eh, sadly you're doing better than I am.  The only good machine near me is an ITG2 dedicab, but the place is supposedly shutting down tomorrow, so I kinda got raped in the ass with a machete. :(

We do have a DDR SuperNOVA upgrade and PIU NX cab, but holy hell do they suck.  The SuperNOVA machine is just...awful.  It's just...unspeakably terrible.  Let's just say, having the bar nearly come out while doing Unlimmy doubles was a traumatic experience for me -- and probably Sharde, for that matter, since he was standing behind me at the time.

The PIU NX has sticky buttons liek wut.  I have a hard time passing hard charts on that game, let alone crazy charts.  Very eww.

Are you still incapable of playing with the bar? :P

Frackin' nice!

You've improved a ton since that one time you were in Oh-hay-oh and we sexed hung out.

Oh right, I forgot about the NX at the Dave & Busters! ...which was in Austin. =p That was a nice machine, though the screen had been replaced with a plasma TV, which looked silly in the DX cabinet. Regardless, I played for a while and found out I was half-decent at Pump.

S -

Dr. M CZ
Greenhorn CZ
Will O' The Wisp CZ (lucky run)
Csikos Post CZ

A -

Beethoven Virus CZ
Winter CZ (I seem to alternate between failing and doing well)
Final Audition CZ (PAIN)


Also, I got to play an NX2 in the most beautiful arcade I had ever been to while in Reno. The place had IIDX Gold, Pop'N Music (can't remember which), DDR Supernova, Stepmania (actual machine with makeshift banner and about a thousand songs, I lol'd), PIU NX2, and a bunch of other stuff. Unfortunately, my parents were passing through and I only got to play for an hour and a half. Since that was the first time I ever got to touch a real IIDX machine, most of my time was spent on there, but I did pass Energizer CZ (fun!) and did half-well at FAEP 2-2 HD. I think I pass up to 1-skulls right now without using the bar.

Speaking of which...

I mostly justify my lack of bar-use because I figured 'well, I can't ever EVER EVER beat the experts with the bar, so let's see how far I can get while not using it'. Plus, if nothing else, it tends to impress those who don't know much about the game more when you don't use the bar, so hey. I tried playing with the bar for a couple of days and found that all it really did was tire my arms out instead of my legs, decided 'hell with it, I don't want to practice with this thing because I feel silly with it' and went back to playing without it. And then I passed ! Expert for the first time and cried from happiness.

...man I can't wait until the 21st when I come back up to PA and play REAL machines with GOOD players. As amusing as it is to see my name plastered all over the scores at Main Event, it's embarrassing how small the community is here. =(

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on May 31, 2008, 05:50:04 AM
...man I can't wait until the 21st when I come back up to PA and play REAL machines with GOOD players. As amusing as it is to see my name plastered all over the scores at Main Event, it's embarrassing how small the community is here. =(

If my workplace refuses to give me those days off I'm going to go batshit crazy.  Seriously.  Missing the MGD3 party was bad enough.

BUT YEAH, hopefully I'll see you around that time (though I'll probably be back later that week...I only get two weeks per year, and both of them are already booked).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on May 31, 2008, 05:14:26 PM
Oh I forgot. I beat Happy Sky's 10-Dan last night. By far the easiest one of the post-10th style 10-Dans.

Had nearly 100% on OML and got all bads at the end and fell to 18% lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on June 01, 2008, 11:42:50 PM
Played some GH3 for the first time in a while last night at the nerd party. I did a pro face-off with someone else in TFF, which was a huge mistake because I was out of practice and could hardly move my hand afterward. It was fun, though, because I wasn't playing GH like I normally do; I was rocking out and deliberately making an ass of myself, and it was a lot of fun. Normally I don't move much while playing, but I felt like putting on a show.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 02, 2008, 01:05:30 AM
My brother can play with the guitar behind his head, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 02, 2008, 01:22:36 AM
I could do "More Than A Feeling" expert in GH1 while facing away from the TV.  I think that's the only thing I can do in "stealth mode" in any music game.

And yeah, rocking out while playing GH/RB is the only way to play it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on June 02, 2008, 02:35:38 AM
I can still play Knights of Cydonia with a wireless controller while walking around the house so long as I can still hear the music. Also, I finally 4*'d Play With Me in GH80's, so now I've at least 4*'d every song in that game.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 02, 2008, 02:41:02 AM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/06-01-08_1726.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/06-01-08_1725.jpg)

1 week till I get 9th and Gold...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on June 02, 2008, 03:23:48 AM
My brother can play with the guitar behind his head, lol.

I can do this too. Only difference is, it's not a plastic guitar. I can play a real one. rofl

Guitar Hero skills != Real guitar skills.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 02, 2008, 03:48:07 AM
Floyd the Barber is fun to play on a real guitar. :>

I CAN PLAY IT WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE SCREEN oh wait.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 02, 2008, 09:54:23 AM
Guitar Hero skills != Real guitar skills.

My brother played bass in a number of bands, and is learning to play the guitar better. He also owns a minimoog.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 04, 2008, 04:54:37 PM
A yabis starlight [a]

iidx gold is kicking my ass, even some of the 9's are giving me a run for my money.  getting an A on this 10* song was enough to boost my spritis, and playing ghostbusters...its just awesome.

*edit*

blind justice [a]

my current favorite song, fun, awesome song, i can't pass it, but fuck its just the definition of awesome.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on June 04, 2008, 07:12:57 PM
5* Bark at the Moon
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 05, 2008, 12:28:03 AM
Passed Era [h].

Fucking finally.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 05, 2008, 01:15:57 PM
Passed Era [h].

Fucking finally.

Good job now you've pretty much mastered 8th note chord runs until you get to waxing and wanding [h].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 05, 2008, 04:05:24 PM
I played IIDX on my PS2 for the first time in a while (before I futilly attempted to play IIDX AC on my compy...it doesn't work all that well) and...I improved.

How is it that I can set the controller down for months on end and come back playing better than I did before?

I managed to get something like +100 ex points on Red Zone [h], bumping my grade on it from a blah-tastic C to a B.  I brought up my score on Sphere [h] by a fair amount.  I raised my 321 Stars [a] score by a bit.  I also passed a few more 10s that I couldn't do before.

I need to not play more often.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 05, 2008, 05:46:26 PM
this is offtopic because its a blunder

so i can could pass shit like xepher [a]

but i can't pass anything on drums in rock band (friends house) on medium

OLOLOLOLOLOL

*edit*

got a failing C on the moonspeak 12* song (its genre says "hard house" and its by ryu*) in gold, getting anything above a D for a 12* is an accomplishment for me ;o

*edit*

pass earth like planet [a]

its only a 10, but its got some tricky parts in it

and AA ghost busters [h] (its only a 5* lawl)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: notHiro on June 05, 2008, 09:23:22 PM
Passed Kakumei [h] today with Random. I can't fucking do scales in IIDX and for some reason it never occurred to me to turn Random on so I did and I B'ed it first try.

Also, there's an 8 on Gold that I've played twice now that I've AA'ed but still haven't passed. Fucking what the fuck. It's some J-pop bullshit I think and I'm pretty sure it was a revival song.

And I'm about 3 FCs away from the other voiceover guy, but I doubt he could beat the default guy. When he says the AAA line it sounds like Tidal Wave and I lol every time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on June 05, 2008, 09:54:01 PM
I could do "More Than A Feeling" expert in GH1 while facing away from the TV.  I think that's the only thing I can do in "stealth mode" in any music game.

And yeah, rocking out while playing GH/RB is the only way to play it.

So I guess I should be proud to say I can do the first 40% of devil went down to georgia solo, expert without looking?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 05, 2008, 11:11:58 PM
I passed Colors [h] for my second time ever, hahaha.

The ending seems easy to me all of a sudden -- I was able to A it before I could even pass it a second time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 05, 2008, 11:41:54 PM
Passed Paranoia Max [a] finally. Until now I never thought to towel it and play HS1 instead of HS2.
And I passed Era [h] again, proving that it's not just a fluke, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 06, 2008, 12:08:37 AM
Heh, that's ironic.  I made a point to play PARANOiA Max [7A] earlier today.  That chart is ridiculously fun.

I forgot how fun IIDX is.  Why on earth did I stop playing it for so long?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 06, 2008, 12:17:42 AM
I forgot how fun IIDX is.  Why on earth did I stop playing it for so long?

do you recall hitting a wall? 

because after the initial awesome of 14th style blows off, i will definatley be playing less due to this 10-11* (would be just 11, but 14th is REALLY kicking my ass at the moment) wall that i just can't seem to overcome.

on the flip side, the timing in 14th seems to be the easiest sofar, so maby i can work on accuracy for once.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 06, 2008, 12:37:57 AM
do you recall hitting a wall?

Nah.  I've pretty much always been progressing slowly and steadily (unlike in Pop'n, where I hit a definite wall, stopped playing, and by the time I started again I was on the other side of the wall).

Now that I think about it, most of the time I spent not playing directly coincides directly with the time that I didn't have access to a fliptopped PS2 and my games.  *doh*
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on June 06, 2008, 04:27:10 AM
ITT: IIDX; Spectere makes a realization.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 06, 2008, 04:58:43 AM
I got an A on Pollinosis [a] Random but failed haha.

And i've been doin some housekeeping on my L7/7k shit. 12s aren't working anymore Kagonotori and Moon child are still ridiculous (i've 78'd both :/).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 06, 2008, 02:30:29 PM
why is kakumei [a] a 10, when kakumei [h] is a 10?

i mean, kakumei [h] is passable, and kakumei [a] feels like a hard 11.  actually, several songs i seem harder 11's or just regular 11's are 10's in this game, the fuck bemani.  like lovley storm, it was the perfect difficulty for an 11, and it was an 11 in 12th, now they call it a 10, FFFFFFFF.

anyway, pass kakumei [h], again (random olol, but i did pass it nonrandom on 8th style back in the day when i didn't suck as much as i do now)

*edit*

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

first 11* pass in 14th style

vanessa [h] C

the end of this song makes it feel more like an 11 than negeki no ki [h] (which if dawn the next endeavour didn't exist, would be the easiest 11 i have ever played)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 06, 2008, 09:16:42 PM
Passed Cock-Oh-My [h] (on random).

Edit: Holy shit.  I just passed fucking A [h].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 06, 2008, 10:53:04 PM
A crossroad [a]

when i played this, i was thinking "hey, this is pretty tricky, i hope i don't fail" then i pass and see the A (believe me, A's are rare for me, hence why i post them) and im all "well thats surprising"

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 07, 2008, 01:44:35 AM
Well you're silly vlad lovely storm was an easy ass 11 its a mid 10 at most.

And why is abyss the heavens [h] a 10 when the [a] is a 10? The [h] honestly is a 9.


And another thing: Timing never differs from any style. From 9th on its always been the same timing, and there's been people who have looked at the timing windows in the game and there are no differences. Its just psychological and it might have to do with interface colors, like I find BMUS the most annoying to timing because of the bright purple interface.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 07, 2008, 01:54:10 AM
Well you're silly vlad lovely storm was an easy ass 11 its a mid 10 at most.

considering you are 100x better than me at iidx, i kindly ask you to shut the fuck up.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 07, 2008, 02:00:39 AM
And another thing: Timing never differs from any style. From 9th on its always been the same timing, and there's been people who have looked at the timing windows in the game and there are no differences. Its just psychological and it might have to do with interface colors, like I find BMUS the most annoying to timing because of the bright purple interface.

The fact that the later styles have tons of different scroll speed selections probably helps.  I prefer to play revivals in later styles for that reason alone -- some of the 0.5 speeds make things significantly easier.

And yeah, BMUS totally threw me off.  I couldn't even swing an A (err, "AAA") on V [7k] even though I can consistently do it on other styles without breaking a sweat.  Of course, the fact that I couldn't stop gagging the entire time I was playing probably didn't help matters at all.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 07, 2008, 08:10:08 AM
I am going to be SO happy after I get some more fucking IIDX.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 08, 2008, 05:14:09 PM
pass op 31 [h]

YES ITS A FUCKING 9

had to try three times on 1x speed, and the song switches from 100-350 bpm, constantly, so whats that on 1x, 200-700bpm

FAFAFSASFASFASFAFSAFSASAFAF, why is it so hard to read 700 bpm on iidx, when anything slower on stepmania is SLOWWW.

anyway, it goes from "doable speed" to "lol this shit is a blur but its still easier to read than the slower stuff"

now to pass fascination maxx [h]....the bpm changes aren't as hard(but enough to pretty much fail me all the time) but its an 11, compared to a 9...yea....

*edit*

to make up for my shitty 9 pass ACCOMPLISHMENT

pass second heaven [a]

my second 11 pass on 14th, i expect blind justice to be next, i recently failed with 60% so i guess a little more work and im there.

*edit* an even bigger accomplishment

78% on blind justice [a]

basically near the last third of the song, MOVE YOUR HANDS REALLY FAST
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 08, 2008, 06:06:05 PM
Fuckkk 4 days till im gettin gold...

My goals right now are to pass Gold's 10-Dan, pass Vanessa [a], Laser Cruster [a], FAXX [a], and Sense 2007 [h].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 09, 2008, 04:52:49 PM
yeah son, gold is pretty kick ass, you are going to gasm over it.

also

100% pass on blind justice [a]

i fail to recall why this song gave me any problems, maby it was because i didn't move my hands fast enough.

*edit*

what what what, two 11's in one post?  i think yes

scorpion fire [h] B

fuck yeah!

*edit*

also, milk chan, why sense 2007 [h]?

the only part that really gets me is the last 3 or so seconds, and for you, it would hardly be an accomplishment, having beaten holic [a] and all.

AND AND AND FAXX [a] literally feels like a 10*, if the bpm changes weren't so fucking stupid, i can confidently say i could pass it.

*edit* k im done for the day, with a third 11

the shadow [a]

HU-RA!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 09, 2008, 06:03:13 PM
AND AND AND FAXX [a] literally feels like a 10*, if the bpm changes weren't so fucking stupid, i can confidently say i could pass it.

It looks like a 10, and this is coming from someone who's never passed an 11.  The BPM changes make me *facepalm* though.

Oh, then there's FAXX [n].  WHY did they rate that an 8?  My roommate (who can only pass 2's) watched me play and even he said that it didn't look even close to an 8, even with the BPM changes.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 09, 2008, 07:08:13 PM
who can only pass 2's

I've never understood how people could be that bad and not improve over some length of time playing. I've got friends who play stepmania who simply cannot seem to get good enough to play paddable heavy steps on the keyboard :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 09, 2008, 07:09:46 PM
maby he, you know, hasn't played much.

its not like spectere said "my roommate who has played iidx his entire life (who can only pass 2's btw) can pass this song"

ohh and aside from the easy piano scales(in the another chart), i can't much tell the differance bewteen FAXX [h] and FAXX [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 09, 2008, 10:52:08 PM
maby he, you know, hasn't played much.

Exactly.  He's only played twice.

Actually, I take that back.  He did pass one 3* because he loved the song so much that he whored it for an hour straight after waking up. XD
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 10, 2008, 08:02:39 AM
Ouch, an hour to pas it :/

I'm just speaking because I'm so used to picking up rhythm games pretty quickly, and when people suck miserably and don't get any better over time, it just amazes me, because I don't really understand how that's possible.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 10, 2008, 02:06:42 PM
i failed 5.1.1 [n] multiple times when i started.

matter of fact, i HAD to use beginner mode, because getting used to the damn controller was difficult.

it took me a while to get out of beginner mode, sorry sir, but some people just can't pick up new things as quickly as you can.  its a fact you have to learn to accept nigga.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 10, 2008, 02:40:23 PM
Also, if you don't regularly play music games (like my friend) you're not going to start off on a very high level.  Most of his problem with IIDX is timing.  He's used to ITG, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero-style timing windows and has trouble adjusting to IIDX's mind-numbingly small window.

As for first times, the first time I played any sort of beatmania, I was passing 3's and 4's on a beatmania III 7thMix.  Other people in the arcade accused me of lying when I said it was my first time playing it. :P  The first time I played IIDX, I passed a 6.  i r awesum
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 10, 2008, 05:17:10 PM
My first two songs that pissed me off when I started were 321 Stars 5k and Bad boy bass [n]. I used to think bbb was impossible lol...Now i've pretty much given up any hope i've had on passing Kagonotori [a] anytime soon. Working on Solid state squad now since the end is cake if you can get by without breaking combo too much.


Ok here's a pretty crappy run on Happy Sky's 9-Dan...

Depsite sucking on it, I had a pretty good run on Inazuma :).

2 DAYS!!! Can't wait to play gold.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 11, 2008, 07:07:11 AM
Most of his problem with IIDX is timing.

That, I can understand. Still, having played other music games, he should be able to feel something about the timing window. I can tell, after playing for a very short amount of time, how tight a window in any game is. Maybe 30 seconds, and I have a pretty clear understanding of the timings. Adjusting to it can be a major problem though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 11, 2008, 05:24:26 PM
why are lion musashi songs more difficult than they are rated?

the lion musashi song on gold is like "HEY I HOPE YOU LIKE HARD RANDOM CLUSTERS OF FAIL"

also candy galy [h] defies what normally applies to me

ive passed it ONCE, but GOD DAMN the second half of the song is EASY PATTERNS....only REALLY FUCKING FAST, like, the scales in the middle(at the same speed mind you) of some of those patterns are EASIER because it mixes up blue and white rather than "lots of white, lots of blue, lots of white, ect"

but its a risk junk song, so "happy and speed" is expected
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 11, 2008, 06:43:05 PM
why are lion musashi songs more difficult than they are rated?

It's not that the charts themselves are more difficult, it's that the songs are so bad that they make you want to kill yourself with the IIDX controller.

That, I can understand. Still, having played other music games, he should be able to feel something about the timing window. I can tell, after playing for a very short amount of time, how tight a window in any game is. Maybe 30 seconds, and I have a pretty clear understanding of the timings. Adjusting to it can be a major problem though.

He doesn't play music games that often, only very rarely.  Certainly not enough to be able to easily adjust to a 10ms-ish timing window without a due amount of difficulty.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 11, 2008, 10:24:31 PM
As I said, adjusting can be a problem, but understanding that the timing is intense and trying to adjust, can help somewhat. I nearly went insane when I played BMUS the first time, due to the batshit insane timing windows, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 12, 2008, 01:41:15 AM
OH YEAH, I was like 10-15 seconds from passing Quasar on pad yesterday.

Maaaan, so close...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 14, 2008, 03:49:56 AM
K so UNFORTUNATELY I didn't get Gold :( (long story). BUT I did get 9th and 5PM Eternal [a] is impossible to sightread.

Got the 9th style OMES and beat its 10-Dan. Also Beyond the earth [a] is a really fun chart. One or eight [a] is hard, but I can probably manage with some practice.

As for Red, cleared my 6th 12, A [a] random. Still cant clear gigadelic 7k (fall into the 30s) or Fake time 7k (60-70 consistently) but ive cleared everything else on 7k and a few more stuffs on [a] I used to think impossible like murmur twins and DXY!.



Now good news is I will be getting Gold still since im getting a dvd burner :x.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 14, 2008, 03:52:55 AM
K so UNFORTUNATELY I didn't get Gold :( (long story).

Whaaaaaaaaaat :(

Why dat?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 14, 2008, 07:50:37 AM
K so UNFORTUNATELY I didn't get Gold :( (long story).

We have time. You need to write more TL;DR's. Vlad and I shouldn't hold a monopoly on those things.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 14, 2008, 01:42:58 PM
Not so much a long story as a I didn't feel like typing it last night.

Anyways the guy lost the copy on a transferring bus to the place where we were meeting. He said he could burn another though but i'd rather just get a dvd burner since I was gonna after I got gold anyways.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 16, 2008, 04:38:59 AM
Oh yeah, I passed Je'Taime Pro from MGD2 on ITG2 the other day with some.crappy%.  190bpm 16th runs liek wut.

I also got about eight measures further in Quasar. :D

The beginning of FAXX heavy is also amazingly fun.  Too bad the rest of the chart (read: slowdown and on, except for the slow 24th runs) fucking suck.  I need to make an edit for that shit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 16, 2008, 07:54:52 AM
You need to make a video of you playing quasar.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 16, 2008, 08:03:42 AM
Yeah, I was planning on bringing my video camera along next time I play it.  Hopefully I can pass it before I move back to Ohio, because the machine here is infinitely better than any of the ones around here (it's one of those quality vs. quantity issues, it seems, heh).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 17, 2008, 01:20:55 AM
My dad has GH3 so ive been playing it since last Saturday so I can get good at it (its a useful skill to have these days I guess lol) and since I don't have a decent IIDX setup over here.

So far beat Medium in career mode with mostly 4*s and 5*s (first couple tiers have 3*s since I wasn't used to the blue fret yet). Now im working on hard and most of my scores are 3*s and only 4 have 4*s. Orange fret is really annoying.

Now im stuck at tier 7 on hard where it basically went from managable sightreading to wtf is this shit.

Practicing the 2nd solo on rock you like a hurricane hard helped a lot, same with my name is jonas. I think i'll start practicing Cherub rock now since its an easy song with trichords.


Also rofl at people that say OMG DO DRAGONFORCE ON EXPERT ON HYPERSPEED 5 ITS IMPOSSIBLE. Well its no more impossible to me than it was without hs5...which actually makes it way easier to read (im playing everything on HS4).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 17, 2008, 03:30:04 AM
I could never get used to hyperspeed, despite the fact that there's a speed change somewhere between medium and expert (I forget exactly where it occurs, but play 1 song in expert then one in medium and you will see a difference).

I've played through TTFATF expert on pro faceoff and got something like 86% of notes hit. If it wasn't for that retarded shit at the beginning, I might be able to pass it sometime.

My Name is Jonas is so damn fun on expert. So is Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Oh, and I would encourage you to just keep trying to get used to the orange. It does take a bit of time, but if you don't try, you'll never get used to it (though I guess you may already know that anyway, lol. I'm too used to lecturing people who don't play music games on how to improve).

Just play stuff you suck at/fail until you begin to notice you suck slightly less at them, and then go back and play some easy shit, and watch your scores improve drastically. That happens to a LOT of people in GH, because once you've gotten used to failing stuff too hard for you, if you go back to the easier stuff, you'll notice that it's a lot easier than you thought.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 17, 2008, 04:12:32 AM
Ill go back to it tomorrow or a couple of days. Working on getting No. 13 unlocked on 9th style.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 18, 2008, 12:42:42 AM
IIDX stuff:
-Cleared all 9th style 7k
-Cleared No. 13 [a] first try

GH stuff:
-First Hard 5*- Rock you like a hurricane
-Beat Hard tier 7...KoC was a pain and I had to tap at the triplet part. Tier 8 is impossible so far :/.
-Started Expert career and only did 3 songs in tier 1 right now. One of them is a 4* (Hit me with your best shot) :).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 18, 2008, 09:15:57 PM
pass laser cruster [h]

another 11 down

*edit*

around 20% fail on both no 13 [a] and kamitachi [a]

both songs i started up, and instantly quit due to "OMFG CANT READ" i could do rather well on, playing on the 40-50(it looks 50, but it could be 40, i don't care to measure) inch STANDARD definition tv down stairs.  however, im so used to the -2 timing on my hdtv, that +0 on the standard felt off to me, so +1 seemed to fix that.

anyway, i gotta quit playing iidx on an hdtv, its holding me down!

i guess the other thing is i play lower than the tv(i have a low chair, close to the ground), when playing when sitting up at an equal level to the monitor, it is easier, for me anyway. 

so i need to configure my room iidx setup a bit better.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 19, 2008, 03:09:03 AM
5* My name is jonas hard
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 21, 2008, 02:37:37 AM
FINALLY CLEARED ALL THE 6B CHARTS ON DJ MAX PORTABLE 2 NORMAL.  Ugh, WhiteBlue [NX] and My Alias [NX] can both suck my dick.

Basically that leaves me with the 8B charts that I can't clear and the mission mode stuff.  Joyous.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 21, 2008, 03:40:59 AM
Didn't say but yeah I cleared gigadelic 7k yesterday.

Also what's up today? I got a dvd burner :O.

So NATURALLY I BURNED...
-DDR Extreme JP
-DDR SuperNOVA2 JP
-IIDX GOLD

Extreme takes some time to unlock but its kinda fun doing so and im loving the songlist. Haven't played SN2 like...at all because I haven't had the motivation to start HMM yet. Gold is cool...havent passed any 12s yet but ill get working on it eventually.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 22, 2008, 03:32:10 PM
k so "finally" i pass lovley storm [a]

again....only its not much of an accomplishment now because they lowered it from an 11, to a 10.

FFFFFFFF
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 22, 2008, 03:46:04 PM
***'d Changes Easy on 2x Flip, 3 excellents.  I've never even seen that chart before, haha.

Also, upped my Slower survival score to 97.somethingish, full combo.  I SDE'd Hillbilly Hardcore Medium 1x during that run (I counted around 8 excellents).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 23, 2008, 06:29:46 PM
It's not that the charts themselves are more difficult, it's that the songs are so bad that they make you want to kill yourself with the IIDX controller.

you know, as i was playing boring easy courses in GOLD to unlock crap, i came apon thunder, and i remembered it from 8th style.

thunder = a good lion musashi song, with a non gay notechart

also AA vocal course (normal difficulty, lol)

also, the least 100 sec [a] is funny, CHORD HELL!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Alice on June 23, 2008, 07:22:00 PM
after a hug eperiod of not playings ince like december, i finally

got A on butterfyl in beginner again

i'm flals at life
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 23, 2008, 07:30:15 PM
k so i unlocked all of the songs in gold, it was mind numbingly boring, but i did it.

after the 40 or so songs on NORMAL i played, it was time to play something up to my level of skill for once.

pass the detonator [a] with a B

on my first try

in my opinion it isn't an "easy" 11, but it is the first 11 i passed on my first shot, so go me!

not to mention the song itself is some goodass gabber, so thats even better.

*edit*

on second thought, the detonator really isn't that hard(it is challenging, just not "hard"), it just "looks" hard.  i guess its due to the 1600+ (going from memory here) notes in the chart.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on June 24, 2008, 12:46:44 AM
It's the longest song in the game so it has a ton of notes. It's nowhere near as hard as tripping contact remix.

I was happy because I was the first US player to unlock everything AND I passed all of the new 11s on my first try... except for Sense 2007 7k. The 12s are all ridiculous.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 27, 2008, 07:31:12 PM
nevermind what i said, the detonator is an easy 11

so is gold rush, hence the post, because i just passed it
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on June 27, 2008, 08:18:56 PM
Got my IIDX red/swapdisc/fliptop working yesterday. Also fixed/cleaned my controller; replacing the plastic bag rings and changing out the cardboard circles with pennies so its more responsive.

yay
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: LunarKeys on July 02, 2008, 02:29:51 AM
I made it like halfway through Origin (from MGD2) without the bar just to make Renard hate me. It was pretty friggin' awesome.

Uh...otherwise...

***'d Breakneck Bombing Run on sightread, *'d Energizer Hard, **'d D-Code Expert...***'d Mellow Hard...uh...

Yeah, can't think of anything else.

(not music-game related, placed in the quarterfinals of the Brawl tournament at AnthroCon, yay tourneyfag~)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 06, 2008, 10:11:32 AM
Cleared One Expert on GH3.

Pretty much moved to Hard/Expert drums on Rock Band overnight (?).

I made it like halfway through Origin (from MGD2) without the bar just to make everyone at NPCH hate me.

Corrected for truth.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on July 06, 2008, 11:57:42 AM
I'm getting my stamina back for ITG2; I got 86.xx on VerTex expert 1x.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 06, 2008, 05:36:53 PM
Woo, passed March of the Pigs Expert Drums on Rock Band for the first time with a 94%.  I'm better than I thought I was, apparently.  That's supposedly one of the harder songs in the game, too (one tier down from the hardest).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 07, 2008, 03:08:40 AM
Perfect Drug's a LOT harder. Also, try out Hammerhead for some really hard drumming.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 07, 2008, 07:47:29 AM
Yeah, I've attempted Perfect Drug soon after March of the Pigs.  I made it 26% of the way through, heh.  The beginning is pretty simple, at least.

I'll give Hammerhead a shot when I get my 360 hooked up here, just to see how quickly it kills me. P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 07, 2008, 08:50:19 PM
HOLY SHITHOLY SHIT OMG HOLY SHHIT

WOO

So I was practicing my hammer ons for TTFAF just now in practice mode, full speed.

I conquer [100%] the ~238 note intro and go on to complete the song with 90% notes hit. 3380/3722

I think that'd be passable in single player.

holy shit.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00168.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 07, 2008, 09:26:57 PM
I hate you.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on July 07, 2008, 10:39:21 PM
The intro is the only problem I have in that song. Dunno why. I must be doing something wrong.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 07, 2008, 10:43:08 PM
I thought the same thing too.. then I just started practicing it.. not memorizing, I still read it with 5x speed on. Just go into practice mode and select the hammer-on section and go with the slowest setting. Keep at it, and you'll get it full speed in no time, like myself.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on July 07, 2008, 10:45:16 PM
The main problem I have is the 5th orange key, because my hand isn't that big to reach that far constantly...I can do it a few tinmes here and there, but not as often in that intro.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 07, 2008, 10:57:15 PM
oh.. maybe I should have mentioned that I:

Hold my index on the green at all times
Use my Middle and Ring for the Red, Yellow, and the initial blue notes while my
Right hand index finger hits the initial note of the song and goes up to the neck to hit the orange and blue notes for the rest of the intro

so I guess the easy way to say it is: I tap with both hands all the way thru the intro
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 08, 2008, 02:23:15 AM
Yeah, the intro was designed as 2 hand tapping, like people do when playing guitar all the time. You hold the green with your left and use your right to tap the notes, making sure to let go and let the green register again.

It's just hard to do that properly.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 08, 2008, 08:19:52 PM
Passable in single player?
Yes.
Did I do it?

..








FUCK YEA I DID

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00173.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00174.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00175.jpg)

For this, I got the 'inhuman achievement' 15GP achievement just for beating it on expert and the "star mania" one for activating star power 3 times, also 15GP.

Holy fucking ass.

jesus christ I'm happy.

DOES THIS MEAN I'M GOOD AT GH NOW///??11
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 08, 2008, 08:24:04 PM
Nice one! :D

Also, only 15GP?  Cheap bastards. D:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 09, 2008, 02:57:59 AM
I decided to go on score hero lol
http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=251665&group=4&game=6&diff=4

yay


edit:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on July 10, 2008, 01:52:44 PM
I passed WinDEU's Insomnias 2 and 3 on Intense. Well, in Stepmania anyways.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on July 10, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
A second heaven [a]

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on July 11, 2008, 09:40:43 AM
If only dragonforce's guitarists could play as good live.....




I realized im the only one that uses the hr tag.



Getting back into SM, beating lots of old scores. Interesting how a play gap can get you past a wall.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 11, 2008, 09:57:58 AM
Or make you suck ass, like what happened to me :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 14, 2008, 10:39:10 AM
Cleared Setsugekka [a] with an A.

One more 12 and i'll have 10 12s cleared :D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 14, 2008, 06:36:45 PM
IIDX GOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, I finally got torrents working, and managed to download and play IIDX gold. This rocks.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on July 14, 2008, 07:58:36 PM
BABY YOU'RE SOLID GOLD
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 15, 2008, 01:02:31 AM
HOLY SHIT TODAY IS THE DAY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR MONTHS!

Im over the 12 wall for the most part :D.

Well first I cleared all 11s in Gold except the shadow and Halfway of promise and I AA'd Second Heaven [a].

Now for 12s...:

-Cleared Setsugekka [a] for a 2nd time
-Cleared Vanessa [a] with a C (my 10th 12 :D)
-Can consistently clear Concertino in blue [a] now and cleared it for the first time nonran (with 90+%)
-Cleared Please don't go [a] (Border clear 11th 12)
-Cleared gigadelic [a] (shocked me since it's like 10x harder than 7k's ending but 12th 12 nonetheless :P)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 15, 2008, 09:13:36 AM
Failed Captivate [H] with a 78% :<

Passed that weird Industrial Review song or whatever with the kanji name [H].
Passed Vanessa [N] with a C
Passed The Story Begins [N] with an A

Passed other crap I didn't record, because I'm lazy.

I can play a decent amount of the 8's in Gold without getting completely annihilated.
Also, Scorpion Fire is fucking fun, even to fail on [H] and [A].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 15, 2008, 10:44:14 AM
Failed Captivate [H] with a 78% :<

Passed that weird Industrial Review song or whatever with the kanji name [H].
Passed Vanessa [N] with a C
Passed The Story Begins [N] with an A

Passed other crap I didn't record, because I'm lazy.

I can play a decent amount of the 8's in Gold without getting completely annihilated.
Also, Scorpion Fire is fucking fun, even to fail on [H] and [A].

Bout time you modded your PS2 lol.

Can you clear any 9s or come close? Try Sense 2007 [n] or Golden Cross [h] if you haven't already.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 15, 2008, 11:45:03 AM
Hmm, I'll try.

Also, fixing my ratio on Sows is going to be a BITCH. I WAS connectible for a while, but now my router is flaking out again and not forwarding the port, like it did earlier (even though it was technically flaking out then, since I never had the port selected to be forwarded in the first place).

72% that Akira Yamaoka song with the cat in the video.

Failed those 2 and virtually all the others miserably.

I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna be playing 8's and lower a lot. However, I can consistently pass Vanessa. That track is really damn fun.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 15, 2008, 05:07:59 PM
Yeah Vanessa is fun on every difficulty except Another where its hard to time.


As for Sows, for now just leave bittorrent running so you get bonus points to trade in for uploaded gigs (75 pts for 1gb uploaded) and use "save the world" every day since it adds 33.3 mb of uploaded data to your ratio and you'll be fine.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 15, 2008, 09:38:54 PM
Yeah, I'm saving the world daily, and I'm trying to rack up enough points, but since my brother also goes on the computer, and uTorrent kills yahoo live, which he's practically always on, it kinda doesn't get left on much.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 15, 2008, 10:11:06 PM
Cleared one or eight [a] with a B.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 17, 2008, 07:02:42 PM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/07-17-08_1551.jpg)

Cool.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 17, 2008, 07:32:23 PM
Cleared one or eight [a] with a B.

About time. Now go clear JALS.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 17, 2008, 07:47:07 PM
Jesus christ, milk chan.

Also, downloading DistorteD. Should be done in 10 hours according to utorrent. Finally, more revivals. (Gold's revival list kinda makes me sad)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 17, 2008, 11:51:09 PM
About time. Now go clear JALS.

Not even close on it.

[author=Bobbias link=topic=6.msg17488#msg17488 date=1216338427]
Jesus christ, milk chan.

Also, downloading DistorteD. Should be done in 10 hours according to utorrent. Finally, more revivals. (Gold's revival list kinda makes me sad)
[/quote]

DistorteD's revivals are pretty good, but honestly just about as good as Gold's IMO. DD has Sakura, quasar, erasermotorphantom, Schlagwerk, the killer Mei, and more 5k revivals like Gold. You should like it minus era and Presto which were already on BMUS.

What's good about DD is its CS exclusive songs, all of which are ridiculously hard on Another unfortunately.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 18, 2008, 02:48:46 AM
I like all of those tracks you listed, except erasermotorphantom (which I don't really know). I like the revivals in Gold, but I don't know all of them, so some of them are lost on me. Also, I'm beginning to hate the notecharts for 19, november and 20, november. I tend to get my ass kicked painfully by no. 13 and kakumei on any other difficulty than normal. That doesn't leave much in the ways of playable revival charts.

I need more tracks in the midrange difficulty. I've noticed Gold's tracklist kinda lacks a bit in the 5 6 and 7 difficulty area, which is more or less where I'm best right now. I can play the easier 8's, but most 8's are a bit too much for me. I'm definitely getting better (slowly) though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 18, 2008, 06:41:02 AM
Bump for ARGWTFGOMGARSGIJNAERQN$I%GQ*%GMQOT%$(YGJ%$YAQN

I fucking failed Sakura normal HS 0.5 with 75% :/ (yes, I now have DistorteD as well)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 18, 2008, 03:45:48 PM
Good luck when you get to 9s and 10s on Distorted. When you do, they'll seem ridiculously hard at first. All I can say is stay away from Breathless [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 19, 2008, 12:27:16 AM
Cleared The shadow and HoP so all 11s on Gold are cleared now (except for Beginning of life since I haven't unlocked the course for it yet).

Also cleared 2 12s:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/07-18-08_2104.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/07-18-08_2109.jpg)

They were back to back clears as well :D (15 12s now!). Sorry for blur lol.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 19, 2008, 09:00:26 AM
Holy fuck, I just AA'd Scorpion Fire Normal on Random.

Combo: 180
Ex Score: 662
Misses: 18 (something like 6 more than non random, lol)
Just Great: 260
Great: 142
Good: 11
Bad: 2
Poor: 16

I forget what HS it was on :/ I think it was HS2.0, but I could be wrong.

I came back after playing DistorteD a bunch, and played some stuff in gold, and improved a bunch of scores. I need to spend some time and upload all my scores onto VJArmy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on July 19, 2008, 09:20:09 AM
I played IIDX DJ Troopers for about 5-6 hours yesterday.

That's in-itself is an accoplishment for me cause I usually play IIDX in 10 minute spurts :)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 19, 2008, 09:49:08 AM
Wow, how can you only play for 10 minutes? Honestly, I usually play for something like 2 hours or so each time, but I don't have that much free time right now, so that number would be a bit larger normally.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 22, 2008, 05:59:03 AM
Cleared the least 100 sec [a] and Scream squad [a].
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 23, 2008, 01:29:23 AM
AAA'd waxing and wanding [h] (first 10 AAA :D). Also cleared waxing and wanding [a] with an A.

So now that I cleared all Cardinal Gate Anothers I have to get the markings (Hard clear+A or higher no random). So far I have the markings for Suzaku and Byakko. I actually came REALLY close to getting the Seiryu marking (failed at the ending scratches with a AA :(). Im nowhere near close to getting the marking for Genbu >_>.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 24, 2008, 06:11:53 AM
Cleared Red, Distorted, and Gold's 10-Dans.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 25, 2008, 12:07:09 AM
Jesus christ man.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 25, 2008, 01:46:20 AM
Gold was tough. Sense 2007 helped but Golden Cross is HARD. After I got Kaiden though I managed to get to Vanessa's Kaiden chart and failed miserably.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on July 25, 2008, 10:09:59 PM
I would show pics of this but my phone is being a bitch to let me connect it through the USB.

Anywho this past tuesday on my Clubhouse venture I*finally* passed Sakura on hard.

Elisyium (I go Crazy): 96.xx


Not the best mind you but I was fairly content.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 26, 2008, 02:36:59 AM
AAAs today:
-All L7 4s on Red
-Schlagwerk [h]
-Karma [h] (finally)
-NEMESIS L7 (holy shit this was hard)

Clears:
-Jaeger fatal attack [a] (was really easy after clearing 10-Dan)

-FAXX [a] (with an A :))

-Scripted connection=>A mix [a] (border clear)

-JALS [a] HOLY SHIT FINALLY with an A

-Bleeding luv [a] with a AA

So now i've cleared every 11 (I don't have 3rd-8th+10th so I can't say all but pretty much yeah I can clear all 11s lol).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: 『フエハデ』 on July 26, 2008, 03:37:17 AM
I forget the songs, but I had a round up at Pittsburgh Mills that went like this:

98.47%
98.40%
98.48%
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on July 26, 2008, 03:38:21 AM
I forget the songs, but I had a round up at Pittsburgh Mills that went like this:

98.47%
98.40%
98.48%

That was a pretty amusing moment, I must say.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: LunarKeys on July 27, 2008, 01:55:48 PM
So yeah, I'm back down in Austin for a bit and we went to Dave & Busters. Their Pump NX was up, so I played a few new songs.

Passed Chimera HD, A.
Passed Witch Doctor CZ, A.

FPC'd Dr. M CZ as a side accomplishment.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 28, 2008, 04:21:06 AM
Ok today holy shit...

Blah blah AAA'd some more Red 7k (all 2s-5s on 7k AAA'd now). Got two good AAAs today: Resonate 1794 7k and Abyss the heavens [h] :).

Also failed Drunk monky [a] with a 74%. I was in the red at the end but messed up one of the 5 chords and slipped out of the red. Ugh...

For clears:
-Cleared Gambol [a] (15 max combo) with a B
-Cleared erasermotorphantom [a] with an A
-Cleared Kagonotori [a] with an A (holy fuck about time I cleared it)
And then uhh this one surprised me...
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/HPIM0557.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/HPIM0558.jpg)

HOLY SHIT AA [a] CLEAR.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 31, 2008, 10:26:37 PM
Raaaaagggh I actually passed Young Man Blues Expert Drums. Good LORD those are fast drum rolls.

Looks like:


that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 01, 2008, 05:05:02 AM
Jesus christ, that is ridiculous.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on August 03, 2008, 10:53:31 PM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/HPIM0571.jpg)

phat bass
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 06, 2008, 12:16:18 AM
I played some of the two dix tonight and came to the conclusion that the keychart data for A [7K] and Colors (Radio Edit) [7K] obviously got easier in the numerous months that I haven't been playing.  That's the only explanation I can think of for why I can pass both of them with ease now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 13, 2008, 01:58:32 AM
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/gh3/ttfaf/2008-08-13.jpg)

Not bad for my first serious attempt...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 13, 2008, 07:11:25 AM
Not bad. I could probably never get past that ridiculous damned intro. I played pro face off and got something like 82% notes hit though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 13, 2008, 01:51:00 PM
I either full combo the intro or fail the song.  I haven't played GH3 enough to be able to recover from missing taps.

I need to get used to the guitar more than anything else.  I've gotten spoiled by the fret buttons on the Rock Band guitar.  The X-Plorer controller's buttons are considerably better than the sticky, unresponsive ones from my old PS2 guitar but they aren't as easy to press as the ones on the Rock Band controller.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 13, 2008, 06:08:24 PM
I actually hate playing the rock band controller. I like the clicking sounds the pick bar makes on the GH controller, and rock band's guitar's buttons make me lose my hand too often, because their little dots to show you what key your on suck. Give me that nce big bar on yellow and some space between keys like on the GH controllers any day.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 13, 2008, 09:19:53 PM
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/gh3/ttfaf/2008-08-13-68p.jpg)

My wrist hurts.

Also, video of FAILURE (5:32, 7.39MB, XviD/Vorbis): http://files.spectere.net/videos/gh3/ttfaf/2008-08-13-68p.avi (http://files.spectere.net/videos/gh3/ttfaf/2008-08-13-68p.avi)

Most of the fuckups at the end were basically because my wrist was getting sore.  I need to play more.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 14, 2008, 09:25:35 AM
Well, by the time I finished that song, I was unable to play any more for quite some time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 19, 2008, 06:55:03 PM
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/gh3/ttfaf/2008-08-19-78p.jpg)

My wrist has gotten over its emo-ness (I played about two hours of Rock Band, then did TTFAF four times in a row, getting at least 70% in all four times) so I don't think that'll be an issue anymore.  Now I just need to learn the solos.  I've improved the beginning by quite a lot and managed to get all the way up to Herman's Solo I before even having to deploy Star Power.  Maybe I should actually load this song up in training, haha.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on August 19, 2008, 09:55:49 PM
I either full combo the intro or fail the song.  I haven't played GH3 enough to be able to recover from missing taps.

Maybe thats my problem. I use 1 hand playing the intro lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 20, 2008, 10:22:28 AM
Some people actually do play it like that (some people go so far as to consider tapping cheating despite it being an actual guitar technique that's used in that bloody song, even), but...ugh, that just sounds like it'd be painful. :P

I use a somewhat different tapping system than most people people seem to use.  Everyone seems to use their left index for green and their left middle for red, then the other three with their right hand.  I use my left index for green and my right hand for the rest of the buttons.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on August 20, 2008, 11:10:12 AM
Didn't you used to play guitar Spec?  I mean I have seem the expert chart for TTFATF and I suck at doing hammer ons.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 20, 2008, 02:31:21 PM
I use a somewhat different tapping system than most people people seem to use.  Everyone seems to use their left index for green and their left middle for red, then the other three with their right hand.  I use my left index for green and my right hand for the rest of the buttons.

Most actual guitarists probably do that too.

And those people you mentioned above it are retarded.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 20, 2008, 04:18:26 PM
Most actual guitarists probably do that too.

Most likely.  Probably depends on how far apart the frets they need to hit are spread apart more than anything else.

And those people you mentioned above it are retarded.

Indeed.

GH/RB players are seriously worse than DDR fags.  Instead of bar/no bar arguments you get a bunch of 15-year-olds moaning about how hyperspeed is cheating, tapping is cheating, which game is "better," etc.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 20, 2008, 06:37:48 PM
Bah, they don't know shit about music games anyway. The timing windows in the GH/RB games is SO much looser than most other music games anyway.

I mean, IIDX has that insane timing, and the fact that it's damn hard to AAA most songs for it. Stepmania/DDR is hard to AAA too much stuff well, and for those players who get that good, there's always something harder. So you can AAA blur with your eyes closed? Try blur speedy mix, or one of the joke songs that are harder than blur.

But GH, well, I think some people have gotten good enough to reach max scores possible on a number of those songs. Sure, you can make your own charts, but there isn't nearly as much community for that as there is for stepmania etc.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on August 20, 2008, 09:56:55 PM
RB's timing window is actually fairly tight, maybe moreso on drums than guitar. It just doesn't grade you within a millisecond of when you should be pressing things like IIDX. GH3 is unbelievably loose though.

The whole hyperspeed is a cheat thing came about because Harmonix was fairly dumb and put it in with the Cheats when it should've just been under Options the whole time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 20, 2008, 10:05:25 PM
Harmonix does seem to think that it's a cheat, though.  The reason that they left it out of the first Rock Band is because they don't think it fits in with "the experience of playing a music instrument" or some garbage like that.  Someone needs to tell them that fiddling with a plastic guitar or beating on a plastic drum in time with lines that fall from the top of the screen don't exactly capture the feel of playing instruments, either.

Fortunately, they seem to have come to their senses with RB2.  I just hope that it's independently selectable per instrument, because if it doesn't I most likely won't be able to use it when I play with my "band."
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 21, 2008, 02:24:08 PM
Yeah, I noticed that RB seemed tighter than GH, and that in general, the GH games have gotten easier to time since the first.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: cristian989 on August 22, 2008, 06:52:59 AM
GH/RB players are seriously worse than DDR fags.  Instead of bar/no bar arguments you get a bunch of 15-year-olds moaning about how hyperspeed is cheating, tapping is cheating, which game is "better," etc.

DDR players had the same arguments when speedmods were added to DDR6th mix-onward...even when they were PART of the options menu...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 22, 2008, 04:44:02 PM
The one thing that pisses me off is the bullshit they have against using Cmods.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on August 22, 2008, 08:19:25 PM
Cmods are good to use depending on what the song is.  I personally like C600.  Speed mods in general are supposed to add some form of a challenge because you are reading stuff at a faster speed.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on August 22, 2008, 09:52:20 PM
Cmods make things quite a bit easier, in my opinion. 

Playing random shit like Chaos?  Pop on a cmod, and *shazam!* it's easier than a sorority girl on 1/2 price beer night. 

The only thing about them that's rough at all is when you suddenly can't use them anymore.  For a long time, I was using C675 on Stepmania.  And when I'd go to the arcades, I couldn't use the mods unless I wanted to be DQ'd for ranking.  So it can be a rough transition if you've been using them for a long time. 

:3
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on August 22, 2008, 10:13:40 PM
nigga, i use c700, it makes reading shit easy, it makes the game more fun to play.  THATS ALL THAT MATTERS BRO!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 23, 2008, 04:16:48 AM
I use C700 as well. It gets them to a speed where most files are actually readable. However, I still have trouble with 32nds :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on August 28, 2008, 08:52:45 PM
Three greats and a pad shit on My Summer Love.  On a DDR machine at least.  On a hacked ITG2 cab, it's like seven excellents.  Bahaha.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on September 24, 2008, 12:04:04 AM
I got my perfectly legitimate copy of IIDX distorted working :) it has stuff like karma, quasar, era, etc.  I'm enjoyin it:)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on September 24, 2008, 03:06:51 AM
Yeah, It definitely has some recognizable tracks in it, but I found that it was geared a little too high for me :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 09, 2008, 03:48:07 AM
Randomly passed MAX 300 [h] in IIDX somehow.  It seemed strangely easy tonight. :x
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on October 11, 2008, 09:19:36 PM
It's one of those songs that, after a while, just kind of clicks. There's one part that annoys me still but the rest of the song's really easy with the better speed mods we have now.

Hooray for Rock Band 2 accomplishments

97% GS Green Grass & High Tides Expert Guitar
99% GS Love Spreads Expert Vocals (song is by Stone Roses) (#8 on the leaderboards with a few screwups and without a perfect OD path so I could easily get #1 I think)
99% GS Gone Away (Offspring) Expert Vocals
99% GS Pretty Fly (Offspring) Expert Vocals
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on October 11, 2008, 11:01:17 PM
Recently downloaded MGD3 and I am doing rather well.

For some odd reason I can read "12"s really well now.  However some songs that are more my skill level I am missing anywhere from 2-5 notes. >:<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 18, 2008, 02:13:22 AM
Passed Contract [7H] earlier...not sure why I was having so much trouble with it.

AAA'd and hard perfect cleared I Was The One [7A].  Easy and fun, but I don't know for the life of me how I suddenly was able to PC the ending.

I hate Ganymede [7H].

Said "what the hell did I just play?" at least six times.

Upped a bunch of scores by between +60-80 EX points, including Presto [7H] and a few others.  Not sure where the sudden burst of semi-awesome came from but I don't mind it one bit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 20, 2008, 02:53:35 AM
All IIDX 10th L7 AAA'd. Funny enough Innocent walls was easier to AAA than Take it easy.


Other than that not much else. Cleared Sense 2007 [a] again with an A this time which was good and that's about it. Working my way down to the earlier styles till I have all songs cleared that I can clear. Goal now is for 1000 AAAs (at around 550 near 560).


Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 20, 2008, 04:18:05 AM
I'm lovin on IIDX gold. I've been playing the songs in order, starting with level 5 L7's. I've passed all those, and am moving through level 6's. I've come across one tougher song that I think I may have trouble in [forgot the name]. Hopefully there isn't too much of a wall for me though.. :(

I consider IIDX games much more enjoyable/replayable than ANY guitar hero I've owned/played, and i feel Rock band is mostly a party game, albeit fun. Guitar hero, once you've beaten Devil Went Down to Georgia on expert, eh.

I've replayed it for funsies, upping my high scores, etc. Or to show friends the game. Other than that I never really touch them.  Now IIDX on the other hand, I'll be working on for quite a while. It's a completely different skill-set than GH, DDR, SM, etc. I love it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 20, 2008, 03:18:09 PM
So much more difficulty range, and so much more to master the game, is what I think makes IIDX like that. But I definitely agree there.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 20, 2008, 05:22:07 PM
I like the music and gameplay. I find it fun unlocking gallery pics obtaining new items and songs and all that. Its entertaining and not overly involved at the same time. DDR used to be like that and they should really consider going back to a simple unlock system again.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on October 20, 2008, 11:39:47 PM
passed Cackletta's Soul Battle (Insane), the TERRA DDR (Marathon), Scatman (Insane), Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Insane) in osu! and have the #8 score for ^.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 21, 2008, 12:47:17 AM
I like the music and gameplay. I find it fun unlocking gallery pics obtaining new items and songs and all that. Its entertaining and not overly involved at the same time. DDR used to be like that and they should really consider going back to a simple unlock system again.

I hate most unlock systems. I like systems like the GH money system, where as long as you don't blow chunks, you can generally unlock damn near everything with something that's pretty easy to get. I hate games that require you to do insanely good on something, or anything like that (Usually because I can never get good enough to unlock that thing).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 21, 2008, 11:47:53 AM
I hate most unlock systems. I like systems like the GH money system, where as long as you don't blow chunks, you can generally unlock damn near everything with something that's pretty easy to get. I hate games that require you to do insanely good on something, or anything like that (Usually because I can never get good enough to unlock that thing).

Sounds like you'd like Mungyodance 3's unlock system.  Every three songs you get to pick what you want to unlock.

Definitely agreed as far as unlock systems go, though.  I can't stand systems that require you to play a bazillion songs or ones that require you to be godlike in order to unlock everything (like IIDX tends to do...ugh).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 21, 2008, 05:53:28 PM
I mean, some games can pull it off fairly well (the smash brothers games tend to be ok) but even those have some pretty difficult requirements for some of the unlocks.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: OmegaOmni on October 22, 2008, 09:44:03 PM
I recently got a 93.43 on Oasis Hard on a sight read.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on October 22, 2008, 10:50:15 PM
The ultimate gaming accomplishment....playing Breaking Point and ending with 00.01%...I should have taken a picture but I was too stoked to even remember.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on October 23, 2008, 06:20:39 AM
I got pretty good at the Rockband drums in a surprisingly short amount of time over the past couple months. I don't really keep track of scores, but I got something around 88% on Spoonman. I also passed Tom Sawyer with a mid-80's percentage my first time :D Oh and this is on expert.

*is proud of self*
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 26, 2008, 01:33:02 PM
Good job, maybe you can be the next neil pert when he dies haha. 


Anyway, I tried the class-decidy-how-good-you-rank-at-iidx-relative-to-karate's-ranking-system option, and found that I could pass the 1st [yes 1st, as in I started at 7th and went up] Kyu rank course. Soo now my mission is to just practice practice practice at IIDX, and take the class-decidy-how-good-you-rank-at-iidx-relative-to-karate's-ranking-system whenever I feel I've made a good improvement. :)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 26, 2008, 03:20:22 PM
You mean the Dan ranks? Those are definitely a good way to find out how good you are, though I still only barely understand it, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 26, 2008, 04:57:40 PM
Yea those.. Apparently the lower levels start with Kyu 7th, and go up to 1st, then Dan 1st thru 9th I think.. then the new rating that Gold gave it IIRC, Kaiden. Each test plays 4 songs, each successively more difficult than the last one. You pass it, yay for you.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on October 26, 2008, 05:52:00 PM
Good job, maybe you can be the next neil pert when he dies haha. 

Oh I intend to.

Also 92% on Toxicity :\
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on October 26, 2008, 10:47:24 PM
Also 92% on Toxicity :\

Wait...what???  Rock Band 2???? Am I hearing straight or are you playing on something else because if it was on RB2 then I am freaking buying a 360 an hour ago.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on October 26, 2008, 11:13:32 PM

EDIT ALSO IN THIS POAST
I JUST B'd MAX 300 L7 YAY YAY YAY

248/176/125/17/15

OMG YAY
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on October 27, 2008, 02:14:23 AM
Wait...what???  Rock Band 2???? Am I hearing straight or are you playing on something else because if it was on RB2 then I am freaking buying a 360 an hour ago.

Yes indeed, Rock Band 2.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 27, 2008, 07:19:05 PM
Yea those.. Apparently the lower levels start with Kyu 7th, and go up to 1st, then Dan 1st thru 9th I think.. then the new rating that Gold gave it IIRC, Kaiden. Each test plays 4 songs, each successively more difficult than the last one. You pass it, yay for you.

Close.

Lowest is 7th kyu (on doubles lowest is 5th kyu) and the highest dan is 10th dan. In Distorted, Kaiden was added, which is basically the same as 10th dan (all 12s) but beefed up a lot. Distorted's Kaiden has the 4 hardest songs in the game (Go beyond is arguable) while Gold's Kaiden had an easy 12 (Fascination MAXX), the hardest 12 in Gold CS (Scorpion fire), and two special charts accessible only in the Kaiden course (Vanessa and Kamaitachi, with the latter having 2000 notes).




For scores i've been doing pretty well timing wise lately:
-FC Colors 7k
-FC Love is eternity 7k
-AAA High [a]
-AAA Rottel the mercury 7k
-AAA Quasar 7k with FC
-AAA 5.1.1. [a]
-High A on Colors [a] (near AA)
 
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on November 05, 2008, 02:28:32 AM
OHAI THIS JUST HAPPENED

I don't know if headphones make a difference, or if the little break I took helped but:

IIDX RED, LAB L7 [5*]

score was: B, 253/132/130/5/20

score is now:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00441.jpg)


:3
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on November 05, 2008, 09:40:48 AM
Passed, at my local r23 bitch of a machine, the song Dermeister2.0 sumthinorother by Rammenstein on Hard which says its an 11 but because its soooo freaking long and the stream beats the hell out of you I consider it an upper 12 maybe even a 13.....oh and I beat it with an 80.88 or something close to that...I took a screenshot but my friend hasn't sent me the pic yet because I was using his card (btw, the song was already on the machine which is why it played the whole song).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 09, 2008, 04:56:07 AM
So I suddenly got pretty good at Boom Boom Rocket.  I'm not sure whether that's a good thing of a bad thing. :s  I unlocked all of the achievements and have been getting A**s on various things so, uh, I guess that's pretty okay.  I think I managed to get below than 100th place on a few charts, too.

It's a shame the timing in that game seems to be solely based on how many pixels you are away from the center of the target line...ugh, hate when games do that.  It makes endurance mode stupidly hard when the BPM goes too high over 200.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 11, 2008, 11:41:59 PM
-AAA gigadelic L7...All Red L7 AAA'd!
-AAA Stoic [n]
-AAA Sakura [n]
-AA Gambol 7k
-A Gambol [a]
-Hard cleared gigadelic 7k with a AA. 2nd 12 AA and 2nd 12 hard clear.

-Cleared Golden Cross [a] with a B holy shit finally (was 3rd try today as well)

Also almost got Candy Galy [a] as well but messed up badly right before the final 2 measures...finished with 46%, but got an A :D.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 11, 2008, 11:52:02 PM
Jesus, how the fuck do you do that man?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 12, 2008, 12:07:05 AM
I dunno I had a RIDICULOUS slump like was struggling to clear really easy 12s getting near grades below on 11s and crap but I played through all of 10th and my timing got A LOT better and I can clear stuff again.

Pissed me off though after I got Golden cross I thought I could clear pretty much everything in the game and tried to clear quell and nageki but that didnt work out too well lmao.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Blue0ctane on November 16, 2008, 04:39:11 PM
I just fucking passed Raining Blood on Expert, no way, holy shit.

Granted, it's with a 133,872, but that song tortured me for months.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2008, 04:55:10 PM
I still can't pass that shit :/

I hate the solos in that song, lol. I never get very far because of the crazy shit at the start.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Blue0ctane on November 16, 2008, 05:20:16 PM
Alright...FUCKING SHIT, I HATE THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA. Basically, I can't even get past the first solo strain unless Lou gets "whammy" as a power-up. And then I end up missing my power-up anyway because I can't solo for shit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2008, 09:01:04 PM
Haha, well, i know I have NO chance at ever passing that any time soon. Maybe by the time GH 7 is out, I'll have a chance :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on November 18, 2008, 01:40:00 PM
I remember the first time I passed that haha..  you'll get there, once you beat TTFAF and do that for a bit, the devil is just a different technique in the way that there are more patterns and fretwork than the other.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 18, 2008, 02:21:28 PM
Well, I've got no chance of beating TTFATF any time soon, thanks to that painfully ridiculous opening. That aside, I did do relatively well on it in expert playing on pro faceoff. I think I had something like 86% of notes hit or something on my first run through.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on November 19, 2008, 03:16:18 PM
Thats good! I was at about 84-85% in practice mode when i just slowed down the time and learned to tap the intro, after you get that down, just do the rest of the song like you normally would :D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 20, 2008, 01:29:11 AM
Well, thing is I was so used to the timing necessary for hammer ons in GH2 that the huge window in 3 felt like going from IIDX to PIU, lol.

I don't think I could match that now, since I haven't been able to play GH in ages, aside from the odd couple songs at a friends place. Our GH2 and wired controller is on loan to a "friend" of my brother's who he never sees any more, and our GH3 wireless controller wasn't working earlier, thanks to one of the pins in the neck getting stuck in, and I haven't tested it out yet, because I simply cannot stand the wireless controller for the PS2. I hate the feel of the strum bar, and overall it just feels like there's a bunch of lag between the ocntroller and the PS2.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 21, 2008, 01:38:26 AM
EDIT: WHOMG HUMONGOUS PICS




My V [a] AA that I never got around to uploading till now:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PB030246.jpg)

First 10* FC!
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0028.jpg)

3rd 12 hard clear. Still need to normal clear :/:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0029.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 28, 2008, 02:02:57 PM
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0031.jpg)

I FINALLY GOT A NON-9TH OMES!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on November 29, 2008, 04:55:10 AM
Rockband 2 drums - Spoonman [expert]: 94%; Testify [expert]: 98%

I gotta start keeping better track of my scores because I've had some good ones lately.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 01, 2008, 01:14:09 AM
5 Star all but 1 song on GH3.............Raining blood. I got a 4 star with like 200ish thousand. Last song for all 5 stars on expert! Also, finally got it down to where I nail the beginning solo 100% in TTFAF. Weeee!
Oh and also
5 star Tom Morello Guitar battle solo.
5 star Slash guitar battle solo.
4 star Devil went down to georgia solo.
4 star ALL the Dragonforce track pack songs.
5 Starred Soothsayer (Downloadable buckethead song)

Guitar Hero world tour -
5 star B.Y.O.B
5 Star Hot for Teacher
4 Star Joe Satriani, Satch Boogie


Thats all for now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on December 02, 2008, 12:52:51 AM
High scores at mediocrity!  Yay!  :D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/JupichanSweetDarlinSs.jpg)

I also got a few fake AAAs on Supernova2, but eh.  Whatev.  Haha.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 14, 2008, 05:01:53 PM
http://vjarmy.com/iidx/viewsong.php?songid=315&mode=A&highlight=TRUKME

2nd 10* FC (Rank 27).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on December 14, 2008, 05:10:08 PM
5 Star all on GH3

Guitar Hero world tour -
5 star B.Y.O.B
5 Star Hot for Teacher
5 Star Joe Satriani, Satch Boogie
So, all 5 star.

Fixed for me...damn that Satch Boogie is a pain...it's harder than batin'...nice practice though.

Only song I've yet to 5 star in all of GH is Jordan...now that the outlook on the buttons on the screen changed since GH3 I don't think I'll ever be able to.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 14, 2008, 05:19:34 PM
http://vjarmy.com/iidx/viewsong.php?songid=299&mode=A&highlight=TRUKME

3rd 10* FC (Rank 32)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on December 17, 2008, 12:21:18 PM
Fixed for me...damn that Satch Boogie is a pain...it's harder than batin'...nice practice though.

Only song I've yet to 5 star in all of GH is Jordan...now that the outlook on the buttons on the screen changed since GH3 I don't think I'll ever be able to.

Yeah, Satch Boogie is a pain with that solo, but also, I don't have the world tour guitar, so I have no slider to use (Which I hear is WAYYYYY easier than the buttons) So I try and nail that solo with the buttons. Also, I've beaten Jordan like, twice I think, and i'll never play that song again unless it comes out for a downloadable song for GH3 or something, because the hammer-on/pull-offs in GH2 are absolute crap.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on December 17, 2008, 12:52:22 PM
Yeah, Satch Boogie is a pain with that solo, but also, I don't have the world tour guitar, so I have no slider to use (Which I hear is WAYYYYY easier than the buttons) So I try and nail that solo with the buttons. Also, I've beaten Jordan like, twice I think, and i'll never play that song again unless it comes out for a downloadable song for GH3 or something, because the hammer-on/pull-offs in GH2 are absolute crap.

Same here...I got the guitar but I use the GH2 guitar still...my mom uses the world tour one (yes, she plays...but on easy).  The h-o/p-o's have always been crap but they greatly increased in numbers for the harder songs...the only reason I ever had trouble with jordan was not because of them, but because even on hyperspeed the notes are still soooo close together.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 17, 2008, 06:00:02 PM
I can't read shit on hyperspeed, lol. I've done pretty well on jordan, except for some of the ridiculous sections, which were instadeath in most cases. If I still had GH2 (it's on loan and likely never gonna get returned, thanks to my retarded brother), I'd love to get back into play GH more and see how well I could do on it now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on December 24, 2008, 02:19:22 PM
Icarus [a]- A:


Time to air [a]- AA (i'll go for a AAA soon):


Dazzlin' darlin [a]- AAA (95 or 96%):
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 14, 2009, 12:46:47 AM
-Normal Clear Blue mirage [a]
-Normal Clear One more lovely [a]
-Normal Clear Scorpion fire [a]


Also a bunch of mid-high AAs on random 11s and Kagonotori [a].



All this shit happened after I was bitching about how I can't pass black [a] 12s.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 14, 2009, 12:57:12 AM
Damn. O.O  Nice work!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 14, 2009, 01:47:54 AM
Thanks. I gotta start working on a Fake time [a] and Mei [a] clear now (which will take forever ;_;).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 14, 2009, 06:55:22 PM
-Easy clear quell [a] with an A
-Normal clear flowers  with an A
-AAA Fake time 7k
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 04, 2009, 11:47:53 PM
-Cleared Vox up [a] with an A

and...




(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0081.jpg)





ITS FINALLY OVER! MEI [a] CLEAR FUCK YEAH!

Crazy how just a year ago I wasn't even an 8-Dan yet and just starting to attempt 11s...
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 05, 2009, 12:37:41 PM
Crazy how just a year ago I wasn't even an 8-Dan yet and just starting to attempt 11s...

How long ago did you actually start playing IIDX anyway? You've proven that this game really doesn't take that long for some peple to get amazing at, lol. Then again, you've always been like that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 05, 2009, 05:07:53 PM
How long ago did you actually start playing IIDX anyway? You've proven that this game really doesn't take that long for some peple to get amazing at, lol. Then again, you've always been like that.

I started the day after BMUS came out, so about 3 years ago now. But I only count it as 2 because there was a year I didn't play it at all because I couldn't pass 7s and got super frustrated, but came back Summer 07 and went from there.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 05, 2009, 07:08:49 PM
Yeah, you prove it really doesn't take long for some people to get really good. I'm still stuck at kinda sucking.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 23, 2009, 01:37:33 AM
I played a shitton. I don't play much now I wanted to get a score one very chart on vjarmy and I did now I just have cleaning up to do on some styles which I do about 10 songs maybe once every week and a half?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 23, 2009, 02:39:37 PM
It sounds like you were doing it less for fun and more to get a personal accomplishment :/

I play games like stepmania and IIDX for fun, not to try to get some sort of accomplishment. Sure, I've worked towards certain accomplishments, but that was because I found it fun to try and see if I could actually manage something (like when I went from being unable to clear Reality to being able to regularly clear it).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on March 24, 2009, 12:52:20 AM
Nah I play for fun a lot after I get my goals accomplished. I haven't taken the game nearly as seriously as I have before playing all the stuff. Im mostly just dicking around on 11s and such.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 24, 2009, 05:42:50 AM
Still, sounds like it was kinda really a pain when you were going for the accomplishment. I mean, that is pretty damn impressive, but I've never been able to do crap like that. I'm not gonna do something that just isn't fun (like playing every really easy notechart in the game) unless I'm gonna get something decent out of it. (I hate unlocking shit that just requires you do have played everything, and crap like that.)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 24, 2009, 05:22:12 PM
I pretty much hated myself when I set goals. I can't play No.13 anymore because I played it too much when that was my goal. I played One or Eight too much when the Another was my first 12. It just made the game boring to me.

I really wanted to get a score in for everything, but honestly, the upper level stuff isn't fun for me at all anymore so putting scores in for some stuff (guh Blue Mirage) would just be a chore.

I really haven't even played IIDX for a while though. I unlocked everything in Troopers pretty quickly but I kind of lost interest again. I'd really really rather have a new Pop'n CS just because the game's so easy to time that I don't have to think about scoring at all.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 24, 2009, 05:48:44 PM
lol, I'd love to get into popn, but it's really hard to get into :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on March 26, 2009, 08:21:47 PM
I thought it was by far the easiest of all the Bemani games to get into that isn't DDR. You pretty much just shut yourself up when it comes to judging based on what the genre is or anything else and just play everything regardless of what you think of it. Then you realize that everything is awesome and the game is really fun.

I should really buy a keyboard stand for my ASC so I wouldn't have to do this ridiculous thing with the center part of a table over the top of my other little table with a towel wrapped around and held down by books so that I can actually have something wide enough to place it on. I'd probably play a LOT more if I did that.

And like I said, a new game would do WONDERS. But now we're looking at Pop'n 17 in arcades and we haven't even gotten 15CS. And 15 is so good ;_;
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 26, 2009, 10:40:11 PM
I think he might be referring more to getting the game and controller than actually playing.  Since there was no American release, getting even a mini Pop'n controller can prove to be expensive.

Pop'n is very easy to get started with.  The 5-key mode is fun, very accessible, and helps you get used to the controller enough that it makes 9-key a bit easier to swallow.

I'd play Pop'n more, but I need to replace one of the microswitches in the Ransai.  The right-most white button is extremely meh.  I could try taking all of them apart, checking all of the contacts and metal pieces, and putting it back together, but I've already done that enough times that it's definitely not going to be a long-term fix. :p
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 27, 2009, 07:44:36 AM
Yeah, I was referring to actually getting the game and controller. Popn controllers are not cheap :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: K-Mann on March 28, 2009, 02:18:34 PM
I don't even have Troopers yet. I really want to get it. I put my TV at the foot of my bed now, so I have a comfortable place/way to play, so I think I'll be playing alot more often. Which means scores!

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on April 04, 2009, 06:33:10 AM
Played GH2 for the first time in like a year. 5* Carry Me Home and Less Talk More Rokk.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: MooMan1 on April 30, 2009, 10:07:48 PM
No relevance to anything, but what's the hold-up with SM4? IIRC it started development when a0 was still up :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on May 01, 2009, 12:54:47 AM
Well, SM's code is apparently terrible, according to spectere. Maintaining terrible code is always going to slow things down. Plus, I don't think the development has many people seriously working on it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on May 05, 2009, 02:29:06 PM
Yeah stepmania died back in like 06-07 the only people that seriously play now are vibrators.

New IIDX score. This took forever to AAA and ended up being my first 11* FC as well :):
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0001.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/PICT0003.jpg)

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sneaky on May 07, 2009, 02:22:28 AM
vely rovrey
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Leorina on May 07, 2009, 03:25:13 PM
1 h4z 5k1iiz....finally

Light Emitting Diode X
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/ChaosDragoon/screen00006.jpg)
Summer ~Speedy Mix~
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/ChaosDragoon/screen00007.jpg)
Pandy!!!
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa250/ChaosDragoon/screen00008.jpg)

I would have also had V^2 if I hadn't messed up on the mine run...and yes, I did pandy as first round the next set right after passing Summer.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 08, 2009, 07:45:43 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00207.jpg)

Fucking finally.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00210.jpg)

Fucking christ this song is hard. But amazingly awesome. Some of the Miss/Boo/Good/Greats are BS because for some reason my X/Down key likes to randomly lag on triples and quads.. Only sometimes, but enough to cause a good number of BS scores, especially on a file that has so damn many triples and quads.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 27, 2009, 02:33:20 AM
Umm I beat Kaiden a couple months back lol

EDIT: FAXX [h] AAA :).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on July 05, 2009, 08:44:22 PM
I tried some DDR today for the first time in over a year. I've been doing some parkour lately so I figured my stamina would be pretty good. I didn't expect my PA to be so much better than last time, though. It's on a DDR Extreme machine.

MAX 300 - A, 3 misses or so
MAXX UNLIMITED - A, a few goods and misses
Sakura - FC/AA, 43 greats
Drop Out - FC/AA, 38 greats
Saint Goes Marching (remix) - 9 greats, 2nd SDG I've ever gotten in DDR ever (first was Sync heavy)
PSMO - passed for the first time ever with a B

I also passed Paranoia Survivor in ES. Overall I'm a shitload better than I was when I stopped playing over a year ago.

EDIT: Better score on SGM:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/Photo07061954-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 12, 2009, 12:33:52 AM
Well, thanks to Guitar Hero: Smash Hits having different charts for everything, I've now passed Through the Fire and Flames Expert with 89%. The entire beginning is done in tappable notes. No strumming.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on July 17, 2009, 01:31:55 AM
haven't played IIDX in a month so i played for a few minutes today, happened i passed something i haven't passed before

sweetest savage [black another]

pretty fun chart with damn hard (im bad at scratches) scratch parts through the beginning.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 24, 2009, 01:35:32 PM
I found out that I can still AA MAX 300 and SDG stuff.  w00t.

Also played some DDR-X with Mr. OmegaOmni last week.  The pads are absolute shit.  I mean, holy shit is that thing poorly designed.  If I were Konami I'd be suing the fuck out of the jokers who designed that.

Oh, I also passed Panic Attack on Rock Band 2 expert guitar.  Funny, the time I played before that (a couple of months ago at least) I wasn't able to pass it worth a damn (always failed on the solo), but that time I freaking nailed it.

Well, thanks to Guitar Hero: Smash Hits having different charts for everything

Are the charts as awful as some of the ones in GH3 or did Neversoft actually learn a thing or two about rhythm games?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 24, 2009, 01:50:43 PM
If the song was in GH3, the charts are even worse. If the song was in GH2 or 80s, the charts are mostly the same. If the song was in GH1, the charts are now really boring.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 24, 2009, 02:10:04 PM
If the song was in GH1, the charts are now really boring.

Sadly, I found most of the original GH1 charts to be boring as hell anyway. There were a couple that were fun though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 24, 2009, 09:17:29 PM
If the song was in GH3, the charts are even worse.

I have GameFly now so I guess I could always rent it if I get morbidly curious, but...dang.  I think I'll be sticking with Rock Band.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on July 26, 2009, 09:49:14 PM
This was too perfect. I played PSMO, Max 300, and Maxx Unlimited in one round. This was the combined result:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/Photo07261732small.jpg)

Also, I tried GH Arcade. Awful. Just awful. It doesn't go well with most other music games because the songs aren't very close to each other in length. The machine I played on was offsync by like .1 second, and the strum bar was finicky even though the machine was brand new. There's no whammy bar, either, and the guitar controllers weighed as much as a real guitar. Also, $1.00, one song. Or $2.00, one long song (like KoC).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 26, 2009, 10:19:11 PM
Haha, fucking awesome score.

Jesus, that sucks ass about the GH arcade.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 26, 2009, 11:54:51 PM
TThere's no whammy bar, either, and the guitar controllers weighed as much as a real guitar.

They weigh 14 pounds, which is the same weight as a Guitar Freaks Arcade controller (both real AC and CS version). Also, there's no whammy bar because it would be the first thing broken off by small children.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: annon on July 27, 2009, 01:37:39 AM
They weigh 14 pounds, which is the same weight as a Guitar Freaks Arcade controller (both real AC and CS version). Also, there's no whammy bar because it would be the first thing broken off by small children.

Ok, you have me there, but there's still plenty wrong with the game.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 27, 2009, 01:54:11 AM
The entire rest of the game is an unplayable hellspawn.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 27, 2009, 07:03:36 PM
Lol, nice way of putting it. Though I'm a little disappointed, I can't say I didn't see it coming.

I really wish that they would use a bit of common sense when they decide to come out with an arcade version of a console game.... It'd be smarter to just set up something like those setups you see in game stores and wallmarts where they set up a console and make it unstealable. Sure, the controllers get beaten up, and need to be replaced if it were to be used as an arcade machine, but in all honesty, it'd likely be cheaper to do that than to pay for a junky arcade machine with parts that don't work from the beginning.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 28, 2009, 05:33:04 PM
I made some IIDX videos (omg what a shocker)

Scripted connection long mix:


The Strong Jaeger (Ryu remix) [a]:


Mei [a]:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on July 30, 2009, 07:55:02 PM
207k Raining blood Expert (5* cutoff is 215k) fuckkkkkkk


oh and played DDR yesterday and got like 1 miss and 4 greats on un deux trois and 5 greats on Bad routine.


EDIT: Apprently cutoff on raining blood is 227k oops. I did raise it to 212k though :/.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on August 03, 2009, 01:06:10 AM
5*d Raining blood Expert so All GH3 Easy-Expert is 5*d now :D!

Also 5*d all GH2 Expert and beat Jordan Expert (finally!!!) with a 4* (20k from 5*).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on August 04, 2009, 06:12:48 PM


Also played some DDR-X with Mr. OmegaOmni last week.  The pads are absolute shit.  I mean, holy shit is that thing poorly designed.  If I were Konami I'd be suing the fuck out of the jokers who designed that.



lol FFA?

That machine is apparently gone now.  Also, for a considerably better (yet still pretty unacceptable) experience with DDRX, go to Harrisburg!  That machine was downright amazing in comparison.  Still lags like nobody's business, but I could at least AA some stuff when I attempted to compensate for said lag.  The machine at FFA tried to fail me several times.  xD

On the bright side, I got three new AAAs, one being my first doubles AAA.  Unfortunately, they're all on light, so it's really useless to give much of a hoot about it.  :3
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 04, 2009, 10:50:20 PM
lol FFA?

That machine is apparently gone now.

Hopefully they're getting a new one, one that isn't horribly infected with teh sux0r.

Even Wikipedia is all like "hell naw:"

Quote
Cabinet changes in North America

As was stated by Konami at ASI, significant changes were made to the DDR X cabinets released in the United States. In comparison to models that had been exhibited before release, the new cabinets featured different lighting and sound systems, the inclusion of USB ports rather than SD cards as had been previously announced, and a monitor experiencing large amounts of lag. Significant changes to the construction of the pads themselves were also made, including the pad being covered by one piece of metal rather than the traditional design of separate panels (with its connection to the main cabinet covered by a metallic platform), and lower quality sensors in the pads themselves, all inferring that the manufacturers cut corners in the construction of the cabinets.

Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)himself (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Jimmy_Wales_Fundraiser_Appeal.JPG)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)has been quoted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)as saying that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)[ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Box_brackets_or_square_brackets_.5B_.5D)Dance Dance Revolution X's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution_X)] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Box_brackets_or_square_brackets_.5B_.5D)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)arcade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)pad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_napkin)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)is totally fucking shitty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)went on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_In_My_Pants)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockblock)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)attest that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justa_Grata_Honoria), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)retarded (http://www.ddrfreak.com/)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)fuckwits (http://www.betson.com/)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)who designed (http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/dumbass.jpg)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)that shitty ass shit (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Dance_Dance_Revolution_X_gameplay_2.png)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)should be strung up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)by their balls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicles)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)and raped (http://onlymortal.com/palehoof/tauren.jpg)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)by baboons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baboon). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)[citation needed] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on August 04, 2009, 11:00:03 PM
Hopefully they're getting a new one, one that isn't horribly infected with teh sux0r.



Yeah, really now.  That "Brave Firefighters" game was beating it out in terms of profits.  DDRX was barely breaking $5/day.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 05, 2009, 09:25:57 PM
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)himself (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Jimmy_Wales_Fundraiser_Appeal.JPG)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)has been quoted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)as saying that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)[ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Box_brackets_or_square_brackets_.5B_.5D)Dance Dance Revolution X's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution_X)] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Box_brackets_or_square_brackets_.5B_.5D)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)arcade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)pad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitary_napkin)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)is totally fucking shitty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)went on (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_In_My_Pants)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockblock)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)attest that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justa_Grata_Honoria), (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)retarded (http://www.ddrfreak.com/)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)fuckwits (http://www.betson.com/)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)who designed (http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/dumbass.jpg)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)that shitty ass shit (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Dance_Dance_Revolution_X_gameplay_2.png)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)should be strung up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)by their balls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicles)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)and raped (http://onlymortal.com/palehoof/tauren.jpg)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)by baboons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baboon). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period)" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space)[citation needed] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)

Epic. That's all I'm going to say.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 05, 2009, 10:21:35 PM
Epic. That's all I'm going to say.

The word "epic" doesn't even begin to describe the amount of BBcode markup that went into that post.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on November 08, 2009, 04:19:50 PM
Am I getting better at this game or something?
I beat this!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/NewF/RecollectionWin.jpg)

Go me? Or is this song easy?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 08, 2009, 04:23:52 PM
Yes, it is an easy 33(?). Whatever the difficulty is, it should be about 8-10 less, lol. I've seen 20's that are harder. Like I said, once you get past about 20, the difficulty ratings are absolute bullshit.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Jupi on November 18, 2009, 09:37:25 AM
AAA'd Freckles.  lol.

Also, I'm transporting my Cobalt Flux, my stereo, my PS2 copies of DDR/ITG, and quite possibly my computer to campus on Friday for our club meeting.

That'll be an accomplishment.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 20, 2010, 01:39:45 AM
I guess you could consider this an anti-accomplishment post.

I played StepMania for the first time since forever.  Holy god I suck.  I mean I really suck.  I couldn't even make it through Skor's Emerald Sword before my fingers cramped up. <.<  I used to be able to easily AAA that shit!

IIDX was easier to get back into.  I literally picked up the controller, not having played for about half a year, and was right back to passing 10s.  StepMania is more hardcore, apparently.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on January 20, 2010, 03:18:44 AM
my hands tend to die when playing stepmania.  i used to be able to A fury of the storm, now i can't even finish it. 

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 20, 2010, 06:54:25 AM
I played StepMania for the first time since forever.  Holy god I suck.  I mean I really suck.  I couldn't even make it through Skor's Emerald Sword before my fingers cramped up. <.<  I used to be able to easily AAA that shit!

I hate you... I could never get a AAA on that. I'm REALLY lucky if I can ever FC it now. (even though I can now play bullshit triples and such that I could never play before).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on January 26, 2010, 03:45:47 AM
I quit IIDX for ITG...again

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00002-2.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00001-1.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00000.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00004.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/destinyfec.jpg)

I have a bunch more and some of that stuff is outdated (Sweet world) but I don't have pics for it. I've been posting ITG stuff at AIJ a lot lately.


And uhh I think this was the last good score I got a pic of in IIDX:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/HPIM1056.jpg)

Got a Holic [a] AAA sometime after and stopped for the time being. Tried to go back about a week ago and was struggling to AAA 9s so it was too frustrating. I'll probably start it back up when my live subscription expires again...in 5 months.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on February 03, 2010, 02:32:18 AM
Had a good day of officials today.

Stuff without pics:
-Flagged Mellow Hard
-96 VerTex
-95 Summer Speedy Mix
-99.6 Hand of time
-99.35 The message

Stuff with pics:
This pic is old but I still think its my best? Had a Blue combo till 60%:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00001-2.jpg)
Need to quad this...:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00002-3.jpg)
First try today 2nd Official Expert Quad/5th Overall. Hold drop was pad otherwise I wouldn't count this (I probably wouldn't count it if it was a pad decent/wayoff/miss either so this is an exception I guess). I'll get a legit quad whenever I decide to play this crap again:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00003-1.jpg)
Need to Quad this as well. Chart is so fun. Also got a video of a 2 ex FEC:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00004-1.jpg)

Then videos:
Meh:

I'd get better at this if I could stand playing it :/:

Psalm Pilot 2 ex FEC:

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Sqthreer! on March 22, 2010, 03:12:18 PM
Got 93% on that Wolfmother song on Guitar Hero 5 :D (drums/expert)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 23, 2010, 09:19:59 AM
I managed to 100% a song on DJ hero :P On Medium, lol. Mind you, I was drunk at the time.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on March 23, 2010, 03:48:47 PM
Speaking of DJ Hero, I totally forgot. Did this af ewmonths back, but 5 starred every song on DJ hero on Expert. Now i'm waiting for a second one to come out, lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 09, 2010, 05:09:25 AM
Speaking of DJ Hero, I totally forgot. Did this af ewmonths back, but 5 starred every song on DJ hero on Expert. Now i'm waiting for a second one to come out, lol.

ughhhhh good job I still have 10 songs left to 5* (8 arr 4*s and 2 are 3*s...im pretty sure you can guess which 2 those are heh)

Also I still can't get one 5* in the DJ Shadow Presents setlist.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 09, 2010, 08:16:58 AM
Speaking of DJ Hero, I totally forgot. Did this af ewmonths back, but 5 starred every song on DJ hero on Expert. Now i'm waiting for a second one to come out, lol.

Man, nice. I'm still struggling to get good enough to more than 1* groundhog and elements of life on hard. It feels like there's a lot of lag on fast button presses, which really makes it harder for me. By all rights I should be able to do better, since I have gotten as good as I have at o2jam/stepmania.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on June 09, 2010, 03:17:15 PM
Yeah, and you know why? Because of the stupid fucking wireless. Wireless is awful for music/rythm games....When theres fast button pressing, it doesn't register, and it's annoying as fuck. They need to keep wired controllers as an option. Not to mention these tv's now-a-days with the delay and shit. Thats why i still play it on an older tuber tv, fine with me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 09, 2010, 04:35:05 PM
Well, the scratching seems to have less lag for me than the buttons, but finally, someone agrees with me. I've been blaming wireless since the first wireless guitars came out, and nobody believed me, despite the fact that I understand that there HAS to be some small lag inherent with using wireless, which could easily be made much larger by cheap/shitty wireless stuff, or poor coding.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on June 09, 2010, 08:27:20 PM
Man, nice. I'm still struggling to get good enough to more than 1* groundhog and elements of life on hard. It feels like there's a lot of lag on fast button presses, which really makes it harder for me. By all rights I should be able to do better, since I have gotten as good as I have at o2jam/stepmania.


whattt how can you struggle with elements of life you shouldn't have any problems with it D:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 09, 2010, 09:35:25 PM
Well, the hardest part is the damn 12321232123 shit later on. It's just too fast for me to accurately hit the notes, thanks to the terrible wireless lag, and the fact that those buttons are harder to press than I'd like.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 09, 2010, 12:55:16 AM
So, I've been playing me some eye eye dee eks recently, thanks to getting my ps2 back in working order. (thank god the PS3's componant cable is backwards compatible). Apparently I'm a 4th dan in Gold. I've gotten to the point where I can pass a couple 9's with Bs and Cs, and I can A a lot of the easier stuff (I think around 6 is where I start having trouble Aing songs). I can pass Quasar Hyper, among others (damn fun song).

But there are some things I'm really having trouble with. For example, I fail miserably at anything with a scratch and the first 2 black notes. And I usually fail pretty hard at anything with a scratch and the second white, if there's crap that my right hand has to do, preventing me from hitting the white note with my right hand :/

I really need to learn to use my thumbs, and my right pinky (I'm playing in the 1p position, so my left pinky does the scratching.)

I'm decent at scratching, thanks to DJ hero, lol. I still can't pass anything with bullshit scratches though.

Late EDIT: It's Distorted, not Gold. But I have Gold too.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 11, 2010, 12:57:01 PM
I still can't pass anything with bullshit scratches though.

I'm Checkin' You Out.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 20, 2010, 12:58:20 PM
First time playing this song in years. WTF, how did I get that good at long-ass songs? I can't AAA shit, and then I get that. That is some seriously badass score, for me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 23, 2010, 12:43:54 AM
Meh, people have been talking about StepMania, so I felt compelled to play it tonight.  The last time I played was some time in mid-2009, so it's definitely been a while.  Let's do something easy like...Shind Bad.

(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9656/screen00001c.jpg)

OW FUCK MY WRISTS MY ARMS OH GOD FUCK IT HUUUUUUURTS.

Still, better than I thought I'd do (most of the nasties were at the end run when ow pain started).  It's no 20-30 perfect AAA like I used to be able to get on it, but hey, it's something.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 23, 2010, 01:01:40 AM
At least you could get a AAA on it. I can't :/

Also, your image appears to be broken. Or more precisely, http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9656/screen00001c.jpg is not loading for me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 23, 2010, 09:21:03 AM
Nah, it's fine.  ImageShack was probably taking a dump when you went to look at it.

Anyway, in case you can't see it, here's what I got:

Modifier: C650
Grade: AA

Marvelous: 1245
Perfect: 95
Great: 8
Good: 2
Barely: 0
Miss: 2
OK: 9

Score: 197142252

One thing that I did realize is that leaving StepMania in full screen on a 26" LCD screen is a bad idea.  Between the sheer size of the arrows and the slight blur that you get, you get kind of a strange double-vision effect.  I improved my scores drastically by just throwing SM into a 1440x900 window.  Meh.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 23, 2010, 12:01:53 PM
Lo, I run it at 800x600640x480 windowed. It's small, runs relatively fast, and everything is just the right size. If I was farther from the screen, I would me it bigger, but this close, I prefer it smaller.

Also, first AAA in a long time :P

And then I continued to fuck up every other song horribly.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Eggman on July 25, 2010, 04:16:04 AM
Good choice of song haha.

I haven't played Stepmania in years now. I don't even have any of my files, backed up or otherwise. It's all just gone. I'd probably do really poorly now though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 25, 2010, 03:28:57 PM
HAY EGGMAN I CAN SEND YOU QUASAR

...sorry, just had a little episode.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on October 11, 2010, 08:02:29 AM
Sooooo...there's an arcade in Vegas with 3 ITG machines and IIDX. I play a lot, obviously.

image dump >_>

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/08182010015.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00022-2.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00025.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00012-1.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00013-2.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00016.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/screen00022-1.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/10032010046.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/09102010036.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/10032010048.jpg)
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/10032010047.jpg)



feh
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: NewF on October 20, 2010, 04:29:26 PM
*Sigh* Why are music games gradually getting more and more disappointing with each new release? DJ Hero 2 - all songs 5 star'd on Expert...And yes, it was just released yesterday. Suppose I should wait for DJ Hero 3 now.....
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 06, 2010, 01:22:47 AM
I'm currently ranked 101 on Whip It Expert, Pro Keys on Rock Band 3 for the Xbox 360.  That will probably change very, very quickly and the song was very, very easy, but still, not bad for an hour or two in.  It's definitely the highest I've ever scored on any leaderboard on the 360.

Edit: 363 on the Panic Attack Expert Guitar leaderboard.  Somehow.  I'm guessing that there's only 363 entries on that leaderboard.

Edit 2: Ranked 45 on Before I Forget Expert, Pro Keys.  Now that's my bestest evar.  It's a very, very easy song, easier than Whip It, but it's still fun to see double digits like that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 06, 2010, 05:56:17 PM
(http://imgur.com/4vzMF.jpg)

Um...YAY?!

The Power of Love, Pussy Keys, Expert.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 07, 2010, 05:28:32 AM
Ranked #9? Wow, nice stuff.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Milk Chan on November 08, 2010, 06:32:02 AM
I want to play RB keys badly. Roundabout looks really fun.

4th 12*
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y270/milkchan816/11082010081.jpg)

also AAA -6 Colors [a]
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 26, 2010, 04:08:19 PM
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/rockband/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1st-a-t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/rockband/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1st-a.jpg)

(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/rockband/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1st-b-t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/rockband/we-didnt-start-the-fire-1st-b.jpg)

Boo yeah.  Probably short-lived, but I don't care. :p
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zephlar on February 17, 2011, 08:51:17 AM
5 Gold Stars - Avenged Sevenfold - Almost Easy - Expert Guitar

http://www.youtube.com/user/Z3phlar?feature=mhum
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zephlar on February 17, 2011, 08:52:37 AM
Btw Spectere, way the fuck to go getting the number one spot there. Seriously that's super badass.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 20, 2011, 12:13:50 AM
Daw, thanks Zephlar. <3  Nice run on Almost Easy.  I need to start working on my Rock Band guitar skills.  I was starting to get kind of good for a while, then I just sort of stopped playing. :x

Also, I can apparently still pass Energizer CZ.  Granted, after passing it I promptly collapsed onto a conveniently-placed sofa, but hey, a pass is a pass.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: flaffl on February 21, 2011, 05:49:47 AM
hey spectere just wanted to say you're a douchebag for posting your number 1 rank. you think you're so cool don't you.

-goes and sits in corner and cries-
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 21, 2011, 10:21:25 PM
hey spectere just wanted to say you're a douchebag for posting your number 1 rank. you think you're so cool don't you.

-goes and sits in corner and cries-

u sad bro?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 28, 2011, 11:39:24 PM
Played some beatmania today while installing gentoo on my laptop.... Passed Quasar Hyper and Moon Hyper (beat my old best, somehow).

I can pass those, and fail most of the 8s, lol. lame.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 20, 2011, 03:20:39 AM
I passed Panic Attack expert on RB3 without using solo buttons.  I scored 186k and 4-starred it (two personal bests), despite my wrist feeling like it was on fire half-way through the solo.

I've found that I play significantly better on my Guitar Hero 2 controller.  The buttons are typically more responsive and the strum blows the RB guitar's strum away.  I think I'll start using that from now on, despite it being a bit more cramped compared to the longer RB guitar.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 20, 2011, 01:25:38 PM
I've never liked the rock band controller :/ I prefer the oldschool wired GH2 controller over every other one out there. It's far more responsive and overall just feels the best...

I've been playing some Osu! lately....

(http://i.imgur.com/NtL4n.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/7qVrN.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/e6XZA.png)

Those are just the latest decent scores. I've got a couple scores ranked about 350 overall on a few songs.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 20, 2011, 06:06:27 AM
Bump for epic awesome score:

(http://osu.ppy.sh/ss/133648)
(http://osu.ppy.sh/ss/133660)

I got my achievement for a 750+ combo on that, and that's the highest score I've ever gotten as well... And I still remember clearly when I died almost instantly on that song, too...

I might fraps the replay of that and post it sometime if I ever get unlazy :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 03, 2011, 10:54:38 PM
Imgur album of my recent SM screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/O04rv

Imgur album of my recent Osu! screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/JIvrD

There are a lot more osu scores I like that I don't have screenshots of. Unlike SM it actually saves a record of your scores, and replays, so I don't have to screenshot every awesome score I get right away.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 20, 2011, 08:15:00 AM
Quadruple post because you guys all suck. I finally recorded 2 videos of me playing osu. Excuse the shit quality, It took me forever to find something that would actually encode the videos, since my fullscreen resolution is 1366x768. The second video was actually the firt to be recorded. I originally tried recording at 30 FPS with the game framerate set to 60, but that kinda caused some framedrops since fraps was trying to record at a lower framerate than the game wanted to run at. I had already tried recording 30 FPS from setting the game to run at "120" fps (which actually leads to it running between 130 and 140 fps), but that was really bad because so many frames would be dropped. So I got smart and recorded the next one at 60 FPS (at the cost of the original fraps recording being 6+ GB lol.)

When I finally found a program that would encode the damned files I didn't spend much time actually tweaking the compression to get the most quality for the size, I was just happy to get something working. Next batch of videos will be better quality.

Renard - Why Am I So Angry


Nanamori-chu * Goraku-bu - My Pace de Ikimashou


Both of these are too hard for me to pass, so these are recordings of my best run on the songs in nofail.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 10, 2012, 07:50:21 PM
I am disappointed. I leave for months and come back and my post is still the last one here T.T

https://www.youtube.com/user/Bobbias/videos?flow=grid&view=0 I have 7 videos up now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 03, 2013, 12:54:29 PM
Videos of me playing osu!mania. Also is this a new record for most consecutive posts in a thread?





Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zakamiro on November 16, 2013, 12:00:03 AM
You're still pretty damn good at Osu.


lso c-c-c-combo breaker or something.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on September 02, 2014, 12:42:14 AM
Posted another osu!mania vid recently:
it's 4k, unlike my 7k stuff. My 7k skill has been stagnating lately, but my 4k has gotten better.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 19, 2015, 11:56:04 AM
Let's start another combo I guess
You're still pretty damn good at Osu.

Not at the standard mode lol. Haven't played the standard mode seriously in like 2 years now or something.
Also, someone converted a crapload of BMS charts to 7k (effectively autoscratch, since he removed the scratch lane). This chart is an overjoy, and I somehow passed it. Osu!mania's life drain and timing are so much more lax than lr2 lel
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 30, 2015, 10:00:50 AM
Continuing the combo I guess...

So, I decided to go back to Sm for a bit. Still playing much worse than I would in o!m, but I can do this now:
(http://puu.sh/iIe67/33670ab712.jpg)

EDIT:

Finally got an AAA:

(https://puu.sh/iLFFp/7c06f6b67b.jpg)


EDIT2:

Scores like this happen way too often:

(http://puu.sh/iPGlR/6ce1b5a540.jpg)
(http://puu.sh/iPGF6/9ae6694346.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 16, 2015, 11:47:09 PM
AAA'd Lion Suki out of the blue earlier (played it once and got a 1065 Ex score, which is a AA, then played it again and pushed that up by 40 points to 1105, which is a pretty decent AAA). Not entirely sure where that came from, but I'll take it!

Managed to hard clear my first 10 (Beyond the Earth [7K]). It's fairly easy as far as 10s go, but it still counts, dammit! I managed to bruise my left middle finger during the ending. Still hurts if I rub or bend it the wrong way. Totally worth it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 17, 2015, 03:29:47 AM
So you are still playing rhythm games! That bruised finger must suck lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 17, 2015, 01:15:06 PM
Hell yeah I am! I still play StepMania every now and then (generally pad; keyboard play got kinda stale for me), a little bit of O2Jam here and there, and I got back into IIDX big time recently.

I haven't really posted anything here because, up until recently, I've just been getting up to my former stamina/skill level. After obliterating some of my high scores from several years ago, however, I think it's a good time to brag a little. ;)

On a related note, here's my Solid State Squad profile: http://iidx.solidstatesquad.com/viewuser.php?user=660 (http://iidx.solidstatesquad.com/viewuser.php?user=660)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 17, 2015, 07:12:58 PM
I tried going back to o2jam, but I can't read shit there now, and I just don't have the patience to play easy stuff for ages until I learn to read that game properly again. I've had tons of people tell me to get lr2, but I'd play everything with autoscratch... and I don't have the patience to learn lr2 and how to use the related sites like stairway/etc.

Made the switch back to SM mostly because I knew I could pick it up quickly and I felt like a change from the osu!mania I'd been playing. There are some issues in osu!mania right now. Namely the fact that 7k maps are rare as shit now. So I figured I'd rather play SM if I'm going to be stuck playing 4k.

On the other hand, I don't plan on leaving o!m completely, because I've actually started trying to make my own maps there, and I don't plan on learning how to use stepmania or ddream to make charts for SM.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 18, 2015, 02:12:11 AM
I was fortunate enough to go back into O2Jam at almost the same level as I came out at (I can't really say what that level is, because the difficulty ratings are so all over the place in that game). Getting it to work in the first place was a hell of a feat! DirectDraw and Aero have never really gotten along all that well, and considering Aero is basically forced on Windows 8...well...

Fortunately, the Wine DDraw library (which is basically a wrapper that converts it to OpenGL calls) works phenomenally.

I haven't played around with a IIDX sim in a while. I had a IIDX sim a while ago (might have been LR2...I don't remember) that I pretty much used exclusively to play keysounded originals like K8107/P8107, among others. I'm going to have to get into that again.

On another note! DAO!

Here's a picture: 622183383544631296[/tweet]] (http://[tweet)[/url]

And a crappy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEsRt9r2x1w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEsRt9r2x1w) (RISLIM -Remix- [7K] one handed clear, with autoscratch. On a side note, it's amazing how nice cell phone camera videos look nowadays!)

After I got used to the controller I was able to almost finish clearing every 7K chart in 6th style. I cleared everything except for this fucking motherfucker from hell: 622238647710957569[/tweet]] (http://[tweet)[/url]

I've noticed a pretty major difference in scores even before I adapted to the differences between the CS and AC turntable spacing. On charts that I've played as recently as last night I've been getting Ex scores upwards of 60 points higher than before. There's also much less finger strain since the Sanwas don't bottom out nearly as hard as the US KOC button boards do (I was using a hybrid controller: JP KOC base [which has a much better turntable] with the US KOC keypad [which I never liked, but my JP keypad broke a while ago, and I certainly can't argue with the reliability of the newer design]).

That being said, I've been playing so damn long today (pretty much straight from 7PM to 12AM) that I was able to watch my scores take a dive as I grew more and more tired, haha. Case in point: normally I can comfortably AA Hellscaper -Last Escape Remix- [7H], but by the end of the night I was only able to score a B on it. I figured that was a good time to quit. :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 19, 2015, 01:56:43 PM
Rofl AA to B, yeah that's probably a good time to stop.

Man that controller looks nice. I still have my old US KOC, but I haven't actually played any IIDX in ages. People keep telling me I should play lr2, but I don't really feel like taking all the time to get that set up, and then figure out how the hell to adapt to 7k+1. I mean, I could just autoscratch, but then my scores would be all pointless anyway since autoscratch.

I just can't see a good enough reason to, especially since technically I could convert any BMS chart into osu!mania anyway.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 19, 2015, 07:43:32 PM
On the accomplishments front: I managed to pass The Earth Light [7K], Starmine [7K], and MAX 300 [L7] one-handed today. I have no idea why Konami bumped MAX 300 up to an 8, but hey, I'll take it.

Rofl AA to B, yeah that's probably a good time to stop.

That was after something like 6 hours of play (!!!) so yeah, definitely!

Man that controller looks nice. I still have my old US KOC, but I haven't actually played any IIDX in ages. People keep telling me I should play lr2, but I don't really feel like taking all the time to get that set up, and then figure out how the hell to adapt to 7k+1. I mean, I could just autoscratch, but then my scores would be all pointless anyway since autoscratch.

I just can't see a good enough reason to, especially since technically I could convert any BMS chart into osu!mania anyway.

I've been thinking about getting back into sims since the DAO supports USB natively.

How much effort does it take to convert BMS to osu!mania, and how strict is the timing on osu!mania? I could certainly understand and tolerate it if it's a bit looser, but I don't want it to be goatse wide or anything like that (and I'd rather not go through the hassle of finding and setting up LR2 if possible).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 19, 2015, 11:23:14 PM
Osu allows the mapper (charter) to control the timing windows and HP drain (has arbitrary settings ranging from 0 to 10 in 0.1 increments).

Here's a chart (all values are +-X ms):
(https://i.ppy.sh/9c0676cef596dc433f13cea9aa09db3d223bd733/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f7971614c3747792e706e67)

One main difference between osu and other VSRGs is that you only break combo on misses. Even 50's will continue our combo. Of course, combo only counts for a small part of your overall score, but it CAN make a difference and cause a worse score to actually have higher points.

As for converting, there's a built in bms import option, but i have no idea how well it actually works. Alternately, Agka has been writing his own VSRG called Raindrop (https://github.com/zardoru/raindrop) which has the ability to convert between formats including BMS and osu. It can also convert from ojn/ojm, but not to, because fuck those godawful formats (and there's a BMS to ojn/ojm converter, so no need to duplicate that).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 20, 2015, 08:51:06 AM
The combo break system is kind of a dealbreaker for me, unfortunately, which is a shame because the "normal" window is acceptably close to where it needs to be, at least as far as 300g and 300 are concerned (Just Greats and Greats are 2 frames and 5 frames, NTSC, compared to 2 frames and 8 frames on o!m). With the o!m combo system I'm pretty sure I'd be able to pass a lot of IIDX 11s and maybe even some 12s (since it doesn't seem like you're punished for mashing). Considering I'm only able to do 9s and 10s in the actual game, that's a bit of a jump. Looks like I'll probably just be setting up LR2.

Raindrop looks pretty neat. Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 20, 2015, 01:34:40 PM
In osu!mania I've passed I think 3 7k IIDX overjoy converts (with HP drain set to 7, which is about the lowest acceptable HP setting for o!m charts.)

Honestly, I'm not bothered much by that issue much. Sure, I can pass them, but when you pass something with like 200-300 misses and low accuracy you know you've got a long way to improve. I tend to just focus on improving the numbers on anything I play.

Also, I think this takes the cake for one of the most lolwhat things I've seen in a while. 12 stars in osu (mind you, osu's star rating system totally underrates holds, and has some issues), and peaks at 66 nps:


EDIT:
wat

EDIT2: Recorded a liveplay video. Meh score, but whatever:

EDIT3:
Warmen - Beyond Abilities, this time recorded in 60fps (but not 60fps on yt because resolution too low for HD).

Ugh, I should be able to AA that without trouble :<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 21, 2015, 12:38:49 AM
I think my deal is that I've played IIDX so much that a huge change like that would throw me off. Obviously no simulator is going to "count" as far as scores are concerned (at the very least it'll only be comparable to the same simulator running the same settings), but I'd rather it be as close as possible to the real thing.

I'm not knocking o!m for this. I understand that it was designed to more or less be its own thing. :)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 21, 2015, 05:37:43 AM
Yeah, I get what you mean.

Honestly, I stuck around o!m because I was a member of the community there and not just a lurker. I've only switched back to sm because o!m wasn't really as fun any more. 7k charts are becoming rarer, and that's where the fun is for me. So I figured if I was going to play 4k instead I might as well switch back to SM and try to push my skills in there since I wasn't getting anywhere playing o!m 4k. Plus, I'm stuck playing with FL mod in o!m and trying to learn to play nomod would be as bad as learning a new game anyway.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 21, 2015, 11:30:42 AM
Accomplishments: I'm getting to the point where I can consistently pass most 5s in IIDX, left handed. At this rate I'm going to be decent at doubles (and somewhat more ambidextrous!) before I know it.

I also signed up for yet another SSS account, because two just wasn't enough (IAN. is my two-handed account, IAN.L is my one-handed left hand account, IAN.R is my one-handed right hand account).

Honestly, I stuck around o!m because I was a member of the community there and not just a lurker. I've only switched back to sm because o!m wasn't really as fun any more. 7k charts are becoming rarer, and that's where the fun is for me. So I figured if I was going to play 4k instead I might as well switch back to SM and try to push my skills in there since I wasn't getting anywhere playing o!m 4k. Plus, I'm stuck playing with FL mod in o!m and trying to learn to play nomod would be as bad as learning a new game anyway.

Is the StepMania keyboard community still active nowadays? I know there are still people developing pad charts here and there, but I've been out of the loop in the keyboard scene for so long that I wouldn't even know where to begin again.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 21, 2015, 12:31:17 PM
FFR's still around. Arch0wl still posts there. Kraezymann does too, and he's even recently begun streaming some SM. Staiain is still the fastest SM player alive. It's definitely not as active as it used to be though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 21, 2015, 03:27:22 PM
Oh shit, I completely forgot about FFR. Damn.

It's kind of hard to believe how much time has passed. I joined a0.com back in 2003. I was 18. Now I'm 30. Fuck.

Speaking of Arch0wl, here's a fun fact: I am now in possession of one of his old IIDX controllers.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 21, 2015, 05:26:56 PM
haha nice. Yeah, I can't believe it's been so long.

Also, third video uploaded:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 24, 2015, 12:16:41 AM
I passed A [7K] again for the first time in a while. Man, that felt good.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 25, 2015, 04:40:54 AM
I passed Abyss -The Heavens Remix- [7K] for the first time earlier. I'm starting to pass new shit! Weird!

I don't know if it was just a thing with my last play session, but my reading speed suddenly increased. Normally I read, say, 155bpm at HS4.5. All of a sudden that felt dead slow and I had to push it to HS5.0. It felt weird as hell.

Additionally, my focus has improved drastically over the last few play sessions, to the point where I stay focused on a particular part of the screen (the specific part of the screen depends on the scroll speed; my view drifts toward the bottom on slower songs and toward the top for faster ones). It's kind of a cool feeling.

Finally, my ambidex training has been proceeding nicely, with my left hand quickly becoming more capable (now that's something I don't type out everyday).  While it's certainly got a ways to go before it comes anywhere near my dominant hand in terms of dexterity, I've grown a lot more comfortable with crossing past the center of the controller with my left hand--something I've only done very rarely. Xenon [7K] is a great practice chart for that, and I think I can greatly improve my pitiful score on that chart if I continue to practice.

Maybe taking a few years' break was a good thing. It didn't take me very long to get back to my old skill level and stamina, and I've already shattered several of my previous records without breaking a sweat. I'm getting more and more confident that I'll eventually be able to clear an 11 if I keep working on it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 26, 2015, 03:57:15 PM
That's awesome. In my case I'm still shittier at SM than I was at o!m. I'm gonna guess if I do actually reach my o!m skill level in SM it's gonna take a few months or so :<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 26, 2015, 04:59:38 PM
Heh, last time I tried SM I ran into a similar issue. I was still able to pass a lot of the same stuff, but if you looked at my current scores you'd scoff at my claims of being able to get extremely high AAAs on things like Shind Bad and One More Lovely.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 26, 2015, 10:44:49 PM
I think for me it's that I've spent the last ~2 years playing osu!mania with an o2jam style skin where the notes are small bars. While it didn't take long to feel comfortable reading arrows, I've noticed that denser stuff just overwhelms me really easily. I'm not exactly sure why I seem to have more trouble with speed though.

I swear I should be able to AA this, but for whatever reason (possibly just the reading issue) this is the best I manage: (http://puu.sh/jeeD9/1d412eff35.jpg)

It's only 130 bpm 24th bursts, it's not all that fast, and the patterns are easy too. EDIT: 32nds, not 24ths. Still, 260 bpm 16ths isn't THAT fast for short bursts for me. I actually passed unorthodox red in o!m and that's 220 bpm 16th jumpstreams for almost 4 minutes (it does have a slowdown, but still). It was a bad pass, but i can always burst much faster than I can hold streams on stamina stuff.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on July 27, 2015, 08:36:56 AM
Have you ever considered making a noteskin for SM that replicates that general look? It might make things feel a bit more familiar and easy to read. Arrows are kinda crap when it comes to keyboard play, as you implied.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on July 27, 2015, 09:40:39 PM
Part of why I switched to SM was to make a big change. I tried using a bar noteskin that came with SM, but it just felt wrong. I figure if staiain can be that good at SM, I can at least get back to how I was. Plus, I'm way too lazy to try to mangle SM into looking like o2jam.

I'm not sure how long I plan on actually playing SM. There's always a chance I'll end up going back to o!m sometime soon before I even reach my peak skill in SM again.

EDIT: So I played some o!m earlier. I actually seem to have had some level of improvement in o!m on some songs. But my stamina is really bad now. I've got some sort of RSI type shit going on with my right wrist that causes it to lock up on me sometimes.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 08, 2015, 02:40:50 AM
Got a decent one-handed AAA on--what else?--Zenius -I- Vanisher [L7]. I also passed it on [L14]. Fun doubles chart!

Speaking of doubles, I passed Vanessa [L14], which is supposedly a 7. Like 5.1.1. [14H] I have absolutely no idea why it's a 7 because I can't pass most 14-key 6's, but hey, I'll take it. On another doubles-related note, playing on an ASC with your left hand and a KOC with your right feels and sounds really weird.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 13, 2015, 11:36:11 PM
I just "figured out" Mei [7H], specifically the crazy piano streams before the slowdown. My score instantly went up to a B as a result and my lifebar stayed mostly in the red during almost the entire song. Woo!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 18, 2015, 07:04:13 AM
Congrats. I recently managed this insane score:
(http://smrankings.net/uploads/screenshots/Bobbias/2015-08-16_231432.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 18, 2015, 11:48:34 AM
Very nice!

I managed to clear ƒƒƒƒƒ [7H] last night. It's a really, really fun 10! I managed to get 2 Ex points shy of a B, but my aching wrists wouldn't let me quite get over that hump. I started off with a very low C on my first clear and worked up to a very high C in one night, so that wasn't too bad.

I need to work on my ambidexterity training again. The only problem with it is that it sort of forces me to go back to using a KOC because I don't want to go through the trouble of swapping the keys on my Dao. That being said, I am at the point where I can do more 6's and 7's in doubles, so maybe it's time to get another FP7. Hmm.

Edit: I really need to fix the database collation or something. This post almost got wrecked because I actually used the forte symbol in the song title. :\

Edit2: Finally fixed the glitch. All I had to do was install the UTF-8 language pack. Go me for making a mountain out of a molehill!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 18, 2015, 05:15:30 PM
Doubles just breaks my head when I see it. I get insane tunnel vision when I play rhythm games and I have no idea how I would ever read that if I tried.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 18, 2015, 10:18:24 PM
The way I play IIDX lately involves me focusing intently on the chart. It's kind of surprising that I don't droll when I play, honestly. :P I'm really not sure how I manage to focus on the entire chart. I'm not up to anything insanely complex (though I can do 5.1.1. [14H], which is fairly impressive for my skill level I suppose), but I'm slipping into it far faster than I expected to.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 19, 2015, 09:08:35 PM
I just full comboed era (nostalmix) [7H]. I believe that's the first time I FC'd an 8.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 20, 2015, 07:30:00 PM
Oh nice, I remember that one driving me mad. It's damn fun though.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 09, 2015, 10:38:49 PM
I played the fuck out of StepMania earlier. Turns out, I can still pass Energizer hard with no bar on a Cobalt Flux...with an A, no less. Sure, I was sweating profusely afterwards (it doesn't help that it was kinda hot in my basement), but hot damn.

I think I played for about 90 minutes today. Turns out, my stamina isn't too shabby right now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 20, 2015, 08:45:11 AM
First time passing this. It's I think the 4th file in Dump Parade I've even passed lol.
(https://puu.sh/kQzZB/c499255b4a.jpg)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 20, 2015, 10:08:54 PM
Nice one!

I managed to play on a real DDR machine and got a few pretty surprising scores:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodDxlWwAQEFNX.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodouMWoAA-CjH.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodwPdXAAAF08D.jpg)

Freeway Shuffle Challenge was a sightread, so I'm really, really surprised to have SDG'd it, especially seeing as it's a 12 (it would have likely been a hard 8 or easy 9 on the old scale).

La Señorita Virtual was surprising. I never really played that all that much (I basically just played it once on Extreme just to say that I AA'd it and called it at that), so getting 7 on that out of freaking nowhere was pretty exciting. I did manage to nearly FEC it on pad (with one miss...grr) on StepMania with ITG timing fairly recently, but DDR's marvelous and perfect timing are still quite strict (marvelous timing is equal to IIDX's Just Great timing, and Perfects are in many cases stricter than IIDX's Great timing). This one was also a 12 (8 in the old scale).

The MAX 300 one definitely made my day. My previous best on 300 was 24 greats. I really wish I could have pushed it into the teens, but considering how long it's been since I played religiously, I'm very happy with 21. Also, in the new DDR grading system, I was fairly close to a AAA on it (you no longer need to full perfect combo the song to AAA it--you just need to get 990,000 points. So yes, I was extremely close to a AAA on La Señorita Virtual).

I also had a pretty good run on IIDX in the same day, but I didn't really get any noteworthy scores there. I am starting to "get" the IIDX AC timing, so yay for that. Also, that day did mark my first pass of
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 20, 2015, 10:09:50 PM
Nice one!

I managed to play on a real DDR machine while I was in Maryland recently and got a few decent scores:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodDxlWwAQEFNX.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodouMWoAA-CjH.jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRodwPdXAAAF08D.jpg)

Freeway Shuffle Challenge was a sightread, so I'm really, really surprised to have SDG'd it, especially seeing as it's a 12 (it would have likely been a hard 8 or easy 9 on the old scale).

La Señorita Virtual was surprising. I never really played that all that much (I basically just played it once on Extreme just to say that I AA'd it and called it at that), so getting 7 on that out of freaking nowhere was pretty exciting. I did manage to nearly FEC it on pad (with one miss...grr) on StepMania with ITG timing fairly recently, but DDR's marvelous and perfect timing are still quite strict (marvelous timing is equal to IIDX's Just Great timing, and Perfects are in many cases stricter than IIDX's Great timing). This one was also a 12 (8 in the old scale).

The MAX 300 one definitely made my day. My previous best on 300 was 24 greats. I really wish I could have pushed it into the teens, but considering how long it's been since I played religiously, I'm very happy with 21. Also, in the new DDR grading system, I was fairly close to a AAA on it (you no longer need to full perfect combo the song to AAA it--you just need to get 990,000 points. So yes, I was extremely close to a AAA on La Señorita Virtual).

I also had a pretty good run on IIDX in the same day, but I didn't really get any noteworthy scores there. I am starting to "get" the IIDX AC timing, so yay for that. Also, that day did mark my first pass of fffff [7H] and Colors [7H] on an arcade machine, though, so that's good. I also got very close to passing Sigmond [7H] on a sightread. I could probably clear that with a bit more practice.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 22, 2015, 10:48:49 PM
I had no idea DDR had a new grading system and all that shit.

also, VIDEOS:





sorry bout the sound and lack of 60fps in some of them. Still figuring out my recording setup.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 23, 2015, 06:23:21 PM
Yep. They simplified it quite a bit compared to how it was on Extreme. The timing, of course, is as rough as ever, so getting an SDG on a reasonably difficult chart on my first attempt felt bloody amazing.

Oh, they also changed the extra stage system. You see those little stars under the letter grade on the first two pictures? When you hit certain conditions you get up to three stars (I think it's 1 star for an A, 2 stars for a AA, an additional green star for a full combo, and an automatic 3 for a AAA, even if you break combo). To trigger an extra stage, you need to get a total of 9 stars in a set. Additionally, modifiers are no longer locked, so I was able to do MAX 300 on extra stage (see third picture) with 1.5x, note, normal scroll. They also changed it to an Oni-style battery system instead of the old non-refilling lifebar. It's pretty neat!

For the record, that machine is a DDR X3 vs 2ndMix. Not sure what the machine originally was, but the pads feel very responsive. It's definitely not a Betson DDR X cab (fuck those things), so thank goodness for that.

And nice vids! Maybe it's just the relatively weak speakers on my SP3 (it is a tablet, after all...) but it didn't seem like those charts made a whole lot of sense. I'll have to revisit those with my studio cans next time I'm in my office.

And yeah, YouTube can be a real pain in the ass when it comes to getting HD and 60fps to work. If you want I can post my Premiere Pro encoding settings (they're the ones that I used for those IIDX videos). Not sure what you're using for editing/encoding, but it might give you an idea of how to configure your encoder to spit out stuff that YouTube likes.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 23, 2015, 11:57:49 PM
audio quality was ass on those because SM's volume settings are lol broken (even 10% volume feels like 90%, not 10%) so it was clipping when OBS recorded it and I didn't realize until someone mentioned it. Also, Up All Night, Sakura and Niji no Kakera are all from Dump Parade, which is pure dumpcharts. I really enjoy dumps, quite a bit more than traditional files tbh.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 25, 2015, 12:52:48 AM
Goes to show you how much of a difference speakers and environment can make. I was using stereo tablet speakers in a noisy environment, so I barely noticed the audio quality issues. XD I probably would have died a little inside if I were using my studio cans or my hi-fi system.

And yeah, I'm not too crazy about the concept of dump charts, though I understand that they're almost mandatory to raise the difficulty bar for keyboard charts. Considering even IDM has calmed down significantly over the years (even Venetian Snares is taking a more minimal approach with the newer stuff of his that I've heard) there isn't really all that much ultra-spastic technical stuff to chart.

Part of my disdain for it is most likely because everything I've done after a0.com closed has been pad charts. :P Dumpy pad charts are just straight-up miserable to try and play.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 25, 2015, 04:16:52 PM
I actually enjoy dumpy charts far more than most other charts. I think part of it has to do with the fact that playability of patterns is extremely important in dumps. I mean, sure, there are some intentionally tough patterns, hard jacks, etc. but overall the structure and pattern choices are designed with playability in mind, rather than technical accuracy.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on October 27, 2015, 11:43:38 PM
I think a large part of my love of technical charts is what ultimately made IIDX my rhythm game of choice (I don't really play StepMania on keyboard all that much anymore). Before I really went crazy over IIDX I tended to gravitate toward highly technical stepcharts.

Sometimes I do like playing somewhat dumpier charts, but I still find it hard to suppress my OCD. I'm not quite as bad as some, but I'm "That Guy" at the hacked ITG2 machine that will notice when the installed custom charts are a few frames off.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 28, 2015, 11:51:52 AM
For me it comes down to what feels good and fun to play. And I find myself enjoying dumpy and other less technically accurate charts more, most of the time. It's not that I have anything against technical files, I actually kinda wished that o2jam charts were more technical, but the less technical stuff just feels more physically good for me to play in many cases.

The other thing about dumpy charts is that since you have less technical direction to follow from the music, it really opens the doors for creative patterning and such in a way that is quite rare in technically accurate charts.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 15, 2015, 04:07:03 AM
So I can still pass Delirium Expert on pad with, like, 85-86%. Holy shittin' wow.

I also just realized that thanks to my ability to pass Oi Punk 0, I can technically pass at least one 43 in Pop'n. I don't know why it got bumped up that high when Konami expanded the rating scale to 50, but I'll take it.  Just for comparison's sake, Beyond the Earth [H] is a 41 and I couldn't pass that (though I came relatively close).

I also passed my first 9 in Jubeat. Going from 9s to 10s is a pretty huge jump, but I think I can manage it with a little bit of effort. Not bad considering I've only played Jubeat, like, twice in the arcade. The iOS version really doesn't count (I can barely do 5s on it for some reason).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 16, 2015, 07:03:24 PM
got a phone. Been playing some Deemo. Fuck I suck at it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 17, 2015, 01:53:04 AM
I haven't tried Deemo yet, but Cytus is really good. It's by the same developer. It plays very similarly to DJMAX Technika, if you've ever seen that, except the bar moves back and forth on one screen instead of across two separate screens. Not sure how well it plays on a phone (I've only played it on my iPad) but with a decent sized screen it should be pretty enjoyable.

Groove Coaster is also quite fantastic. I highly recommend giving that a shot.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on November 17, 2015, 06:10:20 PM
I also tried the love live game briefly. After I rooted my phone and changed my launcher it started giving me some japanese error that I haven't bothered to deal with.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 17, 2015, 08:57:18 PM
A lot of games specifically detect rooting or jailbreaking and refuse to start as a way to help protect against cheating and/or piracy.

It's pretty obnoxious (and ultimately futile).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on November 22, 2015, 12:54:37 AM
I passed Sigmund [7H]!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 14, 2015, 01:02:37 AM
I passed my first 10 in Jubeat: AREA 51 [Expert]. Game is fun.

I played some DJ MAX Technika 3 as well and managed to do a bunch of 6-7s. That game has a pretty rough lifebar, but it's pretty fun.

I suck at KeyboardMania. It's actually kind of nice to not be at a difficult plateau on a Bemani title. I've been on 9's and 10's in IIDX forever.

Speaking of IIDX, I passed Sigmund [7H] on an arcade machine, which makes it more legit. I'm also definitely 6th Dan. Bloomin' Feeling [7H] fucking hurts. I'm finding that reading doubles on AC styles is becoming less impossible for me as well--I nearly cleared 5.1.1. [14H] earlier as well (screwed up on the last two measures, because of course I did).

Edit: 676549444570058753[/tweet]]I now have a PS2 KeyboardMania controller (http://[tweet). Goddamn, I love that game. I suck at it, but I love it. I played the PS2 version a bit earlier and got a bit better at fingering (PHRASING). It's only a matter of time before I'm a fukkin' maestro.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 16, 2015, 08:17:31 AM
Turns out I can pass 5's in Light+ and 3's in Real on KeyboardMania after a little bit of practice. The game doesn't seem to have as high of a difficulty ceiling as I was expecting, but Konami pulled the plug on it pretty early on so that's probably a big reason for it.

Don't care. Still fun.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on December 21, 2015, 05:20:29 PM
I tried a small bit of kbm when i bought my midi keyboard years ago. Got my ass kicked by even the easiest stuff because reading that many columns breaks my brain.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 21, 2015, 11:28:32 PM
Yeah, I fooled around with DoReMi way back when (I had a Radio Shack keyboard with MIDI in/out, plus a Creative Live!Drive). I did have quite a bit of fun converting MIDI files to its native file format and playing them. I don't think I really played any actual KBM charts.

Also: passed Toybox [EX] on Pop'n today (8th try). That chart is fun as hell. Chords at the end are pretty brutal on a sightread. On another note, it's incredible how good my controller feels with a set of fresh microswitches. Now I just need to do a USB conversion so that I can, uh...do things. With it. On a computer.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 03, 2016, 09:27:03 PM
I rigged up my Cobalt Flux control box to play some Pump.

Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Normally, if I see a Pump arcade machine, I warm up with Turkey March CZ. Between the fact that the CF has a nice, grippy Lexan surface, the fact that the Velcro strips are in the corners (which forces you to step a teeeeny bit farther to reliabily trigger the arrow), and the fact that I spent most of the song shifting distractedly back and forth because I couldn't feel where my feet were, it ended up way more of a workout than it usually is.

Following that up with Mr. Larpus medium wasn't a great idea, either.

But hey, it was a good workout in the long run!

Edit: Just to clarify, rigging up the control box was the achievement here. It's annoying how people who make control box replacements forget that there are nine usable panels and "forget" to wire up the center one.  Fortunately, the Precision Dance Pads control box (could have sworn I picked one that covered all 9 buttons when I ordered it, but I guess not) was fairly simple to ghetto rig.

There was actually a set of 9 pins (the jumperable ones, sort of like what you'd see on a motherboard), one for the eight outside panels and one for the ground. There were wires soldered to where the connector was mounted to the PCB that lead to the appropriate 9 pins on the male DE-15 connector. I grabbed a turbo LED (from one of my old, old, old computer cases) cut off the LED, trimmed down the extra wire, pushed that onto the connector, stripped the wire, looped it through a jumper, and shoved the jumper onto what corresponded to the center button on the DE-15 connector (the post was just the right size to make a very snug connection). Bingo! Up and center are bridged, dance and pump modes are both possible just by shifting the little fiberboard spacer around in the pad.

It's slightly more annoying than just having nine separately addressable buttons, but it's better than nothing.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 06, 2016, 07:57:07 PM
Nice work! Also, I wish I'd had enough experience with pump to even play Turkey March CZ.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 07, 2016, 12:12:09 AM
Turkey March CZ is fairly straight-forward outside of a few silly measures. I believe that was one of the first CZ charts that I actually passed.

I've pretty much forgotten how to do a lot of the crossovers in Pump, honestly. :P Andamiro tends to go a little nuts with those (not that I have a problem with that! My 4-panel charts tend to be very twisty), so I'm going to have to relearn how to do a lot of those so that I can play the harder charts again.

I also need to try to convince the local Tilt here to get their Pump Zero pads working properly. I think all they need to do is rotate the sensors and it'll be golden. We'll see. As much as I like the idea of playing Pump at home, the Cobalt Flux really is a subpar pad for 5-panel play because of how it's designed.

Maybe I'll just break down and order an Omega PX (http://www.precisiondancepads.com/index.php?id_product=11&controller=product&id_lang=1). Or maybe I'll just save up for a real machine. :P
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 07, 2016, 11:04:22 PM
Last time I was at an arcade with pump I ended up not even playing it (it was a dave and busters, and there was actually a fair bit of interest in the machine).

Last time I tried playing DDR I forgot you couldn't access options to change scroll speed, and tried playing Love Shine and Daikenkai Heavy and get my ass kicked because I can't do crossovers worth a damn. I'm so incredibly out of practice it's not even funny. Ok, maybe a little funny, but whatever.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 08, 2016, 09:25:57 AM
You can change the scroll speed in DDR (in 6th Mix and newer), though it's definitely not obvious. You just hold down the start button when you select songs and a menu will appear. There might be a hint somewhere in the menu text, but I dunno. I can't exactly read any of that, haha.

And uh, yeah, don't try doing the crossovers on Daikenkai. Those are spins. I don't know how on earth you're supposed to do them without passing out, but there you go. :P The Silent Hill Oni chart (oni-only on 7th Mix, available for regular play in Extreme and newer) is a good, fairly easy chart for practicing crossovers and half-spins (L U R D R, IIRC), if you ever have another opportunity to play.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 11, 2016, 12:20:10 AM
Well that explains why I always had trouble with that chart. I have no idea when next I'll get to play some DDR. Not many places around here, and none of my friends like DDR, so even if I do go somewhere that has a machine, I don't get a chance to spend any real time on it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 11, 2016, 08:20:42 AM
If you want to get an idea of how much double-stepping a chart will require, I'd suggest playing it in StepMania with dem index fingers (you can get the official charts at Zenius -i- Vanisher (http://www.zenius-i-vanisher.com/) if you don't already have them). That'll let you do crossovers without too much hassle but spins will trip you up as they would in real life.

And hey, with the official DDR charts in hand you'll be able to make a bunch of really bad o!m videos and proclaim that you're going to do one easy boss chart a day to show off your amazing finger stamina! It'll be great.

And yeah, DDR in my area dried up. It's at least an hour and a half to the closest machine (about a decade ago there were three machines within 10 minutes!). On the bright side, we now have IIDX, Pop'n, Jubeat, OpenITG, and DDR all under one roof in Columbus. It's a three hour drive for me, but it's worth it once in a while. Never thought I'd ever get to say "we have IIDX in Ohio" but now I can. ;D
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 19, 2016, 12:21:03 AM
It seems as though I'm better at Pump than I thought I was. I managed to pass Canon-D Full Version CZ with stage break on. Barely. Like, if I got one more bad I would have failed. :P

At least I'm getting better at reading the patterns, though staircase patterns still eviscerate me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 20, 2016, 12:24:44 AM
So, I just figured out an issue in osu!mania that should help me improve. Normally I played with df jk for 4k and sdf jkl for 7k, but I noticed that my right had had less stamina than my left, which struck me as odd, since I'm right handed. I figured out why last night. My left hand sits farther down and flatter to the laptop/kb when I play, but my right hand has to be higher up so my thumb can reach the spacebar, which lead to my fingers being more curled when I play, since the distance between the spacebar and jkl isn't that big. I decided to move my hand position higher so that my right hand could rest in a similar position to my left. So now I use sdf iop for 7k, and also moved my hands up to we io or something for 4k.

It feels weird as hell, but I managed to pass something I haven't been able to pass in about 9 months. It was worse accuracy than the only other time I passed it, but it was a pass. Hopefully once I adjust to this position I'll have better stamina and see other improvements in my play too.

Too bad I still suck at reading hold heavy patterns, since that's my favorite kind of chart to play.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 01, 2016, 01:10:33 AM
The Pump cravings continue.

I found out that I can pretty reliably pass 13s and 14s with stage break, with a few 15s and 16s thrown in for good measure. I'm building up a ton of muscle mass in my legs again. Life is good.

I just wish I had something newer than Zero (mmm, Prime), but whatcha gonna do.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on March 01, 2016, 03:54:26 AM
well I just managed this recently:
https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/4636856

That's a smoc chart converted to osu!mania. Has a few sections of pure quadjacks, hence the sudden drops in life. It's the first time I've actually survived every quadjack and my highest score on it (not including the A I got on it with halftime). I left nofail on because I didnt think I could actually pass it yet.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 05, 2016, 04:08:27 AM
So, uh...I passed my first 11 today in IIDX (Miracle Meets [SPH]). Holy shit.

I also got a second ASC (another DAO/Gamo2 FP7), so I've been playing the everloving shit out of doubles. I managed to move from being able to do mostly 4's and 5's (and one 7: 511 [DPH]) to being able to handle most 5's and quite a few 6's, another 7 (War Game [DPH], which is fun as hell) and even one 8 (Ballad For You [DPH]).

"Officially," per the class courses in Pendual, I'm 6th Dan in single play and 2nd Dan in doubles play. Considering how fast I've been improving my doubles game, I might be able to make 3rd Dan within a month or two.

The second ASC isn't technically as good as my original one. The original was customized with Sanwa pushbuttons and 50g Omron switches while the new one is one of the stock ones from Gamo2's US warehouse with DAO buttons and 15g Honeywell switches. Honestly, I can see the stock controllers being fine for quite a while. When the Honeywell switches start going bad I'll definitely replace them with Omrons, but I won't really need the increased tactile feedback until I start getting up to 10s, possibly even beyond that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 06, 2016, 08:30:52 PM
Got my first arcade AAA in IIDX today: Turning the Motor Over [SPA]. My scores have been gradually increasing over the past few months, though I still don't consider myself entirely used to it. It honestly kind of feels like modern AC timing is a bit more accurate, while CS (and older AC) timing had a bit of an early bias.

Aside from that, I finally got DJMax Trilogy set up on my FP7s. Additionally, I'm also playing it on an XP system with direct audio out (i.e. proper DirectSound support, no potential for HDMI audio delay) so there's no perceivable lag and the buttons themselves, naturally, feel amazing. I ended up getting a 99.0% average on my first run through For The Ikarus [6K], which I believe is better than my old score on Portable 2. Still not comfortable reading 8K, but I'm working on it.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on May 11, 2016, 03:24:56 PM
So now I can pass a couple of 11s (Miracle Meets SPA and Fascination Maxx SPH) and have cleared my first Leggendaria chart (Chrono Seeker -Fragment-). I also racked up 6 or 7 more arcade AAAs (including Ballad For You on all difficulties because Thomas Howard), so that's definitely a thing now. Last but not least, I managed to clear 5.1.1. SPA somehow or another.

I'm steadily getting better at doubles as well and can reliably pass newer 6s and some 7s. War Game DPH in particular is fun as hell (and I'm shockingly close to a FC on it).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on December 18, 2016, 12:48:21 AM
Today I passed a motherfucking 12 on IIDX (Innocent Walls SPH). On an arcade machine, no less! Suffice it to say, I just ordered a bunch of parts to (hopefully!) make my home controller feel more like a worn in arcade cabinet. :P

I think I might be able to clear 8th Dan as well. My forearms were far too worn out to actually do it tonight, though (the arcade machine is at the absolute wrong height for me).

I'm also up to 8 11s now. Since my last post, I've gotten the following:

嘆きの樹 [SPH]
Elisha [SPA]
Checking You Out [SPA]
灼熱Pt.2 Long Train Running [SPH]
Clione† (first try! Shockingly easy for a Leggendaria chart)
ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火" [SPH]

I've made quite a bit of progress these past few months. Getting past the plateau that I left off with took quite a bit of effort, but consistency and a little bit of boldness has been doing wonders so far.

It helps that IIDX gained a ton of nice quality of life features over the years. The older games (even the latest console titles) seem downright archaic nowadays.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Kraezymann on December 18, 2016, 08:48:58 PM
Photongenic on 9th at a rate either too fast or too slow RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 06, 2017, 09:08:13 AM
I passed my 10th 11 in IIDX last night. Since I'm now in the double digits I see no reason to keep count anymore. :P

(For the curious, #9 was 全力 SPECIAL VACATION!! ~限りある休日~ [SPA] and #10 was Kailua (HCN Ver.) [SPA]--hell charge notes are OP)

I also passed The Dirty of Loudness [SPH]. That was pretty satisfying.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on January 30, 2017, 11:12:05 AM
I can now consistently pass 5.1.1. [10* SPA] (and I was able to hard clear it). I never thought I'd even be able to pass that. I also hard cleared (and A'd!) 冥 [10* SPH]. I also AA'd bloomin' feeling [9* SPH]. Less than a year ago I couldn't even normal clear it (I went from barely clearing 6th Dan to coming frustratingly close to clearing 8th Dan).

A few more first-time clears that I've gotten in my last few play sessions are å°‘å¹´A [10* SPH], Ãœbertreffen [10* SPH], 3y3s [10* SPH], and Candy Galy [10* SPH]. Additionally, I managed to clear Red. by Full Metal Jacket [10* SPH] one-handed.

Oh, and...uh, this happened:

(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/iidx/quasar_e_t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/iidx/quasar_e.jpg)

Apparently Hidden+ reaaaaaaally fucks with my timing (I can consistently AA quasar SPH normally). Also, A-Clear, because I'm not at all used to P2 side.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 06, 2017, 04:20:52 AM
Dude, nice scores.

Dunno if you're familliar with this BMS chart, but i passed this in osu!mania (it's a 7k conversion, so no scratch, but it's still pretty hard due to jacks all over)
(https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/7250287)

Couldn't find a video without random, but I'm pretty sure this is the difficulty I played.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 07, 2017, 12:25:34 AM
I'm not really familiar with any BMS charts. Sorry! :s A lot of that is admittedly due to laziness, as in being too lazy to get LR2 set up when IIDX runs perfectly fine. :P

But yeah, nice job! I'd say that'd be at least a solid 11/12 in IIDX. That ending would probably push it into 12 territory, because...damn.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 07, 2017, 05:12:52 AM
Yeah, the actual spam at the end is a stair, left to right, but inverted, so it's a huge chordmash. I couldn't believe I survived it, even on HP7, which is fairly lenient. Osu!mania is mostly way easier than LR2 (now HP numbers scale by the 0.1, so there's more options at the high end between HP10 and HP9, which is nice because HP10 is I think actually more difficult than hard guage (if not, it's close)), but even at that low HP I am not good at chordmashes. No wrist jack skill :<

Today I got a couple decent scores, and nearly beat my PB on this chart: BMS (Musical Masterpiece) - MANIERA [Insane] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6g1kCU6VvU) (this is the THIRD hardest difficulty in this beatmap lol)

Also, I think this score was actually numerically better than my best IIRC, but it's got a lower score because of how combo breaks affect score (they effectively reduce the value of notes after a combo break, but allow you to slowly build back up by hitting the top 2 judgements, effectively meaning a score with misses clustered together suffers less than a score where they were spread across the whole song)

EDIT: above picture because visibility. I just replaced my midrange phone with a Galaxy S7 and can play rhythm games properly on it now, so I've started playing Deemo/Voez/Cytus, and just re-downloaded djmax technica q and o2jam u, because why not. Still suck at them though. Also, you should check out https://www.youtube.com/user/wasdx100 for some BMS autoplay videos and shit if you're ever interested in just looking at some charts and checking out the music. There's some cool stuff on there.
(https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/7258403)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 09, 2017, 03:17:52 PM
Chord mashes basically suck in general. That's one of the largest barriers for me in IIDX at the moment, though I am getting better at them (Miracle 5ympho X [SPA] is getting easier the more I play it, for example--I'm reaaaaally bloody close to 8th Dan on both Pendual and Copula).

Yeah, I went through a bunch of mobile rhythm games, too. :P One of the problems that I have with them is that the screen size is just too small, even on an iPad. I can barely pass 6/7s when I play Jubeat on my iPad (I have the iPad Air, so it's the middle-sized one) but I can pass 10s on the arcade. Same story with Reflec Beat, but not nearly as extreme.

Speaking of Technika Q, I really need to give GGPon's Technika 3 machine a bit more love. :s

That being said, games that are actually designed for mobile do tend to play well, Cytus and Tone Sphere being two notable examples (not sure if the latter is available on Android, but if it is I highly recommend giving it a shot).

Thanks for the link! I think it'll be a while before I'm at the point where I can do any serious overjoy charts, but I might be able to handle some of the easier ones.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 11, 2017, 02:04:57 AM
To be fair, chord mashes are not really punishing in our due to the big timing windows (generally speaking, since the timing windows are scalable). But just being able to hit it well enough to survive was still a big surprise. But I like that passing is easy, because it means you've reached a milestone in skill, but have a long way to go before you get a good score. In iidx/lr2 you need to improve much more before you reach a pass.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on April 15, 2017, 03:12:11 AM
I'm retired from rhythm vidya, but I still have my old stepmania scores folder.

quasar 1.5, probably one of my most memorable scores

(http://i.imgur.com/IKa2cS4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/9yotNEJ.jpg)

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 11, 2017, 02:49:48 AM
Played a ton of DDR today. I was able to play some 5th, 7th, Extreme, and even EuroMix 2!

I'm a bit out of shape (sprained my ankle a couple of months ago and am slowly getting my stamina back) but I did manage to SDG my favorite MAX2 license (I'm P1):

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB_mhJUUQAEOfNF.jpg:small)

I haven't played that on an official DDR mix in yeaaaaaars, so I'm honestly kind of surprised.

I also managed 20 greats on Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix). Pretty far from my best (I think my PB is 6 greats?) but not bad considering the shape I'm currently in. :P Most of those greats happened when I was starting to get winded.

And, well...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB_aQeMUQAA1dVR.jpg:small)

Man, EuroMix 2 is a bit of a clusterfuck. It's clearly based on MAX2 (most of the theme remains intact) but they took out the mod menu in favor of codes that you enter on the pad. To make matters more ridiculous, they also changed it so that both players in versus have to play the same difficulty. It's not a bad mix, per se, but the UX issues make it unpleasant to play.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 11, 2017, 08:57:04 PM
Eww, yeah that's pretty shitty design decisions there.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 12, 2017, 02:00:08 AM
Yep. The part that I find particularly galling is that they actually had to remove features from the MAX2 engine in order to make it work like that. It's as if they underestimated the intelligence of their players and figured that they'd have manic freakouts if it differed too much from the first EuroMix (which I believe was based on either 3rd or 4th Mix--Saxxon and I didn't bother with that since we were eager to move onto MAX2, haha).

Gahhhh, I wish I had a machine. I definitely don't have enough room for one at my current place. <_<
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: A2P on June 12, 2017, 01:20:05 PM
Oh man, I wish they still had JUSTIFY MY LOVE on DDRA
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 12, 2017, 02:08:23 PM
Modern DDR is nothing more than Konami writing ITG-style charts for IIDX/SDVX songs. We need more JUSTIFY MY LOVEs and NOTHING GONNA STOPs in the song list again.

Apparently doubles is pretty fun on DDRA, but I'm fat and out of shape. x.x
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 12, 2017, 08:05:19 PM
I haven't played anything remotely close to recent DDR... But yeah, from the little bit I've heard I got the impression they were basically just using IIDX/SDVX songs. It's a shame, because I still have a soft spot for eurodance, and I can't stand most of the SDVX music.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 12, 2017, 11:36:26 PM
See, I love SDVX, and I'd be receptive to them using SDVX songs, but I'm not crazy about a lot of the newer charts. I dunno, the older ones just jive with me a lot more.

And yeah, Eurodance (particularly Eurobeat) is just awesome. I can't think of a single Eurobeatdance-type song/chart in the older DDRs that I didn't like.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zephlar on June 19, 2017, 03:18:04 PM
Anyone play Rock Band or Guitar Hero anymore?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 19, 2017, 03:56:00 PM
I've been meaning to pick up Rock Band 4 for funsies, but I keep not doing that. I should at least hook up the ol' 360 and get some RB3 action going on...

As far as Guitar Hero Live goes, I love how the game plays but absolutely hate their business practices. GHTV is beyond fucked up and is nothing short of a middle finger to fans of the genre. The fact that you have to pay for a 24 hour pass to get a fucking song select screen automatically throws that shit deep in boycott territory for me.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zephlar on June 19, 2017, 05:04:27 PM
I've been meaning to pick up Rock Band 4 for funsies, but I keep not doing that. I should at least hook up the ol' 360 and get some RB3 action going on...

As far as Guitar Hero Live goes, I love how the game plays but absolutely hate their business practices. GHTV is beyond fucked up and is nothing short of a middle finger to fans of the genre. The fact that you have to pay for a 24 hour pass to get a fucking song select screen automatically throws that shit deep in boycott territory for me.

Yeah I haven't touched GH since GH3 (which I have on PC for the custom made tracks). I play RB3 still all the time. RB3 is still a good social activity I just have fun with. Not really that good anymore though. I've gotten 98% on TTFAF in my "prime" but now I'm rocking like 89%. Ever watch that Acai dude (https://youtu.be/abXo-dBkx2o)?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 19, 2017, 05:58:51 PM
Can't say I have! I'll have to check him out later, though. I'm pretty casual when it comes to RB/GH, so I don't follow any of the players. The only rhythm game I'm really serious about nowadays is IIDX (which I'm still sloooooooowly improving at).

And hey, I would never call 89% on TTFAF bad, especially the RB3 release. :P I'm just happy that I can still consistently pass Panic Attack expert (guitar+vocals, like a boss). Such a fun chart.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 20, 2017, 03:48:38 AM
I haven't touched RB or GH in ages. I've been playing Osu!Mania for the past few years. I'm like a year out of my prime now though :/
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Zephlar on June 20, 2017, 09:57:49 AM
That hyperlink I added to his name in my previous comment is him FCing TTFAF at 125% speed. It's disgusting.

I had to google Osu!Mania never heard of it. I'm guessing it's similar to IIDX?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 20, 2017, 10:47:04 AM
Jesus. Okay, yeah, I'm going to need to check that out tonight.

Yeah, O!M is sort of a StepMania-like simulator built on the osu! engine. It supports everything from 4 key to 8 key modes. I'm not too crazy about it, personally--too many weird design decisions, not to mention the fact that the developers literally included the ability (now removed, but still) for them to take screenshots of your desktop (https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/3vyi7h/how_osu_voilates_your_privacy/) if they "think" you're cheating. And no, they didn't disclose that in the license agreement, and only fessed up to it when they got caught.

If I simulate IIDX I generally use Lunatic Rave 2 (though more often than not I play the real thing).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 20, 2017, 02:39:20 PM


Combos are basically a rhythm game right?

[crane] JHP [mantis] SMP [crane] CMP xx HK ROLL [mantis switch] FADC before last hit of roll, SMP, TC2 xx light dp

sweg?

That shit is old now and I can do a lot harder stuff now a days. BUT I DOUBT ANYONE HERE COULD EVEN TOUCH IT SO IT STAYS!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 21, 2017, 02:29:22 AM
Ever watch that Acai dude (https://youtu.be/abXo-dBkx2o)?

Now I did. Fucking hell.



Combos are basically a rhythm game right?

I APPROVE.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 25, 2017, 03:46:30 AM
Future TomTom is the best fucking Bemani game ever. It doesn't seem to have a very high difficulty ceiling (as in, i was AA'ing 9's on my second credit, and the game only goes up to 10), but I don't give a shit. It's easily one of the most fun rhythm games I've ever played.

So, two accomplishments, I guess: 1) playing it in the first place, and 2) getting a AAA* on a 7 out of nowhere.

I might have to try to get a video of me playing it next time I'm down there. There don't seem to be many gameplay videos on YouTube, especially for higher level stuff (though admittedly I didn't look too hard).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 25, 2017, 06:16:21 PM
Osu!mania actually supports 1k up to.... 16k IIRC internally. Only 4k to 9k is currently "rankable" (basically means only 4k-9k charts can have a leaderboard added)

Mechanically, the game is a piece of garbage compared to basically everything else, but I'm so used to it that I just suck at every other rhythm game now.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on October 19, 2017, 08:48:44 AM
So I recently got a skillboost in osu!mania. Recorded these the other day. I actually recorded a third video, but content ID found it and it's only available to watch if you're in korea (the song's fucking Japanese, but not even Japanese people can watch it :/)


Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on January 28, 2018, 01:31:39 PM
The skillboost continues, I've been trying to pass both of these since fucking 2013:

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on February 01, 2018, 07:59:15 PM
VIDEO DUMP INCOMING!

A few of these aren't the absolute best I can do, but they're all my current top score locally. I think I have an A on brain power on my old laptop though :/ Also, does anyone here actually watch these?







Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on April 18, 2018, 09:48:09 PM
So uh, somehow I managed only 11 misses on this, and still can't S it. LN release timing is a BITCH.

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on May 23, 2018, 11:38:02 PM
So it's been at least 4-5 years since I last played RB3 drums. Somehow, this happened:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd7AL6zU8AAn_pK.jpg:med)

My previous PB (which was set back when I was playing RB a lot) was 114K. Yikes.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 11, 2019, 12:50:28 PM
So I ended up setting up my PS2 and one of my FP7s in my workshop a while ago so that I can play IIDX while half-heartedly monitoring my 3D printing ventures and have managed to do some things:

Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 16, 2019, 12:35:36 AM
Good shit man. I haven't really managed anything too noteworthy lately. That said, I might as well post the videos I made since that last post anyway, because it's been a while. The last one is a pretty big deal for me, because LNs (holds) are what I consider my speciality, but I'm really bad at accuracy on them because I always end up overholding the release (I blame stepmania!) which ends up potentially really ruining my accuracy on them (osu basically averages the judgement you get on both press and release, meaning if you pressed perfectly on time but overheld the release you won't get a great judgement for the note).

Get Goal is fucking hard. I think I've passed it... twice? The end has a brutal difficulty spike with really difficult LN patterns designed to fuck you right before the end IIDX style (if IIDX loved LNs the way o2jam does).


Starlights is a good song, and one of the harder ranked 7k maps too. My current score is about 20k points higher than this though slightly lower acc. This is currently my 3rd highest score in terms of PP value, which is something I guess.


Kyoumen no Nami is an incredible song, and this chart takes the weird-ass sound of the song and compliments it with weird-ass patterns that fit really well and are surprisingly fun to play. The difficulty ramps up as you get farther into the song. Like usual, I've since beaten this score, but with how stagnant my skill has been lately this still isn't a bad score for me at all.


This song is cute as hell, not gonna lie. Fun map.


And my most recent achievement: passing JinJin's 4th LN Dan. This is a 4 song course running about 10 minutes. Each song tests a different skillset, but they all revolve around LNs. For the LN Dans, a 95% acc is considered a pass. I was so damn happy when I made this.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 17, 2019, 09:09:12 AM
Woo, nice! ;D Get Goal's chart definitely gives me a huge O2 vibe. I love those freaking walls of holds that it throws at you.

I need to figure out some sort of video capture setup to add some context to everything, but I'm not sure how feasible it is right now. I've been playing the IIDX CS releases on a 14" Sony PVM that I put in my workshop, using RGB. While the end result is pretty stunning (especially the pre-9th style releases, which natively output 240p), I don't have a way of capturing RGB yet, and it's a bit of a distance away from the PC that I plan to use for capture. Right now I only have my trusty late-2012 iMac down there (still a fantastic machine after 7 years, though I'm strongly considering swapping its 3TB spinny disk for an 860 EVO) and the only USB capture device I have is a dinky Dazzle-like thing that can only capture composite using shit-tier proprietary software.

But anyyyywayyyy, I had a surprisingly good day yesterday. While a lot of it was just improving random scores from when I started heavily playing IIDX again a couple years ago, I managed to add Steel Needle [SPH] and 少年A [SPH] to my list of 10's (might have already nailed the latter via some *ahem* more legally questionable releases, but I'm not sure). I also managed to pass 3y3s [SPH] with a healthy amount over the passmark, which is a first for me. Usually on the rare occasion that I pass that I'm damn near close to border bonusing it.

Also, I have to give a shoutout to moon_child [SPH] for giving me more 78% gauge completions than any other chart ever. At least I'm a lot more consistent about clearing it now than I used to be. It's such a fucking awesome song, too.

The end has a brutal difficulty spike with really difficult LN patterns designed to fuck you right before the end IIDX style (if IIDX loved LNs the way o2jam does).

Apparently you haven't seen Acid Pumper SPA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMd2eKYFd0). :P What's even worse about that one is that it uses Hell Charge Notes, which basically work like Pump freeze arrows (kinda looks like that's how o!m does it?). If you aren't holding the button or actively spinning the turntable it's continually draining your gauge (though you're only scored based on the press and release like normal charge notes). That one's only an 11, though; I'm sure there's way worse examples that are far outside of my reach.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 23, 2019, 08:22:29 AM
Well, the mapper for Get Goal actually is an o2jammer, and actually makes o2jam charts, so there is that :P

It would be cool to see some video of your IIDX plays, so hopefully you figure something out. I haven't heard of Hell Charge Notes, but they certainly live up to their name. I was mostly just referring to how IIDX endings tend to ratchet up the difficulty.

That said, I do know that in the BMS scene there's crap like this:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on June 23, 2019, 05:19:58 PM
I honestly forgot they added in charge notes. Kinda wish there was an easy way to play more current styles, my cap is iidx15, and beyond that, I don't have anything. I remember getting access to "cough" arcade software "cough" but the hoops to get it running is a bitch, and the lag for me was unplayable. I think after that I pretty well retired from the genre, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 23, 2019, 05:59:24 PM
Well, the mapper for Get Goal actually is an o2jammer, and actually makes o2jam charts, so there is that :P

Say no more. XD

It would be cool to see some video of your IIDX plays, so hopefully you figure something out.

I mean, there's always the incredibly ghetto way. Here's a video of me getting an A on A [SPH] (pretty sure it's a PB) today:



(Just realized that my KBM CS and Pop'n AC controllers are visible in that shot, heh)

I haven't heard of Hell Charge Notes, but they certainly live up to their name. I was mostly just referring to how IIDX endings tend to ratchet up the difficulty.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've cleared Atomic Age and played plenty of IIDX RED. :P

I honestly forgot they added in charge notes. Kinda wish there was an easy way to play more current styles, my cap is iidx15, and beyond that, I don't have anything. I remember getting access to "cough" arcade software "cough" but the hoops to get it running is a bitch, and the lag for me was unplayable.

I have a dedicated Bemani PC running XP that I use, though my laptop with Windows 10 seems to handle it fine as well. The modern versions (from the later Lincle patches onward) tend to do a very good job at adjusting the software to work on your system. I get about the same latency as arcade cabinets do. The biggest pain point tends to be the controller—you pretty much have to use a native USB device (like an FP7, a USB modded KOC, etc) for it to play well.

Dunno how close you are to it, but there's also a Round One in Auburn Hills. There's generally a IIDX cabinet or two at those locations, as well as modern DDR, Pump, Sound Voltex, and others.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 23, 2019, 06:27:05 PM
Good shit man. That PVM looks like it's built like a tank lol.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on June 24, 2019, 02:39:35 PM
Hell yeah. I love that thing. The 17" Dell UltraScan next to it is a nice little CRT as well (it's also a Trinitron and can reliably sync at 1080p!).

This seems like a strange thing to praise, but Sony did a great job positioning the carrying handles on it. You can't see them since that stupid rubber mat is in the way (really need to clean up that half of my workshop—I'd just finished completely reorganizing my printer area so my table became a bit of a catch-all) but it's positioned right where the bulk of the weight is, so when you're hauling it around it really doesn't feel like you're carrying around a bulky 17kg box.

Oh, and one cool thing about IIDX CS is that 3rd through 8th make up a pretty sizable percentage of the PS2 games that support 240p output. Zero interlacing artifacts == sex. 9th and newer use 480i, unfortunately, so you get some very minor scanline dancing.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 25, 2019, 11:06:47 PM
Got around to posting another osu!mania score. I absolutely love this song, but I still can't pass the map yet, so this one's with nofail:
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on August 26, 2019, 08:23:44 AM
Definitely a fantastic song. Almost sounds like something that would be in DJMAX, albeit with a very O2Jam-like chart attached to it.

Hope you manage to nail the clear soon!
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on August 27, 2019, 02:15:53 AM
Honestly, I was really surprised at how well I managed the hard parts. Usually my graph straight up flatlines for a while during those. A few of those patterns absolutely ruin me. And yeah, it's a VERY o2jam chart. 17va, the creator of the chart, came from o2jam (although to my knowledge he never made any charts before switching to osu). o2 style charts are by far my favorite, though I do enjoy some BMS charts here and there as well.

But yeah, I love how jazzy that track is. The bassist is going off the entire time, and the drums are pretty crazy too.

Also, Talk about consistency, these scores are 4 months apart, but I got the exact same combo on both lol
(https://osu.ppy.sh/ss/13755733/a576)
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on February 22, 2020, 11:22:15 PM
I accomplished redownloading stepmania...

New version, haven't played in years...and years...and years....im very bad. Where can I download the stepfiles of old? I dug around and found the original keyboard megapack, wouldn't mind finding the rest of em. Not going to get as good as I was in my youth, that would take about 2000 hours of playtime, but it's fun coming back to it, even if I have the skills of a toddler now.

Also I hate that esc gets you to a menu that you can resume, start from beginning, or quit....can I remove that and make esc just quit to song select without an additional menu?
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on February 23, 2020, 01:41:58 PM
Well, here's the project dump of CKBMP3: https://files.spectere.net/stepmania/CommunityKeyboardMegapack3-TheLostSteps.zip (https://files.spectere.net/stepmania/CommunityKeyboardMegapack3-TheLostSteps.zip)

Here's a search link for the other CKBMPs (the original 1 and 2, as well as the post-a0.com 3 and 4): https://search.stepmaniaonline.net/packs/community (https://search.stepmaniaonline.net/packs/community)

I might have Keyboard Megapack 1.5 floating around somewhere. I'll upload it if I can find it on the giant clusterfuck that is my home share. That doesn't seem to be in the SMO archives.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 03, 2020, 02:56:45 PM
That's the stuff, thanks bruv.

Pretty fun for a nostalgia trip, but I think the reason I stopped playing stepmania in the first place, is the reason I will probably keep it as a novelty.

I still have my IIDX stuff, and boy ohh boy that game still holds up as fun. I went from passing 11's to...barely passing 9's now, but that's what 8+ years of not playing will do. Damn shame they don't have home releases anymore, with how digital distribution works now a days you figure a game like IIDX would thrive in the current ecosystem.

Only options to play the game beyond 16th style are going far away and playing an arcade, or quit renting and purchase some property so I have the space to plop down a IIDX machine proper.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 03, 2020, 05:58:11 PM
They do have a home release for PC (INFINITAS) but since it's JP-only you have to jump through some hoops to get started with it.

There's also other means of running modern versions of IIDX, um, PERFECTLY LEGITIMATELY.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 03, 2020, 10:27:21 PM
I have tried the "perfectly legit" method, and couldn't get it to run without unplayable lag either on the games end, or my converter to use my controller. Not to mention the hoops I had to jump through to get it working, that I totally dont have that knowledge anymore.

Unfortunately aint worth it.

A standard pc/console release would be FANTASTIC, but that aint happening.

Rhythm games are pretty much dead for me, but if they do throw out a home release I'll be down.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 04, 2020, 03:10:53 PM
When was the last time you tried it? The way that the game syncs changed drastically with one of the last patches for Lincle and basically perfected with Tricoro and newer. Input lag is another thing entirely, and I didn't really have a good time trying to use an actual IIDX controller until I just broke down and bought an FP7.

There aren't all that many hoops that you have to jump through anymore either, thankfully: extract the data, put bemanitools in that directory, configure (which pretty much just boils down to setting your keys), and run. It's a far cry from what you had to do to get, say, GOLD running acceptably.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: vladgd on March 05, 2020, 09:50:20 PM
I "think" it was sirius or lincle? I just remember I had to do stuff in a certain way or else I would get everyone using it banned. Not to mention figuring out how to get it running and all that jazz, and I aint a super technically knowledged person, anymore. When it finally got up and running, I'm not sure if it was my pc at the time just not having enough juice, or the converter, or both, but straight up unplayable lag. But even then, IIDX is a game with timing so strict, even lag so small you can't see it, could be unplayable.

Could be something I mess with again (i think I have the data somewhere on an old HDD), but it just seems like too much effort for a payout that isn't guaranteed. Let alone my vidya backlog that as stands, it's not a high priority thing for me.

But I do have an itch to play, so there's that.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 06, 2020, 08:11:27 AM
Ah yeah, you were at the tail end of the awkward period I think. Those older releases were tuned for very specific displays (I think there were four different ones by that period: the classic CRT and a few LCD panels). There were ways of adjusting the timing but I remember it being really finicky.

The latest Lincle patch and beyond all have an automatic timing routine built-in. Every time the game starts it spends about a minute working out your display's refresh rate and syncs the game around that, and in my experience it's been very accurate. The only thing you have to do is make sure that the audio is plugged directly into the PC and not using HDMI passthrough or anything like that, since that will introduce audio latency.

I've never had any luck using a converter, either, even when doing basic BMS stuff. I'd always get input lag with the occasional dropped input. I'm kind of leaning toward that being your problem more than anything else.
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Spectere on March 29, 2020, 11:41:12 PM


This chart has haunted me since DJMP2 because it's so unbelievably fucky (it's only rated an 8 or something like that. It's not hard to pass, but…ugh). Kind of surprised I figured it out enough to get an S rank. I'm not looking forward to doing the same for the MX chart (which is both hard and extremely fucky).
Title: Re: Music Gaming Accomplishments
Post by: Bobbias on June 10, 2020, 09:39:12 PM
Haven't managed any scores I want to record recently, but I have set a couple new top plays somewhat recently in osu!mania

(the important part here is the rank and when the score was set)
(https://puu.sh/FV1od/3c4f88dbce.png)