Beatmania/IIDX/III thread (baby you're solid GOLD)

HighwayStarX · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:27 am Post subject:

damn it. i'm currently stuck in a wall with my iidx skills. i've been sucking hardcore recently. i havent been able to pass any new songs recently. my hand techniques really suck. all this is making me want to quit playing iidx ;( i hope i can get better at iidx soon.
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fuse · Trick Member Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Location: no

finally got my first flashing 7 down, b4u :] yeah i know it's the easiest by a mile, but i'm still super-pleased with myself.

whats stranger is that i haven't played for over a week, yet i came back and beat b4u straight off first time O_O

still have about half of the 7's in 6th style to nail though, and a lot of the stuff from 3rd eludes me despite people claiming it's easier than tracks in later styles (the 'jumps' right at the end of era get me every time

), but i'm getting there :]

Saiyajin · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:04 am Post subject:

I played 3rd style yesterday for the first time with some friends. Man... S.O.S. ~a tiger took my family~ is so much fun to play 7key... I couldn't believe it. A lot of the songs on 3rd style are a lot of fun. I think I may have to fork over the dough to buy it sometime soon... I just wish it wasn't so expensive now. They upped the price from 50 bucks to 80. Oh well. Looks like I'm SOL for a while.

Oh, and I finished Luv to Me ~Ucchie's edition~ [a] with 4%! It's a new record! =D I upped my score in Take it Easy 7key by like 80, and Failed it at the end. I'm a retard. Whenever I clear it, I score terribly, and when I fail I get new records. Go figure.

I also tried playing without sound at all. It's fun. I was able to clear a lot of Anothers without sound, but I scored sucky. At least now I know that if I'm deaf, I can still "play" IIDX... just not score well... yet.
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Mix Ma$ta' · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Baltimore

i know sixth and 3rd are the best styles for beginners to start out with.... but is there any news of a release date for 7th style, or are they just stopping the console IIDX games.??

Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 8:12 am Post subject:

Clay0K · Staff Member Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Out.

I've been hearing here and there that there may be some info on 7th Style in September. Mainly over at Bemanistyle.com. I don't know how reliable their source is but, it's better than nothing at all.

herbie · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2002 Location: Warwick, NY

JustJeff · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject:

-LoC- iLLbiE®(pimp style) · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: At the piano.

Just 100%ed Safari twice in a row on training mode.

Go into Arcade, can't break 60% finish.

Stupid ass song.
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Ceredigm · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC

Only one song left on 7K (6th Style) to clear... you guessed it! The Safari. X_x

Ugh, I am having serious issues with Dive ~Into Your Heart~ [A]. I keep finishing around 70-76%, but can't get past that. =(

I'm also finishing Holic [A] at around 24% consistently now! Wow, finally something over 2%. I'll get it eventually.
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Cheez · Trick Member Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Location: Sumner, MI

I finally managed to pull some AAA's out of my arse. Not much, but I got Romeo & Juliet L7, and Comment te Dire Adieu on L7, Another, and 7-key...in that order. I took a picture of the Another, because I was proud, then I did 7-key on my first try.

Here's my most precious of scores
http://cheez.netfirms.com/suck.html

-Cheez

-LoC- iLLbiE®(pimp style) · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: At the piano.

Safari 7key cleared (High Speed 2).

Hey everyone, use training mode for 10 minutes and you can pass the song, so stop complaining about it. -.-

Take it Easy is still much harder for me to consistantly pass and score well on.

I wanna start over on Light 7 one handed. o.o;
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MATTY V. · Trick Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002

Clay0K · Staff Member Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Out.

I must say, that going from the home version to the arcade is quite a leap.

For one, the keys seem "springy-er" not so much as to be more responsive, but just a totally different feel. I like it better than the stiff console controller's though, that's for sure. The screen however is way too dim. It's beautiful around 10 feet back, but the closer you get the darker the image becomes. I know this is a common problem with the wide-screens moniters, and our arcade hooked the thing up to projection while they get a new moniter, so that isn't a huge problem now. =)

But I mean, I can AAA Romeo & Juliet Light-7 (AA 7-Key) but while standing there with 20 or so people watching, it's tough. Barely scraped by with an A on 7-Key. It's quite disheartening to know such a difference exists, to say the least.=(

And not to mention failing Love is Dreaminess for the first time in a full year! (That I do blame on the washed out screen, blue and grey kinda blend.)

Petty complaining aside, the machine has been played nonstop for three full days. Raking in well over estimated projections, so I can see how the Beatmania scene is feeling a sort of revival. We hesitated in bringing up the 9th Style upgrade kit, I mean...it's a killer songlist, but the timing issues seem so buggy. We'll cut our teeth on 6th for a while.

Other than the coping issues, I have to admit it's pretty damn cool to have an IIDX cabinet taking up residence. Not to mention a working DVD drive with flawless video playback. An on projection!

-LoC- iLLbiE®(pimp style) · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2002 Location: At the piano.

Pick song.

Place your desired spee dmod on (High speed 1? high speed 2?)

Set music speed to SLOW (1).

Play entire song through until you KNOW it. 5 times is usually good for me, I've gone up to ten, though. (SAFARI.)

Set music speed to (2).

Repeat the above steps until you reach DEFAULT (5) speed.

Repeat the above steps with certain difficult sections of the song. Such difficult parts might be the ending of Holic [A].

If you are STILL failing after all this, your fingering is incorrect. Think about your hand and finger placements to make them as effecient as possible, and rework the song from step 1 with the new fingerings.

I'm really not seeing how you used training mode for 2 weeks and still fail the song. You're probably using it ineffeciently.

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Saiyajin · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

Man...

You know how Cheez made that great IIDX spreadsheet with all the info from 4th-6th style? Well, he just made a 3rd style addition to it... and then sometime today he ran defrag, and his computer kind of died. ... and it erased the IIDX spreadsheet. Apparently he didn't make a backup. But, I still have the 4th-6th style one on my computer.

So, my question is this...

Does anyone have information on all the songs/note counts for 3rd style? If you do,... Cheez has gone through a lot of trouble making it, and I think it would probably be a good thing to help him out in retrieving it. Man, just when this guy starts getting AAA's, he loses his spreadsheet.

It sucks. So, he's gonna be offline for the next few days, and if anyone can help... I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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MATTY V. · Trick Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002

That's exactly what I do. I can combo the last 4 measures on speed 3. I can get above 80% most of the time on speed 4. Can't do it on speed 5. And it seems, the more those measures are drilled into my head, the more frustrated I get and the worse I do.

EDIT: I meant I tried it for 2 weeks in the past. I've since passed it.

Saiyajin · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject:

AAA + 2

Comment te dire Adieu [a]
R3 L7

=D

Edit~ A few hours later~

I played Another enough to finally get it to an overall A! =D 61992 total Expoints for Another on 6th style.

I was also 4 expoints away from an AA on Linus 7key... but, I still failed with 68%. X_x If I didn't screw up the end so bad, I would have had that AA. Grrrr...

I'm also 1942 expoints from an AA on 7key for 6th style... hrmmm... wonder if that'll ever happen. X_x Probably not any time soon. (1532 from an AAA on L7).
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