The Official Pump It Up Thread

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

Well, here is the OFFICIAL news. Some good news and some bad news:

THE OFFICIAL PREMIERE 3 ANNOUNCEMENT:
http://www.andamiro.com/eng/news/notice_view.html?code=notice_usa&number=21

You probably figured out the bad news... only 20 new songs! By the way, ASI 2003 is held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Anyone in the L.V. area, stop by!

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

What the hell, 60 songs? Why does it feel like Andamiro is holding back on us? It's almost like they're afraid to give us the mix we all want (Extra + Premiere). Whoever the genius is that planned on releasing 2 mixes within the same year that are both inferior needs to get the ax, seriously.

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

only 20 new songs......blech

i better not be charged a dollar then to play this new mix that just added 20 songs....they probably all suck too.

or they could rock, either way its kinda of a ripoff

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

Truthfully, for me, I don't mind that they are removing a whole slew of songs, just as long as they are the crappiest of the crap songs that deserve it.

I don't mind paying whatever the price is ($1 - $1.25) but this just means I will probably play every song in a week and master all but a few of the crazy songs. They really need 35-40 new songs to give it a popularity boost.

Robotcop · Trick Member Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Location: what

Premiere 3 sounds pretty retarded to me.

If Premiere 2 was able to have 120 songs in it and do fine, I don't see why they would want to cut the song list by 60 just because they adding 20 new songs that people probably won't like.

Pop songs and Spanish songs? This should be MTV Mix. It's going to have crap like Avril Lavigne in it. That's retarded.
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Megido · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH

Remember Andamiro is a Korean company. Their "Pop" songs will be K-Pop, not American. Also, Premiere 2 didn't have 120 songs in it, there were about 90. I originally thought it was 120 also until I counted them.

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

Is there any kind of website that lists the new songs?

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

I guess it doesn't really matter since there's no chance in hell we'll be seeing a Premiere 3 anytime soon here in Virginia, which is fine by me. I'm happy with our Premiere 2, since I have yet to beat a couple songs on crazy and I still can't do Vook doubles.

Robotcop · Trick Member Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Location: what

yuckmud · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

Well my friend Ted is going to that convention and I'll ask him to look at it for me when he goes.

But that sounds kind of crappy. I love the songs in premere2! I don't want to see the axed for spanish music. Unless its good music, i don't want to pass judgement on somthing I haven't played yet.

rampage · Administrator Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Redmond, WA

Andamiro's own site only lists 36 songs as being in Premiere 2 (even though we all know there are more than that), but 90~120 songs? I highly doubt it. Maybe 50 songs. The crappy UI just makes it *feel* like there are 90 songs.

http://www.pumpitup.co.kr/premiere2/pump_rebirth_3.htm

Damnit. Why don't they bring something we want, like PREX (arguably the best mix of PIU there is).

I think they are really dropping the ball with their American releases.

MDR · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:04 am Post subject:

Ive done a lot more clearing since my last post here AEONS ago. I can pass about 7 crazy songs. The best song to introduce you to triads is Bonaccia. Hardest triads to hit is the the 2 dl-c-dr triads at the end. The Crazys that I found to be a lot like a DDR lvl 9 is All I Want for Christmas (the one with the 2 bots and the green one looks like Twinbee or Winbee from Twinbee). and Separation with her (the one that has a robot girl that looks a lot like the Ghost in the shell).

Did any of you guys try Can Can on either Double or Crazy on PREX. By looks alone, that looks like its humanly impossible to pass, especially on Double.

Loner on Hard is really not that hard. The last rapid run will drastically drop your grade. Oh, and don't launch yourself off the pad during the Verse Jumps (ul ur-dr ur ul-dl ur ul-dl ul ur-dr). But then again it took me 11 tries to beat it.

You are a god if you can pass in a single crazy game Mr. Larpus, ExtravaGanza, Final Audition Episode 1, and Can Can (granted that you can get the bonus on a 3 song machine).

Oh and Andamiro gave us the shaft on the BGs for the Apop songs (American Pop). The singer in Mambo #5 is white instead of african american, Bye Bye Bye is too green, and The chick on Let's Get Loud reminds me of the Space Fantasy Dude (and that's a bad thing). Only song that has a good one is Take On Me (and that's the best Apop song in my opinion).

Stay away from ML, BV, RUN!, Slam, and Trash Man on Crazy mode. They all have an OBSCENE amount of 16ths, enough to make MAX on heavy look easy.

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

Well this weekend I get to play on a PREX for the first time, since we just found out that there's one at a lazer tag place about an hour away from where I live. I'll finally get to play all those insane XX songs. Right now my only goal is to pass Trash Man, but we'll see how it goes.

Shadowskill · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2002 Location: London/UK

"crazy is too much for anyone here to handle"

I just beat Loner on Crazy yesterday. Now I can do it on all modes, yay for me :D. And to the guy that said Can Can wasn't humanly possible on Crazy: Try "Slam"! That is f_ucking INSANE. Not that I can do Can Can either ;( (I saw someone pass it the other day though 0_0).

About the new mix, I played it at the ATEI trade show here in London and I really wasn't very impressed with it. Give me Prex any day. At the end of the day it's the equivalent of DDR Konamix. A mix especially for the american audience. Unfortunately, the Koreans seems to assume they know what americans want. It's even more unfortunate that they don't know s_hit. You guys probably never witnessed the atrocity that is Ez2dancer UK Mix. It only has half (if that) as many songs as 2nd Mix and they took out all the really cool korean songs and replaced them with crap like the Bee Gees, Britney Spears, etc. *shudders*

Yaow · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jun 2002

played loner on hard today...............looked good until part 2. then looked really bad. how the hell do you get the last step?

was forced to play final audition 2 on crazy..............got so tired that i just kept hitting the middle step. the old people thought it was funny

anyone here that is really good want to show the local PIU crowd here off?? everyone here is(including me) can do most of the hard songs and none of the crazy songs.

if they didnt charge a damn dollar a game i might be able to practice more.

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

For the longest, i thought Crazy mode was impossible, and not wanting to waste my .75 every game, I stuck to hard mode. But now that we have two Premiere 2 machines that are reasonably priced( there is one in a shop, and the owner will let you play for free after hours or if you teach him a few things) I play a lot more, and have eased myself into Crazy. At first, I would only try stuff like summer of Love and the Christmas songs, but now I can handle stuff like Turkey March and Winter fairly easily. I think the big thing is, most people wont even try crazy mode thinking it impossible, but just like everything else, not only can it be done, it can be done with ease with a little practice.
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FowlActually · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Woodbridge, VA

If you can pass Winter Crazy with relative ease, my hat goes off to you. In my opinion, that song is just as hard, if not harder than Slam. Humungous 16th strings one after another destroy my stamina and my lifebar. It's like Max 300 times two.

Sexual Chocolate! · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Location: Wilmington, DE

Winter on Crazy!?!? Guess its about time I worked on that one, I guess

Right now Im trying to do Vook Crazy. If only I had the leg strength for it...I can get a perfect combo up until the second set of 16th run steps...those murder my legs.
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Shadowskill · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2002 Location: London/UK

Yeah, Crazy is just intimidating, but with a bit of practice it's really not that bad (except for insane stuff like Slam or Can-Can). There actually are some songs on Crazy that are a lot easier than the Lv. 9/10 Hard songs. "As I told you" comes to mind.

I started Crazy relatively early, but stuck to the more moderate songs, like Naissance, Run to You or Final Audition 2. I never even tried stuff like Turkey March or Loner because I thought they had to be impossible anyway. When I finally tried, I beat Turkey March first go and Loner on the second try. Guess I'll try Winter next. Is that on The Premiere? BTW, what Lv. is Loner on Crazy anyway? I think The Premiere is bugged, because it says Lv. 1 O_O. But the levels are quite misleading on Crazy anyway, aren't they? Seems like they just rolled a D10 for them. Can-Can Lv. 5? Gimme a break.

My advice to everyone is to play the game on speed x2, unless everybody already does that anyway. It makes the game A LOT more enjoyable.