The Official Pump It Up Thread

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Aw man, no center step?? I was just imagining how cool it'd be to spin around the center step Beethoven Virus style with 8 other panels instead of 4. Is there a doubles mode? With 16 panels, that could get insane.

I wish home pad designers would just just make a pad with all 9 panels ala Technomotion. I don't understand why companies like CobaltFlux havn't done it already. With the current design, all they'd need is the addition of a center button and they'd pretty much double their consumer base. That way Pump and DDR players could both be happy.

Trick Master · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Riverside, CA

What's the name of the fastest song on pump? I heard it exceedes 400bpm

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Fowl,

As far as I know, there is no 16 panel double mode, only 8 and 10. There may be more ifo listed at http://www.f2.co.kr/technomotion/

Trick,

The fastest song on Pump is 230BPM and it's an older song called SHe Likes Pizza. I have not seen or heard any others with a faster bpm listing.

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

faster in BPM or step wise? if so theres no way someone can move to turkey march, unless they had 6 legs..............

but she likes pizza i think is the fastest bpm song

Mark Scott · Trick Member Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Location: no clue

yea, bmp wise it's She like Pizza(what a strange song that is); however, in division mode, Will o the Wisp is all off beat steps, making it closer to 420 bpm. It's a crazy mofo. Turkey March is pretty easy on hard, not that bad on crazy. It was one of my first crazy songs, but i did have someone show me the proper way to do it. One thing i like about thw turns in PUi is that they can have you turn a complete 360, like in Com' back hard.
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tora · Trick Member Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Location: Memphis, TN

OMG!! I saw PIU on TV! **Fake gasp** I on Discovery's Perfect Partner just now , The guy was on a date with a girl names Breanna, he took her to an arcade, and it showed them playing PUmp It UP, and they were both doing sucky. It was the 51" PIU DX machine. They were playing a very slow song on normal, and they were doing so-so. @@:
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Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

I think there is a character in the Drew Carey show who owns a Pump machine. But they never show the name of the game, just the steps from a side view. It has a 5-way 'X' pattern, so it is definitely Pump.

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

drew carey sucks so bad.......wish they would put his fat buttocks on a PIU machine so he could die from his heart exploding. Oh what a marvelous day that would be

Anyone here can do loner on hard? Thats the one song I really been wanting to master but im too damn slow, and forget about any song on crazy, its like

STAGE FAILED!!!!

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Loner on Hard only gets difficult on 3 sections: During the two choruses in the middle, and the very last 25 steps of the song.

During these 3 parts, if you skip every other step (mainly the center step) you will pass with a C, possibly a D. Gradually add more center steps as you get used to where they are. The 2x speed code also helps a little.

I have yet to try that song on Crazy since I have limited access to a Prex or Extra machine.

Hey PMaster (or should I say Starscream?)
How many feet on Heavy/Maniac can you do on DDR? It's interesting to see who can master one game, but slip up a little on the other. I can *barely pass an 8-footer heavy, but sometimes I can get B's on a 9-footer. It all depends on the song. Forget about DDR Double mode, though. That's where I trip over my own feet and fail out almost constatnly, yet I can do level 7's and 8's in Pump Crazy mode!

Mark Scott · Trick Member Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Location: no clue

Chibi Chibi · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Location: London, UK

Hi ya!
Does anyone know if there are any decent sites with PIU Step charts?
Thanks! Chibi

Remy · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Astoria, NY

Weston · Trick Member Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Location: Minnesota

Pump It Up is what got me in to dance games. It's the only dance arcade game that I know of nearby me (It's a PIU Perfect Collection DX with a large screen). The first time I tried it, people laughed at me. A few weeks later I decided to give it another shot. I did better because I then knew about the newbie stepping (stepping on a panel then immediatley off). More practice led to an addiction, I bought DDR and continued to practice on both machines. I can now pass most hard mode songs easily on level 6 and below. It's that Turkey March that's giving me problems now.
What I like about this arcade is that I can show off all the time.

For favorite songs:
1. Beethoven Virus
2. Cordiality / Another A True Heart
3. Disco Bus
4. Fever
5. Turkey March
6. That one 137 bpm song by Clon

I think this music is so much better than DDR, and the backgrounds also put DDR to shame.

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

The 137 Clon song is Come to Me, although many people also call it Come Back to Me.

So let's see...

Come to Me by CLON
Come Back to Me by DEUX
Com'Back by SECHSKIES
PLEASE Come Back by SECHSKIES

Yep, I'd say there's a lot to COME BACK to when playing Pump

There are also 2 First Love's, but the Clon version is sometimes called Final Love.

Also, just wanted to throw this in, but if anyone here is hoping to get upgraded to the PREX 2 (Also called Extra+Plus), just beware that you will LOSE these songs: Extravaganza, Space Fantasy, Oh! Rosa, An Interesting View, Naissance, and Final Auditions 1 and 2 (NOT Episode 1), plus a whole lot more like Summer of Love, Disco Bus, and both X-mas songs.

That's a LOT of songs!!! Take out Half Double, Crazy (XX) Double, and Nonstop Remix mode, and you are left wondering "Are these Prex/Extra songs really worth all that removal??"

I don't think it is. I'd much rather have my Premiere 2 machine than the PRex 2. The only thing I like on that version is the ability to switch from Single player to Double mode in the same credit.

By the way, anyone wanting offical info on Prex 2, including the complete song list, click on this: http://www.pumpitup.co.kr/prex/pumpitup.html It's all in Korean, but it has nice pretty pictures and screen shots.

Chibi Chibi · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Location: London, UK

Arch0wl · Trick Member Joined: 27 Feb 2002

FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

Man, on second inspection, it doesn't sound like Prex2 is the dream machine I was hoping it would be. Great for a change, yes, but they took out some of my favorte songs. Oh well, I can't expect one machine to have everything. At least there's still XX Double for me to torture myself with. Do you know if they added any songs to XX Double and Half Double mode that weren't available in that mode before? Oh, and on an unrelated note, bon-voyage Arch0wl; it's about time you got banned. If you want to waste space like that, start your own thread, I don't want to see this get locked.

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

Megido wrote:

Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Cincy's got Extreme at Eastgate Mall, Pump Prex 2 at Dave and Buster's in Sharonville, and I'm not sure about Max. No need to go all the way to KY for a game of Pump, although D&B can be VERY expensive compared to others.

Hey Fowl, are you talking about Prex 2? If so, there is no XX Double or Half Double modes at all.